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  • Nitrate removal from water by quaternized pine bark using choline based ionic liquid analogue 
    Karachalios, Antonis; Wazne, Mahmoud; SOE; 201205627; Civil Engineering; mahmoud.wazne@lau.edu.lb (2016-02-29)
    BACKGROUND: The objective of this study was to quaternize pine bark (PB) wood residues using green chemistry and to use the quaternized PB to remove nitrate (NO3−) from water. The quaternization process was achieved by ...
  • Aging Effects in Field-Compacted Dredged Material 
    Wazne, Mahmoud; Grubb, Dennis; Jagupilla, Santhi; Malasavage, Nicholas; Bradfield, William; SOE; 201205627; Civil Engineering; mahmoud.wazne@lau.edu.lb (2016-02-29)
    This paper contains the results of aging study performed on 365-day-old trial highway embankments constructed of field-compacted dredged material (DM), steel slag fines (SSF), and three DM-SSF blends. Key findings include ...
  • A Novel Register Binding Approach to Reduce Spurious Switching Activity in High-Level Synthesis 
    Ouaiss, Iyad; Elaaraj, Elie; SOE; 200105659; Electrical Engineering; iyad.ouaiss@lau.edu.lb (2016-02-24)
    Optimizing area and timing have long been considered to be the main design challenges in high-level synthesis. A lot of research has been conducted in this area and many techniques to improve performance have been suggested. ...
  • Priority-Driven Area Optimization in High-Level Synthesis 
    Abi Saad, Maria; Ouaiss, Iyad; SOE; 200105659; Electrical Engineering; iyad.ouaiss@lau.edu.lb (2016-02-24)
    One of the major enhancements that can be made to the high-level synthesis (HLS) process is reducing the overall area of a design in order to either decrease the manufacturing costs or to introduce more functionality to ...
  • The use of configurable computing for computational kernels in scientific simulations 
    Jones, Mark; Nakad, Zahi; Plassman, Paul; Yi, Yanhua; SOE; 200402165; Electrical Engineering; zahi.nakad@lau.edu.lb (2016-02-24)
    In many scientific simulation codes, the bulk of the floating-point arithmetic required is done by a small number of compact computational kernels. In this paper, we explore the potential use of configurable computers to ...
  • Using electronic textiles to implement an acoustic beamforming array 
    Nakad, Zahi; Jones, Mark; Martin, Thomas; Shenoy, Ravi; SOE; 200402165; Electrical Engineering; zahi.nakad@lau.edu.lb (2016-02-24)
    Highly-automated textile manufacturing equipment has the potential for integrating electronic components into fabric in a low-cost process. These electronic textiles (or e-textiles) have a wide range of potential applications ...
  • A Standalone RFID Indoor Positioning System Using Passive Tags 
    Saab, S.S.; Nakad, Z.S.; SOE; 200402165; Electrical Engineering (2016-02-24)
    Indoor positioning systems (IPSs) locate objects in closed structures such as office buildings, hospitals, stores, factories, and warehouses, where Global Positioning System devices generally do not work. Most available ...
  • Thermal convection of fluid in fractured media 
    Sfeir, Abdallah; Abdallah, G.; Thoraval, A.; Piguet, J.P.; SOE; 199590070; Industrial Engineering; asfeir@lau.edu.lb (2016-02-23)
    This article shows the importance of thermal convection caused by fluid circulation through the fractures in rock masses. Expressions for the different heat transfer terms at the discontinuities, either between the fluid ...
  • Sensitivity of discrete-time Kalman filter to statistical modeling errors 
    Nasr, George; Saab, Samer; SOE; 199390170; 199690250; Electrical Engineering; genasr@lau.edu.lb; ssaab@lau.edu.lb (2016-02-23)
    The optimum filtering results of Kalman filtering for linear dynamic systems require an exact knowledge of the process noise covariance matrix Qk, the measurement noise covariance matrix Rk and the initial error covariance ...
  • Static Capacity Prediction by Dynamic Methods for Three Bored Piles 
    Briaud, Jean-Louis; Nasr, George; Ballouz, Marc; SOE; 199390170; Electrical Engineering; genasr@lau.edu.lb (2016-02-23)
    Three bored piles were built and tested at the National Geotechnical Experimentation Sites, at Texas A&M University, to gather data on the reliability of large-strain dynamic methods to predict the static capacity of bored ...
