Filtration is the most cost effective method to purify aluminum. In this paper, filtration experiments have been carried out using both AlF3 slurry coated, and uncoated Al2O3 ceramic foam filter (CFF) to study the removal of both nonmetallic inclusions and impurity elements. The results showed that the 30 ppi CFF removed up to 85% inclusions from aluminum. The contributing mechanisms for the re...

conclusions the high prevalence of fungaemia and mortality could be attributed to many patients on chronic immunosuppressive therapy. nonetheless, cpfa albeit expensive, does add to our armamentarium of extracorporeal treatment for severe sepsis. regional citrate anticoagulation with cpfa may overcome problems with filter clotting. objectives the main objective was to review our centers' e...

A granular substrate used as a support for three-way catalyzed (TWC) solid-particle membrane filter was investigated through numerical simulation. The proposed could reduce the amount of required catalyst material by 39% and lower pressure drop 33%, compared to conventional filter, while achieving almost 100% soot-filtration. Moreover, TWC porous particles, which are designed introduce fluid fl...

Structural system identification using recursive methods has been a research direction of increasing interest in recent decades. The two prominent methods, including the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) and the Particle Filter (PF), also known as the Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC), are advantageous in this field. In this study, the system identification of a shake table test of a 4-story steel struct...

Radiation hardness studies of C6F14 Fluorinert (FC72) fluid, some epoxies and tantalum capacitors were studied for the Compact Muon Solenoidal (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of CERN. For a successful operation of Forward Silicon Pixel Tracker of the CMS, the cooling fluid, epoxies to be used and the filter capacitors of bias voltage supplies need to be radiation hard. It wa...

Temperature of fluid stream through tube is a key variable in shell and tube heat exchanger. However, this variable is not easy to measure straightly. Therefore, a state observer is designed to estimate the tube temperature variable for direct control of shell and tube heat exchanger. A dynamical state space model is used to describe the heat exchanger process. Kalman filter based observer is d...

Arterial-line filters used during extracorporeal circulation continue to rely on the physical properties of a wetted micropore and reductions in blood flow velocity to affect air separation from the circulating blood volume. Although problems associated with air embolism during cardiac surgery persist, a number of investigators have concluded that further improvements in filtration are needed t...