Vladimir Panchenko

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Associate) at Russian University of Transport

Regulation of spectral composition of light makes it possible to influence not only plant morphology, but also the amount and composition of secondary metabolites in aromatic plants. We tested 3 types of light-emitting diode (LED) irradiators with the following spectrum (blue: green: red: far red): B15:G35:R40:FR10, B15:G50:R30:FR5 and B15:G25:R50:...

The increase in pig population has led to an accumulation of swine manure (SM) in the environment. Improper disposal of this waste can lead to environmental pollution. Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a promising method for utilizing SM, but its industrial application is still limited due to high lignocellulose content and a suboptimal carbon-to-nitroge...

Показаны преимущества и недостатки использования биоэлектрохимической продукции метана с помощью микробной электролизной ячейки (МЭЯ). Цель работы — экспериментальная оценка возможности энергоснабжения микробной электролизной ячейки экспериментальной биогазовой установки. Приведены результаты экспериментальных исследований значений электрического с...

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Major growth in population, along with its flow from rural areas to urban agglomerations, causes the problem of food shortages and becomes the primary determinant of global poverty. The food shortage is also significantly exacerbated by land degradation, which lowers agricultural yields and livestock productivity. Fortunately, a rapid development o...

Current research investigates hydrodynamic behaviour in rectangular sheet shaped membrane implementing computational fluid dynamics approach. CFD mimics the flow phenomena in stationary and rotating module. The flow within the stationary and rotating membranes was computed using commercially available CFD software (ANSYS). It was well established t...

The paper presents the results of a study of the stimulating effect of the electromagnetic field of the EHF (Extremely High Frequency) range on the sowing qualities of vegetable seeds. Vegetable seeds, a tomato of the “Wonder of the Market” variety, a pepper of the “Tenderness” variety and an eggplant of the “Black Beauty” were subjected to electro...

The authors propose a software package for analysis, visualization and computer monitoring of agrophytocenoses with biotechnological methods of reproduction, which provides detection of contamination of nutrient media and plant explants through technical vision, digital sensors, analysis of digital images using machine learning libraries for subseq...

The developed device with a thermoelectric module for transporting milk can be used to control the temperature of milk, as well as for other liquids, such as drinking water. Thermoelectric cooling has great prospects with the design of thermoelectric materials. Existing thermostatic devices for milk transportation and new thermoelectric materials [...

Plant photo-protective reaction to UV irradiation depends on plant species, this research is of great importance for creating optimal conditions for growing plants with desired properties in indoor farming. Conducted research of the ‘Robin’ lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) photoprotective reactions under low illumination conditions when exposed to vario...

The aim of this study is to assess different post-harvest storage methods used by small-scale agricultural producers, the monitoring systems for the condition of the grain layer and the possibility of its off-grid energy supply. Based on existing data the study discusses various grain losses arising at the different stages of post-harvest processin...

This study is devoted to hydroponic green fodder (HGF) of triticale (Triticosecale Wittm.) cultivation using 3 variants of LED irradiators with PPFD = 137 ± 3.2 µmol s−1 m−2 with following spectral composition (Blue(B):Green(G):Red(R) spectrum with supplementary ultraviolet (UV) and far red (FR) irradiation): solar-like (S)18B:38G:44R with addition...

Pork production in the conditions of the Far North is expensive. Heating of production facilities is a significant cost item, as the heating period is quite long. The expansion of the production capacity of Farm Enterprise “Sibir” required a review and optimization of the costs of heating the production facilities. To achieve this, measures to opti...

In the introduction: The influence of conditions of detention on the physiological state of animals and their productivity is studied. The main components of the conditions of detention and ways to maintain them at the appropriate level are determined. Methods of influencing them are considered and described. A large degree of influence of microcli...

The purpose of the research is to design a method for automatic alignment of aerospace images (ASI) based on the use of sequence analysis and allowing achieving high speed with a low error probability, taking into account distortions and the influence of external factors. The article analyzes existing solutions, explores their shortcomings and poss...

When examining plant reactions to external climatic and other factors, it is necessary to record and analyze a large number of plants morphological features. The research is aimed at the optimization of the existing applied methods for values obtainment of plants morphological characteristics based on digital image processing, at the obtained solut...

