1) The NRC has lowered its estimate of potential fatalities from a nuclear plant meltdown, now estimating less than 2% cesium release compared to the previous 60% estimate.
2) A new traveling wave reactor design generates heat at the top instead of centrally, which makes heat extraction easier but increases some radiation wear on the containment system. It requires 3-4 times more resilient materials.
3) New proposals aim to increase fuel efficiency in city driving by 20% using smartphone data, provide endless power to EVs through wireless road charging, and allow converting conventional vehicles to hybrids with wheel motor kits.
This document summarizes information about renewable energy and electricity systems. It discusses how renewable energy sources like wind and solar are increasingly contributing to electricity generation capacity but can be intermittent. Concentrating solar power (CSP) with thermal energy storage is presented as the most viable solution currently for providing dispatchable renewable energy on a utility scale. CSP plants can store solar energy as heat and release it to produce electricity when the sun is not available, providing reliability similar to fossil fuel plants. The document argues that for high shares of renewable energy on the grid, dispatchable sources like CSP will be needed to maintain grid stability and reliability in a cost effective way.
The document outlines a renewable energy plan that includes:
1) Constructing a 4 MW solar demonstration project within 6 months and completing an environmental assessment for solar projects by June 2012.
2) Determining the viability of geothermal energy by September 2011-March 2012 and, if viable, developing a 20 MW geothermal plant.
3) If geothermal is not viable, increasing solar facilities to 20 MW total through various funding options like power purchase agreements.
IRJET- Design of Small Hydro Electric Power Plant at CheeyapparaIRJET Journal
This document discusses the design of a small hydroelectric power plant proposed for Cheeyappara, Kerala, India. A reconnaissance survey identified a suitable location with a head of up to 100m. An ogee-type diversion weir and intake gate, 100m penstock, and 15x8x10m powerhouse are proposed. A cross-flow turbine with horizontal shaft is selected due to the head and discharge. Power calculations estimate the plant could generate 700kW, with two 350kW units proposed. The total cost is estimated at 295 lakhs with a cost of Rs.5.17/kWh and sale rate of Rs.5.46/kWh, yielding a payback period of
Team Nile conducted a feasibility study for Avista Corporation to analyze solutions for closing three transmission lines in the Big Bend area. They used PowerWorld simulator to test designs under heavy summer and high transfer load cases. For the high transfer case, Team Nile proposed three solutions: the most expensive option involving extensive new transmission lines and substations; the least expensive focusing on reconductoring and capacitor/reactor banks; and the most cost-effective option. They analyzed each design's ability to prevent overloads during contingency scenarios and produced cost analyses for Avista.
This presentation is part of Renewable Energy Technologies course 2020
Faculty of Engineering - Benha University
By
Prof. Ghada Amer
Category
Science & Technology
Category
Science & Technology
Category
Science & Technology
University of Waterloo Presentation (2009)HEFContest
The document outlines a proposal for a student center at Farmingdale Campus powered by renewable energy sources with a $28 million budget. A team led by Dr. Michael Fowler proposed using hydrogen, biomass, photovoltaic, wind, and geothermal systems. The design includes solar panels, 10 wind turbines, a biogas generator, geothermal wells, an electrolyzer, fuel cells, and hydrogen storage to power the 45,000 square foot building while reducing CO2 emissions by 37%.
This document summarizes information about renewable energy and electricity systems. It discusses how renewable energy sources like wind and solar are increasingly contributing to electricity generation capacity but can be intermittent. Concentrating solar power (CSP) with thermal energy storage is presented as the most viable solution currently for providing dispatchable renewable energy on a utility scale. CSP plants can store solar energy as heat and release it to produce electricity when the sun is not available, providing reliability similar to fossil fuel plants. The document argues that for high shares of renewable energy on the grid, dispatchable sources like CSP will be needed to maintain grid stability and reliability in a cost effective way.
The document outlines a renewable energy plan that includes:
1) Constructing a 4 MW solar demonstration project within 6 months and completing an environmental assessment for solar projects by June 2012.
2) Determining the viability of geothermal energy by September 2011-March 2012 and, if viable, developing a 20 MW geothermal plant.
3) If geothermal is not viable, increasing solar facilities to 20 MW total through various funding options like power purchase agreements.
IRJET- Design of Small Hydro Electric Power Plant at CheeyapparaIRJET Journal
This document discusses the design of a small hydroelectric power plant proposed for Cheeyappara, Kerala, India. A reconnaissance survey identified a suitable location with a head of up to 100m. An ogee-type diversion weir and intake gate, 100m penstock, and 15x8x10m powerhouse are proposed. A cross-flow turbine with horizontal shaft is selected due to the head and discharge. Power calculations estimate the plant could generate 700kW, with two 350kW units proposed. The total cost is estimated at 295 lakhs with a cost of Rs.5.17/kWh and sale rate of Rs.5.46/kWh, yielding a payback period of
Team Nile conducted a feasibility study for Avista Corporation to analyze solutions for closing three transmission lines in the Big Bend area. They used PowerWorld simulator to test designs under heavy summer and high transfer load cases. For the high transfer case, Team Nile proposed three solutions: the most expensive option involving extensive new transmission lines and substations; the least expensive focusing on reconductoring and capacitor/reactor banks; and the most cost-effective option. They analyzed each design's ability to prevent overloads during contingency scenarios and produced cost analyses for Avista.
This presentation is part of Renewable Energy Technologies course 2020
Faculty of Engineering - Benha University
By
Prof. Ghada Amer
Category
Science & Technology
Category
Science & Technology
Category
Science & Technology
University of Waterloo Presentation (2009)HEFContest
The document outlines a proposal for a student center at Farmingdale Campus powered by renewable energy sources with a $28 million budget. A team led by Dr. Michael Fowler proposed using hydrogen, biomass, photovoltaic, wind, and geothermal systems. The design includes solar panels, 10 wind turbines, a biogas generator, geothermal wells, an electrolyzer, fuel cells, and hydrogen storage to power the 45,000 square foot building while reducing CO2 emissions by 37%.
Washington State University Presentation (2012)HEFContest
This document proposes a system called CougsCARE that would convert agricultural waste from wheat straw into clean energy for Washington State University and the surrounding community. It would use thermochemical conversion processes like pyrolysis and gasification to produce syngas, followed by methanation and fuel cells to generate hydrogen, electricity, and heat. The system would provide 4.4 MW of electricity to the grid, reduce WSU's CO2 emissions, and give farmers an alternative to burning their wheat straw fields. It was designed by WSU students and faculty as part of a contest to develop hydrogen production technologies.
Analysis and Design of a Hybrid Renewable Energy System – Lebanon CaseIJERA Editor
The depletion of fossil fuels and their environmental consequences have prompted searching for other sources of energy aiming to global status amelioration. In the recent past, renewable energy sources have been considered as alternatives for the fossil fuel energy sources. The unexpected pattern of natural resources assesses integrated utilization of these sources to provide persistent and reliable power supply to the consumers. The technology’s advantages, requirements and related improvements are underlined and results are generalized. This paper covers the design of a solar and wind based hybrid renewable system presenting calculations and considerations in order to achieve an optimized design. Since hybrid systems performance relies mainly on geographical an d meteorological aspects, the study will consider the case of the Mediterranean area and in particular Lebanon.
The presentation provides us the basic information of the Nuclear Power Plant situated at Rawatbhata, Rajasthan Site. It helps us to know about total number of Nuclear Power Plants situated all over India, its basic functioning and all about its parts.
1) The document proposes a solar PV-diesel generator hybrid system as a solution to issues with sole reliance on diesel generators or solar PV systems.
2) A hybrid system combines solar PV panels, batteries, and an existing diesel generator set controlled by a programmable logic circuit to provide reliable, economic, and uninterrupted power.
