The water trickled, and the lights blinked on. In a new study, researchers in Singapore describe a way to turn falling water ...

“This plug flow pattern could allow rain energy to be harvested for generating clean and renewable electricity.” Plug flow occurs when columns of water are shot through with pockets of air, ...

The plug-flow system was five times more effective than one tested with a steady flow of water. It was ultimately able to convert about 10% of the energy from the falling water into electricity.

“This plug flow pattern could allow rain energy to be harvested for generating clean and renewable electricity.” When running water moves a turbine, it generates electricity. However, hydroelectricity ...

Instead, their setup to harness this plug flow pattern was scandalously simple. No moving parts or mechanisms of any kind were required. A simple plastic tube just 2 millimeters in diameter; a ...

Different flow patterns such as parallel flow, slug flow, plug flow, dispersed (droplet) flow, and rivulet flow are obsd. for different velocity ratios. New flow pattern of the parallel flow with ...

Flow pattern identification of two-phase flow involves two key processes: feature extraction and classification. We attempt to combine Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) and backpropagation (BP) ...

This plug flow pattern could allow rain energy to be harvested for generating clean and renewable electricity. A different take on hydroelectricity Credit: ACS Central Science.