Pub Date : 2020-02-01DOI: 10.1109/ASET48392.2020.9118207
Jinendrika Weliwita, Jess Sanchez, Mohammad Almasalmeh
Misconceptions in mathematics of students entering to the university has challenged engineering education pedagogy. Awareness of educators of the existence of the misconceptions can ensure that they do not retain in engineering learners. Misconceptions arise when making the same error recursively and different from the mistakes in mathematics. Moreover, if the misconceptions were undetected, they would negatively affect the future learning and hence detrimental. This research is focused on identifying the common misconceptions through a comprehensive analysis and their relation to the engineering education and hence to emphasize the importance of the remedies in school level and undergraduate level. To this end, 132 engineering undergraduate students from different levels and of mixed gender were participated in this study. Sets of data were collected from a conceptual error testing, which contains questions that include common errors, which students make as misconceptions in basic mathematics. Further, a questionnaire was designed to capture their confidence in answering each question. We employed statistical tools to perform analysis and the results depicted that the misconceptions seemed to have a significant impact on their performance in the university, which is captures by GPA, and the performance of the emirates standardized tests and their high school performance in Mathematics. However, the high school test marks and the conceptual error test marks have no correlation and hence high school tests do not reflect their conceptual errors and hence the remedies are required for improve school level tests. Moreover, the students have not rectified misconception errors in mathematics throughout the degree level. The student's confidence level, for each question was recorded in 1–5 scale and the statistical analysis suggested that there is no relation with the confidence in answering a question. More importantly, results revealed that the students make conceptual errors very confidently and giving correct answer with no confidence and hence some students aware of the misconceptions and however they should be guided properly to overcome them. The study implicated that the educators are required to adopt techniques in instructional methods and assessments methods to correct misconceptions to enhance deep learning. This should be accomplished at the foundation level and hence the students foundation should be thoroughly studied to prevent the arising of such misconceptions and eliminate the present misconceptions.
{"title":"Mathematical misconceptions of students in Engineering education: statistical analysis and suggestions to pedagogical approaches","authors":"Jinendrika Weliwita, Jess Sanchez, Mohammad Almasalmeh","doi":"10.1109/ASET48392.2020.9118207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASET48392.2020.9118207","url":null,"abstract":"Misconceptions in mathematics of students entering to the university has challenged engineering education pedagogy. Awareness of educators of the existence of the misconceptions can ensure that they do not retain in engineering learners. Misconceptions arise when making the same error recursively and different from the mistakes in mathematics. Moreover, if the misconceptions were undetected, they would negatively affect the future learning and hence detrimental. This research is focused on identifying the common misconceptions through a comprehensive analysis and their relation to the engineering education and hence to emphasize the importance of the remedies in school level and undergraduate level. To this end, 132 engineering undergraduate students from different levels and of mixed gender were participated in this study. Sets of data were collected from a conceptual error testing, which contains questions that include common errors, which students make as misconceptions in basic mathematics. Further, a questionnaire was designed to capture their confidence in answering each question. We employed statistical tools to perform analysis and the results depicted that the misconceptions seemed to have a significant impact on their performance in the university, which is captures by GPA, and the performance of the emirates standardized tests and their high school performance in Mathematics. However, the high school test marks and the conceptual error test marks have no correlation and hence high school tests do not reflect their conceptual errors and hence the remedies are required for improve school level tests. Moreover, the students have not rectified misconception errors in mathematics throughout the degree level. The student's confidence level, for each question was recorded in 1–5 scale and the statistical analysis suggested that there is no relation with the confidence in answering a question. More importantly, results revealed that the students make conceptual errors very confidently and giving correct answer with no confidence and hence some students aware of the misconceptions and however they should be guided properly to overcome them. The study implicated that the educators are required to adopt techniques in instructional methods and assessments methods to correct misconceptions to enhance deep learning. This should be accomplished at the foundation level and hence the students foundation should be thoroughly studied to prevent the arising of such misconceptions and eliminate the present misconceptions.","PeriodicalId":237887,"journal":{"name":"2020 Advances in Science and Engineering Technology International Conferences (ASET)","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132851777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-02-01DOI: 10.1109/ASET48392.2020.9118224
H. Prabowo, I. Hilmy, Erry Yulian Triblas Adesta
Nowadays, Corporate is implementing Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) in order to survive in a very challenging and competitive market. If they want to survive, the have to maintain and even increase their equipment efficiency. However, the TPM utilization is a relatively difficult activity. Some obstacles as well as the supporting factors will determine the speed of the implementation process. Identifying and analyzing those obstacles and supporting factor are very important steps to gain an effective utilization of the TPM. The main discussion of this research is to acquire the significant barriers and enablers of TPM implementation in Indonesian manufacturing companies using Cochran test analysis. In this report, these barriers and enablers have been determined through the literature; data collecting is done by a questionnaire-based survey. There are five significant enablers and seven barriers affecting the achievement rate of TPM.
