Using electric vehicles, in addition to decreasing the environmental concerns, can play an important role in decreasing the peak and filling the off-peaks of the daily load characteristics. In other words, in smart grids' infrastructure, the load characteristics can be improved by scheduling the charge and discharge process of electric vehicles. In smart grids, the customers are instantaneously...

in this paper, using a one-dimensional simulation model, the reforming process of sour gas, i.e. ch4, co2, and h2s, to the various charged particles and syngas in a dielectric barrier discharge (dbd) reactor is studied. an electric field is applied across the reactor radius, and thus a non-thermal plasma discharge is formed within the reactor. based on the space-time coupled finite element meth...

What is the electric field used for? Strongly electric fish have an electric organ discharge that is powerful enough to stun prey and to discourage potential predators. The brief, intermittent discharge pulses generated by strongly electric fish can range up to several hundred volts. In contrast, weakly electric fish generate a discharge that is typically less than a single volt. These discharg...

This corrects the article DOI: 10.1038/srep09946.