High-temperature curing is commonly employed to promote the pozzolanic activity of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) in cementitious systems. Herein, the temperature-dependent dissolution processes of low-ca...
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Carbon fiber and graphene-based nanostructures such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and defective structures have extraordinary potential as strong and lightweight materials. A longstanding bottleneck has been lack of unde...
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In this paper, we present nonlinear system identification and nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) for a laboratory-scale adiabatic continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) with an exothermic reaction. We describe ...
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(数字)9783907144022
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(纸本)9781728188133
In this paper, we present nonlinear system identification and nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) for a laboratory-scale adiabatic continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) with an exothermic reaction. We describe the equipment used in the process, and we present a process model based on first principles. We use a maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) approach based on the process model and the continuous-discrete extended Kalman filter (CD-EKF) to estimate four model parameters. The NMPC is based on the process model (with the estimated model parameters), the CD-EKF, and a nonlinear least-squares regulator with input (Tikhonov) and rate-of-movement regularization. We present simulations demonstrating that the NMPC (implemented in Python and C) can track any stable and unstable steady state for this system with multiple steady states in some operational regions.
In this paper, we present an algorithm for economic nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) of single-cell protein production in a U-loop bioreactor. The model of the U-loop bioreactor consists of both stochastic or...
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ISBN:
(数字)9783907144022
ISBN:
(纸本)9781728188133
In this paper, we present an algorithm for economic nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) of single-cell protein production in a U-loop bioreactor. The model of the U-loop bioreactor consists of both stochastic ordinary and partial differential equations. Using a typical finite-volume discretization, the model contains 87 state variables. The NMPC algorithm is based on the continuous-discrete extended Kalman filter and a simultaneous collocation method. We present a closed-loop simulation which demonstrates the computational feasibility of real-time implementation of the NMPC algorithm for startup and steady state operation of the U-loop reactor.
The structural, electronic, and optical properties of Zn3(VO4)2 are investigated using full potential linearized aug- mented plane wave (FP-LAPW) method within the framework of density functional theory (DFT). V...
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The structural, electronic, and optical properties of Zn3(VO4)2 are investigated using full potential linearized aug- mented plane wave (FP-LAPW) method within the framework of density functional theory (DFT). Various approaches are adopted to treat the exchange and correlation potential energy such as generalized gradient approximation (GGA), GGA+U, and the Tran-Blaha modified Becke-Johnson (TB-mBJ) potential. The calculated band gap of 3.424 eV by TB- mBJ is found to be close to the experimental result (3.3 eV). The optical anisotropy is analyzed through optical constants, such as dielectric function and absorption coefficient along parallel and perpendicular crystal orientations. The absorption coefficient reveals high absorption (1.5 ×10^6cm^-1) of photons in the ultraviolet region.
This paper presents the synthesis and evaluation of a carbon molecular sieve membrane (CMSM) grown inside a MEMS-fabricated μ-preconcentrator for sampling highly volatile organic compounds. An array of µ-pillars...
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The manifold Helmholtzian (1-Laplacian) operator ∆1 elegantly generalizes the Laplace-Beltrami operator to vector fields on a manifold M. In this work, we propose the estimation of the manifold Helmholtzian from point...
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This investigation summarized the application of nanofluids (NFs) in heat exchangers (HExs) with different geometries. The quest for heat devices with quick response for the industrial sector is still a major challeng...
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When quantum flavor Hall insulator phases of itinerant fermions are disordered by strong quantum fluctuations, the condensation of skyrmion textures of order parameter fields can lead to superconductivity. In this wor...
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