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Article Citation - Scopus: 8A Partial Coverage Hierarchical Location Allocation Model for Health Services(Inderscience Publishers, 2023) Karasakal, O.; Karasakal, E.; Töreyen, Ö.We consider a hierarchical maximal covering location problem (HMCLP) to locate health centres and hospitals so that the maximum demand is covered by two levels of services in a successively inclusive hierarchy. We extend the HMCLP by introducing the partial coverage and a new definition of the referral. The proposed model may enable an informed decision on the healthcare system when dynamic adaptation is required, such as a COVID-19 pandemic. We define the referral as coverage of health centres by hospitals. A hospital may also cover demand through referral. The proposed model is solved optimally for small problems. For large problems, we propose a customised genetic algorithm. Computational study shows that the GA performs well, and the partial coverage substantially affects the optimal solutions. © 2023 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.Article Citation - WoS: 2Citation - Scopus: 2Naval Air Defense Planning Problem: a Novel Formulation and Heuristics(Wiley, 2024) Karasakal, Orhan; Kirca, Oemer; Arslan, CanerThis article focuses on air defense in maritime environment, which involves protecting friendly naval assets from aerial threats. Specifically, we define and address the Naval Air Defense Planning (NADP) problem, which consists of maneuvering decisions of the ships and scheduling weapons and sensors to the threats in order to maximize the total expected survival probability of friendly units. The NADP problem is more realistic and applicable than previous studies, as it considers features such as sensor assignment requirements, weapon and sensor blind sectors, sequence-dependent setup times, and ship's infrared/radar signature. In this study, a mixed-integer nonlinear programming model of the NADP problem is presented and heuristic solution approaches are developed. Computational results demonstrate that these heuristic approaches are both fast and efficient in solving the NADP problem.Article Citation - WoS: 5Citation - Scopus: 3Optimum Bidding Strategy for Wind and Solar Power Plants in Day-Ahead Electricity Market(Springer Heidelberg, 2021) Keysan, Ozan; Satir, Benhur; Ozcan, MehmetThere are two possible strategies for wind power plants (WPPs) and solar power plants (SPPs) to maximize their income in day ahead markets (DAM) in the presence of imbalance cost: joint bidding (JB) via collaboration by participating to balancing groups and deployment of storage technologies. There are limited studies in the literature covering the comparative analysis of "JB strategy" with "battery deployment (BD) strategy". In the existence of balancing responsibility, the comparative analysis of these strategies is the main contribution of this study to the literature. Our Second contribution is the analysis of the impact of different regulatory regimes, which are set by the regulatory authority, on total income. JBM (joint bidding model), which is the model for joint bidding via different collaboration groups, is developed for the analysis of JB strategy, BDM (battery deployment model), which is the model covering the deployment of storage technology, is developed for the analysis of BD strategy. The impact of each strategy on total income is analyzed. According to the analysis of the results of the models, while JB strategy, which is sensitive to the regulatory regime, increases the total annual income of the collaboration groups up to 0.65%, BD strategy seems not feasible and financially viable. On the other hand, extra income values per MW of battery for SPP is between $218 and $400 /MW-year, while these values are between $2460 and $6795/MW-year for the group of 15 WPPs. Therefore, deployment of battery for WPPs creates extra income more than tenfold of that of SPP. BD strategy can be viable provided that the levelized cost of deployment of battery drops below the extra income values achieved per MW of battery.Article Control of trichloroethylene emissions from sparging systems by horizontal bio- and chemo- barriers(2005) Tezel, U.; Demirer, G.N.; Uludag, Demirer S.The scope of this study was to develop a continuous system to clean-up a trichloroethylene (TCE) contaminated gas stream, where biotic and abiotic removal mechanisms are undertaken sequentially simulating the horizontal bio- and chemo-barriers proposed for the in-situ remediation of the contaminated sites. The bio- and chemo-barriers were simulated by using glass columns packed with granular anaerobic mixed culture and Fe(0) filings, respectively. The effect of gas residence time, which is adjusted by the gas flowrate, on the TCE removal efficiency of the reactor system was investigated. TCE removal efficiency of over 90% was achieved at gas residence times above 1hr. Furthermore, the effluent of reactor system contained only ethane and ethylene, which are non-toxic by-products of TCE reduction reactions, along with trace amounts of TCE.Article Minisum and maximin aerial surveillance over disjoint rectangles(2016) Karasakal, OrhanThe aerial surveillance problem (ASP) is finding the shortest path for an aerial surveillance platform that has to visit each rectangular area once and conduct a search in strips to cover the area at an acceptable level of efficiency and turn back to the base from which it starts. In this study, we propose a new formulation for ASP with salient features. The proposed formulation that is based on the travelling salesman problem enables more efficient use of search platforms and solutions to realistic problems in reasonable time. We also present a max–min version of ASP that maximizes the minimum probability of target detection given the maximum flight distance of an aerial platform. We provide computational results that demonstrate features of the proposed models.Article A Partial Coverage Hierarchical Location Allocation Model for Health Services(inderscience Enterprises Ltd, 2023) Karasakal, Esra; Toreyen, Ozgun; Karasakal, OrhanWe consider a hierarchical maximal covering location problem (HMCLP) to locate health centres and hospitals so that the maximum demand is covered by two levels of services in a successively inclusive hierarchy. We extend the HMCLP by introducing the partial