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Energy Conversion, Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE) Technical Session 3

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anveeksh Koneru, University of Texas of the Permian Basin

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form of steam by findingthe percentage of initial mass 1234 Kg/s distributed along the system by calculating the values ofmass flow rates, y1 to y8. Additionally, the students were asked to find the Carnot efficiency,thermal efficiency, and representing all the states on P-v, T-v and T-s plots.Course grading scale and assessment HW's and presentations 40% Attendance 10% Midterms 20% Final Project 15% Final Exam 15%Innovative techniquesTowards the middle of this course, local engineers from the industry were invited to give a guesttalk related to energy

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Energy Conversion, Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Salvador A. Vargas, California State University, Bakersfield; Daniel Torres, California State University, Bakersfield; Alberto Cureg Cruz, California State University, Bakersfield

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member with the background in geology has been involvedin doing outreach for the project as well as configuring the technical specifications, while thesecond group member has been involved in building the software and contributing new softwarerelated ideas.III.C. Algorithms CNNs were used as early as the 1990’s to automatically detect handwriting on checks[12]. CNNs are an iteration of artificial neural networks also called “backpropagation neuralnetworks” [13]. CNNs use “convolutional layers” that apply matrices (filters) of different valuescalled “weights” onto an image using a convolution operation. It is speculated that earlier layersin the neural network can identify low-level features such as edge gradients. With every newlayer

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Energy Conversion, Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE) Technical Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University; Wendao LI; Adam Ma, Northeastern University; Kalsang Tsering

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much less of its energy into mechanical motion than electricity; the average energy expended for gasoline is 0.805 MJ, while the average energy expended for electricity is 0.279 MJ [4].Test 3 - Performance Our third test was concerning performance. We would've accelerated the go-kart from 0-20 mph (and determined speed based on the rpm of the axle, which would be measured by the Arduino RedBoard) using solely the gas engine, and then done the same for solely the electric motor, recording the time needed for each. The table below shows the standard acceleration of gas and electric cars obtained from research [5] [6]. Gas Acceleration Gas Acceleration Electric Acceleration Electric Acceleration Time (s

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Energy Conversion, Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ryan Thomas Flynn; Caleb Holdridge; Alexandra Murphy; Jacquelyn Autumn Carter; Sarah Schollenberger; Tooran Emami Ph.D., United States Coast Guard Academy

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Paper ID #39007Efficiency Analysis of a Hybrid Solar System DesignRyan Thomas FlynnCaleb HoldridgeAlexandra MurphyMs. Jacquelyn Autumn Carter Undergraduate electrical engineering student at the United States Coast Guard Academy.Sarah SchollenbergerProf. Tooran Emami Ph.D., United States Coast Guard Academy Tooran Emami is a tenured associate professor of Electrical Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computing at the U. S. Coast Guard Academy (USCGA). Her research interests are control and power systems, particularly Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) controller design, robust control, time delay

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Energy Conversion, Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE) Technical Session 4

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Teodora Rutar Shuman, Seattle University

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thermodynamics; Carnot Cycle; thermodynamic, overall, and isentropicefficiencies; effectiveness of heat exchangers; refrigeration and heat pump cycles, includingabsorption and cascade refrigeration, and other advanced cycles; air-conditioning processes ofhumid air; Reheat Rankine cycle including means to improve its efficiency; Otto and Dieselcycles; Brayton with intercooling, reheating, and regeneration; property diagrams, p-v, T-v, T-p,T-s, h-s, p-h, and Psychrometric chart.This paper examines course offerings in the fall of 2019, 2020, and 2021. The three offeringsdiffered in content delivery methods. Course in 2019 had one-third of the lectures flipped and alllabs were in person. Course in 2020 had completely flipped lectures and all instruction

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Energy Conversion, Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Ranalli, Pennsylvania State University Hazleton ; Mesude Bayrakci Boz, Pennsylvania State University Hazleton

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-implementation-of-a- power-and-energy-engineering-minor-with-limited-resources-first-results-and-lessons- learned[6] P. E. Hertzog and A. J. Swart, “Design and development of practical instruction for freshmen engineering students in a renewable energy course,” in 2017 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), Apr. 2017, pp. 838–843. doi: 10.1109/EDUCON.2017.7942944.[7] L. (Heidi) Jiao, “Solar Energy Education at Grand Valley State University,” presented at the 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 2018. Accessed: Jan. 18, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://strategy.asee.org/solar-energy-education-at-grand-valley-state-university[8] S. Pullen and K. Brinkert, “SolEn for a Sustainable Future: Developing and

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Energy Conversion, Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE) Technical Session 3

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hua Chai, University of New South Wales; Huiye Yu, University of New South Wales; Kuthsav Thattai, University of New South Wales; Jayashri Ravishankar, University of New South Wales

