Designing of a House Utilizing Passive Solar Energy

Design of a House Utilizing Passive Solar Energy 
(Also solution available in SI units)
The assignment will be to “design” a house utilizing passive solar energy features in order to meet a target fraction of heating energy from the solar features. Each team will need to decide what type of passive solar configuration to use (chosen from the 94 given in Appendix A in the text). Each team’s report should include an estimate of the annual heating cost for the home along with some estimate of the cost of implementing the configuration chosen and the expected annual savings.
The data that each group will start with is:

  • –  2,500 ft2 floor space
  • –  NLC of 6-8 Btu/FHDD-ft2
  • –  Ap ranges from 200 to 500 ft2
  • –  home located Nashville, TN
  • –  base cost of home is $95/ft2
  • –  natural gas cost is $12.50/MMBtu (million Btu)
  • –  electricity cost is $0.105/kWhr
  • –  target SSF is 0.4

Application of Lean Methods: Saudi Aramco, Emirate Airlines, Qatar Airways

Application of Lean Methods: Saudi Aramco, Emirate Airlines, Qatar Airways 
Subject: Quality Engineering
Statistical Process Control (SPC).  Lean Manufacturing Methodology, Kaizen Quality  5S Methodology. Six Sigma. DMAIC. Lean Sigma. Kanban. Quality Management Systems (QMS). Quality Control (QC). Gemba. Value Stream MappingKaizen (PDCA Cycle)5SCause and Effect AnalysisSIPOC AnalysisProcess Maps / Process Flowcharts. DMADV, also known as Design for Six Sigma (DFSS). BPMN Process Maps  (Business Process Modeling Notation map). Process Maps.
Required the report body:
Introduction
Project Methodology: Including the techniques and used tools
Data Collection
Results and Analysis
Discussion of the Results
Conclusions
References
The 8 types of waste you’ll be able to remove with the following Lean tools are

  • Defects
  • Overproduction
  • Waiting
  • Non-utilized talent
  • Transportation
  • Inventory
  • Motion
  • Extra-processing

Pros and Cons of Hydrothermal Energy

Pros and Cons of Hydrothermal Energy, Instructions 
• Essays should have 8 pages (12 font), excluding the cover and contents page, and should contain no more than 30% diagrams or photographs.
Sources for your report, including diagrams and photographs, must be clearly referenced, following a common format.
Make sure to include data in your essays.
The discussion should contain an evaluation of the ethical conflicts and include your own opinion.
• You must run your report through a software that detects plagiarism before you submit your homework, and attach the report of the plagiarism self-check.

Pros and Cons of Hydrothermal Energy

Pros and Cons of Hydrothermal Energy, Instructions 
• Essays should have 8 pages (12 font), excluding the cover and contents page, and should contain no more than 30% diagrams or photographs.
Sources for your report, including diagrams and photographs, must be clearly referenced, following a common format.
Make sure to include data in your essays.
The discussion should contain an evaluation of the ethical conflicts and include your own opinion.
• You must run your report through a software that detects plagiarism before you submit your homework, and attach the report of the plagiarism self-check.

BioMechanics: Movement Analysis

Instruction 
Each student will analyze a series of 3 pictures or images, that have been previously
drawn/selected.
Use the tables presented later in this document and adjust columns right or left as necessary.
The tables must be shown in a neat and professional manner for clarity, reader-friendliness, and
easy-grading. Rows may be added in cases where a joint is performing multiple movements or
be in multiple positions. If there are any questions, or if you need clarifications, regarding
something about the images, please consult with Dr. Conkle ASAP. DO NOT wait until the last
minute to ask questions!! You must address each body part.
All information in the table MUST align all the way across with the material in the left column. Do
NOT place information across 2 pages for the same joint, movement, muscles, etc. If a given joint on both the right and left are in the EXACT SAME POSITION, say so in the table’s left-hand
column (Column 1) and treat it that way all the way across once, not twice.
Note that this assignment may take a more than a few pages for this to appear neat,
professional, and reader-friendly.

