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Mahesh Edirisinghe and Uruvitiya Gamage Dilaj Maduranga
The reported lightning accidents that are available in the DesInventar database?which consist of 549 deaths, 498 injured people, 39 destroyed houses, and 741 damaged houses?were analyzed in terms of their geographical and temporal variation. The average ...
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Junmin Mou, Xuefei Jia, Pengfei Chen and Linying Chen
The operation of offshore wind farms is characterized by a complicated operational environment, long project cycle, and complex vessel traffic, which lead to safety hazards. To identify the key factors affecting the operational safety of offshore wind fa...
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Theodoros Katopodis and Athanasios Sfetsos
Climate change already has far-reaching impacts on the oil industry, putting the operation, reliability, and growth of the sector at risk. Oil infrastructure has multi-decadal lifetime projections; thus, climate change and extreme weather events such as ...
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Ednardo Rodrigues, Ricardo S. T. Pontes, João Bandeira and Victor P. B. Aguiar
HVDC systems are becoming more common worldwide, specially in Brazil, since the adoption of such system for Itaipu’s hydroelectric complex in the 1980’s. Today, the country has the Xingu-Estreito bipole, with length of 2375 km. This system cr...
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Muditha Karunarathna, Wasantha Athukorala
Pág. 37 - 59
Sri Lanka has experienced a variety of natural disasters that have had a disastrous impact on human wellbeing as well as economic welfare of the country. Available data shows that after 1970s, number of both intensive and extensive disasters have been in...
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Olga Susana Suárez,Alejandro Montí Amor
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La descarga eléctrica atmosférica es uno de los fenómenos naturales que causa más daños en la Isla de Cuba ya sea en los sistemas eléctricos y de comunicaciones así como en las instalaciones industriales. En el trabajo sereporta un sistema automatizado p...
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Petar Sarajcev and Ranko Goic
This paper elaborates on several important outstanding issues in the state-of-art of overvoltage protection selection for modern wind farms. The lack of experience with this still-new technology, together with the inherent complexity of wind farm electri...
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Fernando Castedo-Dorado,José Ramón Rodríguez-Pérez,José Luis Marcos-Menéndez,Mª Flor Álvarez-Taboada
Pág. 95 - 107
Spatial relationships between lightning-induced forest fires and topography, vegetation, climate and lightning characteristics were analyzed in the province of León (NW Spain). The study was based on reported lightning-induced forest fires in the period ...
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A. GALLEGO,A. HOSPIDO,M. T. MOREIRA,G. FEIJOO
This study is the second part of a series where NH3 and NOx emission inventories for Galicia (NW Spain), a region with a great risk of eutrophication, have been developed. The principal sources of NOx emissions in Galicia and their associated uncertaint...
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