In recent years, reliability, availability, and capacity have become critical issues in power plants industries. It is also becoming a challenge to meet the demand without the expansion of aged power plants. This paper presents availability analysis of the power generation systems in cogeneration plants situated in Kuwait. Furthermore, an overview of the current situation about Kuwait power pla...

in this article a comparative study for modeling and optimization of 2-methylpropane-2-thiol removal from contaminated soil by ultrasound is investigated. central composite design (ccd) and artificial neural network (ann) were utilized and compared to each other in order to obtain appropriate predicting model with respect to sonication power (w), sonication time (min) and water/reactor volume r...

in the sector of electricity production, the existence of investment resources limitation and environmental factors are the main factors that influence this process. the reduction of costs and the destructive impacts of environmental have been always mentioned by specialists. consequently, the drasticality of the environmental protection and the electric-energy production lead to focus on solar...

Recently electronic tap-changer has received more attention due to its quick response, better performance and simpler maintenance compared to the mechanical tap-changer. This paper presents the capability of the distribution transformer equipped with an electronic tap-changer for improving power quality. At this end, the analytical computation for determining the compensating limit of electroni...