The effect of catalyst particle size on dehydration of methanol to dimethyl ether is investigated using fixed bed and micro-channel reactors at different temperatures and weight hourly space velocities. The experiments were carried out at 290 and 320oC. The space velocities were changed from 10 up to 90h-1 and from 1.22 to 3.65h-1 for fixed bed and micro-channel reactors, respectively. Consider...

Presence of distributed generation (DG) in distribution systems has significant impacts on the operational characteristics of these systems, also using capacitor for reactive compensation and loss reduction is so common. Injected harmonic currents from nonlinear loads into distribution system distort all of voltages and currents and must be considered when placing the capacitor banks so that th...

This paper presents a predictable fixed gain instrumentation amplifier using switched capacitor instead of resistor to improve the accuracy of the gain as 10. This instrumentation amplifier builds up by two operational amplifiers which connect by switched capacitor. These switched capacitors are used to stable the whole circuit, fix the gain of total instrumentation amplifier. Using two operati...

the steps taken in designing a loop reactor for bulk propylene polymerization are discussed. the roles played by several parameters like particle growth factor, catalyst activity and solid fraction on reactor volume at different operating conditions are investigated. at first, based on a fixed production capacity and specific rate of catalyst, reactor volume is determined. next, the length and ...

Magnetically enhanced inductively coupled plasmas (MEICP) and helicons have complex plasma electric-field coupling between the electric field and the plasma due to the tensor conductivity and multiple-dimensional antenna segments. Computed three-dimensional electric fields and electron temperatures are presented for a helicon reactor demonstrating azimuthal asymmetries and rotations of the elec...

In all-digital phase-locked loops (ADPLLs), the quantization noise introduced by the frequency discretization in the digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) can affect the performance in terms of out-of-band phase noise. In particular, the additional quantization noise has to be kept significantly lower than the intrinsic oscillator phase-noise, mandating a very fine frequency resolution (e.g. le...

This Paper deals with digital simulation of FC-TCR, which can enhance the Power Quality of a power system. Reactive power is controlled by using tapped inductor system. This system reduces THD in the line current. Smooth variation of reactive power can be obtained by varying the firing angle of TCR. This circuit eliminates switching transients and improves the life of the capacitors. The simula...