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A conceptual framework for the assessment of integrated energy storage resources
No full textConcerns regarding climate change impacts, energy security and sustainability are key drivers of the growing deployment of renewable energy resources. The variability, uncertainty and intermittency associated with the integration of these resources make the operation of the conventional power grid particularly challenging. Energy storage resources (ESRs) are one of the most promising solutions to address these challenges. The unique and versatile nature of storage finds its use in applications over a broad time spectrum. Furthermore, fast acting storage helps smoothen out the variable renewable output, minimize spillage of clean energy and manage the steep ramps associated with renewable energy integration. Storage also finds its use across all three domains of the electrical network, i.e., generation, transmission and distribution.
Cost reductions, technological innovations and regulatory initiatives have invigorated the interest in storage. However, the rapid growth of the storage sector is met by daunting challenges to the implementation of storage in the grid, especially since storage is very different from the conventional grid assets. The nature of storage is unique and its implementation has to be treated as such to fully harness the value it brings to the system it is integrated into. To this end, we outline a framework in this thesis for the integration of energy storage resources into the grid. The framework provides a systematic construct to study the various aspects of ESR integration in a system. The framework is comprehensive as it reflects the physical, information, environmental and financial aspects of storage operations. The thrust of the framework is its flexibility to accommodate the wide range of applications that storage provides on different time-scales. Furthermore, the framework explicitly captures the nature of deployment of storage for a particular application and shows the necessary interactions between ESR and the various players that interact with the ESR.
Case studies to illustrate the implementation of the information, environmental and financial layers of the framework are also presented in the thesis. The studies and their results establish that the framework is an extremely useful construct for the development of tools and models to aid in planning and operational studies and the formulation of policy and incentives and as such, is helpful in bringing the vision of energy storage closer to reality.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2018-05-01The student, Archana Manjunath, accepted the attached license on 2016-04-09 at 13:31.The student, Archana Manjunath, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2016-04-09 at 13:43.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2016-04-13 at 11:07.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #9172 on 2016-07-07 at 13:49:01Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-07T20:27:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Strategy and Steps for Analytical Method Validation
No full textThis Dissertation / Report is the outcome of investigation carried out by the creator(s) / author(s) at the department/division of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore mentioned below in this page
Survey of levels of common toxic metals and pesticides residues in some selected organically grown foods of Indian origin
No full textThis Dissertation / Report is the outcome of investigation carried out by the creator(s) / author(s) at the department/division of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore mentioned below in this page
Mesenteric artery stenosis presenting as severe erosive gastroduodenitis: A rare case report with long-term follow-up
No full textClinical, angiographic profile and endovascular management of Takayasu's arteritis – Single center prospective study
No full textDetermination of arsenic and fluoride in borewell water samples collected from in and around Mysore City
No full textThis Dissertation / Report is the outcome of investigation carried out by the creator(s) / author(s) at the department/division of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore mentioned below in this page
Insertion and deletion tolerance of point processes
No full textWe develop a theory of insertion and deletion tolerance for point processes. A process is insertion-tolerant if adding a suitably chosen random point results in a point process that is absolutely continuous in law with respect to the original process. This condition and the related notion of deletion-tolerance are extensions of the so-called finite energy condition for discrete random processes. We prove several equivalent formulations of each condition, including versions involving Palm processes. Certain other seemingly natural variants of the conditions turn out not to be equivalent. We illustrate the concepts in the context of a number of examples, including Gaussian zero processes and randomly perturbed lattices, and we provide applications to continuum percolation and stable matching
Prognostic value of the SYNTAX score in predicting in-hospital mortality in coronary artery bypass patients – An Indian perspective
No full textAssociation of VKORC1 gene polymorphism (1639G>A and 1173C>T) and acenocoumarol maintenance dosage in patients with mechanical heart valve
No full textIncidence and patterns of valvular heart disease in a tertiary care high-volume cardiac center: A single center experience
No full textAbstractBackgroundDiseases of the heart valves constitute a major cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality worldwide with rheumatic heart disease (RHD) being the dominant form of valvular heart disease (VHD) in developing nations. The current study was undertaken at a tertiary care cardiac center with the objective of establishing the incidence and patterns of VHD by Echocardiography (Echo).MethodsAmong the 136,098 first-time Echocardiograms performed between January 2010 and December 2012, an exclusion criterion of trivial and functional regurgitant lesions yielded a total of 13,289 cases of organic valvular heart disease as the study cohort.ResultsIn RHD, the order of involvement of valves was mitral (60.2%), followed by aortic, tricuspid and pulmonary valves. Mitral stenosis, predominantly seen in females, was almost exclusively of rheumatic etiology (97.4%). The predominant form of isolated MR was rheumatic (41.1%) followed closely by myxomatous or mitral valve prolapse (40.8%). Isolated AS, more common in males, was the third most common valve lesion seen in 7.3% of cases. Degenerative calcification was the commonest cause of isolated AS (65.0%) followed by bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) (33.9%) and RHD (1.1%). Multiple valves were involved in more than a third of all cases (36.8%). The order of involvement was MS + MR > MS + AR > MR + AR > AS + AR > MR + AS > MS + AS. Overall, 9.7% of cases had organic tricuspid valve disease.ConclusionRHD contributed most to the burden of VHD in the present study with calcific degeneration, myxomatous disease and BAV being the other major forms of VHD. Multiple valves were affected in more than a third of all cases
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