The stability and the stability region of a (controlled) industrial system is an important property to be determined. It is highly desirable to have a system that is not able to become unstable that is why the stability theory is being continuously in both the theoretical researchers’s and industrial partitioner’s focus. The aim of this paper is to examine the stability region of an existing in...

Process and power plant control, along with fault detection/isolation are being addressed by significant on-going research with many theoretical developments focused on improvements for all of these major industrial applications. This report provides an overview of the current key problems, recent accomplishments and trends, as well as a forecast of anticipated developments within this very imp...

Sang Hoon Lee,1, ∗ Mark D. Fricker,2, 3 and Mason A. Porter4, 3 1Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, United Kingdom 2Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3RB, United Kingdom 3CABDyN Complexity Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 1HP, United Kingdom 4Oxford Centre for ...

This paper discusses the implications of using genetically modified crops to biomanufacture pharmaceuticals and industrial compounds from the perspective of their co-existence with conventional agriculture. Such plant-made pharmaceuticals and plantmade industrial products rely on exciting scientific and technological breakthroughs and promise new opportunities for the agricultural sector, but t...

The past decades have witnessed tremendous growth in the use of biostimulants in agriculture and it is estimated that biostimulants will grow to $2 billion in sales by 2018 (Calvo et al., 2014). Recognizing the need to establish a legal framework for the marketing and regulation of these products the European biostimulants industry council (EBIC, 2012) defined plant biostimulants as " containin...

Introduction: The development of an appropriate model for the quality control of an industrial wastewater treatment system can save the time as well as the cost. This study was performed to determine an appropriate model in order to predict the COD and TKN parameters by BOD5 and NH4+ in the Meybod industrial estate wastewater treatment plant (WWTP).  Materials and Methods: This descriptiv...

In this article a new simplified LPV (Linear Parameter Varying) theoretical model is presented which corresponds to the acoustic response of an industrial plant. The parameters of this model vary with the characteristics of the closed room. The aim of the model is to locate mobile robots in such environments. A general methodology is proposed in order to simplify the robots self-localization pr...

Membrane science and technology has led to significant innovation in both processes and products over the last few decades, offering interesting opportunities in the design, rational‐ ization, and optimization of innovative production processes. The most interesting develop‐ ment for industrial membrane technology depends on the capability to integrate various membrane operations in the same in...

A novel 51-kb conjugative transposon of Lactococcus lactis, designated Tn6098, encoding the capacity to utilize α-galactosides such as raffinose and stachyose, was identified and characterized. Alpha-galactosides are a dominant carbon source in many plant-derived foods. Most dairy lactococcus strains are unable to use α-galactosides as a growth substrate, yet many of these strains are known to ...