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Energy Conversion, Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Huiye Yu, UNSW Sydney; Hua Chai, University of New South Wales; Jayashri Ravishankar, University of New South Wales

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: https://aemo.com.au/-/media/files/major-publications/isp/2022/2022- documents/2022-integrated-system-plan-isp.pdf?la=en[4] C. Council, "Renewable energy jobs: Future growth in Australia," 2016.[5] C. Briggs, J. Rutovitz, E. Dominish, and K. Nagrath, "Renewable energy jobs in Australia: stage one," ed: Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, 2020.[6] J. Rutovitz et al., "E3 opportunity assessment: developing the future energy workforce: final report 2021," 2021.[7] H. Chai, J. Ravishankar, S. Krishnan, and M. Priestley, "Work-in-Progress: A Holistic Approach to Bridging the Gap between Power Engineering Education and Electric Power Industry," in 2022 IEEE Global

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Energy Conversion, Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE) Technical Session 3

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ali Zilouchian, Florida Atlantic University; Amir Abtahi, Florida Atlantic University; Nancy Romance, Florida Atlantic University

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-divided into specialty groups such as structural, electrical, fabrication, procurement, etc. Thestudents were fully engaged in every aspect of the project. Those with construction experiencetook on more of the installation tasks but still participated in student teams involving structuralanalysis and solar design optimization. Advanced tools were used such as ANSYSc (forstructural) and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)’s open-source solar optimizationtools such as HOMER, along with analytical methodologies.The final system design was a 30,720-Watt grid-tie PV system with 96 solar panels, eachgenerating 320-watts arranged in 4 sub-arrays of 24 panels each, connected to 6 invertersconverting DC (Direct Current) solar power to 3-phase 208

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Energy Conversion, Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE) Technical Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael A. Palmateer; Jacob Plesums; Ryan Santiago; Austin Miller; Reza Rashidi, SUNY University at Buffalo

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Engineering Congress and Exposition (Vol. 59414, p. V004T05A035).American Society of Mechanical Engineers.[4] Michelson, T., Rudnick, J., Baxter, J., & Rashidi, R. (2019, November). A novel ferrofluid-based valve-less pump. In ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress andExposition (Vol. 59445, p. V007T08A009). American Society of Mechanical Engineers.[5] Rashidi, R., Alenezi, J., Czechowski, J., Niver, J., & Mohammad, S. (2019). Graphite-on-paper-based resistive sensing device for aqueous chemical identification. Chemical Papers, 73,2845-2855.[6] Rashidi, R., Summerville, N. C., & Nasri, M. (2018, October). A dual-purpose piezoelectricmulti-beam energy harvesting and frequency measurement device for rotational applications

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Energy Conversion, Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE) Technical Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University; Dylan Brady Wolter, Northeastern University ; Julia Ariano; Gabriella Marie Green

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intentionof producing enough voltage to charge a battery was not reached, the SeaVolt turbine serves as aproof of concept to show that if the aforementioned issues were corrected, the turbine would createenough electricity.However, the more valuable part of the project was the experience we had creating a senior-design-like product. The time and effort put into the class and this learning experience were beneficial inthe long run as we came out of the class with tangible skills and projects that aided in our learning.Rather than just being able to recreate a 3D Model, we were able to produce the model and makefurther edits to our designs s we noticed real-life flaws that we could not have expected with justa 3D figure. The course was also much more

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Energy Conversion, Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE) Technical Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Antony Kinyua, Morgan State University; Ezana Negusse; Richard Damoah; Maajida Murdock; Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University; Jonathan Wilson, Morgan State University

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their children in STEM activities and nuclear science programs. These activities haveresulted in deeper, sustained student engagement and understanding of mitigating factors that ourstudents face and need to be addressed to enhance a nuclear workforce pipeline at an HBCU.IntroductionIn the USA, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) continue to award a largeshare of bachelor's degrees to African American students in Science, Technology, Engineering,Arts and Mathematics (STEAM). HBCUs are also the baccalaureate origins of one-quarter toone-third of black science and engineering (S&E) doctorate recipients [1]. However, as shownby the National Science Foundation data [2] for college aged population (18-24 years), blackstudents

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Energy Conversion, Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE) Technical Session 4

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert W. Fletcher, Lawrence Technological University; Rebecca Almandoz; Maria Lomas; Zainab Al Salihi

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'sthere has been a dramatic increase in the global demand of Li-ion batteries because they possesssignificantly higher electric energy storage capacity over other electrochemical cells. They are asuperior secondary battery (rechargeable) electric energy storage system, and are now the mainrechargeable energy storage source in devices ranging from small portable electric-powereddevices to virtually all electric vehicles. In the early 2000's notable manufacturing capacity resided in the United States, but by2010 the demand for Li-ion cell production was almost exclusively met by off-shore, sole-sourcecountries due to low-cost manufacturing. By 2009 concerns were being voiced regarding the factthat most Li-ion manufacturing was indeed located

