Chitin and chitosan are the most abundant natural amino polysaccharide that are non-toxic, biodegradable and biocompatible. They have become of great interest not only as an underutilized resource, but also as a new functional material of high potential in various fields. They are biopolymers having immense structural possibilities for chemical and mechanical modifications to generate novel pro...

The scientific identification of production growth resources is among the requirements of getting access to sustainable and endogenous economic growth. According to Solow growth model, the economic growth is generated by means of a couple of resources, i.e. the growth in production resources and the growth in productivity resources. This research takes the data of Iranian production industries ...

Load serving entities (LSE) of industrial district that have the operation responsibility of electric network, must procure the consumers electricity from wholesale electric market or the utility’s distributed generation (DG). The generation expansion planning (GEP) has a crucial impact on the optimality of LSE’s operation. In this paper, an innovative GEP is presented in which the location, ti...