{"title":"Total Productive Maintenance Implementation's Barriers and Enablers in Indonesian Manufacturing Companies","authors":"H. Prabowo, I. Hilmy, Erry Yulian Triblas Adesta","doi":"10.1109/ASET48392.2020.9118224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASET48392.2020.9118224","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, Corporate is implementing Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) in order to survive in a very challenging and competitive market. If they want to survive, the have to maintain and even increase their equipment efficiency. However, the TPM utilization is a relatively difficult activity. Some obstacles as well as the supporting factors will determine the speed of the implementation process. Identifying and analyzing those obstacles and supporting factor are very important steps to gain an effective utilization of the TPM. The main discussion of this research is to acquire the significant barriers and enablers of TPM implementation in Indonesian manufacturing companies using Cochran test analysis. In this report, these barriers and enablers have been determined through the literature; data collecting is done by a questionnaire-based survey. There are five significant enablers and seven barriers affecting the achievement rate of TPM.","PeriodicalId":237887,"journal":{"name":"2020 Advances in Science and Engineering Technology International Conferences (ASET)","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133644073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-02-01DOI: 10.1109/ASET48392.2020.9118283
A. Yavuz, S. L. Phoenix
The projectiles have included RCC and spherical shapes, and viscoelastic interactions and slip between the both the projectiles and the target and between the target layers and fabric yarns have been modeled. Besides exploring new phenomena, these models have been useful for validating previous analytical models where various simplifying assumptions were necessary. Thus far, however, the numerical models have had the limitation (albeit a computational advantage) of assuming a symmetric framework whereby numerical solution of only one quarter of the projectile and target plane was necessary. Consequently, only normal (perpendicular) impact could be studied. To address this limitation, we have turned our attention to modeling projectile impact into the full target plane thus making it possible to treat oblique impact at an arbitrary angle of incidence. This would also make it possible to investigate boundary effects (clamped, free) where projectile impact occurs close to one boundary or near a corner. Making such generalizations has resulted in unanticipated challenges arising from modeling rapid projectile sliding on the target, and thus we have ‘backtracked’ to a simpler early version of the discretization model and begun with angled impact by a right circular cylinder (RCC) on a biaxial, plate-like structure. These challenges have led us to focus initially on scrutinizing features suspected of being possible numerical artifacts in the results, or, establishing through well-understood test cases that the features observed are indeed realistic and not artifacts. The most important findings come from a study varying the angle of projectile incidence as well as the coefficient of viscous sliding friction between the RCC projectile and fibrous target. It is shown that increasing the degree of viscous friction eventually leads to increasing fiber strain with angle of incidence up to some angle were a maximum is achieved. Generally, we find that oblique impact gives rise to important phenomena not captured by impact perpendicular to the target.
