Healthy buildings are gaining crucial significance in construction and one health setting for promoting occupants’ health. However, the traditional design process for healthy buildings presents limitations with no specific guidelines. In contra...
Statistical experimental designs such as factorial, optimal, or definitive screening designs represent the state of the art in biopharmaceutical process characterization. However, such methods alone do not leverage the fact that processes operate as...
Today, natural resources of urban areas have been given the rank of a necessary tool for combating climate change. Many cities are trying to manage biologically active areas of great quality by applying a blue-green infrastructure (BGI) strategy. Des...
In recent years, increasingly prominent energy and environmental problems have pushed for higher requirements for buildings’ energy saving. According to the conventional energy-saving design method, the cooperative operation between architects,...
In modular construction projects, unit production and onsite work are conducted concurrently, enabling shorter duration, lower cost, and improved quality. Because of the nature of the work, building design details should be determined early in the de...
The uncertainty failure of the used part leads the complexity selection of remanufacturing processes. The different remanufacturing process combinations among used parts of used products also make the formulation of tolerance schemes more difficult....
Due to the scarcity of water and the harsh desert climate of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), water and energy are two of the main challenges for the design of sustainable buildings in the UAE. Relevant literature calls for the consideration of buildi...
In this review paper, a brief overview of the increasing applicability of Process Systems Engineering (PSE) tools in two research areas, which are the design of ionic liquids and the design of integrated biorefineries, is presented. The development a...
Background: Twin-screw wet granulation (TSWG) is a promising continuous manufacturing technology, featuring high operational flexibility, short residence time and consistent quality. The process development of TSWG relies on the synergy of material c...
The Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) possesses a number of advantages over traditional power generation plants, including increased efficiency, flex-fuel, and carbon capture. A lesser-known advantage of the IGCC system is the ability to...
Background/Objectives: Tablet is the most popular oral solid dosage form, and high-shear wet granulation and tableting (HSWGT) is a versatile technique for manufacturing tablets. The conventional pharmaceutical development for HSWGT is carried out in...
This paper presents the integrated design and experimental verification of a ferrite spoke permanent magnet motor with rib core skew for semiconductor process pump drives. Conventional induction motors are widely used in industrial pump systems becau...
This research investigates the integration of building energy modeling (BEM) within collaborative construction projects to inform design decisions for achieving high-energy performance goals. The study aims to understand current practices, benefits,...
In response to the pressing demand for sustainable building practices within the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) sector, this study investigates the integration of building information modeling (BIM) processes with the Leadership in...
A common barrier to achieving design intent is the absence of comprehensive information about operational performance during design development. This results in uninformed decision-making which impacts on actual building performance, in particular Wh...
The German Aerospace Center is currently developing a new design environment for rotorcraft, which combines sizing, simulation and evaluation tasks into one toolbox. The complete environment applies distributed computation on the servers of the vario...
Off-site construction (OSC) offers a promising means to improve the efficiency of construction projects. However, the lack of experience and knowledge regarding its use results in errors in design owing to conflicts and omissions of considerations fo...
This paper presents the process for creating an integrated design and manufacturing environment supporting 3D printing as part of the structure of Industry 4.0. This process is based on a developed framework for the design of modern automated and com...
The verification of a space launcher at the design level is a complex issue because of (i) the lack of a detailed modeling capability of the acoustic pressure produced by the rocket; and (ii) the difficulties in applying deterministic methods to the...
Food waste represents a renewable carbon resource with considerable potential for the production of bioenergy, platform chemicals, biomaterials, and other high-value products within integrated biorefinery systems. However, the heterogeneous compositi...
The rapid development of contemporary artificial intelligence and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies has given rise to the emerging paradigm of the AIoT (Artificial Intelligence of Things), which is profoundly impacting human life and driving the...
Maximizing the value of each available data point in bioprocess development is essential in order to reduce the time-to-market, lower the number of expensive wet-lab experiments, and maximize process understanding. Advanced in silico methods are incr...
Underground utility projects still rely on 2D drawings, which fragments geometry, process, and cost information and raises the barrier to BIM adoption. There is a need for a practical method that preserves existing CAD workflows while achieving integ...
Hydrotreatment is an efficient method for pyrolytic oil upgrading; however, the trade-off between the operational cost on hydrogen consumption and process profit remains the major challenge for the process designs. In this study, an integrated proces...
The design for the remanufacturing process (DFRP) is a key part of remanufacturing, which directly affects the cost, performance, and carbon emission of used product remanufacturing. However, used parts have various failure forms and defects, which m...
