Shale gas flowback water desalination: Single vs multiple-effect evaporation with vapor recompression cycle and thermal integration

Onishi, Viviani C.; Carrero-Parre�o, Alba; Reyes-Labarta, Juan A.; Ruiz-Femenia, Rub�n; Salcedo-D�az, Raquel; Fraga, Eric S.; Caballero, Jos� A.

doi:10.1016/j.desal.2016.11.003

Value Management – Creating Functional Value For Construction Project: An Exploratory Study (2016)
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Olawumi, T. O., Akinrata, E. B., & Arijeloye, B. T. (2016). Value Management – Creating Functional Value For Construction Project: An Exploratory Study. World Scientific News, 54, 40-59

Value management is a process whereby the project is evaluated and scrutinised to obtain maximum value for money by following a prescribed methodology. It focuses on the value, rather than cost, in relation to the function of the element of the proje... Read More about Value Management – Creating Functional Value For Construction Project: An Exploratory Study.

Demystifying Issues Regarding Public Private Partnerships (PPP) (2016)
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Public-private sector collaboration is an evolving concept which takes many forms around the world, and it is essentially an arrangement by which private entrepreneurs provide support for the provision of public infrastructure. This study explored th... Read More about Demystifying Issues Regarding Public Private Partnerships (PPP).

Nigeria's Public Procurement Law- Puissant Issues and Projected Amendments (2016)
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Olatunji, S. O., Olawumi, T. O., & Odeyinka, H. A. (2016). Nigeria's Public Procurement Law- Puissant Issues and Projected Amendments. Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development, 6(6), 73-85

The Public Procurement Act 2007 brought a sense of regulation or framework to the procurement process in Nigeria. Preceding this law, Nigerian public procurement was not formally regulated in the sense that there was no law, which governed procuremen... Read More about Nigeria's Public Procurement Law- Puissant Issues and Projected Amendments.

Establishment of Critical Causal Factors for Electrical Cost Estimating Techniques (2016)
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Olawumi, T. O. (2016). Establishment of Critical Causal Factors for Electrical Cost Estimating Techniques. World Scientific News, 53(3), 354-366. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9642683

Cost estimating techniques are approaches towards delivering reliable estimates for any projects or endeavour. However, the usage of the different estimating techniques available depends on prevailing circumstances revolving around such project while... Read More about Establishment of Critical Causal Factors for Electrical Cost Estimating Techniques.

Are Quantity Surveyors competent to value for Civil Engineering Works? Evaluating QSs' competencies and militating factors (2016)
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Olawumi, T. O., & Ayegun, O. A. (2016). Are Quantity Surveyors competent to value for Civil Engineering Works? Evaluating QSs' competencies and militating factors. Journal of Education and Practice, 7(16), 9-18

The role of the quantity surveyor is one that is often unclear amongst the general public. This study discussed the competencies of the quantity surveyor in measuring and managing civil engineering works and also carrying out the financial management... Read More about Are Quantity Surveyors competent to value for Civil Engineering Works? Evaluating QSs' competencies and militating factors.

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Optimisation of Weld Overlay Cladding Parameters Using Full-Factorial Design of Experiment (2016)
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Weld Overlay Cladding (WOC) shares the same scientific principals as conventional welding where there are multiple governing factors that control the process and outcome. The present work employs a Design of Experiment (DoE) approach to optimising pr... Read More about Optimisation of Weld Overlay Cladding Parameters Using Full-Factorial Design of Experiment.

Delay, Reliability, and Throughput Based QoS Profile: A MAC Layer Performance Optimization Mechanism for Biomedical Applications in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks (2016)
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Akbar, M. S., Yu, H., & Cang, S. (2016). Delay, Reliability, and Throughput Based QoS Profile: A MAC Layer Performance Optimization Mechanism for Biomedical Applications in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks. Journal of Sensors, 2016, Article 7170943. htt

Recently, increasing demand for remote healthcare monitoring systems poses a specific set of Quality of Services (QoS) requirements to the MAC layer protocols and standards (IEEE 802.15.6, IEEE 802.15.4, etc.) of Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks (W... Read More about Delay, Reliability, and Throughput Based QoS Profile: A MAC Layer Performance Optimization Mechanism for Biomedical Applications in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks.

