Temperature is the main process variable needed for every operation in hot rolling process for all value addition activity and can be considered as main variable also to control pollution.. It is a tool for the steel hot rolling plant to improve profitability, environment and productivity by controlling the process energy balance by its sequences optimization. In the steel rolling plant the imp...

Charging of individual dust particles in contact with hot plasmas is studied by numerical methods. The dust particle is treated as a rigid solid body, composed by either perfectly insulating or conducting material. The collisionless plasma, consisting of electrons and singly charged ions, is simulated by Particle-in-Cell methods in two spatial dimensions. It is demonstrated that the surface con...

We consider settings where electric vehicle drivers participate in a market mechanism to charge their vehicles. Existing work typically assumes that participants are fully rational and can report their charging preferences accurately. However, this may not be reasonable in settings with non-experts. To explore this, we design a novel game called Bid2Charge and compare a fully expressive interfa...

Dust grains — objects of different shapes with a size distribution from micro to nanometers — are generally considered as a part of many space as well as laboratory plasmas. Among various charging processes, electron-induced secondary emission plays an important role wherever plasma contains a noteworthy portion of hot electrons. We have developed a numerical model of charging dust grains due t...

Given the dynamic nature of the mission of a wireless sensor network (WSN), and of the environment in which it is usually deployed, network reprogramming is an important activity that enables the WSN to adapt to the mission and/or environment. One important component of a reprogramming protocol is code dissemination and maintenance, during which new code is propagated to relevant WSN nodes. Sev...

A new multi-device wireless power transfer scheme that reduces the overall charging time is presented. The proposed scheme employs the intermediated energy storage (IES) circuit which consists of a constant power driving circuit and a super-capacitor. By utilizing the characteristic of high power density of the super-capacitor, the receiver can receive and store the energy in short duration and...

Police body cameras have been a hot topic recently, with controversy surrounding the privacy of officers, the usefulness of the cameras, the policies that should be followed when using footage, and so on [2]. Perhaps one of the most controversial aspects of the police body camera debate is the ability of an officer to disable their camera at will. Reasons ranging from privacy to convenience hav...

Environmental crisis and shortage of fossil fuels make Electric Vehicles (EVs) alternatives for conventional vehicles. With growing numbers of EVs, the coordinated charging is necessary to prevent problems such as large peaks and power losses for grid and to minimize charging costs of EVs for EV owners. Therefore, this paper proposes an optimal charging schedule based on Dynamic Programming (DP...