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"The industrial applications of Additive manufacturing technologies and systems are quickly increasing due to the high flexibility in the part design allowing for mass customisation and reduction of material usage. Besid...

"This thesis aims to develop a model for an industrial evaporative cooling system having a chiller and a production heat source using two cooling towers, to evaluate the energy consumption of the system and find an optim...

Wireless distributed microsensor systems will enable the reliable monitoring of a variety of environments for both civil and military applications. In this paper, we look at communication protocols, which can have signif...

This thesis aims to develop a model for an industrial evaporative cooling system having a chiller and a production heat source using two cooling towers to evaluate the energy consumption of the system and find an optimal...

With the shift towards a more sustainable energy system, the need for a better understanding of the behavior development over time of consumers and prosumers arises. Despite the growing penetration of smart meter infrast...

Networking together hundreds or thousands of cheap microsensor nodes allows users to accurately monitor a remote environment by intelligently combining the data from the individual nodes. These networks require robust wi...

"The German Government has the objective the reduce by 11% the electrical energy consumption until 2020. Cooling facilities represent 14% of this consumption and bring huge savings potential. Solar thermal cooling and he...

"A wide availability of in field Oil & Gas facilities which still have a marginal productive life can be a good opportunity to produce geothermal energy. The challenge is to make good decisions about the company’s asse...

Development of the efficient power aware protocol is the need of today s adhoc networks. Although developing battery efficient systems that have low cost and complexity, remains a crucial issue. In order to facilitate co...

"This paper presents a technical, financial and environmental analysis of four different hybrid buses operated under Buenos Aires driving conditions. A conventional diesel bus is used as reference and three electric hybr...

"The high emissions of greenhouse gases and the impact generated on the environment by human behavior during the last few years has led many governments to decide to promote the use of electric cars for passenger transpo...