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  1. Content type: Design and simulation study

    A self-replicating rapid prototyper (RepRap) is a type of 3-D printer capable of printing many of its own components in addition to a wide assortment of products from high-value scientific or medical tools to ...

    Authors: Khalid Yousuf Khan, Lucia Gauchia and Joshua M. Pearce

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2018 5:5

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  2. Content type: Original research article

    Distributed generation (DG) is small generating plants which are connected to consumers in distribution systems to improve the voltage profile, voltage regulation, stability, reduction in power losses and econ...

    Authors: M. C. V. Suresh and Edward J. Belwin

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2018 5:4

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  3. Content type: Original research article

    This paper presents a low-cost solution of virtual instrumentation to provide a new technique for real-time instrumentation of the PV panel characteristics such as voltage, current and power. The system design...

    Authors: Aboubakr El Hammoumi, Saad Motahhir, Abdelilah Chalh, Abdelaziz El Ghzizal and Aziz Derouich

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2018 5:3

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  4. Content type: Original research article

    Pumped storage hydroelectric power plants are one of the most applicable energy storage technologies on large-scale capacity generation due to many technical considerations such as their maturity, frequency co...

    Authors: Diaa Abdellatif, Rameen AbdelHady, Ahmed M. Ibrahim and Essam Abu El-Zahab

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2018 5:2

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  7. Content type: Original Research

    Successful integration of renewable energy sources like wind power into smart grids largely depends on accurate prediction of power from these intermittent sources. Production of wind power cannot be controlle...

    Authors: Sumaira Tasnim, Ashfaqur Rahman, Amanullah Maung Than Oo and Md. Enamul Haque

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2017 4:6

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  9. Content type: Original Research

    The purpose of this paper is to present a performance comparison between two maximum power point tracking algorithms. These two algorithms are incremental conductance (INC) which is an improved version of the ...

    Authors: Saad Motahhir, Ayoub Aoune, Abdelaziz El Ghzizal, Souad Sebti and Aziz Derouich

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2017 4:8

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  10. Content type: Original research article

    Renewable energy sources are fast emerging as more reliable supplement of conventional energy sources. Among the various renewable sources, solar energy is most sought after in today’s world. Solar PV modules ...

    Authors: Basant Raj Paudyal, Shree Raj Shakya, Dhan Prasad Paudyal and Deependra Das Mulmi

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2017 4:5

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  11. Content type: Original research article

    The study focuses on the evaluation of global solar radiation on a horizontal level. The estimate of the solar layer was made on the basis of mathematical model obtained from the relations of Angstrom–Prescott...

    Authors: Marcel Hamda Soulouknga, Ousmane Coulibaly, Serge Yamigno Doka and Timoleon Crepin Kofane

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2017 4:4

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  12. Content type: Original research article

    Supply of additional power generation by wind system to increase total power generation is increasing exponentially and globally to meet the challenge of surplus power demand. This total power generation shoul...

    Authors: Satish Kumar, Ashwani Kumar and Nikhlesh Kumar Sharma

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2017 4:2

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  13. Content type: Original research article

    Distributed generator (DG) resources are small scale electric power generating plants that can provide power to homes, businesses or industrial facilities in distribution systems. Power loss reductions, volta...

    Authors: P. Dinakara Prasad Reddy, V. C. Veera Reddy and T. Gowri Manohar

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2017 4:3

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  14. Content type: Review

    Pure and fresh water is being scarce day by day. Although Bangladesh is a riverine country, pure drinking potable water is not a cheap commodity. Most of the people in the cities boil water to drink, and peopl...

    Authors: Md. Nazmul Islam Sarkar, Anwarul Islam Sifat, S. M. Shamim Reza and Md. Shibli Sadique

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2017 4:1

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  15. Content type: Original research article

    A life cycle assessment (LCA) was carried out on three separate drinking water production options—a groundwater treatment plant (GWTP), surface water treatment plant and seawater desalination plant (electrodia...

    Authors: Wahidul K. Biswas and Pauline Yek

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2016 3:14

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  17. Content type: Design and simulation study

    The thermochemical system using ammonia as energy storage carrier is investigated in this study. A mathematical model was developed to predict the behavior of both reactors in the ammonia-based closed-loop sys...

    Authors: Ramadan Ali Abdiwe and Markus Haider

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2016 3:12

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  18. Content type: Review

    Wind energy is one of the most cost-effective forms of renewable energy source with significant increment in yearly installed capacities all around the world. In this study, three commercial wind turbines, na...

    Authors: Satyanarayana Gaddada and Shiva Prashanth Kumar Kodicherla

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2016 3:10

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  19. Content type: Original research article

    Power generation quantity from wind sector is increasing at much faster rate day by day in the scenario of power systems, which obviously needs reliable operation. Therefore, accurate monitoring and error dia...

    Authors: Rajakumar D. Gowdar and M. C. Mallikarjune Gowda

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2016 3:9

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  20. Content type: Original research article

    Energy is the greatest challenge facing the environment. Energy efficiency can be improved by energy storage by management of distribution networks, thereby reducing cost and improving energy usage efficiency....

    Authors: Eanest B. Jebasingh

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2016 3:8

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  21. Content type: Original research article

    In this study, an analysis of the monthly mean values of the fraction of the sky covered by clouds (C) of all types and the duration of bright sunshine hours (S) and global solar radiation on the horizontal surfa...

