The HelioClim project: Surface solar irradiance data for climate applications

P Blanc, B Gschwind, M Lefèvre, L Wald - Remote Sensing, 2011 - mdpi.com
Meteosat satellite images are processed to yield values of the incoming surface solar
irradiance (SSI), one of the Essential Climate Variables. Two HelioClim databases, HC-1 …

Association of UV radiation with multiple sclerosis prevalence and sex ratio in France

SM Orton, L Wald, C Confavreux, S Vukusic, JP Krohn… - Neurology, 2011 - AAN Enterprises
Background: French farmers and their families constitute an informative population to study
multiple sclerosis (MS) prevalence and related epidemiology. We carried out an ecological …

Achieving nitrogen and phosphorus removal at low C/N ratios without aeration through a novel phototrophic process

VCF Carvalho, M Kessler, JC Fradinho… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Conventional wastewater treatment technologies for biological nutrient removal (BNR) are
highly dependent on aeration for oxygen supply, which represents a major operational cost …

Unlocking the floating photovoltaic potential of Türkiye's hydroelectric power plants

AM Ateş - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The massive surface of the water accumulated in the basins of hydroelectric power plants
(HEPPs) can be considered an excellent opportunity for floating photovoltaics (FPV). Türkiye …

An open-access web-based tool to access global, hourly wind and solar PV generation time-series derived from the MERRA reanalysis dataset

M McPherson, T Sotiropoulos-Michalakakos… - Energies, 2017 - mdpi.com
Wind and solar energy resources are an increasingly large fraction of generation in global
electricity systems. However, the variability of these resources necessitates new datasets …

The SG2 algorithm for a fast and accurate computation of the position of the Sun for multi-decadal time period

P Blanc, L Wald - Solar Energy, 2012 - Elsevier
The solar position algorithm (SPA) is a very accurate but slow algorithm for the computation
of the Sun position with respect to an observer at ground surface. We compare the results of …

Improving polyhydroxyalkanoates production in phototrophic mixed cultures by optimizing accumulator reactor operating conditions

JC Fradinho, A Oehmen, MAM Reis - International journal of biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) production with phototrophic mixed cultures (PMCs) has
been recently proposed. These cultures can be selected under the permanent presence of …

Climate change impact on photovoltaic energy output: the case of Greece

IS Panagea, IK Tsanis… - Climate Change and the …, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
Solar photovoltaic systems have largely penetrated the global energy market and especially
Europe. According to the European Photovoltaic Industry Association [1], photovoltaics (PV) …

Beyond feast and famine: Selecting a PHA accumulating photosynthetic mixed culture in a permanent feast regime

JC Fradinho, MAM Reis, A Oehmen - Water research, 2016 - Elsevier
Currently, the feast and famine (FF) regime is the most widely applied strategy to select for
polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) accumulating organisms in PHA production systems with …

Comparative Weibull distribution methods for reliable global solar irradiance assessment in France areas

OM Kam, S Noël, H Ramenah, P Kasser… - Renewable Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the Weibull distribution analysis for an accuracy global solar
irradiance assessment considering period measurements based on several and grouping …