Still, to an extent, the idea persists that inertial sensors are useful mainly when the end product has a need to detect acceleration and deceleration. True enough from a purely scientific view. Yet, that could be to miss out on many of the expanding uses of MEMS accelerometers and gyroscopes in areas such as medical devices, industrial equipment, consumer electronics, and automotive electronics.

However ATPE has no large-scale industrial applications yet. This is based substantially on very long phase separation times resulting from low interfacial tensions and low density differences between the phases producing intensive and stable emulsions. This causes an increased footprint of the required mixer/settler devices or the application of additional equipment such as energy consuming ce...

Automation is the use of management systems and information technology to manage equipment, industrial machinery and processes, reducing the necessity for human intervention. Within the scope of industrial enterprise, automation may be a step beyond mechanization. Home automation is use of one or additional computers to manage basic home functions and options automatically and generally remotel...

This paper describes the integration of an ultrasonic-based non-destructive testing (NDT) with wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to continuously monitor material integrity during run-time. NDT is a technique that allows the examination of material properties without causing any damage to the material in the process. A wireless sensor network facilitates the collaborative effort to monitor a certa...

The use of state-of-the-art real-time techniques in industry is still rare. The reason for this is three-folded: (1) the lack of commercially available tools, (2) the lack of methodologies that considers real-time throughout the complete development process, and (3) the lack of competence in real-time theory among industrial practitioners. In this paper we present a case study of introducing st...

Industrial automation applications across all segments—from factory, machine, and process automation to energy generation, distribution, and transportation—require an increasing amount of safety-enabled equipment. This white paper explores a case study on industrial system on a chip (SoC)—a drive on a chip—to explain how engineers can save up to 18 months of design time in achieving product cer...

Many people still think of atomic energy as a matter of scientists with scientific assistants and laboratories with laboratory-type equipment. The factories of the Industrial Group of the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority are controlled and directed by engineers and industrial chemists as well as by physicists, most of whom must be as skilled in management as they are in the technical complexities o...

The Discrete Element Method (DEM) is attracting increasing interest for the simulation of industrial granular flows. While the majority of previous DEM modelling has considered two-dimensional flows, we present here a series of three-dimensional simulations for a number of important industrial applications. The charge motion in a 5 m diameter ball mill and in a Hicom nutating mill, discharge fr...

The advent of power quality sensitive equipment has made the provision of good power quality a real challenge across the globe. With the increasing usage of sophisticated sensitive electronic equipment in industrial, residential and commercial sectors, it is important to protect them from any power quality disturbance in order to avoid equipment damage and malfunction leading to financial loss ...

Several accidents that occurred in the last decades evidenced that the impact of natural events in industrial plants may trigger accidental scenarios involving the release of relevant quantities of hazardous substances. Severe scenarios typical of the process industry, as fires, explosions, toxic releases, and water pollution were reported as the consequence of natural events in industrial area...