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Assessment Of A Decentralized Solution For Waste Plastic Management In Developing Regions, Chandniben Ashishkumar Joshi

Theses and Dissertations--Chemical and Materials Engineering

Rapid population growth, urbanization and availability of pre-packaged consumer goods have led to increased generation and consumption of plastic – so much so that it has become ubiquitous in the environment. An affordable, durable, and lightweight material of construction, plastic is used in innumerable products in every country on earth. However, this explosion of consumption coupled with the material’s significantly low degradability have led to serious plastic accumulation challenges, which are now an imminent threat to terrestrial and marine species globally. These challenges are especially acute in developing countries, where capital and infrastructure constraints, poor governmental regulation and lack of …

Electrochemical Performance Of Biomass-Derived Activated Carbon Supercapacitor Under Compression, Yulin Zhang

Theses and Dissertations--Chemical and Materials Engineering

Supercapacitors are important energy storage device of high-power density, fast charge/discharge rate, environmental friendliness and long service life. Currently, flexible supercapacitors have attracted widespread interest in academia and industry. Supercapacitors under the action of external force will inevitably cause structural changes, performance degradation and even loss of energy storage and supply functionalities. As the most abundant renewable resource so far, biomass is an important energy source for human survival and development. Most electrode materials for supercapacitors are porous activated carbons, which can be derived from abundant renewable biomass, contributing to the sustainable development of society and environmental protection. This thesis …

Interactions Of Lignin Dimers With Engineered Surfaces And Model Cell Membranes For Design Of Lignin-Based Materials, Mahsa Moradipour

Theses and Dissertations--Chemical and Materials Engineering

Capitalizing on byproducts of industrial and agricultural economies is among the utmost goals of sustainability. Of particular interest for commercial upgrading is lignin, a phenolic biopolymer found in the cell walls of plants which is the second most abundant biopolymer on Earth after cellulose. Due to its heterogeneous structure, deconstructing lignin to selected small molecules for use as chemicals or advanced materials has been elusive. This work capitalizes on a “bottom up” approach to the synthesis of lignin oligomers of known bond chemistry to better understand their interfacial interactions.

The potential pharmacological mechanism of lignin deconstruction components and their toxicological …

The Development Of Structural Hollow Carbon Fibers From A Multifilament Segmented Arc Spinneret: Precursors, Oxidation, And Carbonization, Elizabeth Ashley Morris

Theses and Dissertations--Chemical and Materials Engineering

Carbon fiber is an ideal material for structural applications requiring high strength and stiffness and low weight. Yet it has seen only incremental improvements in properties over the last few decades. Carbon fibers remain limited in attaining their theoretical tensile strength and modulus, largely due to defects in their structure, some of which stem from the fiber production process itself. Through the mitigation of defect formation as well as approaches to decrease fiber linear density, it is hypothesized that carbon fiber with enhanced specific properties, including specific strength and modulus, could be produced which would significantly propel its unique capabilities. …

How Does Lake Powell Water Storage Influence Release Temperatures And Grand Canyon Fishes?, David Rosenberg, Lindsey Bruckerhoff

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

Current Lake Powell reservoir operations for equalization and the Upper Basin drought contingency plan are articulated as target reservoir surface elevations and storage volumes. This analysis asks and answers the question how does water storage in Lake Powell influence release temperatures and Grand Canyon fishes?

Case Study Of Gravity-Fed Mountain Spring Tap System In Ha Leronti, Lesotho, Africa, Sarah Peterson

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

Water security has been declining rapidly in Lesotho, Africa in recent years. Lack of water has led to food insecurity, livestock deaths, and the spread of disease. Rural Basotho depend on rainfall to sustain their livelihoods; however, precipitation variability has recently increased due to climate change. For those who reside in the highlands of Lesotho, mountain springs can be a clean source of water. The tap system in the village of Ha Leronti relies on gravity to distribute water from two mountain springs to the ten village taps and nearby school campus. However, it is incapable of transporting the basic …

