Pub Date : 2015-12-01DOI: 10.1109/WCST.2015.7414850
J. Riesbeck, Kararina Lundkvist, Mats Bramming, Anita Wedholm
Recycling is of major interest in steel making for environmental reasons as well as economical. All process units produce secondary materials which are recycled, sold or put in landfill. This work evaluates simulated cases for recycling of materials at an integrated steel site. Case studies and industrial tests of different recycling options have been performed. The main focus has been on residues produced in significant quantities and materials put in landfill due to their physical or chemical nature. Chosen case studies have been tested in industrial scale and comprise of recycling of dust, sludge and ladle slag to the blast furnace. The results from test periods have been used to compare modelling with process parameters. Industrial tests show that it will be beneficial to recycle steel plant (BOF) sludge via briquettes to the blast furnace but the main issue is the drying of the sludge. Furthermore ladle slag can be used as slag former in the BF with no negative effect on the process or product. The main advantage is that the resource efficiency increases since less virgin material is used and the depositing of secondary materials is decreased. Major cost savings can be found if internal recirculation can replace raw material such as iron ore, coke and lime stone.
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Pub Date : 2015-12-01DOI: 10.1109/WCST.2015.7415134
Imane L'hadi, Mohammed Bakr Sikal, Sarah Lahtani, A. Khallaayoun, R. Lghoul
The current electricity grid in Morocco is facing challenges due to its conventional nature. The conventional sources of energy used are one of the major participants in pollution, and they are inefficient and unreliable in securing the national energy security. Morocco is energy dependent as it imports about 97% of its energy needs. To improve the current situation, the energy in the residential sector needs to be managed in order to reduce peak demand, protect the environment, reduce cost, avoid energy deficit, involve consumer, and efficiently use its renewable energy potential. This paper tackles the building blocks of smart grids, namely, the residential microgrid. The development of a home energy management mobile application on smart devices (phones, tablets, etc.) is presented which has as goals the establishment of a two-way flow of power and data, and the management of residual energy. In addition, the mobile application architecture and design are detailed. Methods for testing the application are suggested, and finally, algorithms for home energy demand optimization are presented as an extension of the home energy management mobile application features.
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Pub Date : 2015-12-01DOI: 10.1109/WCST.2015.7415137
M. Papoutsidakis, D. Piromalis, D. Tseles
Pneumatic positioning systems, as rapid force enforcement systems, have always been popular to engineers due to their advantages like, low cost and clear environmental conditions of operation. Apart from that, the still unsolved problem of highly position accuracy requires intelligent control design schemes to achieve performance improvements. In this research work, an attempt to control a pneumatic actuator in a real rig simultaneously with a simulation model, is proposed. A modern control method was chosen for the task, which was implemented in both processes, the simulated and the real one. The mathematical model of the system will be provided and the comparison results of operation are illustrated in the paper supporting the efficiency of the proposed controller. Additionally, an embedded electronics board was designed and constructed to fulfill successfully the interface needs. On the board, a microcontroller was mounted and all its necessary peripherals in order to host the control algorithm, communicate with the pneumatic plant and at the same time operate as a data acquisition system. All electronic components were picked up from next corner's electronics store thus minimizing the cost of the research but without questioning the reliability of the system.
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Pub Date : 2015-12-01DOI: 10.1109/WCST.2015.7415129
B. O. Ganiyu, J. Fapohunda, R. Haldenwang
The responsiveness of the construction industry to the preservation of natural resources for the benefits of future generation has been very poor in developing countries. This is unconnected to the demand for sustainable shelters to house the growing population and meeting the demand for supporting infrastructure to provide better living standards for the people. Building energy efficient houses does not only contribute to better living conditions, but also a better environment thereby culminating into creating sustainable communities. The existing literatures reveal the existence of much discussion about sustainable development, but this is not matched with much action. This paper aims to provide a new approach upon which housing development for low and middle income population in developing countries could be constructed to enhance sustainability. The study employs the use of quantitative methods for data gathering and construction professionals within South African construction industry were the research participants. The data were analysed using descriptive statistical techniques. The research highlights four construction methods and factors which affect the construction methods that enhance sustainability in housing. Eliminating material wastage and complexities in housing processes are the core factors which when achieved will reduce construction cost to a minimum, reduce negative impact of construction on the environment while maintaining high quality in the housing constructed.
