Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Fuel Consumption in the Mining Industry Using the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling Approach
M. Yousefi Nejad Attari¹, PhD, and B. Ejlaly^2
1Department of Industrial Engineering, Bonab Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bonab, Iran
²Department of Industrial Engineering Universitas Kooshyar Iran, Rasht, Iran

Chapter 2. Energy-Efficient Mixing Operations Using Coaxial Mixers
Paloma L. Barros, Farhad Ein-Mozaffari and Ali Lohi
Department of Chemical Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

Chapter 3. On the Application of GIS to Architectural Heritage Safeguarding
B. Santos^1,2, J. Gonçalves^1,3,4, P. G. Almeida^1,4 and A. M. T. Martins^1,5,6
1Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal
²CERIS, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
³CITTA, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
⁴GEOBIOTEC, Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal
⁵Lab2PT, Universidade do Minho, Guimarães, Portugal
⁶CIDEHUS, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal

Chapter 4. Efficiency Assessment of Onshore Wind Farms in Turkey: A DEA Approach
Berna H. Ulutas and N. Firat Ozkan
Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey

Chapter 5. Influence of Cooling Rate on the Microstructure-Property Correlation of Nb Microalloyed Near Eutectoid Steel
I. Dey¹, R. Saha² and S. K. Ghosh^1
1Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah, India
²Product Development Research Group, R & D Division, Tata Steel Limited, Jamshedpur, India

Chapter 6. Multi-Rotor Universal Drone Systems
Ş. Yıldırım¹ and N. Çabuk^2
1Department of Mechatronics, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Türkiye
²Department of Electricity and Energy, Aksaray University, Aksaray, Türkiye

Chapter 7. MXene Saturable Absorber for Passively Q-Switched and Mode-Locked Pulses Generation
Sulaiman Wadi Harun, Ahmad Haziq Aiman Rosol and Hamzah Arof
Photonics Engineering Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Chapter 8. PTA: A Peak-to-Average Pumping Scheme for PCM Write Energy Reduction
Fenfang Li and Huizhang Luo
College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China

Chapter 9. On the Estimation Theory of Satellite Dynamics via the Carleman Linearization Approach
Ravish H. Hirpara¹, PhD, Prashant G. Medewar, PhD Scholar², and Shambhu N. Sharma², PhD
¹Electrical Engineering Department, S. N. Patel Institute of Technology and Research Centre, Umrakh, Bardoli, Surat, Gujarat, India
²Department of Electrical Engineering, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, Gujarat, India

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