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This master thesis relates to the development of a latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) model and the validation against experimental measurement data. Two 2D numeric models based on the ThermoCycle Modelica library using diff erent model approaches have been established: A white-box discretized and a grey-box single-node model have been developed. The models account for the temperature dependence of all material properties of phase change material (PCM), storage and heat transfer fluid (HTF). Validation of both models based on experimental data from a LHTES labscaled prototype with partial and full charging and discharging has been performed. The statistical analysis proved the validity and usefulness of the model parameter sets. Di fferences between both models in terms of estimated parameters, relative errors and simulation times are presented and analysed. After the optimized model parameters have been found, the validated discretized white-box PCM storage model is integrated in a practical application to improve the overall system e ciency. The application scenario consists in a concentrated solar power (CSP) biomass combined heat and power (CHP) system based on organic Rankine cycle (ORC) technology developed in the framework of the EU founded BRICKER project. The PCM storage is introduced to the solar field in order to maximize the solar generated energy and hence reduce the biomass consummation. A comparison with a thermocline storage concludes this work.

Latent heat storage --- phase change material --- numerical model --- Bricker --- CSP-biomass --- PCM-storage --- Modelica --- ThermoCyle --- Ingénierie, informatique & technologie > Energie

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Challenging those who accept or advocate executive supremacy in American foreign-policy making, Constitutional Diplomacy proposes that we abandon the supine roles often assigned our legislative and judicial branches in that field. This book, by the former Legal Counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is the first comprehensive analysis of foreign policy and constitutionalism to appear in over fifteen years. In the interval since the last major work on this theme was published, the War Powers Resolution has ignited a heated controversy, several major treaties have aroused passionate disagreement over the Senate's role, intelligence abuses have been revealed and remedial legislation debated, and the Iran-Contra affair has highlighted anew the extent of disagreement over first principles. Exploring the implications of these and earlier foreign policy disputes, Michael Glennon maintains that the objectives of diplomacy cannot be successfully pursued by discarding constitutional interests. Glennon probes in detail the important foreign-policy responsibilities given to Congress by the Constitution and the duty given to the courts of resolving disputes between Congress and the President concerning the power to make foreign policy. He reviews the scope of the prime tools of diplomacy, the war power and the treaty power, and examines the concept of national security. Throughout the work he considers the intricate weave of two legal systems: American constitutional principles and the international law norms that are part of the U.S. domestic legal system.

POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General. --- United States --- Foreign relations --- Law and legislation. --- Berger, Raoul. --- Bernstein exception. --- Boland Amendment. --- Bricker amendment. --- Bumpers amendment. --- Cardozo, Benjamin. --- Charles II. --- Congo rescue mission. --- Connally reservation. --- Dominican Republic. --- Eagleton, Thomas. --- General Accounting Office. --- Grenada. --- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. --- Hamilton, Alexander. --- Heritage Foundation. --- Honduras. --- Impoundment Control Act. --- Jackson, Robert. --- Japan treaty. --- Korean Airline shoot-down. --- Laos. --- Massachusetts. --- National Security Act of 1947. --- Niagara Reservation. --- Oxford Union. --- Platt amendment. --- Restatement of Agency. --- Saigon. --- Sandalow, Terry. --- Stewart, Potter. --- actio popularis. --- adverse possession. --- assassination. --- checks and balances. --- confirmation power. --- covert operations. --- custom. --- delegation doctrine. --- dualism. --- emergency presidential powers. --- executive agreements. --- functional analysis. --- judicial review. --- kidnapping. --- legal realism. --- legislative veto. --- nuclear testing. --- passport restrictions. --- rule of recognition. --- third agency rule.

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As Dwight D. Eisenhower's Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles came to personify the shortcomings of American foreign policy. This collection of essays, representing the first archivally based reassessment of Dulles's diplomacy, examines his role during one of the most critical periods of modern history. Rejecting familiar Cold War stereotypes, this volume reveals the hidden complexities in Dulles's conduct of foreign policy and in his own personality.

