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Showing 1 to 20 of 131 for “"Operation and Maintenance"”.
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Procurement strategies for long-term control, operation and maintenance
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1997.
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HARNESSING BIG DATA FOR ENHANCED OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
… events has traditionally been labor-intensive and error-prone due to manual CAD data extraction. This thesis introduces an automated macro tool that standardizes and digitizes the planning process, aligning with Industry 4.0 practices. The macro converts CAD data into structured Excel tables, …
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Human Factors in the Operation and Maintenance of Offshore Wind Farms
Current maintenance planning strategies and decision support tools used in the operations and maintenance of offshore wind farms rarely account for the welfare of technicians and their ability to do work upon arrival. This creates uncertainties especially since current operational limits might make …
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Development of offshore wind operational expenditure model and investigation of optimum operation and maintenance fleet
… to loads that are not often experienced onshore and more importantly challenging wind and wave conditions limit the operability and accessibility of the vessels needed to access offshore wind farms. Therefore, operating further from shore increases the logistic challenges of offshore wind …
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Comparative study of urban and rural operation and maintenance practices of water distribution systems at Kai !Garib Municipality
… These efforts are however futile if appropriate operation and maintenance (O&M) plans are not put in place to ensure sustainability of the infrastructure. The operation and maintenance requirements of rural areas differ from those of urban areas due to differences in demand patterns, lengths of …
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The derivation of a set of rates that can be used to determine the operation and maintenance cost of municipal engineering services in residential areas in the Western Cape
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 128-130).
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Systems engineering analysis of urban region sludge disposal alternatives
… urban region. The model calculates both capital and operation costs for sludge treatment and disposal operations. For a study of an urban region with an equilibrium wastewater generation rate of 44.74 million m³/yr, the optimum sludge disposal alternative was dedicated land disposal for a …
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Estimativa de vida residual de rotores de turbinas a vapor expostos aos mecanismos de dano por fluência e fadiga
… approximately 25% of Brazil’s energy matrix and operate, most of the times, in cyclic regime, in order to supply seasonal demand peaks. This operational behavior may lead in a series of non predicted damages and losses, because most of the plants are designed to operate in base load, with the …
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Sand-storage dams : an alternate method of rural water supply in Namibia
The costs of establishing and installing a borehole are high, ranging from R 57 000 to R 180 000 depending on the depth of hole drilled and type of pump installed (DR WS, 1996). Because of these high costs, the Namibian Government has historically taken responsibility for the provision, operation …
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An evaluation of rural public water systems
… for development of these systems in rural and suburban areas. With greater awareness of the FHA program, two opposing views developed: (1) FHA design criteria did not provide for adequate service; (2) generally accepted design criteria for water systems were primarily applicable for urban …
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Closing the gap in access to water and sanitation in refugee settlements by financing innovative technologies
… Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) mandate. UNHCR provides necessities to refugees; however, budget constraints continue to result in unmet water and sanitation standards and low access to energy and fertilizer resources in camps and settlements. Innovative sanitation technologies …
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Optimization of BMP Selection for Distributed Stormwater Treatment Networks
… meet regulatory objectives for nutrient removal and groundwater recharge. Selection of the appropriate BMPs for a particular site requires consideration of contributing drainage area characteristics, such as soil type, area, and land cover. Other physical constraints such as karst topography, …
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A comparison of expenditure patterns in public two-year colleges with declining, steady, or increasing budgets
… basic concepts from external allocation models and examining for the presence of these concepts in the actual internal allocation activity of public two-year colleges. First, this study examined whether there was a significant difference in the way that public two-year colleges with declining, …
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Co-processor offloading applied to passive coherent location with Doppler and bearing data
… (also known as the Gauss-Newton method) and uses Doppler and bearing data from a Passive Coherent Location (PCL) radar system. A PCL radar uses a network of receivers to track targets through their back-scatter from existing Continuous Wave (CW) transmissions, such as broadcast TV or …
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Development and validation of a safety and health performance model for low cost housing
Sustainable building and construction practices in Malaysia are primarily aimed at improving the safety and health performance of buildings while minimizing its impact on resources and the natural environment. Thus, a comprehensive understanding of the factors that contribute to safety and health …
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Factors Causing low Compliance in the Formation of Community Water Funds: Through Community Theatre for Developement Approach (COTDA). Kimanzichana Vijana Troupe, Mkuranga District Tanzania
… that face limited water in terms of quantity and quality, water availability is closely linked to human welfare and health by affecting nutrition status. All in all fresh water is the source of life. Water resource is an important catalyst necessary for accelerating both economic and social …
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Design and Development of Low-cost Multi-function UAV Suitable for Production and Operation in Low Resource Environments
… Lab (USL) at Virginia Tech to serve delivery and remote sensing applications in the developing world. The fully autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), named EcoSoar, was designed with the goal of creating a business opportunity for local entrepreneurs in low-resource communities. The system …
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Energy modelling in the South African electric power industry
… development plan that would enable the selection and timing of individual projects. This planning process is represented by several sub-models which include the prediction of future demands, the assessment of the generating capacity and the proportions of the different types of generating plant on …
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Bridging the gap: a competency framework for non-clinical simulation technicians
… heavily on simulation technicians for the operation and maintenance of simulation technologies. However, a shortage of qualified technicians, compounded by rapid technological advancements, limits the expansion of SBE across healthcare disciplines. This study addresses this gap by …
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Análise do potencial de geração distribuída de energia solar fotovoltaica nos setores bancário, de educação básica e postos de gasolina
… has been growing significantly in the world, and its expansion has taken place both via large centralized plants and via distributed generation. This work, through a methodology that included the sampling of more than 1,100 rooftops spread across Brazil, estimated the potential of distributed …
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