Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been widely applied for Safety Inspection in a number of industrial domains. However, individual company usually could not provide sufficient data to support well-trained AI models. Federated Learning, as a new AI…
Energy is an important driving force for the social and economic development. However, with the development of the industrial revolution and the world economy, the energy crisis is becoming more and more serious, and with the increasing greenhouse…
In recent decades, commodities have attracted the attention of a large number of investors and financial professionals, and their prices have become very important for investors and policy makers. Although natural gas is widely used as a clean…
Pipeline systems are widely applied in the areas of power, chemistry and petroleum. Model-based leak detection methods for the pipeline systems get more and more attentions. Among these model-based methods, the state observer and state feedback based…
Sustainability is the next significant trend to confront government agencies as evidenced by the world-wide focus on energy conservation and reducing green house gases. Recent environmental laws and legislation require agencies to address…
Electrical energy source in Malaysia is commonly from by fossil fuel such as coal, petroleum, LNG, LPG, kerosene, etc. However, these unrenewable sources of energy are neither economical nor favorable to the environment. Even though Malaysia produces…
Grey system theory (Deng Ju-Long et al. 1988) is a scientific theory newly developed in the system science field. Its scientific thinking and research method have permeated various fields and been applied in China. The characteristics of grey…
A new direction of researches is the development of the methods to find effective technologies for natural gas processing. The practical interest to this researches is stimulated by the current situation when the degree of natural gas processing in…
Across the natural world, many species have evolved methods for amplifying their decision-making accuracy by thinking together in real-time closed-loop systems. Known as Swarm Intelligence (SI) in the field of biology, the process has been deeply…
The Deep Water Horizon well blowout on April 20th 2010 discharged between 40,000-1.2 million tons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. In order to understand the fate and impact of the discharged oil, particularly on the environmentally sensitive…
In this article, we present a personal mobility device for lower-body impaired users through a lightweight exoskeleton on wheels. On its core, a novel passive exoskeleton provides postural transition leveraging natural body postures with support to…
Reservoir classification is an important component of reservoir geological modelling and reservoir evaluation and identification. Using a single conventional logging curve to identify complex heterogeneous reservoir types has always been a difficult…
With the rapid development of society, global energy is in short supply. China has put forward an integrated energy system focusing on interconnecting energy resources and harnessing their complementary advantages to address the energy crisis, thus…
Given its physical characteristics and the range of services that it can provide, energy storage raises unique modeling challenges. This paper summarizes capabilities that operational, planning, and resource-adequacy models that include energy…
In this paper, a power management strategy is proposed for enhancing the benefits of energy storage systems to wind powered offshore Oil and Gas platforms. Different functionalities of the converter, such as following a charging schedule from an…
Electrical energy source in Malaysia is commonly from by fossil fuel such as coal, petroleum, LNG, LPG, kerosene, etc. However, these unrenewable sources of energy are neither economical nor favorable to the environment. Even though Malaysia produces…
This paper develops an optimal electricity-gas flow (OEGF) framework considering power line and pipeline congestions to coordinate the energy supplies, flexible electricity and gas loads, electricity and gas storages within an integrated electricity…
Logistic resources pooling concept has become a subject of several researches in previous years, related to various activity sectors (transport, warehouse, E-commerce, etc.) to improve logistics chains performance in sustainable development context.…
The monitoring of pipeline operation is an important research topic, especially for the detection and localization of leaks as well as for an efficient control. For these purposes, physical quantities in pipelines are calculated from measurement data…
This work addresses the large-scale crude scheduling problem of a real case refinery importing various types of crude oil from two ports via long-distance pipelines. We employ a spatial-based decomposition approach to construct a two-stage model of…
Hub covering location problem focuses on the construction of the hub network. The importance of this problem has been addressed in many fields including freight transportation and telecommunication network. As a long-term strategic decision problem,…
The United States has seen a massive increase in oil production over the last ten years due to new fracking technologies that can extract previously unreachable oil. These new fields are not as well connected with traditional mid-stream…
In order to study the rule of wax deposition of Daqing oilfield crude oil in oil pipeline, an experimental unit is made by self. Based on experimental results, the relationship between the wax deposition rate and its influencing factors are…