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      EngineeringPhysicsMaterials ScienceOptics
A basic yet essential element of every traffic flow control is the effect of a junction where the flow is separated into several streams. How do pedestrians, vehicles or blood cells divide when they reach a junction? How does the outcome... more
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      Materials ScienceTraffic FlowBlood cells
This paper introduces a methodology for obtaining accurate continuous-time multiple-input, multiple-output models of nonlinear dynamic systems with Wiener characteristics. The models are obtained from complete reliance on experimental... more
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      EngineeringChemical EngineeringComputer ScienceData Analysis
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      EngineeringChemical EngineeringComputer ScienceData Analysis
In multiphase chemical reactor analysis the dispersed phase distribution plays a major role in obtaining reliable predictions. The population balance equation is a well established equation for describing the evolution of the dispersed... more
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      MathematicsApplied MathematicsPredictionConvergence
A new device/technique, Gas Reactor And Solid Sample Hopper designated GRASSHopper II, is described as an alternative to magic-angle spinning (MAS) for in situ NMR experiments on reacting heterogeneous systems. It is capable of supporting... more
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      EngineeringChemistryCatalysisHeterogeneous Catalysis
Experiments were conducted in 0.05 m ID and 0.23 m ID by 3 m tall bubble columns with different types of molten waxes as the liquid medium and nitrogen as the gas, under processing conditions typical or Fischer-Tropsch synthesis over iron... more
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      ChemistryKineticsTwo Phase FlowNitrogen
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      Environmental ScienceWaste ManagementWaste DisposalRadioactive waste
Although nonlinear inverse and predictive control techniques based on artificial neural networks have been extensively applied to nonlinear systems, their use in real time applications is generally limited. In this paper neural inverse... more
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      EngineeringChemical EngineeringComputer ScienceChemistry
This paper is focused on the development of non linear neural models able to provide appropriate predictions when acting as process simulators. Parallel identification models can be used for this purpose. However, in this work it is shown... more
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      EngineeringComputer ScienceNeural NetworksModelling
bstractThis paper is focused on the development of nonlinear models predictions when acting as process simulators. The dynamic behaviour of the heat transf chemical reactor has been selected as a case study. Different structures of NARMA... more
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      EngineeringChemical EngineeringComputer ScienceChemistry
This paper discusses the requirements a computer representation of organic reactions should satisfy in order to be adapted to the machine learning of generic reactions. Existing formalisms are classified and analyzed in relation with... more
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      MathematicsComputer ScienceRepresentation Politics
Chapter 7. Spatio-temporal chaos …………………………………….. 57 Chapter 8. Limit cycles that do not comprise steady states …………... 71 Chapter 9. Predictability in a chaotic ………………..…………………….. 79 Chapter 10. Method of eliminating chaos and the use of... more
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      Stability and ChaosFractals and Chaos
Public reporting burden for the collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and... more
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      ChemistryWaste ManagementReductionCracking
The EU FP5 VALCO project is partially based on results earlier obtained within the EU Phare project (SRR1/95) (Ref. [1,2]). Two selected transients, one for each a VVER-440 and a VVER-1000, were analysed in this former project by... more
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Characteristics of wall-to-air heat transfer for a fully developed forced convection have been studied in a large rectangular packed duct with 160 cm heated length, 40 cm width, and for low bed equivalent diameter to particle diameter... more
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      EngineeringMechanicsChemistryEconomics
CSTR / PFR Graphical Solution
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      Materials ScienceMass TransferComputational Fluid DynamicsMultiphase Flow
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      EngineeringMechanical EngineeringChemical EngineeringPhysics
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      EngineeringMaterials ScienceChemistryKinetics
In this work, we model a countercurrent tubular reactor where an automotive shredder residue (ASR) is subject to pyrolysis. An inert gas is adopted to convey the pyrolysis products; the solid entering the reactor undergoes an endothermic... more
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      Mechanical EngineeringThermodynamicsChemistryEnergy
Considering the steady increase of air transport, the French Government decided to support research that aims to better understand condensation trails formation processes, their impact on climate, and to prevent them and manage their... more
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      PhysicsHumanitiesAeronautiqueMorphologie
In this paper after a literature surveysin which we describe previous development of the theory and the experimental work to prove the theoriesswe discuss the so-called safety diagram and practical values of the relevant parameters in... more
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      EngineeringComputer ScienceCHEMICAL SCIENCESChemical reactors
A concept of the safety boundary diagram, elaborated in our previous studies for liquid-liquid heterogeneous reactions, has been developed here for liquid-phase homogeneous semibatch reactors. With the use of this boundary diagram,... more
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      Mechanical EngineeringChemical EngineeringChemistryKinetics
The presented work is a part of studies carried out to develop a practical method to prevent runaway events in chemical reactors. The use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques is proposed here to indicate in advance the local... more
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      Mechanical EngineeringChemical EngineeringChemistryComputational Fluid Dynamics
