The fast depletion of fossil fuels and the growing awareness need for environmental protection have led us to energy crisis. Positive development has been achieved since last decade by collective effort scientists. In this regard, renewable sources (RES) are being deployed in power system meet demand. microgrid concept (AC, DC) is introduced, which distributed resources (DERs), storage (ESS) lo...

This article describes the benefits of implementing an environmental management system (EMS) conforming to the ISO 14001 standard in Polish companies. Experience shows that implementing an environmental management system in a company can bring a number of benefits, not only for the company itself but also to the whole surrounding environment. Prevention of pollution, which is the idea underlyin...

Trauma Research Center, Department of Anesthesia, Baqiyatallah Medical Sciences University, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran We read with interest the article ‘‘Emergency Nursing Staff Dispatch: Sensitivity and Specificity in Detecting Prehospital Need for Physician Intervention During Ambulance Transport in Rovigo Emergency Ambulance Service, Italy’’ by Leopardi and Sommacampagna. Regarding th...

This paper provides a critical analysis of the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System (EMS) deployed at Tecnosol Comércio e Serviços Ltda., partner of Holdercim Brasil S.A, a cement group. The main activity of Tecnosol is co-processing industrial waste in the synthesis kiln at the Alvorada cement plant, in the municipality of Cantagalo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The purpose of co-processing in...

ower transformers and steam turbines were the key drivers in the development of the AC power system paradigm at the dawn of the 20th century, characterized by huge synchronous generators feeding millions of passive loads through large interconnected systems, all of them supervised and controlled from a centralized energy management system (EMS). In the same way, thyristor valves and IGBTs, intr...

Electrification in the transportation industry is becoming more important to face global warming and replace fossil fuels future. Among available energy sources Li-ion battery proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) are most promising sources. Therefore, employing them hybrid electric vehicles (FCHEVs) combine their advantages one of favorable solutions. However, they still a major challenge...

Photovoltaic (PV) systems and electric vehicles (EVs) integrated in local distribution are considered to be two of the keys a sustainable future built environment. However, large-scale integration PV generation EV charging loads poses technical challenges for grid. Each grid has specific hosting capacity limiting allowable share. This paper presents combined PV–EV assessment residential LV with...

This paper presents an extensible, transaction oriented Element Manager System (EMS) architecture for IP connectivity management. The key aspects of the proposal are the extensibility, derived from the adoption of an object oriented, policy-based approach, and the transactional feature, which ensures both EMS repository data information and network configuration integrity. This means that an in...

Predicting and understanding mass evacuations are important factors in disaster management response. Current modelling approaches useful for planning but lack of real-time capabilities to help informed decisions as the event evolves. To address this challenge, a Evacuation Management System (EMS) is proposed here, following stochastic approach combining classical models low complexity high reli...