Energy Production and Management in the 21st Century

Contents Volume 1 The Sverdlovsk Region: steps towards sustainable development and energy security Section 1: Energy policies Economical mechanism for the reform of regional heat supply systems; Russian power sector reform: lessons for developing countries; Approaches to the formation of energy service markets in developing countries Section 2: Energy management Structured design in a power grid company; Optimization of financing investments in a power-generation company; Value-based management architecture in energy companies; The approach to the asset management strategy choice in an electric grid company;A system for restoring production energy management after emergencies; Indoor lighting fault detection and diagnosis using a data fusion approach; Electricity consumption management in a competitive electricity market; The prediction of electric energy consumption using an artificial neural network; Evaluating a power grid company's employees' effectiveness; Biomass and waste incineration CHP: the co-benefits of primary energy savings, reduced emissions and costs Section 3: Energy and economic growth Issues of the territory assimilative potential and anthropogenic impact comparison; The impact of energy resources on social development in Russia; A strategy for the innovative low-carbon growth of the Sverdlovsk Region, Russia; The production of a machine designed for the cold radial cyclic forging of solid and tube billets Section 4: Energy economics The future design of electricity markets: capacity payments or smart solutions?;Influence of the pricing policy in the Russian power industry on the gross domestic product (GDP) dynamics; Evaluation of investor attractiveness of power-generating companies: special reference to the development risks of the electric power industry Section 5: Energy security The energy security of the Republic of Tajikistan; Energy security in China: the impact of domestic policies and reforms; Meshed power system reliability estimation techniques Section 6: Energy production Superpowerful combined cycle power units with one gas turbine; The development of electrolytes for intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cells; Thermodynamical aspects of the passage to hybrid nuclear power plants; Hydrogen production by supercritical water gasification of food waste using nickel and alkali catalysts Section 7: Energy transmission and distribution Electrical load forecasting; PMU-based informational support of power system control tasks; Estimation of synchronous generator participation in low-frequency oscillations damping based on synchronized phasor measurements; Emergency control algorithm for maintaining power stability based on Newton's method; An algorithm for prioritizing the maintenance of power transformers; Investigation of the electrical strength of a contact gap of the high voltage live tank circuit breaker 126 kV class using an intelligent controlled switching system Section 8: Energy conversion The powering of subsea facilities for remote offshore oil and gas fields; The assessment of exhaust system energy losses based on the measurements performed under actual traffic conditions Section 9: Energy efficiency Energy rating for green buildings in Europe; Single-phase media hydrodynamics and heat transfer in heat exchangers with twisted profile tubes; Structural and topological analysis of electric energy consumption of municipalities as the basis for the development of the regional energy efficiency strategy; Energy problems of the rational use of the economic potential of the region; Energetic production configuration: its meaning from an environmental point of view; Research efficiency of complex systems with spread spectrum renewable energy for electric power supply decentralized objects in Russia; Optimal placement units of distributed generation; Energy efficiency by thermal spraying; The use of combined-blast is the main way to improve the energy efficiency of blast furnaces; Heat transfer augmentation during water steam condensation on twisted profile tubes; Developing a modern thermal strengthening technique for regulated fishplate cooling; Forecast and optimisation device for the mode control of a pumping station; Strategies for optimization of binomial energy saving landscape integration in road tunnels; Development of an integrated passive cooling facade technology for office buildings in hot arid regions; Energy-saving problems of road facilities in Russia; Reducing digger energy consumption by improving the walking mechanism; Environmentally safe techniques in the recycling of mercury-containing materials Section 10: Energy networks The comprehensive modernization of Ufa's electricity infrastructure; Comprehensive backup protection for electrical networks; Analysis and classification of failures of capacitor banks at 110 kV substations of "Bashkirenergo" Ltd; Range of activities by "Bashkirenergo" LLC to improve the reliability of overhead power lines during heavy icing; Fuzzy neural networks' application for substation integral state assessment Section 11: Energy and transport The impact of fiscal policies and standards on passenger car CO2 emissions in EU countries; Estimation of the tribotechnical parameters of the "piston skirt - cylinder liner" contact interface from an IC-engine for decreasing the mechanical losses; Energy resources for transport: political apathy and neglect - an Australian experience; The Irkutsk Transportation Master Plan solutions for public transport system development; Energy