  • Univariate modeling and forecasting of energy consumption 
    Nasr, George; Saab, Samer; Badr, Elie; 199390170; 199690250; Electrical Engineering; genasr@lau.edu.lb; ssaab@lau.edu.lb (2016-02-23)
    In Lebanon, electric power is becoming the main energy form relied upon in all economic sectors of the country. Also, the time series of electrical energy consumption in Lebanon is unique due to intermittent power outages ...
  • Neural networks in forecasting electrical energy consumption 
    Nasr, George; Badr, E.A.; Younes, M.R.; SOE; 199390170; Electrical Engineering; genasr@lau.edu.lb (2016-02-23)
    This paper presents an artificial neural network (ANN) approach to electric energy consumption (EEC) forecasting in Lebanon. In order to provide the forecasted energy consumption, the ANN interpolates among the EEC and its ...
  • Compensation of axle-generator errors due to wheel slip and slide 
    Nasr, George; Saab, S.S.; Badr, E.A.; SOE; 199390170; Electrical Engineering; genasr@lau.edu.lb (2016-02-23)
    Significant errors of train axle generators (tachometers) are due to wheel slip and slide. An algorithm is designed to compensate for these errors. The algorithm identifies the wheel slip and slide by examining the variation ...
  • Backpropagation neural networks for modeling gasoline consumption 
    Nasr, George; Badr, E.A.; Joun, C.; SOE; 199390170; Electrical Engineering; genasr@lau.edu.lb (2016-02-23)
    This paper presents an artificial neural network (ANN) approach to gasoline consumption (GC) forecasting in Lebanon. In order to provide the forecasted gasoline consumption, the ANN interpolates among the GC and its ...
  • Econometric Modeling of Gasoline Consumption 
    Nasr, G. E.; Dibeh, G. L.; Badr, E. A.; SOE; SOB; 199390170; 199490150; Electrical Engineering; genasr@lau.edu.lb; gdibeh@lau.edu.lb (2016-02-23)
    This article applies econometric models to investigate determinants of gasoline consumption (GC) in postwar Lebanon (1993–1999). The impact of gasoline price (P) and car registration (CR) on gasoline consumption is ...
  • Distributed nature of residential customer outage costs 
    Ghajar, R.; Billinton, R.; Chan, E.; SOE; 199590160; Electrical Engineering; rghajar@lau.edu.lb (2016-02-22)
    Reliability worth assessment is an important factor in power system planning and operation. An equally important issue is how to use customer costs of electric supply interruptions as surrogates to appropriately quantify ...
  • Evaluation of the marginal outage costs of generating systems for the purposes of spot pricing 
    Ghajar, R.; Billinton, R.; SOE; 199590160; Electrical Engineering; rghajar@lau.edu.lb (2016-02-22)
    This paper describes a methodology based on quantitative power system reliability evaluation for calculating the marginal outage costs of generating systems. The proposed method involves the calculation of the incremental ...
  • Evaluation of the marginal outage costs in composite generation and transmission systems 
    Ghajar, R.; Billinton, R.; SOE; 199590160; Electrical Engineering; rghajar@lau.edu.lb (2016-02-22)
    Evaluation of the marginal outage costs in generation systems using quantitative power system reliability techniques has been recently demonstrated. It was shown that the marginal outage cost varies with the operating ...
  • Utilisation of quantitative reliability concepts in evaluating the marginal outage costs of electric generating systems 
    Billinton, Roy; Ghajar, Raymond; SOE; 199590160; Electrical Engineering; rghajar@lau.edu.lb (2016-02-22)
    Marginal outage costs are an important component of electricity spot prices. This paper describes a methodology based on quantitative power system reliability concepts for calculating these costs in electric generating ...
  • Economic costs of power interruptions: a consistent model and methodology 
    Ghajar, Raymond F.; Billinton, Roy; SOE; 199590160; Electrical Engineering; rghajar@lau.edu.lb (2016-02-22)
    One of the most basic requirements in cost/benefit assessments of generation and transmission systems are the costs incurred by customers due to power interruptions. This paper provides a consistent set of cost of interruption ...

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