Harmonic resonances may damage equipments and interrupt electric power customers services. Shutdowns may affect seriously harmonic resonant frequencies and may initiate new resonances in distribution power systems. This paper proposes various techniques for damping harmonic resonances in power systems[1-4]. A series reactor should be connected in series with the shunt power factor correction ca...

Corn is one of the richest sources for the production of ethanol. This project was carried out to study the optimum conditions for the production of ethanol. The parameters like, pH, Substrate concentration and particle size were optimized using response surface method in the MINITAB 16 software. Both solid and submerged fermentation were studied. Submerged fermentation turned out to be favoura...

In this paper we present an efficient branch-following procedure that can be used not only to compute branches of periodic solutions of periodically forced dynamical systems but also to determine the stability of the periodic solutions. The procedure combines Broyden’s method with a subspace iteration method to determine the dominant eigenvalues. The method has connections with the hybrid Newto...

In this paper, three different fertilizer draw solutions were tested in a novel forward osmosis-microfiltration aerobic membrane bioreactor (MF-FDFO-MBR) hybrid system and their performance were evaluated in terms of water flux and reverse salt diffusion. Results were also compared with a standard solution. Results showed that ammonium sulfate is the most suitable fertilizer for this hybrid sys...

Stochastic Petri nets have been extended for the modelling of hybrid systems by adding uid places, that are lled and emptied continuously at random (normally distributed) rate. The ow rates as well as the discrete transition rates may depend on the content a uid place holds. The dynamics of the model are described by second order partial diierential equations, that can be solved by using an imp...

In nutrient-sensitive estuaries, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are required to implement more advanced treatment methods in order to meet increasingly stringent effluent guidelines for organic matter and nutrients. To comply with current and anticipated water quality regulations and to reduce the volume of produced sludge, we have successfully developed a vertical membrane bioreactor (VMB...

A robust hybrid control strategy for a broad class of hybrid nonlinear processes with actuator constraints and uncertain dynamics is proposed. These ®ariable-structure processes comprise a finite family of constrained uncertain continuous nonlinear dynamical subsystems, together with discrete e®ents that trigger the transition between the continuous subsystems. The proposed control strategy is ...

This paper develops the time-delay approach to networked control systems in the presence of multiple sensor nodes, communication constraints, variable transmission delays, and sampling intervals. Due to communication constraints, only one sensor node is allowed to transmit its packet at a time. The scheduling of sensor information toward the controller is ruled by a weighted try-once-discard or...

Dynamic optimization problems can be numerically solved by direct, indirect and HamiltonJacobi-Bellman methods. In this paper, the differential-algebraic approach is incorporated into a hybrid method, extending the concepts of structural and differential indexes, consistent initialization analysis, index reduction and dynamic degrees of freedom to the optimal control problem. The resultant diff...

We present a summary of investigations on the use of proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) techniques as a reduced basis method for computation of feedback controls and compensators in a high pressure chemical vapor deposition (HPCVD) reactor that includes multiple species and controls, gas phase reactions, and time dependent tracking signals that are consistent with pulsed vapor reactant input...