The cultivation of Escherichia coli bacteria is widely used by geneticists and biopharmaceuticals to produce medicines and vaccines. In such industries, Bioprocesses are known by their harsh environment and very expen...
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Ceramic sanitary-ware manufacturing is an industrial sector within the ceramic field that globally demands more than 100,000 TJ of primary energy and 21,000 dam3 of water per year. This research aims to quantify the r...
Ceramic sanitary-ware manufacturing is an industrial sector within the ceramic field that globally demands more than 100,000 TJ of primary energy and 21,000 dam3 of water per year. This research aims to quantify the reachable level of improvement within this industrial field by application of thermal engineering through the different thermal processes along the manufacturing line and the way to apply it to recover the water of the process and reduce the total consumption of primary energy. Advanced exergetic analysis has been the selected technique applied to all thermal sub-processes that comprise the overall process. The novelty of this research lays on the application of heat recovery through the different thermal processes to minimize the global consumption of both, energy and water for the specific field of the sanitary-ware manufacturing where no research has been approached in this regard. This research shows that 20% of the inlet exergy in a conventional factory is recoverable and the way to achieve it by an optimized factory which saves 3% of primary energy and 100% of the flushing water for molds.
Function generators are vital tools for many industrial applications. Sinusoidal oscillators are the essential units of function generators and investigating their performance is therefore necessary. The Barkhausen cr...
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Urszula PawlakMarcin PawlakDepartment of Mechanics
Metal Structures and Computer Methods Faculty of Civil and Architecture Kielce University of Technology al. 1000-lecia Państwa Polskiego 7 25-314 Kielce Poland Department of Power Engineering Electronics
Faculty of Electrical Engineering Automatic Control and Computer Kielce University of Technology al. 1000-lecia Państwa Polskiego 7 25-314 Kielce Poland
In the article, the energy characteristics of a terraced house located in Kielce were assessed. The analyzed house was put into use in 1982. Due to the old manufacturing technology, mainly in the area of the materials...
In the article, the energy characteristics of a terraced house located in Kielce were assessed. The analyzed house was put into use in 1982. Due to the old manufacturing technology, mainly in the area of the materials used, to limit significant heat losses, it has been thermally renewed many times. The aim of the calculations was to indicate the financial benefits, in example to reduce the costs of maintaining the house and to provide its residents with the proper comfort of use of the building, also taking into account the health aspects. The analysis of the object was made in several stages. Proposed are changes reducing the demand for non-renewable primary energy Ep, using modern thermal insulation materials, joinery with low heat transfer coefficient and renewable energy sources. As a result, an energy-efficient building that meets WT 2017 was obtained. The annual demand for non-renewable primary energy EP was determined using the Certo 2015 program in educational version 1.3.3.0.
In the quest to achieve scalable quantum information processing technologies, gradient-based optimal control algorithms (e.g., grape) are broadly used for implementing high-precision quantum gates, but their performan...
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In the quest to achieve scalable quantum information processing technologies, gradient-based optimal control algorithms (e.g., grape) are broadly used for implementing high-precision quantum gates, but their performance is often hindered by deterministic or random errors in the system model and the control electronics. In this paper, we show that grape can be taught to be more effective by jointly learning from the design model and the experimental data obtained from process tomography. The resulting data-driven gradient optimization algorithm (d-grape) can in principle correct all deterministic gate errors, with a mild efficiency loss. The d-grape algorithm may become more powerful with broadband controls that involve a large number of control parameters, while other algorithms usually slow down due to the increased size of the search space. These advantages are demonstrated by simulating the implementation of a two-qubit controlled-not gate.
In this paper, we investigate the coordination of a multi-agent system to achieve a high level plan. In, particular, we assume that this planning is decomposed in a sequence of simple control objectives. The coordinat...
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(纸本)9781509045839
In this paper, we investigate the coordination of a multi-agent system to achieve a high level plan. In, particular, we assume that this planning is decomposed in a sequence of simple control objectives. The coordination is carried out through event-based communications between the agents, and distributed control laws are synthesized to achieve each control objective according to a time-constraint. All the elements (planning, motion, and communication) are integrated in a hybrid systems framework, which also allows to conclude about the achievement of the high level plan.
Implementing frequency response using grid-connected inverters is one of the popular proposed alternatives to mitigate the dynamic degradation experienced in low inertia power systems. However, such solution faces sev...
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Implementing frequency response using grid-connected inverters is one of the popular proposed alternatives to mitigate the dynamic degradation experienced in low inertia power systems. However, such solution faces several challenges as inverters do not intrinsically possess the natural response to power fluctuations that synchronous generators have. Thus, to synthetically generate this response, inverters need to take frequency measurements, which are usually noisy, and subsequently make changes in the output power, which are therefore delayed. This paper explores the system-wide performance tradeoffs that arise when measurement noise, delayed actions, and power disturbances are considered in the design of dynamic controllers for grid-connected inverters. Using a recently proposed dynamic droop (iDroop) control for grid-connected inverters that is inspired by classical first order lead-lag compensation, we show that the sets of parameters that result in highest noise attenuation, power disturbance mitigation, and delay robustness do not necessarily have a common intersection. In particular, lead compensation is desired in systems where power disturbances are the predominant source of degradation, while lag compensation is a better alternative when the system is dominated by delays or frequency noise. Our analysis further shows that iDroop can outperform the standard droop alternative in both joint noise and disturbance mitigation, and delay robustness.
For patient well-being and also for cost efficiency, constantly improving the medical act is essential. All patients undergo a set of medical tests before going into surgery. In some cases, these tests have to be repe...
For patient well-being and also for cost efficiency, constantly improving the medical act is essential. All patients undergo a set of medical tests before going into surgery. In some cases, these tests have to be repeated in different hospitals due to the lack of a system that facilitates presenting and sharing patient's data. We present two e-Health solutions for hospitals and clinics in the medical data field. Our aim was to design and implement a unique system for medical data management. This system allows easy data transfer between medical facilities. It also improves the medical diagnostic and treatment process and it increases the quality of medical care. Also, it improves the communication between patients and physicians, decreases the duration and costs of hospitalization and improves the patient's quality of life. The second medical solution presented in this paper present the results of the medical tests directly to a screen in the operating room, further reducing the time a patient has to wait before going into surgery and also improving the medical act. Both medical solutions were tested in real-world scenarios with promising results.
We study a class of structured optimal control problems in which the main diagonal of the dynamic matrix is a linear function of the design variable. While such problems are in general challenging and nonconvex, for p...
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