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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Industrial plants"”.
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The management of the maintenance department in industrial plants
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Business and Engineering Administration, 1929.
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Determining the parameters of cylinders using digital photogrammetry for application to pipe measurement in industrial plants
… expansion of piping systems of petro-chemical plants is a complex and costly process. These costs can be reduced by knowledge of the as-built dimensions and layout of the piping system. As-built Computer Aided Design (CAD) models of such piping systems, specifically the use of Plant Design …
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The design of a digital photogrammetric metrology system for the semi-automated surveying and recording of pipe dimensions in industrial plants
… system to aid in the mapping of the interior of industrial plants. The system makes use of digital photogrammetry to assist an operator in locating and identifying components of the plants. All of the important photogrammetric theory is discussed in the text, and explained in detail in the …
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Smart Grid Technologies for Efficiency Improvement of Integrated Industrial Electric System
… Smart Grid Technologies in communication between industrial plants with co-generation capability and the electric utilities in providing the most optimum scheme for buying and selling of electricity in such a way that the fuel consumption is minimized, reliability is increased, and time to restore …
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Energy based visualisation of a Brayton cycle power conversion unit for the purpose of condition monitoring
The efficient operation of industrial plants has been the subject of many studies, due to an increased awareness of greenhouse gas emissions and dwindling natural resources. Condition monitoring is key to the efficient operation of a plant. Part of condition monitoring is fault detection and …
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Dynamic substructuring of complex hybrid systems based on time-integration, model reduction and model identification techniques
… concrete bridge and a steel piping network for industrial plants are introduced as full-scale structural case studies. Part of significant results were published on referee journals and proceedings of international conferences. Part of developed tools was uploaded to the NEESHub web repository …
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Parallelizing Trusted Execution Environments for Multicore Hard Real-Time Systems
… real-time systems, such as those controlling industrial plants or the flight controller on UAVs, are no longer isolated. The same computing resources are shared with a variety of other systems and software. Further, these systems are increasingly being connected and made available over the …
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Real-Time and Energy-Efficient Routing for Industrial Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks
<p>With the emergence of industrial standards such as WirelessHART, process industries are adopting Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks (WSANs) that enable sensors and actuators to communicate through low-power wireless mesh networks. Industrial monitoring and control applications require real-time …
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Cyber-Physical Co-Design of Wireless Control Systems
… challenging environments. While early success of industrial WSANs has been recognized, significant potential remains in exploring WSANs as unified networks for industrial plants.</p><p>This thesis research explores a cyber-physical co-design approach to design wireless control systems. To enable …
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Lone Star under the Rising Sun: Texas's "Lost Battalion," 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment, During World War II
… extremely difficult tasks, including working in industrial plants and mining coal in Japan, and most notably, constructing the infamous Burma-Thailand Death Railway. During their three-and-one-half years of captivity, these prisoners experienced brutality at the hands of the Japanese. Enduring …
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Selection of a device level fieldbus for the paper converting industry
… and ever increasing numbers and diversity of industrial specific products being introduced. This growing trend towards open fieldbuses and its associated potential benefits has prompted over 80% of industrial plants to evaluate these more advanced networks.<br/><br/>With 200 or so different …
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Optimization of Air-injection Spargers for Column Flotation Applications
… become the most popular machine designed for industrial applications that require the separation and concentration of wanted or unwanted minerals from the rest material associated in a pulp. To achieve this process separation an air sparging device, which is required to produce bubbles in the …
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Depression of pyrite in polymetallic sulfide flotation using chitosan-grafted-polyacrylamide polymers
… for the flotation of sulfide minerals in industrial plants”--Abstract, page iii.</p>
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An Analysis of Labor Turnover in a Georgia Paper Company
… in Georgia/ Labor turnover is a problem in many industrial plants because of the cost incurred for training competent workers and disruptions in schedules which are caused by inadequate labor supplies. Disruptions in production schedules appear when a manager finds that he is short-handed because …
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Monitoring and control for NGL recovery plant
… gas, which includes useful feedstocks for industrial production processes. Since NGLs have greater economic value compared to natural gas, their recovery has become increasingly economically significant, leading to a need for efficient fractionation. This energy-intensive process is …
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Analysis of a supercritical hydrogen liquefaction cycle
… By examining some difficulties of commonly used industrial liquefaction cycles, several changes were suggested and a readily scalable, supercritical, helium-cooled hydrogen liquefaction cycle was proposed. A novel overlap in flow paths of the two coldest stages allowed the heat exchanger losses …
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Soft computing techniques in power system analysis
… diverse fields as missile guidance, robotics, industrial plants, pattern recognition, market prediction, patient diagnosis, logistics and of course power system analysis and prediction. However in all these fields its application is comparatively new and research is being carried out …
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Novel Photothermal Materials and Thermally Engineered Membranes for Solar Desalination
… highly saline water utilizing waste heat from industrial processes. However, the implementation of conventional membrane distillation is hindered in the remote regions and disaster-struck communities where the low-grade thermal energy from industrial plants and electricity are not readily …
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Innovative Applications of Laser Remote Sensing of Gases, Aerosols and Wind
… concern as fugitive methane emissions from industrial plants and pipelines can contribute to the global increase of greenhouse gas concentration and are a security and safety issue because of the risk of fire, explosion or toxicity. Second, we present horizontal measurements of the spatial …
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Técnicas de automatización avanzadas en procesos industriales
… improvement of productive processes in automated industrial plants. It mainly focuses on industrial processes, advanced graphic modeling tools, discrete events dynamic systems, programmable logic controllers, simulation, supervision and graphic engineering. Initially certain automation elements …
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