green water and blue water; renewable and nonrenewable water resources; water allocation and water allocation

The Cooperative Water Allocation Model (CWAM) is designed within a general mathematical programming framework for modeling equitable and efficient water allocation among competing users at the basin level and applied to a large-scale water allocation problem in the South Saskatchewan River Basin located in southern Alberta, Canada. This comprehensive model consists of two main steps: initial wa...

This research involves the design and analysis of pinch-based water/wastewater networks to minimize water utility in the petrochemical and petroleum industries. A study has been done on Tehran Oil Refinery to analyze feasibilities of regeneration, reuse and recycling of water network. COD is considered as a single key contaminant. Amount of freshwater was reduced about 149m/h (43.8%) regarding ...

There is an increasing trend in the use of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) to solve multi-objective optimization problems of the allocation of water resources. However, typically the outcome is a set of Pareto optimal solutions which make up a trade-off surface between the objective functions. For decision makers to choose a satisfactory alternative from a set of Pareto-optimal ...

Optimal capacitor allocation in distribution systems has been studied for a long times. It is an optimization problem which has an objective to define the optimal sizes and locations of capacitors to be installed. In this works, an overview of capacitor placement problem in distribution systems is briefly introduced. The objective functions and constraints of the problem are listed and the meth...

We derive the capacity and optimal power allocation scheme for a two-user fading broadcast channel where minimum rates must be maintained for each user in all fading states, assuming that the transmitter and both receivers have perfect channel state information. We show that superposition coding can achieve the capacity of such channels and explicitly characterize the boundary of the capacity r...

Restructuring of Electricity supply industry introduced many issues such as transmission pricing, transmission loss allocation and congestion management. Many methodologies and algorithms were proposed for addressing these issues. In this paper a power flow tracing based method is proposed which involves Matrices methodology for the transmission usage and loss allocation for generators and dema...

A health authority chooses a binary action for each of several individuals that differ in their pretest probabilities being infectious and the additive losses associated with two types decision errors. The is endowed portfolio tests sensitivities specificities. We derive simple necessary condition optimality test allocation. In special cases, precision parameters allocated are monotone individu...