September 2013

Experimental investigation of NOx emission on croton oil – 1-butanol – diesel in compression ignition (CI) engine

Vegetable oils as fuel have received attention in recent years due to their advantages including renewable nature and domestically produced energy resources. Achieving reduced emission is important subject, as it enhances sustainability of biofuels. General factorial experimental design and analysis of variance (ANOVA) is used to analyze how NOx emission is influenced by alcohol content in vegetable oil-diesel fuel...

Author(s): Frank Lujaji, Sameer Hameer, Geoffrey John, Akos Bereczky and Makame Mbarawa      

September 2013

An efficient hybrid approach based on multi agent system and emergence method for the integration of systematic preventive maintenance policies in hybrid flow-shop scheduling to minimize makespan

This paper proposes a novel hybrid algorithm for the integration of systematic preventive maintenance policies in hybrid flow shop scheduling to minimize makespan. We have implemented a problem-solving approach for optimizing the processing time and methods based on metaheuristics. The proposed approach is inspired by the behavior of the human body. This hybridization is between a multi agent system and...

Author(s): Adel Abdelhadi and L. Hayet Mouss