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Inventions, Volume 5, Issue 3

2020 September - 27 articles

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Articles (27)

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,076 Views
26 Pages

20 September 2020

In this proposed research, clear prospects of a real life marketing scenario, by analyzing a price discount policy and variable demand, are derived. The proposed study presents a production model along with time-dependent and selling price related de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,069 Views
15 Pages

Deep Learning-Based Action Recognition Using 3D Skeleton Joints Information

  • Nusrat Tasnim,
  • Md. Mahbubul Islam and
  • Joong-Hwan Baek

17 September 2020

Human action recognition has turned into one of the most attractive and demanding fields of research in computer vision and pattern recognition for facilitating easy, smart, and comfortable ways of human-machine interaction. With the witnessing of ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
3,531 Views
12 Pages

16 September 2020

In the present scenario for the development of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), artificial intelligence plays an important role in path planning and obstacle detection. Due to different environments, it is always a task to achieve the proper moment...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,400 Views
18 Pages

14 September 2020

The boiling process is utterly fundamental to the design and safety of water-cooled fission reactors. Both boiling water reactors and pressurised water reactors use boiling under high-pressure subcooled liquid flow conditions to achieve high surface...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
7,691 Views
11 Pages

Mechanical and Thermal Analyses of Metal-PLA Components Fabricated by Metal Material Extrusion

  • Mahdi Mohammadizadeh,
  • Hao Lu,
  • Ismail Fidan,
  • Khalid Tantawi,
  • Ankit Gupta,
  • Seymur Hasanov,
  • Zhicheng Zhang,
  • Frank Alifui-Segbaya and
  • Allan Rennie

Metal additive manufacturing (AM) has gained much attention in recent years due to its advantages including geometric freedom and design complexity, appropriate for a wide range of potential industrial applications. However, conventional metal AM met...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
4,381 Views
23 Pages

Duan–Rach Approach to Study Al2O3-Ethylene Glycol C2H6O2 Nanofluid Flow Based upon KKL Model

  • Pradyumna Kumar Pattnaik,
  • Satyaranjan Mishra and
  • Muhammad Mubashir Bhatti

This work explains the cooling capabilities of ethylene glycol (EG)-based nanofluid containing aluminum oxide (Al2O3) as nanoparticles. Because of its enhanced thermophysical properties, Nanofluids are used in many application areas of mechanical and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,433 Views
10 Pages

Crude oil is the world’s leading fuel source and is the lifeblood of the industrialized nations as it is vital to produce many everyday essentials. This dependency on fossil fuels has resulted in serious environmental issues in recent times. Pe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
9,494 Views
14 Pages

Autonomous System for Wildfire and Forest Fire Early Detection and Control

  • Luís Miguel Ferreira,
  • A. Paulo Coimbra and
  • Aníbal T. de Almeida

Recurring and increasing large-scale wildfires across the globe (e.g., Southern Europe, California, Australia), as a result of worsening climate conditions with record temperatures, drought, and strong winds, present a challenge to mankind. Early fir...

  • Review
  • Open Access
175 Citations
15,756 Views
35 Pages

The shift from centralized to distributed generation and the need to address energy shortage and achieve the sustainability goals are among the important factors that drive increasing interests of governments, planners, and other relevant stakeholder...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,469 Views
13 Pages

Scientists and researchers are exploring different methods of generating and delivering electrical energy in an economical and reliable way, enabling them to generate electricity focusing on renewable energy resources. All of these possess the natura...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
4,106 Views
14 Pages

Owing to the expensive applications of nanoparticles in engineering sciences, an admirable attention has been intended by researchers on this topic in recent years. The utilization of nanoparticles as asource of energy is intended much attention of i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,143 Views
10 Pages

Decreasing the share of time for the technological training of new product creation is an actual and perspective task. The actuality of the given task always increases with the development of machine-building production. Changes which happen inside t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,030 Views
19 Pages

Secondary Voltage Control Application in a Smart Grid with 100% Renewables

  • Omar H. Abdalla,
  • Hady H. Fayek and
  • A. M. Abdel Ghany

This paper presents secondary voltage control by extracting reactive power from renewable power technologies to control load buses voltage in a power system at different operating conditions. The study is performed on a 100% renewable 14-bus system....

