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Landslide analysis in the Iato river basin (north-western Sicily, Italy)

2006

Settore GEO/04 - Geografia Fisica E GeomorfologiaLandlside Hazard Model Topographic Attributes Iato River Basin Sicily ItalySettore GEO/05 - Geologia Applicata
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Palermo si cura. Pratiche culturali di mutuo soccorso come risposta alle fragilità della città (post)pandemica

2023

In un quadro di riferimento in cui la crisi è globalizzata ma diseguale e in mancanza di un sistema di welfare capace di rispondere alle urgenze dei contesti e dei gruppi sociali più marginalizzati, una risposta ai nuovi bisogni sociali ed individuali è stata offerta da reti solidali e da pratiche di mobilitazione dal basso che svolgono un ruolo di agency territoriale, spesso indipendentemente o in assenza di Istituzioni. Nel contesto palermitano un impegno agito da una pluralità di soggetti culturali già attivi sul territorio, riuniti in un’assemblea pubblica (Palermo si cura), durante il periodo del primo lockdown hanno dato vita ad azioni di mutuo soccorso per rispondere all’emergenza ec…

Settore ICAR/21 - UrbanisticaIn a framework in which the crisis is globalized but unequal and in the absence of a welfare system capable of responding to the urgencies of the most marginalized contexts and social groups a response to the new social and individual needs has been offered by networks of solidarity and from bottom-up mobilization practices that play a role of territorial agency often independently or in the absence of institutions. In the Palermo context a commitment made by a plurality of cultural subjects already active in the area gathered in a public assembly (Palermo si cura) during the period of the first lockdown gave rise to mutual aid actions to respond to the economic emergency and social and offer a proposal to cure the fragility of the city based not on charity but on the claim of a political dimension of collective action. Starting from the analysis of initiatives such as "Un sorriso per Ballarò" and "Abbiamo un (bi)sogno" the contribution analyzes the role the incidence and the fragility of these experiences in providing answers - often filling gaps - to a general interest and how these processes of value creation can hopefully contribute to the construction of local government policies capable of addressing emerging issues.
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An Integrated Environment for Dynamic Processes in distributed Image Analysis System

1998

Distributed systems, sharing same network, are composed by multiple high-performance microcomputers. To improve the performance of such system is necessary to distribute the occurred processes following a suitable approach. To do that, a set of parameters and two composed objects (Tablet and Bonnet: in brief, an extended task and an asynchronous worker respectively) have been defined to satisfy the distribution the tasks. These objects allow to arrange the distribution of processes and data, on the processors, in static and dynamic way. An high level interactive iconic environment, with a set of visual tools, has been developed to improve the management of the resource and to execute the ac…

Settore INF/01 - InformaticaDistributed Systems
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A methodology for assessing the impact of salinity gradient power generation in urban contexts

2018

Abstract The paper proposes a methodology to assess the potential impact of salinity gradient power technology in urban contexts. The idea to employ such energy source in urban contexts derives from the observation that, among the energy districts outputs, low-salinity treated wastewater can be used to produce electricity if a suitable source of high salinity feed (seawater of a salt-works) is also available. The methodology uses the HOMER software for assessing the district’s electric energy production, consumption and exchange with the main grid. Then, starting from the total gross surface and the number of inhabitants of the district, some possible realistic scenarios characterized by di…

Settore ING-IND/26 - Teoria Dello Sviluppo Dei Processi ChimiciRenewable Energy Sustainability and the Environmentbusiness.industry020209 energyGeography Planning and DevelopmentPhotovoltaic systemEnvironmental engineeringUrban densityTransportation02 engineering and technologyGridSettore ING-IND/33 - Sistemi Elettrici Per L'EnergiaSalinitySettore ING-IND/31 - Elettrotecnica0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringOsmotic powerEnvironmental scienceSeawaterElectricitybusinessEnergy sourceSalinity gradient power Urban energy hub Sustainable cities Distributed generation HOMERCivil and Structural EngineeringSustainable Cities and Society
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Smart grids: the next future of electrical distribution systems

