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Filippos Vallianatos
In the volcanic complex processes, inherent long-range interactions exist suggesting that Non-Extensive Statistical mechanics could be used to describe fundamental properties of the system. Based on the non-extensive Tsallis entropy a frequency-volume di...
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Andreas N. Angelakis, Giovanni De Feo, Pietro Laureano and Anastasia Zourou
The aim of this study is to present water and wastewater technologies used during the Minoan (ca. 3200?1100 BC) and Etruscan (ca. 800?100 BC) civilizations. The basic technologies considered are: water harvesting and distribution systems, cisterns, groun...
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Jafar Jafari-Asl, Seyed Arman Hashemi Monfared and Soroush Abolfathi
This study investigates the optimal and safe operation of pumping stations in water distribution systems (WDSs) with the aim of reducing the environmental footprint of water conveyance processes. We introduced the nonlinear chaotic honey badger algorithm...
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Qinsheng Yun, Xiangjun Wang, Shenghan Wang, Wei Zhuang and Wanlu Zhu
This paper investigates the small-signal stability of a DC shipboard power system (SPS) with the integration of a supercapacitor. As an efficient energy storage solution, supercapacitors can not only provide rapid energy response to sudden power demand s...
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Minxiao Wang, Ning Yang, Dulaj H. Gunasinghe and Ning Weng
Utilizing machine learning (ML)-based approaches for network intrusion detection systems (NIDSs) raises valid concerns due to the inherent susceptibility of current ML models to various threats. Of particular concern are two significant threats associate...
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Gal Perelman, Avi Ostfeld and Barak Fishbain
The operation of water distribution systems (WDS) is an energy-intensive process, which is subject to constraints such as consumer demands, water quality, and pressure domains. As such, tracing an operation policy in which constraints are met while energ...
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Marwa Kamal Fahmy, Ahmad Eltaweel, Rana Abdollahi Rizi and Negin Imani
Insufficient daylighting can negatively affect working quality and productivity and increase lighting energy consumption in buildings. Particularly, the western orientation has a non-uniform daylighting distribution, especially at the zone next to the wi...
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Daniela Patricia Bohórquez-Álvarez, Karen Dayanna Niño-Perdomo and Oscar Danilo Montoya
This paper addresses the problem concerning the efficient minimization of power losses in asymmetric distribution grids from the perspective of convex optimization. This research?s main objective is to propose an approximation optimization model to reduc...
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Daniel Izquierdo, Gabriel Casas, Ana G. Garriga, Ignacio Castro, Aleksandra Zieminska-Stolarska, Mariia Sobulska and Ireneusz Zbicinski
The Hybrid Electric Regional Aircraft Distribution Technologies (HECATE) Clean Aviation project will mature and develop breakthrough technologies and perform scalability and impact analysis to ensure safe and power-dense technologies that will enable Ent...
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Mohamed Abbas, Mohammed A. Alshehri and Abdulwasa Bakr Barnawi
Active power losses have the potential to affect the distribution of power flows along transmission lines as well as the mix of energy used throughout power networks. Grey wolf optimization algorithms (GWOs) are used in electrical power systems to reduce...
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Ina Vertommen, Djordje Mitrovic, Karel van Laarhoven, Pieter Piens and Maarten Torbeyns
Numerical optimization is gradually finding its way into drinking water practice. For successful introduction of optimization into the sector, it is important that researchers and utility experts work together on the problem formulation with the water ut...
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Ismail Alperen Özlü, Olzhas Baimakhanov, Almaz Saukhimov and Oguzhan Ceylan
This paper proposes a toolbox for simulating the effective integration of renewable energy sources into distribution systems. The toolbox uses four heuristic methods: the particle swarm optimization (PSO) method, and three recently developed methods, nam...
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Thirupathi Samala, Vijaya Kumar Manupati, Maria Leonilde R. Varela and Goran Putnik
Research on flexible unit systems (FUS) with the context of descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analysis have remarkably progressed in recent times, being now reinforced in the current Industry 4.0 era with the increased focus on integration of dis...
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Khoa Dang Nguyen, Pham Duc Dai, Dong Quoc Vu, Bui Manh Cuong, Vu Phi Tuyen and Pu Li
Pressure reducing valves (PRVs) are commonly used for pressure control in water distribution systems (WDSs) by means of dissipating the pressure excess. The use of pumps as turbines (PATs) is an alternative and more favorable system since they not only c...
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?tepán Papácek, Karel Petera, Petr Císar, Vlastimil Stejskal and Mohammadmehdi Saberioon
Fish feed delivery is one of the challenges which fish farmers encounter daily. The main aim of the feeding process is to ensure that every fish is provided with sufficient feed to maintain desired growth rates. The properties of fish feed pellet, such a...
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Ariele Zanfei, Andrea Menapace, Simone Santopietro and Maurizio Righetti
Proper hydraulic simulation models, which are fundamental to analyse a water distribution system, require a calibration procedure. This paper proposes a multi-objective procedure to calibrate water demands and pipe roughness distribution in the context o...
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Andrea Menapace, Ariele Zanfei, Manuel Felicetti, Diego Avesani, Maurizio Righetti and Rudy Gargano
Developing data-driven models for bursts detection is currently a demanding challenge for efficient and sustainable management of water supply systems. The main limit in the progress of these models lies in the large amount of accurate data required. The...
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Steffen Beck-Broichsitter, Horst H. Gerke and Rainer Horn
Mineral landfill liners require legally-fixed standards including a sufficiently-high available water capacity (AWC) and relatively low saturated hydraulic conductivity values (Ks). For testing locally available and potentially suitable materials with re...
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Pramod T. C., Thejas G. S., S. S. Iyengar and N. R. Sunitha
Industrial Automation and Control Systems (IACS) are broadly utilized in critical infrastructures for monitoring and controlling the industrial processes remotely. The real-time transmissions in such systems provoke security breaches. Many security breac...
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Yifan Zuo, Liye Zou, Mu Zhang, Lee Smith, Lin Yang, Paul D. Loprinzi and Zhanbing Ren
The purpose of this study is to explore the spatial distribution pattern and influencing factors of the Chinese marathon. Geographic Information System (GIS) related spatial analysis tools were used to calculate the following?averaged nearest neighbor in...
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