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Short-term planning of liquefied natural gas deliveries
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
The ability of a supplier of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to deliver cargoes at desired times, while effectively managing a fleet of cryogenic vessels can significantly impact its profits. We investigate in this paper an ...
Synthesis and characterization of nanocrystalline CoFe2O4-zirconia via propylene oxide aided sol-gel method
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
In this study, a Co ferrite/ZrO2 ceramic nanomixture, with a uniform distribution of Co ferrite and ZrO2, was synthesized by the propylene-oxide-assisted sol gel method. Cobalt, iron, and zirconium nitrate salts were used ...
Effect of expandable graphite on thermal and flammability properties of poly(lactic acid)-starch/poly(ɛ-caprolactone) blend systems
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John Wiley and Sons Inc.
, 2018 , Article)
The effect of expandable graphite (EG) on the flammability and thermal stability of a poly(lactic acid) (PLA)-starch/poly(ɛ-caprolactone) (PCL) blend was investigated. The samples were prepared by melt-mixing and characterized ...
Effect of CO2 adsorption on enhanced natural gas recovery and sequestration in carbonate reservoirs
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2018 , Article)
In this study, CO2 injection for the purpose of Enhanced Gas Recovery (EGR) and sequestration after primary recovery is investigated on Pink Desert limestone from Edwards Plateau formation in central-west Texas. In this ...
Feature selection for effective health index diagnoses of power transformers
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Article)
This letter investigates an approach based on feature selection and classification techniques to reduce assessment complexities of power transformers. This approach decreases the number of features by extracting the most ...
Reducing energy consumption of CO2 desorption in CO2-loaded aqueous amine solution using Al2O3/HZSM-5 bifunctional catalysts
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
The aim of this work is to find a potential way for great decrease in CO2 capture energy requirement. Here, for the first time, a series of bifunctional Al2O3/HZSM-5 catalysts (Al-ZSM) were prepared by the combined ...
An improved time–frequency noise reduction method using a psycho-acoustic Mel model
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2018 , Article)
This paper addresses the problem of noise reduction in non-stationary signals. The paper first describes a human physiology based time?frequency (TF) representation (HPTF) using Mel filterbanks. It is then used to improve ...
Exposure to EGF and 17-estradiol irreversibly affects the proliferation and transformation of MCF7 cells but is not sufficient to promote tumor growth in a xenograft mouse model upon withdrawal of exposure
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Spandidos Publications
, 2018 , Article)
Epidermal growth factor (EGF) and estrogen are potent regulators of breast tumorigenesis. Their short‑term actions on human breast epithelial cells have been investigated extensively. However, the consequence of a long‑term ...
Dilution of seawater using dewatered construction water in a hybrid forward osmosis system
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
In this study, dewatered construction water was used for the first time as the feed solution in a combined pretreatment-forward osmosis process to dilute seawater (i.e. draw solution) for further desalination. It was found ...
Influence of TiO2 nanoparticles on the crystallization behaviour and tensile properties of PLA/TiO2, PCL/TiO2 and PLA/PCL/TiO2 nanocomposites.
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Springer Verlag
, 2018 , Article)
This paper investigated the influence of TiO2 nanoparticles on the morphologies, as well as crystallization behaviour and kinetics, of neat PLA and PCL, and of these polymers in different PLA/PCL blends. We used transmission ...