Power and Electrical Engineering

Power and Electrical Engineering

Connecting Dead Ends Boosts Power Grid Stability

As the input from many renewable sources is rather volatile, depending on how much the wind blows or the sun shines, there’s a higher risk of local power…

Power and Electrical Engineering

2D Transistors: Accelerating the Future of Electronics

Faster electronic device architectures are in the offing with the unveiling of the world’s first fully two-dimensional field-effect transistor (FET) by…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Energy-Efficient Industrial Robots: Optimizing Movement Patterns

One approach to this problems deals with movement patterns that require less acceleration energy, as was reported in the latest issue of the magazine “Pictures…

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Harnessing Waste Heat: Clean Power with Silicone Oils

The solution employs silicone oils, which have a lower enthalpy of vaporization than water, and is needed because waste heat produced in industrial plants or…

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Siemens continues setting new standards with the SPPA-T3000 I&C system

The key consideration for the layout and design of the new SPPA-T3000 user interface was to ensure that the operator can intuitively react reliably and…

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Transforming Hydrogen Into Liquid Fuel With Atmospheric CO2

Hydrogen is often touted as the fuel of the future. But because this gas is highly explosive, it must be stored and transported under pressure in specialized…

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Smarter Underwater Drones: The Future of AUVs with Nina Mahmoudian

If Nina Mahmoudian has her way, the next generation of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) will have a much better chance of getting it right.

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Energy-Storing Cables: A New Era in Energy Storage

Imagine being able to carry all the juice you needed to power your MP3 player, smartphone and electric car in the fabric of your jacket?

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Advancements in Concentrated Photovoltaics: Trends and Insights

The development of photovoltaics is far from over. The prices are dropping and their external appearance today ranges from textiles furnished with thin-film…

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Electric School Buses: A Cost-Effective Diesel Alternative

Electric school buses that feed the power grid could save school districts millions of dollars — and reduce children’s exposure to diesel fumes — based on…

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New Hybrid Energy Transfer System: Innovating Energy Solutions

From photosynthesis to respiration, the processes of light absorption and its transfer into energy represent elementary and essential reactions that occur in…

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Cut Heating and Cooling Costs with Efficiency Controls

Commercial buildings could cut their heating and cooling electricity use by an average of 57 percent with advanced energy-efficiency controls, according to a…

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New Magnetic Phase Discovered in Iron-Based Superconductors

“This new magnetic phase, which has never been observed before, could have significant implications for our understanding of unconventional…

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Innovative Concept Boosts Wind Turbine Power Performance

The experimental study was performed in a large-scale Aerodynamics/Atmospheric Boundary Layer (AABL) Wind Tunnel available at Aerospace Engineering Department…

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New Lithium Battery Innovations from Japan Enhance Longevity

The long life of lithium ion batteries makes them the rechargeable of choice for everything from implantable medical devices to wearable consumer electronics….

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Liberating devices from their power cords: New structural “supercaps” take a lickin’, keep on workin’

This intriguing prospect is one of the reasons for the current interest in building the capacity to store electrical energy directly into a wide range of…

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