nowadays generation capacity in traditional grid depends on fossil fuels and contributes significantly to the increase of pollution emission. in deregulated grids in addition to using demand response programs (drps) to reducing the cost of electricity production, peak clipping and improve reliability use of green plants such as hydro plant, wind plant become widespread. in a smart grid, end use...

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), consists of a large number of sensor nodes. Each sensor node senses environmental phenomenon and sends the sensed data to a sink node. Since the sensor nodes are powered by limited power batteries. Energy efficiency is a major challenge in WSN applications. In this paper, we propose an analytical model for energy consumption estimation in clustered WSNs using M/M/...

Cloud Computing offers indispensable infrastructure for storage and computing facilities for development of diversified services. The large utilization of resources leads to increased energy consumption that has imposed a limit on performance growth. Owing to high operational costs and carbon dioxide footprints, an efficient energy management technique needs to be developed and deployed that re...

Cross-country data on energy consumption, GDP and vulnerability are used to measure percentage changes in vulnerability associated with percentage changes in per capita GDP and per capita energy consumption. Energy consumption, through its nonlinear effects on per capita income, have the effect of reducing a country’s overall vulnerability to climate change by a greater amount at moderate incom...

In electric arc furnace steelmaking units, the essential parameters are reducing price, increasing production and decreasing environmental pollution. Electric arc furnaces are the largest users of electric energy in industry. The most important techniques that can be used to reduce the electric energy consumption in electric arc furnaces are scrap preheating, stirring, use of burners and hot ch...

In electric arc furnace steelmaking units, the essential parameters are reducing price, increasing production and decreasing environmental pollution. Electric arc furnaces are the largest users of electric energy in industry. The most important techniques that can be used to reduce the electric energy consumption in electric arc furnaces are scrap preheating, stirring, use of burners and hot ch...

The present study investigated the effect of taxing high-energy dense products and subsidizing low-energy dense products on changes in calorie consumption. More specifically, we hypothesized that 'more impulsive' individuals were less influenced by such pricing strategies compared to 'less impulsive' individuals. Contrary to our hypothesis, results showed that 'more impulsive' individuals adjus...

The global construction industry is in a transition period of reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions. The recast of the EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) in 2010 will require Member States to achieve nearly zero-energy for all new buildings from the 1st of January 2021 and for all new buildings occupied and owned by public authorities to be nearly zero-energy from th...

With the exception of Singapore, where few women smoke for cultural reasons, and Sweden, where the high use of oral sucking tobacco (or snus) in men has depressed cigarette smoking, Australia now has the lowest national smoking prevalence in the world. In Australia in 2001, 19.5 per cent of people over 14 years of age smoked on a daily basis. This is the first time that smoking prevalence in Au...

Over the past few years , there has b een an increasing emphasis on designing low-energy-use buildings. Rising energy prices and clim atic impacts of energy generation are among the important reasons. Super-tall buildings can be sustainable vertical cities of tom orrow, because of their high aspect ratios, efficien cy with res pect to lan d use, and reduced transportation and inf rastructure se...