BioMechanics: Movement Analysis

Instruction 
Each student will analyze a series of 3 pictures or images, that have been previously
drawn/selected.
Use the tables presented later in this document and adjust columns right or left as necessary.
The tables must be shown in a neat and professional manner for clarity, reader-friendliness, and
easy-grading. Rows may be added in cases where a joint is performing multiple movements or
be in multiple positions. If there are any questions, or if you need clarifications, regarding
something about the images, please consult with Dr. Conkle ASAP. DO NOT wait until the last
minute to ask questions!! You must address each body part.
All information in the table MUST align all the way across with the material in the left column. Do
NOT place information across 2 pages for the same joint, movement, muscles, etc. If a given joint on both the right and left are in the EXACT SAME POSITION, say so in the table’s left-hand
column (Column 1) and treat it that way all the way across once, not twice.
Note that this assignment may take a more than a few pages for this to appear neat,
professional, and reader-friendly.

Thermodynamics II

1.  Vapor refrigeration cycle with sub-cooling and super-heating. 
2. Vapor Absorption cycles
3.  Vapor refrigeration cycle with reheating and regeneration. 
4. Psychrometry and its application to air-conditioning
5. Cooling towers. 
6.  Compressible flows in Channels or Nozzles.
7. One-dimensional steady flow in ducts or nozzles.
8. Supersonic and subsonic flows.
9. Flow with friction and heat transfer.
Requirement:
You have to write a review report only. Your report should include research papers. In the report, you must include:
1. What is done, how is done and the results of each research paper
2.  Reference list
3. 10 to 15 pages

Fire Engineering Simulations and Report

Fire Engineering Simulations and Report
This is a sprinklered 5-storey shopping mall with smoke extraction system. The entire
mall has been split into 3 fire compartments (i.e. Arcade 1, Atrium & Arcade 2) by
automatic fire shutters as shown below. The layout of the mall is shown in the sketch
below. The ceiling-to-floor height is assumed to be 4m.
Each student needs to complete the following tasks:
1. CFAST is a zone model that divide the compartment into two control volumes,
a relatively hot upper layer and a relatively cool lower layer, please derive the
system of ordinary differential equation for the compartment pressure. Each
student shall use CFAST to simulate the impact of fires and smoke in the
building environment for 10 minutes duration. The smoke layer height, smoke
temperature and gases concentration of the fire compartments shall also be
reported. (30 Marks)
2. Each student shall also use the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) to predict the
following for 10 minutes duration: (40 Marks)
Temperature distribution;
CO concentration;
Soot visibility distribution;
Radiation heat flux along the egress route.
3. Please propose the smoke extraction system with recommended flowrate to
extent the ASET of the shopping mall. (30 Marks)
Remarks
x
y
Not to scale
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Each student shall:
state the assumptions,
state boundary conditions,
state approaches;
reporting the simulation results and related screenshots captured in
Smokeview for each fire scenario;
maximum 30 pages and printed on both sides.

Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox (EPR paradox)

