Biomass has the capacity to generate a major part of the global renewable energy demands due to its large supply, versatility, and readily exploitable nature. Biomass can be produced from natural sources like wood waste, grasses, trees, and fast-growing energy crops. Biomass wood chips are produced from crushed trees and can be fed into combustion systems to supply heat energy to buildings. However, ...

Electricity load modeling plays a critical role to conduct load forecasting or other applications such as non-intrusive load monitoring. For such a reason, this paper investigates a comparison study of two common artificial neural network methods (Multilayer perceptron (MLP) and radial basis function neural network (RBF-NN) for home load modeling application. The accuracy of load modeling using ...

The vision behind industry 4.0 is to create even smarter manufacturing facilities. Industry 4.0 includes both hardware and software components, which are expected to seamlessly interact in a secure manner. Thus, machinery and software components from different manufacturers should be able to communicate in a common language. Such a challenge is typically met by introducing a “middleware” to serve ...

Society recognises the need for the preservation of nature and the need for better resource utilisation. Integration of good practice in the building industry is mainly targeted at reducing or completely eliminating waste. One of the waste sources in the concrete industry is created in washing facilities and consists of returned concrete, washing water and cement slurry. Concrete trucks are washed ...

The concept of learning factory is taking more and more hold as teaching method, especially after the advent of Industry 4.0 (I4.0). Learning factories have in fact proved to be effective in developing knowledge and skills necessary for students to master the potentialities of adopting new I4.0 technologies in several aspects of production and logistics systems. Driven by these potentialities and ...

We consider generalized chessboard structures where the local conductivity takes two values 𝑎 and 𝑏 . All integer combinations of 𝑎 and 𝑏 which make the components of effective conductivity matrix integer valued are found. Moreover, we discuss the problem of estimating the effective conductivity matrix by using the finite-element method.

In this paper, we present a novel concept of tracking cargoes at open ports using remote sensing images and convolution neural network (CNN) to classify various dry bulk commodities. The dataset used is prepared using Sentinel-2 atmospherically corrected (Sentinel-2 L2A) images covering 12 spectral bands. There are total 4995 labeled and geo-referenced images for four different cargoes-bauxite, ...

Windtech technology is based on a novel patented technique of measuring cold exposure (UK Patent Office Application Number: 1914757.8, titled: Measuring cold exposure, dated: 11th October 2019). In this technology, the cold is measured via the response of an electrical heater exposed to environmental elements such as ambient temperature, wind, humidity, and irradiance. In this technology, the heater ...

In this paper, we introduce some new weighted maximal operators of the partial sums of the Walsh–Fourier series. We prove that for some “optimal” weights these new operators indeed are bounded from the martingale Hardy space H_p(G) to the Lebesgue space weak−L_p(G), for 0<p<1. Moreover, we also prove sharpness of this result. As a consequence we obtain some new and well-known ...