-A complete conversion series for mica/smectites was found in a hydrothermal alteration envelope around Kuroko-type ore deposits at the Shinzan area, Akita Prefecture, Northeast Japan. The minerals are an alteration product of volcanic glass of Miocene age and are commonly associated with zeolites and silica minerals. Degrees of ordering of interstratification of the minerals change discontinuo...

This paper presents an efficient emission constrained hydrothermal scheduling algorithm that deals with nonlinear functions such as the water discharge characteristics, thermal cost, and transmission loss. It is then incorporated into the hydrothermal coordination program. The program has been tested on a practical utility system having 32 thermal and 12 hydro generating units. Test results sho...

In the present work, we report a suitable approach for the preparation of BaTiO3 nanostructures via the hydrothermal condition using Dolapix ET85 as surfactant. The powders were investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning election microscopy (SEM), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDAX), field emission transmission electron microscopy (FETEM), selected area electron diffra...

In this paper, a new method is presented to solve the load-frequency control of non-linear power systems. In the proposed methodology, a two-area interconnected hydrothermal power system is considered to optimal adjustment parameters of Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controller. In order to illustrate the usefulness of the newly proposed method, the obtained results are compared with th...

This paper demonstrates a method for using an autonomous underwater vehicle to measure the velocity of a deep-sea hydrothermal plume. Based on a system identification experiment conducted in the actual operating environment, we extracted a dynamic model of the vehicle's vertical response, then used that model to infer the vertical water velocity of rising plumes in the main observation area. Th...