3) Analyses using HOMER optimization software show hybrid systems can reduce costs by balancing the high operating expenses of diesel with the high upfront costs of solar, achieving the lowest levelized cost of energy.
University of Maryland Presentation (2012)HEFContest
The student team designed a Combined Heat, Hydrogen, and Power (CHHP) system for the University of Maryland campus that would:
1) Convert organic waste streams into methane via gasification and anaerobic digestion, which would then be reformed into hydrogen to power a 1.5MW fuel cell, producing electricity and thermal energy.
2) Excess hydrogen would be recovered, compressed, and stored to fuel campus shuttles.
3) The system is estimated to reduce campus CO2 emissions by 13,000 metric tons per year and remove 6,700 metric tons of landfill waste annually.
The ppt gives an overview on recent policy initiatives on Renwable Energy, like cerc\'s new regulation, national solar mission and renewable energy certificate
This document provides an overview of renewable energy technologies used for power generation, focusing on wind and solar energy. It discusses how wind turbines convert wind force into torque to generate electricity, and the typical power load factors for wind farms. It also explains the two main solar power generation technologies: concentrating solar thermal plants and photovoltaic plants. Concentrating solar plants use collectors and turbines to generate electricity from heat, while photovoltaic plants use solar arrays and inverters. The document concludes with current installed capacities of wind and solar power in India.
The document discusses the function and process of thermal power plants. Coal is the most common fuel used in thermal power plants. Coal is burned to heat water and create steam, which spins turbines connected to generators to produce electricity. The steam is then cooled and recycled to repeat the process. Thermal power plants in Pakistan are located in major cities like Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. A future non-conventional thermal plant is being built in Thar to use local coal reserves through gasification. Key factors for locating thermal plants include availability of fuel, land for operations and disposal of ash byproduct.
This document provides a feasibility study for installing a wind turbine in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. It recommends the Northern Power 60 wind turbine model with a 24.4 meter rotor diameter, 29 meter hub height, and 59.9 kW rated power. The study finds that while the turbine could help Chambersburg reduce carbon emissions and diversify energy production, the estimated 40 year payback period is too long given the turbine's 20 year design life. Therefore, the project does not make financial sense despite other potential benefits like improved public image.
A case study in offshore wind farm project managementmtingle
The document discusses the Wolfe Island Shoals offshore wind farm project in Lake Ontario, Canada. Some key points:
- It will be a 300 MW offshore wind facility costing $1.5 billion Canadian dollars.
- It faces special challenges related to permitting, engineering, logistics, and financing of an offshore wind farm in the Great Lakes.
- ORTECH has been appointed project manager and discusses the project schedule, permitting process, engineering considerations like soil testing and foundation design, turbine selection, marine transport and installation logistics, operation and maintenance planning, and financing.
The document proposes a design for a Combined Hydrogen, Heat, and Power (CHHP) plant that uses anaerobic digestion of manure and rice straw to produce biogas. The biogas is used to generate hydrogen through a water-gas shift reaction and pressure swing adsorption. The hydrogen is stored and transported to a hydrogen community and fuel cells to generate electricity. Exhaust heat is recovered to produce steam for greenhouses and hot water for buildings. The CHHP plant is designed to support approximately 51 households with electricity and provide heat to nearby greenhouses.
Conventional power generation, thermal, nuclear, gas turbine, hydro electric power plants, schematic, working, advantages and disadvantages, site selection
Flinders Island Isolated Power System (IPS) Connect 2016 S KILMETE PUCjames hamilton
The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) is a grouping of 607 small islands in the Western Pacific about 2,500 miles southwest of Hawaii, lying just above the Equator. Generally speaking, FSM comprises what is known as the Eastern and Western Caroline Islands. While the country's total land area amounts to only 270.8 square miles, it occupies more than one million square miles of the Pacific ocean, and ranges 1,700 miles from East (Kosrae) to West (Yap)- Each of the four States centers around one or more "high islands." and all but Kosrae include numerous atolls.
Chuuk State has a total land area of 492 square miles and includes seven major island groups. Pohnpei State has 133.4 square miles of land area, of which 130 is accounted for by Pohnpei island, the largest in FSM. Yap State is made up of 4 large islands, 7 small islands and 134 atolls, with a total land area of 45.6 square miles- Kosrae is essentially one high island of 42.3 square miles.
FSM enjoys a tropical climate, with relatively even, warm temperatures throughout the year. Rainfall is generally plentiful, and Pohnpei reputedly is one of the wettest places on Earth, with up to 330 inches of rain per year.
A presentation on summer training at NTPC corporate office noidaAshutosh Tripathi
This document provides a summary of a presentation about a summer training at NTPC Noida. It discusses NTPC's profile, including that it is India's largest power company and was established in 1975. It outlines NTPC's plants, power sharing in India, use of communication technologies like satellites, and new technologies being used like ultra supercritical plants. It also discusses NTPC's use of ash from plants and efforts to increase ash utilization. The presentation concludes by discussing the importance of conserving energy and developing renewable sources to improve the environment.
A PAKISTAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT COMPREHENSIVE ENERGY PLAN by A GENIUS SCHOL...Malik Tariq Sarwar Awan
GROWTH AND DEVELOPEMNT EFFORTS FOR PAKISTAN TO BECOME A DEVELOPED COUNTRY by Tariq Sarwar Awan A Genius Research Analyst, Scholar and Public Representative Tariq Sarwar Awan in his Public Awareness program. I am working on all the core issues to give their SOLUTIONS for rapid growth of my Nation, Great Pakistan
This document provides an overview of energy storage technologies and innovation. It discusses the need for energy storage to balance electricity supply and demand from renewable sources. It describes various energy storage technologies including batteries, pumped hydroelectric storage, compressed air energy storage, thermal storage, and hydrogen storage. Case studies of existing pumped hydro, thermal, and flywheel energy storage projects are presented. The future of energy storage systems is seen to involve a mix of technologies with batteries and pumped hydro playing a large role.
Feasibility Assessment: Proposed B.C. LNG Facilities and Renewable PowerClean Energy Canada
Navius Research Inc. and Steve Davis & Associates produced a conceptual design for powering the LNG terminal on the North Coast that would maximize renewables at its production facility and do so reliably, affordably and on schedule—using established commercial technologies. Further, doing so reduces that plant’s carbon pollution by 45 percent, its air emissions - nitrogen oxides - by 70 percent and increases local permanent jobs by 40 percent. The cost for all these benefits? A 1 percent increase in projected sales price of the LNG.
This document provides a summary of a seminar on summer vocational training at NTPC thermal power plants. It discusses the key components of a thermal power plant including coal handling, pulverizing, boilers, turbines, generators, condensers, and ash handling. It also describes various equipment like ball mills used in pulverizing coal and control and instrumentation labs that monitor critical parameters. Finally, it lists some major thermal power plants in Rajasthan and references used in preparing the seminar.
The document discusses hydropower plants in Pakistan. It describes how hydropower plants work by capturing the kinetic energy of falling water using turbines connected to generators. It then categorizes hydropower plants based on their size, head of water, and type. Specific hydropower plants in Pakistan are also mentioned, along with their capacities. Overall hydropower generation and demand in Pakistan is presented. Finally, future hydropower projects are listed.
The document discusses floating solar power plants and their advantages over land-based solar. It provides details on the components of floating PV systems including the floating structure, mooring system, PV system, and underwater cables. Performance data is presented from two floating PV plants installed in South Korea showing 10.3% higher efficiency than land-based systems. The document also outlines government initiatives and policies in India to promote renewable energy including solar, as well as the financial modeling considerations for setting up floating solar PV plants.
