Comprehensive Formulation for the Optimal Control Of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles Avinash Gali December 22‚ 2010 Cheol W. Lee‚ Ph.D. Associate Professor Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering University of Michigan – Dearborn Abstract: The objective of this study is develop a comprehensive formulation for the optimal control of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV) considering various factors such as battery life‚ fuel economy‚ overall energy usage and emissions. Implications
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Our project was implemented at Brgy 601 Zone 59 District VI‚ a small community V. Mapa Ext. Sta. Mesa‚ in the city of Manila. Our group opts to choose this barangay because of its nearness and at the same time‚ our group leader’s residence is located there. The place was a typical urban community with single story houses‚ children playing in the streets‚ bystanders in some benches‚ single small scale businesses like convenience stores and street carts as among the common things that you could see
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The decision whether to close the Lima‚ OH plant has not been easy to make. There have been many arguments as to why and why not the plant should remain open or be closed. As the VP of Finance for BP‚ I have kept an open mind and looked at the advantages and disadvantages of closing the plant. I will now discuss some of these arguments in the following paragraphs. The first argument as to why the plant should remain open is the 30% increase in productivity. Lima‚ Ohio has a population of 48‚000
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Research and Analysis Report An Analysis of the Financial Situation of BP P.L.C. Prepared by Yuehua Song Actual words: 4‚952words Date: September 2007 content 1.0 INTRODUCTION 2 1.1 Topic Chosen 2 1.2 Reasons for Choosing the Topic 2 1.3 Aims and Objectives 3 1.3.1 Aims 3 1.3.2 Objectives 3 1.4 Sources of Information 6 1.4.1 Annual Reports and Accounts of BP 2002-2006 6 1.4.2 Annual Reports of Shell 2002-2006 7 1.4.3 Analysts’ Reports 7 1.4.4
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Martin—IAAP Handbook of Applied Psychology Se 18 Environmental Psychology Robert Gifford‚ Linda Steg‚ and Joseph P. Reser Environmental psychology is the study of transactions between individuals and their physical settings (Gifford‚ 2007a). In these transactions‚ individuals change their environments‚ and their behavior and experiences are changed by their environments. It includes theory‚ research‚ and practice aimed at making the built environment more humane and improving human relations
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Introduction to Environmental Toxicology A lecture by Dr Rick Leah (Long version of Notes prepared by Dr R T Leah‚ Biological Sciences‚ University of Liverpool but including material summarized and adapted from various locations on the www*) Aims The impact of toxic chemicals on wildlife and humans has been of great concern for the last fifty years. Unfortunately this is a very large‚ complex subject area which can only be covered superficially within the time available.
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BP is a multi-national oil company based out of London‚ England. Truly an "oil supermajor‚" BP has more than 115‚000 (2006) employees with operations in more than one-hundred countries throughout the world. BP has a corporate slogan that says "beyond petroleum" and such has been the corporation’s nature since it adopted the slogan in 2000. They are driven not to simply provide petroleum at a reasonable price‚ but to go beyond that‚ researching new forms of energy and providing to customers beyond
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BP OIL SPILL The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill‚ the Gulf of Mexico oil spill‚ the BP oil disaster or the Macondo blowout)[5][6][7][8] is a massive ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that is the largest offshore spill in U.S. history.[9] Some estimates placed it by late May or early June‚ 2010‚ as among the largest oil spills in history with hundreds of millions of gallons spilled to date. The spill stems from a sea floor oil gusher that resulted from the
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The Economic Impact of the BP Oil Spill In April of 2010‚ a British Petroleum operated oil drilling rig off the Gulf of Mexico‚ the Deepwater Horizon‚ exploded suddenly after high pressure methane gas from the oil well rose to the drilling rig‚ causing it to ignite and then sink to the bottom of the ocean floor. The explosion caused a sea-floor level oil blowout‚ and crude oil was leaked into the surrounding water for three months before a solution was found. After eighty-seven long days‚ the wellhead
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Environmental Accounting Where We Are Now‚ Where We Are Heading by Joy E. Hecht Interest is growing in modifying national income accounting systems to promote understanding of the links between economy and environment. T he field of environmental accounting has made great strides in the past two decades‚ moving from a rather arcane endeavor to one tested in dozens of countries and well established in a few. But the idea that nations might integrate the economic role of the environment into
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