The concept of using an aspiration efficiency reducer (AER) in building heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems to control particulate air pollution concentrations was previously demonstrated using a 1:4 ...

Harvesting solar energy has the potential to reduce carbon emissions and to provide clean energy contributing to sustainable development. Most photovoltaic (PV) research to date has focused on achieving higher PV conversion ...

This paper proposes a novel individual blade pitch control strategy with the objective of reducing blade vibration. A wavelet linear quadratic regulator (LQR) control algorithm, which is an advanced modification of the ...

Analysis of Offshore Wind Turbine (OWT) fatigue damage is an intense, resource demanding task. While the current methodologies to design OWT to fatigue are quite limited in the way and amount of uncertainty they can ...

Reverse extrusion has been promoted over the past four decades for remoulded undrained shear strength (s u) measurement and consistency-limit determinations. The technique employs a uniaxial-compression test machine to set ...

The Energy and Water sectors crave innovation. The sectors also exhibit clusters of firms which interact in developing innovations. We explore how demonstrating learning in a cluster facilitates innovation. The paper is ...

Phosphorescence is used in photovoltaic devices by embedding phosphorescence species within a transparent host polymer to absorb ultraviolet solar radiation followed by a slow emission of visible light. Phosphorescent ...

Characterizing uncertainty in complex systems is steadily growing as a topic of interest. One of the efficient ways to characterize a complex system is achieved by probabilistic sensitivity analysis. In the context of this ...

In the design of many building structures for ultimate states the use of interaction equations is quite common. Despite this there is still a need for more advanced and flexible equations which consider all forces in space. ...