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Title: Short Term Ex-ante Load Forecasting
Author: Li, Yike
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Statistics
Description: Short-term load forecasting (STLF) is a conventional process at power companies to serve for better decision-making in their daily operations. Weather factors play a key role in STLF. In practice, an online STLF system typically requires the use o...

Title: SHORT TERM LOAD FORECASTING WITH RECENCY EFFECT: MODELS AND APPLICATIONS
Author: Liu, Bidong
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: Load forecasting is evolving in a smart grid era from the days before personal computer (PC) and the PC era. Thanks to the wide-spread use of smart meters, more data with high resolution is available than ever before. Meanwhile, with development o...

Title: Probabilistic Electric Load Forecasting
Author: XIE, JINGRUI
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Power resources
Description: Traditionally, utilities have been conservative regarding the infrastructure upgrade. This makes electric load forecasts critical for guiding electric utilities’ operation, planning, and maintenance decision-making. For a long while, utilities hav...

Title: Mitigating Consequences of Flooding in a Typical Boiling Water Reactor Similar to Fukushima Daiichi Plant in Japan
Author: Salehi, Kombiz
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Management
Description: The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant experienced a major accident on March 11, 2011, which was caused by a seismic event of 9.0 magnitude on the Richter scale followed by a tsunami wave of about 15 meters. This combination resulted in the los...

Title: Impact of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles on Mobility of Highway Systems
Author: Liu, Pengfei
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Transportation, Automated vehicles
Description: Connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) technologies are known as an effective way to improve safety and mobility of the transportation system. As a combination technology of connected vehicle and autonomous vehicle, CAVs share real time traffic da...

Title: HYDROLOGICAL AND WATER QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF A RAPIDLY URBANIZING SOUTHEASTERN PIEDMONT WATERSHED
Author: Gagrani, Vijaya
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Environmental engineering, Environmental sciences, Human ecology--Study and teaching
Description: The purpose of this dissertation research was to assess the change in hydrological and watershed processes influencing water quality in a rapidly urbanizing SE Piedmont watershed. Specifically, this dissertation research assessed the effectiveness...

Title: EVALUATION OF PLANTS ON WATER BALANCE OF EARTHEN LANDFILL COVERS
Author: Saghaei, Banafsheh
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Geotechnical engineering, Hydrology, Environmental geology
Description: Landfilling is one of the most common methods to dispose municipal solid waste (MSW) and coal combustion residues (CCRs) in the U.S. Sustainable landfilling will be the key for the future advancement of solid waste management. Sustainable landfill...

Title: Development of Distress and Performance Models of Composite Pavements for Pavement Management
Author: Fang, Xiazhi
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Information science
Description: Roadway systems in the United States have become huge assets that need massive resources to maintain and operate. To meet the long-term performance goal, government agencies developed pavement management systems (PMSs) to help them manage roadway ...

Title: Delivery Point Load Forecasting
Author: Sobhani, Masoud
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Power resources
Description: Electric load forecasting has been integrated into the business decision making processes across virtually every segment of the power industry. Power companies use short-term and long-term load forecasts primarily for power systems operations and ...

Title: Decision Analysis in Public Policy: Multi-Objective Optimization for Economic Mobility Policy Portfolio Mix in Local Urban Governments
Author: Watlington, Victoria
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Government policy
Description: In this dissertation, I take an interdisciplinary approach to improve the budget allocation process for economic mobility policy by leveraging multi-objective optimization as a decision support tool. Economic mobility is measured as the difference...

Title: Decision Analysis and Policy Formulation for Technology-Specific Renewable Energy Targets
Author: Okioga, Irene
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Power resources, Government policy, Environmental engineering
Description: This study establishes a decision making procedure using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for a U.S. national renewable portfolio standard, and proposes technology-specific targets for renewable electricity generation for the country. The study pr...

Title: BIOKINETIC PROCESSES OF EXTRACELLULAR POLYSACCHARIDE (EPS) STABILIZATION OF SURFACE SOILS AGAINST DUST GENERATION
Author: Zebulun, Humphrey
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Environmental engineering
Description: Extracellular polysaccharide produced by a oligotrophic and nonpathogenic bacteria, Arthrobacter viscosus, promises to be an effective alternative to the use of chemical substances in dust control on exposed soil surfaces. The feasibility of this ...

Title: Advancing Green Stormwater Infrastructure Through Understanding the Influences of Social Factors
Author: Qi, Jingyi
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Environmental engineering
Description: Green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) is a nature-inspired engineering solution to stormwater management that has gained increasing attention over the last two decades. While the technical evidence supporting the efficacy and efficiency of GSI is ...