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,046 Views
11 Pages

Sewage Sludge Bio-Oil Development and Characterization

  • Zeban Shah,
  • Renato Cataluña Veses,
  • Jonatan Brum,
  • Marcos Antônio Klunk,
  • Luiz Alberto Oliveira Rocha,
  • André Brum Missaggia,
  • Andressa Padilha de Oliveira and
  • Nattan Roberto Caetano

This work presents the production of sewage sludge oil by pyrolysis, shows the physicochemical properties and compares it with commercial diesel. The sewage sludge was dried and mixed to discarded cooking oil to increase the fuel conversion rate due...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,678 Views
15 Pages

Currently, the privileged position of wind energy producers is being weakened by their enforced participation in the market on equal terms. This requires accurate production forecasting. The main aim of this study is to comparatively examine the wind...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,332 Views
19 Pages

Demand-Side Generating Assets (DSGAs) relate to existing small diesel Gensets serving the critical loads of infrastructures in unexpected electrical network interruptions. This paper investigates the exploitation of DSGA as potential suppliers of anc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,989 Views
22 Pages

This study analyzes transient turbulent modeling of three-dimensional multiple dimpled fin array using large eddy simulation (LES). The Navier–Stokes equations as well as the energy equation were constructed by the finite volume method and then...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,757 Views
5 Pages

Preliminary Design of a Smart Wristband Disinfectant to Help in Covid-19 Fight

  • Badre El Majid,
  • Saad Motahhir,
  • Aboubakr El Hammoumi,
  • Ambar Lebbadi and
  • Abdelaziz El Ghzizal

This concept paper describes a device consisting of a disinfectant wristband for the hands of the wearer and objects that the wearer intends to touch. This wristband can be powered automatically by the movement of the user’s hand or by solar ce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,644 Views
17 Pages

This paper presents a topology of a multi-port phase shift converter for integration with a photovoltaic (PV) system, a wind turbine generator, and a battery to supply a grid-connected domestic load. The main advantage of the topology is using a mult...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
8,777 Views
13 Pages

Techno-Economic Comparative Analysis of Renewable Energy Systems: Case Study in Zimbabwe

  • Loiy Al-Ghussain,
  • Remember Samu,
  • Onur Taylan and
  • Murat Fahrioglu

Fluctuations in fossil fuel prices significantly affect the economies of countries, especially oil-importing countries, hence these countries are thoroughly investigating the increase in the utilization of renewable energy resources as it is abundant...

  • Review
  • Open Access
188 Citations
44,554 Views
18 Pages

A Review of Methane Gas Detection Sensors: Recent Developments and Future Perspectives

  • Tahani Aldhafeeri,
  • Manh-Kien Tran,
  • Reid Vrolyk,
  • Michael Pope and
  • Michael Fowler

Methane, the primary component of natural gas, is a significant contributor to global warming and climate change. It is a harmful greenhouse gas with an impact 28 times greater than carbon dioxide over a 100-year period. Preventing methane leakage fr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,596 Views
10 Pages

This paper developed a multi-nozzle pneumatic extrusion-based additive manufacturing (AM) system and applied it to print multi-material polymers and conductive sensing pads. We used pneumatic extrusion nozzles to extrude the liquid material and then...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,295 Views
22 Pages

A New Car Concept Developed with Stylistic Design Engineering (SDE)

  • Giampiero Donnici,
  • Leonardo Frizziero,
  • Alfredo Liverani,
  • Giulio Buscaroli,
  • Luna Raimondo,
  • Eleonora Saponaro and
  • Giorgia Venditti

In this work, a structured design method, the Stylistic Design Engineering (SDE), is applied for the construction of a new minivan car, in particular a new city car, which we will call FIAT 600 Omega. The SDE, or Stylistic Design Engineering, is a st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
18,507 Views
27 Pages

Some of the most promising distributed recycling and additive manufacturing (DRAM) technical systems use fused particle fabrication (FPF) or fused granular fabrication (FGF), where compression screws force post-consumer waste plastic through a heated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
5,682 Views
9 Pages

Detection of Material Extrusion In-Process Failures via Deep Learning

  • Zhicheng Zhang,
  • Ismail Fidan and
  • Michael Allen

Additive manufacturing (AM) is evolving rapidly and this trend is creating a number of growth opportunities for several industries. Recent studies on AM have focused mainly on developing new machines and materials, with only a limited number of studi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,470 Views
15 Pages

Wide-Speed Range Sensorless Control of an IPM Motor for Multi-Purpose Applications

  • Maria Laura Bacci,
  • Ferdinando Luigi Mapelli,
  • Stefano Mossina,
  • Davide Tarsitano and
  • Michele Vignati

In a growing number of battery-driven applications the need of removing any position and speed transducer is taking over due to space, cost and mechanical reliability constraints, further than making the installation easier as requiring less wiring....

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