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Fuel allocation and lockout system
(IEEE, 2018)In transport and Logistics business with the fierce competition, avoiding fuel theft through monitoring and management is a major concern in Africa. With the steadily increase in fuel price, fuel theft and fraud poses a ... -
Fuel ethanol production from sweet sorghum bagasse using microwave irradiation
(ETA-Florence Renewable Energies, 2013)Sweet sorghum is a hardy crop that can be grown on marginal land and can provide both food and energy in an integrated food and energy system. Lignocellulose rich sweet sorghum bagasse (solid left over after starch and ... -
Fuel not food: towards sustainable utilization of gutter oil
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)Waste cooking oil is discarded into sewage and waste bins in various developing countries. In China, the discarded oil is scooped illegally from drains by smugglers. After collection, the obtained waste oil is reprocessed; ... -
Fullerene functionalised fullerenes aggregates on surface soils and river sediments from Santa Catarina coal mining area
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A fully integrated 3D CFD model of the flow and heat transfer in a packed bed reactor
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Functionalising lignin in crude glycerol to prepare polyols and polyurethane
(Sage, 2019)In this work, crude glycerol liquefaction of lignins produced in the pulp and paper industry, as well as an organosolv lignin (sugarcane bagasse), was studied with the ultimate aim of preparing biobased polyols for ... -
Further development of methodology to model TRISO fuel and BISO absorber particles and related uncertainty quantification using SCALE 6
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)In the 350 MW Modular High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor (MHTGR-350), not only is the fuel double heterogeneous but so are the lumped burnable poisons (LBPs). The LBPs are composed of Bi-Structural Isotropic (BISO) particles ... -
Fuzzy logic controller with neurol network signal predictors for complex split-range control of a hybrid actuator
(Elsevier, 2013)This paper presents an integrated fuzzy logic controller (FLC) to address challenges associated with complex split-range control of a two-valves-in-parallel hybrid actuator. Split-range hybrid valve (HV) control aims to ... -
G2P variant prediction techniques for ASR and STD
(Interspeech 2013, 2013)Introducing pronunciation variants into a lexicon is a balancing act: incorporating necessary variants can improve automatic speech recognition (ASR) and spoken term detection (STD) performance by capturing some of the ... -
Gamifying the industrial engineering profession
(IEOM, 2017)An age-old problem facing higher education institutes is the verification that the knowledge taught in class was actually learnt and internalized. Many consider that the quality of education is to be measured on this basis. ... -
Gas crossover mitigation in PEM water electrolysis: hydrogen cross-over benchmark study of 3M's Ir-NSTF based electrolysis catalyst-coated membranes
(ECS, 2016)In this work we present some preliminary data, such as permeability (gas crossover) of oxygen and hydrogen as a function of current density and other operational variables, aimed at establishing baselines for unmitigated ... -
Generating fundamental frequency contours for speech synthesis in Yorùbá
(International Speech Communication Association ( ISCA ), 2013)We present methods for modelling and synthesising fundamental frequency (F0) contours suitable for application in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis of Yorùbá (an African tone language). These methods are discussed and compared ... -
Generation of ozone and hydrogen in a PEM electrolyzer
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A generic method for automatic translation between input models fordifferent versions of simulation codes
(Elsevier, 2014)A computer code was developed for the semi-automatic translation of input models for the VSOP-A diffusion neutronics simulation code to the format of the newer VSOP 99/05 code. In this paper, this algorithm is presented ... -
Genetic algorithm based PID tuning for optimal power control of a three-shaft Brayton cycle based power conversion unit
(Elsevier, 2012)This paper considers the development of a PID control strategy to optimally control the power output of a High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR) power plant. A specific type of HTGR called the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor ... -
Genetic fuzzy rule extraction for optimised sizing and control of hybrid renewable energy hydrogen systems
(Elsevier, 2020)A major challenge related to the design of a hybrid renewable energy hydrogen system is which energy sources to include and at what capacity, for regionally different potentials of renewable energy and hydrogen demand. In ... -
Geochemical mobility of potential hazardous elements of coal cleaning rejects
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Geochemistry of ultra-fine and nano-compounds in coal gasification ashes: a synoptic view
(Elsevier, 2013)The nano-mineralogy, petrology, and chemistry of coal gasification products have not been studied as extensively as the products of themorewidely used pulverized-coal combustion. The solid residues from the gasification ... -
Geometry based analysis of an alternative RFID interrogator placement for electronic vehicle identification
(IEEE, 2015)This paper proposes a solution for reliable in-traffic electronic vehicle detection based on UHF passive RFID (ISO/IEC 18000-63 - UHF Type C). The classic overhead placement of an interrogator reading a windscreen or plate ... -
The global galerkin finite element method as applied to the 1d beam equation: a systems approach
(SAAM, 2006)The paper focuses on the finite element solution of the fourth-order differential for an EulerBernoulli beam. In this approach the point point loads and concentrated moments are treated in a natural way as part of the ...