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Saide Jorge Calil - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Support system for planning and medical Equipment Specification aiming hospital services
    Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (Cat. No.00CH37143), 1
    Co-Authors: E.l. Muller, Saide Jorge Calil
    Abstract:

    This paper presents a computer system for assisting the health care services planning and the acquisition process of medical Equipment. After choosing one of the health services listed on screen, the computer system presents a second list of essential and secondary Equipment for that specific service. To specify a chosen Equipment from that second list, the user has to answer a series of predetermined questions that are also displayed on screen. At the end of the questionnaire, the program generates a report containing the Equipment characteristics defined by the user for its acquisition. All those questions were defined for a given Equipment based on data describing its own characteristics. The user is able to modify the predetermined questions to adjust them for a specific type of Equipment. The answers, given by the users, are then stored by the system and presented every time a new Specification for that type of Equipment is made.

Anthony M. Marino - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Regulation of Performance Standards versus Equipment Specification with Asymmetric Information
    Journal of Regulatory Economics, 1998
    Co-Authors: Anthony M. Marino
    Abstract:

    This paper compares the regulation of safety performance standards with the regulation of specific safety Equipment. It is well known that if information is perfect, it is more efficient to regulate performance than to regulate specific Equipment. The former mechanism fosters cost minimization, while the latter does not. I assume that the firm has more accurate knowledge of its safety production technology than does the regulator and show that under reasonable sufficiency conditions the regulation of Equipment Specifications is more efficient than the regulation of safety performance standards. I also extend these results to the case of environmental pollution regulation.

  • Are safety and environmental performance standards optimal regulatory instruments?
    Journal of Regulatory Economics, 1995
    Co-Authors: Anthony M. Marino
    Abstract:

    In safety and environmental regulation, economists have preached the virtues of performance standards as opposed to Equipment Specification as the proper instruments of control. This prescription is made in the context of actual situations where the firm's product safety or environmental impact is regulated, but its product market is unregulated. We show that when the firm's unregulated output market has some imperfection and when output marginal production costs are not independent of safety or abatement inputs, the use of performance standards is generally not optimal.

G Attolini - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the procurement and testing process of synchronous digital hierarchy sdh
    International Conference on Communication Technology, 1996
    Co-Authors: F Parente, G Attolini
    Abstract:

    The relationships established between the procurement and the conformance testing processes of SDH Equipment for the Italian transport network are described. In particular great emphases is given to the necessity to correlate the two different processes as far as transmission Equipment Specification and test Specification are concerned. The test environment under development in CSELT is described focusing mainly on the transmission aspects.

  • The procurement and testing process of synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH)
    Proceedings of International Conference on Communication Technology. ICCT '96, 1
    Co-Authors: F Parente, G Attolini
    Abstract:

    The relationships established between the procurement and the conformance testing processes of SDH Equipment for the Italian transport network are described. In particular great emphases is given to the necessity to correlate the two different processes as far as transmission Equipment Specification and test Specification are concerned. The test environment under development in CSELT is described focusing mainly on the transmission aspects.

E.l. Muller - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Support system for planning and medical Equipment Specification aiming hospital services
    Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (Cat. No.00CH37143), 1
    Co-Authors: E.l. Muller, Saide Jorge Calil
    Abstract:

    This paper presents a computer system for assisting the health care services planning and the acquisition process of medical Equipment. After choosing one of the health services listed on screen, the computer system presents a second list of essential and secondary Equipment for that specific service. To specify a chosen Equipment from that second list, the user has to answer a series of predetermined questions that are also displayed on screen. At the end of the questionnaire, the program generates a report containing the Equipment characteristics defined by the user for its acquisition. All those questions were defined for a given Equipment based on data describing its own characteristics. The user is able to modify the predetermined questions to adjust them for a specific type of Equipment. The answers, given by the users, are then stored by the system and presented every time a new Specification for that type of Equipment is made.

Ali Elkamel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Simulation and optimization of natural gas processing and production network consisting of LNG, GTL, and methanol facilities
    Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 2015
    Co-Authors: S. A. Al-sobhi, Ali Elkamel
    Abstract:

    A considerable growth is expected for the natural gas sector and some believe that it will be the leading primary fuel between 2020 and 2030. Different options are available to utilize the natural gas resource. Three processes namely, LNG, GTL, and methanol considered as the most promising utilization options are addressed in this paper to represent a natural gas processing and production network. The objective of this work is to illustrate the importance of incorporating rigorous simulation models in the decision-making process in the gas processing industry. A steady state simulation is carried out for LNG, GTL, and methanol processed to determine mass and energy balances, operating conditions, and Equipment Specification. The simulations' flowsheet is beneficial in many aspects. For example, accurate yield values can be obtained. Also, both the capital and operating costs can be estimated. Moreover, the environmental impact can be assessed quantitatively. Then, an optimization model is presented that is able to represent the processing and production network over a wide range of forecasted economic changes. The main feature of this work is the usage of an integrated simulation-optimization framework. Although the modeling, simulation and optimization of a single natural gas system have been addressed previously, the simulation and optimization of enterprise-wide natural gas processing has not been addressed to this extent in the literature. Furthermore, besides considering more than one utilization process, namely LNG, GTL, and methanol, this work addresses the preprocessing units of these utilization processes in a comprehensive manner. The results of the optimization are improved by utilizing data from process simulation. Such data are used to tune the optimization model. An illustrative case study is used to show the applicability of formulated optimization model on natural gas processing and production network and show how accurate representations of the plants are obtained from process simulation. The end result is a more highly optimized and sustainable processing and production network.