NPP operator support systems: state of art and development prospects

NPP Safety Automation Systems Analysis. State of the Art

Hybrid Systems State of the Art and Prospects

The present work was started in the framework of the ENEA contribution to the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Task Force on Physics Aspects of Trimsmutation. Taking into account the present interest in the hybrid systems technology. the paper was completed adding the initial developments concerning the systems devoted to flssile material production, together with the more recent developments regard...

Engineering of Membrane Gas Separation Processes: State of The Art and Prospects

Membrane processes are today one of the key technologies for industrial gas separations and show growing interest for future use in sustainable production systems. Besides materials development, dedicated engineering methods are of major importance for the rigorous and most efficient design of membrane units and systems. Starting from approaches based on simplified hypotheses developed in the 5...

State of the Art and Prospects

This chapter gives a comprehensive account of the materials used in manufacturing vehicles. In the first section it explains the properties and characteristics that a suitable material should have to be accepted in automotive production. In later sections it reviews the history of development of the materials in automotive from the most traditional to the most recent ones. In the class of the m...

Decision support systems in Australian agriculture: state of the art and future development

This paper reports and discusses the results of a survey conducted among experts working in the field of decision support systems (DSS) in Australian agriculture. It also reviews the literature on DSS in the light of these experts’ responses. The findings from this survey have consolidated our understanding of the current state of DSS in Australian agriculture. The uptake of DSS by farmers has ...