For a system to be completely autonomous, many subsystems need to interact and ensure that the system executes the required tasks without any human intervention or guidance. One subsystem that computes the trajectory which ...
Renewable energy sources have developed as a substitute to supply the increasing energy demand, replace finite energy resources such as fossil fuels, mitigate climate change, and play a major role in sustainable development. ...
The aim of this thesis was to develop an efficient computer program to solve the OPF problem for large scale systems. The second order Newton's method was selected after a thorough literature survey because of its robustness ...
This research considers the optimal power flow (OPF) problem in a power system with storage integration. The classical problem formulation requires minimizing the cost of conventional generation by taking into consideration ...
In this thesis, the integration of an optimizer and a forecaster into the Energy Management System (EMS) of a hybrid energy system has been studied. The hybrid energy system consists of photovoltaic cells, a wind turbine, ...
In our modern time, energy has enhanced the quality of life as well as economic development. The energy consumed is mostly from fossils fuels that are limited in nature and have drastic impacts on the environment. In search ...
This thesis develops an optimization methodology based on Ordinal Optimization (OO) and DC Optimal Power Flow (DC-OPF) to determine the optimal sizing and placement of energy sources in a distribution network. The primary ...
Heavy metal contamination in soil is of great danger for the environment as well as
for the human health. This is owed to their hazardous toxicity alongside with their
ability to be easily captured by crops and plants. ...
Mechanisms have been the center of machines since the dawn of the industrial age . Due to their importance, much research and effort was invested in the developm ent of synthesis techniques of mechanisms. Optimization ...
In almost all real-life projects, activity durations are not known with certainty. Therefore, adopting a schedule that ensures the successful completion of a project on time with a high probability is critical. This often ...
In high data-rate communication systems, signal attenuation can severely affect performance. Usually, to combat this problem, coded repeaters are placed along t he transmission channel. However, for many systems like ...
In communications systems, increasing the data rate of transmission has become a vastly growing field of study. Multiple-Input Multiple-Output systems emerged as a promising approach in such a field. However, increasing ...
Response surface methodology was utilised to analyse the effects of methocel, egg-albumen and gum arabic on the sensory properties of gluten-free Arabic bread baked from a formula based on pregelatinised rice and corn ...
Security is an important issue in networks and distributed systems. In order to interact with an entity on a network, it is important to investigate the entity' s trustworthiness and reliability to ensure the correctness ...
Marginal lands constitute an important portion of the total area of Lebanon and the Near East- Marginal lands are defined to have severe limitations as to the choice of plants and require careful management Irsal, a large ...
Concurrent engineering (CE) is the process of completing tasks in parallel, in order to reduce project durations. This overlapping of traditionally sequential activities is becoming a requirement for fast-tracking complex ...
Tissue cultured banana plants perform better than sucker derived plants under field conditions in terms of earliness in harvesting (shorter cycle), uniformity of growth and increased production (Robinson, 1990 Espino et ...