Safety aspects in modelling of batch and semibatch stirred tank reactors as well as a model based safety analysis have been considered. Applicability of two basic types of models-i.e. the perfectly mixed reactor model and the CFD model,... more
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      EngineeringChemical EngineeringCase StudyStirred Tank Reactor
New aspects of neural modelling of chemical reactors have been investigated in this study. An universal method to create a family of neural models, useful for the reactor and reacting system of any type, has been elaborated and presented.... more
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      EngineeringChemical EngineeringComputer ScienceNeural Networks
An improved bio-reactor has been developed to allow the high speed, continuos, low energy conversion of various substrates to ethanol. The Continuous Stirred Reactor Separator (CSRS) incorporates gas stripping of the ethanol using a... more
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      Materials ScienceChemistryProductionBiomass
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      Materials ScienceEnergy ConservationFood ProcessingCellulosic Ethanol
Etching of micro-structures in a single crystal Si, SiO2 has been obtained using reactive ion etching with SF6/O2 and CF4/O2 gas mixtures respectively. The variation in etch rate of Si and SiO2 has been observed by varying gas... more
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A three-phase nonisothermal heterogeneous model for describing the hydrotreating reactions in a trickle-bed reactor with complete catalyst wetting was solved. It includes correlations for determining solubility data, mass-transfer... more
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Diesel Engines emit complex mixtures of inorganic and organic compounds in the form of both solid and vapour phase particles. Most of the particulates released are ultrafine nanoparticles which are detrimental to human health and can... more
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      EngineeringDiesel FuelTrapping
In this work thermal runaway of cumene hydroperoxide (CHP) in a storage tank with constant jacket temperature is considered. The divergence method developed by Strozzi and Zaldivar (1994) based on the concept of parametric sensitivity and... more
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      Materials ScienceThermal runawayParametric StatisticsCumene
http://scholar.sun.ac.za 6. THE EFFECT OF CHEMICAL PARAMETERS... 6.1 The influence of the ion concentration on the plating behaviour... 6.2 The influence of the plating current on the crystallisation behaviour..
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      Materials ScienceElectrochemistryManufacturing ProcessesZinc
The intrinsic reaction kinetics of the photocatalytic decomposition of dichloroacetic acid (DCA) at different, but constant oxygen concentrations was studied. Other significant variables were initial DCA concentration, catalyst (titanium... more
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      Mechanical EngineeringChemical EngineeringChemistryCatalysis
Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy (CARS) has been used to obtain an axial CH, concentration profile in a laboratory catalytic tube-wall reactor. The resulting profile has been successfully compared with a theoretical model. An... more
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      Chemical EngineeringChemistryLaser SpectroscopyCatalysis
Evolution de l'erreur relative d'estimation de x 2 (k) (Observateur à grand gain flou).
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      ChemistryCoalDigital ControlHigh Temperature
Computer modeling is necessary part of design new induction heating and melting devices [1]. One of the complicated technologies when it is necessary to simulate coupled electromagnetic, temperature and magnetohydrodynamic fields is... more
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With the increase in diameter of the wafers and the tendency to increase operating pressure of chemical vapor deposition reactors, the #ow in these reactors may turn turbulent as a result of buoyancy. The e!ect of turbulence on the CVD... more
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      ChemistryTurbulenceCrystal GrowthModeling
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      Renewable EnergyAgricultureSolid wasteChemical reactors
The theory of equilibrium relationships for non-equilibrium dependencies previously created for the batch reactor is further developed for the description of the Temporal Analysis of Products (TAP) experimental data. Corrections are... more
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      Mechanical EngineeringChemical EngineeringThermodynamicsChemistry
In this paper, nonlinear state feedback laws are developed for on-line optimization of batch/semi-batch processes with multiple manipulated inputs. The first-order necessary conditions are cast in terms of the system Lie brackets. Optimal... more
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      Mechanical EngineeringChemical EngineeringMathematicsOptimization Problem
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      Mechanical EngineeringChemical EngineeringMathematicsModel Reduction
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      MathematicsDiffusionActuatorNonlinear system
In this research an adaptive fuzzy controller was applied to temperature control of a MMA batch polymerization reactor which use jacket temperature error in additional reactor temperature error. However, the desired jacket temperature is... more
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      MathematicsFuzzy LogicFuzzy set theoryAdaptive Control
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Relationships for calculation of the following parameters of reactors with microwave heating of chemical reagents are presented: the coefficient of absorbed microwave energy distribution in the reactor (in the cavity between the resonator... more
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      MathematicsMaterials ScienceMicrowaveMicrowave Heating
Resumen La contaminación atmosférica se encuentra entre las preocupaciones medioambientales con mayor interés, debido principalmente a que gran parte de la población habita zonas urbanas e industriales. En la literatura aparecen numerosos... more
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      PhilosophyHumanities
This study examines biomass valorization through thermochemical conversion by an integrated catalytic fast pyrolysis process with liquid fractionation using a free-fall reactor, g-alumina, as a catalyst and methanol for direct quenching.... more
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      Waste ManagementBiomass Pyrolysis