Natural Energy and Hydrogen Society: Alternatives to Oil Civilization?

2010 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Takashi Yabe
Keyword(s):  
Natural Energy ◽  
Hydrogen Society

Computer Implementation of the Dykstra-Parsons Method of Waterflood Calculation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prosper Kiisi Lekia
Keyword(s):  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Injection Pressure ◽  
Injection Rate ◽  
Process Time ◽  
Computer Implementation ◽  
Natural Energy ◽  
Recovery Techniques ◽  
Secondary Recovery ◽  
Time Required ◽  
User Friendly

Abstract One of the challenges of the petroleum industry is achieving maximum recovery from oil reservoirs. The natural energy of the reservoir, primary recoveries in most cases do not exceed 20%. To improve recovery, secondary recovery techniques are employed. With secondary recovery techniques such as waterflooding, an incremental recovery ranging from 15 to 25% can be achieved. Several theories and methods have been developed for predicting waterflood performance. The Dykstra-Parson technique stands as the most widely used of these methods. The authors developed a discrete, analytical solution from which the vertical coverage, water-oil ratio, cumulative oil produced, cumulative water produced and injected, and the time required for injection was determined. Reznik et al extended the work of Dykstra and Parson to include exact, analytical, continuous solutions, with explicit solutions for time, constant injection pressure, and constant overall injection rate conditions, property time, real or process time, with the assumption of piston-like displacement. This work presents a computer implementation to compare the results of the Dykstra and Parson method, and the Reznik et al extension. A user-friendly graphical user interface executable application has been developed for both methods using Python 3. The application provides an interactive GUI output for graphs and tables with the python matplotlib module, and Pandastable. The GUI was built with Tkinter and converted to an executable desktop application using Pyinstaller and the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System, to serve as a hands-on tool for petroleum engineers and the industry. The results of the program for both methods gave a close match with that obtained from the simulation performed with Flow (Open Porous Media). The results provided more insight into the underlying principles and applications of the methods.

scholarly journals Expansion of renewable energy resources and energyconscious behaviour at the University of Szeged

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 03006 ◽  
Author(s):  
László Gyarmati
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Solar Panels ◽  
Renewable Energy Resources ◽  
Investment Planning ◽  
Heating And Cooling ◽  
Natural Energy ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
The University

At the University of Szeged, as the greenest University of Hungary, the sustainability project is built on two pillars. One of them is based on events and communication campaigns held regularly for the University citizens to prompt environmental-conscious behaviour, whereas the other is built on technological developments and on the extensive use of renewable energy resources. Thus the development of built environment and social responsibility both support the adequacy to sustainability requirements. The spreading of the effective solutions to making more and more buildings of the University energy efficient, numerous investments using renewable energy are also responsible for the decrease of the natural energy use of the institution contrary to the fact that the number of the buildings of the University of Szeged is continually increasing. It can be stated that the University of Szeged is committed to using renewable energy which is taken into consideration of each investment planning. The following examples confirm it: using geothermal cascade system for heating and cooling of five university bulidings, solar panels on 24 builidings and a unique technology of using the heat of wastewater to cool and heat one of the main bulidings of the university, namely the Study and Information Centre.

Broadcast network model of pulsars as beacons of extraterrestrial civilizations

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (05) ◽  
pp. 455-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emir Haliki
Keyword(s):  
Network Model ◽  
Type I ◽  
List Type ◽  
Radio Pulsars ◽  
Broadcast Network ◽  
Natural Energy ◽  
Radio Signals ◽  
Celestial Sphere ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Physical Principles

AbstractAccording to the Kardashev scale, likely extraterrestrial civilizations above Type-I might use natural energy sources of the Universe, which is also true for transmitting their signals out to distances. A variety of studies have shown that radio pulsars are most likely candidates for this. First, the current study examined how the radio beams of pulsars scan across their environment. Later when the radio beams of pulsars have been modulated, a network model has been proposed on how many habitable planets possible to be home for other assumed advanced civilizations could be reached. It has been found that size of each pulsar's broadcast network depends on the inclination angle. If a civilization controls multiple pulsars, it could comb a considerable fraction of their own celestial sphere and pulsars share their signals in a decentralized fashion as in the mail servers. Moreover, it is briefly cited how beam-modulating mechanisms can be built and searched around pulsars.Highlights •  It has been shown how pulsars would behave like beacons only when they have been used by modulating their radio signals.•  It has also been indicated how each pulsar could constitute an increasingly growing broadcast network by sweeping geometries and in what way it would emerge as number of controlled pulsars increases.•  It has been interpreted how a modulation mechanism could be established and searched under basic physical principles.

scholarly journals Least Cost Microgrid Resource Planning for the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority Research Park

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Headley ◽  
Benjamin Schenkman ◽  
Keith Olson ◽  
Laurence Sombardier
Keyword(s):  
Energy Storage ◽  
Storage System ◽  
Lithium Ion ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Energy Storage System ◽  
Solar Array ◽  
Electrical Transmission ◽  
Natural Energy ◽  
Electrical Transmission Line ◽  
Hydrogen Systems