Scenario of Power Production and distribution in IndiaTyMechSeminar
The document discusses India's current power scenario and options for the future. It notes that fossil fuels currently make up around 70% of electricity production but are non-renewable. Renewable sources like solar, wind and hydro make up around 17% and nuclear is at 3%. It outlines the potential for increasing renewable and nuclear energy to meet future demand in a more sustainable way, focusing on various renewable technologies available in India as well as expanding nuclear power using breeder reactors.
ISES 2013 - Day 3 - Stephen Roosa (Association of Energy Engineers) - The Tr...Student Energy
The very last plenary session will highlight the challenges related to the transition in the energy sector: the big challenge on how to bridge the gap will be the main focus. A wide range of perspectives will be represented and the challenges we are facing as well as the solutions to these will be put on the table.
Washington State University Presentation (2012)HEFContest
This document proposes a system called CougsCARE that would convert agricultural waste from wheat straw into clean energy for Washington State University and the surrounding community. It would use thermochemical conversion processes like pyrolysis and gasification to produce syngas, followed by methanation and fuel cells to generate hydrogen, electricity, and heat. The system would provide 4.4 MW of electricity to the grid, reduce WSU's CO2 emissions, and give farmers an alternative to burning their wheat straw fields. It was designed by WSU students and faculty as part of a contest to develop hydrogen production technologies.
Analysis and Design of a Hybrid Renewable Energy System – Lebanon CaseIJERA Editor
The depletion of fossil fuels and their environmental consequences have prompted searching for other sources of energy aiming to global status amelioration. In the recent past, renewable energy sources have been considered as alternatives for the fossil fuel energy sources. The unexpected pattern of natural resources assesses integrated utilization of these sources to provide persistent and reliable power supply to the consumers. The technology’s advantages, requirements and related improvements are underlined and results are generalized. This paper covers the design of a solar and wind based hybrid renewable system presenting calculations and considerations in order to achieve an optimized design. Since hybrid systems performance relies mainly on geographical an d meteorological aspects, the study will consider the case of the Mediterranean area and in particular Lebanon.
The presentation provides us the basic information of the Nuclear Power Plant situated at Rawatbhata, Rajasthan Site. It helps us to know about total number of Nuclear Power Plants situated all over India, its basic functioning and all about its parts.
1) The document proposes a solar PV-diesel generator hybrid system as a solution to issues with sole reliance on diesel generators or solar PV systems.
2) A hybrid system combines solar PV panels, batteries, and an existing diesel generator set controlled by a programmable logic circuit to provide reliable, economic, and uninterrupted power.
3) Analyses using HOMER optimization software show hybrid systems can reduce costs by balancing the high operating expenses of diesel with the high upfront costs of solar, achieving the lowest levelized cost of energy.
University of Maryland Presentation (2012)HEFContest
The student team designed a Combined Heat, Hydrogen, and Power (CHHP) system for the University of Maryland campus that would:
1) Convert organic waste streams into methane via gasification and anaerobic digestion, which would then be reformed into hydrogen to power a 1.5MW fuel cell, producing electricity and thermal energy.
2) Excess hydrogen would be recovered, compressed, and stored to fuel campus shuttles.
3) The system is estimated to reduce campus CO2 emissions by 13,000 metric tons per year and remove 6,700 metric tons of landfill waste annually.
The ppt gives an overview on recent policy initiatives on Renwable Energy, like cerc\'s new regulation, national solar mission and renewable energy certificate
This document provides an overview of renewable energy technologies used for power generation, focusing on wind and solar energy. It discusses how wind turbines convert wind force into torque to generate electricity, and the typical power load factors for wind farms. It also explains the two main solar power generation technologies: concentrating solar thermal plants and photovoltaic plants. Concentrating solar plants use collectors and turbines to generate electricity from heat, while photovoltaic plants use solar arrays and inverters. The document concludes with current installed capacities of wind and solar power in India.
The document discusses the function and process of thermal power plants. Coal is the most common fuel used in thermal power plants. Coal is burned to heat water and create steam, which spins turbines connected to generators to produce electricity. The steam is then cooled and recycled to repeat the process. Thermal power plants in Pakistan are located in major cities like Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. A future non-conventional thermal plant is being built in Thar to use local coal reserves through gasification. Key factors for locating thermal plants include availability of fuel, land for operations and disposal of ash byproduct.
This document provides a feasibility study for installing a wind turbine in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. It recommends the Northern Power 60 wind turbine model with a 24.4 meter rotor diameter, 29 meter hub height, and 59.9 kW rated power. The study finds that while the turbine could help Chambersburg reduce carbon emissions and diversify energy production, the estimated 40 year payback period is too long given the turbine's 20 year design life. Therefore, the project does not make financial sense despite other potential benefits like improved public image.
A case study in offshore wind farm project managementmtingle
The document discusses the Wolfe Island Shoals offshore wind farm project in Lake Ontario, Canada. Some key points:
- It will be a 300 MW offshore wind facility costing $1.5 billion Canadian dollars.
- It faces special challenges related to permitting, engineering, logistics, and financing of an offshore wind farm in the Great Lakes.
- ORTECH has been appointed project manager and discusses the project schedule, permitting process, engineering considerations like soil testing and foundation design, turbine selection, marine transport and installation logistics, operation and maintenance planning, and financing.
The document proposes a design for a Combined Hydrogen, Heat, and Power (CHHP) plant that uses anaerobic digestion of manure and rice straw to produce biogas. The biogas is used to generate hydrogen through a water-gas shift reaction and pressure swing adsorption. The hydrogen is stored and transported to a hydrogen community and fuel cells to generate electricity. Exhaust heat is recovered to produce steam for greenhouses and hot water for buildings. The CHHP plant is designed to support approximately 51 households with electricity and provide heat to nearby greenhouses.
Conventional power generation, thermal, nuclear, gas turbine, hydro electric power plants, schematic, working, advantages and disadvantages, site selection
Flinders Island Isolated Power System (IPS) Connect 2016 S KILMETE PUCjames hamilton
The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) is a grouping of 607 small islands in the Western Pacific about 2,500 miles southwest of Hawaii, lying just above the Equator. Generally speaking, FSM comprises what is known as the Eastern and Western Caroline Islands. While the country's total land area amounts to only 270.8 square miles, it occupies more than one million square miles of the Pacific ocean, and ranges 1,700 miles from East (Kosrae) to West (Yap)- Each of the four States centers around one or more "high islands." and all but Kosrae include numerous atolls.
Chuuk State has a total land area of 492 square miles and includes seven major island groups. Pohnpei State has 133.4 square miles of land area, of which 130 is accounted for by Pohnpei island, the largest in FSM. Yap State is made up of 4 large islands, 7 small islands and 134 atolls, with a total land area of 45.6 square miles- Kosrae is essentially one high island of 42.3 square miles.
FSM enjoys a tropical climate, with relatively even, warm temperatures throughout the year. Rainfall is generally plentiful, and Pohnpei reputedly is one of the wettest places on Earth, with up to 330 inches of rain per year.
A presentation on summer training at NTPC corporate office noidaAshutosh Tripathi
This document provides a summary of a presentation about a summer training at NTPC Noida. It discusses NTPC's profile, including that it is India's largest power company and was established in 1975. It outlines NTPC's plants, power sharing in India, use of communication technologies like satellites, and new technologies being used like ultra supercritical plants. It also discusses NTPC's use of ash from plants and efforts to increase ash utilization. The presentation concludes by discussing the importance of conserving energy and developing renewable sources to improve the environment.
A PAKISTAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT COMPREHENSIVE ENERGY PLAN by A GENIUS SCHOL...Malik Tariq Sarwar Awan
GROWTH AND DEVELOPEMNT EFFORTS FOR PAKISTAN TO BECOME A DEVELOPED COUNTRY by Tariq Sarwar Awan A Genius Research Analyst, Scholar and Public Representative Tariq Sarwar Awan in his Public Awareness program. I am working on all the core issues to give their SOLUTIONS for rapid growth of my Nation, Great Pakistan
This document provides an overview of energy storage technologies and innovation. It discusses the need for energy storage to balance electricity supply and demand from renewable sources. It describes various energy storage technologies including batteries, pumped hydroelectric storage, compressed air energy storage, thermal storage, and hydrogen storage. Case studies of existing pumped hydro, thermal, and flywheel energy storage projects are presented. The future of energy storage systems is seen to involve a mix of technologies with batteries and pumped hydro playing a large role.
Feasibility Assessment: Proposed B.C. LNG Facilities and Renewable PowerClean Energy Canada
Navius Research Inc. and Steve Davis & Associates produced a conceptual design for powering the LNG terminal on the North Coast that would maximize renewables at its production facility and do so reliably, affordably and on schedule—using established commercial technologies. Further, doing so reduces that plant’s carbon pollution by 45 percent, its air emissions - nitrogen oxides - by 70 percent and increases local permanent jobs by 40 percent. The cost for all these benefits? A 1 percent increase in projected sales price of the LNG.
This document provides a summary of a seminar on summer vocational training at NTPC thermal power plants. It discusses the key components of a thermal power plant including coal handling, pulverizing, boilers, turbines, generators, condensers, and ash handling. It also describes various equipment like ball mills used in pulverizing coal and control and instrumentation labs that monitor critical parameters. Finally, it lists some major thermal power plants in Rajasthan and references used in preparing the seminar.
The document discusses hydropower plants in Pakistan. It describes how hydropower plants work by capturing the kinetic energy of falling water using turbines connected to generators. It then categorizes hydropower plants based on their size, head of water, and type. Specific hydropower plants in Pakistan are also mentioned, along with their capacities. Overall hydropower generation and demand in Pakistan is presented. Finally, future hydropower projects are listed.
The document discusses floating solar power plants and their advantages over land-based solar. It provides details on the components of floating PV systems including the floating structure, mooring system, PV system, and underwater cables. Performance data is presented from two floating PV plants installed in South Korea showing 10.3% higher efficiency than land-based systems. The document also outlines government initiatives and policies in India to promote renewable energy including solar, as well as the financial modeling considerations for setting up floating solar PV plants.
Scenario of Power Production and distribution in IndiaTyMechSeminar
The document discusses India's current power scenario and options for the future. It notes that fossil fuels currently make up around 70% of electricity production but are non-renewable. Renewable sources like solar, wind and hydro make up around 17% and nuclear is at 3%. It outlines the potential for increasing renewable and nuclear energy to meet future demand in a more sustainable way, focusing on various renewable technologies available in India as well as expanding nuclear power using breeder reactors.
ISES 2013 - Day 3 - Stephen Roosa (Association of Energy Engineers) - The Tr...Student Energy
The very last plenary session will highlight the challenges related to the transition in the energy sector: the big challenge on how to bridge the gap will be the main focus. A wide range of perspectives will be represented and the challenges we are facing as well as the solutions to these will be put on the table.
S Varsha (IIIyr ECE) C.Rohith (IIIyr ECE) Hindusthan Institute of Technolo_20...svvarsha124
This document proposes a hybrid solar charging station for electric vehicles on the national highway. It would use solar panels to harvest energy from the sun both during the day and at night by automatically tilting toward vehicle headlights. This would provide a cost-effective and renewable energy source for charging electric vehicles without carbon emissions. The station would integrate solar energy storage and transfer excess power to the electric grid, making it more sustainable and reliable than gasoline stations. It aims to promote wider adoption of electric vehicles and reduce greenhouse gas impacts from transportation.
General Fusion raises $20 million to further develop its plasma confinement approach for fusion energy. The company aims to achieve fusion using synchronized pistons to set up shock waves in plasma at an estimated cost of $0.04 per kilowatt-hour. Several options for advancing energy production are discussed, including carbon sequestration, fission, and various fusion technologies like dense plasma focus devices. Multiple companies and research institutions around the world are conducting research into practical fusion energy production through different confinement approaches.
Rebecca mills-securing-the-n ts-energy-futurejames hamilton
Territory Generation is transitioning to renewable energy sources to power Alice Springs. By 2030, the majority of its base load supply will come from renewables. Upgrades include a 41 MW gas plant expansion, 7.5 MW upgrade to another plant, and a 5 MW/4.6 MWh battery energy storage system. The battery will provide frequency response, reduce gas plant ramping due to solar intermittency, and defer transmission upgrades. The projects improve efficiency, enable higher solar penetration and transition Alice Springs to more sustainable energy sources.
The presentation discusses the history and future potential of fuel cells and hydrogen as alternatives to oil. It notes that fuel cells were first developed in 1839 and used in the 1960s by NASA for the Apollo missions. The Bush Administration has committed to developing hydrogen technologies to reduce oil demand and carbon emissions by 2040. Fuel cells work by using hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity through chemical reactions, with water and heat as byproducts. Challenges include cost, storage, and infrastructure, but applications include transportation, stationary power sources, and more. The presentation highlights examples of fuel cell use in vehicles, rural electrification projects, and more to argue that hydrogen technologies represent a promising clean energy future.
This document proposes a renewable hybrid kinetic energy system that combines multiple renewable energy sources and long-term energy storage. It summarizes various renewable energy technologies like solar, wind, and hydro. It then introduces the concept of a system that uses kinetic energy storage by lifting and lowering weighted shafts to store energy from these sources. The document estimates costs of $90,000 for the hybrid system and identifies challenges like developing the proper mechanical components and power regulation systems.
The document provides an overview of energy conservation and different sources of electrical power generation in India. It discusses the country's power generation scenario and the advantages and disadvantages of various conventional sources like thermal, hydro, and nuclear power as well as non-conventional sources such as wind and solar power. Block diagrams of different power plants are also included to illustrate the working principles and components.
NTPC faces challenges in a changing environment due to climate change, renewable energy growth, and falling power demand. Cycling plant operations and low load operations negatively impact plant performance and increase costs. However, opportunities exist in providing balancing power to support the grid during peak times and integrating further into the power distribution business. NTPC aims to capitalize on these opportunities while overcoming challenges through new technologies like plasma ignition that enable stable low load operations.
This document discusses different types of conventional power generation sources including steam power stations, nuclear power plants, gas turbine power plants, and hydroelectric power stations. It provides information on the schematic arrangements, advantages, and disadvantages of each type of power plant. It also discusses environmental factors to consider when selecting sites for new power plants, such as proximity to fuel sources, transportation access, and populated areas.
This document provides an overview of six concentrating solar technologies: parabolic troughs, compact linear Fresnel reflectors, solar furnaces, parabolic dishes, solar central receivers, and lens concentrators. It discusses the operation and major components of these systems as well as examples of current projects using concentrating solar power technologies for electricity generation and industrial processes. Technical challenges in developing concentrating solar collectors are also reviewed.
1) Solar energy adoption is growing in the US, with over 13,000 MW of solar capacity installed as of 2014. The utility scale solar market is leading the way.
2) The US military is also increasing its use of solar power, with a goal of obtaining 25% of its energy from renewable sources by 2025. Several large solar installations have been completed at military bases.
3) While higher efficiency solar cells can be developed in research settings, the cost-effectiveness of a solar installation depends more on the total cost per watt including installation and maintenance over the long-term. Balance of system costs are a major factor.
This document provides an overview of nuclear power plants, including:
- The basic components and layout of a nuclear power plant, including the nuclear fuel, fuel rods, reactor, coolant, steam generator, turbine, and condenser.
- The working principles of nuclear fission and how it is used to generate heat and produce steam to power the turbine.
