Nof and Paldor (Safety Sci 2010;48:607-14) suggested that resonance in the air pockets in the Indian Spring cavern might have contributed to the 1991 collapse. Here, we extend the resonance theory to one pocket in the cavern and a very broad basin that serves as the other branch of the U-tube. Our methodology is to apply familiar fluid dynamics principles to the situation that occurred in the c...

In this contribution we show the description, implementation and operation of an Operational Air Quality Forecasting System for industrial plants, urban and regional areas. The system is called OPANA (OPerational Atmospheric Numerical model for urban and regional Areas) and is the evolution and result of more than 10 years of research on sophisticated state-of-the-art numerical air quality mode...

Compressed air is a widespread but costly energy carrier. Leaks account for 10 compressed air consumption in production facilities and their removal offers high potential for cost reduction. The turbulent flow from a leak causes broadband acoustic emissions. These are exploited for leak detection using a narrowband ultrasonic microphone that is insensitive to audible noise. A parabolic mirror o...

Air-coupled ultrasound has shown excellent sensitivity and specificity for the nondestructive imaging of wood-based material. However, it is timeconsuming, due to the high scanning density limited by the Nyquist law. This study investigated the feasibility of applying compressed sensing techniques to air-coupled ultrasound imaging, aiming to reduce the number of scanning lines and then accelera...

There is currently scarce information on the occurrence and distributions of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the air from industrial estates in Nigeria. Hence, the present study aims to evaluate the extent and sources of pollution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the air from some industrial estates in Lagos and Ogun States, Nigeria. Ten air samples have been collected from the...

This paper presents the pressure-volume trajectories that yield the optimal trade-off between efficiency and power during the compression and expansion of air. These results could benefit applications such as compressed air energy storage where both high efficiency and power density are required. Earlier work established solutions for the simple case in which hA, the product of the heat transfe...

Safety stock and safety time are two well-known buffering solutions of material requirements planning (MRP) processes to mitigate against supply demand uncertainty. While the significance proper inventory in managing change has been extensively researched, chain management research on period gotten less attention. Earlier operations quantitative studies, particular, have often evaluated utiliza...

In this paper, we examine the issue of strategic industrial location selection in uncertain decision making environments for implanting new industrial corporation. In fact, the industrial location issue is typically considered as a crucial factor in business research field which is related to many calculations about natural resources, distributors, suppliers, customers, and most other things. B...