{"title":"Oblique Ballistic Impact Simulation of Flexible Body Armors Under Viscous Friction","authors":"A. Yavuz, S. L. Phoenix","doi":"10.1109/ASET48392.2020.9118283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASET48392.2020.9118283","url":null,"abstract":"The projectiles have included RCC and spherical shapes, and viscoelastic interactions and slip between the both the projectiles and the target and between the target layers and fabric yarns have been modeled. Besides exploring new phenomena, these models have been useful for validating previous analytical models where various simplifying assumptions were necessary. Thus far, however, the numerical models have had the limitation (albeit a computational advantage) of assuming a symmetric framework whereby numerical solution of only one quarter of the projectile and target plane was necessary. Consequently, only normal (perpendicular) impact could be studied. To address this limitation, we have turned our attention to modeling projectile impact into the full target plane thus making it possible to treat oblique impact at an arbitrary angle of incidence. This would also make it possible to investigate boundary effects (clamped, free) where projectile impact occurs close to one boundary or near a corner. Making such generalizations has resulted in unanticipated challenges arising from modeling rapid projectile sliding on the target, and thus we have ‘backtracked’ to a simpler early version of the discretization model and begun with angled impact by a right circular cylinder (RCC) on a biaxial, plate-like structure. These challenges have led us to focus initially on scrutinizing features suspected of being possible numerical artifacts in the results, or, establishing through well-understood test cases that the features observed are indeed realistic and not artifacts. The most important findings come from a study varying the angle of projectile incidence as well as the coefficient of viscous sliding friction between the RCC projectile and fibrous target. It is shown that increasing the degree of viscous friction eventually leads to increasing fiber strain with angle of incidence up to some angle were a maximum is achieved. Generally, we find that oblique impact gives rise to important phenomena not captured by impact perpendicular to the target.","PeriodicalId":237887,"journal":{"name":"2020 Advances in Science and Engineering Technology International Conferences (ASET)","volume":"24 18","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132743109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-02-01DOI: 10.1109/ASET48392.2020.9118388
Arwa Najah, Muamer Abuzwidah, Doaa Khalil
Helping to reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries on our roads network is one of the most critical issues in transportation field nowadays. Wearing a seatbelt is among highly effective ways to protect passengers in case of accidents. However, previous studies had shown that there is still significant percentage of road users who are not wearing a seatbelt especially those who are sitting in the back seats of the vehicle. This study aims to determine the safety effectiveness of the back-seat belt use law that was enforced in 2017 in the United Arab Emirates on people's commitment to wear it. This study also aims to study the public awareness of this important law. A survey was conducted by collecting data from various road users located in the United Arab Emirates in Fall 2019. A T-test and ANOVA test were applied to find the correlation between the different sections of the survey. The results showed that there is a correlation between the people's driving experience and their use of the back-seat belt. In addition, it was clear that this year witnessed an increase in the number of people who said that they never wear the back-seat belts in comparison with the previous study where most of the new drivers admitted to never wearing/asking to wear the seat belt. The results of the survey call for firm actions to be performed by law enforcement regarding the use of the back-seat belt for the safety of the public.
{"title":"The Impact of The Rear Seat Belt Use on Traffic Safety in the UAE","authors":"Arwa Najah, Muamer Abuzwidah, Doaa Khalil","doi":"10.1109/ASET48392.2020.9118388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASET48392.2020.9118388","url":null,"abstract":"Helping to reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries on our roads network is one of the most critical issues in transportation field nowadays. Wearing a seatbelt is among highly effective ways to protect passengers in case of accidents. However, previous studies had shown that there is still significant percentage of road users who are not wearing a seatbelt especially those who are sitting in the back seats of the vehicle. This study aims to determine the safety effectiveness of the back-seat belt use law that was enforced in 2017 in the United Arab Emirates on people's commitment to wear it. This study also aims to study the public awareness of this important law. A survey was conducted by collecting data from various road users located in the United Arab Emirates in Fall 2019. A T-test and ANOVA test were applied to find the correlation between the different sections of the survey. The results showed that there is a correlation between the people's driving experience and their use of the back-seat belt. In addition, it was clear that this year witnessed an increase in the number of people who said that they never wear the back-seat belts in comparison with the previous study where most of the new drivers admitted to never wearing/asking to wear the seat belt. The results of the survey call for firm actions to be performed by law enforcement regarding the use of the back-seat belt for the safety of the public.","PeriodicalId":237887,"journal":{"name":"2020 Advances in Science and Engineering Technology International Conferences (ASET)","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115580062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-02-01DOI: 10.1109/ASET48392.2020.9118315
A. Shabib, M. Khalil, Muamer Abuzwidah, Samer M. Barakat
The present paper aims at investigating the public perception of drivers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to the implementation of high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes in major freeways. A questionnaire-based survey was developed and distributed to drivers in the UAE in order to acquire an indication regarding the public's willingness to use and pay (WTP) for utilizing HOT lanes. A total of 561 responses were received and analyzed in order to identify the relationships between different characteristics and the public's WTP. Advanced statistical analysis by means of the one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) test showed that age, gender, average monthly income, and trips frequency significantly affected the WTP of the public under two conditions: 1) Normal driving conditions, and 2) Driving under emergency conditions. However, correlation analysis showed that only age, average monthly income, and trips frequency had strong correlations with the public's WTP for HOT lanes. However, none of the parameters had significant correlations with the public's WTP for HOT lanes under emergency conditions, as all respondents opted to pay high amounts in emergency situations. Furthermore, a linear model was developed through regression analysis which estimates the WTP of drivers based on age, average monthly income, and trips frequency between emirates. Overall, based on the results of the present study, it can be concluded that there is a positive perception from the public regarding the implementation of HOT lanes in the UAE.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-01DOI: 10.1109/ASET48392.2020.9118374
Maram Bani Younes
Driving over road networks is an everyday challenge that several research studies have been proposed to make it more safe and convenient. One of the main issues need to be efficiently and accurately handled is lane change scenarios. Drivers need to change their driving lane to take an exit on a road or to open the way for faster or emergency vehicle on that lane. Changing lane over highway road scenarios is a more serious challenge than changing it on downtown areas. This is due to the relatively high speed moving vehicles there. Vehicles in blind spots and wrong estimations of the distances between vehicles are the main two challenges that en-face drivers while changing their driving lanes. These cases may cause fatal accidents and lead to several damage consequences. This paper aims to investigate and compare the different previous proposed protocols that have been used to control safe lane changing for autonomous vehicles. Moreover, it reviews the intelligent driving assistance protocols that help drivers to safely change their lanes in several scenarios.
