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    • A multi-objective location-allocation optimization for sustainable management of municipal solid waste 

      Yu, Hao; Solvang, Wei Deng (Journal article; Peer reviewed; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2017-02-13)
      The location problem of treatment and service facilities in municipal solid waste (MSW) management system is of significant importance due to the socioeconomic and environmental concerns. The consideration of waste treatment costs, environmental impact, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, social fairness as well as other relevant aspects should be simultaneously taken into account when a MSW management ...
    • Enhancing the competitiveness of manufacturers through Small-scale Intelligent Manufacturing System (SIMS): A supply chain perspective 

      Yu, Hao; Solvang, Wei Deng (Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2017-05-04)
      In order to survive in this competitive and ever changing market, manufacturers have to improve and enhance the competitiveness, flexibility, responsiveness and sustainability with the application of the cutting-edge technologies and innovative management methods. New concepts, i.e., Intelligent manufacturing, flexible manufacturing, agile manufacturing, network manufacturing, green manufacturing ...
    • Design of a pipeline flexibility bench 

      Ghani, Rizwan (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2017-08-15)
      In this thesis “Design of pipeline flexibility bench” an exertion has been made to make a conclusive study of fluid flow through pipe. Analysis has been carried out using analytical and numerical approach, where advance computer aided engineering tools such as CFD & FEM approach is used to study the flow behavior in different pipe configurations. Results show a significant change in wall shear stress ...
    • Improving the performance of service network through location-based optimization and analysis. A case study on postal service in a city in Northern Norway 

      Yang, Shuo (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2017-08-15)
      Everyone needs to be served, and a service network provides a set of services and/or help to please the people involved. No matter who is the service provider, government or retailer, there always been a clash between them and customers. Service providers are trying their best to serve customers as many as possible with a limitation of cost, while the satisfaction of customer might be neglected at ...
    • A Carbon-Constrained Stochastic Optimization Model with Augmented Multi-Criteria Scenario-Based Risk-Averse Solution for Reverse Logistics Network Design under Uncertainty 

      Yu, Hao; Solvang, Wei Deng (Journal article; Peer reviewed; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2017-07-10)
      With the increase of the concern from the public for environmental pollution and waste of resources, the value recovery through reuse, repair, remanufacturing and recycling from the end-of-use (EOU) and end-of-life (EOL) products have become increasingly important. Reverse logistics is the process for capturing the remaining value from the EOU and EOL products and also for the proper disposal of the ...
    • Using Mutual Charge Scheme to Measure Salinity of Ice 

      Mughal, Umair Najeeb; Nikumbh, Bhushan (Journal article; Peer reviewed; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2015)
      For offshore measurements in Cold Regions, salinity of ice is also a critical parameter (together with many other parameterssuchasicingtype,load,icingrateandmeltingrate)to be identified in order to optimize the performance of anti/de icing systems. Although there are some available sensory solutions in the market to measure real time salinity levels of water, however there are still not many real ...
    • A case study to estimate thermal conductivity of ABS in Cold Climate Chamber 

      Mughal, Umair Najeeb; Makarova, Marina; Virk, Muhammad Shakeel; Polanco Pinerez, Geanette (Journal article; Peer reviewed; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2015-10-22)
      Non steady state thermal conductivity of ABS was estimated using an analytical approach in a Cold Climate Chamber at ?10?C and ?14?C. Two hollow cylinders of ABS of varying thickness were used to estimate the conductivity. The material was porous but the porosity was unknown. This paper is a case study to understand, if it is reasonable to estimate the thermal conductivity using the analytical varying ...
    • Remote Operation and Assistance in Human Robot Interactions with Vibrotactile Feedback 

      Sziebig, Gabor; Korondi, Peter (Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2017-08-08)
      This paper investigates intuitiveness in human robot interactions with focus on remote operation and assistance. The increasing number of robot applications in small volume production requires new techniques to ease the use of these sophisticated systems. A vibrotactile device was used for experiments. Vibration patterns are developed to represent a cognitive information channel for the remote ...
    • Future Role of Application of New Technologies in Small-and Medium Scale Manufacturing Systems - Regarding Intelligent and Advanced Manufacturing Systems in Northern Peripheral Area 

      Somlò, Kinga; Sziebig, Gabor (Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2017-08-08)
      Nowadays the concept of Industry 4.0. and the relating intelligent manufacturing system are getting more and more current and well-known. In the past years the outstanding development of different areas such as information technology computer science, machining, robotics and so on, made possible a comprehensive transformation of the manufacturing systems. Present paper aims to give a general overview ...
    • State of the Art Review of Atmospheric Icing Sensors 

      Mughal, Umair Najeeb; Virk, Muhammad Shakeel; Mustafa, Mohamad (Journal article; Peer reviewed; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2016-03-31)
      A state of the art review of atmospheric icing sensors is presented in this article, in order to understand their design and working principle for future developments. It is found that most atmospheric icing sensors which are capable of delivering maximum information are based upon direct measurement of the physical properties (electrical or mechanical) of atmospheric ice. Some field measurements ...
    • Numerical Study of Atmospheric Icing on Non Rotating Circular Cylinders in Tandem Arrangement 

