Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion is an important renewable energy technology aimed at harvesting the large resources connected to temperature gradient between shallow and deep ocean waters, mainly in tropical region. After first small-size demonstrators, current focused on use of Organic Rankine Cycles, which are suitable for operating with very low temperatures resource. With respect other appl...

this study investigates the effectiveness of the kriging interpolation model and the emission weighted proximity model (ewpm) in assessing relative exposure risk of air pollution using results from the american meteorological society/epa regulatory model (aermod) as benchmarks. we used simulated exposure risk to so2 in the dallas area in texas in this evaluation. results suggest that the relati...

introduction: the effects of accidents vary from minor injuries to fatalities and from insignificant damage to very severe damage to the environment and property. in order to prevent accidents in the work place, the root causes of and events should be identified using a systematic method and the results should be published. the current study aims to investigate the given causes of an accident i...