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Net electricity production by fuel (2006-2030)
Dane BadawczeThis dataset presents the current structure of electricity sources and a forecast of the share of individual fuels in electricity production in Poland until 2030. First of all, it should be noted the constantly growing supply of electricity. It is related to the continuous economic development, increasing consumption both by enterprises and households.
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Utilization of rapeseed pellet from fatty acid methyl esters production as an energy source
PublikacjaRapeseed pellet – crushed seed residue from oil extraction is a by-product of fatty acid methyl esters production process. As other types of biomass, it can either be burned directly in furnaces or processed to increase its energetic value. Biomass is renewable, abundant and has domestic usage; the sources of biomass can help the world reduce its dependence on petroleum products, fossil coal and natural gas. Energetically effective...
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Empirical research on household economic behaviour and well-being
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Selection of AHI + SC Hybrid Storage Based on Mathematical Models and Load Variation Characteristics
PublikacjaThe article deals with the design of a hybrid storage consisting of Aqueous Hybrid Ion battery (AHI) and supercapacitor (SC) modules. The selection of components is based on the knowledge of the load profile of the storage and the AHI battery and supercapacitor models. The paper presents the method of selecting components of the storage made of AHI batteries and supercapacitor modules The article includes an example of the hybrid...
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Pluralist View on Inequality from Luxemburg Income Study (LIS)
PublikacjaThe authors start by reviewing the history of the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), originating from an interdisciplinary project involving economists, sociologists, and political scientists, centered on the cross-country perspective in inequality analysis. They then conduct a meta-analysis of the papers produced by scholars who have taken advantage of the data availability, showing how the theme of income/wealth inequality has been...
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Decontaminating Arbitrary Graphs by Mobile Agents: a Survey
PublikacjaA team of mobile agents starting from homebases need to visit and clean all nodes of the network. The goal is to find a strategy, which would be optimal in the sense of the number of needed entities, the number of moves performed by them or the completion time of the strategy. Currently, the field of distributed graph searching by a team of mobile agents is rapidly expanding and many new approaches and models are being presented...
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On trees with equal domination and total outer-independent domination numbers
PublikacjaFor a graph G=(V,E), a subset D subseteq V(G) is a dominating set if every vertex of V(G)D has a neighbor in D, while it is a total outer-independent dominating set if every vertex of G has a neighbor in D, and the set V(G)D is independent. The domination (total outer-independent domination, respectively) number of G is the minimum cardinality of a dominating (total outer-independent dominating, respectively) set of G. We characterize...
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Double bondage in graphs
PublikacjaA vertex of a graph is said to dominate itself and all of its neighbors. A double dominating set of a graph G=(V,E) is a set D of vertices of G such that every vertex of G is dominated by at least two vertices of D. The double domination number of a graph G, denoted by gamma_d(G), is the minimum cardinality of a double dominating set of G. The double bondage number of G, denoted by b_d(G), is the minimum cardinality among all sets...
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Model biznesu przedsiębiorstwa wodociągowego
PublikacjaW artykule przedstawiono badania nad wartościami modelu biznesu przedsiębiorstw wodociągowych w Polsce oraz przeprowadzono dyskusję nad ich postrzeganiem przez same przedsiębiorstwa. Wartości te w wielu aspektach postrzegane są w zbliżony sposób przez klientów. O ile jednak przedsiębiorstwa, jako istotne wartości postrzegały elementy związa-ne ze sprawnością i ciągłością procesu o tyle klienci kładli nacisk na sferę społeczną doty-czącą...
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Ukrainian Market of Electrical Energy: Reforming, Financing, Innovative Investment, Efficiency Analysis, and Audit
PublikacjaThe aim of this research is to determine the influence of electrical energy market regulation reform in Ukraine on the competitive environment, the reproduction processes of financial and innovative support, and the energy efficiency of the national economy. The authors have put forward and verified the hypothesis that, under conditions of institutional maturity of the Ukrainian electrical energy market, its liberalization and...
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RAPESEED PELLET - A BYPRODUCT OF BIODIESEL PRODUCTION - AS AN EXCELLENT RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE
PublikacjaVegetable oils are renewable feedstock currently being used for production of biofuels from sustainable biomass resources. The existing technology for producing diesel fuel from plant oils, such as rapeseed, soybean, canola and palm oil are largely centered on transesterification of oils with methanol to produce fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) or biodiesel. Rapeseed pellet - crushed seed residue from oil extraction is a byproduct...