Toward Open And Reproducible Environmental Modeling By Integrating Online Data Repositories, Computational Environments, And Model Application Programming Interfaces, Young-Don Choi, Jonathan L. Goodall, Jeffrey M. Sadler, Anthony M. Castronova, Andrew Bennett, Zhiyu Li, Bart Nijssen, Shaowen Wang, Martyn P. Clark, Daniel P. Ames, Jeffery S. Horsburgh, Hong Yi, Christina Bandaragoda, Martin Seul, Richard Hooper, David G. Tarboton

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

Cyberinfrastructure needs to be advanced to enable open and reproducible environmental modeling research. Recent efforts toward this goal have focused on advancing online repositories for data and model sharing, online computational environments along with containerization technology and notebooks for capturing reproducible computational studies, and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for simulation models to foster intuitive programmatic control. The objective of this research is to show how these efforts can be integrated to support reproducible environmental modeling. We present first the high-level concept and general approach for integrating these three components. We then present one possible implementation that integrates HydroShare (an online …

Biom 3710: Physiological Systems And Modeling (Syllabus), Aaryani Sajja

Biomedical Engineering Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Fundamentals of control theory and mathematical modeling and analysis as applied to physiological systems.

Engr 1010: Engineering Problem Solving (Syllabus), Stephen Strain

Biomedical Engineering Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Introduction to the methods of engineering problem solving. Application of mathematical concepts to solve engineering problems.

Impact Of Image Segmentation Techniques On Celiac Disease Classification Usingscale Invariant Texture Descriptors For Standard Flexible Endoscopic Systems, Manarbek Saken, Munkhtsetseg Banzragch Yağci, Nejat Yumuşak

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Celiac disease (CD) is quite common and is a proximal small bowel disease that develops as a permanentintolerance to gluten and other cereal proteins in cereals. It is considered as one of the most di?icult diseases to diagnose.Histopathological evidence of small bowel biopsies taken during endoscopy remains the gold standard for diagnosis.Therefore, computer-aided detection (CAD) systems in endoscopy are a newly emerging technology to enhance thediagnostic accuracy of the disease and to save time and manpower. For this reason, a hybrid machine learning methodshave been applied for the CAD of celiac disease. Firstly, a context-based optimal multilevel thresholding technique wasemployed …

Ensemble Learning Of Multiview Cnn Models For Survival Time Prediction Of Braintumor Patients Using Multimodal Mri Scans, Abdela Ahmed Mossa, Ulus Çevi̇k

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Brain tumors have been one of the most common life-threatening diseases for all mankind. There have beenhuge efforts dedicated to the development of medical imaging techniques and radiomics to diagnose tumor patients quicklyand e?iciently. One of the main aims is to ensure that preoperative overall survival time (OS) prediction is accurate.Recently, deep learning (DL) algorithms, and particularly convolutional neural networks (CNNs) achieved promisingperformances in almost all computer vision fields. CNNs demand large training datasets and high computational costs.However, curating large annotated medical datasets are difficult and resource-intensive. The performances of singlelearners are also unsatisfactory for small datasets. Thus, this study …

Automated Classification Of Bi-Rads In Textual Mammography Reports, Mostafa Boroumandzadeh, Elham Parvinnia

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The main purpose of this paper is to process key information in medical text records and also classifypatients, per different levels of breast imaging-reporting and data system (BI-RADS). The BI-RADS is a scheme for thestandardization of breast imaging reports. Therefore, medical text mining is employed to classify mammography reportssupported BI-RADS. In this research, a new method is proposed for automated BI-RADS classifications extraction fromtextual reports and improves the therapeutic procedures. At first, a mammography lexicon is employed for choosingkeywords from medical text reports. Word2vec and term frequency inverse document frequency (TFIDF) techniques areused for extracting features, finally, they are combined …

Improvements Of Torque Ripple Reduction In Dtc Im Drive Witharbitrary Number Of Voltage Intensities And Automatic Algorithm Modification, Marko Rosic, Sanja Antic, Milan Bebic

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Techniques of direct torque control (DTC) are very common in high-performance electric motor drives.Retaining the good features of the conventional DTC and reducing torque ripple have been the subject of many years ofresearch work on improving these algorithms. This paper presents the DTC algorithm with discretized voltage vectorsbased on the use of conventional switching table (ST-DTC). This algorithm enables a significant torque ripple reductionby defining the corresponding number of the given voltage intensity while retaining calculation simplicity and fast torqueresponse typical of the ST-DTC algorithms. The proposed algorithm has the ability for its automatic modificationdepending on the defined number of …

