http://cora.ucc.ie:80 The DSpace digital repository system captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and distributes digital research material. 2013-05-15T07:50:10Z http://hdl.handle.net/10468/1010 How much wind energy will be curtailed on the 2020 Irish power system? McGarrigle, E. V.; Deane, J. P.; Leahy, Paul G. This paper describes a model of the 2020 Irish electricity system which was developed and solved in a mixed integer programming, unit commitment and economic dispatch tool called PLEXOS. The model includes all generators on the island of Ireland, a simplified representation of the neighbouring British system including proposed wind capacity and interconnectors between the two systems. The level of wind curtailment is determined under varying levels of three influencing factors. The first factor is the amount of offshore wind, the second is the allowed limit of system non-synchronous penetration (SNSP) and the third is inclusion or exclusion of transmission constraints. A binding constraint, resulting from the 2020 EU renewable energy targets, is that 37% of generation comes from wind. When the SNSP limit was increased from 60% to 75% there was a reduction in wind curtailment from 14% to 7%, with a further reduction when the proportion of wind capacity installed offshore was increased. Wind curtailment in the range of SNSP limit of 70-100% is influenced primarily by the inclusion of transmission constraints. Large changes in the dispatch of conventional generators were also evident due to the imposition of SNSP limits and transmission constraints. 2013-07-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10468/1021 Introduction: geographies of the post-boom era Linehan, Denis; Crowley, Caroline 2013-05-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10468/1126 Report on Irish consumers' awareness and knowledge of legal rights Donnelly, Mary; White, Fidelma This Report presents the results of an empirical study conducted by staff at the Faculty of Law, University College Cork (the UCC study ) in relation to consumers self-perception and their actual knowledge of the law. It builds upon earlier studies concerning Irish consumers by the National Consumer Agency and on the Special Eurobarometer Report (No. 342, 2011) on consumer empowerment. The UCC study assesses actual knowledge and focuses largely on consumer rights which derive from domestic law and it investigates how well informed and knowledgeable Irish consumers are in respect of these rights. 2013-04-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10468/1056 Deposition of copper by plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition using a novel N-Heterocyclic carbene precursor Coyle, Jason P.; Dey, Gangotri; Sirianni, Eric R.; Kemmell, Marianna L.; Yap, Glenn P. A.; Ritala, Mikko; Leskela, Markku; Elliott, Simon D.; Barry, Sean T. Two novel N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC)-containing copper(I) amides are reported as atomic layer deposition (ALD) precursors. 1,3-Diisopropyl-imidazolin-2-ylidene copper hexamethyldisilazide (1) and 4,5-dimethyl-1,3-diisopropyl-imidazol-2-ylidene copper hexamethyldisilazide (2) were synthesized and structurally characterized. The thermal behavior of both compounds was studied by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), and they were both found to be reasonably volatile compounds. Compound 1 had no residual mass in the TGA and showed long-term stability at temperatures as high as 130 °C, while 2 had a residual mass of 7.4%. Copper metal with good resistivity was deposited using 1 by plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition. The precursor demonstrated self-limiting behavior indicative of ALD, and gave a growth rate of 0.2 Å/cycle. Compound 2 was unsuccessful as an ALD precursor under similar conditions. Density functional theory calculations showed that both compounds adsorb dissociatively onto a growing copper film as long as there is some atomic roughness, via cleavage of the Cu-carbene bond. 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z