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Collaborative Wireless Power Transfer in Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks
( Hindawi Limited , 2020 , Article)Wireless power transfer techniques to transfer energy have been widely adopted by wireless rechargeable sensor networks (WRSNs). These techniques are aimed at increasing network lifetime by transferring power to end devices. ... -
Collapse behavior of thin-walled corrugated tapered tubes
( Elsevier Ltd , 2017 , Article)Thin-walled structures have been widely used in energy absorption and safety applications such as automotive, due to their lightweight and progressive folding modes. This work studies the collapse behavior and energy ... -
Collapse behavior of thin-walled corrugated tapered tubes under oblique impact
( Elsevier Ltd , 2018 , Article)Thin-walled structures are used in safety applications such as automotive vehicles and locomotives because of their efficient energy absorption, light weight, and reduced manufacturing cost. The performance of these ... -
Combination of Shape-Memory Polymers and Metal Alloys
( Springer International Publishing , 2022 , Book chapter)Stimuli-responsive metal alloys and polymers considerably varied their properties like mechanical, optical, electrical properties, and shape upon exposure to external conditions like temperature, light, electric field, ... -
Combinatorial benders decomposition for the two-dimensional bin packing problem
( INFORMS Inst.for Operations Res.and the Management Sciences , 2021 , Article)The two-dimensional bin packing problem calls for packing a set of rectangular items into a minimal set of larger rectangular bins. Items must be packed with their edges parallel to the borders of the bins, cannot be ... -
A Combined Bibliometric Analysis on the Data Collection and Reporting Systems for Sustainability Assessment in Higher Education
( IEOM Society , 2021 , Conference Paper)Sustainability in Higher Education (SHE) has been tagged as an emerging topic of concern among the research community and higher education institutions over the past decade. This paper aims to investigate the existing body ... -
Combined chemo-magnetic field-photothermal breast cancer therapy based on porous magnetite nanospheres
( Nature Research , 2020 , Article)The efficacy of different modalities of treating breast cancer is inhibited by several limitations such as off-targeted drug distribution, rapid drug clearance, and drug resistance. To overcome these limitations, we developed ... -
Combined direct oxy-combustion and concentrated solar supercritical carbon dioxide power system—Thermo, exergoeconomic, and quadruple optimization analyses
( Hindawi , 2022 , Article)For the global future energy systems, concentrated solar power (CSP) and direct CO2 capture systems are of the most important key technologies, however, each of these systems has shortcomings. This study addresses the solar ... -
Combined effect of global warming and buildings envelope on the performance of ground source heat pump systems
( Springer Link , 2014 , Book chapter)Heating and cooling systems as well as domestic hot water account for over 50 % of the world’s energy consumption. Due to their high thermal performance, ground source heat pump systems (GSHP) have been increasingly used ... -
Combined heat and power system based on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells for low energy commercial buildings in Qatar
( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)Commercial buildings in Qatar account for 19% of the total energy consumption in the country. To reduce this significant amount of energy, a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Combined Heat and Power (SOFC CHP) system with natural gas ... -
A combined thermo-mechanical refrigeration system with isobaric expander-compressor unit powered by low grade heat – Design and analysis
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)Refrigeration and air conditioning systems consume about 17% of the world-wide electricity and their conventional refrigerants cause ozone depletion and global warming. In this study a novel thermo-mechanical refrigeration ... -
Combustion and emissions of a diesel engine utilizing novel intake manifold designs and running on alternative fuels
( Elsevier Ltd , 2019 , Article)This work presents a number of integrated strategies aimed at enhancing the performance of the diesel engine and the subsequent reduction of its associated emissions. Three novel spiral-helical shaped intake manifolds with ... -
Combustion and emissions of a gas-to-liquid diesel engine utilizing optimized spiral-helical intake manifold designs
( American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) , 2021 , Article)Two simultaneous strategies were used to reduce diesel engine emissions. Optimized manifold designs were used with gas-to-liquid (GTL) fuel and its blend with diesel fuel. Six new spiral-helical manifolds were tested, which ... -
Combustion Characteristics and Emissions of a Direct-Injection Diesel Engine Fueled with GTL Fuel Blends
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Gas to Liquids (GTL) is one of clean alternative fuels which loosely defined terms that is generally used to describe the chemical conversion of natural gas to some type of liquid products. As such, it excludes the production ... -
Combustion synthesis of bifunctional LaMO3 (M = Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) perovskites for oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution reaction in alkaline media
( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article)Lanthanum based electrocatalytically active LaMO3 (M = Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) perovskites were synthesized using a single step solution combustion technique. The structural and morphological properties of the catalysts were ... -
Combustion synthesized nickel-cobalt catalyst deactivation by coking during ethanol decomposition reaction
( American Institute of Chemical Engineers , 2019 , Conference Paper)In this work, we report the catalytic dehydrogenation of ethanol over porous cobalt oxide and nickel-cobalt bimetal oxide (NiCoO2). Catalyst deactivation and the nature of carbon formation on these two catalysts are ... -
Comfort-based fuzzy control optimization for energy conservation in HVAC systems
( Elsevier Ltd , 2014 , Article)The work presented herein illustrates the use of computational intelligence and optimization approaches for improving the fuzzy controller's performance in architectural heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system ... -
Compact UWB band-notched antenna with integrated bluetooth for personal wireless communication and UWB applications
( MDPI AG , 2019 , Article)A compact band-notched UWB (Ultra-Wide Band) antenna with integrated Bluetooth is developed for personal wireless communication and UWB applications. The antenna operates at the UWB frequency band (3.1-10.6 GHz) as well ... -
Comparative exergy, multi-objective optimization, and extended environmental assessment of geothermal combined power and refrigeration systems
( Institution of Chemical Engineers , 2021 , Article)In the present work a comparative exergy analysis, multi-objective optimization, as well as extended environmental analysis of a geothermal-based power and refrigeration system, is carried out. Different arrangements with ... -
Comparison between contact and immersion ultrasonic techniques to evaluate longitudinal residual stress in friction stir welding of aluminum plates
( American Society for Nondestructive Testing , 2015 , Article)Ultrasonic stress measurement is a nondestructive technique that has increasingly been employed to evaluate the welding residual stress of different materials. This study compares contact and immersion ultrasonic waves ...