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ENERGY

Advanced Exergy Analysis of an Acid Gas Removal Plant to Explore Operation Improvement Potential toward Cleaner Production. Mohamadi-Baghmolaei, M.; Hajizadeh, A.; Zendehboudi, S.; Duan, X.; Shiri, H. Energy & Fuels 2021, 35 (11), 9570–9588. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.1c00590.

Graduate student Pritom Chakraborty investigating the failure mechanics of ice blocks.

An Empirical Model for the Drilling Performance Prediction for Roller-Cone Drill Bits. de Moura, J.; Xiao, Y.; Yang, J.; Butt, S. D. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 2021, 204, 108791. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2021.108791.

Characteristics of Torrefied Fuel Pellets Obtained from Co-Pelletization of Agriculture Residues with Pyrolysis Oil. Sarker, T. R.; Azargohar, R.; Dalai, A. K.; Meda, V. Biomass and Bioenergy 2021, 150, 106139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2021.106139.

Chemical Methods for Hydrolyzing Dairy Manure Fiber: A Concise Review. Saady, N. M. C.; Rezaeitavabe, F.; Ruiz Espinoza, J. E. Energies 2021, 14 (19), 6159. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14196159. Comparison between Alternative Droop Control Strategy, Modified Droop Method and Control Algorithm Technique for Parallel-Connected Converters. M. Shebani, M.; T. Iqbal, M.; E. Quaicoe, J. AIMS Electronics and Electrical Engineering 2021, 5 (1), 1–23. https://doi.org/10.3934/electreng.2021001.

Deep-Learning-Based Optimization for a Low-Frequency Piezoelectric MEMS Energy Harvester. Chimeh, H. E.; Nabavi, S.; Janaideh, M. A.; Zhang, L. IEEE Sensors Journal 2021, 21 (19), 21330–21341. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2021.3102537.

Exergo‐Economic Assessment by a Specific Exergy Costing Method for an Experimental Thermochemical Hydrogen Production System. Farsi, A.; Dincer, I.; Naterer, G. F. International Journal of Energy Research 2021, 45 (12), 17358–17377. https://doi.org/10.1002/er.6688.

Human Centric Digital Transformation and Operator 4.0 for the Oil and Gas Industry. Wanasinghe, T. R.; Trinh, T.; Nguyen, T.; Gosine, R. G.; James, L. A.; Warrian, P. J. IEEE Access 2021, 9, 113270–113291. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3103680.

Numerical Study on Melting of Phase Change Material in an Enclosure Subject to Neumann Boundary Condition in the Presence of Rayleigh-Bénard Convection. Parsazadeh, M.; Malik, M.; Duan, X.; McDonald, A. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 2021, 171, 121103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2021.121103.

Predicting Cost of Dairy Farm-Based Biogas Plants: A North American Perspective. Mashhadi̇, A. S.; Saady, N.; Bazan, C. Journal of Energy Systems 2021, 5 (4), 365–375. https://doi.org/10.30521/jes.980467.

Proof rings fume hood for materials testing in souring environment

Recent Development in Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Production through Water Electrolysis. Anwar, S.; Khan, F.; Zhang, Y.; Djire, A. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 2021, 46 (63), 32284–32317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2021.06.191.

Switching-Cell Buck–Boost AC–AC Converter with Common-Ground and Noninverting/Inverting Operations. Ahmed, H. F.; Moursi, M. S. E.; Zahawi, B.; Hosani, K. A.; Khan, A. A. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 2021, 36 (12), 13944–13957. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2021.3087811. Thermal Transport at 6H-SiC/Graphene Buffer Layer/ GaN Heterogeneous Interface. Yang, B.; Yang, H.; Li, T.; Yang, J.; Yang, P. Applied Surface Science 2021, 536, 147828. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2020.147828.

OCEAN TECHNOLOGY

A Backseat Control Architecture for a Slocum Glider. Wang, Y.; Bulger, C.; Thanyamanta, W.; Bose, N. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 2021, 9 (5), 532. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9050532.

