The use of ground-mounted photovoltaic (GMPV) systems for power generation is becoming popular these days. GMPV demand vast land areas their installations, and this has resulted in land-use conflicts. As a result, mitigating the issues, few novel ways (PV) installations have emerged that include floating (FPV) submerged photovoltaics (SPV). However, literature, many raised concerns over FPV SPV...

OBJECTIVE To characterize and evaluate canister floating patterns of three commercially available metered-dose inhalers (MDIs) with varying amounts of medication remaining. DESIGN Four canisters each of three asthma medications were studied. MDIs were actuated every 30 seconds to 60 seconds, and canisters were weighed and floated at 100%, 75%, 66%, 50%, 33%, 25%, 10%, and 0% of remaining labe...

Satellite remote sensing can be an effective alternative for mapping cyanobacterial scums and aquatic macrophyte distribution over large areas compared with traditional ship’s site-specific samplings. However, similar optical spectra characteristics between aquatic macrophytes and cyanobacterial scums in red and near infrared (NIR) wavebands create a barrier to their discrimination when they co...

Abstract Aquatic ecosystems provide vital services, and macrophytes play a critical role in their functioning. Conceptual models indicate that shallow lakes, plants with different growth strategies are expected to inhabit contrasting habitats. For peat characterized by incohesive sediments, roles of forms, life-history environmental factors determining the occurrence aquatic vegetation remain u...

The distribution of aquatic vegetation and associated community diversity and biomass in the Poyang Lake were investigated. The results showed that (1) 43 species of aquatic vascular plants were found in the Poyang Lake watershed which belonged to 22 families; (2) the vegetation of the Poyang Lake scattered in different areas which could be divided into 31 major plant communities and 5 plant zo...

Abstract In this paper, multiple evaluation means including the fuzzy method, analytic hierarchy process and expert method are used to evaluate suitability of sunken submerged oil containment technology in a specific scenario. The results show that has good effect disposal floating oil, especially when they may affect sensitive areas.

Control of a Twin-Turbine Submerged Floating System (TTSFS) with Model Predictive (MPC) is discussed in this paper. The TTSFS has been developed to harvest Ocean Current Energy, and it twin turbines weather-vaning ability by using single-point mooring system. perturbed the output power fluctuates, due turbulence flow. aim study show possibility mitigate motions fluctuations simultaneously turbu...