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Control of Polymerization Processes

With an annual worldwide production well in excess of 100 million metric tons, synthetic polymers constitute a significant part of the modern chemical process industry. Polymer reactors - operated in continuous, batch, or semibatch mode - are therefore imp ...

CRC Press2010

Designing tensegrity modules for pedestrian bridges

Ian Smith, Landolf-Giosef-Anastasios Rhode-Barbarigos, Nizar Bel Hadj Ali, René Motro

Tensegrity systems are spatial structures composed of tensile and compression components in a self-equilibrated state of prestress. The tensegrity concept has already been studied by researchers in various fields over the past decades. A family of tensegri ...

Elsevier2010

Process Integration Methodology

Helen Carla Becker

Process integration methods aim at identifying options for heat recovery and optimal energy conversion in industrial processes. For the heat cascade, it is assumed that any heat exchange between cold and hot streams is possible, but due to industrial const ...

2010

Structural Changes in Industrial R&D in Europe and the US

Dominique Foray, Stéphane Lhuillery

We analyse the structural changes that have characterised the organisation of industrial R&D over the last 25 years. Taking Mowery's work (Industrial and Corporate Change, 2009, 18(1), 1-50) on the US as a starting point, we reconsider the different aspect ...

Beech Tree Publishing, Oxford2010

Thermo-economic analysis of chemical looping processes

Amélie Courjon

Among the different ways of capturing carbon dioxide in industrial processes, chemical looping process is presented as an improvement in oxy-fuel combustion. Since carbon dioxide is directly generated with water in the process, there is no need of an addit ...

2010

Design of hybrid-kinematic mechanisms for machine tools

Patric Pham

The machine tool industry is a well established, old and extremely important branch of today's manufacturing industry. With the ongoing globalization and the resulting increase of competition in this industry, the manufacturers have to push their technolog ...

EPFL2009

Feasibility study of the production of ethylbenzene via methylation of toluene

Noushin Hadadi, Nasibeh Pouransari, Flora Marie Bressieux

This report reviews recent developments in ethylbenzene (EB) manufacturing technologies and studies in detail the suggested process; Production of Ethylbenzene via Side Alkylation of Toluene by Methanol. The desired amount of ethylbenzene as the product is ...

2009

Data-driven methods for tracking improvement

Mark Edward John Butcher

The tracking precision required by modern industrial applications is continuously increasing. Feedback control alone is often no longer capable of giving the necessary tracking accuracy and so the use of two-degree-of-freedom controllers, which include a f ...

EPFL2009

Model checking: Algorithmic verification and debugging

Joseph Sifakis

Turing Lecture from the winners of the 2007 ACM A.M. Turing Award.In 1981, Edmund M. Clarke and E. Allen Emerson, working in the USA, and Joseph Sifakis working independently in France, authored seminal papers that founded what has become the highly succes ...

2009

Middleware-based Database Replication: The Gaps Between Theory and Practice

Anastasia Ailamaki, George Candea, Emmanuel Cecchet

The need for high availability and performance in data management systems has been fueling a long running interest in database replication from both academia and industry. However, academic groups often attack replication problems in isolation, overlooking ...

ACM2008

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