This paper aims at promoting cooperation between drying and control communities in the future. Indeed, with a review of 71 relevant publications all dealing with control aspects in drying, this paper shows that the use of control tools really started to emerge in drying applications only since 1979. In a second phase started around 1998, new trends based on more advanced concepts have also appe...

Effects of methane outgassing on the Black Sea atmosphere K. Kourtidis, I. Kioutsioukis, and S. Rapsomanikis Lab. of Atmospheric Pollution and Pollution Control Engineering of Atmospheric Pollutants, Dept. of Environmental Engineering, Demokritus University of Thrace, 67100 Xanthi, Greece Received: 7 February 2006 – Accepted: 2 March 2006 – Published: 9 May 2006 Correspondence to: K. Kourtidis ...

Then minimization may be performed on the interval [to, tl] only, where it is understood that x and u are periodically extended to [to, co). These periodic extensions satisfy the system equation (l.l), since x, is a complete state for this functional differential system. Hence it is sufficient to consider the optimal periodic control problem (l.l), (1.2) on [to, tI] with “mixed” boundary condit...

Many important issues in design and implementation of ITS some functionality focuses on the way inter-object connections are represented, manipulated, and stored in the computer. However, the advancement of AI methods and techniques makes understanding of ITS more difficult, so that the teachers are less and less prepared to accept these systems. As a result, the gap between the researchers in ...

background :despite the presence of many textile and dyeing plants in iran, we couldn’t find similar studies in this country. forthermore, considering progress in the dyeing process and engineering controls, assessment of respiratory system is important for these workers. the present study was performed to evaluate the respiratory system in dyeing workers.   methods : in a cross-sectional study...

We discuss challenges to control systems engineering arising from the advent of cyber-physical systems (CPS). After discussing the terminology, general, IT-related issues are treated which need cooperation with computer science, in particular software engineering. Then we study those challenges that require specific core competencies from control systems engineering. We sketch solution approach...

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Most research on sleep awakenings caused by aircraft noise determines the percent of awakenings from an average person’s exposure to single aircraft events. Such research estimates the percent of people who would likely be awakened by a single aircraft of a given sound level, if everyone had average sensitivity to sleep awakening. However, such results do not show what percent of a composite po...