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  • Resiliency of United States Power Grids to Inclement Weather Conditions

    Creator:
    Trevis, Kyle R.
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    The United States depends on the electrical grid infrastructure for nearly every facet of its operation. Understanding how inclement weather affects the reliability of the grid and what the U.S. is doing to ensure its resiliency will be a key step moving forward into the 21st century as global climate...
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    Corresponding e-mail address: trevisk@oregonstate.edu ©Copyright by Kyle Trevis May 28

  • The Development of a User-Friendly Website for Management and Analysis of Cookstove Impact Data

    Creator:
    Bennett, Marley R.
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    The clean cookstove sector has long sought the tools and analysis methods needed to accurately quantify social, environmental, and economic impacts of projects in diverse settings. To respond to this need, Climate Solutions Consulting and Oregon State University have developed a novel integrated suite of sensors to collect fuel usage...
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    , Database, Website Corresponding e-mail address: bennmarl@oregonstate.edu 4

  • The Implementation of Passive RFID Tags to Sample Volumetric Water Content for an Autonomous Irrigation System

    Creator:
    Guo, Matthew D.
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    The agricultural industry in the Western United States continues to possess issues of overwatering, accounting for over 80% of consumed water per year in the country. While technologies such as satellite imaging and sensor networks have slowly improved irrigation Best Management Practices to reduce superfluous water consumption, limitations associated with...
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  • Locating Radio Signals Using Software Defined Radio

    Creator:
    Johnson, Benjamin E.
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    Locating sources of radio signals can be useful in many applications. From pointing antennas at nearby radio towers to fox hunting, being able to determine the relative location or direction to a radio transmitter can be very useful. Generally, it is necessary to have the current GPS locations of both...
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    , SDR, software defined radio, FPGA Corresponding e-mail address: johnsbe3@oregonstate.edu

  • Analysis of Penetration and Reserve Requirements when Incorporating Renewable Energy Power Generation in the Bonneville Power Administration Balancing Authority Area

    Creator:
    Harpool, Scott E.
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    Interest in renewable energy is on the rise, in both grid-connected operations and research projects. Major types of renewable energy include: wind, solar, wave, tidal, biomass, and geothermal. The majority are variable, non-dispatchable sources, which can have a negative impact on reserve requirements. This study focused on determining the optimal...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Scott E. Harpool for the

  • SIMstat: Hardware Design Considerations for Implementing a Low-Cost, Portable Potentiostat

    Creator:
    Cook, Jacob M.
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    Electroanalytical techniques allow scientists and engineers to characterize bulk solutions as well as interfaces. Potentiostats are commonly used by researchers in a variety of disciplines to analyze the chemistry which occurs at a working electrode surface. Advancements in microelectronics and the proliferation of open-source designs have allowed researchers to construct...
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    : Potentiostat, Cyclic Voltammetry, Bioinstrumentation, Biosensors, Analog Design Corresponding e-mail address

  • Prototyping of Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting Circuitry for IoT Devices

    Creator:
    Webb, Derek
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    Due to the advancement of incredibly low power microcontrollers and small form factor integrated circuits, energy harvesting can be considered as an alternative, low power source for remote ocean sensing and measurements. To demonstrate the effectiveness of harvesting thermoelectric energy contained in the temperature differential between ocean surface water and...
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  • Radioactive Isotope Matching for an Embedded System

    Creator:
    Wagner, Samuel T.
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    The goal of this project is to create a lightweight radioactive isotope identification program for an embedded system using the C programming language to perform isotope matching on a subset of isotopes. First, the physics behind radioactive spectra and their key features are explained. Next, the characteristics of the spectra...
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    between them. The relation can be summarized with the equation E = kq1q2/(R 2), where k is Coloumb’s

  • Implementing a Low Power Soil Monitoring System for Small- and Large-Scale Applications

    Creator:
    Marshall, Jordyn
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    Due to increasing populations, food production must increase significantly to be sustainable. The Internet of Things has been shown to have potential in the field of agriculture to make farming practices more efficient. However, for IoT to be properly integrated into agriculture, sensors must be applied within the field and...
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    accuracy of the system. Key Words: Soil Monitoring, Moisture Sensing, Embedded Systems Corresponding e

  • Implementation of Distributed Localized Communications

    Creator:
    Snyder, Thomas
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    Artificial collectives are useful for accomplishing tasks that require teamwork from multiple simple robots. Multiple robot and collective testbeds have been developed, yet none stay committed to leverage the local interactions, group size, and imperfect information assumptions that strengthen biological collectives. A review of the collective and multiple robot literature,...
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    , Localization, Distributed localization Corresponding e-mail address: snyderth@oregonstate.edu ©Copyright by