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Preliminary typology and contextual analysis of Roman and late antique cooking wares from the Roman rural settlement at Podšilo bay on the island of Rab (north–eastern Adriatic, Croatia)
PublikacjaThe paper presents a preliminary typology of coarse cooking ware from the Roman/late antique layers of the rural settlement at Podšilo bay on the island of Rab. The vessels have been associated with several basic shapes and divided by types, while fabrics have been described macroscopically. Analogies and a contextual analysis were used to propose dating and to assess provenience for well-known ware classes or to define areas...
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Proces zmiany sprzedawcy energii elektrycznej w Polsce dla odbiorcy w gospodarstwie domowym
PublikacjaW publikacji przedstawiono proces zmiany sprzedawcy energii elektrycznej dla odbiorcy w gospodarstwie domowym, prowadzony w detalicznym segmencie rynku energii. Szczególny nacisk położono na proces bazujący na generalnej umowie dystrybucji dla usługi kompleksowej. Odniesiono się do wszystkich, istotnych regulacji mających zastosowanie do poruszanych kwestii, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem zapisów instrukcji ruchu i eksploatacji...
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ZRÓŻNICOWANIE KORZYŚCI EKONOMICZNYCH Z ZAANGAŻOWANIA CZYNNIKA PRACY
PublikacjaZróżnicowane ujęcie znaczenia pracy stwarza możliwości szerokiego spojrzenia na korzyści jakie daje jej posiadanie, wykorzystanie. Korzyści indywidualne mogą wynikać z osiągania przez pracobiorców dochodów z tytułu świadczenia pracy, zaspakajania swoich potrzeb i możliwości samorealizacji czy rozwoju. Natomiast zaangażowanie zasobów pracy przez przedsiębiorstwa może generować zyski i sprzyjać ich dalszemu rozwojowi. Praca wykorzystana...
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Implementing artificial intelligence in forecasting the risk of personal bankruptcies in Poland and Taiwan
PublikacjaResearch background: The global financial crisis from 2007 to 2012, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the current war in Ukraine have dramatically increased the risk of consumer bankruptcies worldwide. All three crises negatively impact the financial situation of households due to increased interest rates, inflation rates, volatile exchange rates, and other significant macroeconomic factors. Financial difficulties may arise when the...
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Początek Gdyńskiego Systemu Wodociągowego Rozbudowa układu wodociągowego na Kępie Oksywskiej w latach 1933 - 1939. Część III.
PublikacjaBudowa sieci osiedlowej na terenie „Nowego Oksywia”. Przyłączenie wodociągu Marynarki Wojennej do budowanego układu na Kępie Oksywskiej. Komplikacje przebiegu procesu budowy rurociągu do Babiego Dołu. Uzbrojenie terenu osiedla "Paged". Przekształcenie na terenie Oksywia struktury sieci rozgałęzieniowej w pierścieniową. Konsolidacja układu na Kępie Oksywskiej z wodociągiem grupowym Wielkiej Gdyni. Realizacja zarządzenia o przymusie...
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Measurement of the temperature change of PVCP tissue phantom illuminated by dermatological laser 1.series
Dane BadawczeApplication of laboratory set-up for characterization of thermal properties of optical tissue phantoms during laser irradiation is presented. The produced system utilizes a thermographic camera VIGOcam v50 and a dermatological laser system with a 975 nm diode laser module. The set-up was used to perform measurements of the temporal and spatial temperature...
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Digital technologies and women's empowerment – casting the bridges
PublikacjaThis work briefly discusses the nexuses between digital technology development and adoption across societies, and its potential impact on overall welfare through women’s economic empowerment. In the first section it sets out the context and background. Next, Section 2 demonstrates the state of access to and the use of digital technologies across the world. Section 3 intends to trace the causal links and channels of digital technologies'...
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Photovoltaic demonstration set up
PublikacjaThe use of photovoltaics is growing rapidly in the industry as well as households. Therefore, educating the public will help them understand solar cell technology, which is becoming more common in everyday life. This paper proposes a demonstrational set-up of photovoltaic panel for the purpose of science education. It was used in numerous outreach activities such as science fairs. Moreover, it proved to be a great tool for education...
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Low voltage photovoltaic power system
PublikacjaThe use of photovoltaics is growing rapidly in the industry as well as households. Therefore, educating the public will help them understand solar cell technology, which is becoming more common in everyday life. This paper proposes a demonstrational set-up of photovoltaic panel for the purpose of science education. It was used in numerous outreach activities such as science fairs. Moreover, it proved to be a great tool for education...