used by transport systems in India: the role of the urban population, sources, alternative modes and quantitative analyses; New energy-saving technologies in transport energy; Assessment of gas cylinder vehicles adaptability for operation at low ambient temperature conditions; Thermal preparation of the trailbuilder fluid drive; The application of modern Computational Fluid Dynamics techniques for increasing the efficiency and stability of an axial compressor in an industrial gas turbine Volume 2 Section 12: Energy in the built environment Demand side management of the built environment for sustainable energy; Advanced use of the urban metabolism model in rapidly changing cities; Wind ventilation in the built environment; Local versus national: designing supply systems for individual net zero energy buildings with flexible electricity prices Section 13: Hydrocarbons Sustainable oil and gas production in the 21st century with emphasis on offshore fields; Long-term developments in residues from the processing of alum shale and possible remedies; Prospects for the replacement of steel parts for oil and gas equipment by aluminium parts Section 14: Processing of oil and gas Ion transport membrane technology for the primary processing of natural gas; The solution to strategic problems in the oil refining industry as a factor for the sustainable development of automobile transport; The influence of rectification sharpness on the quality of motor fuels; Simulation and calculations of processing and transportation of hydrocarbon streams in spreadsheets; Aqueous vapour substitution for hydrogen in the process of pyrolysis; Efficiency improvement of pyrolysis; Energy and resource savings in the process of absorption drying of natural gas by glycols Section 15: Pipelines Innovative cyclical development of the Russian pipeline system; The peculiarities of fatigue failure for pipe steels of different strength classes (pipes with welds); Modified polyolefins to prevent paraffin deposits in pipelines Section 16: Nuclear energy Ecological features of fast reactor nuclear power plants (NPPs) at all stages of their life cycle; Route optimization in the removal of radiation hazards; Prospects of the application of curable decontamination solutions in problems of impact improving of nuclear power plants; Production of a reducing environment for metallurgy using nuclear energy Section 17: New energy sources Energy from municipal solid waste;Carbon reduction with solar energy in cities; The energy supply for mountain settlements in Tajikistan based on renewable energy sources; Improvement of the anaerobic digestion of activated sludge: thermal and economical perspectives Section 18: Biomass and biofuels Energy from biomass: the potentialities, environmental aspects and technology; Catalytic pyrolysis of straw biomasses (wheat, flax, oat and barley straw) and the comparison of their product yields; Anaerobic conversion of biomass upon disintegration in ultrasonic fields of low intensity; Energy from biomass: a contribution to GHG limitation and sustainability of the local impact aspect; Numerical simulation of hydraulic processes in anaerobic bioreactors; Productivity of industrial hemp and its utilisation for anaerobic digestion; The evaluation of ash content in grass biomass used for energy production; An assessment of the potential and optimal method for biowaste energy production in Latvia; Bagasse gasification in a 100 kWth steam-oxygen blown circulating fluidized bed gasifier with catalytic and non-catalytic upgrading of the syngas using ceramic filters; Techno-economic modelling analysis of microalgae cultivation for biofuels and co-products Section 19: Environmental risk Environmental damage from the combustion of fuels: challenges and methods of economic assessment; The enhancement of economic compensation mechanisms for environmental costs; The granulating process as an effective way to increase demand for high calcium fly ash of a thermal power plant Section 20: Emissions Exhaust emissions from modes of transport under actual traffic conditions; Investigation into the effects of fuel composition on the emission characteristics of a low-speed direct injection engine; The development of an ecological-economic substantiation algorithm for BAT selection for enterprises within the power industry; Formation and reduction of nitrogen oxides in the combustion of fuels in a circulating fluidized bed Section 21: Training in energy and sustainability Renewable energy-based plant remote monitoring complex using Wi-Fi channels and elements of artificial vision; Management education for a sustainable electric power industry in the 21st century; The system of human resource development in energy saving in the Ural region Section 22: Computational and experimental studies Simulation and optimization of the steam gasification process using CPFD; CFD simulation of a heavy oil reservoir with AICV completion; An analytical study on the performance characteristics of a multi-stage thermoelectric cooling system; Increasing oil recovery by utilization of AICV: a 3D multiphase simulation study of a heavy oil reservoir with an underlying water aquifer; Automatic determination of the Thin-Film Multijunction Thermal Voltage Converter parameters; A framework for the iterative dynamic optimisation of diesel engines: numerical methods, experimental setup, and first results; Modeling synthetic aperture radar signature of Agbabu oil sand for petroleum exploration; Power-line communication between parallel DC-DC optimizers on a high voltage direct current bus