Short-Term Demand Response in Electricity Generation Planning and Scheduling - Facilitating Wind Power Integration KU Leuven
Different methodologies are suggested, allowing the ...
Our energy system is undergoing a major transition towards a more sustainable and less carbon-intensive system, characterized by an increased penetration of renewable energy sources, higher energy efficiency and reduced emissions of greenhouse gasses. In Belgium, the nuclear phase-out, which currently represents 40% of the installed capacity, fosters this integration of decentralized, intermittent generation, such as wind and solar power. In ...
Multimodal analgesia in outpatient surgery: clinical and economical impact.
INTRODUCTION
Ambulatory surgery has a lot of clinical and economical advantages.(1)
For many years ambulatory surgery was only done in healthy patients for small surgical interventions. But lately because of economical an financial pressure also less healthy patients and more invasive procedures are carried out on an ambulatory ...
Since May 2010, the directive 2010/31/EU of the European Parliament compels its Member States to drastically decrease the energy use of buildings, to increase their energy efficiency and to increase the relative amount of renewable energy they use. One of the technologies recommended by the directive is the heat pump which efficiently uses electricity to extract thermal energy from a heat or cold source. In this work, buildings equipped with ...
In the frequency spectrum, the THz range is located between the millimeter wave and the far field infrared spectrum. There are numerous possible applications in the THz range such as medical/security imaging, spectroscopy, and communication. In these applications, THz signal sources are needed to provide the output signal in a transmitter or provide the LO signal in a heterodyne transceiver. CMOS technologies have the advantage of low cost in ...
The development of novel types of solar energy systems is experiencing a boost in the last years. New materials that may lead to increased efficiency of solar energy harvesters, and new operation principles for solar energy harvesting that may result in uptake of the solar-based energy production are searched. For instance, different technologies such as BIPVT (building-integrated photovoltaic/thermal panels), vacuum PV/T panels, FGM ...
Decision support systems are essential for managing an organization's operational and strategic processes. Although many of these systems model individual human beings, they do not take into account those individuals' unique characteristics. As a result, solutions generated are often infeasible for reasons such as ignoring personal habits. This dissertation explores two real-world cases in which accommodating such personalization is ...
The biogas sector in Flanders counts approx. 40 large scale installations, and 50 to 75 small scale (farm sized) installations. Biogas, as a renewable energy technology, produced 602 GWh of renewable electricity and 850 GWh of renewable heat in 2013. Yearly, 1.3 million tons of organic waste is converted to biogas, alongside hundreds of thousands of tons of manure. The biogas technology is therefore responsible for the valorisation of a large ...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is an evolution in the information technology landscape where intelligence is being embedded in everyday Things through computation, communication, actuation, and sensing capabilities.
The rapid growth and unique characteristics of the IoT introduce new challenges due to the heterogeneity in hardware and software and a lack of lightweight mature software technologies.
IoT infrastructures cannot sustain ...