Venezuela possesses the Western Hemisphere’s largest conventional proven oil reserves at 77.8 billion barrels and has proved natural gas reserves of 148 trillion cubic feet, the largest in Latin America and the seventh-largest in the world. Despite these abundant resources, economic performance of the country has been poor. Oil production declined steadily every year beginning in 1973 and by th...

The two authors deal with the topic of the final assembly scheduling realized by the use of Genetic Algorithms (GAs). The objective of the research was to study in depth the use of GA for scheduling mixed-model assembly lines and to propose a model able to produce feasible solutions according to the particular requirements of an important Italian motorbike company, the Aprilia group, as well as...

The largest two-shaft gas turbine in the United States has been operated in combined cycle service at the Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company Horseshoe Lake Station since May 1963. The same design unit has been operated in peaking and stand-by service at Public Service Electric and Gas (Essex, N. J.) station since December 1963. The 0.G & E. unit has a NEMA rating of 25 Mw base load. The PSEG uni...

In this paper a multi-criteria fuel distribution problem similar to the common CVRP is considered with the real-life coordinates of gas stations obtained from a certain petrol company. The optimized criteria are the total distance of all tours and the number of tours. A certain method of solution representation, which ensures a feasible solution was used along a decoding scheme. A simulated ann...

organizations particularly in project structure pay specialattention to the efficient management and make a lot of efforts to achievethis goal by reducing delay in projects. gas transmission zones are amongthose kinds of organizations whose main activities are considered to be inproject structure. thus the significance of project management and thepathology of delay that imposes exorbitant cost...

Background: Combustion of fossil fuels contributes to sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions. To deal with this issue, the government of Iran has appointed the oil refineries to upgrade their installations and produce high quality fuels. Thus, this study investigated the status of SO2 emissions in Iran and the capability of advanced technologies to control SO2 emissions. Methods: The status of SO2 em...

This work introduces a model that categorizes computer-supported collaboration in different levels, according to its support for communication, coordination, cooperation and interoperability. This model is useful for defining the level of collaboration needed in real industrial scenarios or the level that is possible to achieve with the available technology, resources and working culture. These...

The objective of this research is "effectiveness evaluation of on-the job- training courses of National Iranian Gas Co. based on 3 patterns of Kirkpatrick, Phillips and CIPP".The statistical society is the employees of the National Iranian Gas Co. who attended the short term training courses in the first 6 months of the year 1390With reference to the obtained data about 10350 people includes in...