energy research technology Articles
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Planning ten years ahead a multidisciplinary nuclear research and technology institute: the case of IPEN
Planning is always a problem in government organisations whose mission involves the development of Research and Development (R&D) activities. The current issue of the Nuclear and Energy Research Institute (IPEN), the Brazilian largest nuclear and energy research and technology institute, is to plan the reconciling of long–term ramifications of a large project funded by the Union's budget with the ...
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Comprehensive substantiation of the adaptive development of energy systems in terms of changing external conditions
The paper addresses a multi-step technology for comprehensive decision making on the adaptive development of energy systems and the fuel and energy complex as a whole. Consideration is given to the mathematical models applied when using the technology at two levels: the fuel and energy complex and the energy sectors (energy systems). The research technology is illustrated by the example of ...
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Policy oriented review for photovoltaics introduction in the EU
In order to continuously monitor its targets towards a 'green Europe', the European Commission has set up a project to enhance the availability, completeness and quality of data regarding new energy technologies (NET), energy end-use efficiency (EEE) and energy research and technology development (RTD). The scientific reference system (SRS) established in the framework of this project was ...
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EU Energy Council decisions
A European Energy Technology policy, aimed at an accelerated development and wide-scale application of clean, sustainable and efficient energy technologies is an essential element for the achievement of the European Union's ambitious energy and climate goals for 2020, and will contribute to the worldwide transition to a low-carbon economy by 2050. This policy will help to achieve the goals of the ...
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Nuclear knowledge portal for supporting licensing and controlling nuclear activities in the Brazilian Nuclear Energy Commission
The knowledge economy is pivotal for moving the wealth and development of traditional industrial sectors – abundant in manual labour, raw materials and capital – to areas whose products, processes and services are rich in technology and knowledge. Even in research areas such as nuclear energy, where goods are based on high technology, the ability to transform information into knowledge, and ...
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European nuclear education network
In most countries within the European Union that rely to a significant extent on nuclear power, neither undergraduate nor PhD education is producing a sufficient number of engineers and doctors to fill the needs of the industry. As a result of an EU-supported project, a new education organisation, European Nuclear Education Network (ENEN), has recently been established, with the aim to establish ...
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Nuclear knowledge management and preservation in Lithuania
Problems of nuclear knowledge management and preservation in Lithuania are presented in the paper. The support provided through bilateral cooperation projects was very important for Lithuania. The main projects implemented in the last 14 years are described in this paper. Lithuania joined INIS (International Nuclear Information System) in 1994 and established its own INIS national centre in the ...
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Students education and training for Slovak NPP
Slovak University of Technology is the largest and also the oldest university of technology in Slovakia. It is certain that more than 50% of the highly-educated technicians who are currently working in the nuclear industry have graduated from this university. The Department of Nuclear Physics and Technology of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology as one of the seven ...
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NPP diagnostics in Slovakia
The contribution presents the actual status of diagnostic equipment at Slovak nuclear units. After common characteristic and survey of more than 25 years of gradual development and exploitation, the short description of existing diagnostic systems at each block in two localities, in Jaslovske Bohunice and in Mochovce, is given. At the end, a brief comment on the operation and organisation is ...
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The US Department of Energy research and development programme on hydrogen production using nuclear energy
As part of the Hydrogen Fuel Initiative proposed by President George W. Bush in 2003, the Nuclear Hydrogen Initiative is developing technologies to provide large amounts of hydrogen without pollution or greenhouse gases. The Nuclear Hydrogen Initiative is a research and development programme within the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology that is using a series ...
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Need for restoration of the nuclear knowledge management in Serbia
Nuclear programmes in former Yugoslavia have been supported by comprehensive research and development (R&D), educational programmes and pertinent training in the country and abroad. Three research reactors and one nuclear power plant (NPP) were constructed and operated with the significant participation of domestic experts. Since 1989, the nuclear expertise has deteriorated considerably in ...
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Off-grid photovoltaic power generation solutions beyond expectations
Navigant Research, an American clean energy technology research institution, recently released a global off-grid distributed energy (DER) technology market research report, stating that the global off-grid distributed energy technology market scale from 2018 to 2027 has accumulated to nearly 350 billion US dollars. The report pointed out that in the next decade, the global off-grid distributed ...
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Deploying wind power in Australia: a socio-technical analysis
Conventional explanations for Australia's historically scant use of wind energy in power generation have focused on wind power's cost and undesirable technical characteristics (particularly intermittency). This paper argues for a more comprehensive explanatory framework, drawing on insights from the Social Shaping of Technology. This framework combines contextual historical and interpretive ...
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The challenge of an EU-GCC clean energy network
The enhancement of EU-GCC cooperation on energy issues could be significantly facilitated from the establishment and operation of an EU GGC clean energy network (EU-GCC CLEANERGY.NET). CLEANERGY.NET would have to act as a catalyst and a coordinator for EU-GCC energy cooperation on different levels: research, technology and industry, but also on the level of energy policy, through dissemination of ...
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An analysis of barriers in fostering technology transfer on renewable energy in cross–border areas
This paper seeks to investigate the barriers in fostering technology transfer of renewable energy, in cross–border areas using the example of Germany, Poland and Czech Republic. In Poland and Czech Republic, renewable energy technologies are available in the early stages of development, while in Germany there are many new technologies, which are technically mature and are being deployed at ...
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Reducing costs of emerging renewable energy technologies – an analysis of the dynamic development with wind power as case study
Renewable energy is considered important to improve environmental performance and the long-term security of energy supply. As most renewable energy technologies are not competitive in conventional power markets, they need public support in order to become so. The purpose of this paper is to discuss and understand the dynamic structure in development of renewable energy technologies in connection ...
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Exploring the adoption of alternative energy technologies: a literature review
This paper attempts to grasp the direction in current and previous published articles in alternative energy adoption literature with a concentration on methods, perspectives, approaches and technologies that have been subject to research. Findings imply that alternative energy technology adoption literature has diversified into various research perspectives which are named in our study as: ...
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Project - Tidal Energy Converter - Phase One
Phase 1 of the project, launched in May 2012, was led by Atlantis Resources Corporation and project managed by Black & Veatch. The project drew on the systems integration and technology skills of Lockheed Martin, as well as many leading technology providers in the marine industry Identification of the best optimised design for a commercially viable 200MW tidal stream array Assessed ...
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Green tech cost assessments must be country-specific
Designing efficient mechanisms for allocating climate funds to the developing world will require country-specific assessments of the cost of scaling up renewable energy technologies, says climate researcher Michael Jakob. Developing countries need financial support to help them adopt low-carbon technologies. Industrialised countries should cover the cost, according to the UN Framework Convention ...
By SciDev.Net
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Project - Floating Platform System
The Glosten Associates designed a tension leg platform (TLP) floating system demonstrator through a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) Study About the project A FEED study into the design of an offshore wind floating platform system demonstrator Tension Leg Platform designed in partnership with Alstom 150-6MW Haliade turbine Floating turbine technology is of strategic importance to any ...
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