Optimal Planning Dg And Bes Units In Distribution System Consideringuncertainty Of Power Generation And Time-Varying Load, Mansur Khasanov, Salah Kamel, Ayman Awad, Francisco Jurado

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Global environmental problems associated with traditional energy generation have led to a rapid increasein the use of renewable energy sources (RES) in power systems. The integration of renewable energy technologiesis commercially available nowadays, and the most common of such RES technology is photovoltaic (PV). This paperproposes an application of hybrid teaching-learning and artificial bee colony (TLABC) technique for determining theoptimal allocation of PV based distributed generation (DG) and battery energy storage (BES) units in the distributionsystem (DS) with the aim of minimizing the total power losses. Besides, some potential nodes identified by the powerloss sensitivity factor (PLSF). Thereupon TLABC is …

Placement Accuracy Algorithm For Smart Street Lights, Zulkifli Ishak, Wan Siti Halimatul Munirah Wan Ahmad, Nurul Asyikin Mohamed Radzi, Suhaila Sulaiman, Noor Emilia Ramli

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The smart street light (SSL) system is an emerging technology in which a street light is equipped withan advanced control system for dimming and turning the light on or off. SSL also improves the maintenance work byproviding an enhanced inventory, which includes Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates that can be retrieved froma GPS-enabled SSL. However, GPS coordinates may be inaccurate due to human error and GPS inaccuracy. This workproposes new algorithms for identifying human error and GPS inaccuracy in SSL installation by using distance analysisand the solving point-in-polygon method. The algorithms are important for inventory and maintenance purposes. Faultylight poles …

The Nearest Polyhedral Convex Conic Regions For High-Dimensional Classification, Hakan Çevi̇kalp, Emre Çi̇men, Gürkan Öztürk

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In the nearest-convex-model type classifiers, each class in the training set is approximated with a convexclass model, and a test sample is assigned to a class based on the shortest distance from the test sample to these classmodels. In this paper, we propose new methods for approximating the distances from test samples to the convex regionsspanned by training samples of classes. To this end, we approximate each class region with a polyhedral convex conicregion by utilizing polyhedral conic functions (PCFs) and its extension, extended PCFs. Then, we derive the necessary formulations for computing the distances from test samples to these …

A Step-Down Isolated Three-Phase Igbt Boost Pfc Rectifier Using A Novel Controlalgorithm With A Novel Start-Up Method, Hüseyi̇n Köse, Mehmet Ti̇mur Aydemi̇r

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

For some industrial converter applications such as battery chargers, a DC/DC converter is needed to stepdown the high DC (direct current) voltages generated by PWM (pulse with modulated) rectifiers to lower voltage levelssuch as 110V/220V. These both complicate the design and decrease the efficiency. In this paper, a novel topology thatincludes a step-down transformer and a novel control algorithm is proposed. The proposed current, which is synchronized,look-up table based, sinusoidal PWM control method (CS-LUT-SPWM method) using switching frequency-orientedsynchronization (SWFOS) results in a very fast PWM generation and stable operation. Finally, a new thyristor-basedstart-up circuit providing safe operation when there is …

Subjective Analysis Of Social Distance Monitoring Using Yolo V3 Architecture Andcrowd Tracking System, Muhammed Murat Özbek, Mustafa Syed, İlkay Öksüz

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The lethal infection, World Health Organization (WHO) reported coronavirus (COVID-19) as a pandemic.Lack of proper vaccine, low levels of immunity against COVID-19 has led to vulnerability of the human beings. Due tolack of efficient vaccine treatment, the only options left to fight against this pandemic are lockdown and social distance.This work offers an autonomous monitoring system on social distancing using deep learning techniques. The proposedarchitecture tracks the humans on roads and calculates their distance between each other. This surveillance detects thefurore violation of social distance utilizing CCTV cameras. The proposed framework uses YOLO v3 object-detectionmodel built on COCO dataset and …

