The effects of acute ethanol administration on blood pressure, heart rate and the baroreceptor reflex control of heart rate were studied in normotensive subjects who served as their own control. Baroreceptor reflex control of heart rate was measured by two methods: the ramp method and the steady state method. None of the doses of ethanol had any effect on blood pressure during the observation p...

Microwave zeolite synthesis has been shown to greatly reduce crystallization time. Although, fast efficient syntheses and quality crystalline products are widely reported(1), the mechanism leading to the formation of zeolites under microwave heating is not fully understood. Cundy(1) has reviewed the literature and concludes that the likely processes specific to microwave synthesis of zeolites a...

The two species, scission/reforming Vasquez-Cook-McKinley (VCM) model was formulated to describe the coupling between the viscoelastic fluid rheology and the kinetics of wormlike micellar assembly and deformation-induced rupture. The model self-consistently captures the nonlocal effects of stress-induced diffusion and has been studied in various limits for a number of canonical flow fields incl...

This study analyses and presents a new ramp-rate control algorithm for smoothing PV power fluctuations, designed to address three fundamental objectives: reduce battery cycling, meet minimum storage requirements be able operate, without violations, with real publicly-available forecasting. The was compared benchmark methods and, as performance limit, also hypothetical perfect prediction. Differ...

Simple exponential smoothing (SES) methods are the most commonly used methods in forecasting and time series analysis. However, they are generally insensitive to non-stationary structural events such as level shifts, ramp shifts, and spikes or impulses. Similar to that of outliers in stationary time series, these non-stationary events will lead to increased level of errors in the forecasting pr...

Hydrogen produced with renewable electricity may be used to synthesize valuable chemical products, thus aiding the decarbonization of industry. Thanks their fast dynamics, Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Water Electrolyzers (PEM-WEs) appear promising for coupling fluctuating power inputs, e.g., from a grid balancing request or standalone supply. However, flexibility downstream synthesis processes ...

Dynamic economic dispatch (DED) deals with the allocation of predicted load demand over a certain period time among thermal generating units at minimum fuel cost. The objective function DED becomes highly complex and nonlinear after considering various operating constraints like valve point loading, ramp rate limit, transmission loss, generation limits. In this study, sine-cosine algorithm has ...