The main goal of this thesis is to deepen the understanding of the influence that the various perturbations exert on the trajectory calculations performed by the JPL ephemeris model to provide high-fidelity ephemeris in ...

Removing unsightly graffiti is costly and estimated to exceed 200 million per year in the UK alone. Moreover, it is also clear that graffiti commonly found in schools and shops, flats and on public transport signifies ...

Atmospheric pressure plasma technology has many surface processing applications. Specifically, it has been demonstrated to be effective in cleaning solar reflector surfaces and reducing water consumption in Concentrating ...

With many opportunities emerging in creating digital twins, the key to creating system autonomy requires integrating technology infrastructure. This is a challenging task, and its implementation requires right mix of ...

The fashion industry, notorious for its significant environmental impact, has led to the integration of circular economy models as a promising avenue to mitigate its ecological challenges. In response to the polluting ...

Global warming has become a major issue over the last thirty years, with research being carried out to reduce the amount of pollution emitted by developing new ways of producing day-to-day needs. Vehicles, as daily transport ...

This thesis aims to build an ERP selection approach for the implementation of ERP systems in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Currently, the majority of local companies with few workers manage all their information ...

During the last decades, wind turbine technology development has been phenomenal in the renewable field, as we are witnessing the construction of enormous wind turbines in the middle of oceans. The blades of wind turbines ...

Predictive modelling is a state-of-the-art technique for which an objective variable is predicted given a set of environmental parameters. Many types of models exist and most of them can be built with different architectures. ...

Nowadays, concentrated solar power plants are widely used to respond to the continuous rise in energy consumption in the world. By 2030, these plants together with other clean and sustainable energy providers, will completely ...