Design Of The Fractional Order Internal Model Controller Using The Swarmintelligence Techniques For The Coupled Tank System, Sateesh Kumar Vavilala, Vinopraba Thirumavalavan, Radhakrishnan Thota, Sivakumaran Natarajan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The coupled tank system (comprising two tanks) is used in the chemical industries, water treatment plantsetc. Level control of the coupled tank system is a common problem in the process control industry. This work proposes afractional order internal model controller (FOIMC) with a higher order fractional filter for the level control of the coupledtank system. A first order plus delay time (FOPDT) model of the system is used in the controller design. FOIMC hasadvantages like robustness to changes in the system gain and extended stability margins. The proposed higher orderfractional filter makes the controller physically realizable and quickly roll off …

New Fail Operational Powernet Methods And Topologies For Automated Drivingwith Electric Vehicle, Ahmet Kiliç

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Electric mobility and automation are important drivers for the future of the automotive industry. Thisrequires an extremely high level of safety, reliability, and efficiency of the energy supply in the vehicle compared to the stateof the art. It is not possible to fulfill these requirements with today's energy supply. To meet these requirements, a fault-operational, scalable powernet is needed. In this paper, a new methodology is presented for the development of powernetfor automated driving with electric vehicle. The new method enables the development of new fail operational powernettopologies, early detection of failures in powernet components and the fulfillment of automated …

A Deep Neural Network Classifier For P300 Bci Speller Based On Cohen's Classtime-Frequency Distribution, Hamed Ghazikhani, Modjtaba Rouhani

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper presents a new method of predicting the P300 component of an electroencephalography (EEG)signal to recognize the characters in a P300 brain-computer interface (BCI) speller accurately. This method consistsof a deep learning model and the nonlinear time-frequency features. It is believed that the combination of the deepmodel network and extracting the nonlinear features of the EEG led this research to a better prediction of the P300and, therefore, character recognition. Cohen's class distribution is used in order to extract the nonlinear features of theEEG. Evaluating all of the kernels, Butterworth found to be more informative and it produced better results. …

Optimal Directional Overcurrent Relay Coordination Based On Computationalintelligence Technique: A Review, Suzana Pil Ramli, Muhammad Usama, Hazlie Mokhlis, Wei Ru Wong, Muhamad Hatta Hussain, Munir Azam Muhammad, Nurulafiqah Nadzirah Mansor

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

An exponential increase in diverse load demand in the last decade has influenced the integration of more power plants into the power system. This increases the fault current due to the bidirectional flow of current, resulting in unwanted tripping of the relays if not properly coordinated. Therefore, it is imperative to ensure the installation of relays in the grid being able to sense the fault current from any direction (i.e. upstream or downstream). This can be accomplished by introducing an optimal directional overcurrent relay (DOCR) coordination scheme into the system. This paper presents an in-depth review of the applications of …

A Geodesic Deployment And Radial Shaped Clustering (Rsc) Algorithm Withstatistical Aggregation In Sensor Networks, Lalitha Krishnasamy, Thangarajan Ramasamy, Rajesh Kumar Dhanaraj, Poongodi Chinnasamy

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) comprise a large number of connected tiny or small sensor devices to sense physical phenomenon. In WSN, prolonging the network's lifetime is a biggest challenge due to absence of power harvesting facility and irreplaceable batteries of the sensor devices. Clustering is one of the widely accepted and standard technique to solve the energy issues faced in WSN. In addition to clustering, the shape of the deployment area also plays the major role especially for large scale sensor deployment. This paper proposes a radial shaped clustering (RSC) algorithm with angular inclination routing. The radial shaped deployed area …

A Cross-Space Cascading Failure Hazard Assessment Method Consideringbetweenness Centrality And Power Loss, Ruzhi Xu, Dawei Chen, Qizhuo Zong, Jia Luo

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In order to accurately assess the hazard caused by cross-space cascading failure in the cyber-physical power system, we propose a quantitative assessment method. This method builds a comprehensive framework of assessment that takes into account the betweenness centrality of attack graph and the consequences of failure. The betweenness centrality of each node in the attack graph is used to characterize the frequency of failure. By calculating the number of all nodes on each attack path, the frequency of a certain fault is calculated. The power loss of physical node caused by each cross-space cascading failure is used to characterize the …

