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Lei Meng, Xiaofeng Wang, Chunnian Zeng and Jie Luo
The accurate air-fuel ratio (AFR) control is crucial for the exhaust emission reduction based on the three-way catalytic converter in the spark ignition (SI) engine. The difficulties in transient cylinder air mass flow measurement, the existing fuel mass...
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Seung-Hwa Yu, Yeongho Kang and Chun-Gu Lee
Pest control is essential for increasing agricultural production. Agricultural drones with spraying systems for pest control have generated great interest among farmers. However, spraying systems installed on unmanned aerial vehicles, like any other spra...
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Paulina Vilela, Kijeon Nam and Changkyoo Yoo
Partial nitritation (PN) coupled with the anaerobic ammonium oxidation (Anammox) process has improved ammonium removal in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). The operation conditions of this process, i.e., the dissolved oxygen (DO) and the influent ammo...
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Zhongyuan Liu and Binqian Zhang
To solve the issues of directional control and aerodynamic moment coupling for a low-aspect tailless configuration with a diamond-shaped wing, we herein propose the concept of a flow coupling rudder (FCR). The FCR was composed of two basic control surfac...
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Youming Cai, Mingzhu Li, Tianzhen Wang, Xiaohang Wang and Hubert Razik
Power extraction has become a critical consideration in tidal stream turbine (TST) systems. In practice, the lumped disturbances under varying tidal current conditions may deteriorate the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) performance and cumulate fatig...
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Carla Simone de Lima Teixeira Assunção, Marcela Marques Vieira, Linda Lee Ho (Author)
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Nowadays, petroleum is the most used energy source in the world, however it also produces a great volume of a residue denominated produced water (PW). This water has no commercial value and requires treatment, due to potential contaminants in its composi...
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Carla Simone de Lima Teixeira Assunção, Marcela Marques Vieira, Linda Lee Ho
Pág. e42066
Nowadays, petroleum is the most used energy source in the world, however it also produces a great volume of a residue denominated produced water (PW). This water has no commercial value and requires treatment, due to potential contaminants in its composi...
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Wei Huang, Jianfeng Huang and Chengliang Yin
Multispeed transmissions are helpful for improvement of the economy and drivability of electric vehicles (EVs). In this paper, we propose a two-speed transmission based on dual planetary gear mechanism, in which shifts are realized by torque transfer bet...
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Dazhi Wang, Tianqing Yuan, Xingyu Wang, Xinghua Wang, Sihan Wang and Yongliang Ni
In order to improve the performance of the servo control system, which is composed ofthe permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) driven by novel direct torque control based on the fixed sector division criterion (FS-DTC) utilizing the composite active ...
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Mihaela Ghita, Isabela Birs, Dana Copot, Ioana Nascu and Clara M. Ionescu
Following the paradigm shift in the pharmaceutical industry from batch to continuous production, additional instrumentation and revision of control strategies to optimize material flow throughout the downstream processes are required. Tableting manufactu...
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Haigang Ding, Jiyun Zhao, Gang Cheng, Steve Wright and Yufeng Yao
A new leaking valve-pump parallel control (LVPC) oil hydraulic system is proposed to improve the performance of dynamic response of present variable speed pump control (VSPC) system, which is an oil hydraulic control system with saving energy. In the LVP...
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Francesco Bassi, Lorenzo Alessio Botti, Alessandro Colombo and Francesco Carlo Massa
Multi-component flow problems are typical of many technological and engineering applications. In this work, we propose an implicit high-order discontinuous Galerkin discretization of the variable density incompressible (VDI) flow model for the simulation...
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Jérôme Messineo and Toru Shimada
Despite the fact that hybrid propulsion offers significant benefits, it still suffers from some limitations such as the natural oxidizer to fuel ratio shift which induces variations of the engines? performances while operating. To overcome that issue, Ja...
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Hanako Umehara, Reiko Kobatake, Kazuya Doi, Yoshifumi Oki, Yusuke Makihara, Takayasu Kubo and Kazuhiro Tsuga
The purpose of this study was to investigate the osseointegration aspects of alkali-treated implants by histological and bone morphometric evaluations. Titanium implants (control) and alkali hydrothermally-treated titanium implants were used. Samples wer...
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Shih-Chieh Hsieh, Yih-Der Lee and Yung-Ruei Chang
The paper presents an economic evaluation, including a cost-benefit analysis and a sensitivity analysis, of smart photovoltaic (PV) inverters with a novel Watt-Var control scheme for enhancing PV penetration in distribution systems in Taiwan. The novel W...
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Wei Lin, Gangbing Song and Shanghong Chen
A pounding tuned mass damper (PTMD) is introduced by making use of the energy dissipated during impact. In the proposed PTMD, a viscoelastic layer is attached to an impact limitation collar so that energy can be further consumed and transferred to heat e...
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Chungman Moon, Rajesh Singh, Sathyanarayan S. Veeravalli, Saravanan R. Shanmugam, Subba Rao Chaganti, Jerald A. Lalman and Daniel D. Heath
Biological sulfate (SO42-) reduction was examined in anaerobic sequential batch reactors (ASBRs) operated under different hydraulic retention times (HRTs) ranging from 12 to 36 h and COD (Chemical Oxygen Demand)/SO42- ratios of 2.4, 1.6 and 0.8. Competit...
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Jin Woo Moon, Jae D. Chang and Sooyoung Kim
This study examines the performance and adaptability of Artificial Neural Network (ANN)-based thermal control strategies for diverse thermal properties of building envelope conditions applied to residential buildings. The thermal performance using two no...
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Yacong Wu, Jun Huang, Boqian Ji and Lei Song
Most existing studies on aerodynamic shape optimization have not considered longitudinal trim under control surface deflection, typically achieving self-trim through a constraint of zero pitching moment or adjusting the optimized configuration for longit...
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Fuyin Cui, Shuling Chen, Hongbin Hao, Changzhi Han, Ruidong Ni and Yueyue Zhuo
To address the unstable motion of a tension leg platform (TLP) for floating wind turbines in various sea conditions, an improved method of incorporating a tuned liquid multi-column damper (TLMCD) into the TLP foundation is proposed. In order to evaluate ...
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