{"title":"Modeling of neutronic beam for PARR-II using OpenMC","authors":"Amina Zulfiqar, M. Sohail","doi":"10.1109/ICET.2016.7813276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICET.2016.7813276","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this study is to model a neutronic beam at Pakistan Research Reactor-II in order to obtain neutrons of epithermal energy for the therapy of deep seated tumors like glioblastoma multiforme etc. which have no other best alternative cure so far. The modeling of PARR-II was performed using Monte Carlo based open source simulation program called OpenMC. The core modeling was validated with reference values taken from final safety analysis report of Pakistan Research Reactor-II. The calculated value of excess reactivity is 4.14mk with an error of about 3.5% and beryllium shim worth is 19.95mk with an error of 6% and these values were found in good agreement to the reference values. For neutronic beam modeling of beam tube using different materials were done and validated by comparing with beam parametric values found in literature. The selection of reflector, moderator and filters of definite thicknesses for beam tube is based on the required energy and magnitude of the neutron flux required at the exit of tube. The variation of the total and epithermal flux was studied and found that both fluxes decrease with the increase in thickness of both reflector and moderator. In this way an optimum value of moderator thickness 11cm selected according to values of flux (108 neutrons/cm2.s) and energy of neutrons required for therapy as provided by international atomic energy commission (IAEA).","PeriodicalId":285090,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124549309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implementation of high power quality three phase inverter for AC micro grids","authors":"Abdul Rehman Yaisn, Shahzad Ahmad, Mudassar Riaz","doi":"10.1109/ICET.2016.7813260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICET.2016.7813260","url":null,"abstract":"With the evolution of the technology in renewable energy sources DC-AC converters are gaining a lot of attention. They find applications in AC micro grids where the distributed energy sources (DES), like photo voltaic cell, fuel cell, micro combined heat and power energy sources are connected to conventional AC grid system. In this research paper a power electronic filter along with control scheme is designed and presented to suppress higher order harmonics and high voltage spikes in the output to achieve high power quality. The validity of the design is verified through simulations. Further hardware results closely match the simulated results.","PeriodicalId":285090,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121836259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Muhammad Mubashar Hussain, S. Mirza, Shakeel ur Rehman
{"title":"Study of thermal neutron albedo for hydrogenous materials using Geant4 simulations","authors":"Muhammad Mubashar Hussain, S. Mirza, Shakeel ur Rehman","doi":"10.1109/ICET.2016.7813225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICET.2016.7813225","url":null,"abstract":"The medical LINACS with energies greater than 8 MeV produce photo-neutrons along with x-rays. These photo-neutrons contaminate the therapeutic beam and are of concern to the personnel working around the treatment room. Consequently, study of neutron albedo is very helpful for radiation protection purposes. In this work, the integral neutron albedo is determined as a function of thickness of target materials using parallel beam of thermal neutrons for a number of materials important in radiation protection and medical purposes, including water, aluminum, lead, iron, beryllium, graphite, skin-ICRP, soft tissue-ICRP, muscle skeletal-ICRP using Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation code. These simulations clearly show that neutron albedo rises quickly with target thickness and reaches saturation after about 15 cm. The value of neutron albedo depends upon scattering material thickness and geometry of reflector and its physical properties. The results of this work have also been compared with those obtained with other experimental results and theoretical calculated values, and found a good agreement with simulated value. These calculations will be helpful for evaluating the outcome of future clinical treatment planning in LINACS, radiation protection and radiation safety. The study of these materials demonstrates that a large proportion of neutrons are reflected at the edge of reflector from 1 to 10 cm, further increasing thickness have relatively small effect on neutron-albedo.","PeriodicalId":285090,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114081220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vibration attenuation of a combined suspension car model with ABS using adaptive soft computing technique","authors":"Shah Riaz, L. Khan","doi":"10.1109/ICET.2016.7813253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICET.2016.7813253","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analysis