Dulles, John Foster --- Cold War --- Guerre froide --- Koude oorlog --- Oorlog [Koude ] --- Cold war. --- United States --- Foreign relations --- 1953-1961 --- Foreign policy. --- Dulles, John Foster. --- Congresses. --- Adenauer, Konrad. --- African-Soviet relations. --- Atomic Energy Commission. --- Austrian State Treaty. --- Berlin Declaration (1957). --- Berlin. --- Bricker Amendment. --- Brussels Conference (1954). --- Brussels Treaty. --- Burma. --- Cambodia. --- Chiang Kai-shek. --- Council on Foreign Relations. --- Eisenhower, Milton. --- European Economic Community. --- Far Eastern Commission. --- Four Power Control. --- Gaither Report. --- Great Britain. --- Heusinger Plan (1955). --- Hussein, King. --- Immerman, Richard. --- Indochina. --- Japanese Peace Treaty. --- Joint Chiefs of Staff. --- Korean War. --- Latin America. --- Lodge, Henry Cabot. --- Mao Tse-tung. --- Morgenthau, Hans. --- National Security Council. --- New China News Agency. --- Occupation Statute. --- Ouang Hsiao-hsi. --- Outer Mongolia. --- Panmunjom negotiations (1953). --- anticolonialism. --- anticommunism. --- balance of power. --- brinkmanship. --- colonialism. --- disarmament. --- documentary record. --- economic integration. --- flexible response strategy. --- human rights. --- international communism. --- nuclear war. --- nuclear weapons. --- peace offensive. --- peripheral defense. --- policy of strength. --- Coexistence --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Global governance --- Interdependence of nations --- International affairs --- Peaceful coexistence --- World order --- National security --- Sovereignty --- World politics --- ABŞ --- ABSh --- Ameerika Ühendriigid --- America (Republic) --- Amerika Birlăshmish Shtatlary --- Amerika Birlăşmi Ştatları --- Amerika Birlăşmiş Ştatları --- Amerika ka Kelenyalen Jamanaw --- Amerika Qūrama Shtattary --- Amerika Qŭshma Shtatlari --- Amerika Qushma Shtattary --- Amerika (Republic) --- Amerikai Egyesült Államok --- Amerikanʹ Veĭtʹsėndi︠a︡vks Shtattnė --- Amerikări Pĕrleshu̇llĕ Shtatsem --- Amerikas Forenede Stater --- Amerikayi Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Ameriketako Estatu Batuak --- Amirika Carékat --- AQSh --- Ar. ha-B. --- Arhab --- Artsot ha-Berit --- Artzois Ha'bris --- Bí-kok --- Ē.P.A. --- EE.UU. --- Egyesült Államok --- ĒPA --- Estados Unidos --- Estados Unidos da América do Norte --- Estados Unidos de América --- Estaos Xuníos --- Estaos Xuníos d'América --- Estatos Unitos --- Estatos Unitos d'America --- Estats Units d'Amèrica --- Ètats-Unis d'Amèrica --- États-Unis d'Amérique --- Fareyniḳṭe Shṭaṭn --- Feriene Steaten --- Feriene Steaten fan Amearika --- Forente stater --- FS --- Hēnomenai Politeiai Amerikēs --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- Hiwsisayin Amerikayi Miatsʻeal Tērutʻiwnkʻ --- Istadus Unidus --- Jungtinės Amerikos valstybės --- Mei guo --- Mei-kuo --- Meiguo --- Mî-koet --- Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Miguk --- Na Stàitean Aonaichte --- NSA --- S.U.A. --- SAD --- Saharat ʻAmērikā --- SASht --- Severo-Amerikanskie Shtaty --- Severo-Amerikanskie Soedinennye Shtaty --- Si︠e︡vero-Amerikanskīe Soedinennye Shtaty --- Sjedinjene Američke Države --- Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Severnoĭ Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Si︠e︡vernoĭ Ameriki --- Spojené obce severoamerické --- Spojené staty americké --- SShA --- Stadoù-Unanet Amerika --- Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá --- Stany Zjednoczone --- Stati Uniti --- Stati Uniti d'America --- Stâts Unîts --- Stâts Unîts di Americhe --- Steatyn Unnaneysit --- Steatyn Unnaneysit America --- SUA (Stati Uniti d'America) --- Sŭedineni amerikanski shtati --- Sŭedinenite shtati --- Tetã peteĩ reko Amérikagua --- U.S. --- U.S.A. --- United States of America --- Unol Daleithiau --- Unol Daleithiau America --- Unuiĝintaj Ŝtatoj de Ameriko --- US --- USA --- Usono --- Vaeinigte Staatn --- Vaeinigte Staatn vo Amerika --- Vereinigte Staaten --- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika --- Verenigde State van Amerika --- Verenigde Staten --- VS --- VSA --- Wááshindoon Bikéyah Ałhidadiidzooígíí --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amirīkīyah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amrīkīyah --- Yhdysvallat --- Yunaeted Stet --- Yunaeted Stet blong Amerika --- ZDA --- Združene države Amerike --- Zʹi︠e︡dnani Derz︠h︡avy Ameryky --- Zjadnośone staty Ameriki --- Zluchanyi︠a︡ Shtaty Ameryki --- Zlucheni Derz︠h︡avy --- ZSA --- Η.Π.Α. --- Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες της Αμερικής --- Америка (Republic) --- Американь Вейтьсэндявкс Штаттнэ --- Америкӑри Пӗрлешӳллӗ Штатсем --- САЩ --- Съединените щати --- Злучаныя Штаты Амерыкі --- ولايات المتحدة --- ولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة --- ولايات المتحدة الامريكية --- 미국 --- États-Unis --- É.-U. --- ÉU