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Fupeng Liu, Jiandong Ma, Zhongzhi Ye, Lijia Wang, Yu Sun, Jianxing Yu, Yuliang Qin, Dongliang Zhang, Wengang Cai and Hao Li
The reliability of liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage tanks is an important factor that must be considered in their structural design. Concrete is a core component of LNG storage tanks, and the geometric uncertainty of concrete aggregate material has a ...
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Jiawei Liu, Hailong Yin, Yixin Zhang, Xiufeng Li, Yongquan Li, Xueru Gong and Wei Wu
Safety barriers (SBs) are important means of reducing failure risks of process systems. As barriers vary in type and function, their effectiveness needs to be evaluated in order to find a more reasonable configuration strategy. However, in practice, ther...
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N. Marc-Alain Mutombo, Freddie Inambao, Glen Bright
The conversion of solar irradiance into electricity by a photovoltaic module (PV) is 6? 7% of the incoming energy from the sun depending on the type of technology and the environmental parameters. More than 80% of incoming energy from the sun is reflecte...
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Dongxi Liu, Xiaoying Wang and Yujiao Chen
In this work, in order to elucidate the three-dimensional (3D) resonant sloshing dynamics of the oil?water interface in an offshore cylindrical wet storage tank, a series of model experiments are conducted in a completely filled cylindrical tank containi...
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Wensi Li, Yu Zhang, Ruizhi Li, Lijun Zhang, Xingwang Zhang, Hongyin Li, Peng Nie and Shengdong Zhang
Currently, over 100 nuclear power units globally have been in operation for more than 40 years. Hindered by the limitations of computer technology at the time, these nuclear facilities lack detailed electronic drawings. Activities such as equipment repla...
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Diego F. Hernández-Ménez, Iván Félix-González, José Hernández-Hernández and Agustín L. Herrera-May
The sloshing effect of fluid storage tanks of a Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) vessel causes variations in its global motion response. These acceleration and motion alterations can affect the safe performance of the FLNG vessels. The classificatio...
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Yuchen Ju, Pauli Hiltunen, Juha Jokisalo, Risto Kosonen and Sanna Syri
Demand response techniques can be effective at reducing heating costs for building owners. However, few studies have considered the dynamic marginal costs for district heating production and taken advantage of them for building-level demand response. In ...
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Evangelos Bellos, Panagiotis Lykas, Dimitrios Tsimpoukis, Dimitrios N. Korres, Angeliki Kitsopoulou, Michail Gr. Vrachopoulos and Christos Tzivanidis
The goal of this investigation is the thorough analysis and optimization of a solar-assisted heat pump heating unit for covering the space heating demand for a building in Athens, Greece. The novelty of the studied system is the use of a high-temperature...
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Maria Gloria Di Chiano, Mariana Marchioni, Anita Raimondi, Umberto Sanfilippo and Gianfranco Becciu
Storage tanks from rainwater harvesting systems (RWHs) are designed to provide flow equalization between rainfall and water demand. The minimum storage capacity required to take into account the maximum variations of stored water volumes, i.e., the activ...
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Abdul Ghani Olabi, Rania M. Ghoniem, Abdul Hai Alami and Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem
DC power may be more efficient than AC power in certain applications, especially when it comes to local generation and storage. This is because AC power requires extra equipment to convert it to DC power, which can lead to energy losses. Using DC power, ...
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