Two-phase boiling flows are used in a wide range of engineering applications. One of the most common applications is cooling systems. A refrigerant is injected into a closed-loop under saturation conditions extracting the ...

The modern manufacturing industry needs to meet the growing demands of aerospace production, while adhering to increasingly strict environmental and sustainability constraints. Cryogenic machining is steadily gaining ...

L'objectif de cette thèse est d'évaluer le potentiel d'amélioration de l'économie de carburant des véhicules, par l'hybridation thermique/électrique du groupe motopropulseur (GMP). Plusieurs configurations sont d'abord ...

Optical wireless communication (OWC) constitutes a key technology for 5G wireless networks. OWC alleviates the radio frequency (RF) spectrum crunch problem by enabling communications in the visible, infrared and ...

Municipal landfill leachates contain significant amounts of ammonia, which is toxic at high concentrations. It is also reported to inhibit the activity of microorganisms responsible for the biological treatment of the ...

Establishing a healthy lifestyle has become a very important aspect in people’s lives. The latter requires maintaining a healthy nutrition by considering the nature and quantity of foods being consumed, as well as maintaining ...

Conventional activated sludge-based wastewater treatment is an energy and resource-intensive process. Historically it has been successful at producing safely treated wastewater effluents in the developed world, specifically ...

Free Space Optics (FSO) communication systems have been heavily studied in the literature during the recent decade. Compared to the widely used and traditional Radio Frequency (RF) communication systems, FSO systems are ...

This research investigates the potential changes in the geometric design of highway elements in response to a fully autonomous vehicle fleet. When driverless vehicles completely replace conventional vehicles, the human ...

Site layout planning is crucial for enhancing the overall efficiency of construction operations and for reducing materials (re)location costs. More importantly, it helps identify construction time periods with potential ...