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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Control And Optimization"”.
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Building load control and optimization
Researchers and practitioners have proposed a variety of solutions to reduce electricity consumption and curtail peak demand. This research focuses on load control by improving the operations in existing building HVAC (Heating, Ventilating and Air-Conditioning) systems and by aggregating individual …
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Modeling, Control and Optimization of a Plate Reactor
… plate heat exchangers with the efficient mixing and reaction control typical of microreactors. With this new concept, highly exothermic reactions can be produced using more concentrated reactants and more accurate temperature control. This will reduce the reaction time and the need for downstream …
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Control and optimization of a multiple-effect evaporator
… producers to closely examine their processes and to look for areas in which improvements in productivity, yield and efficiency can be achieved. Evaporation is the most energy intensive unit operation in the sugar factory, and it is responsible for the removal of most of the water from sugar …
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Natural ventilation in buildings : modeling, control and optimization
… cooling while maintaining thermal comfort and air quality. It is important to know how building parameters, in particular its thermal mass properties and heat loads incurred, affect a building's transient thermal response to incoming outdoor air. A proper ventilation schedule is also needed …
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Advanced intelligent control and optimization for cardiac pacemaker systems
… diseases are major causes of morbidity and mortality in the developed countries and the number one cause of death in the United States, their accurate diagnosis and effective treatment via advanced cardiac pacemaker systems have become very important. Intelligent control and optimization …
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On Programmable Control and Optimization for Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
… is known to be difficult. The main approach to control the operation of such a network relies on a distributed paradigm, assuming that a centralized approach is not feasible. Relying on a distributed paradigm could be justified at the time when the basic technical building blocks (e.g., node …
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Control and Optimization of Energy Storage System in Power Distribution System
… widespread adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and transportation electrification is encumbered by two chief barriers: i) the limited driving range of EVs in the market today and ii) inadequate fast-charging infrastructure for long-distance trips. Extreme fast charging (XFC) technology can …
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Computational Intelligence Techniques for Control and Optimization of Wastewater Treatment Plants
The development of novel, practice-oriented and reliable instrumentation and control strategies for wastewater treatment plants in order to improve energy efficiency, while guaranteeing process stability and maintenance of high cleaning capacity, has become a priority for WWTP operators due to …
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Control and optimization of E. coli picking process for DNA sequencing
… operations improvement methodology. To achieve control over variability, the author first seeks to characterize the variability and identify its drivers, then to reduce the variability by manipulating the drivers, and finally to optimize productivity. The operations techniques utilized include …
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Advanced batch process modelling, control and optimization for injection stretch blow moulding
… used to manufacture PET bottles for the beverage and consumer goods industry. However, at present the ISBM process, including both the stretch blow moulding and reheating processes, are totally open-loop. The processes are complex and users often have to rely heavily on trial and error method to …
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Above knee prosthesis closed loop computer control and optimization using sound leg landmarks
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1984.
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On control and optimization of cascading phenomena in a class of dynamic networks
… as a mechanism for both post-disturbance control and pre-disturbance resilience enhancement in a transmission network, and develop an optimization framework for evaluating the efficacy of this mechanism in both scenarios. We start by developing a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) …
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Control and optimization of modern power networks: hybrid AC/DC networks and inverter-based microgrids
Electrical power is essential to modern society, and is necessary for innumerable applications from lighting, heating, household appliances, to large-scale machinery, communication and transportation. Ensuring a reliable, efficient and sustainable electrical power system is therefore crucial. At …
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Mechanical design, control and optimization of a hybrid solar microgrid for rural electrification and heat supply in sub-Saharan Africa
This thesis aims at developing, optimizing and controling a hybrid solar microgrid for rural electrification and heat supply in sub-Saharan Africa. The considered system includes PV, Parabolic Trough Collectors, Organic Rankine Cycle and LPG generator, as well as chemical battery storage and …
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Robust design evolution and impact of In-Cylinder Pressure Sensors to combustion control and optimization : a systems and strategy perspective
… close to satisfying the robustness, performance and cost requirements for application to closed loop control and monitoring of production automotive engines. Using the Robust Design framework as a compass, this thesis first checks the evidence for emergence followed by tracking the evolution of …
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ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΤΩΝ ΒΡΟΧΟΠΤΩΣΕΩΝ ΣΕ ΔΙΑΦΟΡΕΤΙΚΕΣ ΚΛΙΜΑΚΕΣ ΧΩΡΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΧΡΟΝΟΥ: ΕΦΑΡΜΟΓΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΠΕΔΙΑΔΑ ΤΗΣ ΚΕΝΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑΣ
… OF THE KNOWN STATISTICAL GEOSTATISTICAL AND STOCHASTIC METHODS IN THE AIM OF THE DETERMINATION OF THE VARIOUS SPACE AND TIME SCALES AND THE CONTROL AND OPTIMIZATION OF THE NETWORK. FOR THE SAME PURPOSE, A NEW METHOD, THE AGGREGATION OF THE DATA IN SPACE, AND THE STANDARDIZATION OF THE …
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Investigation of the Effects of Solution Additives on Nucleation and Growth During Copper Electrodeposition Onto Resistive Ruthenium Barrier Layers
This thesis describes the design and execution of experiments suitable for extracting quantitative information needed for numerical simulation of the effect of plating solution additives on copper nucleation on ruthenium films. This investigation contributes procedures for quantitative …
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The investigation of the characterisation of flotation froths and design of a machine vision system for monitoring the operation of a flotation cell ore concentration
… that has the ability to measure the size and shape of the bubbles that constitute the surface froth. For this reason, research into a vision based system for surface froth characterisation has been undertaken. Being able to measure bubble size and shape would have far reaching …
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Parameter Identification and the Design of Experiments for Continuous Non-Linear Dynamical Systems
… are useful for simulation, design, analysis, control, and optimization of complex systems. One important step necessary to create an effective model is designing an experiment from which the unknown model parameter can be accurately identified and then verified. The strategy which one …
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