Dr. Mital J. Dholawala

A literature review examining thermal comfort in naturally ventilated classrooms, highlighting passive design techniques, occupant behaviour, adaptive thermal comfort models, and gaps for future research.

Develops a multiple-input single-output fuzzy knowledge-based model to predict biogas production in a real-scale UASB reactor treating distillery wastewater; proposes a sequential variable selection approach to identify the most significant parameters for prediction and reports improved predictive ability using a reduced set of variables.

Presents a fuzzy rule-based model with sensitivity analysis to predict biogas production in UASB reactors treating distillery wastewater; identifies key input parameters (temperature, COD reduction, COD load, alkalinity-to-acidity ratio, etc.) influencing biogas production.