Energy Management Articles
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Cost Effective Desulfurization of Gas Streams
The LO-CAT® II process provides cost effective H2S removal for all types of gas streams in many different industries. The LO-CAT and LO-CAT II processes have achieved H2S removal efficiencies of 99.9+% in many different applications and industries. These applications include natural gas production, oil refining, biogas, landfill gas, coke oven gas, geothermal steam power production, CO2 ...
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India and the International Atomic Energy Agency
India is one of the founder members of the International Atomic Energy Agency. The sustained growth of its nuclear programme has accorded a unique distinction to India of being a developing country with strong foundations in advanced nuclear technology. This perspective of being a technologically advanced developing country has guided many of India's interactions on the IAEA platform.Keywords: ...
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Latin American commitment in support of the IAEA role on non-proliferation control
The Latin American and Caribbean countries' contribution to the implementation of worldwide nuclear non-proliferation is well demonstrated by the establishment of a nuclear weapons free-zone and by their permanent support of IAEA safeguards. The 'Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean', encompassing all region territories from Mexico to Argentina and ...
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Nuclear self esteem
Being technically multifaceted and complex for understanding by the general public, the capability of some nuclear applications, especially nuclear power, and their potential in helping with some of the most important global issues, seem to be underrated by the public. A few elements that are responsible for this 'higher complexity lengthier pipeline' from demonstrated performance to public ...
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Nuclear energy from Dwight Eisenhower to Mohamed El Baradei
At the start of the nuclear age, nuclear power was seen as a terrifying instrument of death. Nowadays, radiation sources, using either radioactive material or radiation generators, are widely used throughout the world in medicine, research, agriculture, industry, hydrology and education. The Nobel Peace Prize 2005 was awarded jointly to Mohamed El Baradei and the International Atomic Energy ...
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Confidentiality clauses and nuclear activity in the Argentine Republic: an account of reports issued based on unknown clauses
The duty of the Argentine authorities in the case of entering into an agreement for the supply of nuclear materials balances the social relevance of the exercise of the rights to confidentiality and, on the other hand, the increasing need for transparency. Keywords: Argentina, confidentiality, duty, secret, transparency, nuclear materials, nuclear power, nuclear energy, nuclear reactors, research ...
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The nuclear energy non-proliferation link and what the IAEA can do now
Projections of the World Bank indicate that world energy demand is increasing and may more than double by 2050. Several political leaders have recognised the importance of nuclear energy to meet growing energy needs. Indeed, availability of a secure, economically viable energy source is a major factor in the developing world's progress. This expansion, with the potential spread of sensitive ...
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Introduction. Sustainable development or sustained decay? The question facing the 'with or without nuclear energy' world
With the return of nuclear energy to the global energy arena, it is once more possible to speak of a sustainable development that guarantees the future of our planet, our children and our children's children. It is once more possible to promote the ambition and envisage the emergence of universal peace.Keywords: IAEA, Atoms for Peace, Mohamed El-Baradei, fossil energies, green lobbying, Kyoto ...
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Peaceful use of the fast reactor in China
China needs a large amount of energy to meet the development of economy and to ameliorate the lives of its people. According to the national policy of "peaceful growing up", China will generate the power mainly in domain. Nowadays, the primary energy of China consists of coal, hydro and others. Nuclear energy and green energy are the main selections for the future. The development of ...
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A study on a systematic method for evaluating values of raised concerns
The objective of this study is to develop a methodology that can externalise potential concerns and evaluate the values of the concerns raised in corporations. By implementing this methodology into corporate governance, it is expected to improve the work environment and enhance the capability for the corporate governance through supporting the internal autonomic purification. This study comprises ...
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How to share tacit nuclear knowledge?
Nuclear organisations are struggling to preserve their expertise and knowledge despite the widespread retirement of nuclear experts in the near future. Already, NPPs have noticed that the retiring experts have tacit knowledge, which is difficult to codify and/or share during formal training. Tacit knowledge sharing requires methods that are based on social interaction, either in one-on-one ...
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Connecting past and future knowledge to develop strategies for managing nuclear knowledge
Modern organisations try to 'peek' into the future by assessing emerging technologies and new competencies that should shape the future of an enterprise's competitiveness and use the results to establish its strategy today. Governments should have similar concerns to establish medium and long term policies relative to Science, Technology, Innovation, Industrial Development, International ...
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Perspective of international activities on nuclear knowledge management and proposals for further refinements
Concerns are raised world-wide on the ageing of nuclear manpower, widespread retirements of senior workers within the past several years, the decline of nuclear education and training and the resulting shortage of nuclear manpower supply. The OECD/NEA and the IAEA started formulating activities regarding these concerns, which elaborate on the ways of expanding these activities. At this moment, it ...
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Korean initiatives on nuclear knowledge management
Korean atomic energy activities have been the vigorous and ever expanding in the peaceful use of atomic energy. However for the last ten-year period, the new recruitments have been drastically reduced. The paper presents the nuclear manpower status in each nuclear related institute, which was surveyed in 2002. The ageing problem appears but is not very serious as a whole. The research institutes ...
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The classification of knowledge and expertise in Finnish nuclear power plants
The difficulties in sharing tacit knowledge may compromise the safe performance of high-reliability organisations. This threat has been recognised in nuclear power plants worldwide, owing to the risk of simultaneous retirements. In this study, the nature of tacit knowledge in Finnish nuclear power plants was examined and the expertise of nuclear workers modelled. The results of this interview ...
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Evaluation of nuclear knowledge management: an outcome in JAERI
The author performed an ex post evaluation on the nuclear research of JAERI and revealed that the national funds invested in this field were 4 b$. With aid of NKM, it was revealed that the total outcome was 6 b$, where the creation of nuclear markets for electricity and nuclear facilities was the main stream. This implies that the cost benefit effect is 6 b$/4 b$ = 1.5 (>1). From this, it can be ...
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German physical protection concept for the storage of spent fuel elements in transport and storage casks
In this paper, the German physical protection concept for the storage of spent fuel elements in transport and storage casks is outlined. The presentation comprises the legal basis, relevant ordinances and regulatory framework, as well as important definitions such as disruptive acts or other interference by third parties. The essential elements of a physical protection concept for an interim ...
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Assessing and improving the efficiencies of a steam power plant using exergy analysis. Part 2: improvements from modifying reheat pressure
The effect of increasing reheat pressure on the exergy efficiency of a coal-fired steam power plant is investigated. The results show that although the irreversibility rate associated with heat transfer in the steam generator decreases as reheat pressure increases, the overall-plant exergy efficiency decreases, mainly owing to the relatively large decrease in shaft power output. The results ...
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Entropy-energy analysis of forced convection in a porous-saturated circular tube considering temperature-dependent viscosity effects
The temperature-dependent viscosity effect on forced convection in a circular tube filled with a porous medium is investigated theoretically. The Darcy flow model is employed and the viscosity-temperature behaviour is described by an inverse-linear model. It is found that the effect of the variation impacts the Nusselt number significantly while the pressure drop was not influenced that much. ...
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Assessing and improving the efficiencies of a steam power plant using exergy analysis. Part 1: assessment
Energy and exergy analyses are used to examine the performance of a coal-fired steam power plant and to identify and evaluate possible modifications to improve the efficiency of the plant. The exergy analysis provides a detailed breakdown of the exergy losses (including waste exergy emissions and internal irreversibilities) for the overall plant and its components. The results show that ...
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