Argonne National Laboratory fundamental and applied Science Achievements: Award for $1.9 million for hydropower study

New life has been pumped into the study and modeling of hydropower storage plants, thanks to a new $1.9 million Department of Energy grant awarded to a project led by Argonne National Laboratory.     more...

Argonne National Laboratory Fundamental and Applied Science Achievements: Physicist Fenter wins Warren Award for X-ray diffraction studies

Liquid-solid interfaces are some of the most difficult to characterize, but they can also be the most important.     more...

Applied Science Factor at MIT: fluids of different viscosity to create “viscous fingers”

Mixing fluids in small spaces is a big problem in many industries where introducing one fluid can help extract another, such as pumping water underground to release oil trapped in porous rock     more...

The morning of the molecular hydro-power engineering

Subsequent development of classic macroscopic hydropower engineering is broken by small quantity of the unused hydrological resources and negative influencing of the hydroelectric power stations on an environment     more...

Le Malade imaginaire: water and wind give new life to old hydropower technology

The challenges of hydropower engineering. River flows and wind are considered as the oldest renewable energy sources that were used by people for implementation of certain mechanical works, beginning from the water-supply of settlements, irrigation of agricultural lands, grinding of corn and concluding by putting into motion of industrial machines     more...

Electricity from Seashore Sand: Capillary Pumped Electrokinetic Power Plant is able producing many hundreds MW

Complete electricity dependence of mankind requires building of new power plants, in particular, renewable power capacities, including large hydro power stations, solar plants, wind farm, biofuels, tidal, wave power, geothermal     more...

New life for old hydropower technologies

The US Department of Energy in its April 2009 Funding Opportunity Announcement declared new research areas eligible for receipt of grants from the $40 million appropriated by Congress to investigate advanced water power energy generation technologies.     more...

River damless HPS with the submerged hydro-turbines

One of the possible ways of raising the use of hydrotechnical resources - the building of hydroelectric damless power stations with the submerged hydro-turbines near existing hydrotechnical settings.     more...

Molecular hydrodynamic system for hydroaccumulation and electric power production

The Ukrainian researchers of Nizhyn Labs of Scanning Devices (NLSD), directed by Vasil Sidorov, candidate of technical sciences in electrical and optical engineering, are working on development of new molecular methods and systems for water transport, hydroaccumulation and electrical power production using the forces of molecular interaction in the interface layer of liquid     more...

Magnet-hydrodynamic generators

The team of Ukrainian researchers of Nizhyn Labs of Scanning Devices (NLSD) managed by Vasil Sidorov, electrical and optical engineer and candidate of technical sciences, is working on development of new molecular methods and systems for direct receipt of electrical energy from moving water using magnetic hydrodynamic phenomena     more...