- Descriptions of different types of nuclear reactors including pressurized water reactors, boiling water reactors, CANDU reactors, and gas-cooled reactors.
- Safety measures for nuclear power plants and the advantages and disadvantages of nuclear energy.
Investigating the geothermal potential of northern mines and communitiesJasmin Raymond
The document discusses the potential for geothermal energy production in northern Quebec communities and mines. Currently, these areas rely on expensive diesel generators for electricity and heating. Geothermal could provide a cheaper, local, and low-carbon alternative through shallow ground source heat pumps or deeper geothermal reservoirs. The research aims to identify geothermal resources, adapt existing technologies to Arctic conditions, and train highly qualified personnel through case studies in communities like Kuujjuaq and mines like Eleonore. This could reduce energy costs by at least 20% while establishing a geothermal lab and developing partnerships with Icelandic researchers.
This document provides information about geothermal power generation. It discusses geothermal energy resources, the different methods of geothermal power generation including dry steam, flash steam and binary cycle power stations. It notes that worldwide geothermal power capacity is currently 12.8 GW generated in 24 countries. The document also discusses investment costs, maintenance costs, efficiency and the potential for hybridizing geothermal plants with other renewable resources. It concludes that while initial costs are high, maintenance costs are very low, efficiency can be increased through hybridization, and geothermal power generation is largely pollution-free.
What is hydrogen powered tractor? and it's component.
then how to fuel cell work ? Advantages and disadvantages of hydrogen powered tractor. and how does it work.
GBF2014 - Rob Thornton - Flexible, Local, Resilient Energy GenerationToronto 2030 District
The document discusses the future of energy generation being flexible, local, and resilient through district energy systems and microgrids. It provides examples of how district energy/combined heat and power systems helped communities maintain power and heat during extreme weather events like Hurricane Sandy. Emerging policy trends support more widespread adoption of microgrid technologies to improve grid reliability and resilience at the local level.
The document summarizes the development of concentrated solar power (CSP) technology. It states that CSP has significant potential to transform the energy system by providing renewable energy at scale. It then outlines the history and growth of CSP from 1984-2014, with installed capacity growing from 354 MW to 4.5 GW. It also predicts continued growth, with the world reaching 260 GW by 2030 and 983 GW by 2050. The document discusses the two main CSP technologies and the importance of thermal energy storage. It highlights Spain's leadership in CSP development from 2008-2013 and the Basque Country's role in supplying the Spanish industry.
Introduction and Present Status of Renewable Energies.pptRajaDesingu2
This document provides a syllabus for a course on power electronics for renewable energy systems. The syllabus covers five units: (1) an introduction to environmental impacts of renewable energy and different renewable resources; (2) electrical machines for renewable energy conversion; (3) power converters for solar and wind systems; (4) analysis of wind and PV systems; and (5) hybrid renewable energy systems. Textbooks and references are also listed.
Nuclear fission in nuclear power plantGarima Bisht
The document discusses nuclear power plants. It begins with an introduction to nuclear power and reactors. It then discusses India's current status with nuclear power as the fourth largest source. It outlines the key system components of a nuclear power plant including the nuclear reactor, steam turbine, generator, cooling system and safety valves. It explains the nuclear fuel and processes involved, including nuclear fission. It discusses the life cycle of nuclear fuels and flexibility of nuclear power plants. It concludes by looking at future power station designs and technologies.
The document provides a summary of various science and technology news including declining jobs, 3D telepresence technology, graphene circuits, an aberration free lens, cheap 3D sensing, and an energy efficient 64-core processor. It also discusses optical vortices and interference patterns, and introduces a wave glider surfing robot.
A space pier using reusable rockets may be more feasible than a space elevator for providing cheaper access to geosynchronous orbit. While a space elevator faces serious material challenges due to its length, a space pier concept using 100km towers in space could utilize less exotic materials and avoid the difficulties of an elevator reaching from the ground to space.
The economy is currently experiencing high inflation and a slowing job market. While unemployment remains low, consumer prices are rising sharply and economic growth has weakened in recent months. If inflation is not brought under control and the job market deteriorates further, the country risks entering a recession.
DNA origami is a technique for precisely arranging DNA strands into complex shapes and patterns, at the nanoscale, which can be used to assemble nanomachines. Indoor navigation remains a challenge as GPS signals do not penetrate buildings well. Devices and gadgets continue to push the boundaries of miniaturization and what can be achieved at the nanoscale.
The document summarizes discussions from a recap event on November 4th, 2012. Several speakers addressed topics including advances in health, wealth, violence reduction, technology, AI, longevity research, data access and ownership, and the potential societal impacts of artificial general intelligence. Vernor Vinge discussed multiple scenarios that could lead to a technological singularity, and Peter Norvig's projections from 2007 about hierarchical knowledge representation and machine learning were discussed.
The document discusses several emerging technologies including Autodesk developing CAD software for 3D tissue modeling, creating new materials by recipe, and an air data glove that allows writing in air. It also mentions upcoming smartphone advances like wireless charging standards, flexible displays, and fast growing Asian markets. Additionally, it briefly mentions potential discoveries or applications such as two types of Higgs bosons, generating electricity from tornadoes, over 500 phases of matter, quantum spin liquids, and using focused sound beams as a scalpel.
Voyager 1 has traveled 17 light hours from Earth and is sending back images. Scientists have determined that some planets discovered are potentially more habitable than Earth. Researchers continue developing new propulsion technologies, such as warp drive, to enable faster than light travel.
A new study claims to have smashed a previously believed "quantum limit" by detecting four times lower error rates than thought possible in quantum communication. If true, this could enable higher speed, lower power communication with fewer errors. The article also summarizes the latest developments in wireless technologies including 802.11ac, 802.11ad, LTE Advanced, and experimental technologies capable of transferring data at speeds from 1 Gbps to several terabits per second and even 1 petabit per second over fiber optic cables.
The document discusses the potential economic value of asteroid mining due to the precious metals and other resources contained within asteroids. It notes that a small 10-meter platinum asteroid could be worth $670 billion and even the smallest metallic asteroid identified so far contains over $30 trillion worth of metals. The document also outlines plans to characterize the atmospheres of exoplanets using telescopes by 2020 and new technologies like electric solar sails and mach effect thrusters that could enable deeper space exploration to planets and asteroids.
The document discusses the goals and philosophy of transhumanism, which advocates using technology to enhance human capabilities and abolish involuntary suffering by achieving indefinite life extension, abundant resources through space exploration, and advancing intelligence through both biological and technological means. It outlines concerns about aging populations, resource shortages, and economic crises, and proposes focusing research on anti-aging, artificial intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, and space exploitation to address these challenges. The document asks what individuals can do to help achieve this vision through funding research, building high-tech communities, and using their own skills to collaborate on advancing relevant technologies.
The document discusses several advances in medicine and biotechnology including a solid state gene sequencing machine that is cheaper and faster than previous methods, a technique for sequencing an entire genome from a single cell, a new method for genetic editing, printing an ear, a compound that reverses Alzheimer's symptoms, giving rats infrared vision, a synthetic biology circuit combining memory and logic, using graphene for neural implants, and a large prize for extending human life.
The document discusses intellectual property, including the different types of IP such as copyright, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets. It explores arguments for and against the validity of IP protection, how IP enforcement may further or impede human progress, and concerns about proposed legislation such as the Protect IP Act that could threaten the open internet. Overall, the document examines balancing innovation incentives with limiting unnecessary restraints on creativity and access to knowledge.
This document discusses several private space projects including Virgin Galactic's rocket test, more successful engine tests for Skylon, and private Mars flyby mission. It also lists projects from Icarus Interstellar such as Project Forward, Project Hyperion, Project Persephone, Project Bifrost, The Hellus Experiment, Project Tin Tin, the X-Physics Propulsion & Power Project, and Longshot II.
