Research List

The main objective of this paper is to develop a new model for the Green Household Waste Transportation Problem in the city of Sousse, in which several vehicles located at the depot are used to collect waste from many bins and bring them back to the depot. The suggested model [...]

This research paper deals with a special case of a multiobjective 3D-Bin Packing Problem. n 3D boxes of different volumetric dimensions are to be filled in a minimum number of identical bins. The boxes have different weights and can be only horizontally rotated when placed in the bins. Two objectives [...]

Anaerobic decomposition of organic compounds in landfills generates greenhouse gases (GHG). The objective of this study is to estimate total landfill gases (LFG) emissions from Asker Landfill in Bahrain utilizing LandGEM software. Total annual municipal solid waste disposal rate between 1997 and 2016 shows considerable increase. The methane generation rate [...]

In the present study polystyrene waste (PS) was collected from a drop off site in a local market and pyrolyzed at heating rates of 5, 10, 15 and 20 °C/min and temperature range 40–600 °C under nitrogen condition. The apparent activation energy (Ea) and pre-exponential factor (A) were determined using [...]

In this paper we provide a review of important ambulance allocation models developed in the last 40 years. These models include both strategic and operational level decisions. The review aims to provide researchers with an easy to-understand, comprehensive and up-to-date summary of deterministic, probabilistic, and dynamic ambulance location models. © [...]

Purpose – The damage humans caused to the environment post the industrial revolution fostered developing sustainability-rating systems – a number of evaluation instruments that focus on various factors to evaluate buildings and small-scale urban developments. Nevertheless, no buildings are certified in Bahrain, the environmentally challenged country in the Arabian Gulf. [...]

Preamble: The University of Bahrain Smart Cities event has been organized in collaboration with the IET-EMEA (IET Europe, Middle East and Africa Regional), IET, (The Institution of Engineering and Technology), UK. Smart Cities relate to the employment of smart technologies and data as the means to solving cities’ sustainability challenges [...]

Nowadays Photovoltaic (PV) became the new competitive energy resource. Therefore, it needs to be connected to the grid to reduce the demand from the authority, which means the flow of the load will be reduced. The production of the electricity as a solar energy will increase in the locations where [...]

This paper presents a proposed fault locating system for the low voltage distribution systems in Bahrain using the existing installed smart meters and the geographical information system (GIS). The currently used methods for locating faults in the low voltage distribution system in Bahrain are very time consuming, unreliable and potentially [...]

Signalized intersections are major components for any transportation network as the traffic operation at these intersections will significantly affect the operation for the whole network. Dynamic lane assignment (DLA) represents an Intelligent Transport System (ITS) technique that can be used to enhance the traffic operations at signalized intersection by utilizing [...]