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Bhaskaran Gopalakrishnan
Professor, Industrial and Management Systems Engineering
College of Engineering and Mineral Resources
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Software Developed

Preliminary Design Evaluator for Machinability (PDEM)

Details are published in the following papers:

  • Computer Numerically Controlled Machining of Complex Geometries in Concurrent Engineering, Journal of Design and Manufacturing, Vol.3, pp. 45-55, 1993.
  • Expert System Based Evaluators: Application in Design for Manufacturing, Journal for Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, Vol.2, No.2, pp. 189-194, October 1990.

ENERGEX

Developed using funding from U.S.DOE and NRCCE at WVU

For further information please refer to the following publication:

ENERGEX: Expert System for Industrial Energy Conservation and Management, Energy Engineering Journal, Vol. 94, No. 2, March 1997.

Or visit the link: http://www.nrcce.wvu.edu/news/energex.htm

A free copy of ENERGEX can be obtained by contacting the author.

(Now available in VisualBasic®)

WASTEX

An expert system for industrial waste minimization.

Caters to: water waste, cardboard and paper waste, sludge handling, paint waste, solvent selection, glass and wood waste, etc.

For further information please refer to the following publication:

Gopalakrishnan, B., Plummer, R.W., Kulkarni, R., Mangalampalli, P., Solvent and Paint Waste Reduction using WASTEX: An Expert System for Industrial Waste Minimization, accepted for publication, Journal of Environmental Systems, Vol. 29 (1), pp. 39-53, 2002-2003.

FOREX

For further information please refer to the following publication:

FOREX- An Expert System for Managing Even-Aged Upland Oak Forests on Steep terrain, Proceedings of the 10th Central Hardwood Forest Conference, Morgantown, 1995.

THINEX

Expert System for Forest Stand Management.

For Details Please refer to the following publications:

LeDoux, C., Gopalakrishnan, B., Pabba, R., THINEX: An Expert System for Forest Stand Productivity Management, Proceedings of the Intelligent Systems in Design and Manufacturing II Conference, Sponsored by Society of Photo Optical Instrumentation Engineers, Boston, Massachusetts, 1998.

BEFF Model

Boiler Efficiency Model

Boiler Heat Balance System: Calculates Boiler Efficiency and Individual Heat Losses Occurring on a Boiler System.

GEPDSS

Galvanizing Energy Profiler Decision Support System

E-GEPDSS

Enhanced Galvanizing Energy Profiler Decision Support System

E-GEPDSS was built to identify the specific energy consumption by using heat balance analysis. The use of E-GEPDSS does not hinder the production process and the user may run the model for different set of operating conditions and observe the results. The results obtained from the analysis will help the user to make energy enhancing decisions.