The integration of information technologies with industry has marked the beginning of the fourth industrial revolution and promoted the development of industrial engineering. However, the depletion of resources and industrial waste caused by increasing amounts of industrial production pose a...

A multi-objective optimization method for the structural design of horizontal-axis wind turbine (HAWT) blades is presented. The main goal is to minimize the weight and cost of the blade which uses glass fiber reinforced plastic (GFRP) coupled with carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP)...

Currently, renewable energy resources are becoming more important to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase energy efficiency. Researchers have focused on all components of wind turbines to increase reliability and minimize cost. In this paper, a procedure including a cost analysis method...

Heat extraction mode, e.g. well layout or arrangement of wells, of enhanced or engineered geothermal system (EGS) is crucial to its performance and directly affects its commercial viability. Assuming the subsurface target hot dry rock (HDR) has been well-fractured and the created heat reservoir...

Energy–exergy analysis and parameter design optimization of the KCS-11 solar system with an auxiliary superheater are studied in low-grade thermal energy conversion (LTEC). Firstly, from a thermodynamics point of view, the corresponding calculation model is built to solve the system state...

The double sampling (DS) X¯ chart detects small and moderate mean shifts quickly. Furthermore, this chart can reduce the sample size. The DS X¯ chart is usually investigated assuming that the process parameters are known. Nevertheless, the process parameters are usually unknown and are...