Digital technologies used in agriculture are based on data obtained from sensors and transducers providing primary information on the state of plants. In this research we developed and practically tested a leaf mini-transducer for digital assessment of thermoregulation processes that characterize the factors of plant productivity. The developed tra...

The 6th edition of International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Optimization took place at G Hua Hin Resort & Mall on April 27–28, 2023, with tremendous support from the global research scholars across the planet. Objective is to celebrate “Research Novelty with Compassion and Wisdom” with researchers, scholars, experts, and investigators...

Thermal power plants use coal as a fuel to create electricity while wasting a significant amount of energy as heat. If the heat and power plants are combined and used in cogeneration systems, it is possible to reuse the waste heat and hence enhance the overall efficiency of the power plant. In order to minimize production costs while taking system...

Advancing the sustainable energy transition is a major need in nations that are constantly evolving and developing in terms of their energy economy. India has been chosen for the purpose of analysis due to the heterogenous nature of its polity, topographies, infrastructural capabilities and diverse framework. In accordance with the sustainable deve...

Gasification technology often requires the use of modeling approaches to incorporate several intermediate reactions in a complex nature. These traditional models are occasionally impractical and often challenging to bring reliable relations between performing parameters. Hence, this study outlined the solutions to overcome the challenges in modelin...

Biogas production from waste materials has emerged as a promising avenue for sustainable energy generation, offering a dual benefit of waste management and renewable energy production. The selection and preparation of waste feedstocks, including agricultural residues, food waste, animal manure, and municipal solid wastes, are important for this pro...

Classical model-free predictive current control (MFPCC) is a robust control technique for a two-level inverter-fed induction-motor drive, with advantages that consist of a simple concept, rapid response, simple implementation, and excellent performance. However, the classic finite-control-set MFPCC still exhibits a significant current ripple. This...

Innovative global optimization approaches have attracted many research scientists, decision makers, managers, executives, engineers, academicians, officers, policy makers and practicing researchers in recent years as powerful intelligent computational techniques for solving many complex real-world application problems. The 7th International Confer...

The global recent development trend in dairy farming emphasizes the automation and robotization of milk production. The rapid development rate of dairy farming requires new technologies to increase the economic efficiency and improve production. The research goal was to increase the milk production efficiency by introducing the technology to automa...

Nowadays, the expansion of people into intact primary areas has been observed alongside an increase in the area of land devoted to crops, pastures, etc [...]

The use of energy (and renewable energy, in particular) plays an important role in agriculture, where technologies are also being improved from year to year—agricultural production is growing, and machinery and systems are becoming more autonomous and robotic, where it is no longer possible to do without complex computing, optimization, planning, a...

Показана актуальность разработки способов интенсификации процесса анаэробной биоконверсии органического вещества. Приведены приоритетные микробиологические и технические способы интенсификации анаэробной биоконверсии, а также описаны технические средства их реализации. Цель работы — разработка биогазовой установки с использованием средств интенсифи...

In the past couple of years, the world has come to realize the importance of renewable sources of energy and the disadvantages of excessive use of fossil fuels. Numerous studies have been conducted to implicate the benefits of artificial intelligence in areas of green energy production. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning algorithms a...

One of the most well-known methods of intensifying the process of anaerobic digestion is the pretreatment of raw materials. For the first time, the use of a jet-driven Helmholtz oscillator for biomass pretreatment is proposed. The design of the device is optimal for creating hydraulic cavitation; however, in this case, acoustic oscillations are gen...

Due to the emerging danger to the life of animals and people, today there is a turn to safe technologies for controlling weeds by physical methods, both from the point of view of ecology and food safety, which include the destruction of plants using an electric current, in particular, high-voltage electrical pulses. The purpose of the study present...

The combustion of sunflower husk pellets was investigated by kinetic analysis supplemented by the Kriging method. The nonisothermal thermogravimetric experiments in air were carried out at the temperatures from 20 to 700 °C and heating rates of 5, 10, and 20 °C/min. Kinetic analysis was carried out using the model-free OFW (Ozawa–Flynn–Wall) method...

