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Remote real-time monitoring and control of contamination in underground storage tank systems of petrol products
No full textA system to monitor and to control contamination in the soil, as well as in the aquifer is presented. Specifically, the system is suitable to
monitor continuously, remotely, and in real-time the soil surrounding underground storage tank (UST) systems, such as in petrol service stations.
The system has also functions for remediation, due to the possibility to be configured as a soil venting system. A prototype has been running for
more than three years in a petrol service station in Genova, Italy. Results show that, in daily work, frequent small-medium leakages may occur, which may be related to several events, the most frequent of which is the delivery of petrol products to the USTs. In these cases, the system can
diagnose the leakage and start remediation by a specific soil venting process. Some considerations on the cost/benefit evaluation of this technology
and on the utility to insert it as an important step to assure zero emissions to the soil in connection with petrol product storage and
manufacturing are discussed
An Artificial Neural Network Approach to "Key residue" Identification in Globular Proteins
No full textOptimal Control in a Cooperative Network of Smart Power Grids
No full textThe possibility to store energy, to exchange power
and information on demand and production among grids allows
us to achieve an active distribution which is of major interest for
cooperative smart power grids, that are grids which can forecast
demand and production and are able to exchange power in order
to enhance the quality of the service. In this paper, a model to
support optimal decisions in a network of cooperative grids is
formalized as an original discrete and centralized problem here
defined as cooperative network of smart power grids (CNSPG)
problem. In the CNSPG problem, the control variables are the
instantaneous flows of power in the network of grids, which can
be obtained from the solution of a linear quadratic Gaussian
problem on a fixed time horizon. A simple case study showing
the enhancement which may be obtained from the introduction
of direct connections among microgrids according to a lattice
network is shown and finally discussed
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