2011

Currently, the design and operation criteria for electrical distribution networks are fastly changing due to some factors; among these, the progressive penetration of Distributed Generation(DG) is destined to cause deep changes in the existing networks, no longer considered as passive terminations of the whole electrical system. Moreover, the increasing application of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) will allow the implementation of the so called “smart grids”, determining new interesting scenarios. In the paper the problems and the potential benefits of DG, the possible new electrical distribution system models and the major research projects on smart grids are faced and report…

Settore ING-IND/33 - Sistemi Elettrici Per L'EnergiaDistributed generation smart gridsSettore ING-IND/32 - Convertitori Macchine E Azionamenti Elettrici
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DEVELOPMENT ANALYSIS OF SMART DISTRIBUTION GRIDS IN PRESENCE OF DISTRIBUTED GENERATION

The integration of distributed generation (DG) units in power distribution network has become increasingly attractive multi-faceted paradigm as economic and environmental factors drive new technologies to be more efficient and less polluting than their earlier counterparts. The installation of DGs impacts critically on the planning and operating characteristics of the distribution network. Type, location, number and capacity of DG are essential factors for studying the effect of DGs on the system behavior. Some possibilities to handle grid planning and operating issues are addressed in this thesis. Firstly, the effect of DG on the power losses of a distribution network is introduced and the…

Settore ING-IND/33 - Sistemi Elettrici Per L'EnergiaDistributed generationprotection systemssmart grid
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Financial Measures for Supporting Wind Power Systems in Europe: A Comparison between Green Tags and Feed’in Tariffs

2008

Distributed Generation demonstrates to be able to significantly influence the electric power system, bringing considerable benefits to the quality of service and improving the energetic efficiency of the distribution network. In particular, in the last few years, Distributed Generation from renewable energy sources is considerably increased thanks to the many support policies promoted worldwide with the aim of facing the environmental issue and the problem of the permanent rise of prices of the fossil energy. In this contest, after a brief review on the financing strategies carried out in Europe in the last decade for promoting the recourse to renewable energy, the paper presents a comparis…

Settore ING-IND/33 - Sistemi Elettrici Per L'EnergiaFeed-in Tariffs Green Tags Distributed Generation Wind Farms
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INVERTER-BASED DISTRIBUTED GENERATORS, MODELING AND CONTROL

In the last few years, electrical power generation is moving from a centralized generation towards distributed generation including on-site Renewable Energy Sources (RESs). In order to overcome RES related issues, as intermittent and fluctuating power, storage elements are included in the on-site generation system. The interaction between distributed generator (DG) units including RES, storage and front-end power converters should be carefully modeled in order to analyze the power system stability. An accurate modeling of DGs is required. In this thesis, a new modeling approach has been proposed for the inverter-based DGs based on the concept of electrostatic synchronous machines. Detailed …

Settore ING-IND/33 - Sistemi Elettrici Per L'EnergiaKeywords: Distributed Generators Voltage Source Inverters Electrostatic Synchronous Machines Microgrids Islanded microgrids nonlinear droop control minimum losses operation Optimal Power Flow.Distributed Generators Voltage Source Inverters Electrostatic Synchronous Machines Microgrids Islanded microgrids nonlinear droop control minimum losses operation Optimal Power Flow. [Keywords]
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Distributed Demand-Response Certification using Blockchain Technology

2021

Settore ING-IND/33 - Sistemi Elettrici Per L'EnergiaP2PSmart ContractBlockchainBlockchain energy services smart contract distributed demand response aggregation energy management energy marketSmart GridDistributed Demand-Response
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The quest for bandwidth estimation techniques for large-scale distributed systems

2010

In recent years the research community has developed many techniques to estimate the end-to-end available bandwidth of an Internet path. This important metric can be potentially exploited to optimize the performance of several distributed systems and, even, to improve the effectiveness of the congestion control mechanism of TCP. Thus, it has been suggested that some existing estimation techniques could be used for this purpose. However, existing tools were not designed for large-scale deployments and were mostly validated in controlled settings, considering only one measurement running at a time. In this paper, we argue that current tools, while offering good estimates when used alone, migh…

Settore ING-INF/03 - TelecomunicazioniComputer Networks and Communicationsbusiness.industryComputer scienceScale (chemistry)Distributed computingTestbedNetwork congestionHardware and ArchitectureMetric (mathematics)Path (graph theory)bandwidth estimationBandwidth (computing)Overhead (computing)The InternetbusinessSoftwareACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
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