Hydro-thermal reaction of NaSCN, piperazine, Zn(II) and 2,6-naphthalenedicarboxylic acid in aqueous solutions gave rise to the title complex, [Zn(NCS)(3)(C(4)H(11)N(2))]. The Zn(II) atom is four-coordinate with distorted tetra-hedral geometry and lies in a mirror plane. N-H⋯S hydrogen bonds assemble the mol-ecules to form a three-dimensional framework.

We consider the optimal management of a hydro-thermal power system in the mid and long terms. From the optimization point of view, this amounts to a large-scale multistage stochastic linear program, often solved by combining sampling with decomposition algorithms, like stochastic dual dynamic programming. Such methodologies, however, may entail prohibitive computational time, especially when ap...

Economic needs and the ongoing liberalization of European electricity markets stimulate the interest of power utilities in developing models and optimization techniques for the generation and trading of electric power under uncertainty. Utilities participating in deregulated markets observe increasing uncertainty in load (i.e., demand for electric power) and prices for fuel and electricity on s...

One proposed technique to reduce energy consumption of data centers is thermal-aware job scheduling, i.e. job scheduling that relies on predictive thermal models to select among possible job schedules to minimize its energy needs. This paper investigates, using a more realistic linear cooling model, the energy savings of previously proposed thermal-aware job scheduling algorithms, which assume ...

The Daily Operation Scheduling (DOS) gets new challenges while a large-scale of renewable energy is inserted into the power system. In addition to operation, variability these sources also causes problem in hourly pricing, represented here by Locational Marginal Pricing (LMP). Therefore, applications, such as shifting, offer greater efficiency system, minimizing negative effects caused wind cur...

The correspondence of competitive partial equilibrium with a social optimum is well documented in the welfare theorems of economics. These theorems can be applied to single-period electricity pool auctions in which price-taking agents maximize profits at competitive prices, and extend naturally to standard models with locational marginal prices. In hydro-thermal markets where the auctions are r...

Preventive generating units maintenance scheduling is among the most vital decisions which electricity generating companies have to make. Effective generating units maintenance helps reduce the forced outage rates. Therefore, rigorous technical restrictions have to be respected by all means. Since the economical factor, i.e. profit generation, was not the prime driver in investments, the mainte...

The major problem of wind turbines is the great variability of wind power production. The dynamic change of the wind speed returns the quantity of the power injected to networks. Therefore, wind–thermal generation scheduling problem plays a key role to implement clean power producers in a competitive environment. In deregulated power systems, the scheduling problem has various objectives than i...