In recent times two or more desalination processes have been combined to form integrated systems that have been widely used to resolve the limitations of individual processes as well as producing high performance systems. In this regard, a simple int...
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This article describes a user-centred approach taken by a group of five procurers to set specifications for the procurement of value-based research and development services for IT-supported integrated hypertension management. The approach considered...
This work discusses what should be the desirable path and correct tools for the optimal re-design and operation of processes in the Industry 4.0 framework, as illustrated in a challenging case study corresponding to a complex network of evaporation p...
The integration of digital tools and environmental design methods is widely recognised as essential for sustainable architectural practice. However, their influence on early design decisions and lifecycle continuity remains limited. This study introd...
The global change toward sustainable manufacturing has intensified the development of alternatives to petrochemical-based surfactants, which are environmentally recalcitrant and fossil dependent. Biosurfactants have emerged as the most promising petr...
Plastic products are widely used due to their superior performance, but there are still limitations in the current methods and technologies for recycling and processing of waste plastics, resulting in a huge wasting of resources and environmental pol...
This work focuses on the development and implementation of an integrated process design and control framework for a membrane-based hydrogen production system based on low temperature methane steam reforming. Several alternative flowsheet configuratio...
User expectations regarding new products and services are evolving rapidly, forcing innovative organizations to explore new avenues for innovation, combining products and services. This paper focuses on the integrative design of product–service syste...
With the rapid advancement of the informatization process of China’s construction industry, the requirements for the integration of engineering design and construction are getting higher and higher. The quality of engineering design and the lev...
This paper presents an ultra-wideband transformer feedback (TFB) monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) power amplifier (PA) developed using a 0.25 μm gallium nitride (GaN) process. To broaden the bandwidth, a drain-to-gate TFB technique i...
Heat recovery from a high-temperature wastewater is the major concern in the conventional textile industry. However, limited space in the textile plant is an important constraint for the process enhancement. Therefore, an easily applicable heat recov...
In this paper, an integrated gasification combined cycle conceptual design that achieves optimum energy efficiency and 82.9% heat integration between hot and cold utilities is illustrated. The integrated combined gasification cycle (IGCC) is also mod...
This article aims to synthesize the current ecosystem of open-source tools for Integrated Circuit (IC) design, covering the entire digital design flow from Register-Transfer Level (RTL) description to fabricable layouts. The survey categorizes and an...
This paper presents a comprehensive design, implementation, and feasibility analysis of a sustainable styrene production plant that integrates conventional ethylbenzene dehydrogenation with bio-based feedstock processing. Located on the Gujarat coast...
Construction projects are inherently complex systems that require effective decision-making during the schematic and preliminary design stages, when major design alternatives are evaluated and a substantial proportion of project costs is determined....
The automation of smart building design processes remains a significant challenge, particularly in translating complex natural language requirements into structured design parameters within Computer-Aided Design (CAD) environments. Traditional design...
Optimization algorithms have been successfully applied to the automatic design of analog integrated circuits. However, many of the existing solutions rely on expensive circuit simulations or use fully customized surrogate models for each particular c...
A Process Design Kit (PDK) has been developed to realize complex integrated circuits in Silicon Carbide (SiC) bipolar low-power technology. The PDK development process included basic device modeling, and design of gate library and parameterized cells...
In this study, we developed a control strategy for a drug product prepared by high-shear wet granulation and roller compaction using integrated quality by design (QbD). During the first and second stages, we optimized the process parameters through t...
This study assesses the intrinsic hazards of an energy-integrated gas oil hydrocracking process from a sustainability-oriented process safety perspective. Hydrocracking units are essential in modern refineries for upgrading heavy gas oil fractions in...
Multi-material additive manufacturing (MMAM) enables integration of multiple materials within single products, but existing design methodologies lack systematic frameworks linking detailed consolidation decisions to product-level functional requireme...
Integrated energy–water systems have been explored using different process integration techniques considering the energy–water–carbon nexus to minimize the carbon footprint, e.g., pinch analysis techniques (power cascade table, wate...
STS316L seamless high-pressure cylinders are used for high-purity specialty gases, motivating efficient manufacture by deep drawing and ironing (D.D.I.). This study presents a six-to-four stage integration that combines baseline Stages 2–3 and...
Smart sensing technologies and their inherent data-processing techniques have drawn considerable research and industrial attention in recent years. Recent developments in nanometer CMOS technologies have shown great potential to deal with the increas...
The cosmetics industry faces mounting environmental pressure due to significant carbon emissions and pollution from daily product consumption, necessitating the systematic integration of sustainability into product development processes. This study d...
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