This paper presents a simple multi-objective control technique for cascaded hydro power plants, based on a centralized distributed power control system and local water level controllers. This effective power management solution enables to guarantee the generation program following with a very good accuracy, to participate to power-frequency Ancillary Services with the dynamic performance requir...

Many factors related to river run-off are vague, subjective and difficult to quantify. The fuzzy logic method is very useful for such problem solving approach such as small hydro power generation. The rule base and membership functions have a great influence on the performance and efficacy of the plant and also to optimize the small hydro power generation in the high altitude region particularl...

Received (Primljeno): 2012-02-22 Accepted (Prihvaćeno): 2012-05-28 Original scientific paper Zero-emission coal (ZEC) technology has been actively studied recently. It aims to achieve zero emission of CO2 and other pollutants and the efficiency of this system can reach no less than 70%. Hydro-gasification of pulverized coal is a core process of ZEC. However, the mechanism of gasification and tr...

The aim of the present study is the prediction of critical conditions (including critical strain and flow stress) for the initiation of dynamic recrystallization during thermo-mechanical processing of plain carbon steels. For this propose, torsion tests were conducted at different temperature (1050, 1100 and 1150˚C) and strain rates (0.002, 0.02 and 0.2/s). All flow curves showed a peak st...

We report on direct measurements of the magnetic near-field of metamaterial split ring resonators at terahertz frequencies using a magnetic field sensitive material. Specifically, planar split ring resonators are fabricated on a single magneto-optically active terbium gallium garnet crystal. Normally incident terahertz radiation couples to the resonator inducing a magnetic dipole oscillating pe...

In this paper, the dynamic simulation for a high pressure regulator is performed to obtain the regulator behavior. To analyze the regulator performance, the equation of motion for inner parts, the continuity equation for diverse chambers and the equation for mass flow rate were derived. Because of nonlinearity and coupling, these equations are solved using numerical methods and the results are ...

This paper presents a stability investigation of the step recessed, hydro-static and -dynamic hybrid water-lubricated journal bearings for fuel cell vehicle compressor. The dynamic coefficients and stability threshold speed of the bearings are numerically calculated by solving the turbulent Reynolds equation by using FEM. Two configuration bearings are comparatively studied and the different dy...