Articles

Production of biogas using small-scale plug flow reactor and sizing calculation for biodegradable solid waste

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

Publisher’s note to: volume 1 of Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar

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Grey water pollutant loads in residential colony and its economic management

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

Household demand and supply for clean groundwater in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Because of the important role of groundwater and limited studies related to groundwater, in order to prevent the possibility of deterioration of this valuable natural water resource in the Vietnamese Mekong De...

Authors: Vo Thanh Danh and Huynh Viet Khai

Comparison of Weibull parameters computation methods and analytical estimation of wind turbine capacity factor using polynomial power curve model: case study of a wind farm

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

Computational study of the effect of trees on wind flow over a building

A computational study was performed to investigate the effect of varying upwind tree heights on the wind flow over a 15-m high, flat-roof building. It is shown that trees can have a significant effect on the m...

Authors: Mohamed Arif Mohamed and David H Wood

Solar irradiance monitoring network design using the variance quadtree algorithm

Our aim is to determine the optimal placement of solar irradiance monitoring stations for renewable energy integration into electricity grids. Hourly SUNY satellite-derived irradiance over a rectangular grid o...

Authors: Dazhi Yang and Thomas Reindl