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Optimization of Supply Chain Management and Facility Location Selection for a Biorefinery
(2012-02-14)
If renewable energy and biofuels are to attain success in the market place, each
step of their production and the system as a whole must be optimized to increase
material and energy efficiency, reduce production cost and ...
Design and Optimization of a Compass Robot with Subject to Stability Constraint
(2012-10-19)
In the first part of this thesis, the design of a compass robot is explored by considering its components and their interaction with each other. Three components including robot's structure, gear and motor are interacting ...
Integration and Optimization of Trigeneration Systems with Solar Energy, Biofuels, Process Heat and Fossil Fuels
(2012-02-14)
The escalating energy prices and the increasing environmental impact posed by the
industrial usage of energy have spurred industry to adopt various approaches to
conserving energy and mitigating negative environmental ...
Process Optimization and Integration Strategies for Material Reclamation and Recovery
(2012-07-16)
Industrial facilities are characterized by the significant usage of natural resources and the massive discharge of waste materials. An effective strategy towards the sustainability of industrial processes is the conservation ...
Developing Methods For Designing Shape Memory Alloy Actuated Morphing Aerostructures
(2012-10-19)
The past twenty years have seen the successful characterization and computational modeling efforts by the smart materials community to better understand the Shape Memory Alloy (SMA). Commercially available numerical analysis ...
The Development of a Synthesis Approach for Optimal Design of Seawater Reverse Osmosis Desalination Networks
(2012-10-19)
This work introduces a systematic seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) membrane network synthesis approach, based on the coordinated use of process superstructure representations and global optimization. The approach makes use ...
Modified Niched Pareto Multi-objective Genetic Algorithm for Construction Scheduling Optimization
(2012-10-19)
This research proposes a Genetic Algorithm based decision support model that provides decision makers with a quantitative basis for multi-criteria decision making related to construction scheduling. In an attempt to overcome ...
Border Crossing Modeling and Analysis: A Non-Stationary Dynamic Reallocation Methodology For Terminating Queueing Systems
(2012-10-19)
The United States international land boundary is a volatile, security intense area. In 2010, the combined trade was $918 billion within North American nations, with 80% transported by commercial trucks. Over 50 million ...
Network Based Approaches for Clustering and Location Decisions
(2012-10-19)
The objective of this dissertation is to study commonly occurring location and clustering problems on graphs. The dissertation is presented as a collection of results in topics including finding maximum cliques in large ...
Optimization of Air Conditioning Cycling
(2012-10-19)
Systems based on the vapor compression cycle are the most widely used in a variety of air conditioning applications. Despite the vast growth of modern control systems in the field of air conditioning systems, industry ...