A mathematical formulation for the simultaneous design and layout of batch process facilities is proposed. The model determines simultaneously the optimal plant topology (i.e. the choice of the plant equipment and the associated connections), the layout (i.e. the arrangement of processing equipment storage vessels and their interconnecting pipe-work over a two-dimensional space) and the optimal...

Corrosion of complex electronic equipment is an increasingly serious problem, causing expensive damage. Corrosion occurs through out the entire life cycle during different stages of manufacturing, assembly, transport and storage of components and assemblies and during field operations of the equipment. Presence of moisture, chloride, sulphur dioxide, hydrogen sulphide and other airborne corrosi...

The BBC's ORBIT project is investigating the scalable application of mass-market IT equipment to distributed television production. A set of inter-connected production, archive and playout networks is being developed. CORBA object middleware is used to provide studio services to desktop applications. Example services are material intake and replay, content storage and metadata searching. A prot...

In view of the current operation and maintenance mode for railway station equipment, method traditional manual post-diagnosis equipment faults is still used, which cannot meet reliability requirements management. A health diagnosis system based on cloud-edge collaboration proposed. Firstly, it collects online information multi-source perception realized through edge intelligent gateway by compo...

We detail the technique, procedure, and equipment required to properly obtain a micro-scale capillary (fingerstick) blood specimen for subsequent determination of its lead content. We divide the microsampling procedure into preparation of sampling equipment and subject, the fingerstick, micro blood collection devices, and transport and storage. The concept of a total-system approach to qualityc...

Large scale multimedia storage servers will be an integral part of the emerging distributed multi-media computing infrastructure. However, given the modest rate of improvements in storage transfer rates, designing servers that meet the demands of multimedia applications is a challenging task that needs signiicant architectural innovation. Our research project, called Massively-parallel And Real...

Current digital data storage systems are able to store huge amounts of data. Even though the data density of digital information storage has increased tremendously over the last few decades, the data longevity is limited to only a few decades. If we want to preserve anything about the human race which can outlast the human race itself, we require a data storage medium designed to last for 1 mil...

Large scale multimedia storage servers will be an integral part of the emerging distributed multi-media computing infrastructure. However, given the modest rate of improvements in storage transfer rates, designing servers that meet the demands of multimedia applications is a challenging task that needs signiicant architectural innovation. Our research project, called Massively-parallel And Real...

Efficient data storage is a key component of data managing systems to achieve good performance. However, currently data storage is either heavily constrained by static decisions (e.g. fixed data stores in DBMSs) or left to be tuned and configured by users (e.g. manual data backup in File Systems). In this paper, we take a holistic view of data storage and envision a virtual storage layer. Our v...