Integrated energy systems utilizing renewable sources are sustainable and environmentally substitutes for conventional fossil-fired energy systems. A new multigeneration plant with two inputs, such as biomass and solar energy, and four useful outputs, such as cooling, heating, power, and distilled water, is presented and investigated in this paper. The proposed system includes evacuated tub...

| In this paper we present classes of algebraic interleavers that permute a sequence of bits with nearly the same statistical distribution as a randomly chosen interleaver. When these interleavers are used in turbo-coding, they perform equal to or better than the average of a set of randomly chosen interleavers. They are based on a property of quadratic congruences over the ring of integers mod...

load management and cost optimization are among the important factors in trigenerationsystems and combined cooling, heating and power (cchp) systems. in this study, an innovative cchpsystem uses a gas turbine as the prime mover and has a heat recovery steam generator (hrsg) in addition toan auxiliary boiler, electric and absorption chillers. the system is tied with the bulk electric grid; to ex...

In the current work, different methods for optimization of turbine blade internal cooling are investigated, to achieve higher cyclic efficiency and output power for a typical gas turbine. A simple two-dimensional model of C3X blade is simulated and validated with available experimental data. The optimization process is performed on this model with two different methods. The first method is ...

Steel pipes with circular cross-sections are usually used in cooling panels of electric arc furnaces. In the present study pipes with square cross-sections under equivalent conditions were used to obtain more information on the possibility of increasing the heat transfer and cooling efficiency. The results showed increased efficiency of the square pipe compared to the circular cross-section pip...

This paper proposes a scheduling and adaptive rate control scheme for multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems in the uplink, designed to improve system throughput in single-carrier broadband wireless systems with a turbo equalizer. In the proposed scheme, to reduce computational burden for the scheduling and adaptive rate control, scheduling including stream selection is first ...

This is a tutorial paper meant to introduce the reader to the new concept of turbo codes. This is a new and very powerful error correction technique which outperforms all previous known coding schemes. It can be used in any communication system where a significant power saving is required or the operating signal–to–noise ratio (SNR) is very low. Deep space communications, mobile satellite/cellu...

The Intel® CoreTM i7 processor code named Nehalem has a novel feature called Turbo Boost which dynamically varies the frequencies of the processor’s cores. The frequency of a core is determined by core temperature, the number of active cores, the estimated power and the estimated current consumption. We perform an extensive analysis of the Turbo Boost technology to characterize its behavior in ...