The scheduling algorithm generally only considers the factors that directly affect the computing performance, such as processor, internal and external storage, and network, but ignores the data itself. In data-intensive computing applications, data…
Modern SCADA systems have many sophisticated features, such as distributed architecture, distributed database, GUI interfaces, intelligent RTUs, etc. that are the results of advances in many technologies. Oil pipeline SCADA systems provide operators…
On November 4, 2003, the Board of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, approved lending to the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline and the Azeri-Chirag-Deepwater Gunashli (ACG) Phase 1 oil…
An autonomous pipeline pigging system has been developed for determining position, orientation, curvature, ovality, and deformations such as dents and wrinkles of operating pipelines. At the heart of this integrated system is a strapdown inertial…
On November 4, 2003, the Board of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, approved lending to the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline and the Azeri-Chirag-Deepwater Gunashli (ACG) Phase 1 oil…