A Probabilistic Method for Long-Term Estimation of Ice Loads on Ship Hull. Li, F.; Suominen, M.; Lu, L.; Kujala, P.; Taylor, R. Structural Safety 2021, 93, 102130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strusafe.2021.102130.

An Improved Higher-Order Moving Particle Semi-Implicit Method for Simulations of Two-Dimensional Hydroelastic Slamming. Zha, R.; Peng, H.; Qiu, W. Physics of Fluids 2021, 33 (3), 037104. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0033491.

M.Eng. student Darren Anderson setting up a fibre optic sensor to capture strain measurement data

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Research Report Full-Scale SPH Simulations of Ship-Wave Impact Generated Sea Spray. Mintu, S.; Molyneux, D.; Colbourne, B. Ocean Engineering 2021, 241, 110077. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2021.110077.

Is On-Board Noise Putting Fish Harvesters’ Hearing at Risk? A Study of Noise Exposures in Small-Scale Fisheries in Newfoundland and Labrador. Burella, G.; Moro, L.; Neis, B. Safety Science 2021, 140, 105325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105325.

Identifying Route Selection Strategies in Offshore Emergency Situations Using Decision Trees. Musharraf, M.; Smith, J.; Khan, F.; Veitch, B. Reliability Engineering & System Safety 2020, 194, 106179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2018.06.007.

Marine Icing Sensor with Phase Discrimination. Elzaidi, A.; Masek, V.; Bruneau, S. Sensors 2021, 21 (2), 612. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21020612.

Remote sensing group members. PhD student Zhiding Yang, PhD student Xin Qiao, M.Eng. student Hangyu Lyu, Prof. Weimin Huang, M.A.Sc. student Yaomin Xue, co-op student Amr Kabel Research assistant Patrick Maloney demonstrating the use of a Decision Support System (DSS). The DSS is designed to help seafarers with simulated marine ice management

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

Age-Optimal Information Gathering in Linear Underwater Networks: A Learning Approach. Al-Habob, A. A.; Dobre, O. A.; Poor, H. V. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 2021, 70 (12), 13129–13138. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2021.3117536.

An Adaptive Asynchronous Wake-up Scheme for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks Using Deep Reinforcement Learning. Su, R.; Gong, Z.; Zhang, D.; Li, C.; Chen, Y.; Venkatesan, R. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 2021, 70 (2), 1851–1865. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2021.3055065.

Automatic Super-Surface Removal in Complex 3D Indoor Environments Using Iterative Region-Based RANSAC. Ebrahimi, A.; Czarnuch, S. Sensors 2021, 21 (11), 3724. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21113724.

Data-Aided Doppler Compensation for High-Speed Railway Communications over mmWave Bands. Gong, Z.; Li, C.; Jiang, F.; Win, M. Z. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 2021, 20 (1), 520–534. https://doi.org/10.1109/twc.2020.3026158.

Deadlock Prediction and Recovery for Distributed Collision Avoidance with Buffered Voronoi Cells. Abdullhak M.; Vardy, A. 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021, 429-436. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS51168.2021.9636609.

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Optimizing RISAssisted HD-FD Wireless Systems. Faisal, A.; Al-Nahhal, I.; Dobre, O. A.; Ngatched, T. M. N. IEEE Communications Letters 2021, 25 (12), 3893–3897. https://doi.org/10.1109/lcomm.2021.3117929.

Graduate student Alice Faisal and post-doctoral research Dr. Ibrahim Al-Nahhal setting up the RIS-Assited HD-FD wireless system.

High-Frequency Radar Cross Section of the Ocean Surface with Arbitrary Roughness Scales: A Generalized Functions Approach. Silva, T. M.; Huang, W.; Gill, E. W. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 2021, 69 (3), 1643–1657. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2020.3026330. Neural Network Predictive Control of Vibrations in Tall Structure: An Experimental Controlled Vision. Jamil, M.; Khan, M. N.; Rind, S. J.; Awais, Q.; Uzair, M. Computers & Electrical Engineering 2021, 89, 106940. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2020.106940.