The hydrogen-producing bacteria SP4 and SP6 were isolated from the compost and identified by 16S rRNA gene sequencing as Clostridium butyricum and Clostridium beijerinckii, respectively. A comparative study on the biohydrogen-producing activity of the isolated strains was carried out using mono-, di- and tri-saccharides belonging to both hexoses (m...

Agrivoltaics (Agri-PV, AV)-the joint use of land for the generation of agricultural products and energy-has recently been rapidly gaining popularity, as it can significantly increase income per unit of land area. In a broad sense, AV systems can include converters of solar energy, and also energy from any other local renewable source, including bio...

Workload prediction is essential in cloud data centers (CDCs) for establishing scalability and resource elasticity. However, the workload prediction accuracy in the cloud data center could be better due to noise, redundancy, and low performance for workload prediction. This paper designs a hierarchical tree-based deep convolutional neural network (...

Amaranthus retroflexus or redroot pigweed is a second generation lignocellulosic fuel. Each biomass sample (leaves, inflorescences and stems) was pyrolyzed in a lab-scale furnace, in a nitrogen atmosphere under non-isothermal conditions at heating rates of 10 °C/min until the furnace temperature reached 550 °C. The pyrolysis characteristics of the...

Power transformers play a crucial role in maintaining the stability and reliability of energy systems. Accurate moisture assessment of transformer oil-paper insulation is critical for ensuring safe operating conditions and power transformers’ longevity in large interconnected electrical grids. The moisture can be predicted and quantified by extract...

Agriculture activities are completely dependent upon energy production worldwide. This research presents sensorless speed control of a three-phase induction motor aided with an extended Kalman filter (EKF). Although a proportional integral (PI) controller can ensure tracking of the rotor speed, a considerable magnitude of ripples is present in the...

High-quality lighting of premises in the cultivation of farm animals is an important condition for the successful development of the agro-industrial complex. Sufficient lighting with the simulation of sunrise and sunset which increases daylight hours to 15–16 h can raise the level of production by 8–15%. The most innovative, economical and efficien...

Nowadays, the climate change phenomenon and the environmental pollution are special attention to the stakeholders and the energy managers in the world. The international regulations and conventions have been proposed in order to prevent dramatically the abovementioned issues to influence on the human’s health life and manufacturers. Therefore, the...

White LEDs are an effective solution for light culture due to the presence of the green emission spectrum, which has a positive effect on growing plants in the artificial environment. However, the assessment of the effectiveness of the application of the white LEDs for photoculture is complicated by the lack of information in the technical document...

This article presents the results of developing and testing the air-cooling system of a combined climate control unit used in pig farming. The authors have found a water-evaporative system to be the most efficient for cooling the air supply. Cooling systems of this type consume 0.003 kW/kW of electric power to produce 1 kW of cold. Based on the dev...

Agrivoltaics (Agri-PV, AV) – the joint use of land for the production of agricultural products and energy – has recently been rapidly gaining popularity, as it can significantly increase income per unit of land area. In a broad sense, AV systems can include converters of not only solar, but also energy from any other local renewable source, includi...

Many agro-industrial companies grow amaranth for the subsequent production of amaranth oil, flour, cereals, flakes, and bran. After the grain is extracted, waste in the form of inflorescences remains, which can be used to obtain useful new products. This work investigated the use of pyrolysis to recycle amaranth inflorescence wastes (AIW). Thermoch...

In anaerobic digestion (AD), butyrate is degraded by syntrophic consortium, but can accumulate in highly loaded AD systems. The effect of butyrate on the AD process attracts much less attention than propionate or acetate. In this work, an enrichment culture of the thermophilic butyrate-oxidizing syntrophic consortium was obtained by gradually incre...

Spatial separation into acidogenic and methanogenic stages is considered a viable option to ensure process stability, energy efficiency and the better control of key anaerobic digestion (AD) parameters. The elucidation of the optimal modes of two-stage AD for the maximization of the recovery of biofuels (H2 and CH4) is still an urgent task, the mai...

In city farming, when growing green crops, a significant part of the production cost is the cost of electricity for lighting. The physiology, biochemistry, morphology and productivity of plants can be affected by changing irradiation modes and these changes reduce electricity costs. However, the results of studies in the literature are contradictor...

