Liquid-liquid equilibrium (LLE) problems such as phase stability analysis, phase equilibrium calculations, chemical equilibrium calculations, binary interaction parameter identification of thermodynamic models and other problems of fluid characterization have been the core subject of many recent studies. This study introduces Cuckoo Search (CS), Firefly Algorithms (FA) and its variants as p...

there is a great interest in developing rapid analytical methods and provide appropriate parametersfor quantitative analysis of compounds derived from refractory pollutants. such methods are important forroutine quality control analysis of an effluent before being discharged into the environment. therefore, a rapid methodology for identification and quantification of some aliphatic acids is pro...

the new phase-ii n-glucoside metabolites of butobarbitone and pentobarbitone are identified and quantified in human urine after single doses of these drugs. the identification and quantification of these metabolites were carried out by mass spectroscopy technique (accurate mass measurement and high voltage scanning). it was found that the butobarbitone n-glucoside comprised 26% of the dose with...

Many important distribution network applications, such as load balancing, state-estimation, and network reconfiguration, depend on accurate phase connectivity information. The existing data-driven phase identification algorithms have a few drawbacks. First, the existing algorithms require the number of phase connections as an input. Second, they can not provide accurate results when there is a ...