coverage and a new definition of the referral. The proposed model may enable an informed decision on the healthcare system when dynamic adaptation is required, such as a COVID-19 pandemic. We define the referral as coverage of health centres by hospitals. A hospital may also cover demand through referral. The proposed model is solved optimally for small problems. For large problems, we propose a customised genetic algorithm. Computational study shows that the GA performs well, and the partial coverage substantially affects the optimal solutions. [Submitted: 20 January 2021; Accepted: 15 January 2022]Article Citation - WoS: 3Citation - Scopus: 4Comparison of Classroom Furniture To Anthropometric Measures of Turkish Middle School Students(Ios Press, 2021) Erdogan, Filiz Celikci; Satir, BenhurBACKGROUND: The match between classroom furniture and students' anthropometry is an important factor in students' academic performance. OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to investigate the ergonomic suitability of the classroom furniture to the students, and to propose design suggestions for both desks and chairs. METHODS: We analyzed the ergonomics of classroom furniture that students aged 10-14 years old in Turkey currently use. To this end, we selected Maltepe Primary Education School, one of the largest schools in the cankaya district of Turkey's capital city, Ankara, in which to conduct the study. A sample of 119 students was selected, and seven anthropometric measurements were taken for each of these students. We then calculated five relationships between the dimensions of the furniture and the students' anthropometric measures. RESULTS: We observed high levels of mismatch rates, with an average of 66.6% and high values of over 95% for the relations of two furniture measures, seat depth (related with buttock-popliteal length) and seat-to-desk height (related with elbow height, sitting). Each anthropometric measure was applied a fit probability distribution, and based on those distributions; we suggested the most appropriate classroom furniture dimensions in order to maximize suitability of the furniture to the anthropometric measures in terms of fixed-size (i.e., non-adjustable) classroom furniture. CONCLUSIONS: High mismatch rates can be reduced by 52.0% on average based on the classroom furniture dimensions suggested in this study.Article Citation - WoS: 3Citation - Scopus: 6Lot Streaming in a Two-Machine Mixed Shop(Springer London Ltd, 2010) Duman, Mehmet; Cetinkaya, Ferda C.Most classical scheduling models overlook the fact that products are often produced in job lots and assume that job lots are indivisible single entities, although an entire job lot consists of many identical items. However, splitting an entire lot (process batch) into sublots (transfer batches) to be moved to downstream machines allows the overlapping of different operations on the same product while work needs to be completed on the upstream machine. This approach is known as lot streaming in scheduling theory. In this study, the lot streaming problem of multiple jobs in a two-machine mixed shop where there are two different job types as flow shop and open shop is addressed so as to minimize the makespan. The optimal solution method is developed for the mixed shop scheduling problem in which lot streaming can improve the makespan.Article Control of Trichloroethylene Emissions From Sparging Systems by Horizontal Bio- and Chemo-Barriers(Selper Ltd, Publications Div, 2005) Tezel, U; Demirer, GN; Uludag-Demirer, SThe scope of this study was to develop a continuous system to clean-up a trichloroethylene (TCE) contaminated gas stream, where biotic and abiotic removal mechanisms are undertaken sequentially simulating the horizontal bio- and chemo-barriers proposed for the in-situ remediation of the contaminated sites. The bio- and chemo-barriers were simulated by using glass columns packed with granular anaerobic mixed culture and Fe(0) filings, respectively. The effect of gas residence time, which is adjusted by the gas flowrate, on the TCE removal efficiency of the reactor system was investigated. TCE removal efficiency of over 90% was achieved at gas residence times above 1hr. Furthermore, the effluent of reactor system contained only ethane and ethylene, which are non-toxic by-products of TCE reduction reactions, along with trace amounts of TCE.Article Citation - WoS: 205Citation - Scopus: 231Ammonia Removal From Anaerobically Digested Dairy Manure by Struvite Precipitation(Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2005) Uludag-Demirer, S; Demirer, GN; Chen, SAmmonia is one of the most important contaminants impairing the quality of water resources. When this is considered along with the fact that the global demand for nitrogenous fertilizers is in constant rise, the need for recovery as well as removal of nitrogen is well justified. Crystallization of N and P in the form of struvite (MgNH4PO4 center dot 6H(2)O), which is a slow releasing and valuable fertilizer, is one possible technique for this purpose. This study investigated the removal of NR4+ through struvite precipitation from the effluents of one- (R1) and two-phase (R2) anaerobic reactors digesting dairy manure. To force the formation of struvite in the anaerobic reactor effluents, Ma(2+) ion was added by using both Mg(OH)(2) and MgCl2 center dot 6H(2)O. To prevent the effect of different total phosphorus (TP) concentration in the effluents of RI and R2, as well as to not limit the formation of struvite, an excess amount Of PO43- (0.14 M) was added in the form of NaHPO4. Different stoichiometric Mg2+:NH4+:PO43- ratios were tested to determine the required Mg2+ concentrations for maximum NH4+ removal by keeping NH4+:PO43- ratio constant for the effluents of reactors RI and R2. The results revealed that very high NH4+ removal efficiencies (above 95%) were possible by adding Mg 21 ions higher than 0.06 M concentration in the effluents from reactors RI and R2. It was also observed that the initial pH adjustment to 8.50 using NaOH did not result in any significant increase in the removal of NH4+ and the removal of NH4+ in the reactors treated with MgCl2 center dot 6H(2)O was higher than those treated with Mg(OH)(2) for the same Mg2+ concentration. (c) 2005 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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