At present, despite the serious historical experience of locust control, these insects continue to cause serious damage to plantings and crops, both in our country and around the world. In world practice, monitoring of the emergence and movement of locust swarms across the territories and their destruction has been strengthened. But approaches to t...

The article is concerned with the use of spectrometers to assess the condition of plants. The possibility of saving due to the use of low-cost versions of CCD (charge-coupled device) arrays in spectrometers is considered. The standard algorithm for the CCD array calibration has been improved, considering lower accuracy of budget versions of CCD arr...

When growing plants indoors, the share of electricity consumption for lighting can reach 50%. The use of a phyto-irradiation management system can increase the yield and energy efficiency of production. To implement the automatic phyto-irradiation control, it is necessary to receive information about the physiological condition of plants in time; o...

Paper compares performance of multi linear regression (MLR) and artificial neural network (ANN) models for predicting permeate flux of disc shaped membrane. To develop the models, permeate flux produced by membrane was considered as model output and parameters like pore size, operating pressure, and feed velocity are considered as model inputs. In...

The difficulties of preserving the grain harvest during storage on the floor in grain warehouses involve ventilation and drying operations. The difficulties caused by this operation are associated with the duration of the process, as well as large amount of energy is needed for its implementation. This work is focused at developing equipment that e...

The major test and functional methods for performance resource operational diagnostics of electric motors have been analyzed with the account of initial, limiting and permissible values of parameters that have to be monitored. Requirements for the integrated operational diagnostics method designed to evaluate the functional status of bearing assemb...

The importance of scientific schools and outstanding scientists, who organized them, is great in the development of scientific research in various science fields. Nowadays, the development of renewable energy sources and the opportunity of their application in various production processes, including the agro-industrial complex, becomes increasingly...

The use of planting stock in forestry, grown using the technology of the closed root system, is currently a priority for creating artificial forest plantations and restoring damaged ones. Therefore, issues related to agricultural technology and technologies for growing seedlings of trees and shrubs in protected ground are currently being worked out...

The most common method of vegetative reproduction of woody plants - grafting - has many factors that must be taken into account in order to achieve a successful result - complete fusion of the graft with the rootstock. To increase the percentage of successful graftings, it is possible to use an electrophysical method of stimulating fusion processes...

According to the “Strategy of Scientific and Technological development of the Russian Federation” and within the framework of the implementation of the program “Digital Agriculture” in the coming years, one of the priority areas of development is the transition to highly productive agro-agricultural farming. The main direction of scientific and tec...

Using of renewable energy sources at agricultural production facilities not only increases the efficiency of production, but also improves the environmental aspects of farming. In this paper, the main thermal processes are considered, their functioning can be fully or partially ensured through the use of solar collectors. The review of existing sol...

In this article, the effect of UV irradiation of various ranges on the growth and development of Salvia officinalis L. plants was studied. Using vegetation indices, leaf microscopy, and assessment of plant growth and pigment composition, the stress level was assessed and the optimal lighting treatment for growing the sage plants in total control en...

The article provides a review of the current hydrogen production and the prospects for the development of the production of “green” hydrogen using renewable energy sources in various countries of the world that are leaders in this field. The potential of hydrogen energy in such countries and regions as Australia, the European Union, India, Canada,...

Winter crops, having high yields in comparison with spring crops, determine the overall grain harvest, thereby providing significant contribution to strengthening the country's food security. But at the same time, climatic metamorphoses of recent years seriously affect the preliminary forecast of the amount of collected products and its final resul...

One of the most important conditions for the efficient operation of solar power plants with a large installed capacity is to ensure the systematic monitoring of the surface condition of the photovoltaic modules. This procedure is aimed at the timely detection of external damage to the modules, as well as their partial shading. The implementation of...

Conventional food supply chains are centralized in nature and possess challenges pertaining to a single point of failure, product irregularities, quality compromises, and loss of data. Numerous cases of food fraud, contamination, and adulteration are daily reported from multiple parts of India, suggesting the absolute need for an upgraded decentral...

