aims: sludge is an inescapable component of all wastewaters that originated from their treatment. dissolved air flotation (daf) process as an alternative clarifier is used in treatment of drinking water, pretreatment of wastewater, and as a phase separator in sludge activation processes. this study aimed to calibrated the usage of daf process in a laboratory scale and under various conditions, ...

Early experiments in migrating task images from one node in a metacomputing environment to another have shown, that it is possible to achieve almost maximum data throughput in LAN networks. With WAN-connected metacomputers however, the time spent in the task migration is not negligible. Here, alternative routing paths must be used concurrently to reduce the total migration time. We present a pr...

We studied experimentally the complete transient response of Taylor cones subject to a step change in external electric field with the goal of finding optimal conditions to reduce the overall response time and achieve the highest possible switching bandwidth. The transient behavior of electrified menisci is of interest for many applications that would benefit from active control of on/ off swit...

The aim of this project is to analyze and analytical solution of different optimal control problems are difficult to obtain because they involve differential equations with single or multiple boundary conditions. In this dissertation, numerical methods using Haar Wavelet a represented to overcome this difficulty. The method reduces the differential equations into a set of line a matrix algebrai...

Determination of facilities, such as factories or warehouses, location and availability conditions is one of the important and strategic decisions for an organization to make. Transportation costs that form a major part of goods price are dependent to this decision making. There are verity of methods have been presented to achieve the optimal locations of these facilities which are generally de...

High concentrations of nitrogen compounds, such as ammonia observed in the petrochemical industry, are the major environmental pollutants. Therefore, effective and inexpensive methods are needed for its treatment. Biological treatment of various pollutants is a low cost and biocompatible replacement for current physico-chemical systems. The use of aquatic plants is an effective way to absorb th...

optimization techniques can be efficiently utilized to achieve an optimal shape for arch dams. this optimal design can consider the conditions of the economy and safety simultaneously. the main aim is to present an applicable and practical model and suggest an algorithm for optimization of concrete arch dams to enhance their seismic performance. to achieve this purpose, a preliminary optimizati...

In this paper, we focus on the capacitated survivable network design problem when the survivability is expressed in terms of rerouting techniques. We propose an approach that permits to achieve optimal solution in reasonable time. Our approach uses both Benders decomposition and a cutting plane approach to reduce the high dimensionality of the problem. Some numerical results are also presented.