The optimal design of a plate-fin recuperator of a 200-kW microturbine was studied in this paper. The exergy efficiency, pressure drop and total cost were selected as the three important objective functions of the recuperator. Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA-II) were respectively employed for single-objective and multi-objective optimizations. By opt...

Permanent magnet synchronous generators (PMSG) have a huge potential for direct-drive wind power applications. Therefore, optimal design of these generators is necessary to maximize their efficiency and to reduce their manufacturing cost and total volume. In this paper, an optimal design of a six-phase 3.5 KW direct-drive PMSG to generate electricity for domestic needs is performed. The aim of ...

For some real world railroad networks, we minimize certain operational cost of train schedules which allow different train types of diverse speed and cost. We use a mixed integer linear programming approach to model this train scheduling problem. For practical problem sizes, it is impossible to directly solve the resulting MIPs within a reasonable amount of time. However, a decomposition approa...

This paper considers strategies for external memory based optimal planning. An external breadth-first search exploration algorithm is devised that is guaranteed to find the costoptimal solution. We contribute a procedure for finding the upper bound on the locality of the search in planning graphs that dictates the number of layers that have to be kept to avoid re-openings. We also discuss an ex...

Linear programming problems with alternate solutions are challenging due to the choice of multiple strategiesresulting in the same optimal value of the objective function. However, searching for these solutions is atedious task, especially when using mixed integer linear programming (MILP), as previously applied tometabolic models. Therefore, judgment on plurality of optimal m...