Pressure drop is an important consideration in Total Site Heat Integration (TSHI). This is due to the typically large distances between the different plants and the flow across plant elevations and equipment, including heat exchangers. Failure to consider pressure drop during utility targeting...

As the product market lifecycle is becoming shorter, molding companies are forced to reduce the time to market. At the same time, the pressure of time-to-market is also conveyed to mold making companies. To rapidly respond to molding companies and retain customers, mold making companies have to...

Driven by industrial needs and enabled by the latest information technology, enterprise integration has rapidly shifted from information integration to process integration for performance excellence in the entire business process. This paper reports on the modeling of a business information...

The impetus for this paper came after the financial crisis of 2007-2008, its global consequences and specifically how incomplete information "information asymmetry" between local banks and regulators extremely affected the banking sector. Financial institutions and regulators are-from a...

The impetus for this paper came after the financial crisis of 2007-2008, its global consequences and specifically how incomplete information "information asymmetry" between local banks and regulators extremely affected the banking sector. Financial institutions and regulators are-from a...

The food sector is confronted with a growing number of public and private requirements, which call for provision of information about the quality and sustainability of food, such as, e.g., its origin, safety and production conditions. This forces enterprises to innovate towards demand driven and...

We offer a formal definition of business process integration. The views of integration in various fields are reviewed and integrated to isolate the four fundamental properties of information that define it: accessibility, transparency, granularity and timeliness. An illustration of a process in...

State-of-the-art integrated macroalgae utilization processes, consisting of drying, gasification, and combined cycle, are proposed and their performance with respect to energy efficiency are evaluated. To achieve high exergy efficiency, the integration is performed through two main principles:...

The feasibility of using finned oscillating heat pipes (OHPs) for heat exchange between counter-flowing air streams in HVAC air systems (i.e., outdoor and exhaust air flows), along with the associated cost savings in typical North American climates, is investigated. For a prescribed temperature...