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... solution and for scaling -up of the FO process The challenge of predicting flux for the FO process effectively and accurately is the selection of an accurate model suitable for a wide range of testing ... aspects of fulfilling the main objective of this thesis 18 CHAPTER ONE – INTRODUCTION RESEARCH OBJECTIVES Modeling and Optimization of the FO Process: Parameters Selection, Flux Prediction and Process ... the needs of using this innovative technology with the careful selection of process parameters Furthermore, various issues pertaining to the application of FO process for large -scale and low cost...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:48

... Appendices 97 Appendix A Proof of Theorem 98 Appendix B Proof of Theorem 101 Appendix C Proof of Theorem 105 Appendix D Proof of Theorem 107 iv Summary Knowing and understanding the environmental ... agent k Ys random output variable of input s ys realized output value (measurement) of input s Zs log of random output variable of input s zs log of realized output value (measurement) of input ... àPIC and +U = PIC |D U U UU U |D The proofs of Theorems and are given in Appendix A and B, respectively Remark The equivalence results of Theorems and imply that the computational load of the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:04

... image processing algorithm involves a number of user-defined parameters and, typically, optimal values for these parameters are manually selected Manual vii selection of optimal image processing parameters ... Schematic diagram of experimental setup - 68 Figure 4.3 PVM images of sea sand particles of various size ranges - 71 Figure 4.4 FBRM measurements of sea sand particles of various ... Procedure of variable-size sequential simplex optimization 129 Figure 7.3 Parameters and responses of 105 experimental runs of UD - 136 Figure 7.4 Comparison of model prediction and experimental...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:51

... ζin and xj θijnm bilinear product of μin and μjm ωijnm bilinear product of ζin and ζjm δijnm bilinear product of λin and λjm xiv LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1.1 Schematic of ... thermal design of spiral-wound HEs To the best of knowledge, operational aspects of MCHEs have not been addressed yet Modeling and simulation of other parts of LNG process and supply chain, apart ... fundamental and applied work on the synthesis and operation of an LNG process and its various components The following sections discuss more on LNG, its production and supply chain, and highlight...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:45

... 6.12 WEDM Surface and Surface profile at Ton of 12 and Toff of 36 µs 110 WEDM Surface and Surface profile at Ton = 30 and Toff = 36 µs 111 Example of buildup of recast layer and HAZ on workpiece ... quality and dimensional precision, which are one of the most important parameters from the point of view of selecting the optimum conditions of processes The identification of optimal parameter and ... Background of EDM and WEDM 2.3 Overview of the WEDM Process 10 2.3.1 Principles of WEDM 10 2.3.2 Characteristics of the Process 11 2.3.3 Understanding the sparking phenomena in EDM and WEDM 11...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2015, 15:46

... maybe important in the economics of the process and may influence the amount of hydrogen peroxide to be used in the process Based from the results of this phase of the experiment, the optimum H2O2 ... concentration of about 2800 ml (of the 30%H2O2 solution) per liter and initial PCB concentration of about 40 ppm The initial pH of the solution also has a significant effect on the rate of degradation of ... objective of this study is to determine the effects of initial H2O2 concentration, initial pH of the solution and initial PCB concentration on the degradation of PCBs in water matrix - 10 - Journal of...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:08

... the applications of Computational Fluid Dynamics and Numerical Optimization to the study of Carbon Capture and Geological Sequestration He is a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers, ... variables reduces to two The injection rates of CO2 and the injection rates of water are chosen as the final optimization design variables Optimization of WAG operation for a generic cylindrical ... to scale) Figure Schematic of the considered WAG operation Figure Computational domains for optimization of (a) WAG operation and (b) pressure management Typical hydrogeological properties of...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... after addition of the ligand, and reached maximum levels 24 h after the addition of the ligand (Fig 4B) The luciferase activity began to decrease 24 h after withdrawal of the ligand, and showed a ... 1, and days after the addition of ligand, and the luciferase activity was measured and expressed in terms of relative light units (RLU) per microgram of protein Data shown are the average of ... collected at 0, 6, 12, 24 and 96 h after the addition of ligand, and the luciferase activity was measured and expressed in terms of RLU per microgram of protein In ligand withdrawal experiments,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:20

... system of (Briscoe and Carroll, 1997) distinguishes 163 verbal subcategorisation classes by means of a statistical shallow parser, a classifier of subcategorisation classes, and a priori estimates of ... dependencies) and a final ‘catch all and clean up phase Distinguishing between argument and adjunct is an inherent step in the automatic assignment of functional annotations The satisfactory treatment of ... annotation quality in terms of precision and recall against manually constructed, gold-standard f-structures for 105 randomly selected trees from section 23 of the WSJ section of Penn-II The algorithm...