The document discusses several emerging technologies including multilayer superconductors, quantum refrigerators, ion trap quantum computers that can store one petabyte per square inch, improvements over TCP, table top neutral atom accelerators, and the upcoming Sony Playstation 4.
This document discusses several positive trends around the world including falling poverty, access to basic needs like water and energy, and technological advancements that can help solve problems. Specific points made include that cell phones are transforming Africa, renewable energy sources in Africa are abundant, and addressing issues like access to clean water could save millions of lives and improve health and nutrition globally. The overall message is that the current situation is better than it appears and continued progress is possible in meeting basic human needs for all people.
Water is abundant on Earth but most is saline and unavailable for human use. Only 3% of the world's water is freshwater, with the majority locked up in ice caps and glaciers. One billion people lack access to safe drinking water and 2.6 billion lack basic sanitation, resulting in half of all hospitalizations from waterborne diseases. Improving access to clean water could save 135 million lives and improve nutrition by wiping out disease vectors. Solutions involve acquiring water through reclamation, extraction, conservation, and purification as well as improving sanitation, distribution, and irrigation infrastructure.
The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover collected data about Martian conditions including average temperatures between -17.2 C to -107 C, an atmospheric pressure of 600 Pa which is lower than water's triple point, strong thermal tides, wind, possible volcanic influences, traces of water, high radiation levels, questions about global warming, and an atmosphere composed of 95% carbon dioxide with some methane.
The document provides brief updates on several space missions and projects, including the Dawn spacecraft continuing its study of asteroids, MIT developing micro-thrusters for spacecraft, an experimental scramjet aircraft being lost in the Pacific Ocean during a test flight, the Curiosity rover starting to drive on Mars and use its laser-shooting instrument to analyze rocks, and SpaceX planning to launch a weather satellite for NOAA.
The document discusses various advancements in robotics including a robotic dragonfly, pressure sensing electronic skin, a robot with a face and tail, micro-rockets for robotic insects, and the use of robots in South Korean prisons and as potential friends or warriors.
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
GraphRAG for Life Science to increase LLM accuracyTomaz Bratanic
GraphRAG for life science domain, where you retriever information from biomedical knowledge graphs using LLMs to increase the accuracy and performance of generated answers
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift.pdfTosin Akinosho
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift
Overview
Dive into the world of anomaly detection on edge devices with our comprehensive hands-on tutorial. This SlideShare presentation will guide you through the entire process, from data collection and model training to edge deployment and real-time monitoring. Perfect for those looking to implement robust anomaly detection systems on resource-constrained IoT/edge devices.
Key Topics Covered
1. Introduction to Anomaly Detection
- Understand the fundamentals of anomaly detection and its importance in identifying unusual behavior or failures in systems.
2. Understanding Edge (IoT)
- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
3. What is ArgoCD?
- Discover ArgoCD, a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes, and its role in deploying applications on edge devices.
4. Deployment Using ArgoCD for Edge Devices
- Step-by-step guide on deploying anomaly detection models on edge devices using ArgoCD.
5. Introduction to Apache Kafka and S3
- Explore Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and Amazon S3 for scalable storage solutions.
6. Viewing Kafka Messages in the Data Lake
- Learn how to view and analyze Kafka messages stored in a data lake for better insights.
7. What is Prometheus?
- Get to know Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, and its application in monitoring edge devices.
8. Monitoring Application Metrics with Prometheus
- Detailed instructions on setting up Prometheus to monitor the performance and health of your anomaly detection system.
9. What is Camel K?
- Introduction to Camel K, a lightweight integration framework built on Apache Camel, designed for Kubernetes.
10. Configuring Camel K Integrations for Data Pipelines
- Learn how to configure Camel K for seamless data pipeline integrations in your anomaly detection workflow.
11. What is a Jupyter Notebook?
- Overview of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web application for creating and sharing documents with live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text.
12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
- Hands-on examples and code snippets in Jupyter Notebooks to help you implement and test anomaly detection models.
leewayhertz.com-AI in predictive maintenance Use cases technologies benefits ...alexjohnson7307
Predictive maintenance is a proactive approach that anticipates equipment failures before they happen. At the forefront of this innovative strategy is Artificial Intelligence (AI), which brings unprecedented precision and efficiency. AI in predictive maintenance is transforming industries by reducing downtime, minimizing costs, and enhancing productivity.
Salesforce Integration for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions A...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 integration of Salesforce with Bonterra Impact Management.
Interested in deploying an integration with Salesforce for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/temporal-event-neural-networks-a-more-efficient-alternative-to-the-transformer-a-presentation-from-brainchip/
Chris Jones, Director of Product Management at BrainChip , presents the “Temporal Event Neural Networks: A More Efficient Alternative to the Transformer” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
The expansion of AI services necessitates enhanced computational capabilities on edge devices. Temporal Event Neural Networks (TENNs), developed by BrainChip, represent a novel and highly efficient state-space network. TENNs demonstrate exceptional proficiency in handling multi-dimensional streaming data, facilitating advancements in object detection, action recognition, speech enhancement and language model/sequence generation. Through the utilization of polynomial-based continuous convolutions, TENNs streamline models, expedite training processes and significantly diminish memory requirements, achieving notable reductions of up to 50x in parameters and 5,000x in energy consumption compared to prevailing methodologies like transformers.
Integration with BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic hardware IP further enhances TENNs’ capabilities, enabling the realization of highly capable, portable and passively cooled edge devices. This presentation delves into the technical innovations underlying TENNs, presents real-world benchmarks, and elucidates how this cutting-edge approach is positioned to revolutionize edge AI across diverse applications.
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
TrustArc Webinar - 2024 Global Privacy SurveyTrustArc
How does your privacy program stack up against your peers? What challenges are privacy teams tackling and prioritizing in 2024?
In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
See how organizational priorities and strategic approaches to data security and privacy are evolving around the globe.
This webinar will review:
- The top 10 privacy insights from the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey
- The top challenges for privacy leaders, practitioners, and organizations in 2024
- Key themes to consider in developing and maintaining your privacy program
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdfChart Kalyan
A Mix Chart displays historical data of numbers in a graphical or tabular form. The Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart specifically shows the results of a sequence of numbers over different periods.
Digital Banking in the Cloud: How Citizens Bank Unlocked Their MainframePrecisely
Inconsistent user experience and siloed data, high costs, and changing customer expectations – Citizens Bank was experiencing these challenges while it was attempting to deliver a superior digital banking experience for its clients. Its core banking applications run on the mainframe and Citizens was using legacy utilities to get the critical mainframe data to feed customer-facing channels, like call centers, web, and mobile. Ultimately, this led to higher operating costs (MIPS), delayed response times, and longer time to market.
Ever-changing customer expectations demand more modern digital experiences, and the bank needed to find a solution that could provide real-time data to its customer channels with low latency and operating costs. Join this session to learn how Citizens is leveraging Precisely to replicate mainframe data to its customer channels and deliver on their “modern digital bank” experiences.
2. Nuclear
• NRC lowers nuclear plant meltdown fatality
estimate
• Reactors
– Bellefonte 1 reactor to be completed
– APR1400 reactor construction
• Indian uranium
– Changes made to Terrapower traveling wave
reactor to be more buildable
3. Traveling Wave Reactor
• New design generates heat at
top instead centrally
– Easier to use heat
– Somewhat more radiation wear
on containment system
– Needs 3 to 4 times more
resilient material
– Seeks permission and funding
to build
4. Fatalities if Core Meltdown
• Main worry is release of Cesium 137
– Previous estimate 60% cesium release
– New estimate: <= 2%
• Result based on 20 years of computer modelling,
engineering analysis and field data
• Probability of death within 10 mile radius
– Near 0.0
– Odds of 0.0002 of developing latent cancer
• This is without considering new mitigation
methods
5. Fusion News
• Star Scientific: Muon catalyzed fusion
• Fusion project updates
– Helion Energy
– General Fusion
– Tri-Alpha Energy
• Japanese Muon and Muon fusion research..
