A Delay of a single day for a 10 MW plant can lead to a loss of Rs. 6.5 Lacs ($110,000) in addition to Statutory Losses. Here, we explore typical project execution timelines and possible reasons for delay. The presentation talks about Lead Times of Equipment, Key vendors, Permits Required, Construction & Engineering related delays and finally, gives recommendations on how to keep project on track.
A Delay of a single day for a 10 MW plant can lead to a loss of Rs. 6.5 Lacs ($110,000) in addition to Statutory Losses. Here, we explore typical project execution timelines and possible reasons for delay. The presentation talks about Lead Times of Equipment, Key vendors, Permits Required, Construction & Engineering related delays and finally, gives recommendations on how to keep project on track.
Optimizing Battery Cell, Module, Pack and Controls Design with Comprehensive...Sandeep Sovani, Ph.D.
I presented this presentation at the Advanced Automotive Batteries Conference (AABC), Kyoto, Japan, May 2014
This presentation focuses on hybrid and electric vehicle battery engineering. It shows how advanced numerical techniques are used in the development and optimization of the battery at all levels - from cell, to module, to pack, and to controls design.
TOPOLOGY AND CONFIGURATION SELECTION FOR DC/DC CONVERTERS IN SPACE ELECTRICAL...eeiej_journal
Selection of DC/DC converter topology is one of the most challenging aspects in space Electrical Power Systems (EPS) design and development. It both highly, affects and is affected from EPS reliability requirements among the other EPS performance specifications. So ranking of DC/DC converters based on
End-Of-Life (EOL) reliability is an undeniable need.
Topology and configuration selection for dc dc converters in space electrical...eeiej
Selection of DC/DC converter topology is one of the most challenging aspects in space Electrical Power Systems (EPS) design and development. It both highly, affects and is affected from EPS reliability requirements among the other EPS performance specifications. So ranking of DC/DC converters based on End-Of-Life (EOL) reliability is an undeniable need.
In this paper, reliability of four DC/DC converters including buck, forward, fly-back, and Push-pull, as candidates for a 5-years-long, Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO) space mission, are evaluated and compared. Converters are assumed having similar design requirements and supervision and control elements with different power conversion parts and negligible reliability-affecting excess circuits.
Standard process is undertaken in preliminary and critical design of converters for reliability improvement and prediction. To reduce the converters’ parts stress regarding the particles radiation and the thermal cycling effects of the space environment, a derating process is applied to the primary design based on ECSS standard. Derated components are then selected in such a way to make possible calculating components failure-rates based on the MIL-HDBK-217F data and equations as the major EEE components failure-rate data reference. Reliability modelling and analysis for the converters is done by reliability block diagram (RBD) method, and the converters are then comparatively evaluated based on the analysis results.According to the results, buck converter is the most reliable one and push-pull is the least. Among the
isolated topologies, fly-back is the best one from the reliability point of view.
APPENDICES California Energy Commission 500-2013-134-APPENDIXESFranco Moriconi
APPENDIX A: Zenergy Power HTS FCL Test Plan APPENDIX B: Zenergy Power HTS FCL Laboratory Test APPENDIX C: Zenergy Power HTS FCL Dielectric and HV Tests
APPENDIX D: Zenergy Power HTS FCL Normal State Temperature Rise Test
APPENDIX E: Zenergy Power HTS FCL Short Circuit Test APPENDIX F: Zenergy Power HTS FCL High Voltage Field Test
APPENDIX G: Zenergy Power HTS FCL Operation Manual APPENDIX H: Zenergy Power HTS FCL Cryostat Evacuation and Moisture Removal Procedure
APPENDIX I: Zenergy Power HTS FCL Liquid Nitrogen Fill Procedure
Customer loyalty and satisfaction are key succes factors in customer markets. This presentation features outsourced Customer Care solutions Bosch Communication Center offers to achieve improved loyalty and satisfaction while controling costs.
Optimizing Battery Cell, Module, Pack and Controls Design with Comprehensive...Sandeep Sovani, Ph.D.
I presented this presentation at the Advanced Automotive Batteries Conference (AABC), Kyoto, Japan, May 2014
This presentation focuses on hybrid and electric vehicle battery engineering. It shows how advanced numerical techniques are used in the development and optimization of the battery at all levels - from cell, to module, to pack, and to controls design.
TOPOLOGY AND CONFIGURATION SELECTION FOR DC/DC CONVERTERS IN SPACE ELECTRICAL...eeiej_journal
Selection of DC/DC converter topology is one of the most challenging aspects in space Electrical Power Systems (EPS) design and development. It both highly, affects and is affected from EPS reliability requirements among the other EPS performance specifications. So ranking of DC/DC converters based on
End-Of-Life (EOL) reliability is an undeniable need.
Topology and configuration selection for dc dc converters in space electrical...eeiej
Selection of DC/DC converter topology is one of the most challenging aspects in space Electrical Power Systems (EPS) design and development. It both highly, affects and is affected from EPS reliability requirements among the other EPS performance specifications. So ranking of DC/DC converters based on End-Of-Life (EOL) reliability is an undeniable need.
In this paper, reliability of four DC/DC converters including buck, forward, fly-back, and Push-pull, as candidates for a 5-years-long, Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO) space mission, are evaluated and compared. Converters are assumed having similar design requirements and supervision and control elements with different power conversion parts and negligible reliability-affecting excess circuits.