Model-Based Control For Second-Order Piezo Actuator System With Hysteresis Intime-Delay Environment, Saikat Kumar Shome, Sandip Jana, Arpita Mukherjee, Partha Bhattacharjee

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Piezo actuated systems are promising solutions for precision positioning applications. In this paper, a piezoelectric actuator is modeled as a second-order system using the Dahl hysteresis model and the system parameters have been identified from experimental data. The modified internal model control (M-IMC) approach is presented, which not only improves control performance but also reduces associated controller hardware resources. System dead time is approximated using first-order Padé expansion and the proposed Smith predictor-based M-IMC for piezoelectric actuators is seen to offer satisfactory stable control response even for plants with large dead time. The control performance of the M-IMC has been …

Obround Trees: Sparsity Enhanced Feedback Motion Planning Of Differential Driverobotic Systems, Mustafa Mert Ankarali

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Robot motion planning & control is one of the most critical and prevalent problems in the robotics community. Even though original motion planning algorithms had relied on "open-loop" strategies and policies, researchers and engineers have been focusing on feedback motion planning and control algorithms due to the uncertainties, such as process and sensor noise of autonomous robotic applications. Recently, several studies proposed some robust feedback motion planning strategies based on sparsely connected safe zones. In this class of planning and control policies, local control policy inside a single zone computes and feeds the control actions that can drive the robot …

In Depth Study Of Two Solutions For Common Mode Current Reduction In Six-Phasemachine Drive Inverters, Iman Abdoli, Alireza Lahooti Eshkevari, Ali Mosallanejad

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Common mode current (CMC) destroy machine bearings in the long run and increase electromagnetic interference. According to standards, the RMS value of CMC must be lower than 0.3A. Theories show that CMC is originated by applying zero states to the inverter. In this paper, the performance of two solutions in reducing CMC for six-phase machines is investigated. In the first solution, the traditional six-phase inverter is modified by adding two serial power switches on its input terminal. This method is an extended version of a method that has been presented for three-phase inverters, reduces CMC by optimizing the circuit structure. …

A Fuzzy Expert System For Predicting The Mortality Of Covid'19, Monika Mangla, Nonita Sharma, Poonam Mittal

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a widespread impact on health and economy across the globe. It is leading to a huge number of deaths per day. Few researchers have been attracted to analyzing the mortality rate of COVID-19 from various perspectives. During the research, it has become evident that these fatalities are not only caused by COVID19, but they are also affected by some other factors. The authors of this paper aim to encompass three important types of factors viz. risk factors, clinical factors, and miscellaneous factors that influence the mortality of COVID-19. This manuscript presents a rule-based model under …

New Hyperchaotic System With Single Nonlinearity, Its Electronic Circuit Andencryption Design Based On Current Conveyor, Anitha Karthikeyan, Serdar Çi̇çek, Karthikeyan Rajagopal, Prakash Duraisamy, Ashokkumar Srinivasan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Nowadays, hyperchaotic system (HCSs) have been started to be used in engineering applications because they have complex dynamics, randomness, and high sensitivity. For this purpose, HCSs with different features have been introduced in the literature. In this work, a new HCS with a single discontinuous nonlinearity is introduced and analyzed. The proposed system has one saddle focus equilibrium. When the dynamic properties and bifurcation graphics of the system are analyzed, it is determined that the proposed system exhibits the complex phenomenon of multistability. Moreover, analog electronic circuit design of the proposed system is performed with positive second-generation current conveyor. In …

Constrained Discrete-Time Optimal Control Of Uncertain Systems With Adaptivelyapunov Redesign, Oğuz Han Altintaş, Ali̇ Emre Turgut

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper, the conventional estimation-based receding horizon control paradigm is enhanced by using functional approximation, the adaptive modifications on state estimation and convex projection notion from optimization theory. The mathematical formalism of parameter adaptation and uncertainty estimation procedure are based on the redesign of optimal state estimation in discrete-time. By using Lyapunov stability theory, it is shown that the online approximation of uncertainties acting on both physical system and state estimator can be obtained. Moreover, the convergence criteria for online parameter adaptation with fully matched and partially matched cases are presented and shown. In addition, it is shown that …