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Optimum Proposal of Various Financial Rights in Secondary Short-Period Auction Market of Transmission Rights for Congestion Risk Management

Congestion Risk Management is one of the most important subjects of Transmission management in deregulated power system and world electricity market, especially markets of zonal or local pricing in which Firm Transmission Rights (in other words Financial Transmission Rights) are the main elements. In this study, considering subjects of Financial Rights of Transmission Congestion, methods of opt...

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stundy (HAZOP) and the component’s failures of major equipments were assessed by Failure mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA). Totally 68 hazards were identified and their risks were calculated. The highest risk (60) was belonged to the reduction of gas temperature before entering to the refinery and failure of DEA cooling system at the final node (DE). The failures of P-6 pump, F.C.V.4 valve, ...

* Corresponding Author Email Address: [email protected] International Journal of Railway Research The Safety Level of Railway Infrastructure and Its Correlation with the Cost of Preventive and Mitigation Measures A-M. Ioannidou 1 , C. Pyrgidis 2,* 1 Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT)-CERTH, Greece 2 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece A B S ...

The Safety Level of Railway Infrastructure and Its Correlation with the Cost of Preventive and Mitigation Measures

This paper develops a methodology which allows the correlation between the cost which is required for the application of preventive and mitigation measures dealing with accidents which occur within a railway system and the improvement of the level of safety as a result from their implementation. The safety level is expressed either quantitatively, by the decrease of “fatality risk” indicator...

An Integrated Methodology for Assessment and Mapping of Land Degradation Risk in Markazi Province, Iran

Desertification is recognized as a serious environmental threat in Iran because of its climatic-geomorphologicconditions. Desertification and land degradation in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid regions, is a globalenvironmental problem. Accurate assessment of the status and trend of desertification is instrumental in developingglobal strategies to prevent and reverse this problem. The goal o...