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... output of adder a2 is a subset of (−3, 3) and is thus assigned p = 2, the output of adder a3 is a subset of (−4, 4) and is thus assigned p = 3, and the output of adder a4 is a subset of (−5, 5) and ... remainder of this section and turn to page 20 Given a computation graph G(V, S), let VI ⊂ V be the set of nodes of type inport, VO ⊂ V be the set of nodes of type outport, and VD ⊂ V be the set of nodes ... Microprocessors vs Digital Design One of the first options faced by the designer of a digital signal processing system is whether that system should be implemented in hardware or software A software...

Ngày tải lên: 09/04/2014, 16:39

... CA, USA Prof Yasuo Kuniyoshi The University of Tokyo, Japan Prof Hiroshi G Okuno Kyoto University, Japan Prof Helge Ritter University of Bielefeld, Germany Prof Giulio Sandini University of Genova, ... material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is ... optimize the sequence of actions u0,N−1 and the corresponding states x1,N 4) Local models of the value function and policy are created as a byproduct of our trajectory optimization process 5) Local...

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Ngày tải lên: 12/06/2014, 11:27

... and 1.1%; Poland, 0.7% and 0.7%; Spain, 0.6% and 0.6% In cases where more than 6% of the data were missing (Germany, Hungary and Italy), characteristics (age, gender, duration and frequency of ... Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Scale (GSRS) and Quality of Life in Reflux and Dyspepsia Questionnaire (QOLRAD) domains and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD) Questionnaire and domain Translation ... physician-assessed frequency of symptoms Known-groups validity of the GSRS and the QOLRAD All domains of the GSRS and the QOLRAD questionnaires were able to differentiate between groups of patients whose...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... parallelism because of the lack of concurrency and the concept of time [33] In the context of RTL, SystemC was introduced but mainly restricted to system level simulations and offered limited support for ... z19, z20 Page of 28 operator and all its predecessors in two cases: as a sum of delays of the taken operator and its direct predecessor; as a sum of delay of the taken operator and the longest ... schedule The upper bound Supper of the total number of X matrix can be estimated as μ(j), Supper = total number of X matrix (pipelined schedules) is Supper = 22 = However, actual number of schedules...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... random variable x ∼ N (μ + a, 2μ + b), where a and b are real valued constants, COMPUTATION OF FUNCTIONS F+1,+1 AND F+1,−1 We proceed to compute the state-check node update rule for the mean of ... the proof of Lemma Lemma Consider a state-check node Assume a symmetric channel observation At any iteration, the input and output messages of the state check node are symmetrics Proof of Lemma ... sequences of the input user need to be considered and therefore on the average we can assume an input sequence with half symbols fixed at “1” and half symbols at “−1.” A Roumy and D Declercq C PROOF OF...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... drying of coconut and cocoa in a scaled down drier of a large scale drier is considered in which the recirculation of hot air yields 31 and 29% of energy saving, respectively The recirculation of ... advancement of each technology and its advantages and disadvantages and photovoltaic applications Included are discussions of the status, development and applications of various PV and solar thermal ... rate of drying by using other sources of heat energy to supplement solar heat 4 Modeling and Optimization of Renewable Energy Systems The three modes of drying are: (i) open sun, (ii) direct and...

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... drying of coconut and cocoa in a scaled down drier of a large scale drier is considered in which the recirculation of hot air yields 31 and 29% of energy saving, respectively The recirculation of ... advancement of each technology and its advantages and disadvantages and photovoltaic applications Included are discussions of the status, development and applications of various PV and solar thermal ... rate of drying by using other sources of heat energy to supplement solar heat 4 Modeling and Optimization of Renewable Energy Systems The three modes of drying are: (i) open sun, (ii) direct and...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 00:20

... education and practice In recent years, there has been a growing emphasis on the design and optimization of systems because of growing worldwide competition and the development of new processes and ... to the development of this material and to my understanding of the design process Of particular help have been the many discussions I have had with Professors V Sernas and N.A Langrana of Rutgers ... encouragement, support, and inspiration Certainly, the greatest contribution to this work has been the unqualified support and encouragement of my wife, Anuradha, and the patience and understanding of our...

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... education and practice In recent years, there has been a growing emphasis on the design and optimization of systems because of growing worldwide competition and the development of new processes and ... to the development of this material and to my understanding of the design process Of particular help have been the many discussions I have had with Professors V Sernas and N.A Langrana of Rutgers ... encouragement, support, and inspiration Certainly, the greatest contribution to this work has been the unqualified support and encouragement of my wife, Anuradha, and the patience and understanding of our...

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