Incorporating indirect costs into energy system optimization models: Application to the Dutch national program Regional Energy Strategies

Energy system optimization models are widely used to aid long-term investment decision-making for energy systems. From a socio-technical system viewpoint, existing models focus on the cost modeling of the technical subsystem, while the indirect costs of the social subsystem are not often modeled. This paper incorporates indirect costs into such...

Modeling the decentralized energy investment and operation in the prosumer era: a systematic review

This paper reviews the literature on the modeling approaches on decentralized energy investment and operation in the prosumer era. The study has several contributions. Firstly, it adds investment models into the review which have not been previously reviewed for decentralized energy modeling. Secondly, a modeling framework consisting of four...

Analysis of the continuum surface force method

In the two-phase ?ow models developed in the Scienti?c Computing group of the Delft Institute for Applied Mathematics (DIAM) the strict application of the continuum surface force method was identi?ed as one of the causes for an observed discrepancy between the experimentally observed and theoretically predicted rise speed of a single gas bubble....

Shear banding in entangled polymers in the micron scale gap: A confocal-rheoscopic study

Recent shear experiments in well-entangled polymer solutions demonstrated that interfacial wall slip is the only source of shear rate loss and there is no evidence of shear banding in the micron scale gap. In this work, we experimentally elucidate how molecular parameters such as slip length, b, influence shear inhomogeneity of entangled...

Cloud droplet activation of mixed organic-sulfate particles produced by the photooxidation of isoprene

The cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) properties of ammonium sulfate particles mixed with organic material condensed during the hydroxyl-radical-initiated photooxidation of isoprene (C5H8) were investigated in the continuous-flow Harvard Environmental Chamber. CCN activation curves were measured for organic particle mass concentrations of 0.5 to...