6.
7. Transportation
• Increasing fuel efficiency using smartphones
– Fuel savings of 20% in city driving
• New electric vehicle charging proposal
– Endless power to electric vehicles through road RF
energy
• Wheel motors and kits to turn conventional
vehicles to hybrids
– Operational direct drive solution
14. Hydrocarbons
• Oil production hasn’t peaked yet
– Oil production rose to 88.7 mbd last month
• Israel has Saudi Arabia level reserves?
– 250 billion barrels of oil
• Most recent world oil supply report
Editor's Notes
Tennessee Valley Authority has decided to complete a nuclear reactor at Bellefonte Bellefonte 1 is a Babcock & Wilcox pressurized water reactor currently considered 55% complete. A $4.9 billion project should see it begin operation by 2020 to generate 1260 MWe. Completing Bellefonte 1 will be cheaper on a per-MW basis than the cost of replacing any of its fossil plants. The $4.9 billion project works out at a cost of $3888 per kilowatt of installed capacity. http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/08/south-korea-apr1400-nuclear-reactor.html1. The reactor pressure vessel for unit 4 of South Korea's Shin-Kori nuclear power plant has been put in place. The unit is the second APR-1400 to be built and its schedule follows the first, Shin-Kori 3, by one year. 2. The first AP1000 nuclear reactor vessel successfully arrived at the Sanmen nuclear power plant in China's Zhejiang province at the end of July 2011.3. India is expediting exploration efforts to more than double the reserves of uranium at a site in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh where it made its largest-ever discovery of the metal used as a nuclear fuel.4. Uranium miner Energy Resources of Australia Ltd. (ERA.AU) approved Thursday the exploration of an untapped deposit that could extend the life of one of the world's biggest uranium mines.
Technology Review - Terrapower, a startup funded in part by Nathan Myhrvold and Bill Gates, is moving closer to building a new type of nuclear reactor called a traveling wave reactor that runs on an abundant form of uranium. The Terrapower reactor would burn up all of the actinides (uranium, plutonium). Most of the uranium that it uses would not need to be enriched.Terrapower expects to begin construction of a 100-megawatt demonstration plant in 2016 and start it up in 2020. It's working with a consortium of national labs, universities, and corporations to overcome the primary technical challenge of the new reactor: developing new materials that can withstand use in the reactor core for decades at a time. It has yet to secure a site for an experimental plant—or the funding to build it. One challenge with this design is ensuring that the steel cladding that contains the fuel in the fuel rods can survive exposure to decades of radiation. Current materials aren't good enough: for one thing, they start to swell, which would close off the spaces between the fuel rods through which coolant is supposed to flow. To last 40 years, the materials would need to be made two to three times more durable, Terrapower says. Terrapower's next steps include finalizing the design and finding partners to build the plants. It's been in talks with organizations in China, Russia, and India. Gilleland says the company expects to have an announcement about partners within the next few months
The report is a synthesis of 20 years of computer studies and engineering analyses, stated in complex mathematical terms. In essence, it states that if a prolonged loss of electric power caused a typical American reactor core to melt down, the great bulk of the radioactive material released would remain inside the building even when the reactor’s containment shell was breached.Big releases of radioactive material would not be immediate, and people within a 10-mile radius would have enough time to evacuate, the study found. The chance of a death from acute radiation exposure within 10 miles is therefore near zero, the study projects, although some people would receive doses high enough to cause fatal cancers in decades to come.One person in every 4,348 living within 10 miles would be expected to develop a “latent cancer” as a result of radiation exposure, compared with one in 167 in previous estimates. Dr. Lyman said the earlier estimate was of a different accident, a major pipe break. The new study considered that accident too unlikely to analyze.Dr. Lyman suggested that in projections of fatal cancer cases, the focus should be on people who live within 50 miles. The average population within 10 miles of an American nuclear plant is 62,000; within 50 miles, it is about five million.The commission’s old projection of eventual cancer deaths was one for every 2,128 people exposed within 50 miles; the new study projects one cancer death for every 6,250 people exposed, which still comes to hundreds of cancer deaths within the 50-mile circleNone of the work looks at further steps for improving mitigation in the most cost effective ways.A large inflatable containment dome (maybe 2 to five inflatable domes) could be built and ready for deployment in the event of an incident at any plant.
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/07/australian-star-scientific-claims-to-be.htmlStar Scientific Limited is perfecting a world-first technique to economically produce pions, and hence muoncatalysed fusion, in a CONTROLLED and SUSTAINED way. They are developing a method to efficiently and consistently produce pions (which immediately decay to become muons) in their hundreds and thousands, meaning the loss of some muons is of no consequence.Much controversy over these claimsEnergy input versus output is an issue with plasma fusion, not muoncatalysed fusion. Plasma fusion consumes 18 times more energy than it produces. The Star Scientific system requires very little energy to run, which means 99% of the energy liberated by the fusion reaction is available for use.They are claiming that they have a low energy input pion factory. If 100 times more heat is produced than the energy input, then the heat can be converted to electricity that is 30 times more than the input energy.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon-catalyzed_fusionHow it works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu-IKqxVOfo&feature=player_embeddedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJstCPZwgqU&feature=player_embeddedHelion.. 1. New Scientist [registration required] - Helion Energy has already received something like $5 million in funding from NASA and the US Department of Defense among others, is now looking for $20 million from private investors to build what it says could be a commercially viable reactor.2. The Canadian firm General Fusion based in Burnaby, British Columbia, is using a method called magnetised plasma fusion. According to company spokesman Michael Delage, the first laboratory tests of the design have gone well, achieving a temperature of 5 million degrees for 1 microsecond. It remains to be seen whether this approach can be scaled up all the way to fusion - and beyond that to break-even. "There are no magnetised plasma experiments that we are aware of at the plasma temperatures and densities necessary for net-gain fusion," Delage says. "The only way to verify this is by experiment." The firm has raised the $30 million it says it needs, some of it from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.Tri Alpha Energy, a secretive California-based company, is believed to have raised $90 million for its variant of the field-reversed technique; among its investors is Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. In a rare public communication a year ago, Tri Alpha researchers showed how they had collided two plasma balls at a temperature over 5 million degrees and held them together for up to 2 milliseconds (Physical Review Letters, vol 105, p 045003). Tri Alpha says it will produce a working commercial reactor some time between 2015 and 2020 - possibly before ITER fires up for the first time.
Muon-catalyzed nuclear fusion.A beam of negatively charged muons is produced and injected into a mixed fuel of deuterium and tritium, (2) resulting in the creation of many muonic tritium atoms (tµ). As muons are 207 times heavier than electrons, the muon orbits the nucleus at a much closer distance to the nucleus than electrons. Thus, tµ atoms are extremely small. (3) As the tµ atoms have no electric charge, they readily collide with deuterium atoms without being affected by repulsive electrical force. These collisions produce dtµ molecules, which consist of a muon, a deuterium nucleus and a tritium nucleus. (4) Similar to tµ atoms, dtµ molecules are extremely small. When d–t nuclear fusion occurs in these small molecules, large amounts of energy are released, accompanied by the production of α particles (helium nuclei) and neutrons. (5) The muon is freed and recycled in subsequent nuclear fusion reactions. (6) About 1% of the liberated muons, however, become stuck to helium nuclei.The new Muon Science Facility (MUSE) now under construction at J-PARC in Tokai, Japan, will produce intense muon beams with fluxes several orders of magnitude higher than at present muon facilities allowing many novel experimental studies that were statistically not feasible until now. The investigation of the nuclear properties of unstable nuclei using muonic atom X-ray spectroscopy would become a unique tool to increase our knowledge of the nuclear structure far from stability, i.e., the nuclear charge distribution and the deformation properties of nuclei. Muonic atom spectroscopy has been successfully used for many years to determine the nuclear charge distribution.