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A ship domain-based model of collision risk for near-miss detection and Collision Alert Systems
PublikacjaThe paper presents a new model of ship collision risk, which utilises a ship domain concept and the related domain-based collision risk parameters. An encounter is here described by five variables representing: degree of domain violation (DDV), relative speed of the two vessels, combination of the vessels’ courses, arena violations and encounter complexity. As for the first three variables, their values can be directly computed...
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Measurement of the temporal and spatial temperature distribution on the surface of PVCP tissue phantom illuminated by laser.
Dane BadawczeApplication of laboratory set-up for characterisation of thermal properties of optical tissue phantoms during laser irradiation is presented. The produced system utilizes thermographic camera VIGOcam v50 and dermatological laser system with a 975 nm diode laser module. The set-up was used to perform measurements of the temporal and spatial temperature...
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Defending against Fake VIP in Scant-Transparency Information Systems with QoS Differentiation
PublikacjaIn client-server information systems with quality of service (QoS) differentiation, Client may deplete Server’s resources by demanding unduly high QoS level. Such QoS abuse has eluded systematic treatment; known defenses using Client authorization, payments, or service request inspection prior to QoS assignment, are heuristic and environment-specific. We offer a game-theoretic approach on the premise that a service request is occasionally...
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DETECTION OF BREATHING AND HEART RATE USING AN ECG SIGNAL MEASURED WHILE BATHING IN THE BATHTUB
PublikacjaNowadays a new area of interest is gaining importance - it is home biomedical examination. Intelligent home can be supported by set of devices for habitants observation. It can be particularly useful for elders or person with some health risks but living alone. One of critical locations within the house is bathroom. One of utilities in the bathroom is a bathtub which is sometimes preferred over shower. There are reports of problems...
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Domestic ORC micro-CHP combined with a commercial gas boiler
PublikacjaThe chapter presents the results of experimental studies conducted during the launch of the first in Poland demonstration prototype of the micro ORC coupled to a domestic gas boiler. The accomplished studies indicated the possibility for the ORC module to work with such boiler (autonomous source of heat) with a prototype single-stage axial micro turbine as the expansion machine. Confirmation of that fact has been delineated in...
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Analysis of pesticide residues in fruits and vegetables using QuEChERS sample preparation method and gas chromatography with electron capture detection
PublikacjaPesticides are a numerous and diverse group of chemical compounds. They are some of the most toxic substances contaminating the environment, which are used to eliminate pests in agriculture and the household. Despite considerable progress in the development of methods for preparing samples for analysis and for the final determination of analytes, the analysis of pesticides in biological samples continues to present challenges to...
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The PolarScreen™ Estrogen Receptor Competitor Assays for determination of estradiol equivalent concentrations (EEQs) in sewage and drinking water samples.
Dane BadawczeMunicipal waste waters are one of the main sources of estrogenic compounds in aquatic environments. Feminization of fish downstream of Waste Water Treatment Plants (WWTPs) discharges has been observed worldwide. Some estrogenic chemicals, particularly steroid estrogens, are known to cause disruption of the endocrine system of fishes and abnormalities...
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OCENA DOBROSTANU W KRAJACH OECD Z WYKORZYSTANIEM DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS
PublikacjaDobrostan (well-being) jest pojęciem wieloaspektowym obejmującym czynniki wpływające na satysfakcję z życia. Celem artykułu jest ocena dobrostanu społeczeństw krajów OECD w 2013 roku, na podstawie danych z bazy OECD Regional Well-Being. Uwzględniono 9 obszarów: dochody gospodarstw domowych, miejsce pracy, warunki zamieszkania, poziom wykształcenia, zdrowie, środowisko, bezpieczeństwo, zaangażowanie obywatelskie i dostęp do usług....
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Speciation of Iron in the Aquatic Environment
PublikacjaIron is one of the basic metals occurring in the aquatic environment and it is considered a macroelement with regard to live organisms. This metal has a broad range of applications that, together with factors conditioning its chemical transitions, results in the occurrence of many iron species in water. Depending on water and land development type, as well as the use of water for household and industrial purposes, iron may be found...
