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95103808 Using CO&H, reforming for solar energy storage and transmission Edwards, J. H. et al., Proc.. Solar ‘94, ANZSES Administrator, PO Box 124, Caulfield East, VlC.3145, Australia. Describes the CSIRO/Pacific Power research on using the reversible CO&H, reforming reaction for solar energy storage and transmission. Work to date has led to the development of catalysts which can conduct the forward and reverse reactions in small fluidised-bed reactors under practical conditions without carbon formation. 95103809 Wisconsin Public Service’s Orphan Solar Program DeLaune, J. L. Solar Today, May-Jun. 1995, 9, (3) 35-37. A Wisconsin utility demonstrates, that locating and repairing existing solar systems in their service territory can be an effective demand-side management strategy. 95/03010 The Yulara solar heating and Ice storage system Senarath, S. M. and Morrison, G. L. Proc. Solar ‘94, ANZSES Administrator, PO Box 124, Caulfield East, VIC.3145, Australia. Describes the performance of the largest solar installation in Australia at the Ayers Rock Resort in Central Australia. Describes the development of a simulation model for the solar system and the heat pump - ice storage system at the resort.
95103818 Proceedings Wind Energy in Australia and New Zealand - a Summary
Peter Freere, Asian Pacific Wind Energy Centre, Centre for Electrical Power Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC.3168, Australia, A%20.+ P&P. Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Wind Energy Centre’s 1994 Wind Energy Workshop.
95103019 turbines
Vortex methods for aerodynamic modelllna of wlnd
Levinski, 0. P. and Brown, K. C. Proc. Solar ‘94, ANZSESAdministratar, PO Box 124. Caulfield East. VIC.3145. Australia. The design of modern- wind turbines requires adequate modelling of all unsteady effects inherent in their complex aerodynamics. The wind turbine failures encountered in recent years call for more detailed prediction of the unsteady loads which have an important effct on the fatigue of the blades. The work presented in this paper considers some vortex models based on a common approach for vortex simulation of two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations.
Watts happening in wind energy - Grid connection of a variable speed wind turbine using a matrix converter
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McIver, A. D. et al., Solar Progress, Autumn 1995, 16, (l), p. 30. Describes a variable speed wind turbine which has the potential for greater energy extraction from the wind by always operating at or near the optimum tip speed ratio.
Tidal/Wave Energy 95103811 Apaley Strait tidal power generation Swenson, J. Proc. Solar ‘94, ANZSES Administrator, PO Box 124, Caulfield East, VIC.3145, Australia. Describes the work carried out to date on a study to determine the feasibility of harnessing the kinetic energy in tidal streams to generate electricity for remote coastal communities. Details of the data collected to evaluate the energy resource at the site and the performance of two propeller turbine designs are given.
95/03821 summary
Wind energy -. in Australia and New Zealand - A
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Wind power Integration into an island dleael power
Freere, P. Proc. Solar ‘94. AhkSESAdministrator. PO Box 124. Caulfield East, VIC.3145, Australia.. A summary of the state of wind energy in Australia and New Zealand.
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Wind Energy 95103012 Bulls Head hybrid wind/solar electric system Case study number 12
Rosser, M. Proc. Solar ‘94, AaZSES Administrator, PO Box 124, Caulfield East, VIC.3145, Australia. The paper employs those techniques commonly used by the State Energy Commission of Western Australia in ‘desk top’ wind turbine site analyses to investigate the potential for wind power integration into an island diesel power system.
Egan, T. Solar Progress, Autumn 1995, 16, (l), p. 35. Reports that windswept Bulls Head, overlooking the Brindabella Valley, near Canberra, has recently been added to the list of Australia’s remote area wind generated power complexes. It will soon be converted to a hybrid solar wind installation to take advantage of the area’s seasonal variation in the availability of these two ambient sources.
95103623 Wind powered electric water pumps Dymond, M. et al., Proe! Solar ‘94, ANZSESAdministrator, PO Box 124, Caulfield East, VIC.3145, Australia.
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95103824 Wind turbine technology: Recent developments, future directions
Consumer doubts about wind turbines
McGlaughlin, K. Solar Progress, Autumn 1995: 16, (l), p. 31. The author discusses the lack of popularity of wmdpower in remote area power supplies (RAPS), as photovoltaics are winning hands down.
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Development of wind energy In Denmark
Nielsen, P. Proc. Solar ‘94, ANZSES Administrator, PO Box 124, Caulfield East, VIC.3145, *Australia. As of 31 December 1993, the total number of grid connected wind turbines in Denmark, privately as well as utility owned, was 3.548 units with a total output capacity of 492 MW. The total electricity production by wind turbines in 1993 was 1028 GWh, covering 3.3% of the annual Danish electricity consumption.
Experimental modelling of wind turbine unsteady aerodynamlca
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Mallon, K. J. et al., Proc. S dlar ‘94, ANZSES Administrator, PO Box 124, Caulfield East, VIC.3145, Australia. Unsteady fluid dynamic modelling to date has improved turbine performance and loadine oredictions. The oaoer demonstrates that much of the significant experTmental research publiihed in the field has been subject to inaccurate modelling and/or experimental conditions that cause 3-dimensional flow phenomena which reduce blade performance.
Grid connectiT 95103816 using a matrix converter
of a variable speed wind turbine
McIver, A. D. et al., Proc. Solar ‘94, ANZSES Administrator, PO Box 124, Caulfield East, VIC.3145, Australia. Presents the results of a studv into a variable sneed wind eeneration svstern, where the turbine generator is connected to the grid through the ACAC converter system which converts the variable generator output frequency into a fixed grid frequency.
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Philosophy of RAP,S design
Butler, D. Proc. Solar ‘94, ANZSES Administrator, PO Box 124, Caulfield East, VIC.3145, Australia. The author describes the desien of hieh reliabilitv remote area Dower suoply systems with emphasis &r red&dancy and’system supe&sion, the performance monitoring of wind turbines and wind turbine controllers.
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White, G. Proc. Solar ‘94, ANZSES Administrator, PO Box 124, Caulfield East. VIC.3145. Australia. ‘The paper examines’ the latest wind energy technologies that are now in production, and others that are being developed in the USA, New Zealand and in Europe.
Others, Including Development, Economics 1 Achievable conservation Columbia: A review and critique
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Nyboer, J. and Bailie, A.
potential
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Energy Studies Review, 1994, 6, (3) 265-273.
95103826 An algorithm to calculate the performance details of an RCFB incinerator with heat recovery for the treatment of distillery spent wash Alap at, B. J.,and Rane, V. C. Int. .I. Energy Rex, Jun. 1995, 19, (4) 329-x36 Incineration has become an acceptable and economically justifiable method of waste treatment. In the Incineration of distillery spent wash, evaporation of the raw dilute waste to higher concentration to make it autogenous is the most difficult and costly part. A recirculating fluidizedbed incineration system is suggested in this regard which is expected to reduce the load on the external evaporators considerably. An algorithm, based on iteration is presented to calculate the performance details of the proposed incineration system. 95103027 Amnesia affecting America? OPEC Bulletin, Jan. 1995, 26, (1) p. 3. Reports that by announcing a major initiative to promote the called ‘alternatdve fuels’ - amongst other anti-import policies House is again signalling its apparent concern about dependence oil. The result is as predictable as it is regrettable: another scapegoating of the developing world’s major oil producers Member Countries.
use of sothe White on foreign round of the OPEC