December 2014

PSO-ANN’s based suspended sediment concentration in Ksob basin, Algeria

Suspended sediment concentration estimation has a major influence on river basin planning and management. Prediction of such parameter with artificial neural network (ANN) has shown its performance, because of this, Back Propagation Neural Network model trained with particle swarm optimization (PSO) is used to forecast the daily sediment concentration for Ksob river, Tebessa using 22 years data set from Morsott gauging...

Author(s): Baazi Houria, Kalla Mahdi and Tebbi Fatima Zohra

December 2014

Relocation of source of sporadic production using genetic algorithm in distribution network

Today, due to the development of distribution systems and increase of demand and load, the use of the source of scattered production has developed. The establishment of the installation place and the size of the source of scattered production decrease network loss, lead to best action of network as well as the recovery of the voltage profile. In this article, we use the genetic algorithm for relocating and finding the...

Author(s): Shirin Farhadi and Reza Dashti

December 2014

Geothermal Energy

The term Geothermal originates from two Greek words 'GEO' and 'THERM'. The Greek word ‘geo’ means the earth whilst their word for ‘therm’ means heat from the earth. Geothermal energy is energy derived from the heat of the earth. The earth’s centre is a distance of approximately 4000 miles and is so hot that it is molten. Temperatures are understood to be at least 5000°C....

Author(s): Askari Mohammad Bagher, Mirzaei Vahid and Mirhabibi Mohsen