The technical equipment developed and used in both installation and operation processes in refineries, oil and gas pipelines, and gas booster stations has always been expensive. Hence, managers at different organizational levels are keen to find methods to control and reduce these costs. Generally speaking, the operators in a gas booster station choose the operating devices without considering ...

Imagine an island modeled as a simple polygon P with n vertices whose coastline we wish to monitor. We consider the problem of building minimum number refueling stations along boundary in such way that drone can follow polygonal route enclosing without running out fuel. A fly maximum distance d between consecutive and is restricted move either or its exterior (i.e., over water). present algorit...

Abstract With the increasing electric vehicle (EV) penetration, there arises an immediate need for charging infrastructure. In future, electrification of transportation will reduce requirement existing fuel stations, thereby rendering them obsolete. However, they are best suited to cater demand EVs as drivers accustomed locations and incremental cost providing this service be lower. paper, we p...

Even though rail transportation is one of the most fuel efficient forms of surface transportation, fueling costs are one of the highest operating cost head for railroad companies. In US, unlike Europe, fueling costs are indeed, by far, the single highest operating cost. For larger companies with several thousands of miles of rail network, the fuel bills often run into several billions of dollar...

president, turned up in Cannes last month to promote his new documentary on the dangers of global warming, amid speculation that he may stage a political comeback on the basis of an issue which is increasingly dividing George Bush's administration and the Democrat opposition in the face of rising fuel prices. He arrived in France to showcase An Inconvenient Truth, a film that issues alarming pr...

Fire emissions, smoke dispersion, and air quality are very important for fire fighting and planing of prescribed burning. BlueskyRAINS (BSR) is a comprehensive and state-of-the-art Decision Support System (DSS) for fire managers and air quality managers to plan fuels treatments and support state air quality smoke regulatory actions, especially related to prescribed fires. BSR has been created b...

The Modular Accident Analysis Program for CANDU (MAAP4-CANDU) was developed to assess the consequences of a severe core damage progression in a CANDU nuclear power station. The results from MAAP4-CANDU analyses support Level 2 PSA activities being performed for CANDU stations. During the early stages of a severe core damage accident in a CANDU plant, the primary heat transport system (PHTS) coo...

Establishing hydrogen refueling stations is key to transition into a economy. To achieve this, near-term, city-level roll-out plan required, as Japan shifting from the demonstration implementation stage of The aim this study was devise identify near-term locations build in Yokohama City, Japan. Our provides information on potential location for 2020–2030. We considered mobile and parallel-sitin...

Fossil fuels have provided a convenient and plentiful energy source, and have been used profitably in all sectors of the global economy. However, continued reliance on fossil resources must take note of, and may even be placed in jeopardy by several factors. First, worldwide oil demand continues to increase, and replacing the produced oil is technically and politically demanding and very capita...