Observability-Constrained VINS for MAVs Using Interacting Multiple Model Algorithm. Gomaa, M. A. K.; De Silva, O.; Mann, G. K. I.; Gosine, R. G. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems 2020, 57 (3), 1–1. https://doi.org/10.1109/taes.2020.3043534.

Output-Feedback Control of Precision Motion Systems with Uncertain Nonlinearities. Janaideh, M. A.; Boker, A. M.; Rakotondrabe, M. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing 2021, 153, 107483. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymssp.2020.107483.

Ship‐Iceberg Discrimination from Sentinel‐1 Synthetic Aperture Radar Data Using Parallel Convolutional Neural Network. Song, L.; Peters, D. K.; Huang, W.; Power, D. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 2021, 33 (17). https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.6297.

ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE

A Cross-Comparison of Biosurfactants as Marine Oil Spill Dispersants: Governing Factors, Synergetic Effects and Fates. Cai, Q.; Zhu, Z.; Chen, B.; Lee, K.; Nedwed, T. J.; Greer, C.; Zhang, B. Journal of Hazardous Materials 2021, 416, 126122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.126122.

An Emergency Response System by Dynamic Simulation and Enhanced Particle Swarm Optimization and Application for a Marine Oil Spill Accident. Ye, X.; Chen, B.; Lee, K.; Storesund, R.; Li, P.; Kang, Q.; Zhang, B. Journal of Cleaner Production 2021, 297, 126591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126591.

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Research Report Axial Pullout Behavior of Buried Medium-Density Polyethylene Gas Distribution Pipes. Reza, A.; Dhar, A. S. International Journal of Geomechanics 2021, 21 (7). https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)gm.1943-5622.0002101.

Graduate student Auchib Reza in the Soil-Pipe Interaction Research Laboratory

Deep Forest Classifier for Wetland Mapping Using the Combination of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Data. Jamali, A.; Mahdianpari, M.; Brisco, B.; Granger, J.; Mohammadimanesh, F.; Salehi, B. GIScience & Remote Sensing 2021, 58 (7), 1072–1089. https://doi.org/10.1080/15481603.2021.1965399.

Effect of Damage Progression on the Plastic Capacity of a Subsea Pipeline. Davaripour, F.; Quinton, B. W. T.; Pike, K. Ocean Engineering 2021, 234, 109118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2021.109118.

Enhancement of Photocatalytic Activity of TiO2 by Immobilization on Activated Carbon for Degradation of Aquatic Naphthalene under Sunlight Irradiation. Zeng, G.; You, H.; Du, M.; Zhang, Y.; Ding, Y.; Xu, C.; Liu, B.; Chen, B.; Pan, X. Chemical Engineering Journal 2021, 412, 128498. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2021.128498. Finite Element Modelling of Shear Critical Glass FibreReinforced Polymer (GFRP) Reinforced Concrete Beams. Alam, M. S.; Hussein, A. International Journal of Modelling and Simulation 2019, 41 (1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/02286203.2019.1655702.

Impacts of Frazil Ice on the Effectiveness of Oil Dispersion and Migration of Dispersed Oil. Song, X.; Chen, B.; Liu, B.; Lye, L. M.; Ye, X.; Nyantekyi-Kwakye, B.; Zhang, B. Environmental Science & Technology 2021, 56 (2), 835–844. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c04014.

Impact Resistance of Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete in Cold Temperatures. Zaki, R. A.; AbdelAleem, B. H.; Hassan, A. A. A.; Colbourne, B. Cement and Concrete Composites 2021, 122, 104116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cemconcomp.2021.104116.

Low Cost Activated Carbon for Removal of NOM and DBPs: Optimization and Comparison. Tafvizi, H.; Chowdhury, S.; Husain, T. Water 2021, 13 (16), 2244. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13162244.

