Much attention has been paid to the application of low temperature thermal resources, especially for power generation in recent years. Most of the current commercialized thermal (including geothermal) power-generation technologies convert thermal energy to electric energy indirectly, that is, making mechanical work before producing electricity. Technology using a thermoelectric generator (TEG),...

Thermal considerations play an increasingly important role in the design of new processors. Thermal concerns impact how chips are laid out, how quickly processors can be clocked, processor reliability, and how expensive the packaging is. Current production chips are often packaged to dissipate maximum typical power, rather than maximum absolute power. We investigate techniques which would allow...

Thermal considerations play an increasingly important role in the design of new processors. Thermal concerns impact how chips are laid out, how quickly processors can be clocked, processor reliability, and how expensive the packaging is. Current production chips are often packaged to dissipate maximum typical power, rather than maximum absolute power. We investigate techniques which would allow...

The conversion of sunlight into electricity has been dominated by photovoltaic and solar thermal power generation. Photovoltaic cells are deployed widely, mostly as flat panels, whereas solar thermal electricity generation relying on optical concentrators and mechanical heat engines is only seen in large-scale power plants. Here we demonstrate a promising flat-panel solar thermal to electric po...

In modern inverter fed drive applications the power semiconductors used are typically designed to operate at their maximum thermal operation conditions. Semiconductors worst case thermal considerations in general define the uppermost inverter switching frequency dependent on maximum load current. Fixing this frequency to a constant value, the drive will not be operated with best possible perfor...

With the continued increase in power dissipation and power density of high-performance microprocessors, as well as requirements for high-density packaging and lower device junction temperatures, improvements of electronic cooling technologies have been becoming strategically important in the challenge of advanced thermal solutions for achieving higher cooling efficiencies while meeting reliabil...

A modern power system consists of a large number of thermal and hydel plants connected at various load centers through a transmission network. An important objective in the operation of such a power system is to generate and transmit power to meet the system load demand at minimum fuel cost by an optimal mix of various types of plants. The study of the problem of optimum scheduling of power gen...

The impact of different energy storages on power systems has become more important due to the development of energy storage technologies. This paper optimizes the stochastic scheduling of a wind-based multiple energy system (MES) and evaluates the operation of the proposed system in combination with electrical and thermal demand-response programs and the three-mode CAES (TM-CAES) unit. The prop...

Electrostatic Precipitators (ESP) are most important device used to control the pollution by collecting dust particles present on flue gases. In power plants, Coal used in Indian thermal power stations is of inferior grade, at power plant flue gas is often treated with a series of chemical process and scrubbers, having low calorific value (3500-4500)kcal/kg and high ash content due to drift ori...