      Virk, Muhammad Shakeel (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013-03-01)
      Numerical study of atmospheric ice accretion on two non-rotating circular cylinders in tandem arrangement was carried out at different operating and geometric conditions. To validate the numerical model, initially the results of ice accretion on single circular cylinder were compared with the experimental data obtained from CIGELE atmospheric icing research wind tunnel (CAIRWT) [1, 2]. A good agreement ...
    • Mutual Charge Transfer for Estimating Salinity Ratio for Offshore Icing Sensors 

      Mughal, Umair Najeeb; Nikumbh, Bhushan (Peer reviewed; Journal article; Tidsskriftsartikkel, 2015-11-30)
      For offshore measurements in Cold Regions, salinity of ice is also a critical parameter (together with many other parameters such as icing type, load, icing rate and melting rate) to be identified in order to optimize the performance of anti/de icing systems. Although there are some available sensory solutions in the market to measure real time salinity levels of water, however there are still ...
    • Encapsulated Water Hammer: Theoretical/Experimental Study 

      Polanco, Geanette; Virk, Muhammad Shakeel; Mughal, Umair Najeeb; Victor, Sojo; Jose, Da Paixao; Antonio, Vidal; Orlando, Aguillon (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-10-22)
      Water hammer phenomenon involves the transformation of kinetic energy in pressure energy, this transformation occurs as the fluid conditions change inside the pipe in quite a short time. Industry requires to affront frequent flow interruptions in pipe systems due to the closing of valves or stopping of pumping equipment. This phenomenon can initiate serious damages like destruction of the pipe system ...
    • Charge Transfer Scheme for Atmospheric Ice Sensing 

      Mughal, Umair Najeeb; Virk, Muhammad Shakeel; Rashid, Taimur (Peer reviewed; Journal article; Tidsskriftsartikkel, 2015-01-31)
      The atmospheric icing parameters are being measured nowadays with the aid of more customized yet limited commercial equipment. The parameters include atmospheric ice detection, icing load and icing rate. The robustness of such equipment is usually under scrutiny when it comes to cold/harsh environment operations. This phenomenon was experienced consistently by the atmospheric Icing Research Team at ...
    • Atmospheric Icing Sensors - Capacitive Techniques 

      Mughal, Umair Najeeb; Virk, Muhammad Shakeel (Peer reviewed; Journal article; Tidsskriftsartikkel, 2013-01-22)
      The application of capacitive sensing technique is widely distributed in different physical domains primarily because of the diversity in dielectric permittivity and due to its minimum loading error and inertial effects. Atmospheric ice is a complex mixture of water, ice and air which is reflected in its complex dielectric constant. There are many existing atmospheric icing sensors but only few are ...
    • Torque and Axial Loading Physics for Measuring Atmospheric Icing Load and Icing Rate 

      Mughal, Umair Najeeb; Virk, Muhammad Shakeel (Peer reviewed; Journal article; Tidsskriftsartikkel, 2015-01-31)
      Measuring icing load and icing rate are important parameters for an atmospheric icing sensor. A new icing sensor has recently been designed and developed at Narvik University College for measuring atmospheric icing rate, icing load and icing type. Unlike the existing atmospheric icing sensors commercially available in market, which uses the axial loading for measuring icing load and icing rate, this ...
    • Atmospheric ice accretion on non rotating vertical circular cyliner 

      Virk, Muhammad Shakeel; Mughal, Umair Najeeb; Polanco, Geanette (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-10-22)
      Study of atmospheric ice accretion on a non-rotating vertical circular cylindrical object was carried out at dry and wet ice conditions. Both numerical and experimental techniques were used during this study. 3D numerical study was carried out using computational fluid dynamics based approach, whereas experimental study was carried out at Cryospheric Environmental Simulator ‘CES’ in Shinjo, Japan. ...
    • To Measure Relative Permittivity of Atmospheric Ice Using Frequency Sweep 

      Mughal, Umair Najeeb; Shu, Beibei (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-10-31)
      The use of AD59333 IC for detecting atmospheric ice and atmospheric ice type was evaluated in this article. A prototype circuit was developed and was tested using a frequency sweep from 40 Hz to 20 kHz. The IC was calibrated using 100 kΩ resistor. The real and imaginary components of discrete Fourier transform were recorded at each frequency increment in order calculate the gain factor at each ...
    • Development of small-scale intelligent manufacturing system (SIMS). A case study at Stella Polaris AS 

      Huang, Taoying (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2017-06-14)
      Manufacturers in the resourceful Northern Peripheral and Arctic (NPA) region are mostly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Facing challenges primarily caused by the size and location of enterprises, these SMEs are constantly driven to take new measures to survive from the fierce competition against its domestic and international competitors, under the industrial environments of globalization ...
    • An improved approach for sustainable outsourcing strategy 

      Zheng, Yan (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2017-06-14)
      In the modern business world, the trend that calls for a harmonious coexistence between economic development and the natural environment is growing ever stronger. Under such global context, the sustainability of a company has become more and more emphasized. As a crucial part of the supply chain management, the outsourcing process should as well be able to deal with such concerns under the guidance ...