data envelopment analysis (dea) is a powerful tool for measuring relative efficiency of organizational units referred to as decision making units (dmus). in most cases dmus have network structures with internal linking activities. traditional dea models, however, consider dmus as black boxes with no regard to their linking activities and therefore do not provide decision makers with the reasons...

Introduction: Regarding the daily growth of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) application in a vast variety of industries which also contributed to their adverse effects, different methods were used for controlling their emission. One of the most effective methods for this purpose, is a combination of cold plasma and catalyst or photo catalyst. In this study, the effectiveness of the HZSM-5/ Ti...

  Methane conversion to higher hydrocarbons by pulsed glow discharge at the atmospheric pressure was investigated. The energy efficiency up to 10 % was obtained which is higher than any value ever published for nonequilibrium plasma conversion of pure methame. This method has a potential for development and it is expected that the energy efficiency will be improved further if the plasma paramet...

thermal barrier coatings (tbcs) are used to provide thermal insulation to the hot section components of gas turbines in order to enhance the operating temperature and turbine efficiency. hot corrosion and thermal shocks are the main destructive factors in tbcs which comes as a result of oxygen and molten salt diffusion into the coating. in this thesis atmospheric plasma spraying was used to dep...

This theoretical study examines the characteristics of a surface wave driven plasma monopole antenna using finite difference time domain method (FDTD) as well as commercial full wave simulator. The results show that the full wave simulator can be considered as an acceptable tool in simulation of a plasma antenna. Input impedance, radiation pattern, gain, efficiency and radar cross section of pl...