{"title":"A comparative study of Lane Change Assistance Protocols at Road Network","authors":"Maram Bani Younes","doi":"10.1109/ASET48392.2020.9118374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASET48392.2020.9118374","url":null,"abstract":"Driving over road networks is an everyday challenge that several research studies have been proposed to make it more safe and convenient. One of the main issues need to be efficiently and accurately handled is lane change scenarios. Drivers need to change their driving lane to take an exit on a road or to open the way for faster or emergency vehicle on that lane. Changing lane over highway road scenarios is a more serious challenge than changing it on downtown areas. This is due to the relatively high speed moving vehicles there. Vehicles in blind spots and wrong estimations of the distances between vehicles are the main two challenges that en-face drivers while changing their driving lanes. These cases may cause fatal accidents and lead to several damage consequences. This paper aims to investigate and compare the different previous proposed protocols that have been used to control safe lane changing for autonomous vehicles. Moreover, it reviews the intelligent driving assistance protocols that help drivers to safely change their lanes in several scenarios.","PeriodicalId":237887,"journal":{"name":"2020 Advances in Science and Engineering Technology International Conferences (ASET)","volume":"187 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115969173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-02-01DOI: 10.1109/ASET48392.2020.9118358
Salman Alhammadi, Fadhil Al-Shami, Ali Alhendi, O. Baobaid, Ali Almaskary, A. Bouhraoua
Environmental awareness is dictating the use of renewable energy as an alternative to fossil fuels. Solar energy has become a serious alternative. Open seas and mobility constitute a very advantageous combination. The exemption from the costs of land acquisition and preparation is a clear advantage for using open seas to deploy solar. The mobility of the solar system ensures that it is less sensitive to the fluctuations of the weather than for fixed on land deployments. Autonomous naval surface vehicles are the ideal instrument to deploy solar in open seas. Dubbed with on-ship energy storage, it constitutes a complete solution for energy harvesting in open seas. This paper is presenting the challenges and tradeoffs related to the design of an autonomous solar boat with compressed air energy storage (CAES).
{"title":"Autonomous Naval Surface Vehicle for Energy Generation in Open Seas","authors":"Salman Alhammadi, Fadhil Al-Shami, Ali Alhendi, O. Baobaid, Ali Almaskary, A. Bouhraoua","doi":"10.1109/ASET48392.2020.9118358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASET48392.2020.9118358","url":null,"abstract":"Environmental awareness is dictating the use of renewable energy as an alternative to fossil fuels. Solar energy has become a serious alternative. Open seas and mobility constitute a very advantageous combination. The exemption from the costs of land acquisition and preparation is a clear advantage for using open seas to deploy solar. The mobility of the solar system ensures that it is less sensitive to the fluctuations of the weather than for fixed on land deployments. Autonomous naval surface vehicles are the ideal instrument to deploy solar in open seas. Dubbed with on-ship energy storage, it constitutes a complete solution for energy harvesting in open seas. This paper is presenting the challenges and tradeoffs related to the design of an autonomous solar boat with compressed air energy storage (CAES).","PeriodicalId":237887,"journal":{"name":"2020 Advances in Science and Engineering Technology International Conferences (ASET)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124336809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-02-01DOI: 10.1109/ASET48392.2020.9118320
Aliaa Sherif Karam, F. Alnajjar, Munkhjargal Gochoo
Rehabilitation and assistive robotics are beneficial for chronic and subacute stroke patients with upper limb impairments. Rehabilitation robotics is the use of robotic machinery and devices during therapy sessions to motivate and optimize the patient's upper limb motor functions. While assistive robotics is the use of portable robotic devices, which can assist the post stroke user with their upper limb movements along their daily tasks. Assistive robotic devices may also allow patients to “in-directly” improve their motor functions through encouraging them to utilize their affected limb on daily basis. Thus, an assistive device is seen to be essential complementary to a rehabilitation device. Before marketing these two types of devices, they should undergo evaluation studies and clinical trials. This process will not only ensure patient's safety and optimal outcomes, but also help to overcome challenges in promoting the final product. The aim of this short article is to provide a brief review of current rehabilitation and assistive robotics, highlighting how they are complementary to each other, and how they can be evaluated and improved.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-01DOI: 10.1109/ASET48392.2020.9118257