The last mile, inbound logistics and intermodal high capacity transport - the case of Jula in Sweden (2016)
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Innovative developments in HCI and future trends (2016)
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The recent developments in technology have made noteworthy positive impacts on the human-computer interaction (HCI). It is now possible to interact with computers using voice commands, touchscreen, eye movement, hand gesture, etc. This paper compiles... Read More about Innovative developments in HCI and future trends.

TMP: Tele-Medicine Protocol for Slotted 802.15.4 With Duty-Cycle Optimization in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks (2016)
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Recently, adaptive duty cycle-based medium access control (MAC) protocols based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard have been proposed to address the quality of service (QoS) requirements, including a specified and combined set of time bounded data transmi... Read More about TMP: Tele-Medicine Protocol for Slotted 802.15.4 With Duty-Cycle Optimization in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks.

Evaluation of Assessment Method to Incorporate Graduate Attributes in Building Surveying Module (2016)
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This study aims at finding out whether an alternate assessment strategy in Sustainable Developments module to improve the student's employability skills and qualities. The exploratory studies, quantitative and qualitative questions acted as a data ga... Read More about Evaluation of Assessment Method to Incorporate Graduate Attributes in Building Surveying Module.

Circular economy for the built environment: A research framework (2016)
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The built environment puts major pressure on the natural environment; its role in transitioning to a circular economy (CE) is therefore fundamental. However, current CE research tends to focus either on the macro-scale, such as eco-parks, or the micr... Read More about Circular economy for the built environment: A research framework.

Protocols for the Fabrication, Characterization, and Optimization of n-Type Thermoelectric Ceramic Oxides (2016)
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The development of oxides with high figure of merit, ZT, at modest temperatures (∼300–500 °C) is desirable for ceramic-based thermoelectric generator technology. Although ZT is a compound metric with contributions from thermal conductivity (κ), Seebe... Read More about Protocols for the Fabrication, Characterization, and Optimization of n-Type Thermoelectric Ceramic Oxides.

Smart cities: Under-gridding the sustainability of city-districts as energy efficient-low carbon zones (2016)
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This paper reviews the literature on smart cities. Offering a critical synthesis of the material, it advances a Triple Helix inspired account of smart cities as future internet-based developments. In particular, as future internet-based developments... Read More about Smart cities: Under-gridding the sustainability of city-districts as energy efficient-low carbon zones.

The Influence of Train Running Direction and Track Supports Position on the Behaviour of Transition Zones (2016)
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Different types of track infrastructure can be found along railway lines. Separation zones between these different types of structures are the source of a lot of problems. Transition zones on a railway line represent a gradual solution for the proble... Read More about The Influence of Train Running Direction and Track Supports Position on the Behaviour of Transition Zones.

Supervisory orientation, employee goal orientation, and knowledge management among front line hotel employees (2016)
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This study investigates how managers can enhance the knowledge management (KM) among front line hotel employees at the individual level, by affecting the employee goal orientations through supervisory orientations. This study found significant influe... Read More about Supervisory orientation, employee goal orientation, and knowledge management among front line hotel employees.

The degradation of mechanical properties in halloysite nanoclay-polyester nanocomposites exposed in seawater environment (2016)
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Polyester based polymers are extensively used in aggressive marine environments; however inadequate data available on the effects of the seawater on the polyester based nanocomposites mechanical properties. This paper reports the effect of seawater a... Read More about The degradation of mechanical properties in halloysite nanoclay-polyester nanocomposites exposed in seawater environment.

Shale gas flowback water desalination: Single vs multiple-effect evaporation with vapor recompression cycle and thermal integration (2016)
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