ower transformers and steam turbines were the key drivers in the development of the AC power system paradigm at the dawn of the 20th century, characterized by huge synchronous generators feeding millions of passive loads through large interconnected systems, all of them supervised and controlled from a centralized energy management system (EMS). In the same way, thyristor valves and IGBTs, intr...

Probabilistic Lifing Leader of GE Oil & Gas, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for all products in the Chief Engineers’Office. He has been involved in the design, development, and analysis of industrial turbomachinery for more than 30 years at Turbodyne Corporation, Dresser Industries, Dresser Rand Company, and, most recently, with Safe Technical Solutions Inc., where he served as Director of Enginee...

Concentrated Solar Power plants are complex systems subjected to quite sensitive variations of the steam production profile and external disturbances, thus advanced control techniques that ensure system stability and suitable performance criteria are required. In this work, a multi-objective H∞ robust controller is designed and applied to the power control of a Concentered Solar Power plant com...

This report investigates the impact of droplet temperature on the head-on collision of binary droplets on a superhydrophobic surface. Understanding droplet collision is critical to many fundamental processes and industrial applications. There are many factors, including collision speed, collision angle, and droplet composition, that influence the outcome of the collision between binary droplets...

Industrial diagnosis is a domain where problems are recurrent and therefore previous documented solution can be successfully reused. Different methodologies may be implemented for a given diagnosis domain, one of the appropriate, appears to be Case-Based Reasoning (CBR). A CBR system is a combination of processes and knowledge called “knowledge containers“, that allows to preserve and to exploi...