Evaluation and Application of Thermo Photovoltaic (TPV) in Energy Recycling, A Case study: Application in an Energy Intensive Unit of Mobarakeh Steel Complex

, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Shoaei, Ehsan (Author) ; Saboohi, Yadollah (Supervisor) ; Shafii, Mohammad Behshad (Co-Advisor)

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Thermo photovoltaic (TPV) is temperature oriented power generation system in which an emitter with temperature value around 1200℃ is usually used for radiation to the cells.Iron and steel industry as a fundamental industry has the most potential of interest for using TPV for recovering of energy. In steel casting unit there is rather high amount of radiation with temperature around 1000℃ which can be recovered by TPV system. The main aim of this dissertation is developing a mathematical model as well as verification of the model experimentally, in which the model is extended for possible using in iron and steel industry.The key modeling parameters of TPV include: open circuit voltage, short...

Experimental and Analytical Investigation of Flexural Behavior of U-boot Hollow Slab

, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Bonyadi, Amin (Author) ; Khaloo, Alireza (Supervisor)

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U-boot is a type of hollow biaxial RC slab which have plastic inserts within slab in order to reduce the self-weight. The lower weight of the floor system leads to larger spans and also improves the seismic behavior of the structure. Voids within the slab impart a non-prismatic nature in both direction of the slab and cause complexity. Therefore, more investigation is required in order to evaluate the structural behavior of this type of slab. This Thesis presents experimental works and finite element analysis on the bending of the U-boot hollow slabs. Tests were carried out on two 1/3 scale specimen (2000 × 420 × 150 mm), one was conventional solid slab and another was hollow slab. Flexural...

Interaction Effects of Gravity and Lateral Loads in Reinforced Concrete Slab

, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Hosseinalizadeh, Amir (Author) ; Kazemi, Mohammad Taghi (Supervisor)

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Reinforced concrete slabs carry both vertical gravity loads and in plane forces due to seismic loads. In this study interaction of bending and in plane forces will be considered. Lee et al. in 2007 studied the floor diaphragm behavior. They considered combination of both in plane and out of plane loadings. In the most previous studies, the diaphragm behavior of a floor slab was represented by its behavior under in-plane forces only. With this assumption, analysis of the floor diaphragm was simplified to the two dimensional plane stress problem. For low-rise buildings, the lateral stiffness of the structure is usually higher than high-rise buildings.Tena et al. in 2014 assessed ment the...