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Status of EU DEMO heat transport and power conversion systems
2018
Abstract DEMO in Europe is considered to be the nearest-term reactor design to follow ITER and capable of demonstrating production of electricity, operating with a closed fuel-cycle and to be a facilitating machine between ITER and a commercial reactor. The aim of this paper is to show the design progress of the complex system’s “chain” devoted to the extraction of the plasma generated pulsed thermal power and its conversion into electricity delivered to the grid, including the Primary Heat Transport System (PHTS), the Power Conversion System (PCS) and the Intermediate Heat Transport System (IHTS) – provided by an Energy Storage System (ESS) – in between PHTS and PCS, which is introduced fo…
Assessment of Energy and Economic Effectiveness of Photovoltaic Systems Operating in a Dense Urban Context
2013
A methodology that permits testing the level of integration of the photovoltaic technology in urban areas is presented. The percentage of coverage of the electricity demand of grid-connected photovoltaic systems installed on the roofs of buildings were investigated in a district of the city of Palermo (Sicily). After classifying roofs according to their shape, orientation and pitch by means of satellite images provided by Google Earth, the ratio of the productivity of the PV systems and the consumption of electricity of the households was analysed. The results of the energy assessment have been screened considering the economic feasibility of grid-connected photovoltaic systems: the energy …
Helios and Aeolus
2012
In summer it’s always hot in the Big Apple, but the summer of 2003 had been especially sweltering. Temperatures had been around 35oC during all the month, with humidity approaching one hundred percent. The higher the temperature, the lower the New Yorkers’ thermostats, up to the point where you needed a sweater at the office, while outside delivery men, mail carriers and peddlers had to suffer the heat, together with the tourists brave enough to venture through the smoldering avenues.
Research and Projects for the Recovery of the “Tifeo” Power Station in Augusta
2015
The buildings of the Tifeo Augusta Power Station (SR) significantly tell us, even today, the history of the Sicilian industrial dream at the end of the Fifties. However, with the passing of time, it revealed the underlying contradictions still present today in Augusta together with polluting and oppressive petrochemical plants built during those times. Regardless of any recovery theory about the Augusta Power Station, it is clear that an open and multidisciplinary look cannot be ignored, locating the power station in the actual and future setting of the vastest territory in which it is sited. The past, the present and, of course, the future of the Augusta area are tightly connected to the s…
La centrale Tifeo di Augusta: natura dialettica e progetti per un recupero possibile
2019
Il recupero della centrale termoelettrica Tifeo di Augusta, progettata da Giuseppe Samonà alla fine degli anni ‘50, oggi può costituire un significativo tassello nel percorso di riqualificazione dell’intera area della baia di Augusta, ponendosi come attivatore puntuale di possibili processi di ben più ampia dimensione. Ponendosi di fronte all’esigenza culturale di segnalare i gravi rischi per la sopravvivenza di questo importante complesso architettonico, l’esperienza di ricerca condotta nell’ambito del Dottorato in Progettazione Architettonica sul tema generale del restauro dell’architettura del ‘Moderno’, ha consentito di perimetrare con chiarezza le principali questioni teoriche e discip…