Solution of combined economic and emission dispatch problem using a novel chaotic improved harmony search algorithm

Hamid Rezaie,M.H. Kazemi-Rahbar,Behrooz Vahidi,Hasan Rastegar 한국CDE학회 2019 Journal of computational design and engineering Vol.6 No.3

This paper presents a new optimization technique developed based on harmony search algorithm (HSA), called chaotic improved harmony search algorithm (CIHSA). In the proposed algorithm, the original HSA is improved using several innovative modifications in the optimization procedure such as using chaotic patterns instead of uniform distribution to generate random numbers, dynamically tuning the algorithm parameters, and employing virtual harmony memories. Also, a novel type of local optimization is intro-duced and employed in the algorithm procedure. Applying these modifications to HSA has resulted in enhancing the robustness, accuracy and search efficiency of the algorithm, and significantly reducing the iterations number required to achieve the optimal solution. To validate the effectiveness of CIHSA, it is used to solve the combined economic emission dispatch (CEED) problem, which practically is a com-plex high-dimensional non-convex optimization task with several equality and inequality constraints. Six test systems having 6, 10, 13, 14, 40, and 140 generators are investigated in this study, and the valve-point loading effects, ramp rate limits and power transmission losses are also taken into account. The results obtained by CIHSA are compared with the results reported in a large number of other research works. Furthermore, the statistical data regarding the CIHSA performance in all test systems is presented. The numerical and statistical results confirm the high quality of the solutions found by CIHSA and its superiority compared to other existing techniques employed in solving CEED problems.

An evaluation on sol-gel chemical processing of refractory barium hexa aluminate fibrous structures

H.R. Rezaie,R. Naghizadeh,F. Arianpour,R. Ghasemzadeh,S. Eslami 한양대학교 세라믹연구소 2009 Journal of Ceramic Processing Research Vol.10 No.2

In this research barium hexa aluminate fibrous refractory products were produced by a chemical processing route. Boehmite was used as aluminum precursor while barium nitrate was used as barium precursor and the final solution had made according to stoichiometric BaO.6Al2O3 composition. It was found that two different gels could be obtained during this route. Mainly the secondary gel was trapped into the initial gel structure. Finally gels were heated at various temperatures (1350, 1650℃) to following the formation of the barium hexa aluminate in fibrous structure due to sintering. Then the crystallization of transitional phases such as 3BaO.Al2O3 and BaO.Al2O3 to BaO.6Al2O3 were followed at different sintering temperatures by X-ray diffractometry (XRD) and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. Also scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was used to study the microstructural changes and micrographies. The produced gels were characterized by thermo gravimetrical and differential thermal analysis (TG/DTA). The results showed that BaO.6Al2O3 was the major phase at higher temperatures and fibrous structure appeared in final samples. In this research barium hexa aluminate fibrous refractory products were produced by a chemical processing route. Boehmite was used as aluminum precursor while barium nitrate was used as barium precursor and the final solution had made according to stoichiometric BaO.6Al2O3 composition. It was found that two different gels could be obtained during this route. Mainly the secondary gel was trapped into the initial gel structure. Finally gels were heated at various temperatures (1350, 1650℃) to following the formation of the barium hexa aluminate in fibrous structure due to sintering. Then the crystallization of transitional phases such as 3BaO.Al2O3 and BaO.Al2O3 to BaO.6Al2O3 were followed at different sintering temperatures by X-ray diffractometry (XRD) and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. Also scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was used to study the microstructural changes and micrographies. The produced gels were characterized by thermo gravimetrical and differential thermal analysis (TG/DTA). The results showed that BaO.6Al2O3 was the major phase at higher temperatures and fibrous structure appeared in final samples.

Investigation of hydrothermal synthesis of wollastonite using silica and nano silica at different pressuresV

Hamid Reza Rezaie,Arash Yazdani,Hossein Ghassai 한양대학교 세라믹연구소 2010 Journal of Ceramic Processing Research Vol.11 No.3

In this research a hydrothermal method was applied to synthesis of wollastonite. Silica, nano silica and calcium carbonate were used as raw materials. Different slurries were prepared with SiO2/CaO molar ratios of 0.54, 0.8, 1 and a solid content of 50 wt%. Then the slurries were hydrothermally treated in an autoclave for 2 h at 200 oC at pressures of 3, 5 and 7 atm. In the next step, the samples were dried at 150 oC for 8 h and then were calcined at 1000 oC for 5 h. The microstructure and phase analyses were investigated using SEM and XRD. The results showed that by using both silica and nano silica, with increasing pressure, the amount of wollastonite increased. At all pressures using silica, slurry with 50 wt% of solid content, SiO2/CaO molar ratio of 0.8 gave the optimum results while by using nano silica the optimum SiO2/CaO molar ratio was 1.

