The usage of regenerable low power sources is currently rather reduced. Utilization of some specialized softwares of SCADA type allow the operation of the low-power hydroelectric power plants in automatic regime, without local monitoring personnel, these being able to be remotely monitored and controlled. In this way, the utilization of such power plants becomes profitable. A special importance...

The amount of generation of renewable energy sources in the European grid has strongly increased. In 2005 eight times more energy was generated by RES compared to 1990. In the future the EU wants to promote the integration of RES. Mainly the use of wind energy and biomass should be expanded. As to date, RES were connected to the distribution grid usually with a ”fit and forget” approach. Due to...

Since producing our first steam turbine in 1959, Fuji Electric has manufactured more than 464 steam turbines having a total combined output capacity that exceeds 23,619 MW, and has delivered these turbines to various countries throughout the world. In the industrial sector, Fuji Electric shipped Japan's first supercritical, pure transformation plant in 1973, achieving higher operating efficienc...

Power plants require continuous monitoring and inspection at frequent intervals. In the recent times, thermal power generation has under gone long process of modification right from its conventional working principles to automation using technology in the form of DCS, PLC, SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) etc. An automated system improves the system efficiency, plant monitoring,...

Renewable energy provides twenty percent of electricity generation worldwide. Hydroelectric power is the cheapest way to generate electricity today. It is a renewable source of energy and provides almost one-fifth of electricity in the world. Also, it generates electricity using a renewable natural resource and accounting for six percent of worldwide energy supply or about fifteen percent of th...

This paper presents a technique of evolutionary design for plants in virtual worlds, inspired from Richard Dawkins' adaptive walks within the space of biomorph structures. The design is carried out by interactive sessions with a multi-agent platform of generic virtual plants. The plants, growing in a three-dimensional environment, are based upon the fusion between a two-substrate transport-resi...

In this paper an overview of functionally graded materials and constitutive relations of electro elasticity for three-dimensional deformable  solids is presented, and  governing equations of the Bernoulli–Euler and Timoshenko beam theories which account for through-thickness power-law variation of a two-constituent material and piezoelectric layers are developed  using the  principle  of virtua...