Capacitive desalination is a promising desalination technique. A novel fl ow-through electrode architecture utilizes a newly developed porous carbon material to achieve dramatic improvements in desalination rate and salt concentration reduction. Image depicts a capacitive desalination cell with a fl ow-through architecture. Capacitive desalination (CD) is a promising desalination technique as, ...

A rate-based simulation method is developed with the correlation for mass transfer rate, which was obtained in our experiments of the homogeneous and heterogeneous ternary distillation with a sieve tray column. The simulation method is applied to the process of ethanol dehydration with benzene, which consists of a dehydrationand an entrainer recovery column. In the simulation study, the effect ...

An artificial neural network study of gas drying by adsorption in fixed bed of composite materials is presented in this paper. The experimental investigations were carried out at two values of relative humidity and three values of air flow rate respectively. The experimental data were employed in the design of the feed forward neural networks for modeling the evolution in time of some adsorptio...

An artificial neural network (ANN) modeling of gas drying by adsorption in fixed bed of composite materials is presented in this paper. The experimental investigations were carried out at two values of relative humidity and three values of air flow rate respectively. The experimental data were employed in the design of the feed forward neural networks for modeling the evolution in time of some ...

This article presents an investigation of the potential of spray and spouted bed technology for the production of dried extracts of Rosmarinus officinalis Linné, popularly known as rosemary. The extractive solution was characterized by loss on drying, extractable matter and total phenolic and flavonoid compounds (chemical markers). The product was characterized by determination of loss on dryin...

Titanium alloy (Ti-6Al-4V) can be economically machined with high-pressure coolant (HPC) supply. In this study, an artificial neural network (ANN) model was developed for the analysis and prediction of tool wear parameters when machining Ti-6Al-4V alloy with conventional flow and high-pressure coolant flow, up to 203 bar. Machining trials were conducted at different cutting conditions for both ...

This contribution proposes a Mixed Integer Non Linear Programming (MINLP) formulation for optimal design of a catalytic distillation column based on a generic nonequilibrium model (NEQ). The solution strategy for the global optimization combines Simulated Annealing (SA) and Sequential Quadratic Programming (SQP) in order to minimize the objective function. The solution of this MINLP problem yie...

BACKGROUND IUGR infants are thought to have impaired gut function after birth, which may result in intestinal disturbances, ranging from temporary intolerance to the enteral feeding to full-blown NEC.In literature there is no consensus regarding the impact of enteral feeding on intestinal blood flow and hence regarding the best regimen and the best rate of delivering the enteral nutrition. ME...