vibrations effect on the vital organs of the car driver sitting in the front and a female pregnant subject sitting in the rear of the car with the onboard Anti-lock Braking System (ABS). Nine degrees of freedom (DoF) full-car active suspension system, eleven degrees of freedom biodynamic models for each driver and pregnant subject and ABS model is taken into consideration in the analysis. Comfort evaluation is based on the criteria set by the International standard organization ISO 2631-1 of 1997 for whole body vibrations. Vertical vibrations are attenuated using adaptive modified Neuro Fuzzy Takagi-Sugeno-Kang (NFTSK) control method. Slip ratio is used for ABS analysis. Coordination of the ABS and suspension system is established. The NFTSK control performance is verified against the standard road profile. Comparison of the results is made with no control (passive) and PID and the indices defined by the international standard. This form of the coordinated analysis is rare in the existing literature.","PeriodicalId":285090,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130813003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Elliptical channel model employing propagation of signals in 3D space","authors":"Farrukh Ijaz, M. Riaz, N. Khan, M. Y. Wani","doi":"10.1109/ICET.2016.7813222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICET.2016.7813222","url":null,"abstract":"Geometrically-based stochastic channel modeling approach has been a hot area of research for the last two decades to model the surrounding physical scattering environment around the mobile station (MS) in cellular mobile communication systems. The mobile users moving in vehicles on the high ways, in streets and canyons are more critical to model their surrounding environments. In order to model such scattering environment, we extend the earlier proposed two-dimensional (2D) elliptical geometric channel model for macrocellular communication systems by introducing elevation of the base station (BS). We consider that MS is placed at the middle of the ellipse and surrounded by uniformly distributed scatterers on the boundary region of the ellipse. Furthermore, we also consider elevation of the BS that is installed in scattering-free region. Taking these assumptions into account, we derive a simple mathematical expression for the probability distribution functions (PDFs) of angle-of-arrival. The elliptical geometry is such that it has adjustable dimensions and can model the streets and highways in a better way according to their widths.","PeriodicalId":285090,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125593105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of interference in body area networks over generalized fading","authors":"Furqan Jameel, A. Butt, Uzair Munir","doi":"10.1109/ICET.2016.7813267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICET.2016.7813267","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless Body Area Networks (BANs) have become one of the most anticipated technologies of the current century due to their application oriented nature. The main objective of this paper is to quantify and analyze the impact of co-channel interference on BANs under generalized fading. Specifically, this paper adopts the cluster based approach to analytically model and derive a closed-form expression for packet error probability under generalized fading channel. Interference from nearby cluster using the same frequency band, is considered while deriving the expression. A mathematical expression for antenna selection scheme is also obtained to enhance the performance of the desired cluster. Extensive simulations are performed to validate our findings which clearly prove the practical significance of our analytical model.","PeriodicalId":285090,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127914934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"FEA of lab scale drop test machine","authors":"Muhammad Waleed Anjum, M. Z. Iqbal, Rabia Andleeb","doi":"10.1109/ICET.2016.7813227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICET.2016.7813227","url":null,"abstract":"Drop testing is very important in many industries. In industries, the items face severe environmental conditions during their working life. These environmental conditions can be due to high temperature, high pressure, vibration, transportation effect and it can be shock effects. Drop testing is used for shock effects. First of all, theoretical modeling was done for the drop table to check that either it can survive the applied shock or not. Then a commercial finite element software ANSYS/LS-DYNA which incorporates the pre and post processes of ANSYS with the solver of LS-DYNA is used to investigate the response of the drop table. Highest shock produces when drop table hits the mild steel programmer (target) because of its highest stiffness. More the programmer is stiff, less the deformation would be produced and contact time will also be less. Due