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Pre-feasibility study for treatment wetland application for wastewater treatment in dispersed development
PublikacjaThe aim of the paper is to present the conducted analyses of pre-feasibility study of different approaches for wastewater management in a settlement of 180 persons. In the assessment both technical and economic aspects were analyzed. The costs were calculated for three different and, at the same time, most popular as well as possible technical solutions like: (i) construction of local wastewater treatment plant with gravitational...
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Thermal performance of a prototype plate heat exchanger with minichannels under boiling conditions
PublikacjaTo solve the problem and to meet the requirements of customers in the field of high heat fluxes transfer in compact units, a new design of plate heat exchanger with minichannels (minichannels PHE) was proposed. The aim was to construct a compact heat exchanger of high effectiveness for the purpose of household cogeneration ORC system. In this paper the experimental analysis of an assembled prototype of such compact heat exchanger...
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Global and regional economic inequality: Methods of measurement and evidences
PublikacjaThe lack of countries’ statistical income data, comparable across countries and years, seems to be the main reason of controversial conjectures concerning global inequality and its evolution over time. In the databases, which purport to collect income data on a worldwide scale, only some summary statistics (quantile income shares, means, Gini indices) are presented. Therefore, the development of efficient methods of extracting...
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Storing thermal energy from solar collectors for the needs of a detached house
PublikacjaThis work evaluates the possibility of meeting a single familu household's need for hot water and heat year round, using solar collectors as the sole energy sourse. The main flaw of energetic systems based on solar energy is that the energy supply is usually insufficient in winter, when it is most needed. This work is going to show thatm for a house surface of 150 m2 and base dimension of 10x10m, it is possible to supply sufficient...
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30 years of treatment wetland application in poland- progress and reserch
PublikacjaThe experiences with design and operation of constructed wetlands in the Pommerania region during last 30 years followed by carried out investigations of treatment processes lead to the following conclusions:First applications of constructed wetlands for biological sewage treatment were made in 1984-92. The later implementations of multi-stage constructed wetlands in the individual household and local scale enable wastewater treatment...
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The Influence of Limiters UEL and OEL (The power angle, stator's current and excitation current) ot the possibility of voltage collapse development
PublikacjaVoltage stability has been a major concern for power system utilities because of event of voltage collapses in the recent past. Sometimes, power system events have shown the need for generators to operate in the overexcited and underexcited region to support stable operation. Modern excitation systems include devices for controlling or limiting machine terminal voltage (overvoltage limiters), volts per hertz ratio (V/Hz limiters),...
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The dynamics of the total output of the fishery sector: The case of Indonesia
PublikacjaThe purpose of this study is to analyze the dynamics of the total output of the Indonesian fishery industry when the changes of the final demand occur. This study employs a demand-pull Input-Output (IO) quantity model, one of the calculation tools in the IO analysis, as an analysis instrument. Two conditions are noticed in calculation and analysis parts, namely (1) “whole sector change”, and (2) “pure change”. An initial period...
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Nitrogen and phosphorus compounds in coastal aquifers in Puck municipality area (northern Poland)
Publikacja1. Groundwater study shows local variations in chemical composition of selected aquifers caused by human impact The diversity is mainly manifested in • time variation of groundwater chemical composition of all analyzed parameters especially in shallow aquifers (Q1) • relationship between t he ground water chemical composition and depth of the aquifer where an inverse concentration distribution occurs higher concentrations are observed...
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FORECASTING EXCHANGE RATES IN THE PROCESS OF THE ASSESSMENT OF CONSUMER RISK BANKRUPTCY IN CENTRAL EUROPE
PublikacjaThis paper focuses on the issue of forecasting the fluctuation of exchange rates as part of the early warning system against the risk of consumer bankruptcy. The author identified the main macroeconomic factors affecting the level of bankruptcies for households in Poland. The fluctuation of exchange rates, which directly affects the deterioration of the economic situation of borrowers who have opened credit accounts in a foreign...
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Jakub Golik dr
OsobyJakub Golik pracuje obecnie jako Asystent w grupie pracowników badawczo-dydaktycznych Wydziału Zarządzania i Ekonomii Politechniki Gdańskiej w Katedrze Przedsiębiorczości. Jakub prowadzi badania w zakresie modeli maksymalizujących użyteczność w ekonomii; przedsiębiorczości; zagadnienia wyboru kariery oraz teorii decyzji. W swoich badaniach używa głównie metod ilościowych i eksperymentalnych, takich jak Analiza Łączna (Conjoint...
