Several Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) facilities have been constructed with the intent of providing Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal (EBPR), and several additional such plants are being designed and constructed. Full-scale plant information is now available for process designers to better understand the unique design and operating issues associated with the incorporation of EBPR designs in MB...

Several Member States of the Agency are considering introducing nuclear power to their energy mix for the first time. Although various technology options are available to these countries, selecting the most suitable nuclear reactor design requires not only a careful understanding of existing designs but also in-depth knowledge of country-specific needs, conditions and other considerations. To m...

factorial and split-plot designs are two statistical procedures used to conduct agricultural field experiments. both designs are used frequently to quantify the main and interaction effects of two or more factors. however, split-plot design is recommended for specific situations depending on major and minor goals of the study, characteristics of the factors, and precision of statistical testing...

This study designs a real-time remote monitoring system based on LabVIEW and Microsoft Visual C++ for Plant Units. The server written in LabVIEW uses for data acquisition and storage. The server adopts the TCP and DataSocket to communicate with the VC client. The remote VC client can accept real-time data and process data, enabling remote monitoring. Copyright © 2013 IFSA.

With the objective of gaining a better understanding of the system design tradeoffs and economics that pertain to biomass-to-liquids processes, 20 individual BTL plant designs were evaluated based on their technical and economic performance. The investigation was focused on gasification-based processes that enable the conversion of biomass to methanol, dimethyl ether, Fischer-Tropsch liquids or...

This paper presents a Virtual Plant Modeler, VPMOD, which formally characterizes and integrates chemical product designs, batch-chemical equipment (plants), the real-time scheduling of chemical batches, and the control of the chemical transport through the plant. These models provide a framework for agile batch chemical manufacturing that has the ability to automatically reroute and control che...

consider search designs for searching one nonzero 2- or 3-factor interaction under the search linear model. in the noisy case, search probability is given by shirakura et al. (ann. statist. 24(6) (1996) 2560). in this paper some new properties of the searching probability are presented. new properties of the search probability enable us to compare designs, which depend on an unknown parameter ?...

Special Note: Chain retailers are very conscious of the need to carry only private-label models/styles that are easy and less expensive to produce so they can sell their private-label shoes at attractively lower prices than name brand athletic footwear. As a consequence of their efforts to order only models/styles that are simpler to produce, production run set-up costs for private-label pairs ...

The study aims at estimating reductions in energy penalty costs of a CO2 capture plant by exploiting price volatility in the electricity markets. The policy implication of this reduced abatement cost could be an increased penetration of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in the future. 'Dispatchable CCS' offers the plant operator the option to choose a desired CO2 capture operating condition base...