Pertinent literature arguing on the need for the University of Ibadan Management to decentralize its electricity generation by increasing the penetration of renewable energy sources (RES) in solving its dire energy problems have necessitated similar calls to University Management in incorporating relevant and evolving technologies in its desired efforts to try alternative energy sources. Some o...

The authors report the main results of the EU FP7 SARDANA project, a future network architecture able to provide large bandwidth to the end user in a flexible and intelligent way. The remote amplification for network reach extension, the remote monitoring of the network infrastructure, and the possibility of remotely powering ONUs are fundamental capabilities to maintain the passiveness of the ...

The present study applies the model of American Meteorological Society-Environmental Protection Agency Regulatory Model (AERMOD) to investigate NO2 emissions from Besat thermal power plant, which is fuelled by natural gas to function. Results indicate that the simulated concentration of NO2 based on AERMOD, does not exceed NO2 concentration limit, set by the Iranian Ambient Air Quality Standard...

Mitochondria are the power plant of the heart, burning fat and sugars to supply the muscle with the adenosine triphosphate (ATP) free energy that drives contraction and relaxation during each heart beat. This function was first captured in a mathematical model in 1967. Today, interest in such a model has been rekindled by ongoing in silico integrative physiology efforts such as the Cardiac Phys...

In the last decade nuclear reactors have proven to be a source of electrical energy economically competitive with conventional means of power production. With the resulting increase in orders for nuclear power stations there has been a corresponding increase in public awareness of the safety and environmental aspects of these facilities. This public awareness has been evidenced by the number of...

* Several students in SAIL have contributed to, and benefited from, research activities at the SAIL laboratory at Tennessee Technological University. These include: (i) Thad Scalf, Joe Cherry and Karthigan Srinivasan: Naval Radar Simulation Project. (ii) Andrew Trent and William Holcomb: Self Organizing Software Entities Project. (iii) Matt Irwin, Noah Rosser, Derrick Muncy and : Home Automatio...

In the Architectural-Engineering-Construction & Facility Management industry, project progress tracking is an important management task. Currently, this task still requires a significant amount of non value-adding manual effort that interferes with value-adding work. Additionally, current practice may lead to approximate or unreliable results. In this paper, the authors present an approach fusi...

In this paper, we have continued doing a research project which had done previously. Three types of power plants include an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC), a Dual-Fluid-Hybrid (DFH) and a single-fluid hybrid-fueled (HYB); were re-modeled. After model validation, thermodynamic studies and exergy analysis were extended for the defined cases using the first and second laws of thermodynamics. Then the...