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Miniaturized passive emission test chamber for in-situ measurement of emissions of organic compounds
PublikacjaThe results of many different studies have demonstrated unequivocally that the quality of indoor air is often much worse than that of atmospheric air (outdoor). One of the main groups of chemical compounds present in indoor air, with proven harmfulness to health,are volatile organic compounds (VOCs). VOCs present indoor comprise a wide variety of hydrocarbons and hydrocarbons derivatives including aliphatic, aromatics, alkylbenzens,...
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Jamming and jamming mitigation for selected 5G military scenarios
PublikacjaThis paper presents jamming and jamming mitigation techniques, which can be used in relation to emerging military systems based on fifth-generation (5G) technology. Nowadays, 5G technology provides incremental improvements over Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks resulting in the enhancement of civilian communications. Considering enormous possible applications of this new technology, it is feasible to use them in military utilities....
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Deep Eutectic Solvents and Their Uses for Air Purification
PublikacjaChemical compounds released into the air by the activities of industrial plants and emitted from many other sources, including in households (paints, waxes, cosmetics, disinfectants, plastic (PVC) flooring), may affect the environment and human health. Thus, air purification is an important issue in the context of caring for the condition of the environment. Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) as liquids with environmentally friendly...
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Indoor air quality of everyday use spaces dedicated to specific purposes—a review
PublikacjaAccording to literature data, some of the main factors which significantly affect the quality of the indoor environment in residential households or apartments are human activities such as cooking, smoking, cleaning, and indoor exercising. The paper presents a literature overview related to air quality in everyday use spaces dedicated to specific purposes which are integral parts of residential buildings, such as kitchens, basements,...
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Camera Orientation-Independent Parking Events Detection
PublikacjaThe paper describes the method for detecting precise position and time of vehicles parking in a parking lot. This task is trivial in case of favorable camera orientation but gets much more complex when an angle between the camera viewing axis and the ground is small. The method utilizes background subtraction and object tracking algorithms for detecting moving objects in a video stream. Objects are classified into vehicles and...
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Kompetencje członków zespołu wirtualnego
PublikacjaArtykuł dotyczy problematyki wirtualnej współpracy, która wymaga od osób tworzących zespół oraz od lidera zespołu szczególnych kompetencji. Skoncentrowano się na wiedzy, cechach i umiejętnościach członków zespołu wirtualnego, które są konieczne, by efektywnie realizowali oni założone cele, kreując jednocześnie relacje oparte na wzajemnym zaufaniu. Artykuł zawiera przegląd literatury dotyczącej kompetencji członków zespołu wirtualnego...
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Improvements and Spatial Dependencies in Energy Transition Measures
PublikacjaThis article aims to improve one of the newest energy transition measures—the WorldEconomic Forum WEF Energy Transition Index (ETI) and find its driving forces. This paper proposesa new approach to correct the ETI structure, i.e., sensitivity analysis, which allows assessing theaccuracy of variable weights. Moreover, the novelty of the paper is the use the spatial error modelsto estimate determinants of the energy transition on...
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Analytical procedures for the determination of surfactants in environmental samples
PublikacjaBecause of their specific physical and chemical properties (amphiphilicity, solubility in polar and nonpolar liquids, ability to form micelles, adsorption at phase boundaries, low toxicity) surfactants (surface-active compounds) are widely applied in industry and in the household. As their applications are on a very large scale, it has become necessary to acquire a more detailed understanding of their environmental fate.In the...
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Occurrence of Surface Active Agents in the Environment
PublikacjaDue to the specific structure of surfactants molecules they are applied in different areas of human activity (industry, household). After using and discharging from wastewater treatment plants as effluent stream, surface active agents (SAAs) are emitted to various elements of the environment (atmosphere, waters, and solid phases), where they can undergo numerous physic-chemical processes (e.g., sorption, degradation) and freely...
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Steam turbines governors in power system restoration process
PublikacjaThe paper discusses problems related to electric power system restoration process. The turbine controller operating mode influence in small subsystem is analyzed. There are considered abilities, advantages and drawbacks of the controller's two operating modes: power control and speed (frequen-cy) control, to rebuild electric power system from a single generating unit to a few parallel running generators.
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Intelligent PI controller and its application to dissolved oxygen tracking problem
PublikacjaThe paper addresses design, calibration, implementation and simulation of the intelligent PI controller used for dissolved oxygen (DO) tracking in wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). The calibration process presented in this paper utilizes both engineering and scientific methods. Verification of the control system design method was obtained via simulation experiments.