Readings: Be sure to read John Norton’s e-book chapter (Lecture 5.2).
You may also wish to have a look at the SEP article by Arthur Fine on The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Argument in Quantum Theory or Laszlo Szabo’s The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Argument and the Bell Inequalities. (Links all down below!) Background.
It would be hard to evaluate the incompleteness thesis without some discussion of the phenomenon of entanglement, so you should expect to discuss this briefly; however, you will not have enough words available to develop all of quantum mechanics in this essay, so you should try to extract only the bits of quantum mechanics that you need to make your point.
Make sure you are giving a clear reconstruction either of the EPR argument or Einstein’s argument given in his Autobiographical Notes. Finally, articulate which assumption of Einstein’s argument is suspect and why.
Reading Links: http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/HPS_0410/chapters/quantum_theory_completeness/index.html https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-epr/ https://www.iep.utm.edu/wp-content/media/epr-bell-pdf-2018.pdf Entanglement Theory Links: (YOU WILL NEED THIS) https://personal.lse.ac.uk/gyenisb/physcity/lecture5.1.html http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/HPS_0410/chapters/quantum_theory_completeness/index.html
THESE ARE ADDITIONAL GENERIC INSTRUCTIONS: PLEASE READ CAREFULLY AND ALWAYS KEEP IN MIND WHEN WRITING YOUR ESSAY.
Writing Philosophy You’ll only really learn to write a good philosophical essay through practice; but again a few hints can be given. Always answer the question you have been asked.
The main structure of your essay should be dictated by the “question” and, where it really is a question, you should come to some explicit answer to it – even if this is mixed or complex.
Suppose, for example, you were set the question ‘Did Hume show that induction is a rationally indefensible process?’ Then the conclusion of your essay might be something like ‘So, did Hume show that induction is a rationally indefensible process?
I have argued that, relative to one conception of rationality, Hume succeeded; but I have also shown that there is an equally plausible conception under which induction can count as rational, despite Hume’s strictures.’ Or suppose that you are asked ‘Is the moral act always the one that produces the greatest total well-being?’  Then the essay might end with ‘I have argued that there are cases where this utilitarian maxim would lead one to act in a way that is clearly immoral intuitively and hence that the maxim is not generally true.’ Or perhaps: ‘I have argued that, although some philosophers have argued that there are cases where acting to promote greatest total well-being would lead one to act immorally, in fact, on analysis, these alleged counter-examples dissolve, leaving the utilitarian maxim unrefuted.’ Target audience. Your target audience should be the ‘educated layman’, that is, someone who is clever, sympathetic, but has not read the particular material that you have been reading and on which your essay is based (or maybe s/he only dimly remembers most of it). Having such a target will force you to try to give a clear account of the material at issue; if instead you plunge into a detailed discussion that presupposes that material, it won’t be clear (not even to yourself) whether you have really understood it. Use your own words. Although we do not usually expect originality (after all, the people you will be reading have been thinking about the issues for years, not weeks), we do expect you NOT to write an essay by simply copying chunks from the reading. To do so without reference amounts to plagiarism; you should always cite the author when you do quote. But you should in any event avoid long quotations. The occasional very sharp quotation is fine, but in general you should use your own words even when you are straightforwardly describing someone else’s position.
One way to ensure you do this is to put the books aside when you are writing (consulting them again only when you get stuck). You obviously haven’t understood someone’s position if you can’t re-express it independently. Style. Do not aim to impress with your erudition and capacity to write long intricate sentences involving long words. Try to express your views (and those of the authors you report) as simply and concisely as possible. A good test is to read your essay out loud: if it sounds awkward, re-express it more simply. 8 Scholarly apparatus. When you paraphrase or quote a piece, give a full reference, including a page number (or, in some cases, such as classic texts, a section, paragraph and line number), in any of the standard formats (see any contemporary article or book published with a leading press for an acceptable way of citing). In summary, each essay is evaluated on the basis of the following. Expression and style Structure and organisation Understanding and use of literature Quality of analysis and evaluation Quality of argument Independence and originality We would further add that a good essay always begins by stating a clear thesis in the introduction, and its aim is to formulate a valid, compelling argument over the course of the essay. ADDITIONAL PHILOSOPHY WRITING GUIDE: https://personal.lse.ac.uk/ROBERT49/teaching/Guide.pdf PLEASE GET IN TOUCH IF THERE ARE ANY ISSUES AND WE CAN SORT THEM OUT TOGETHER. BEST OF LUCK AND I REALLY DO EXPECT THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE QUALITY WITH NO PLAGIARISM AT ALL.

Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox (EPR paradox)

EinsteinPodolskyRosen paradox (EPR paradox) is a thought experiment proposed by physicists Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen (EPR), with which they argued that the description of physical reality provided by quantum mechanics was incomplete (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox)
Readings: Be sure to read John Norton’s e-book chapter (Lecture 5.2).
You may also wish to have a look at the SEP article by Arthur Fine on The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Argument in Quantum Theory or Laszlo Szabo’s The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Argument and the Bell Inequalities. (Links all down below!) Background.
It would be hard to evaluate the incompleteness thesis without some discussion of the phenomenon of entanglement, so you should expect to discuss this briefly; however, you will not have enough words available to develop all of quantum mechanics in this essay, so you should try to extract only the bits of quantum mechanics that you need to make your point.
Make sure you are giving a clear reconstruction either of the EPR argument or Einstein’s argument given in his Autobiographical Notes. Finally, articulate which assumption of Einstein’s argument is suspect and why.