In-Ju Kim, O. H. Omar, Rinada Abbas El Deeb
The number of mosques has been continuously increased around the world due to the popularity of the Islamic religion. Mosques and praying areas also have been grown rapidly. Unlike other building works, constructing mosques and the praying area is an inspiring defy. Amongst the confronts faced, slip and fall hazards are significant concerning issue to the worshipers. Since noticeable amounts of pollutants are often found at the ablution spaces due to the prayers' body cleaning practices, the floorings are coped with slick situations. In spite of such important safety problem, researches on ablution floors' fall incidents and related prevention strategies are hard to find in the literature. This paper reports on the further detections for the care stance of ablution spaces from arbitrarily invited mosques in the Dubai and Sharjah Emirates. Twenty mosques were randomly invited to measure their safety conditions from a viewpoint of traction behaviours and surface finishes of ablution floors. The present study outcomes recognize that the ablution floorings are not currently protected against falls, especially under the lubricated conditions. Thus, this study suggests two crucial issues to take immediate actions: 1) managers of the mosques should be fully aware of the current safety conditions of their ablution floors and find solutions to prevent fall risks and 2) prayers also should pay extra cares on their ablution floors to avoid any falls during the preparation of their ablution process.
{"title":"Investigation of Fall Hazards from Ablution Floors of Mosques in the UAE: Assessments of Traction and Texture Features and Their Effects on Slipperiness","authors":"In-Ju Kim, O. H. Omar, Rinada Abbas El Deeb","doi":"10.1109/ASET48392.2020.9118257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASET48392.2020.9118257","url":null,"abstract":"The number of mosques has been continuously increased around the world due to the popularity of the Islamic religion. Mosques and praying areas also have been grown rapidly. Unlike other building works, constructing mosques and the praying area is an inspiring defy. Amongst the confronts faced, slip and fall hazards are significant concerning issue to the worshipers. Since noticeable amounts of pollutants are often found at the ablution spaces due to the prayers' body cleaning practices, the floorings are coped with slick situations. In spite of such important safety problem, researches on ablution floors' fall incidents and related prevention strategies are hard to find in the literature. This paper reports on the further detections for the care stance of ablution spaces from arbitrarily invited mosques in the Dubai and Sharjah Emirates. Twenty mosques were randomly invited to measure their safety conditions from a viewpoint of traction behaviours and surface finishes of ablution floors. The present study outcomes recognize that the ablution floorings are not currently protected against falls, especially under the lubricated conditions. Thus, this study suggests two crucial issues to take immediate actions: 1) managers of the mosques should be fully aware of the current safety conditions of their ablution floors and find solutions to prevent fall risks and 2) prayers also should pay extra cares on their ablution floors to avoid any falls during the preparation of their ablution process.","PeriodicalId":237887,"journal":{"name":"2020 Advances in Science and Engineering Technology International Conferences (ASET)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114803790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-02-01DOI: 10.1109/ASET48392.2020.9118255
M. Assad, M. Alshabi, A. Khosravi, A. Hamida, Z. Said
Geothermal energy has a great potential to be a competitor to other renewable resources, as it is abundant and plentiful, where one production well can be sufficient for a number of uses. However, geothermal energy systems are advancing to meet the growing demand for electrical power and other applications that utilize thermal energy as a source. In this work, a feasibility study was done in order to study the possibility of geothermal power plant implementation of 1 MW in Hasbaya, Lebanon. According to the available geothermal resource of 200°C at 3000 m depth, two geothermal plant types were pointed out, including single flash and double flash plants, showing that the double flash has a better performance in terms of actual plant efficiency of 8.16%. In addition, the condenser type affects the performance; thus, utilizing an air-cooled condenser will be suitable for application. In addition to the performance, the cost analysis shows that using air-cooled will reduce the capital cost and increase the net present value.
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