This paper studied the performance of a floor-supply displacement ventilation system using computational-fluid-dynamics (CFD). The experiment was carried out in a full-scale environmental chamber with a floor-supply system to obtain reliable flow information for the validation of a CFD program. The validated program was used further to evaluate the performance of the floor-supply displacement v...

One of the principal components of the contaminant load in urban stormwater runoff is oil and grease (O&G) pollution, resulting from vehicle emissions. A mulch layer was used as a contaminant trap to remove O&G (dissolved and particulate-associated naphthalene, dissolved toluene, and dissolved motor oil hydrocarbons) from a synthetic runoff during a bench-scale infiltration study. Approximately...

Intrusion of contaminants into water distribution networks requires the simultaneous presence of three elements; contamination source, pathway and driving force. The existence of each of these elements provides ‘partial’ evidence (typically incomplete and non-specific) to the occurrence of contaminant intrusion into distribution networks. Evidential reasoning, also called Dempster-Shafer (DS) t...

We developed a technique controlling contaminant Al3+ level using a combination of kinetics and thermodynamics at a pre-column derivatizing step in HPLC. The technique involves modifying a conventional HPLC of 8-quinolinol (Ox) complex with Al3+. The contaminant suppressing reagents, dihydroxyazobenzene (DHAB) and 1,2,3-trihydroxybenzene (pyrogallol) were added to the Ox and pH buffer solutions...

In this paper, we propose a POD-based technique that is suitable for the design of reliable observers for the estimation of velocity field and contaminant flow for Navier–Stokes flow. POD modes are conccepted 7 December 2009 vailable online 13 January 2010 eywords: odel reduction roper orthogonal decomposition structed using the method snapshot. Karhunen–Loeve (Galerkin) projection to develop a...