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Skip to Search Results- 1Biao Huang (Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 1Charles Robert Koch
- 1Jinfeng Liu (Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 1Li, Yunwei (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
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- 1Prasad, Vinay (Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering)
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Design of Natural Ventilation Optimal Control System to Achieve Desirable Room Temperature and to Tolerate Uncertain Variants
DownloadSpring 2023
Natural ventilation models are becoming increasingly popular with increasing environmental awareness and the adverse effect of mechanical ventilation systems on the environment. Though simple in their working principle, natural ventilation models are challenging to control in meeting the thermal...
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Spring 2024
Advanced process control has been considered as a promising tool for addressing various control objectives for complex industrial applications, including ensuring safe operation, reducing operational cost, improving process efficiency, achieving more environmentally friendly practices, etc....
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Hyperbranched Phosphorylcholine Polymers Synthesized via RAFT Polymerization for Gene Delivery and Synthesis of an Elastomeric Conductive Polymer for Cardiovascular Applications
DownloadFall 2012
Gene therapy has the potential to treat a variety of hereditary diseases such as diabetes, peanut anaphylaxis, cystic fibrosis and different types of cancer. Gene therapy relies on the design of a delivery system which can carry a gene of interest into a cell. The delivery systems can be broken...
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Investigation and Reduction of the Common-Mode Voltage Effects in Transformerless Solar PV Inverters
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Facing the trend of rapid-growing solar PV capacity, there is an increasing demand for achieving efficient and reliable energy conversion between distributed PV plants and the utility power grid. Varieties of the three-phase transformerless solar PV inverters have been developed to enhance the...
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Fall 2016
Different model based control strategies are developed for combustion timing and load control in a single cylinder Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) engine. In HCCI engines, a lean homogeneous air-fuel mixture auto-ignites due to compression and the resulting combustion occurs at...
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Real-Time Feedback Control of the SAGD Process using Model Predictive Control to Improve Recovery: A Simulation Study
DownloadSpring 2015
Scope of the Work: For over a decade, the oil industry has been moving to “smart fields”, which deploy wells with remotely operated valves and permanently installed downhole sensors for real-time pressure and temperature measurements. Real-time data from these “intelligent wells” provide key...