Direct evaporative cooling is widely known for being an energy efficient air conditioning solution arid and/or semi-arid climates. Commercialized pads vary in material and construction characteristics, while existing research proposes several alternative wetted media configurations. The most studied factors on the operation are velocity or mass flow rate, psychrometric conditions; pad thickness...

This paper deals with time-optimal operation of batch diafiltration processes in the presence of membrane fouling. Fouling causes a decrease in membrane area and, hence, an increase in processing time. In this work we study a time-optimal operation with several fouling models available in literature. Pontryagin’s minimum principle is applied to characterize the structure of the optimal operatio...

in recent decades, evolutionary algorithms have been applied successfully in various water resource engineering and management issue especially in optimal operation of reservoirs. in this paper, a model based on shuffled complex evolution (sce) algorithm has been developed for modeling optimal operation of complex multi reservoir system of karkheh basin. the system includes 4 different agricult...

In the present study an evolutionary based optimization algorithm Differential Evolution (DE) is applied to a case study of Bisalpur project, Rajasthan, India. The objective of DE based planning model is to determine suitable cropping pattern which yields maximum net benefits. Ten different strategies (variations) of DE are analyzed with various population sizes, crossover constants and weighti...