College of Engineering: Recent submissions
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Investigation of the Suitability of the Vibration Acceptance Criteria for Process Pipework in Assessing the Vibration Levels of the Flow-Induced Fatigue Failure
(2021 , Master Thesis)Process pipework is essential to the oil and gas industries. Usually, pipework is designed to satisfy static requirements. Often, vibration problems in process pipework are treated on an Adhoc basis. Pipework vibration can ... -
Development of novel magnetic bentonite based adsorbents combined with different carbon sources for removal of oil content from produced water
(2021 , Master Thesis)Water scarcity is a challenge faced worldwide due to depleting sustainable good quality water resources. Produced water, associated with the production of gas and oil, usually comes as oil contaminated water, creating real ... -
Environmental efficiency of electric vehicles in Europe: a well-to-wheel life cycle assessment-based data envelopment analysis
(2021 , Master Thesis)The environmental problems have raised the world demand toward a rapid change in the policy-making to achieve environmental sustainability. Nowadays, the world and especially the European countries have focused the studies ... -
A study on evaluating the readiness level for Qatar companie to adopt industy 4.0
(2021 , Master Thesis)In today's competitive environment, it is obligatory to maintain all business activities in all situations, even under crisis. The recent example of COVID-19, which forced most of the business entities to reduce manpower ... -
Quasi impedance source based high power medium voltage converter for grid integration of distributed energy sources
(2021 , Dissertation)The next generation of Power Electronics systems would need to be able to work at higher power levels, higher switching frequencies, compact size, and higher ambient temperatures, as well as should have improved energy ... -
Quantum key distribution with application to IOT security
(2021 , Master Thesis)The Internet of Things (IoT) connects billions of machines that can interact with each other. IoT is one of the fastest-growing areas in the history of computing, and will continue in this direction in the 6G era. New ... -
Free Chain: Enabling Freedom of Expression through Public Blockchains
(2021 , Master Thesis)Everyone should have the right to expression and opinion without interference. Nevertheless, Internet censorship is often misused to block freedom of speech. The distributed ledger technology provides a globally shared ... -
Influence of critical success factors in the performance of infrastructure projects in Qatar
(2021 , Master Thesis)Project success depends on many factors and knowledge that are used before and during the project lifecycle. They might depend on the type of projects and the level of understanding of project managers.In this thesis, a ... -
Characterizing trapped NAPL in pore networks of unconsolidated sand using synchrotron micro-computed tomography
(2021 , Master Thesis)The purpose of this research paper was to determine the correlation of occupancy percentage against the pore radius and coordination numbers for each pore space. X-ray micro-computed tomography images were taken for the ... -
Privacy-preserving data aggregation in smart power grid systems
(2021 , Master Thesis)Smart Meters (SMs) are IoT end devices used to collect user utility consumption withlimited processing power on the edge of the smart grid (SG). While SMs have significantapplications in providing data analysis to the ... -
A hybrid piezoelectric-electromagnetic energy harvesting at stabilization cycles excited confined water in pipeline
(2021 , Master Thesis)Research on green energy has been increasing tremendously in the past few years. Energy harvesting from an industrial pipeline conveying fluid using a hybrid harvester consisting of a piezoelectric beam and electromagnetic ... -
Framework for 'sports' infrastructure assets management and transformation post-2022 world cup adapting PPP module - critical success factors
(2021 , Master Thesis)The research aims to study the importance and the effect of the critical success factors that are important to engage the private party resources to assist the public party objectives from both parties' perspectives under ... -
Dimensions of Change from a Fishing Village to Heritage Marketplace: A Study of Souq Al Wakrah, Qatar
(2021 , Master Thesis)Al Wakrah is a distinctive settlement for cultural heritage in the State of Qatar. Globalization and rapid urbanization characterized the development of Al Wakrah over the last half-century, leading to a remarkable ... -
Integrated supercritical co2 power cycle with concentrated solar power tower with 50mw power capacity
(2021 , Master Thesis)As a part of the world's efforts to mitigate the impact of global warming via carbon neutrality plan by 2050, a novel supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) power cycle is presented that is integrated with concentrated solar ... -
Distance power system protection in presence of renewable energies (solar and wind)
(2021 , Master Thesis)Renewable energy become widely used in recent years in order to reduce CO2 emission, which produce from burning oil and gas to generate electrical energy. Solar and wind energies are the main types of renewable energies, ... -
Encoder-decoder architecture for ultrasound IMC segmentation and CIMT prediction
(2021 , Master Thesis)Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) have shown a huge impact on the number of deaths in the world. Thus, Common Carotid Artery (CCA) segmentation and Intima-Media Thickness (IMT) measurement have been significantly implemented ... -
Home energy management system embedded with a multi objective demand response optimization model to benefit customers and operators
(2021 , Master Thesis)This thesis aims to develop a Home Energy Management System (HEMS) that optimizes the load demand and distributed energy resources considering utility price signal, customer satisfaction, and distribution transformer ... -
Deep ConvNets for COVID-19 Recognition from Chest X-Rays
(2021 , Master Thesis)Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an extremely contagious and quickly spreading Coronavirus infestation. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)-CoV and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)-CoV, which outbreak in ... -
IEEE 802.11AX based medium access design for wireless IOT-blockchain network
(2021 , Master Thesis)Blockchain has emerged as a potential solution to security concerns over decentralized networks, and communication is the basic essence of the blockchain network and must be carefully planned while integrating with Internet ... -
Application of value stream mapping for improvement of efficiency in purchasing process for a chemical company in Qatar
(2021 , Professional Masters Project)Lean management methods have been used to improve productivity and performance in organizations. As one of the lean management methods, value stream mapping (VSM) uses the process flow map to analyze current processes so ...