Surface Functionalization of Polyester Fibers via One-step Green Formation and Assembling of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles with Photo and Magneto Activities

Ali Bashiri Rezaie,Majid Montazer 한국섬유공학회 2019 Fibers and polymers Vol.20 No.5

In this research for the first time, surface functionalization of polyester fibers was performed via one-step, facileand clean strategy through green synthesis and deposition of iron oxide nanoparticles for photocatalytic and magneticapplications. The commercial ash of Seidlitzia Rosmarinus plant was used as a natural alkaline source for nanoparticlessynthesis as well as surface modification of polyester substrate and iron sulfate as metal precursor. The presence of iron oxidenanoparticles on polyester fibers was proved by X-ray diffraction analysis, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, mapping,field-emission scanning electron microscope images and Fourier transform infrared spectra. The fabricated samples exhibitedvery good photocatalytic activities toward methylene blue decoloration about 95.45 % after 48 h exposing to sunlightirradiation. In addition, they indicated appropriate magnetic properties with saturated magnetization of 2.30 and 1.69 emu/gat room temperature. The coloring effect, weight change and wettability behavior of the fabricated samples were alsoinvestigated. The mentioned route in this paper can simply be scaled up as an eco-friendly and scalable route for surfacefunctionalization of polymeric substrates via synthesis and deposition of iron oxide nanoparticles to acquire durable photoand magneto activities on polymers for different applications.

Data used for GIS-based Flood Susceptibility Mapping

이사로,Rezaie Fetemeh (사)지오에이아이데이터학회 2022 GEO DATA Vol.4 No.1

The dramatic increase in flood incidents as a significant threat to human life and property, environment, and infrastructure indicates the necessity of mapping spatial distribution of flood susceptible areas to reduce destructive effects of flooding. During the last decade, the integration of the geographic information system (GIS) with the remote sensing data provide efficient means to generate a more reliable and precise flood susceptibility map. The present study contains a review of 200 articles on the application of GIS-based methods in indicating flood vulnerable areas. The papers were reviewed in terms of influential variables, study area, and the number of articles published in the last 10 years. The review shows that the number of studies has increased since 2012. The total study areas covered 39 countries that were mostly located in Asia where the major developments and infrastructures have been constructed in the floodplains. The most common study areas was Iran (44 articles, 22%), followed by India (26 articles, 13%), China (26 articles, 11%), and Vietnam (15 articles, 7.5%). More than 90 variables were considered to map flood susceptible areas that the top 5 widely used flood conditioning factor are slope (98% of total articles), followed by elevation (92% of total articles), land use/land cover (79.5% of total articles), distance to the river (76.5% of total articles), and rainfall (73% of total articles). The review implies that many natural and anthropogenic factors affect flooding and the combination of both groups of factors is necessary to accurately detect and map flood-prone parts of the study area.

홍수와 산사태 취약성도 작성을 위한 전 세계 지공간데이터

이사로,Rezaie Fatemeh (사)지오에이아이데이터학회 2023 GEO DATA Vol.5 No.4

Susceptibility mapping is an important component of natural hazard risk assessment and management. Susceptibility maps for floods and landslides, which are particularly damaging to human life and property, can provide a comprehensive understanding of risk areas and factors related to flood and landslide susceptibility. To create a global flood and landslide susceptibility map, global geospatial data for 37,984 landslide and 6,682 flood locations, as well as 11 selected environmental factors were used to construct a geographic information system database. The 11 environmental factors found to influence flood and landslide occurrence were rainfall, slope, terrain position index, plane curvature, terrain wetness index, distance from rivers, land use, soil texture, soil moisture, geology, and temperature. These data were then used directly to create a global flood and landslide susceptibility map.

A Trade-Off between the Efficiency, Ripple and Volume of a DC-DC Converter

Taherbaneh, Mohsen,Rezaie, Amir H.,Ghafoorifard, Hasan,Mirsamadi, Maddad,Menh, Mohammad B. The Korean Institute of Power Electronics 2011 JOURNAL OF POWER ELECTRONICS Vol.11 No.5

In space qualified DC-DC converters, optimization of the following electrical characteristics is of greater interest in comparison with other specifications; power loss/efficiency, output voltage ripple and volume/weight. The main goal of this paper is to present an appropriate solution for optimizing the above mentioned characteristics. For this purpose, a comprehensive power loss model of a DC-DC converter is fully developed. Proper models are also demonstrated for assessment of the output voltage ripple and the utilized transformer volume as the bulkiest component in a DC-DC converter. In order to provide a test bed for evaluation of the proposed models, a 50W push-pull DC-DC converter is designed and implemented. Finally, a novel cost function with three assigned weight functions is proposed in order to have a trade-off among the power loss, the output voltage ripple and the utilized transformer volume of the converter. The cost function is optimized for applications in which volume has the highest priority in comparison with power loss and ripple. The optimization results show that the transformer volume can be decreased by up to 51% and this result is verified by experimental results. The developed models and algorithms in this paper can be used for other DC-DC converter topologies with some minor modifications.