Monotonic and Cyclic Behaviour of Sand in Direct Simple Shear Test Conditions Considering Low Stresses. Al Tarhouni, M. A.; Hawlader, B. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 2021, 150, 106931. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soildyn.2021.106931.

Study of Surface Heterogeneity and Nitrogen Functionalizing of Biochars: Molecular Modeling Approach. Bamdad, H.; Papari, S.; MacQuarrie, S.; Hawboldt, K. Carbon 2021, 171, 161–170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2020.08.062.

The Influence of Pipeline-Backfill-Trench Interaction on the Lateral Soil Resistance: A Numerical Investigation. Dong, X.; Shiri, H.; Zhang, W.; Randolph, M. F. Computers and Geotechnics 2021, 137, 104307. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2021.104307.

OTHER/EMERGING AREAS OF IMPORTANCE

A Deep Learning Model for Process Fault Prognosis. Arunthavanathan, R.; Khan, F.; Ahmed, S.; Imtiaz, S. Process Safety and Environmental Protection 2021, 154, 467–479. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2021.08.022.

Graduate student Vahid Salehi working on the development of a dynamic functional resonance analysis method tool.

A Dynamic Version of the FRAM for Capturing Variability in Complex Operations. Salehi, V.; Smith, D.; Veitch, B.; Hanson, N. MethodsX 2021, 8, 101333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2021.101333.

A Novel Approach for Porcupine Crab Identification and Processing Based on Point Cloud Segmentation. H. Wu, T. Zou, H. Burke, S. King and B. Burke. 2021 20th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), 2021, 1101-1108. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAR53236.2021.9659461.

Applied Finite Element Procedure for Morphing Wing Design. Nakhla, S.; Elruby, A. Y. Applied Composite Materials 2021, 28 (4), 1193–1220. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10443-021-09886-y. Estimating the Volume of Frozen Water Droplets on a Cold Surface during the Phase Change with Thermal Image Processing. Madi, E.; Pope, K.; Huang, W. Measurement 2021, 183, 109907. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2021.109907.

Film Thickness and Pressure Drop for Gas-Liquid Taylor Flow in Microchannels. Etminan, A.; Muzychka, Y. S.; Pope, K. Journal of Fluid Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer (JFFHMT) 2021, 8 (1), 59–70. https://doi.org/10.11159/jffhmt.2021.008.

Investigating Hierarchical and Ensemble Classification Approaches to Mitigate the Negative Effect of Varying Stress State on EEG-Based Detection of Mental Workload Level - and Vice Versa. Bagheri, M.; Power, S. D. Brain-Computer Interfaces 2021, 8 (1-2), 26–37. https://doi.org/10.1080/2326263x.2021.1948756.

Model Development for Shear Sonic Velocity Using Geophysical Log Data: Sensitivity Analysis and Statistical Assessment. Miah, M. I.; Ahmed, S.; Zendehboudi, S. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering 2021, 88, 103778. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jngse.2020.103778.

Designing a wing made of bistable composites with the use of finite element modeling.

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Graduate student Yiqi Cao investigating the use of chemical dispersants for tackling marine oil spills. Photo taken from a high-speed camera shows chemically dispersed oil in the seawater.

Sputtering of Surfaces by Ion Irradiation: A Comparison of Molecular Dynamics and Binary Collision Approximation Models to Laboratory Measurements. Morrissey, L. S.; Tucker, O. J.; Killen, R. M.; Nakhla, S.; Savin, D. W. Journal of Applied Physics 2021, 130 (1), 013302. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0051073.

Substructural Damage Detection Using Frequency Response Function Based Inverse Dynamic Substructuring. Jalali, M. H.; Rideout, D. G. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing 2022, 163, 108166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymssp.2021.108166.

Waveguide Mach-Zehnder Interferometer for Temperature and Concentration Sensing. Zhang, D.; Men, L.; Chen, Q. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 2021, 27 (4), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2021.3050956.

Exchange student Bob Tulp conducting abrasion of concrete from ice interaction experiments