Power and Electrical Engineering

Power and Electrical Engineering

Energy-Efficient Modular Inverter for Pumps and Fans

This compact drive is particularly suitable for the energy-efficient operation of flow machines in building automation, the process industry and in the water…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Hydrogen Fuel Cells: Driving LA’s Greener Future by 2060

It's the year 2060, and 75 percent of drivers in the Greater Los Angeles area have hydrogen fuel cell vehicles that emit only water vapor.Look into Shane…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Graz University Launches Europe-Wide Network for Energy Innovation

Great challenges require interlinked solutions organised at a large scale: and advancing the necessary energy revolution in Europe represents such a challenge.

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Cost-Effective OLEDs: Innovations in Production and Luminosity

Analysts at NanoMarkets forecast a worldwide market volume of over $2.9 billion for 2012, with sales increasing to around $5.9 billion by 2014. The lighting…

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Advanced Nuclear Fuel Achieves Global Performance Milestone

The Advanced Gas Reactor (AGR) Fuel Program, initiated by the Department of Energy in 2002, used INL's unique Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) in a nearly…

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Collaborative Design: Building Robust Silicon Chips Together

This has necessitated building redundancy into chip designs to allow for the imperfect environments of production and use that vary from the ideal of the…

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Caltech’s DNA Origami Nanoscale Breadboards for Circuits

A paper about the work appeared November 8 in the early online edition of Nature Nanotechnology.”This project is one of those great 'Where else but at…

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New Transparent Film Boosts Energy-Efficient Display Tech

By orienting the compound in a different way, the researchers have turned it into a thin film insulator, which instead blocks the flow of electricity, but can…

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Sculptured Materials Enhance Multi-Channel Plasmonic Sensors

“Everyone uses surface plasmon resonance sensors. They are a multi billion-dollar industry worldwide,” said Akhlesh Lakhtakia, the Charles Godfrey Binder…

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Toward Home-brewed Electricity with “Personalized Solar Energy”

That's the topic of a report by an international expert on solar energy scheduled for the November 2 issue of ACS’ Inorganic Chemistry, a bi-weekly journal. It…

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Siemens Unveils Advanced Coal Gasification Technology in USA

With a gross capacity of 730 megawatt (MW) the advanced clean coal generating plant will be one of the first commercial-scale coal gasification plants with…

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K-State Engineers Enhance Feasibility of Algae Oil Production

The idea by K-State's Wenqiao “Wayne” Yuan and Zhijian “Z.J.” Pei is to grow algae in the ocean on very large, supporting platforms. The National Science…

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New Converter Enhances Power Quality by Reducing Harmonics

The converter also reduces low-frequency harmonic effects on the system and thus fulfils the high requirements for current and voltage quality placed on mains…

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Nanostructures on Optical Fiber Make "Hidden" PV Cells

Using zinc oxide nanostructures grown on optical fibers and coated with dye-sensitized solar cell materials, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology…

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Proven Method Available to Significantly Reduce Energy Consumption in Street Lighting

Experts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lighting Research Center (LRC) estimate that about half of the approximately 13 million streetlights in America…

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Open Source EtherNet/IP Adapter Stack Cuts Costs for Developers

The Automation and Control Institute (ACIN) of the Vienna University of Technology announced the release of the Open Source EtherNet/IP? Adapter Stack for…

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