    Authors: Md. Nazmul Islam Sarkar

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2016 3:11

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  22. Content type: Original Research Article

    In this study, several regression models were employed to estimate global solar radiation from commonly available meteorological data such as sunshine duration, temperature, precipitation, and cloud cover for ...

    Authors: Md. Nazmul Islam Sarkar and Anwarul Islam Sifat

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2016 3:6

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  24. Content type: Original Research Article

    There are numerous maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithms for improving the energy efficiency of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. The main differences between these algorithms are digital or analog imp...

    Authors: Hala J. El-Khozondar, Rifa J. El-Khozondar, Khaled Matter and Teuvo Suntio

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2016 3:3

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  25. Content type: Original research article

    The fresh water needs of mankind in regions under severe stress due to scarcity of water and energy can be satisfied if saline water which is available is converted to potable water by solar desalination. Bes...

    Authors: S. A. Mohallel, Safie Elden Metwally, Esam A. Gomaa, Marwa Fathy and Amr Abdellatif Sayed Alahl

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2016 3:4

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  26. Content type: Original research article

    Flat plate-type solar water distillation (FPSWD) is having importance for providing hot water and drinking water simultaneously to households in rural areas or small community/hotels. It utilizes solar radia...

    Authors: U. Sahoo, S. K. Singh, I. Barbate, R. Kumar and P. C. Pant

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2016 3:5

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  28. Content type: Original Research Article

    Wind power is a cost-effective renewable source and can be smoothly integrated into power grid by incorporating adequate control strategies. The wind turbine prime mover, wind, is uncontrollable which makes it...

    Authors: Reshma Ehtesham, Shahida Khatoon and Ibraheem Naseeruddin

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2016 3:1

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  30. Content type: Original research

    Climate change can be considered to be the greatest environmental challenge our world is facing today. Along with the need to ensure long-term assurance of energy supply, it imposes an obligation on all of us...

    Authors: V. Prema and K. Uma Rao

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2015 2:18

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  32. Content type: Policy Issue

    A national subsidy program is one of the key elements for translating customer choice into a larger market share for renewable energies. Since solar water heaters (SWHs) are a cost-effective and mature technol...

    Authors: Keh-Chin Chang, Wei-Min Lin and Kung-Ming Chung

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2015 2:8

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  33. Content type: Original research

    Standard photovoltaic solar cells (PV cells) use only about half of the light spectrum provided by the sun. The infrared part is not utilized to produce electricity. Instead, the infrared light heats up the PV...

    Authors: Esam Elsarrag, Hans Pernau, Jana Heuer, Nibul Roshan, Yousef Alhorr and Kilian Bartholomé

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2015 2:16

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  34. Content type: Original Research

    Dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) was fabricated using nanosize of the dye sensitizer (Alizarin Yellow, AY) that was prepared by ball milling. The particle size and the composition of nano-Alizarin Yellow (nAY...

    Authors: F. A. Taher, Galila M. El-sayed, N. M. Khattab and N. Almohamady

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2015 2:15

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  35. Content type: Original research

    Paramount two-parameter Weibull function has been extensively used to assess the wind energy potential. The performance contrast of four statistical methods, i.e., energy pattern factor method, least squares r...

    Authors: K. Shiva Prashanth Kumar and Satyanarayana Gaddada

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2015 2:14

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  37. Content type: Original research

    Performance of nine commercial solar photovoltaic (PV) panels from different manufacturers with combination of different manufacturing materials and technologies are studied under the environmental conditions ...

    Authors: Suprava Chakraborty and Pradip Kumar Sadhu

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2015 2:11

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  38. Content type: Original research

    The current work was based on four selected underground water production wells (W25, W29, W34 and W47), out of 55 wells available in total, at Disi water project located south of Jordan to power underground wa...

    Authors: Mahmoud Hammad and Munzer S. Y. Ebaid

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2015 2:12

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  40. Content type: Original research paper

    This paper describes a computer method to allow the design of small wind turbine blades for the multiple objectives of rapid starting, efficient power extraction, low noise, and minimal mass. For the sake of b...

    Authors: Matias Sessarego and David Wood

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2015 2:9

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  41. Content type: Original Research

    Experiment was conducted on the fabricated biodigester of capacity 30 l. Slurry of cow manure in water was fed through the inlet until the digester is about 80% filled with slurry, and the slurry surface on bo...

    Authors: Jyothilakshmi Ramaswamy and Prakash Siddareddy Vemareddy

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2015 2:6

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  43. Content type: Case Study

    Wind speed probability at a site has to be modeled for evaluating the energy generation potential of a wind farm. Analytical computation of wind turbine capacity factor at the planning stage of a wind farm is ...

    Authors: Bharat Kumar Saxena and Komaragiri Venkata Subba Rao

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2015 2:3

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  45. Content type: Original Research

    The present paper deals with the organic loadings of grey water with its average and maximum flow rate on an hourly and daily basis generated from the residential colony of G.B. Pant University of Agriculture ...

    Authors: Anil Kumar Shankhwar, Sudipta Ramola, Tripti Mishra and Rajeev Kumar Srivastava

    Citation: Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar 2015 2:5

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