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Continuous production

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A generic methodology and a digital twin for zero defect manufacturing (ZDM) performance mapping towards design for ZDM

Over recent years, the manufacturing industry has seen constant growth and change. From one side, it has been affected by the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0). From the other side, it has had to enhance its ability to meet higher customer expect ...

2021

Phyllomanganate vein-infillings in faulted and Al-poor regoliths of the New Caledonian ophiolite: periodic and sequential crystallization of Ni-asbolane, Alk-birnessite and H-birnessite

Gabrielle Dublet

Mineralogy, chemistry and spatial distribution of phyllomanganates, found in abundance at the bottom of thick Ni-laterite deposits, were established on dislocated vein-infillings showing banded and fibrous patterns (i.e. colloforms with rows of tiny boxwor ...

2019

Prototyping Conventionally Wound High-Frequency Magnetic Sensors for ITER

Jean-Marc Moret, Duccio Testa, René Chavan, Matthieu Toussaint, Jonathan Bryan Lister, Francisco Sanchez

The high-frequency (HF) magnetic sensors for ITER are currently based on a conventional, Mirnov-type, pick-up coil, with an effective area in the range 0.03

American Nuclear Society2012

Precipitation of Nanosized and Nanostructured Powders: Process Intensification and Scale-Out Using a Segmented Flow Tubular Reactor (SFTR)

Heinrich Hofmann, Paul Bowen, Jacques Lemaître, Andrea Testino, Nathalie Jongen, Marcel Donnet

The successful scale-out and process intensification using a segmented flow tubular reactor (SFTR) for ultrafine CaCO3, BaTiO3, and nanosized ZnO from optimized minibatch (20 mL) conditions is presented. The capacity of the SFTR in process intensification ...

2011

Real-Time Collaborative Information Management in Enterprises

Naoufel Cheikhrouhou, Michel Pouly, Sébastien Berthold

The European manufacturing sector has experienced considerable changes in the last several decades because of the reduction of the manufacturing depth. Continuous pressure on prices and global competition forced companies to concentrate on core competences ...

Springer2011

Analysis of a biorefinery integration: application to a sulfite wood pulping process

François Maréchal, Zoé Périn-Levasseur

The pulp and paper (P&P) industry in industrially mature countries is facing a long-term crisis. Large and modern manufacturing facilities in tropical regions emerge as new competitors. The constant increase of energy costs has also contributed to the fina ...

2009

Characterization of Fibra-Cel® packed-bed bioreactors for the culture of CHO cells

Frédéric Meuwly

Today, more than 30 products using a manufacturing process based on mammalian cell culture have been approved for human therapy. Most of these products are currently supplied with stirred tank bioreactors operated in batch or fed-batch mode. However, the b ...

EPFL2006

Scale-up of batch processes via decentralized control

Dominique Bonvin, Benoît Chachuat, Michael Amrhein, Alejandro Gabriel Marchetti

The economic environment in the specialty chemicals industry requires short times to market and thus the ability to develop new products and processes very rapidly. This, in turn, calls for large scale-ups from laboratory to production. Due to scale-relate ...

2006

A 3D Shape Optimization Problem in Heat Transfer: Analysis and Approximation via BEM

Carlo D'Angelo

In this paper an optimal shape control problem dealing with heat transfer in enclosures is studied. We have considered an enclosure heated by a flame surface (taking into account radiation, conduction and convection effects), and we look for an optimal fla ...

2006

On the degradation and stabilization of poly(methyl methacrylate) in a continuous process

Thierry Meyer, Philip Nising

Thermally unstable polymers such as poly(Me methacrylate) are degraded considerably during industrial processing. This degrdn. and its redn. to a min. were investigated in both lab and continuous pilot-scale expts. A three-step degrdn. mechanism, starting ...

2003

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