A new type of in-situ hydraulic permeameter was developed to determine vertical hydraulic conductivity (VHC) of saturated sediments from hydraulic experiments using Darcy's law. The system allows water to move upward through the porous media filled in the permeameter chamber driven into sediments at water-sediment interface. Darcy flux and hydraulic gradient can be measured using the system, an...

This paper describes and demonstrates an efficient method for online hydraulic state estimation in urban water networks. The proposed method employs an online predictor-corrector (PC) procedure for forecasting future water demands. A statistical data-driven algorithm (M5 Model-Trees algorithm) is applied to estimate future water demands, and an evolutionary optimization technique (genetic algor...

The energy density of conventional hydraulic accumulators is significantly lower than competing energy domains. In this paper, a novel solution to improve the energy density of hydraulic energy storage, the flywheel-accumulator, is presented. The flywheelaccumulator integrates rotating kinetic and pneumatic energy storage, where the hydraulic fluid is used to change the mass moment of inertia o...

According to the steering mode of self-propelled modular transporter, the key component of the steering system with electro-hydraulic proportional directional valve was designed. The model of the transporter steering single loop system was established through the method of power bond graph and was simulated. The dynamic characteristics of steering circuit were analyzed. Results indicate that th...

This paper describes the design and implementation of a hydraulic circuit design system using case-based reasoning (CBR) paradigm from AI community. The application domain of hydraulic circuit design and case-based reasoning are briefly reviewed. Then a proposed methodology in computer-aided circuit design and dynamic learning with the use of CBR is described. Finally an application example has...

Hydraulický lis so systémom LS pre modelovaniu procesov plastických deformácií At first, the paper describes destination of the presented hydraulic press. Next, the substance of load sensing (LS) systems’ operation was introduced, and electro-hydraulic system of this type, installed in laboratory hydraulic press, was described. The control and measurement circuit of the device was also describe...

Nowadays, hydraulic actuators play an important role in a modern industry where controlled force or position with high accuracy is the most significant demand. This paper presents a new kind of hydraulic load simulator (HLS) for conducting performance and stability test in the bench system where force control is important. The system model consists of a hybrid hydro-electric actuator and anothe...

Aircraft hydraulic systems are composed of several components connected and distributed along the aircraft. Monitoring leakage of these components are time consuming tasks, and often cover only some parts of the system. The objective of this work is to present a method to estimate hydraulic leakage and recommend maintenance and servicing tasks using aircraft standard sensors such as fluid tempe...

the effect of membrane molecular weight cut off (mwco) at three levels (10, 20 & 50 kd) on dynamic behavior of permeate flux (jp), hydraulic resistances (total hydraulic resistance, rt; reversible fouling resistance, rrf; irreversible fouling resistance, rif and membrane hydraulic resistance, rm) and milk solutes rejection (protein, rp; fat, rf; lactose, rl; minerals, rm and total solids, r...