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Energy Management and Demand Response of Industrial Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2018-11-26)Energy management is an important concept that has come to the forefront in recent years under the smart grid paradigm. Energy conservation and management can help defer some capacity addition requirements in the long-term, ... -
Energy Management and Smart Charging of PEVs in Isolated Microgrids
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-24)Microgrids are defined as a cluster of loads and micro-resources operating as a single controllable entity that provides both power and heat to its local area. Typically, these rely on conventional diesel generators, but ... -
Energy Management Strategies for Residential Distribution System Using Smart Meter Data
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-18)Energy management (EM) strategies for a power distribution system have attracted attention in the past few decades. EM within smart residential distribution systems is a long-standing challenge that involves effective ... -
An Energy Management System for Isolated Microgrids Considering Uncertainty
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-22)The deployment of Renewable Energy (RE)-based generation has experienced a sustained global growth in the recent decades, driven by many countries' interest in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on fossil ... -
Energy Management Systems for Multi-Microgrid Networks Under Uncertainties
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-08)Environmental concerns have motivated a gradual transformation of power systems in recent years, mainly focused on replacing fossil fuel-based energy sources with Renewable Energy Sources (RESs) such as solar and wind ... -
Energy Performance Analysis of Software Applications on Servers
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-10)The power cost of running a data center is a significant portion of its total annual operating budget. Although the hardware subsystems, namely, processors, memory, disk, and network interfaces of a server actually consume ... -
Energy Performance Testing of Smartphones: A First Look at Energy Bugs in Mobile Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-17)Smartphones have revolutionized the way people live their daily lives, the way they communicate with each other and the way they access information on-line. A decade ago, desktop computers and laptops were the primary ... -
Energy Storage Solutions for Wind Generator Connected Distribution Systems in Rural Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2009-11-16)Environmental awareness and uncertainty about continued supply of fossil fuel has given rise to the renewable energy movement. Wind based power generation has been at the forefront of the motion to integrate distributed ... -
Energy Trading Platforms for Isolated and Inter-connected Microgrids Utilizing Adapted Blockchain
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-18)The rapid increase in microgrid technology development has led to a decentralized yet interconnected system that is highly flexible and dynamic. This will change the planning and operational strategies from being grid-connected ... -
An Energy-Efficient Bit Allocation Scheme in Wireless Sensor Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-09)In wireless sensor networks (WSN), a large number of sensor nodes which are capable of sensing, data processing and communicating are densely deployed in an area to measure some physical phenomenon. Generally, wireless ... -
An Energy-Efficient System with Timing-Reliable Error-Detection Sequentials
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-26)A new type of energy-efficient digital system that integrate EDS and DVS circuits has been developed. In these systems, EDS-monitored paths convert the PVT variations into timing variations. Nevertheless, the conversion ... -
Energy-Efficient Turbo Decoder for 3G Wireless Terminals
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Since its introduction in 1993, the turbo coding error-correction technique has generated a tremendous interest due to its near Shannon-limit performance. Two key innovations of turbo codes are parallel concatenated ... -
Enforcing Abstract Immutability
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-01)Researchers have recently proposed a number of systems for expressing, verifying, and inferring immutability declarations. These systems are often rigid, and do not support "abstract immutability". An abstractly immutable ... -
Engineering the Performance of 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Nanotransistors through Quantum Transport Simulations
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-10)Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a class of stable, atomically-thin monolayer materials with unique mechanical and electronic properties, leading to several proposed applications in electronics ... -
An Enhanced Goal-Oriented Decision-Making Model for Self-Adaptive Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-29)The thesis proposes a generic, configurable and enhanced goal-oriented decision-making model for self-adaptive software systems. The model has been designed to include feedback control loops as first class entities in the ... -
Enhanced photo-stability of inverted organic solar cells via using polyethylenimine in the electron extraction layers
(Elsevier, 2019-10)The influence of using Polyethylenimine (PEI) in the electron extraction layers (EELs) on the photo-stability of inverted organic solar cells (OSCs) is investigated. Results show that introducing PEI in the commonly used ... -
Enhanced Ultra-Thin Film Nanocrystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Device Architectures
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-23)Semi-transparent photovoltaics (STPV) is an important component in building integrated PV (BIPV), which is a rapidly growing PV sector. Thin film based transparent solar panels have the strongest potential for window and ... -
Enhancing System Reliability Utilizing Private Electric Vehicle Parking Lots Accounting for the Uncertainties of Renewables
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-19)Integration of renewable energy sources into electric grids comes with significant challenges. The produced energy from renewable sources such as wind and solar is intermittent, non-dispatchable and uncertain. The uncertainty ... -
Enhancing the Modeling and Efficiency of Photovoltaic Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-02)Solar energy is a strong contender among the sustainable alternatives that offer practical potential for replacing increasingly depleted fossil fuels and supplying the world’s growing energy demands. However, despite its ... -
Enhancing the performance of transparent electrodes through the design of new silver nanostructures
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-07)Transparent electrodes are a necessary component in a number of devices such as solar cells, flat panel displays, touch screens and light emitting diodes. The most commonly used transparent conductor, indium tin oxide ...