Standard process is undertaken in preliminary and critical design of converters for reliability improvement and prediction. To reduce the converters’ parts stress regarding the particles radiation and the thermal cycling effects of the space environment, a derating process is applied to the primary design based on ECSS standard. Derated components are then selected in such a way to make possible calculating components failure-rates based on the MIL-HDBK-217F data and equations as the major EEE components failure-rate data reference. Reliability modelling and analysis for the converters is done by reliability block diagram (RBD) method, and the converters are then comparatively evaluated based on the analysis results.According to the results, buck converter is the most reliable one and push-pull is the least. Among the
isolated topologies, fly-back is the best one from the reliability point of view.
APPENDICES California Energy Commission 500-2013-134-APPENDIXESFranco Moriconi
APPENDIX A: Zenergy Power HTS FCL Test Plan APPENDIX B: Zenergy Power HTS FCL Laboratory Test APPENDIX C: Zenergy Power HTS FCL Dielectric and HV Tests
APPENDIX D: Zenergy Power HTS FCL Normal State Temperature Rise Test
APPENDIX E: Zenergy Power HTS FCL Short Circuit Test APPENDIX F: Zenergy Power HTS FCL High Voltage Field Test
APPENDIX G: Zenergy Power HTS FCL Operation Manual APPENDIX H: Zenergy Power HTS FCL Cryostat Evacuation and Moisture Removal Procedure
APPENDIX I: Zenergy Power HTS FCL Liquid Nitrogen Fill Procedure
Customer loyalty and satisfaction are key succes factors in customer markets. This presentation features outsourced Customer Care solutions Bosch Communication Center offers to achieve improved loyalty and satisfaction while controling costs.
Bitrix Site Manager is a multi-featured content management system (CMS) that provides a highly simplified desktop publishing environment that can be extended onto the server environment for web hosting, portal development, e-Commerce engine or a large corporate website.
IMPROVING NUCLEAR POWER PLANT\'S OPERATIONALJoe Miller
One of the primary reasons of the optimism for new nuclear
plant construction progress in the U.S. is the significant
increase in plant reliability and availability over the last 40
years. This paper provides insights on how the nuclear
industry worked to improved the capacity factor and
efficiency of nuclear power stations and ultimately reduce
the cost to operate nuclear power plants in the U.S..
Long-Duration Energy Storage and PV: Renewable Energy’s BFFsCraig Horne
This talk provides an overview of storage technologies and focus on how long duration energy storage can significantly increase both the amount of PV deployed and project value. Case studies are used to highlight critical parameters for configuring a PV and storage project to maximize value and returns. Recent activities in the storage market, availability of long-duration storage systems, and the real requirements for storage projects will also be discussed.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
22. Status of Commercial Nuclear Power As of 2004, nuclear power provided 6.5% of the world's energy and 15.7% of the world's electricity, with the U.S. , France , and Japan together accounting for 57% of all nuclear generated electricity. As of 2007 , the IAEA reported there are 439 nuclear power reactors in operation in the world, operating in 31 different countries.
37. U.S. Electricity Production Costs 1995-2006, In 2006 cents per kilowatt-hour Production Costs = Operations and Maintenance Costs + Fuel Costs Source: Global Energy Decisions Updated: 6/07
44. New Plants as of Nov 2007 Company Site(s) Design, # of Units Early Site Permit (ESP) Construction / Operating License Submittal Alternate Energy Holdings Bruneau, ID EPR - FY 2009 Amarillo Power Vicinity of Amarillo, TX EPR - FY 2009 AmerenUE Callaway, MO EPR - FY 2008 Constellation (UniStar) Calvert Cliffs, MD plus two other sites EPR (3) Will go to COL but submit siting information early First submittal - FY 2008 Detroit Edison Fermi, MI Not yet determined Not yet determined FY 2008 Dominion North Anna, VA ESBWR (1) Under review, approval expected 2007 FY 2008 Duke William States Lee, Cherokee County, SC AP1000 (2) - FY 2008 Duke Davie County, NC Not yet determined Under consideration Not yet determined Duke Oconee County, SC Not yet determined Under consideration Not yet determined Entergy River Bend, LA ESBWR (1) - FY 2008 Entergy (NuStart ) Grand Gulf, MS ESBWR (1) Approved April 2007 FY 2008 Exelon Clinton, IL Not yet determined Approved March 2007 Not yet determined
45. New Plants as of Nov 2007 Company Site(s) Design, # of Units Early Site Permit (ESP) Construction / Operating License Submittal Exelon Matagorda and Victoria County, TX ESBWR (1) - FY 2009 Florida Power & Light Turkey Point, FL Not yet determined (2) Not yet determined FY 2009 NRG Energy / STPNOC Bay City, TX ABWR (2) - Under Review PPL Corp. Susquehanna, PA Not yet determined Not yet determined Not yet determined Progress Energy Harris, NC; Levy County, FL AP1000 (2); AP1000 (2) - Harris - FY 2008; Levy County, FL - FY 2008 South Carolina Electric & Gas Summer, SC AP1000 (2) - FY 2008 Southern Company Vogtle, GA AP1000 (2) Under review, Approval expected early 2009 FY 2008 Texas Utilities Comanche Peak, TX APWR (2) - FY 2008 TVA (NuStart ) Bellefonte, AL AP1000 (2) - Under Review
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48. Evolutionary Power Reactor UniStar Nuclear will market a standard advanced design called the U.S. Evolutionary Power Reactor (U.S. EPR), a 1,600-megawatt evolutionary power reactor designed for America by AREVA Inc.