Part 1.Electric Power Engineering.- 1.Battery Energy Storage Systems: Enabling Ukraine's Grid Flexibility and Energy Security through Ancillary Services.- 2.Assessment of the Economic Efficiency of Battery Energy Storage Systems in the Electricity Market Segments.- 3.Analysis of Methods for Improving the Quality of Electrical Energy Through the Use of Energy Storage Systems.- 4.Optimization of Double Inverter-Feed Drive Work According to Minimum of Dynamic Error Criteria.- 5.Novel PDM Control Strategy for Voltage-Source Modular-Structured Resonant Converters.- 6.Active Balancer with Targeted Charge Transfer Between Stack Batteries.- 7.Remote Vibration Control Systems for Rotating Machinery Units Fault Detection.- Part II.Heat Power Engineering.- 8.System of Indicators for Assessing the Susceptibility of Enterprises to Energy-Saving Technologies.- 9.Comparative Analysis of Exergy Losses in Heat Transfer Processes in Heat Recoverers of Boiler Plants.- 10.Modelling of a Three-phase Induction-type Heat Generator Using the Secondary Sources Method.- 11.Dynamic Model of a High-Capacity Electric Boiler with an Immersed Electrode.- 12.Conjugate Heat Transfer of Tube Bundles with Fin Ribbing.- 13.Assessment Of The Impact Of The Location Of The Insulation Layer On The Humidity Regime And Heat Transfer Resistance Of The External Building Envelope.- Part III.Renewable Power Engineering.- 14.Possibilities and Perspectives of the Wind and Solar Power Plants Application in Combined Energy Systems.- 15.Advancements in Operational Modeling Methods for Photovoltaic Power Plants.- 16.Photovoltaic Thermal Solar Collector for Autonomous and Energy Cluster Modes.- 17.Local Power Systems Based on Renewable Energy Sources.- 18.Transitioning to Direct Steam Generation in a Mexican Integrated Solar Combined Cycle for Enhanced Efficiency.- 19.Research on Photovoltaic Power Prediction using an LSTM Recurrent Neural Network.- 20.Approaches to the Cascade Hydropower Plants Optimum Operation for Forming the Day-Ahead Electricity Market Schedule.- Part IV.Environmental Safety. 21.Application of Information from Remote Sensing Earth Systems to Solve Problems of Environmental Monitoring.- 22.Development of Mathematical Support for Increasing the Efficiency of Remote Gamma Radiation Monitoring of Contaminated Areas.- 23.Mathematical Means to Assess Consequences of Chemical Accidents with Heavy Gas Emissions.- 24.Modern Measuring Tools to Develop Efficient Atmospheric Air Monitoring Systems Based on UAVs.- 25.Environmental and Geological Hazards after the Explosion of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant and Rehabilitation Options.- 26.Integral Assessment of the Effectiveness of Designing Energy-Efficient Ecological Settlements in the Urban Planning System.- 27.Prospective Directions of Cement Production Decarbonization in Ukraine.- 28.Application of the Alternating Impulses of Pressure for New Energy-Saving Technologies.- 29.Research on the Level of "Urban Stream Syndrome" in Small Streams of Urbanized Areas Using the Example of the Mlynivka River (Ivano-Frankivsk City).
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