Cooperación técnica entre países en desarrollo: la experiencia de CDCC = Technical co-operation among developing countries: the CDCC experience = Coopération technique entre pays en développement: l'expérience du CDCC

Contiene el rol y las tareas especificas del CDCC en el area de la cooperacion tecnica entre los paises en desarrollo de organizar y facilitar el intercambio de informacion y experiencia a traves de la region para solucionar los problemas que entorpecen el desarrollo de los paises miembros; asi como las recomendaciones relacionadas con el tema a ser consideradas en su decima sesion.

Technical co-operation among developing countries: the CDCC experience = Cooperación técnica entre países en desarrollo: la experiencia del CDCC

Revisa algunas actividades de la Secretaria del CDCC en promocion y apoyo a la cooperacion horizontal durante el periodo 1986/87.

Multilayer perceptron neural networks training through charged system search and its Application for non-technical losses detection

The non-technical loss is not a problem with trivial solution or regional character and its minimization represents the guarantee of investments in product quality and maintenance of power systems, introduced by a competitive environment after the period of privatization in the national scene. In this paper, we show how to improve the training phase of a neural network-based classifier using a recently proposed meta-heuristic technique called Charged System Search, which is based on the interactions between electrically charged particles. The experiments were carried out in the context of non-technical loss in power distribution systems in a dataset obtained from a Brazilian electrical power company, and have demonstrated the robustness of the proposed technique against with several others nature-inspired optimization techniques for training neural networks. Thus, it is possible to improve some applications on Smart Grids. © 2013 IEEE.

Using baseline methods to identify non-technical losses in the context of smart grids

Demand response has gained increasing importance in the context of competitive electricity markets and smart grid environments. In addition to the importance that has been given to the development of business models for integrating demand response, several methods have been developed to evaluate the consumers' performance after the participation in a demand response event. The present paper uses those performance evaluation methods, namely customer baseline load calculation methods, to determine the expected consumption in each period of the consumer historic data. In the cases in which there is a certain difference between the actual consumption and the estimated consumption, the consumer is identified as a potential cause of non-technical losses. A case study demonstrates the application of the proposed method to real consumption data. © 2013 IEEE.

Hydrogen production by biogas steam reforming: A technical, economic and ecological analysis

Fuel cells are electrochemical energy conversion devices that convert fuel and oxidant electrochemically into electrical energy, water and heat. Compared to traditional electricity generation technologies that use combustion processes to convert fuel into heat, and then into mechanical energy, fuel cells convert the hydrogen and oxygen chemical energy into electrical energy, without intermediate conversion processes, and with higher efficiency. In order to make the fuel cells an achievable and useful technology, it is firstly necessary to develop an economic and efficient way for hydrogen production. Molecular hydrogen is always found combined with other chemical compounds in nature, so it must be isolated. In this paper, the technical, economical and ecological aspects of hydrogen production by biogas steam reforming are presented. The economic feasibility calculation was performed to evaluate how interesting the process is by analyzing the investment, operation and maintenance costs of the biogas steam reformer and the hydrogen production cost achieved the value of 0.27 US$/kWh with a payback period of 8 years. An ecological efficiency of 94.95%, which is a good ecological value, was obtained. The results obtained by these analyses showed that this type of hydrogen production is an environmentally attractive route. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.

Progress report on meetings, workshops, seminars convened and technical assistance rendered to member states and regional institutions (covering the period 1 January 2004 to 30 April 2005)

Includes bibliography

Informe del Taller de Trabajo sobre Cooperación Técnica y Económica para el Sector Minero-Metalúrgico de América Latina = Report of the Workshop on Technical and Economic Co-operation for the Latin American Mining and Metallurgical Sector

Contiene la asistencia, organizacion de los trabajos y resumen de los debates sobre los temas: 1) posibilidades de incrementar el comercio internacional de minerales y metales de America Latina; 2) politicas de desarrollo del sector minero; y 3) posibilidades de complementacion regional e interregional en la industria minero- metalurgica y metalmecanica.

Informe de la VI Reunión del Comité Técnico del ILPES = Report submitted by the rapporteur: Sixth Meeting of the Technical Committee of ILPES

Contiene la organización y recomendaciones de la reunión en la cual se abordó la propuesta de trabajo del ILPES para 1985, el informe de actividades 1984 y el Nuevo Proyecto Institucional 1984-1986. Se consideró también una serie de proyectos de resolución para la orientación de las actividades futuras del Instituto.