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A hybrid harmony search algorithm for the blocking permutation flow shop scheduling problem
(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2011)This paper proposes a hybrid modified global-best harmony search (hmgHS) algorithm for solving the blocking permutation flow shop scheduling problem with the makespan criterion. First of all, the largest position value ... -
A hybrid iterated greedy algorithm for total tardiness minimization in permutation flowshops
(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2016)The permutation flowshop scheduling problem is an NP-hard problem that has practical applications in production facilities and in other areas. An iterated greedy algorithm for solving the permutation flow shop scheduling ... -
A key review of wastewater source heat pump (WWSHP) systems
(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2014)Heat pumps (HPs) are part of the environmentally friendly technologies using renewable energy and have been utilized in the developed countries for years. Wastewater is seen as a renewable heat source for HPs. At the ... -
A local-best harmony search algorithm with dynamic sub-harmony memories for lot-streaming flow shop scheduling problem
(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2011)In this paper, a local-best harmony search (HS) algorithm with dynamic sub-harmony memories (HM), namely DLHS algorithm, is proposed to minimize the total weighted earliness and tardiness penalties for a lot-streaming flow ... -
A new approach to determine the outdoor temperature distributions for building energy calculations
(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2014)This study formulated annual, monthly and hourly ambient temperature distributions for simplifying the calculation of cooling and heating degree-hours. In this regard, Turkey was selected as an application country, of which ... -
A new correlation for predicting the thermal conductivity of nanofluids; using dimensional analysis
(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2015)Thermal conductivity of nanofluids is a key thermophysical property, which depends on concentration and size of nanoparticles, temperature and thermophysical properties of the base fluid. Over last decades, several works ... -
A variable iterated greedy algorithm with differential evolution for the no-idle permutation flowshop scheduling problem
(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2013)This paper presents a variable iterated greedy algorithm (IG) with differential evolution (vIG_DE), designed to solve the no-idle permutation flowshop scheduling problem. In an IG algorithm, size d of jobs are removed from ... -
Acoustic absorbers by additive manufacturing
(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2014)Acoustic design has a large impact on comfort in the built environment; and reduction of noise, by means of sound absorption, plays a crucial role in acoustic design. Depending on the peculiarities of functions and spaces, ... -
Advanced exergoeconomic analysis of a gas engine heat pump (GEHP) for food drying processes
(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2015)Exergetic and exergoeconomic analyses are often used to evaluate the performance of energy systems from the thermodynamic and economic points of view. While a conventional exergetic analysis can be used to recognize the ... -
Advanced exergoeconomic analysis of a trigeneration system using a diesel-gas engine
(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2014)In this paper, a trigeneration system was analyzed using an advanced exergy analysis. The trigeneration system is located in the Eskisehir Industry Estate Zone in Turkey. The exergy efficiency of the system is 0.354, and ... -
Advanced exergoeconomic analysis of an electricity-generating facility that operates with natural gas
(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2014)This paper presents an advanced exergy analysis of an electricity generation facility in the Eskisehir Industry Estate Zone in Turkey. The total electricity generation rate is approximately 55 MW. The exergy efficiency of ... -
Advanced exergoenvironmental assessment of a natural gas-fired electricity generating facility
(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2014)This paper presents conventional and advanced exergoenvironmental analyses of an electricity generation facility located in the Eskisehir Industry Estate Zone, Turkey. This facility consists of gas turbine and steam cycles, ... -
Advanced exergy analysis of an aircraft gas turbine engine: Splitting exergy destructions into parts
(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2015)Advanced exergy analysis of an aircraft gas turbine engine is presented in this paper. In this framework, the main exergy parameters of the engine components are introduced while the exergy destruction rates within the ... -
Advanced exergy analysis of an electricity-generating facility using natural gas
(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2014)This paper deals with the performance assessment of an electricity generation facility located in the Eskisehir Industry Estate Zone in Turkey using advanced exergy analysis method. The exergy efficiency of the system is ... -
An energy-efficient bi-objective no-wait permutation flowshop scheduling problem to minimize total tardiness and total energy consumption
(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2020)In manufacturing scheduling, sustainability concerns that raise from the service-oriented performance criteria have seldom been studied in the literature. This study aims to fill this gap in the literature by integrating ... -
An energy-efficient permutation flowshop scheduling problem
(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2020)The permutation flowshop scheduling problem (PFSP) has been extensively explored in scheduling literature because it has many real-world industrial implementations. In some studies, multiple objectives related to production ... -
An evolution strategy approach to the team orienteering problem with time windows
(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2020)The team orienteering problem with time windows (TOPTW) is a highly constrained NP-hard problem having many practical applications in vehicle routing and production scheduling. The TOPTW is an extended variant of the ... -
An experimental investigation of heat transfer enhancement of a minichannel heat sink using Al2O3-H2O nanofluid
(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2014)The thermal performances of a minichannel heat sink are experimentally investigated for cooling of electronics using nanofluid coolant instead of pure water. The Al2O3-H2O nanofluid including the volume fraction ranging ... -
An improvement on the Migrating Birds Optimization with a problem-specific neighboring function for the multi-objective task allocation problem
(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2017)Allocating tasks to processors is a well-known NP-Hard problem in distributed computing systems. Due to the lack of practicable exact solutions, it has been attracted by the researchers working on heuristic based suboptimal ... -
Application of conventional and advanced exergy analyses to evaluate the performance of a ground-source heat pump (GSHP) dryer used in food drying
(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2014)Inefficiencies in an energy system can be quantitatively determined through conventional exergy analysis while sources of the irreversibilities and real improvement potential can be deducted using a relatively new method ...