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Pub Date : 2015-12-01DOI: 10.1109/WCST.2015.7415130
Nabil Hadj-Ahmed, C. Pattinson
A data centre is an important component in any organisation as it plays a key role in its growth and success; it has become the most popular cost-effective platform for hosting large scale applications. While more data centres are being implemented and existing facilities are continuously expanding in order to meet the so ever increasing demand, the global network of data centres has become similar to the electricity grid, yet the comparison fails dramatically when it comes to the matter of energy efficiency and cost. Data centres incur frightening costs and in some case spiral out control as regards to power consumption and cooling. An efficient method for saving energy in data centres is to dynamically adjust the data centre compute capacity resources. Nonetheless, this is a challenging solution as it will require thorough understanding of the hosted applications, the resource demand characteristics and the impact on the service level agreement (SLA). In this paper, we investigate the possibility of providing an intelligent control mechanism that manages compute resource capacity dynamically which reduces data centre energy while meeting the performance requirements by means of simulation and extensive analysis using Google's trace workload real data, we will demonstrate how our proposed approach can achieve significant energy savings while meeting the performance requirements.
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Pub Date : 2015-12-01DOI: 10.1109/WCST.2015.7414852
Klaus Peters, E. Malfa, V. Colla, L. Brimacombe
Steel is the essential material for a circular economy. Through the technological evolution of human society, steel remains fundamental to daily life and to the welfare of the society. In effect it has been recognized as a Key Enabling Technology. Steel is actually ubiquitous and most artifacts are either made of steel, in part or in their entirety, or are manufactured from machines and tools made of steel. It is deeply embedded in the anthroposphere, and like all materials, its production requires significant consumption of resources, energy, raw materials and logistics. However, its recyclability means that steel produced today will be utilized by future generations. Resource efficiency is an important topic for the European steel industry: it naturally lies in the operating practice of the standard production cycle, due to the recyclability of steel, the significant quantities of raw materials required for its production and the large volumes of by-products. Further efforts and innovative approaches are demanded to improve resource efficiency. This paper resents how the Strategic Research Agenda of the European Steel Technology Platform addresses the different aspects of resource efficiency in order to highlight the challenges that the sector faces in terms of Research and Innovation fostering a sustainable steel production.
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Pub Date : 2015-12-01DOI: 10.1109/WCST.2015.7415133
Bojan Durin
System approach and sustainable use of water and energy in all kinds of human activities is not required for financial reasons only. It is also a legal and community obligation. The paper deals with the application of Critical Period Method for irrigation system design. Irrigation system includes a Solar Photovoltaic (PV) generator and inverter, a pump station, a water reservoir and pipelines. PV energy is used as energy source for the pump station. Groundwater in combination with rainwater is used for irrigation water demands. This is in accordance with the world and European legislation, directives and strategies related to the negative impacts of climate changes and greenhouse gas emissions.
{"title":"Sustainable water and energy use for irrigation demands","authors":"Bojan Durin","doi":"10.1109/WCST.2015.7415133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WCST.2015.7415133","url":null,"abstract":"System approach and sustainable use of water and energy in all kinds of human activities is not required for financial reasons only. It is also a legal and community obligation. The paper deals with the application of Critical Period Method for irrigation system design. Irrigation system includes a Solar Photovoltaic (PV) generator and inverter, a pump station, a water reservoir and pipelines. PV energy is used as energy source for the pump station. Groundwater in combination with rainwater is used for irrigation water demands. This is in accordance with the world and European legislation, directives and strategies related to the negative impacts of climate changes and greenhouse gas emissions.","PeriodicalId":259036,"journal":{"name":"2015 World Congress on Sustainable Technologies (WCST)","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132009557","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 : 2015-12-01DOI: 10.1109/WCST.2015.7415139
G. R. Dehghan Kamaragi, B. Chanetz
Iranian wind towers "Badgir" works thanks to natural driving forces, such as differences in temperature between a building and its environment. By evaporation, convection and natural air currents, we can manage the internal thermal comfort of the local interior environment. The air movement is carried out by the process of pressure and extraction. This paper focuses on sustainable structure, Badgir and the computer simulation, experimentation and reconstruction of a wind towers in the city of Kong located in the Persian Gulf. The construction material of this Badgir is stone and adobe (earth clay, straw and water). This natural material has high heat storage capacity and help to evacuate hot air. The aerodynamic aspects are examined numerically by using CFD (Computation Fluid Dynamics). The calculated velocity and pressure fields are compared to measurements taken on the model installed in a wind tunnel.