Effect of soil in controlling the seismic response of three-dimensional PBPD high-rise concrete structures

Mortezaie, Hamid,Rezaie, Freydoon Techno-Press 2018 Structural Engineering and Mechanics, An Int'l Jou Vol.66 No.2

In the last decades, valuable results have been reported regarding conventional passive, active, semi-active, and hybrid structural control systems on two-dimensional and a few three-dimensional shear buildings. In this research, using a three-dimensional finite element model of high-rise concrete structures, designed by performance based plastic design method, it was attempted to construct a relatively close to reality model of concrete structures equipped with Tuned Mass Damper (TMD) by considering the effect of soil-structure interaction (SSI), torsion effect, hysteresis behavior and cracking effect of concrete. In contrast to previous studies which have focused mainly on linearly designed structures, in this study, using performance-based plastic design (PBPD) design approach, nonlinear behavior of the structures was considered from the beginning of the design stage. Inelastic time history analysis on a detailed model of twenty-story concrete structure was performed under a far-field ground motion record set. The seismic responses of the structure by considering SSI effect are studied by eight main objective functions that are related to the performance of the structure, containing: lateral displacement, acceleration, inter-story drift, plastic energy dissipation, shear force, number of plastic hinges, local plastic energy and rotation of plastic hinges. The tuning problem of TMD based on tuned mass spectra is set by considering five of the eight previously described functions. Results reveal that the structural damage distribution range is retracted and inter-story drift distribution in height of the structure is more uniform. It is strongly suggested to consider the effect of SSI in structural design and analysis.

Application of Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques for Habitat Potential Mapping of Siberian Roe Deer in South Korea

Lee, Saro,Rezaie, Fatemeh National Institute of Ecology 2021 국립생태원회보(PNIE) Vol.2 No.1

The study has been carried out with an objective to prepare Siberian roe deer habitat potential maps in South Korea based on three geographic information system-based models including frequency ratio (FR) as a bivariate statistical approach as well as convolutional neural network (CNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) as machine learning algorithms. According to field observations, 741 locations were reported as roe deer's habitat preferences. The dataset were divided with a proportion of 70:30 for constructing models and validation purposes. Through FR model, a total of 10 influential factors were opted for the modelling process, namely altitude, valley depth, slope height, topographic position index (TPI), topographic wetness index (TWI), normalized difference water index, drainage density, road density, radar intensity, and morphological feature. The results of variable importance analysis determined that TPI, TWI, altitude and valley depth have higher impact on predicting. Furthermore, the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was applied to assess the prediction accuracies of three models. The results showed that all the models almost have similar performances, but LSTM model had relatively higher prediction ability in comparison to FR and CNN models with the accuracy of 76% and 73% during the training and validation process. The obtained map of LSTM model was categorized into five classes of potentiality including very low, low, moderate, high and very high with proportions of 19.70%, 19.81%, 19.31%, 19.86%, and 21.31%, respectively. The resultant potential maps may be valuable to monitor and preserve the Siberian roe deer habitats.

Activated protein C inhibits high mobility group box 1 signaling in endothelial cells

Bae, Jong-Sup,Rezaie, Alireza R. American Society of Hematology 2011 Blood Vol.118 No.14

<B>Abstract</B><P>A pathogenic role for high-mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) protein has been postulated in severe sepsis. Activated protein C (APC) is the only drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration for severe sepsis; however, its effect on HMGB1 signaling has never been investigated. Here, we monitored the effect of APC on the lipopolysaccharide-mediated release of HMGB1 and the HMGB1-mediated modulation of proinflammatory responses in HUVECs. APC potently inhibited the release of HMGB1 and down-regulated the adhesion of the monocytic cell line, THP-1, to HMGB1-activated endothelial cells. HMGB1 up-regulated proinflammatory responses by interacting with 3 pathogen-related pattern recognition receptors: TLR2 and TLR4 and the receptor for advanced glycation end products. APC not only inhibited HMGB1 release but also down-regulated the cell surface expression of all 3 HMGB1 receptors in endothelial cells. The protective effects of APC were mediated through endothelial cell protein C receptor (EPCR) and protease-activated receptor 1 (PAR-1). Interestingly, a thrombin derivative containing the Gla-domain of APC recapitulated all protective effects of APC with a 20- to 50-fold higher efficacy. These results suggest that the EPCR- and PAR-1-dependent protective effects of APC in severe sepsis may partially be mediated through the inhibition of HMGB1 signaling and that the chimeric thrombin mutant has potential therapeutic utility for severe sepsis.</P>