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Optimal planning of liquefied natural gas deliveries
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
We investigate the problem of designing an optimal annual delivery plan for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). This problem requires determining the long-term cargo delivery dates and the assignment of vessels to the cargoes ...
Integrated TOPSIS-COV approach for selecting a sustainable PET waste management technology: A case study in Qatar
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Elsevier
, 2022 , Article)
In 2018, the global annual consumption of Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles was approximately 27.64 million tons, with one million bottles sold worldwide every minute. Unmanaged PET bottles in the environment lead ...
Optimal design and operation of conventional, solar electric, and solar thermal district cooling systems
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd
, 2022 , Article)
This research investigates the integration of solar energy with traditional cooling technologies using solar electric cooling systems. A holistic optimization process is introduced to enable the cost-effective design of ...
Optimization of design and operation of solar assisted district cooling systems
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
The demand for air conditioning and cooling services is rapidly increasing worldwide. As cooling demand has high coincidence to occur in countries with high solar irradiation, the combination of solar thermal energy and ...
Combinatorial benders decomposition for the two-dimensional bin packing problem
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INFORMS Inst.for Operations Res.and the Management Sciences
, 2021 , Article)
The two-dimensional bin packing problem calls for packing a set of rectangular items into a minimal set of larger rectangular bins. Items must be packed with their edges parallel to the borders of the bins, cannot be ...
A blockchain-based framework to optimize shipping container flows in the hinterland
(2023 , Article)
We address two interrelated issues affecting the hinterland portion of the maritime container supply chain: reducing the movement of empty containers and reducing empty trips by trucks carrying these containers. In this ...