• Modeling and Simulation of Multi-Room Buildings 

      Perera, Degurunnehalage Wathsala U.; Skeie, Nils-Olav (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Buildings are one of the largest energy consumers in the world which accounts for nearly 40% of the total global energy consumption. In the countries where cold climate conditions predominate, space heating is the key ...
    • Modeling and Simulation of Triclosan Kinetics and Distribution in Humans Using a PBPK Model 

      Maharjan, Samee; Sharma, Roshan; Husøy, Trine; Dirven, Hubert; Andreassen, Monica; Lie, Bernt (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-11-25)
      Personal care products (PCPs) such as soaps, perfumes, toothpastes, lotions, etc. contain various chemicals. Triclosan (TCS) is widely used as an antibacterial additive in PCPs. Traces of TCS are found in human plasma and ...
    • Modeling and Simulation of Triclosan Kinetics and Distribution in Humans Using PBPK Model 

      Cascella, Vincenza; Andreassen, Monica; Husøy, Trine; Dirven, Hubert; Lie, Bernt (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Triclosan (TCS) has been used as an antibacterial additive in several personal care products (PCPs) for more than 40 years. In animals studies, it is observed that TCS in rats has adverse effects on the endocrine function ...
    • Modeling for control of run-of-river power plant Grønvollsfoss 

      Vytvytskyi, Liubomyr; Sharma, Roshan; Granstrøm, Ingunn; Lie, Bernt (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-11-25)
      Design of optimal operation and control of a run-of-river hydro power plant depends on good models for the elements of the plant. River reaches are often considered to be shallow channels with free surface flow. A typical ...
    • Modelling and control of a typical high head hydropower plant 

      Zhou, Wenjing; Lie, Bernt; Glemmestad, Bjørn (Conference object; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      This paper describes an effective mathematical model of a hydropower plant and how a decentralized control strategy for frequency and terminal voltage can be simulated. Several dynamic equations are presented for each ...
    • Modelling and control of collecting solar energy for heating houses in Norway 

      Dehghan, Mehran; Pfeiffer, Carlos Fernando (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      In this research, a new model was developed and modified with a combined solar heating system which works with solar radiation and electricity. In order to model the system, the outdoor temperature of the location and solar ...
    • Modelling of a Hydro Power Station in an Island Operation 

      Winkler, Dietmar; Magnúsdóttir, Arndís (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      There is a strong focus on new renewable energy sources, such as, solar power, wind energy and biomass, in the con-text of reducing carbon emissions. Because of its maturity, hydropower is often overlooked. However, there ...
    • Modelling of Water Levels in a Reservoir using Modelica 

      Meijer, Willem; Winkler, Dietmar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      The regulation of hydro power plants is influenced by amongst others reservoir capacity and the knowledge about how it is influenced by changes in in- and out?ow. The hydro power reservoir Aurdalsfjord has a small capacity ...
    • Modelling the heat dynamics of a residential building unit: Application to Norwegian buildings. 

      Perera, Degurunnehalage Wathsala U.; Pfeiffer, Carlos Fernando; Skeie, Nils-Olav (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      The paper refers to the development of a continuous time mathematical heating model for a building unit based on the rst principles. The model is described in terms of the state space variables, and a lumped parameter ...
    • Modelling the synchronisation control for a hydro power controller 

      Hellborg, Jonatan; Tollefsen, Tonje; Bhusal, Khemraj; Winkler, Dietmar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      This paper presents the modelling of a synchronisation control as used inside a typical hydro power controller for small hydro power plants. It was built using the open-source modelling language Modelica by use of the ...
    • Modelling the System Dynamics of Islanding Asynchronous Generators 

      Edvardsen, Håkon Molland; Winkler, Dietmar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-03)
      Asynchronous generators are often used for small hydro power stations with an installed power capacity of under 1MW. The reason for this is their robustness and low cost. In order do be able to produce active electrical ...
    • Models for control of thermal energy in buildings 

      Johansen, Casper Amandus; Lie, Bernt; Skeie, Nils-Olav (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      A large fraction of the world’s energy production is used for HVAC in buildings. It is therefore important to develop improved strategies for ef?cient use of energy in buildings. Storage of intermittent energy production ...
    • Modified Smith-predictor multirate control utilizing secondary process measurements 

      Ergon, Rolf (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007)
      The Smith-predictor is a well-known control structure for industrial time delay systems, where the basic idea is to estimate the non-delayed process output by use of a process model, and to use this estimate in an inner ...
    • Modified Smith-predictor multirate control utilizing secondary process measurements 

      Ergon, Rolf (Conference report, 2001)
      The Smith-predictor is a well-known control structure for industrial time delay systems, where the basic idea is to estimate the nondelayed process output by use of a process model, and to use this estimate in an inner ...
    • Monitoring of Erosion in a Pneumatic Conveying System by Non-intrusive Acoustic Sensors – A Feasibility Study 

      Haugland, Ingrid Bokn; Chladek, Jana; Halstensen, Maths (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This paper presents the results of a study where the feasibility of a non-invasive acoustic measurement method was tested for monitoring of erosion in a pneumatic conveying system during the dilute-phase conveying of sand. ...
    • Monitoring of scale formation in a pneumatic conveying system operating in a metal production plant 

      Haugland, Ingrid Bokn; Chladek, Jana; Halstensen, Maths (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Monitoring of scale progression in a pneumatic conveying system operating in a metal production plant was conducted during a five-month long monitoring period. A combination of an acoustic monitoring method and a laser ...
    • Monitoring of scaling in dilute phase pneumatic conveying systems using non-intrusive acoustic sensors – A feasibility study 

      Haugland, Ingrid Bokn; Chladek, Jana; Halstensen, Maths (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Scale formation in pneumatic conveying systems is a major industrial challenge. The underlying scale formation mechanisms can be intricate as they often involve a combination of several mutually enhancing binding forces ...
    • MPC Operation with Improved Optimal Control Problem at Dalsfoss Power Plant 

      Jeong, Changun; Furenes, Beathe; Sharma, Roshan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The operational conditions at the Dalsfoss power station are complicated due to many requirements such as environmental regulations and safety constraints. Model predictive control (MPC) has been in use at this power station ...
    • Multi-Core Platform of Admittance Matrix Formation of Power Systems: Computational Time Assessment 

      Gonzalez-Longatt, Francisco; Montalvo, Martha Nohemi; Andrade, Manuel A.; Vazquez, Ernesto; Chamorro, Harold R.; Sood, Vijay K. (Chapter, 2020)
      This paper presents a comparison of computational time required to build the admittance matrix of five test systems (ranging from 200 to 70,000 nodes) considering two formation approaches: element-by-element and matrix ...
    • Multimodal Tomometry for Slug Detection in two Phase Flow 

      Pradeep, Chaminda; Ru, Yan; Mylvaganam, Saba (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      Electrical Capacitance and Resistance Tomometric (ECTm/ ERTm) approaches are attractive for measurement and control applications in the process industries. By using the time series of raw resistance and capacitance values ...