This report presents a conceptual design of the magnet systems for an advanced tokamak fusion reactor (ARIES-AT). The main focus of the paper is to anticipate and extrapolate the current state-of-the-art in high temperature superconductors and coil design, and apply them to an advanced commercial fusion reactor concept. The current design point is described and supported with a preliminary stru...

Metallic supports play an important role as structured reactor internals. Due to their specific properties including enhanced heat and mass transport, high mechanical resistivity and elimination of local hot-spots, they are commonly used in gas exhaust abatement from stationary and automotive industries. In this study, the performance of three structured supports with deposited Cu/USY (Ultrasta...

A multiplexed microbioreactor system for parallel operation of multiple microbial fermentation is described. The system includes miniature motors for magnetic stirring of the microbioreactors and optics to monitor the fermentation parameters optical density (OD), dissolved oxygen (DO), and pH, in-situ and in real time. The microbioreactors are fabricated out of poly(methylmethacrylate)(PMMA) an...

We revisit the analysis of a reactor network consisting of two coupled continuous stirred tank reactors (CSTRs) arranged in series (Chem. Eng. J. 59 (1995) 169). The main idea proposed in this earlier work is to improve process conversion by generating periodic behaviour in the first reactor (by appropriate choice of design and operational parameters) which then ‘forces’ the second reactor. The...

This work studies the experimental application of the globally linearizing control ( GLC) method to a batch polymerization reactor. The nonlinear controller is implemented on a microcomputer to start up the reactor and then track a precalculated optimal temperature profile. The reactor temperature is controlled by manipulating two coordinated inputs: power to an electrical heat and cooling wate...

(Received: June 5, 2011; Accepted: July 29, 2011) Abstract: Effect of increase in phenol concentration on performance of anaerobic baffled reactor in terms of chemical oxygen demand (COD), phenol and COD removal efficiency and biogas productions was investigated. Furthermore, stability of the reactor with respect to the chemical shock load was monitored. The anaerobic baffled reactor was contin...

This paper presents a conception of an exponential observer for a class of linear distributed-parameter systems (DPSs), in which the dynamics are partially unknown. The given distributed-parameter observer ensures asymptotic state estimator with exponentially decay error, based on the theory of -semigroups in a Hilbert space. The theoretical observer developed is applied to a chemical tubular r...

We describe a sample-processing micro-reactor that utilizes 60 GHz RF radiation with approximately 730 mW of output power. The instrument design and performance characterization are described and then illustrated with modeling and experimental studies. The micro-reactor's efficiency on affecting hydrolysis of chemical bonds similar to those within large complex molecules was demonstrated: a dis...

Despite their importance in many biological processes, membrane proteins are underrepresented in proteomic analysis because of their poor solubility (hydrophobicity) and often low abundance. We describe a novel approach for the identification of plasma membrane proteins and intracellular microsomal proteins that combines membrane fractionation, a centrifugal proteomic reactor for streamlined pr...

A microchannel reactor specially designed for periodic operation and a process to deposit a catalyst, -alumina, inside the reactor channels were developed. The hydrodynamics of the reactor was characterised. Although the #ow in the microchannels is laminar, a uniform radial concentration pro"le and consequently a narrow residence time distribution were obtained. Depending on the manufacturing m...