to this less contact time, less energy is transmitted to the programmer and more energy is transmitted to the drop table and high stresses are produced. Drop height has direct relation with shock and stresses produced. Shock amplitude keep on decreasing with decreasing the drop height.","PeriodicalId":285090,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127242985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Monte Carlo commissioning of 6 MV photon beam of varian linear accelerator installed at INOR","authors":"S. Bajwa, Attia Gul, Shahbaz Ahmed, M. Kakakhel","doi":"10.1109/ICET.2016.7813239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICET.2016.7813239","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims at the Monte Carlo (MC) commissioning of Varian Clinac 2100C medical linear accelerator (LINAC) for 6 MV photon beam. The MC-based EGSnrc user sub codes BEAMnrc and DOSXYZnrc were used for accelerator head modeling and dose calculations in water phantom respectively. As the first step in the commissioning of LINAC, optimum incident electron beam energy was investigated. For that purpose, lateral beam profiles (at different depths) and percentage depth dose curves were acquired for different field sizes (5 ×5, 10 × 10, 20 × 20 and 30 × 30 cm2). By the comparison of simulated and measured dose profiles, the optimum incident electron beam energy was found to be 5.8 MeV using x2 test. Lateral beam profiles and depth dose curves agreed well with reference data. However, lateral beam profiles are found to be more sensitive than depth doses to changes in incident electron beam energy.","PeriodicalId":285090,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121764305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Z. Hassan, Hui Li, T. Kamal, Mithulananthan Nadarajah, Faizan Mehmood
{"title":"Fuzzy embedded MPPT modeling and control of PV system in a hybrid power system","authors":"S. Z. Hassan, Hui Li, T. Kamal, Mithulananthan Nadarajah, Faizan Mehmood","doi":"10.1109/ICET.2016.7813236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICET.2016.7813236","url":null,"abstract":"The literature is populated with different Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) methods for Photovoltaic (PV) system to obtain maximum power from it. This piece of work provides an artificial intelligence-based fuzzy logic MPPT modeling and control of PV system in a grid connected hybrid power system under different weather patterns. The proposed technique uses seven fuzzy sets with seven linguistic variables applied to a DC-DC converter. Furthermore, a battery module is added as an energy storage system during surplus power and/or backup device during load demand. The overall operation of system is performed by classical logic power management switching algorithm. The performance of proposed method is compared with and without Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) MPPT controllers. MATLAB simulation results show better behavior of proposed method in terms of load tracking and reliability.","PeriodicalId":285090,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121663306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Kamal, Mithulananthan Nadarajah, S. Z. Hassan, Hui Li, Faizan Mehmood, Izhar Hussain, Barış Cevher
{"title":"Optimal scheduling of PHEVs in a PV based charging station","authors":"T. Kamal, Mithulananthan Nadarajah, S. Z. Hassan, Hui Li, Faizan Mehmood, Izhar Hussain, Barış Cevher","doi":"10.1109/ICET.2016.7813271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICET.2016.7813271","url":null,"abstract":"Applications of PHEV have been observed as popular in transportation sector, but, an uncoordinated charging of PHEV poses an extra load during peak times which brings up many technical problems in which durability of power system occurs first. Considering PHEV to stay for several hours in the parking lot may offer a unique opportunity to charge PHEV from photovoltaic power in those hours. The proposed charging facility is working under smart charging scheduling paradigm, which is independent from forecasting models of PHEVs charging. The proposed paradigm schedules of PHEV is in an optimal way based on two parameters i.e., priority levels of PHEVs charging, and variations in DC link voltage level. Furthermore, the priorities of PHEV charging are based on their power demand, maximum rating of distribution transformer and stay duration of PHEVs in the parking lot during high irradiation of solar effect. The sensing of proposed paradigm is based on change in DC link voltage. The DC link voltage changes due to variance in solar irradiance, temperature and real-time residential load. Such priorities are updated whenever smart charging scheduling paradigm detects changes in voltage and initiate/terminate PHEVs charging. Simulation results express the effectiveness of proposed charging station effectively.","PeriodicalId":285090,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117263062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}