Cars are responsible for 28 percent of the energy consumption and 32 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions in the United States. Saving a substantial fraction of that is a big deal.
Where previous experimental traffic-light advisory systems used GPS data or data from traffic sensors, SignalGuru uses visual data from cellphone cameras.http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/smartphone-saves-gas-0825.htmlResearchers from MIT and Princeton University took the best-paper award for a system that uses a network of smartphones mounted on car dashboards to collect information about traffic signals and tell drivers when slowing down could help them avoid waiting at lights. By reducing the need to idle and accelerate from a standstill, the system saves gas: In tests conducted in Cambridge, Mass., it helped drivers cut fuel consumption by 20 percent.http://projects.csail.mit.edu/wiki/pub/LSPgroup/PublicationList/Koukoumidis_SignalGuru_MobiSys_2011.pdfResults from two deployments of SignalGuru, using iPhones in cars in Cambridge (MA, USA) and Singapore, show that traffic signal schedules can be predicted accurately. On average, SignalGuru comes within 0.66s, for pre-timed traffic signals and within 2.45s, for traffic-adaptive traffic signals. Feeding SignalGuru’s predicted traffic schedule to our GLOSA application, our vehicle fuel consumption measurements show savings of 20.3%, on average.
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/08/protean-wheel-motors-and-batteries.htmlProtean Drive™ is a fully-integrated, direct-drive solution. Each motor has a built-in inverter, control electronics and software – no separate large, heavy and costly inverter required. Direct drive reduces part count, complexity and cost, so there is no need to integrate traditional drive train components such as external gearing, transmissions, drive-shafts, axles and differentials. Protean Drive™ packages easily inside a conventional wheel and can use the original equipment vehicle bearing.A European-based Vauxhall Vivaro equipped with Protean Electric's fuel-saving electric wheel motors showed a 300 percent fuel economy improvement in hybrid mode on a European drive cycle fuel test."Fleet operators should be lining up for a vehicle such as this that will provide more than a 65 percent reduction in fuel usage and CO2 emissions in a typical urban drive-cycle, while enabling electric-only operation for in-city low-emission zones such as London,”
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/08/new-electric-vehicle-charging-proposal.htmlCaption: A schematic of the proposed power transfer system for a running automobile. This system transmits electric power thorough a capacitor composed of a steel belt and a metal plate attached to the road, and the power feed in differential mode. Notably, the leakage electromagnetic field is small, and the infrastructure can be set up at low cost compared with coils.The source of energy from power lines is up-converted into radio frequency (RF) by high-speed inverters implanted along tracks in the road. The RF voltage is applied to a balanced metal track embedded under the surface of the road. The EV picks up the RF voltage via electrical capacitance between the metal and a steel belt installed inside of the tires of the EV.
Caption: The proposed model and measurement model. As a the measurement model a metallic board were arranged above and below the tire, and the complex impedance was measured. Pieces of styrene foam of different thickness were placed between the upper surface of the tire and metallic plate. The measurement frequency was from 10 kHz to 10 MHz.Although these were low power experiments, they demonstrate the feasibility of energy transfer from the road to a running automobile. If this energy transfer could be increased to tens of kW on express ways, then in the future it may be possible to take EV from your house to the nearest interchange with a small battery and then cruise on the expressway via this feeder system as far as you want without concern about battery discharge problems.
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-solar-power.htmlA large problem with solar is that is is a sporadic energy source. Storing energy from concentrated solar until needed is a way around this. Molten salt has been used for such purposes before but usually by flowing the molten salt through a central tower collecting the energy from the mirror array.The new approach is to arrange the mirrors to focus onto a molten salt vat at the base of the array.Diagram shows the idealized arrangement of a vat of molten salt used to store solar heat, located at the base of a gently-sloping hillside that could be covered with an array of steerable mirrors all guided to focus sunlight down onto the vat. “Alexander Slocum and a team of researchers at MIT have created a system that combines heating and storage in a single tank, which would be mounted on the ground instead of in a tower. The heavily insulated tank would admit concentrated sunlight through a narrow opening at its top, and would feature a movable horizontal plate to separate the heated salt on top from the colder salt below. (Salts are generally used in such systems because of their high capacity for absorbing heat and their wide range of useful operating temperatures.) As the salt heated over the course of a sunny day, this barrier would gradually move lower in the tank, accommodating the increasing volume of hot salt. Water circulating around the tank would get heated by the salt, turning to steam to drive a turbine whenever the power is needed.The team analyzed two potential sites for CSPonD on hillsides near White Sands, N.M., and China Lake, Calif. By beaming concentrated sunlight toward large tanks of sodium-potassium nitrate salt — each measuring 25 meters across and five meters deep — two installations could each provide 20 megawatts of electricity 24/7, which is enough to supply about 20,000 homes. The systems could store enough heat, accumulated over 10 sunny days, to continue generating power through one full cloudy day.
World oil supply in July rose by 0.6 mb/d from June, to 88.7 mb/d, with non-OPEC production up by 0.4 mb/d. Rising Canadian production offset lower UK production. Non-OPEC supply is now seen averaging a lower 53 mb/d in 2011 on prolonged production outages, rising to 54 mb/d in 2012.The Israeli Shefela oil shale is on land. The natural gas is under the waterHarold Vinegar, the former chief scientists of Royal Dutch Shell, has devised an ambitious plan that would, if successful, turn Israel into one of the world’s leading oil producers. Now chief scientist for Israel Energy Initiatives (IEI), Vinegar maintains that the 238 sq km Shefela Basin holds the world’s second largest shale deposits outside the United States, from which around 250 billion barrels of oil – about the same as Saudi Arabia’s proven reserves, could be extractable. IEI estimates the marginal cost of production at between US$35 and US$40 per barrel. That, says Vinegar, would be cheaper than the US$60 or so per barrel it would cost to extract crude oil in more hospitable locations such as the Arctic, and even favourably with the US$30-US$40 in Brazilian deepwater.
Figure 01: The stacked columns in the diagram above show development in global supplies of crude oil and condensate, refinery gain, natural gas liquids (NGL) and other liquid energy from January 2001 through April 2011. The development in the average monthly oil price is plotted on the left hand y-axis. NOTE: Diagrams based upon EIA data may be subject to future revisions.
For the world EIA have forecast a growth in world (all liquids) supplies from 87,7 Mb/d in 2011 to 89,4 Mb/d in 2012.In the recent months supplies of crude oil and condensates from Russia has become stagnant and ROW shows a decline.Figure 03: The stacked columns in the diagram above show development in Russian supplies of crude oil and condensate, refinery gains and NGL from January 2001 through April 2011. The development in the average monthly oil price is plotted on the left hand y-axis.
Figure 05: The stacked columns show each OPEC member’s crude oil/condensate supplies and OPEC’s supplies of NGL from January 2001 through April 2011. The average monthly oil price is also plotted on the left hand y-axis.The recent data from EIA shows weak growth in supplies of crude oil and some growth in supplies of NGL from OPEC. (NGL are presently not part of OPEC's quota arrangements.) The war in Libya took out around 1,5 Mb/d of OPEC supplies.To me, the recent growth in the oil price (adjusted for fluctuations in the value of the US Dollar) is a signal calling upon increased crude oil deliveries from OPEC. As increased supplies from OPEC have taken time to materialize, IEA decided to improve supplies by selling oil and petroleum products from the OECD stocks.