Plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) are one of the most promising technologies for decarbonizing transportation sector towards global Net-zero target. However, charging/discharging PEVs impacts electricity network’s stability, increases operating costs, and affects voltage profile. This paper proposes a flexible multi-objective optimization approach to evaluate deploy vehicle-to-grid grid-to-vehic...

The comprehensive approach for a building envelope design involves performance simulations, which are time-consuming and require knowledge of complicated processes. In addition, climate variation makes the selection these parameters more complex. paper aims to establish guidelines determining single-family household’s unique optimal passive in various zones worldwide. For this purpose, bi-objec...

The objective of this study is to analyze the evolution of some social and economic indicators of Mercosur ́s economies from 1980 to 2012, based on the statistics of the Latin American Integration Association (LAIA). The objective is to observe if after the accession of these economies to Mercosur (the first accessions occurred in 1994) these indicators showed better performance, in order to dem...

The objective of this paper was to derive economic weights for performance and survival traits of growing pigs including feed conversion ratio (FCR), daily feed intake (DFI), ADG, postweaning survival of the growing pig (SG), and carcass fat depth at the P2 site (CFD). An independent model was developed for each trait to derive economic values directly based on a typical Australian production s...

This study investigates the optimal supply chain design for commodity chemicals (BTX, etc.) production via woody biomass fast pyrolysis and hydroprocessing pathway. The locations and capacities of distributed preprocessing hubs and integrated biorefinery facilities are optimized with a mixed integer linear programming model. In this integrated supply chain system, decisions on the biomass chipp...