The speed control of induction machines for multiple-speed handling is critical. When the vector control method is applied to induction machines, it has a significant impact on speed utilization. This strategy of operating the machine at a fixed predefined speed mode presents better results for electric vehicles. An effective model for a speed cont...

Concrete is mainly employed as a construction material. Due to the manufacturing of cement and the extent of concrete usage, numerous environmental issues and water suction have presented challenges. There is an immediate need to overcome these problematic issues by substituting natural resources with wastes and by-products of different biological...

According to the International Energy Agency, only a small part of the full potential of biomass energy is currently used in the world. The annual amount of agricultural waste in the Russian Federation is estimated at about 152 million tons, and the energy potential of animal waste is 201 PJ/year. Anaerobic digestion is an efficient method of conve...

Over the last couple of years, Blockchain technology has emerged as a game-changer for various industry domains, ranging from FinTech and the supply chain to healthcare and education, thereby enabling them to meet the competitive market demands and end-user requirements. Blockchain technology gained its popularity after the massive success of Bitco...

In recent years, more and more countries have paid close attention to energy and environmental issues [...]

Electrotechnical services spend a significant amount of time on cable tracing and conductor identification operations. Although the operation of conductor identification seems an easy job and a deeply researched topic, it may turn out to be time-consuming due to the large quantity of unidentified conductors (cables) and the certain stipulation that...

Machine learning techniques facilitate efficient analysis of complex networks, and can be used to discover communities. This study aimed use such approaches to raise awareness of the COVID-19. In this regard, social network analysis describes the clustering and classification processes for detecting communities. The background of this paper analyze...

Featured Application The results obtained can be used to optimize the process of anaerobic bioconversion of organic waste in the Russian Federation. Abstract Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a promising option to obtain renewable energy in the form of biogas and reduce the anthropogenic impact on the environment. In recent years there has been increasi...

The effect of blood flow through normal artery, artery affected with stenosis and artery with bypass grafting are simulated and studied using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The flow characteristics of blood were simulated by using available CFD software, ANSYS. Modelling and meshing of normal artery, artery with stenosis, bypass grafted artery...

Preliminary preparation of waste for anaerobic digestion at thermophilic temperature conditions is the most energy-intensive stage of the process of anaerobic bioconversion of production and consumption waste organic matter, therefore, the search for ways to reduce energy consumption at this stage remains an urgent task. The article proposes a tech...

We as the editors have hoped that this book will become one of the most helpful and valuable reference books of 2021 in fields where machine learning serves for clean energy and transportation industry. This book intends and has succeeded in encompassing emerging research on new and mod-ern, upcoming and future resources and means, algorithms and m...

In recent decades, attention and interest to clean energy has been growing exponentially, along with a continuously increasing concern about our natural environment and our health, our natural resources and our atmosphere. This development has especially been due to a decrease in both the cost of both installed capacity of converters and the cost o...

This article is devoted to the relevant problem of increasing the efficiency of PV systems. The presented analysis discusses the available methods for improving the power generation of PV modules under partial shading. Mathematical models for power loss calculation were compiled based on the results of this analysis. The proposed approach minimizes...

This research is aimed at the assessing the impact of the ultraviolet radiation in the A, B, and C ranges (as additives to the main light) on general plan condition, the stress experienced by them, the pigment concentration in the leaves and leaf reflective characteristics. Under studying, there were the photo-protective reactions of the purple var...

Two-stage anaerobic digestion (AD) is a promising method of converting organic waste into clean and sustainable energy. This work aimed to study the efficiency of a two-stage AD system with the production of hydrogen at the first acidogenic stage and methane in an electromethanogenic reactor. Two types of biocathodes based on carbon cloth were used...

The article discusses the features of heat losses by convection and radiation of flat solar collectors on the basis of a non-stationary thermal model and program. The connection of heat losses with the generalized heat loss coefficient of solar collectors is shown. The article also deals with the problem of determining the distribution of temperatu...

The article presents the results of the development and research of the solar photovoltaic thermal module with paraboloid type solar radiation concentrators. The structure of the solar module includes a composite concentrator, which provides uniform illumination by concentrated solar radiation on the surface of the cylindrical photovoltaic thermal...