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Though food scarcity realizing in many places in the world, food waste generation still shows its increasing trend because of cultural and habitual changes, as well as technological characteristics. However, food waste comprises a large amount of organic material and biodegradable components, showing that it could be a potential source for producing hydrogen (H 2) aiming to satisfy the key goals of diversifying the energy supply and reducing environmental pollution. Indeed, this research addresses the potential possibilities to use food waste for the production of H 2 by using a water gasification reactor. In this work, food waste was gasified by varying the operating parameters in the H 2 production process and the addition of additives. In this investigation, different additives such as HCl, NaCl, and NaHCO 3 were considered to investigate at different reactor temperatures like 300, 350, and 400 °C for different reaction durations like 30, 45, and 60 min. The results revealed that the best average yields of CH 4 , H 2 , CO 2 , CO, and total gas were obtained as 1.5, 12.9, 0.2, 0.1, and 13.9 mol/kg, respectively, when the reaction employed with NaHCO 3 additive than the other cases (with HCl, NaCl additives and no additive cases). The H 2 production efficiency was estimated as 43%, 34%, 27%, and 30% when the use of NaHCO 3 , NaCl, HCl, and no additives. Hence, it is found that the NaHCO 3 catalyst considerably enhances the gasification process through the improvement of the water-gas shift reaction, and thereby H 2 production increases. [Display omitted] • Hydrogen Production from food waste possibilities were experimentally analyzed. • HCl, NaCl, and NaHCO 3 Alkaline metals additives tested in H 2 production. • Analyzed influence of reaction temperature and reaction duration in H 2 production. • NaHCO 3 additive with food waste, improves the water-gas shifting reaction. • NaHCO 3 additive recorded 12.9 mol/kg H 2 production & production efficiency 43%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a very distinctive boost device with twin coupled-inductors and a voltage variety module. On the one hand, the primary windings of two coupled-inductors unit of measurement connected in parallel to share the input current and deate this ripple at the input. On the other hand, the projected device inherits the deserves of interleaved series-connected output capacitors for prime voltage gain, low output voltage ripple and low switch voltage stress. Moreover, the secondary sides of two coupled-inductors unit of measurement connected asynchronous to a regenerative device by a diode for extending the voltage gain and leveling the primary-parallel currents. In addition, the active switches unit of measurement turned on at zero-current and conjointly the reverse recovery disadvantage of diodes is relieved by low cost leak inductances of the coupled inductors. Besides, the energy of leak inductances is recycled. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lack of resources established in the present world is initiating everyone towards energy efficient technologies. Among all these resources, power is one which needs to be monitored and controlled as per the need since electricity consumption is increasing day-by day. In this project, we have described an effective implementation of an intelligent remote monitoring system for solar Photovoltaic (PV), Wind Energy Conversion System (WECS) and battery which are used in a greenhouse environment. The proposed system design can be installed in solar PV, WECS and battery in order to solve management problems, maintenance and shortens the mean time to repair. We have designed a smart remote monitoring system based on internet of thing for monitoring Solar PV, WECS and Battery. This system had incorporated remote monitoring for solar PV, WECS and battery through internet using host, network GPRS (Global Positioning Radio Service), embedded system gateway and Arduino. The result of our demonstration shows that the system can monitor store and manipulate data from solar PV, WECS and battery. Thus, the remote monitoring functions are realized in real-time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]