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Virtual Power Plants
Due to the rapid growth in power consumption of domestic and industrial appliances, distributed energy generation units face difficulties in supplying power efficiently. The integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) and energy storage systems (ESSs) provides a solution to these problems using appropriate management schemes to achieve optimal operation. Furthermore, to lessen the uncertainties of distributed energy management systems, a decentralized energy management system named virtual power plant (VPP) plays a significant role.
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18 Dec 2020
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Virtual Power Plant Optimization in Smart Grids
Virtual power plants (VPPs) are promising solutions to address the decarbonization and energy efficiency goals in the smart energy grid. They assume the coordination of local energy resources such as energy generation, storage, and consumption. They are used to tackle problems brought by the stochastic nature of renewable energy, lack of energy storage devices, or insufficient local energy flexibility on the demand side. VPP modeling, management, and optimization are open to research problems that should consider, on one side, the local constraints in the operation of the energy resources and power flows and the energy grid’s sustainability objectives on the other side. There are multiple goals to create a VPP, such as to deliver energy services on a market or to the grid operator, to operate a microgrid in autonomy decoupled from the main grid, or to sustain local energy communities.
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27 May 2022
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Virtual Lab
VirtLAB is a Low-Cost Platform for Electronics Lab Experiments. The recent SARS-CoV2 pandemic has put a great challenge on university courses. Electronics teaching requires real laboratory experiences for students, which cannot be realized if access to physical infrastructures is prohibited. A possible solution would be to distribute to students, at home, electronics equipment suitable for laboratory experiments, but no reasonable product is currently available off-the-shelf.
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22 Jul 2022
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Virtual Electronics Laboratories in Education
Virtual reality or VR corresponds to a sensation, on the part of the user, of being physically present in a world that is not physical, through the use of images, sounds, and other stimuli created computationally for this purpose.
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25 Jun 2023
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Virtual Coupling in Railways
The mobility situation is constantly changing as people are increasingly moving to urban areas. Therefore, a flexible mode of transport with high-capacity passenger trains and a high degree of modularity in the trains’ composition is necessary. Virtual coupling (VC) is a promising solution to this problem because it significantly increases the capacity of a line and provides a more flexible mode of operation than conventional signaling systems.
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29 May 2023
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Virtual Collection for Distributed Photovoltaic Data
With the rapid development of distributed photovoltaic systems (DPVS), the shortage of data monitoring devices and the difficulty of comprehensive coverage of measurement equipment has become more significant, bringing great challenges to the efficient management and maintenance of DPVS. Virtual collection is a new DPVS data collection scheme with cost-effectiveness and computational efficiency that meets the needs of distributed energy management but lacks attention and research.
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08 Dec 2022
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Vinylidene Fluoride
1,1-difluoroethylene (VDF) is one of the major fluoromonomers, which are the feedstock for the production of various resins, rubbers membrane and paints. The polymers derived from VDF (PVDF) or co-polymers with unique chemical resistance, stability at elevated temperatures, oxidation resistance, weatherability, piezoelectricity, dielectric and thermoelectricity, find wide applications in areas including petrochemical, electronic and electrical, and fluorocarbon coating. VDF is the second largest product among fluorocarbons with an annual production capacity of above 53,000 tons. The demand for VDF is increasing rapidly. At present, in industry, VDF is usually produced via the dehydrochlorination of 1,1-difluoro-1-chloroethane (HCFC-142b) at reaction temperatures above 650 °C
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30 Oct 2020
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Vintage Car
A vintage car is, in the most general sense, an old automobile, and in the narrower senses of car enthusiasts and collectors, it is a car from the period of 1919 to 1930. Such enthusiasts have categorization schemes for ages of cars that enforce distinctions between antique cars, vintage cars, classic cars, and so on. The classification criteria vary, but consensus within any country is often maintained by major car clubs.
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04 Nov 2022
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Viewing Angle Switchable Liquid Crystal Devices
For pure liquid crystals (LCs) system, methods for switchable viewing angle devices are divided into hybrid aligned nematic (HAN) LC cells, double cells, pixel division and three-electrode structure. Utilizing 3M light-control film and PDLC film together to create switchable anti-peeping film, PDLC is a voltage-controlled LC film that can switch between transparent and scattering, light scattering intensity of PDLC film is dependent on electric field, switchable voltage between light scattering (share mode) and transparent state (privacy mode) is approximately 5.0 V.
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10 Oct 2022
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Video Super Resolution
Video Super Resolution is the process of generating high-resolution video frames from the given low-resolution ones. The main goal is to restore more fine details, while saving coarse ones. There are many approaches for this task, but it's still popular and challenging problem.
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17 Nov 2022
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