This thesis is concerned with the thermodynamic analyses of ion and proton-conducting solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) fed with ammonia and urea as fuels. A multi-level approach was used to determine the feasibility and the ...

A solar based integrated system for hydrogen and methanol production is investigated. Energy and exergy analyses of a hydrogen production plant, thermodynamic assessment of methanol synthesis plant, and exergy analysis of ...

With the spread of latest state of the art technologies geared towards utilization of the human senses, haptic technologies have been introduced as a way of utilising the sense of touch to either solve real world problems ...

Heat sources such as biomass, industrial waste heat and solar thermal provide the potential to produce renewable environmentally low impact electricity. Using these resources efficiently within economic constraints is ...

Hard turning of difficult-to-cut materials is an economical method of machining components with high surface quality and mechanical performance. Conventionally in the machining industry, generating a component from raw ...

In FDD amplify-and-forward distributed relay network, codebook techniques are utilized to feedback quantized CSI with limited cost. First, this thesis focuses on the phaseonly codebook and with-power-control codebook design ...

This thesis presents the establishment of a covert-channel in wireless networks in the form of frames with intentionally corrupted Frame Check Sequences (FCSs). Previous works had alluded to the possibility of using this ...

A navigation system developed for an omni-directional wheeled mobile robot, called the Omnibot, is presented. This system is developed to enable the Omnibot to autonomously navigate, in a collision-free manner, along ...

Applications of imaging and image processing become a part of our daily life and find their crucial way in real-world areas. Accordingly, the corresponding techniques get more and more complicated. Many tasks are ...

Traditional multirotors and helicopters control translational movement by changing the orientation of the entire vehicle. This limits the effectiveness of such vehicles in applications as a mobile manipulator base. In these ...