Operational management of multiple reservoirs and hydropower plants based on Nam Ngum river basin near Vientiane, Laos PDR was investigated for optimal power generation. The system consists of three reservoirs namely Nam Ngum1, 2 and 5. Analysis of water balance, storage and discharge...

The paper deals with the actual problem of the functioning and development of district heating systems in the framework of the transition to intelligent energy, in which the active consumers (prosumers) holds the key place. The paper proposes an optimization mathematical model for management the...

District heating plays an important role in many countries with cold climates. District heating are local systems and in most cases, they organized as natural monopoly markets. This article examines the three variants for the formation of prices for household consumers on monopoly district...

Alternative scheme is the most important section in the environmental impact assessment (EIA). And the optimization of alternative schemes are the focus research fields in EIA. This paper define the content of alternatives of basin hydropower planning EIA (HPEIA), including the alternative...

The analysis and synthesis of reliability of energy systems, particularly district heating systems (DHS), is based on probabilistic modeling of different system states and events connecting these states (usually, these are failures and restoration of system components). The paper deals with the...

Operation schedule for microgrids has an important role to manage the electric power supply and demand efficiently. This paper presents a problem formulation and its solution method to obtain a coordinated operation schedule of controllable components in the microgrids. In the problem...

Switched capacitor converter (SCC) is a power converter without magnetic components. SCCs have been used in various portable electric products such as flash memories and energy harvesting systems. Conservative SCCs separately charge and discharge their output capacitors during one operating...

Purpose - This paper aims at developing a behavioral agent-based model for interacting financial markets. Additionally, the effect of imposing Tobin taxes on market dynamics is explored. Design/methodology/approach - The agent-based approach is followed to capture the highly complex, dynamic...

Tax evasion, which is typically considered an illegal activity, is a critical problem and is considered a barrier to economic growth. A review of the literature shows that tax and social security contributions, regulations, public sector services, the quality of institutions and tax compliance,...

This paper improves on the issues of extreme data points and heterogeneity found in the linear programming data envelopment analysis (DEA) by presenting a cluster-adjusted DEA model (DEA with cluster approach). This analysis, based on efficiency, determines the number of clusters via Gap...