• Optimal Operation of the Peat Drying Process in Steam Tube Dryers 

      Kulakovsky, Leonid; Rosen, Victor; Sharma, Roshan; Pfeiffer, Carlos Fernando; Lie, Bernt (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-11-25)
      Ukraine is an energy-dependent country and aims to reduce the import of natural gas, heat, and power in general. This implies extracting fuel from her own natural resources; one relevant and readily available energy carrier ...
    • Optimal Scheduling for Mobile Battery Charging Systems 

      Wagle, Dhanush (Master thesis, 2022)
      A pilot project in Norway is currently being examined to give electric energy to construction sites in places where connection to the power grid is not available. This thesis proposes a generic mobile battery charging ...
    • Optimal Settings of Fast Active Power Controller: Nordic Case 

      Acosta Montalvo, Martha Nohemi; Gonzalez-Longatt, Francisco; Denysiuk, Serhii; Strelkova, Halyna (Chapter, 2020)
      The Nordic power system is continuously changing, and it has been experiencing a growing replacing of conventional power plants with renewable power plants, this together with other factors are causing reduction of the ...
    • Optimal Tuning of Active Power Gradient Control for Frequency Support in Multi-Energy Systems 

      Perilla, Arcadio; Gusain, Digvijay; Rueda, Jose Luis; Palensky, Peter; A. M. M. van der Meijden, Mart; Gonzalez-Longatt, Francisco (Chapter, 2020)
      Coping with severe active power imbalances constitutes a challenging task in low inertia multi-energy systems. The phase out of the majority of conventional power plants with large size synchronous generators entails that ...
    • Optimal UFLS Settings: An Assessment of Frequency System Response Indicators 

      Acosta Montalvo, Martha Nohemi; Adiyabazar, Choidorj; Gonzalez-Longatt, Francisco; Rueda Torres, Jose Luis; Palensky, Peter (Chapter, 2020)
      This paper investigates the positive changes in the system frequency response indicators caused by the implementation of a set of optimal settings of an under-frequency load shedding (UFLS) scheme. The optimal UFLS scheme ...
    • Optimal under-frequency load shedding setting at Altai-Uliastai regional power system, Mongolia 

      Acosta Montalvo, Martha Nohemi; Adiyabazar, Choidorj; Gonzalez-Longatt, Francisco; Andrade, Manuel A.; Torres, José Rueda; Vazquez, Ernesto; Santos, Jesús Manuel Riquelme (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The Altai-Uliastai regional power system (AURPS) is a regional power system radially interconnected to the power system of Mongolia. The 110 kV interconnection is exceptionally long and susceptible to frequent trips because ...
    • Optimalisering av produktivitet og det psykososiale arbeidsmiljøet ved hjemmekontor: en dynamisk tilnærming 

      Tran, Dennis Phong; Småge, Nicolai Aune (Master thesis, 2023)
      Psykososialt arbeidsmiljø og produktivitet når hjemmekontor benyttes er temaet for denne avhandlingen. Problemstillingen for oppgaven er: «Hvordan kan det psykososiale arbeidsmiljøet og produktviteten optimaliseres når ...
    • Optimism and alienation – colour schemes and soundscapes as means for the social construction of risk in climate education videos 

      Foss, Eirik Granly; Øidvin Burgess, Marthe (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      While the field of climate change communication has become increasingly interested in visual representations, there has been a lack of research that attempts to capture the breadth and variety of semiotic resources being ...
    • Optimization of a biomass gasification reactor 

      Perera, Colombage Kshanthi Kalyani (Master thesis, 2015-09-25)
      Steam gasification is a well-known technology which is used to produce a high quality product gas, especially for power generation applications. The gas composition, gas quality and the purity are important for the end ...
    • Optimization of biomass gasification reactor using Aspen Plus 

      Sun, Ke (Master thesis, 2015-10-30)
      Biomass is an ideal renewable and clean energy resource. Counties all over the world are paying more and more attention to biomass because it can effectively reduce greenhouse effect due to its zero carbon dioxide emission. ...
    • Optimization of design and operation of anaerobic digestion reactors 

      Haddad, Arya (Master thesis, 2015-11-12)
      The sustainable provision of bio-methane plays a key role in the future energy supply and is a promising environmentally friendly solution for waste processing. With rising number and size of biogas power plants process ...
    • Optimization of flow behavior in biomass gasification reactor 

      Thapa, Rajan Kumar (Doctoral dissertations at TUC;2015:2, Doctoral thesis, 2015)
      Dual fluidized bed reactor for steam gasification of biomass is a promising technology and can be used in Combined Heat and Power (CHP) production. The producer gas from the reactor can have a calorific value up to 14 ...
    • Optimization of gas velocity and pressure drop in CO2 absorption column 

      Park, Kwangsu; Øi, Lars Erik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      For a traditional amine-based CO2 capture system, the absorber column accounts for a significant part of the overall capital- and operating cost. One important design factor of absorber columns is the gas velocity through ...
    • Optimization of gas velocity, pressure drop and column diameter in CO2 capture 

      Amaratunga, P. D. M. Maduranga (Master thesis, 2015-09-18)
      CO2 capture and storage (CCS) from fossil fuel fired power plants and also other large point sources is drawing increasing interest as a potential method for the control of greenhouse gas emissions. Among the different ...
    • Optimization of lift gas allocation in a gas lifted oil field as non-linear optimization problem. 

      Sharma, Roshan; Fjalestad, Kjetil; Glemmestad, Bjørn (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      Proper allocation and distribution of lift gas is necessary for maximizing total oil production from a field with gas lifted oil wells. When the supply of the lift gas is limited, the total available gas should be optimally ...
    • Optimization of partial CO₂ capture 

      Park, Kwangsu (Master thesis, 2016)
      The cement industry accounts for about 5 % of the global anthropogenic CO₂ emissions. Traditional post-combustion CO₂ capture with monoethanolamine absorption is highly energy-intensive, which in turn leads to expensive ...
    • Optimization of postable water treatment by coagulation 

      Salmi, Ingrid Kjær (Master thesis, 2016)
      Securing hygienic barriers and also removal of particles, natural organic matter and dissolved minerals are necessary factors in the treatment of surface water. The presence of natural organic matter has increased during ...
    • Optimization of Small Urban Water Services in Developing Countries by Water Loss Management. Literature review with practical examples from Pacific Island countries 

      Kleppen, Mathias H. (Master thesis, 2011)
      Water is by far our most important natural resource needed to sustain all forms of life on our planet. Today we face depletion and increased scarcity of this precious resource. At the same time there is also a rapid ...
    • An Optimization-Linked Intelligent Security Algorithm for Smart Healthcare Organizations 

      Irshad, Reyazur Rashid; Alattab, Ahmed Abdu; Alsaiari, Omar Ali Saleh; Sohail, Shahab Saquib; Aziz, Asfia; Madsen, Dag Øivind; Alalayah, Khaled M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      IoT-enabled healthcare apps are providing significant value to society by offering cost-effective patient monitoring solutions in IoT-enabled buildings. However, with a large number of users and sensitive personal information ...
    • Optimized carbon dioxide removal model for gas fired power plant 

      Arachchige, Udara Sampath P.; Mohsin, Muhammad; Melaaen, Morten Christian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      The carbon capture process model was developed for 500MW gas-fired power plant flue gas treating. Three different efficiencies, 85%, 90%, and 95%, were used to implement the model in Aspen Plus. The electrolyte NRTL rate ...