Admission control problems have been studied extensively in the past. In a typical setting, resources like bandwidth have to be distributed to the different customers according to their demands maximizing the profit of the company. Yet, in real-world applications those demands are deviating and in order to satisfy their service requirements often a robust approach is chosen wasting benefits for...

This study presents a novel desalination technology that couples Donnan dialysis (DD) with thermally-recoverable solutes and utilizes low-grade heat as energy input. In the proposed process, saline feed streams receiver solutions of concentrated NH4HCO3(aq) flow stepwise across cation- anion-exchange membranes. The large transmembrane concentration differences NH4+ HCO3– set up electrochemical ...

One of the greatest challenges to be faced in the fight against climate change in the construction sector is the fact that (non-traditional) conventional solutions are routinely accepted despite their high environmental impact. In particular, reinforced or mass concrete foundations are used at almost all sites, but they require a large amount of material, involve high emissions (some toxic), ar...

mining companies to determine a resource model of the tonnage and head grade of a potential orebody, which is one of the first and most critical inputs underpinning any mining project. The prediction of the grade, tonnage, and recoverable metal for a particular mining plan and the corresponding financial forecast constitute the main technical risks in mineral resource evaluation. The convention...