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Energy Conversion, Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nisaka Munasinghe, University of New South Wales; Hua Chai, University of New South Wales; Jayashri Ravishankar, UNSW Sydney

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Energy Conversion, Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE) Technical Session 4

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Herbert L. Hess, University of Idaho; Emily M. Conroe; Daniel Taylor

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Speed  Torque  Speed (rpm)  (rad/s)  Power‐  Mech  (Nm)  Armature   Induction  Power  Current    (kW)  (kW)    (ADC)  1802  188.6  1.63  1.58  0.877  1.10  1770  185.3  2.70  1.65  1.5  1.30  1753  183.5  3.50  3.45  1.97  1.50  1745  182.6  3.80  3.75  2.15  1.60  1732  181.3

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Energy Conversion, Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE) Technical Session 4

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University; Richard Y Chiou, Drexel University; Md Fashiar Rahman, The University of Texas at El Paso

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., Incorporating Virtual Reality into the Teaching and Training of Grid-Tie Photovoltaic Power Plants Design. Applied sciences, 2019. 9(21): p. 4480.12. Gilbert, R. Blueprint for Developing a Laboratory and Curriculum for Energy Efficiency, Renewable and Alternative Energy Programs.13. Poboroniuc, M.-S., Anna Friesel, Gheorghe Livint, Laura Grindei, Juan Jose Marcuello Pablo, Anthony Ward., SALEIE: An EU project aiming to propose new EIE curricula oriented to key global technical challenges. in 2014 International Conference and Exposition on Electrical and Power Engineering (EPE 2014). Iasi, Romania: IEEE.14. Bucchiarone, A., Gamification and Virtual Reality for Digital Twins Learning and Training: Architecture

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Energy Conversion, Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paulo Radatz; Robert J Kerestes, University of Pittsburgh

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for other instructors to adopt in a futureso that this method can have as big as in impact as possible.Bibliography[1] W. Kersting and R. Kerestes, Distribution System Modeling and Analysis with MATLAB® and WindMil®, 5th ed. CRC Press, 2022.[2] J. D. Glover, M. S. Sarma, and T. Overbye, Power system analysis & design, SI version. Cengage Learning, 2012.[3] PowerWorld, “PowerWorld Simulator,” Apr. 17, 2023.[4] F. Milano, “Experience of Unix Terminal-based Labs for Undergraduate Modules on Power System Analysis,” in EDULEARN14 Proceedings, IATED, 2014, pp. 268–277.[5] G. M. Jónsdóttir and F. Milano, “Jupyter notebooks for computer-based laboratories on electrical energy systems,” in EDULEARN19

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Energy Conversion, Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE) Technical Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mahmud Hasan, University of Houston-Downtown ; Julio Enrique Aleman, University of Houston-Downtown

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Figure-4: Water Velocity Readings in USGS [5]6. Results and Discussions: Once all the components are confirmed, it is decided to chose averaging out the 4 days data.Table-2 contains velocity of water flow data that was used in this study. These pieces were thenput into the power equation to get the total wattage that can be produced. Then multiplied theamount by 24 to find the watt-hours for one day and then multiplied that amount by 365 to seehow much power could be produced in a year. This calculation was repeated for the maximumvelocity to find the absolute maximum amount of power that could potentially be obtained if thatvelocity continued for a year. Table-2: Bayou Water Velocity (m/s) Data Sample 1

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Energy Conversion, Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE) Technical Session 3

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Roxana Maria Melendez-Norona, Florida Atlantic University; Maria M. Larrondo-Petrie, Florida Atlantic University; Eduardo David Sagredo Asesor, Ministerio Energia y Minas Dom. Rep.

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] MathWorks, “MATLAB”. [Online]. Available:https://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab.html .[Accessed January 3, 2023].[5] L. Yong and S. Tao, “Economic Dispatch of Power System incorporating Wind PowerPlant”, International Power Engineering Conference (IPEC), 2007.[6] M. Ding, Zhang, Y.Y., M.Q. Mao, Q. Yang and X.P. Liu, ''Operation Optimization forMicrogrids under Centralized Control'', The 2nd International Symposium on Power Electronicsfor Distributed Generation Systems, 2010.[7] Mullen,C., Wade,N., “State estimation of energy measurements for enhanced trust indistributed ledger applications on rural microgrids”, IEEE PES/IAS PowerAfrica, 2019.[8] Qlearning Simplilearn, “What is Q-learning, the best guide to understand Q-Learning”.[Online