{"title":"Experimental and numerical simulation of two Iranian badgirs in the Persian Gulf, City of Kong and Laft","authors":"G. R. Dehghan Kamaragi, B. Chanetz","doi":"10.1109/WCST.2015.7415139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WCST.2015.7415139","url":null,"abstract":"Iranian wind towers \"Badgir\" works thanks to natural driving forces, such as differences in temperature between a building and its environment. By evaporation, convection and natural air currents, we can manage the internal thermal comfort of the local interior environment. The air movement is carried out by the process of pressure and extraction. This paper focuses on sustainable structure, Badgir and the computer simulation, experimentation and reconstruction of a wind towers in the city of Kong located in the Persian Gulf. The construction material of this Badgir is stone and adobe (earth clay, straw and water). This natural material has high heat storage capacity and help to evacuate hot air. The aerodynamic aspects are examined numerically by using CFD (Computation Fluid Dynamics). The calculated velocity and pressure fields are compared to measurements taken on the model installed in a wind tunnel.","PeriodicalId":259036,"journal":{"name":"2015 World Congress on Sustainable Technologies (WCST)","volume":"130 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134325364","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 : 2015-12-01DOI: 10.1109/WCST.2015.7415126
Muneeroh Phadung
Interactive multimedia application as e-books has benefits and capabilities for enhancing learning rate and increasing students' concentration and involvement in the learning activities. This study presents interactive e-book design areas to support literacy learning for language minority students within the primary school level. There are three main components of design framework including multimedia design, interactive design, and learning design. Moreover, the researcher attempts to design all three components based on the cultural theme to help language minority students reflect their own cultures and begin to understand the cultures of the language that they are learning. The prototype consists of two main modules including manual module and automatic module. Furthermore, the researcher would like students to interact with the program through interactive whiteboard as a cooperative tool in the classroom. The interactive e-book is expected to be an alternative educational tool to solve the learning problems of language minority students.
{"title":"Interactive E-book design and development to support literacy learning for language minority students","authors":"Muneeroh Phadung","doi":"10.1109/WCST.2015.7415126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WCST.2015.7415126","url":null,"abstract":"Interactive multimedia application as e-books has benefits and capabilities for enhancing learning rate and increasing students' concentration and involvement in the learning activities. This study presents interactive e-book design areas to support literacy learning for language minority students within the primary school level. There are three main components of design framework including multimedia design, interactive design, and learning design. Moreover, the researcher attempts to design all three components based on the cultural theme to help language minority students reflect their own cultures and begin to understand the cultures of the language that they are learning. The prototype consists of two main modules including manual module and automatic module. Furthermore, the researcher would like students to interact with the program through interactive whiteboard as a cooperative tool in the classroom. The interactive e-book is expected to be an alternative educational tool to solve the learning problems of language minority students.","PeriodicalId":259036,"journal":{"name":"2015 World Congress on Sustainable Technologies (WCST)","volume":"298 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131439918","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 : 2015-12-01DOI: 10.1109/WCST.2015.7415131
Awais Shafique, Hooriya Anam, M. Javed
Essential tremor (ET) is one of the most common movement disorders that causes a rhythmic trembling of the hands, head, voice, legs or trunk. Currently, no medication is specifically designed to treat ET, However, some solutions exist to temporarily suppress tremor. This paper presents a novel low cost alternative to the existing solutions, known as Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) and its comparison with existing solutions. The paper focuses on the development of a low cost FES circuit with Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) feedback using off the shelf components which sends out-of-phase electrical pulses to suppress tremor.
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