background: wastewater produced by a dairy in sanandaj is a major source of environmental pollution threatening the city. the dairy uses activated sludge treatment to remove organic pollution from the wastewater. the present study evaluated the performance of this process and its compliance with national requirements for chemical oxygen demand (cod), biochemical oxygen demand (bod), and total s...

liberalization of energy price increases costs of agricultural inputs and costs of agricultural production. all these changes may affect the overall competitiveness of domestic products with similar foreign products. as a result of that, total cost of agricultural products are increased and profitability are decreased. in this paper, energy consumption for producing corn were calculated using c...

given the strategic remarkable rank of pistachio in non-oil exports, inputs’ management in its production is so important. as the scarcest input in agricultural sector, water is considered to be among the most important inputs of pistachio production.water inadequate supply and limate conditions increase water demand in pistachio growing areas. it is necessary to determine the real value or pri...

increasing of word demand load caused a new distributed generation (dg) to enter to powersystem. one of the most renewable energy is the photovoltaic system. it is beneficial to use thissystem in both separately as well as connected to power system using power electronics interface.in this paper an optimal pid controller for photovoltaic system systems has been developed. theoptimization techni...

Simulation-optimization aims to identify the setting of the input parameters (input variables, factors) of the simulated system that leads to the optimal system performance. In practice, however, some of these parameters cannot be perfectly controlled — due to measurement errors or other implementation issues, and the inherent uncertainty caused by fluctuations in the environment (e.g., demand)...

This paper proposes a structure for long-term energy demand forecasting. The proposed hybrid approach, called HPLLNF, uses the local linear neuro-fuzzy (LLNF) model as the forecaster and utilizes the Hodrick–Prescott (HP) filter for extraction of the trend and cyclic components of the energy demand series. Besides, the sophisticated technique of mutual information (MI) is employed to select the...