Abstract The Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority’s (NELHA) campus on The Island of Hawai’i supplies resources for a number of renewable energy and aquaculture research projects. There is a growing interest at NELHA to convert the research campus to a 100% renewable, islanded microgrid to improve the resiliency of the campus for critical ocean water pumping loads and to limit the increase in the long-term cost of operations. Currently, the campus has solar array to cover some electricity needs but scaling up this system to fully meet the needs of the entire research campus will require significant changes and careful planning to minimize costs. This study will investigate least-cost solar and energy storage system sizes capable of meeting the needs of the campus. The campus is split into two major load centers that are electrically isolated and have different amounts of available land for solar installations. The value of adding an electrical transmission line if NELHA converts to a self-contained microgrid is explored by estimating the cost of resources for each load center individually and combined. Energy storage using lithium-ion and hydrogen-based technologies is investigated. For the hydrogen-based storage system, a variable efficiency and fixed efficiency representation of the electrolysis and fuel cell systems are used. Results using these two models show the importance of considering the changing performance of hydrogen systems for sizing algorithms.

scholarly journals Centennial Review of Natural Energy

1997 ◽  
Vol 100 (938) ◽  
pp. 74-78
Author(s):  
Yoshietsu SUTO
Keyword(s):  
Natural Energy

scholarly journals Asymptotic behavior of supercritical wave equations driven by colored noise on unbounded domains

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Bixiang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Asymptotic Behavior ◽  
Existence And Uniqueness ◽  
Wave Equations ◽  
Colored Noise ◽  
Unbounded Domains ◽  
Strichartz Estimates ◽  
Well Posedness ◽  
Natural Energy ◽  
Random Attractors ◽  
Supercritical Nonlinearity

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>This paper deals with the asymptotic behavior of the non-autonomous random dynamical systems generated by the wave equations with supercritical nonlinearity driven by colored noise defined on <inline-formula><tex-math id="M1">\begin{document}$ \mathbb{R}^n $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula> with <inline-formula><tex-math id="M2">\begin{document}$ n\le 6 $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula>. Based on the uniform Strichartz estimates, we prove the well-posedness of the equation in the natural energy space and define a continuous cocycle associated with the solution operator. We also establish the existence and uniqueness of tempered random attractors of the equation by showing the uniform smallness of the tails of the solutions outside a bounded domain in order to overcome the non-compactness of Sobolev embeddings on unbounded domains.</p>

scholarly journals Natural Energy Bars With Protein Improvement From Animal Origin Foods

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Logroño Veloz ◽  
S. L. Betancourt Ortiz ◽  
J. G. Fonseca
Keyword(s):  
Protein Quality ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Egg White ◽  
Animal Origin ◽  
Daily Consumption ◽  
Powdered Milk ◽  
Natural Energy ◽  
Product Acceptability ◽  
Technological Quality ◽  
Cereal Bars

The energy bars provide the consumer with nutritional and organoleptic quality, as well as a prolonged shelf life without the need to modify the temperature for storage, however, they do not satisfy the nutritional requirements of high-quality proteins since they are usually made from cereals, which are low cost ingredients and great energy contribution. The objective of this study was to create an energetic and nutritious bar, without diminishing the technological quality of the commercial bars and that, due to their sensory characteristics, are easily included in the daily consumption of people who exercise and want to control their weight. A product was formulated with a greater contribution and protein quality, and with a functional dose of macronutrients. The product was prepared in compliance with the regulations of the Ecuadorian Institute for Standardization (INEN) and the Food Codex, the premixing and roasting of ingredients was controlled and finally food with animal protein source such as egg white and powdered milk was added. For the premix oat flakes, nuts such as nuts, almonds and hazelnuts, chia seeds and honey were used, then added egg white and powdered milk. The protein content it reached was 29.01% on a wet basis, a fat value of 23.10% and carbohydrates of 25.24% on 100 g of sample on a wet basis. The energy distribution of macronutrients was balanced, and the sensory evaluation showed good product acceptability. Keywords: cereal bars, protein, immediate energy. Resumen Las barras energéticas proporcionan al consumidor calidad nutricional y organoléptica, así como una vida de anaquel prolongada sin necesidad de modificar la temperatura para su almacenamiento, sin embargo, no satisfacen los requerimientos nutricionales de proteínas de alta calidad ya que generalmente están elaboradas a base de cereales, que son ingredientes de bajo costo y gran aporte energético. El objetivo se este estudio fue crear una barra energética y nutritiva, sin disminuir la calidad tecnológica de las barras comerciales y que por sus características sensoriales sean fácilmente incluidas en el consumo diario de personas que se ejercitan y quieren controlar su peso. Se formuló un producto con un mayor aporte y calidad proteica, y con una dosis funcional de macronutrientes. El producto se elaboró cumpliendo las normativas del Instituto Ecuatoriano de Normalización (INEN) y del Codex alimentario, se controló la premezcla y tostado de ingredientes y finalmente se adicionó los alimentos con fuente proteica animal como la clara de huevo y leche en polvo. Para la premezcla se utilizaron hojuelas de avena, frutos secos como nueces, almendras y avellanas, semillas de chía y miel de abeja, luego se adicionó la clara de huevo y la leche en polvo. El contenido proteico que alcanzó fue de 29,01% en base húmeda, un valor en grasas de 23,10% y de carbohidratos de 25,24% de muestra en base húmeda. La distribución energética de macronutrientes fue equilibrada y la evaluación sensorial arrojó una buena aceptabilidad del producto. Palabras claves: barras de cereales, proteína, energía inmediata.

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