power infrastructure Articles
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Estimation of Fracture Shear Displacements due to Slot Excavation - Case Study
Project Description The main objective of the project was the estimation, via numerical modelling, of the displacement induced in fractures by the excavation of destressing slots at the Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory. OFFICE Sweden Itasca Consultants AB INDUSTRIES Power Infrastructure CLIENT NAME SKB, Posiva, and NWMO LOCATION Sweden SOFTWARE 3DEC ...
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Knowledge management for a new nuclear power infrastructure
The introduction of a nuclear power programme as a part of national energy strategy requires a complex consideration of many aspects of national infrastructure. Countries embarking on a new nuclear energy programme have the opportunity to establish effective knowledge management systems and processes from the outset, with the added benefit of readily available hard and software systems designed ...
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Agents controlling the electric power infrastructure
The electric power grid is evolving from a centrally controlled grid with only a handful of regulated monopolies to an open, liberalised electricity market. In addition, more and more small-scale dispersed generators are deployed in distribution nets. This puts extra stress on the power grid, in an era when electricity is one of the most important commodities for economic, industrial and everyday ...
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An approach of manpower development for new nuclear power programmes: a case study of Bangladesh
This paper reviews the present state of nuclear power infrastructure of Bangladesh. It describes how Bangladesh is progressing towards nuclear power. The major infrastructure issues about the way in which to implement the country's first nuclear power project have been identified and analysed. The domestic education and training infrastructure of the nuclear power sector of the country has been ...
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Power sector reforms in Uganda: status and achievements
As part of its wider public enterprises reform and divestiture program, the government of Uganda developed and adopted the power sector restructuring and privatisation strategy. The sector reforms, apart from following the worldwide trend in energy sector reforms, were driven by the need for increased investments (especially private investments) in the sector and increased access to modern forms ...
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First nuclear power in Nigeria: an attempt to address the energy crisis?
This paper attempts to explore to what extent a first Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) will improve the energy situation in Nigeria and investigates the socio–economic impacts of the NPP on the communities where the facilities are to be sited. Other issues that are addressed in this paper include the policy issues, lack of investments in power infrastructure and the security threat owing to incessant ...
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Infrastructure, innovation and development
The absence of adequate infrastructure services is one of the main problems that hinder efforts to develop Africa. Technology and innovation are the engines of economic growth. With the globalisation of trade and investment, technological capabilities are a source of competitive advantage. While infrastructure development and technological development are two of the most important areas of ...
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Developments in power supply for the Southern Africa Power Pool 2011
The Southern African Region has been experiencing power shortages due to increased demand with static power supply as a result of limited investment in both generation and transmission infrastructure across the region. This paper discusses how the power utilities in the region plan to cope with the power challenges and the measures that are planned for the future. Keywords: power generation, ...
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Cameroon`s infrastructure : a continental perspective
Better access to improved infrastructure services is an important engine for economic growth. The poor state of infrastructure is a key bottleneck to growth in African countries, and Cameroon is no exception. Between 2000 and 2005, improvements in information and communication technologies boosted Cameroon's growth performance by 1.26 percentage points per capita, while deficient power ...
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DNS as critical infrastructure, the energy system case study
Modern critical infrastructures (e.g., power plants, energy grids, oil pipelines, etc.), make nowadays extensive use of information and communication technologies (ICT). As a direct consequence their exposure to cyber–attacks is becoming a matter of public security. In this paper, we analyse a particular infrastructure, rarely considered as source of threats, on which indeed the majority of ...
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Stability of a model of power microgeneration network using the Kuramoto model
Most of critical infrastructures (CIs) depend on the power system. The predictable onset of a microgeneration paradigm (many dispersed small generators of medium-low power) will considerably decrease network stability and thus increase risk of failures and other's infrastructures dependence. In order to study the stability of synchronisation in a power microgeneration scenario, we derive the ...
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Test data for anomaly detection in the electricity infrastructure
This paper describes a large set of electricity data for the IEEE 24 bus system generated on a test bed that copies the cyber layer of the electricity infrastructure in some detail. This data has been filtered and corrupted with natural noise and a realistic set of failure-induced and attack-induced corruptions. One of the main applications of this data is the development of novel ...
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Focus on 2018 Philconstruct and Show quality of BeiYi
From November 8th-11th, 2018, The 2018 Philippine Construction Machinery and Mining Machinery Exhibition was successfully held at the World Trade Center in Manila, Philippines. This exhibition is mainly based on construction machinery. BeiYi has been actively and extensively communicating and sharing with various industries over the years, especially in the areas of production process ...
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Structure-preserving dynamical model and distributed stabilisation of electricity infrastructures with renewable energy resources
This paper introduces a module-based approach to modelling and controlling electricity infrastructure with a high penetration of distributed renewable energy resources. Each energy-converting component is defined as a module and is represented in terms of its local variables and the interaction variables between the module and the transmission network. The structure of the electricity ...
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what can YTL offer the African Market?
Usually, the electricity market is divided into two parts: the rural market and the urban market. Depending on the characteristics of the different markets, the power metering systems are different. Yongtailong has been deeply involved in the African region for more than 10 years. Different countries have their own characteristics, but they also have a lot in common. 1.Electricity in rural areas ...
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Effects of intentional threats to power substation control systems
Power station control and management systems represent key elements for guaranteeing the security of the power grid infrastructure. Intrinsically conceived to support the continuous provision of power in secure conditions, those systems today make intensive use of information and communication systems and are therefore exposed to related accidental and intentional cyber threats. This paper ...
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Controlling cascading failures with cooperative autonomous agents
Cascading failures in electricity networks often result in large blackouts with severe social consequences. A cascading failure typically begins with one or more equipment outages that cause operating constraint violations. When violations persist in a network, they can trigger additional outages which in turn may cause further violations. This paper proposes a method for limiting the social ...
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Critical infrastructures at risk: securing electric power supply
The proper functioning of large infrastructures and in particular, the continuity of the vital services they provide is largely taken for granted, both by direct users and by those responsible for other, dependent infrastructures and services. The current paper addresses in a methodical manner, methods to deal with issues related to the risk and risk governance of critical infrastructures, with ...
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Carmanah Featured in EDC Success Story
The Challenge Installed in some 110 markets worldwide, Carmanah Technologies’ self-contained solar LED solutions are marking radio towers and mines; roads and school crosswalks; airport runways; and harbours and large marine structures such as wind farms, bridges, and oil and gas rigs, just to name a few. Carmanah also has a global solar LED illumination division, and provides off-grid and ...
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Designing critical policy infrastructures by participatory systems analysis: the case of Fukushima's reconstruction
Recent developments in service science and social design have resulted in new policy design methodologies. On the service science side, the concept of co–creation has appeared. On the social design side, methodologies of participatory systems analysis have emerged. Based on these developments, this paper proposes a participatory systems analysis model for public policy design (PSP), a new ...
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