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Renewable and Storage Energy Integration for Smart Grid Housing
(2012-03)
This paper presents the design, implementation and testing of an embedded system that integrates solar and storage energy resources to smart homes within the smart microgrid. The proposed system
provides the required home ...
Treatment of high salinity solutions: Application of air gap membrane distillation
(2012-02)
Air Gap Membrane Distillation, using a high concentration of NaCl, MgCl2, Na2CO3, and Na2SO4, is implemented in this study. Permeate fluxes are measured for different feed concentrations and membrane pore sizes (0.2 and ...
The Importance of Acetonitrile in the Pharmaceutical Industry and Opportunities for its Recovery from Waste
(2012-02)
Acetonitrile is regarded as a key solvent in the pharmaceutical industry. However, the volatility in acetonitrile supply in recent years, coupled with its relatively poor environmental profile, has presented significant ...
A selective catalytic system for greenhouse gas (NOX) emission reduction at a 2-ethyl hexanol plant
(2012)
Trends of ambient NOx levels in the Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia, are increasing, and the regulators have identified areas requiring substantial reductions to control the atmospheric NOx concentrations. In this ...
Material Selection and Process Design Optimization Framework under Closed-Loop Supply Chain
(2012-01)
With an industrial era characterized by new regulations aiming at protecting costumers and the global environment, manufacturers have to be more effective in delivering products that meet customers requirement but also, ...
A Model to Predict the Resulting Grain Size of Friction-Stir-Processed AZ31 Magnesium Alloy
(2012-06)
One of the most important issues that hinder the widespread use of friction stir (FS) processing, an effective microstructural modification technique, is the lack of accurate predictive tools that enable the selection of ...
Thermodynamic analysis of a new renewable energy based hybrid system for hydrogen liquefaction
(2012-12)
In this paper, a parametric study of the triple effect absorption cooling system (TEACS) integrated with solar photo-voltaic/thermal (PV/T), geothermal, and Linde–Hampson cycle is conducted. The effect of different operating ...
Battery and Power Consumption of Pocket PCs
(Academy, 2012-01)
Due to the increased functionality in today’s portable devices, battery life and energy consumption
continue to be a major concern for both designers and users.
Unfortunately battery technology is not keeping pace with ...
Medical Waste Management and Control
(2012-12)
Medical centers including hospitals, clinics and places where diagnosis and treatment are conducted generate wastes that are highly hazardous and put people under risk of fatal diseases. Although the understanding of medical ...
Curriculum-guided Crowd Sourcing of Assessments in a Developing Country
(2012-10)
Success of Wikipedia has opened a number of possibilities for crowd sourcing learning resources. However, not all crowd sourcing initiatives are successful. For developing countries, adoption factors like lack of infrastructure ...