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Design and Implementation of Google Cloud Framework for Monitoring Water Distribution Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-06)With urbanization and growing human population, water demand is constantly on the rise. Due to limited water resources, providing access to fresh potable water to the rising needs is challenging. Water distribution systems ... -
Design and Implementation of IGBT Based Power Supply for Food Treatment
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-29)Pulsed electric field (PEF) processing has been demonstrated to be an effective non-thermal pasteurization method for food-treatment applications. With this method, high voltage, short-duration pulses are applied to a ... -
Design and Implementation of Magnetic Levitation Based Modular Omnidirectional Conveyor System
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-21)Smart manufacturing is now required to be more intelligent and flexible to support mass customization. Magnetic levitation or maglev technology can increase the flexibility of modern manufacturing with its advantages of ... -
Design and Implementation of the Real-Time Control System for an Open Trapped Ion Quantum Computing Platform
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-08)Trapped atomic ions are a promising platform for the implementation of quantum bits and quantum information processors due to advantageous inherent physical properties as well as exquisite experimental control. Trapped ion ... -
Design and Management of Collaborative Intrusion Detection Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-30)In recent years network intrusions have become a severe threat to the privacy and safety of computer users. Recent cyber attacks compromise a large number of hosts to form botnets. Hackers not only aim at harvesting private ... -
Design and Membrane Selection for Gas to Gas Humidifiers for Fuel Cell Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-18)In its present form, polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) technology requires some method of humidification to ensure that high performance and long life of the fuel cell membrane is maintained. External ... -
Design and Metrology of a Precision XY Planar Stage
(University of Waterloo, 2010-02-19)In recent years, the manufacturing industry has seen an increase in demand for micro-components in biomedical, opto-mechatronics, and automotive applications. Traditional machine tools are no longer a viable solution to ... -
Design and Modeling of a Soil-Based Energy Harvester for Underground Wireless Sensor Nodes
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-28)Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have emerged as a reliable and viable solution for monitoring complex large-scale strategic assets that are placed in harsh and hostile environments. Some of the major application areas include ... -
Design and Optimization Methodology of Sub-dermal Electroencephalography Dry Spike-Array Electrode
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Monitoring bio-electric events is a common procedure, which provides medical data required in clinical and research applications. Electrophysiological measurements are applied in diagnosis as well as evaluation of the ... -
Design and Optimization of a Stacked Three-Layer X-ray Detector for Multi-Spectral Medical Imaging Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-16)Dual-Energy (DE) imaging is a powerful technique in x-ray imaging that increases the ability to detect specific materials in a cluttered background, and is used to more accurately visualize anatomical features and diagnose ... -
Design and Optimization of Low-Specific Speed Centrifugal Pump
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-21)Centrifugal pumps find applications in a wide range of industries, such as rocketry, oil and gas, petroleum, etc. A main property used to characterize the design of pumps is the specific speed, which relates the flow ... -
The design and optimization of sustainable biopolymer-based adsorbents for the removal of a model aromatic naphthenic acid from aqueous solution
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-13)During the extraction of bitumen from the Alberta oil sands, a wide range of contaminants are concentrated in oil sands process-affected water (OSPW), among which is a family of organic carboxylic acids known collectively ... -
Design and Optimization of Tunable Matching Networks and Aperture-Tuned Antennas for Mobile Wireless Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-16)In the current wireless market, users have a high level of expectations regarding the functionalities and services added to their wireless mobile devices. At the same time, they also expect performance to remain optimal. ... -
Design and Performance Analysis of Efficient Cooperative Wireless Communication Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-24)Cooperative communication has recently become a key technology for modern wireless networks such as 3GPP long-term evolution and WiMAX, because in such networks the transmission rate, the communication reliability, and ... -
Design and Performance Analysis of Opportunistic Routing Protocols for Delay Tolerant Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-20)Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) are characterized by the lack of continuous end-to-end connections because of node mobility, constrained power sources, and limited data storage space of some or all of its nodes. Applications ... -
Design and Performance Evaluation of a Battery Simulator
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-12)The increasing demand on alternative fuel vehicles, especially electric vehicles (EVs), has created an enormous market, as well as great opportunities for further improvements, for battery industry. However, using battery ... -
Design and Performance of a VOC Abatement System Using a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-24)There has always been a desire to develop industrial processes that minimize the resources they use, and the wastes they generate. The problem is when new guidelines are forced upon long established processes, such as ... -
Design and Simulation of Novel Sabatier Reactors for the Thermocatalytic Conversion of CO2 into Renewable Natural Gas
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-22)Producing synthetic chemicals and fuels using CO2 as a feedstock through the thermocatalytic hydrogenation of CO2 via the Sabatier reaction to produce synthetic CH4 is both a CO2 emissions reduction strategy and an ... -
Design and Study of Emotions in Virtual Humans for Assistive Technologies
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-27)This thesis presents the design and study of emotionally aligned prompts given by virtual humans for persons with cognitive disabilities such as Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). Our goal is to understand ... -
Design and Synthesis of Three-Dimensional Interconnected Porous Carbon Nanostructure and Its Nanocomposite as Anodes for Li-ion Batteries
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-17)With ever-increasing fossil fuel consumption and the resulting environmental problems, clean and sustainable energy fuel (such as hydrogen) or energy storage technologies are highly desirable. Rechargeable lithium ion ...