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New TA Index-Based Rollover Prevention System for Electric Vehicles

Liu, Xiang; Xu, Min; Li, Mian - In: Energies 8 (2015) 3, pp. 2008-2031

In addition to clean transportation and energy savings, electric vehicles can inherently offer better performance in …

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A Varied VSVM Strategy for Balancing the Neutral-Point Voltage of DC-Link Capacitors in Three-Level NPC Converters

Gui, Shi Weng; Lin, Zhen Jun; Huang, Sheng Hua - In: Energies 8 (2015) 3, pp. 2032-2047

In the research field of multilevel converters, three-level NPC (neutral-point-clamped) converters, which unfortunately may cause the deviation of the neutral-point voltage of DC-link capacitors, are widely discussed. Theoretically, virtual space vector modulation (VSVM) could guarantee the...

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Slit Wall and Heat Transfer Effect on the Taylor Vortex Flow

Liu, Dong; Wang, Ying-Ze; Shi, Wei-Dong; Kim, Hyoung-Bum; … - In: Energies 8 (2015) 3, pp. 1958-1974

The Taylor vortex flow in the plain model with a constant temperature gradient effect was studied by experimental measurement, and the preliminary features of Taylor vortex flow affected by heat transfer process were obtained. This flow field in the plain model was also studied by numerical...

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Impact of Organic Loading Rate on Psychrophilic Anaerobic Digestion of Solid Dairy Manure

Saady, Noori M. Cata; Massé, Daniel I. - In: Energies 8 (2015) 3, pp. 1990-2007

Increasing the feed total solids to anaerobic digester improves the process economics and decreases the volume of liquid effluent from current wet anaerobic digestion. The objective of this study was to develop a novel psychrophilic (20 °C) anaerobic digestion technology of undiluted cow feces...

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Radiological Impacts and Regulation of Rare Earth Elements in Non-Nuclear Energy Production

Ault, Timothy; Krahn, Steven; Croff, Allen - In: Energies 8 (2015) 3, pp. 2066-2081

Energy industries account for a significant portion of total rare earth usage, both in the US and worldwide. Rare earth … during recovery. This paper explores the extent to which rare earths are used by various non-nuclear energy industries and … elements, amounting to a total of 330 person-mSv/year across all non-nuclear energy industries (about 60% of the annual …

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Heat Recovery from High Temperature Slags: A Review of Chemical Methods

Sun, Yongqi; Zhang, Zuotai; Liu, Lili; Wang, Xidong - In: Energies 8 (2015) 3, pp. 1917-1935

Waste heat recovery from high temperature slags represents the latest potential way to remarkably reduce the energy … large amounts of high quality energy. However, the heat recovery from slags faces several fundamental challenges, including … into high quality chemical energy in the fuel gas. Moreover, these chemical methods should be extended to an industrial …

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Fabrication and Test of an Air-Breathing Microfluidic Fuel Cell

Shyu, Jin-Cherng; Wang, Po-Yan; Lee, Chien-Liang; … - In: Energies 8 (2015) 3, pp. 2082-2096

An air-breathing direct formic acid microfluidic fuel cell, which had a self-made anode electrode of 10 mg/cm<sup>2</sup> Pd loading and 6 mg/cm<sup>2</sup> Nafion content, was fabricated and tested. The microfluidic fuel cell was achieved by bonding a PDMS microchannel that was fabricated by a soft-lithography...

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Balancing Control Strategy for Li-Ion Batteries String Based on Dynamic Balanced Point

Zhang, Dong-Hua; Zhu, Guo-Rong; He, Shao-Jia; Qiu, Shi; … - In: Energies 8 (2015) 3, pp. 1830-1847

The Li-ion battery is becoming the optimal choice for the Electric Vehicle’s (EV) power supply. In order to protect the Li-ion battery from charging damage and to prolong the battery’s life, a special control strategy based on the dynamic balanced point along with a non-dissipative equalizer...

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Thermo-Economic Evaluation of Organic Rankine Cycles for Geothermal Power Generation Using Zeotropic Mixtures

Heberle, Florian; Brüggemann, Dieter - In: Energies 8 (2015) 3, pp. 2097-2124

We present a thermo-economic evaluation of binary power plants based on the Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) for geothermal power generation. The focus of this study is to analyse if an efficiency increase by using zeotropic mixtures as working fluid overcompensates additional requirements regarding...

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Design of an LLC Resonant Converter for Driving Multiple LED Lights Using Current Balancing of Capacitor and Transformer

Han, Jae-Hyun; Lim, Young-Cheol - In: Energies 8 (2015) 3, pp. 2125-2144

In this study, to achieve the constant current drive and brightness control without a separate pulse width modulation (PWM) converter, a single converter is designed and verified by experiment under the condition of a multiple LED light load with different output voltage (Vf) characteristics. In...

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