Presence of salts in water has been one of the biggest problems of industrial equipment such as evaporators, boilers, and pipes. These salts gradually form scales on evaporators and boilers tubes and reduce their efficiency. Pretreatment processes are conducted to remove these salts; with sedimentation tanks being one of the essential equipment used in these processes. This study numerically si...

Masticatory efficiency in individuals with extensive tooth loss has been widely discussed. However, little is known about jaw movement smoothness during chewing and the effect of differences in food bolus location on movement smoothness and masticatory efficiency. The aim of this study was to determine whether experimental differences in food bolus location (anterior versus posterior) had an ef...

Data privacy is a huge concern nowadays. In the context of location based services, a very important issue regards protecting the position of users issuing queries. Strong location privacy renders the user position indistinguishable from any other location. This necessitates that every query, independently of its location, should retrieve the same amount of information, determined by the query ...

151 out of the 154 negative cloud to ground flashes and 449 out of 540 strokes were detected by the lightning location system (LLS). This results in a flash detection efficiency of 98% and a stroke detection efficiency of 83%. Only two additional cloud to ground strokes (0.4%) were detected but misclassified as cloud discharges. The analysis of 37 flashes which exhibit at least two strokes with...

network location models comprise one of the main categories of location models. these models have various applications in regional and urban planning as well as in transportation, distribution, and energy management. in a network location problem, nodes represent demand points and candidate locations to locate the facilities. if the links network is unchangeably determined, the problem will be ...

Microgrids have played an important role in distribution networks during recent years.  DC microgrids are very popular among researchers because of their benefits. Protection is one of the significant challenges in the way of microgrids progress. As a result, in this paper, a fault detection and location scheme for DC microgrids is proposed. Due to advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and s...

There are many problems arising in the electrical networks. In that, voltage fluctuation and power loss reduction becomes a major drawback in the electrical power supply system. Hence it is necessary to enhance the system power flow by placing suitable facts devices. The placement of FACTS devices in suitable location can lead to control the flow of current and maintain bus voltages in desired ...

In this paper the damage location in beam like-structure is determined using static and dynamic data obtained using finite volume method. The change of static and dynamic displacement due to damage is used to establish an indicator for determining the damage location. In order to assess the robustness of the proposed method for structural damage detection, three test examples including a static...