The impact of different energy storages on power systems has become more important due to the development of energy storage technologies. This paper optimizes the stochastic scheduling of a wind-based multiple energy system (MES) and evaluates the operation of the proposed system in combination with electrical and thermal demand-response programs and the three-mode CAES (TM-CAES) unit. The prop...

Thermoelectric modules experience performance reduction and mechanical failure due to thermomechanical stresses induced by thermal cycling. The present study subjects a thermoelectric module to thermal cycling and evaluates the evolution of its thermoelectric performance through measurements of the thermoelectric figure of merit, ZT, and its individual components. The Seebeck coefficient and th...

Stable discharges with peak density fe =1.5xlQ15am-3 have been obtained in deuterium at BT =8.7T in the Alcator tokamak. Complete thermal equilibration between electrons and ions is observed, with peak temperatures of 900eV. The maximum value of fiTE is 3x1013cm-3.s. . Nearly classical behaviour, from the viewpoint of energy confinement, is observed. At the highest densities, a regime is attain...

Operative temperature (Te) and standard operative temperature (Tes) models have been used to address ecological questions about the thermal biology of ectotherms and endotherms for over 25 years. This review focuses on the accuracy and use of Te and Tes models in ecological and physiological studies. The utility of Te and Tes models lie in the fact that they take a multivariate problem involvin...

This work discusses measurement of thermal conductivity (k) of films using a scanning hot probe method in the 3ω mode and investigates the calibration of thermal contact parameters, specifically the thermal contact resistance (R(th)C) and thermal exchange radius (b) using reference samples with different thermal conductivities. R(th)C and b were found to have constant values (with b = 2.8 ± 0.3...

Background/introduction MRI-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound (MRHIFU) therapy can relieve pain associated with metastatic and benign bone tumours in patients who fail to respond to conventional radiation therapy. However, since existing MR-thermometry techniques do not provide temperature information within the bone, HIFU exposures in bone are currently monitored using temperature chang...

To properly estimate a thermoelectric material's performance, one should be able to characterize a single thermoelectric (TE) element with a large temperature gradient. In this work, we present an experimental setup including a Z-meter that can heat the sample to a very high temperature of 1200 °C in vacuum. The Z-meter can simultaneously measure all three thermoelectric parameters (Seebeck coe...

Heat-flow sensing is expected to be an important technological component of smart thermal management in the future. Conventionally, the thermoelectric (TE) conversion technique, which is based on the Seebeck effect, has been used to measure a heat flow by converting the flow into electric voltage. However, for ubiquitous heat-flow visualization, thin and flexible sensors with extremely low ther...

We present a design principle to develop new categories of telluride-based thermoelectric nanowire heterostructures through rational solution-phase reactions. The catalyst-free synthesis yields Te-Bi(2)Te(3) "barbell" nanowire heterostructures with a narrow diameter and length distribution as well as a rough control over the density of the hexagonal Bi(2)Te(3) plates on the Te nanowire bodies, ...