The Clean Coal Technology Demonstration Program (CCTDP) is a government and industry co-funded effort to demonstrate a new generation of innovative coal utilization processes in a series of facilities built across the country. These projects are carried out on a commercial scale to prove technical feasibility and provide information for future applications. The goal of the CCTDP is to furnish t...

The challenge of generating a federation driven by operational requirements "on the fly" has been formulated in various programs and proposals, but so far, no satisfying solution has been accomplished. The use of open source doesn't satisfy the industry, which has a vital interest to keep their core solutions in-house (protection of intellectual property). The use of interface-driven solutions ...

In the last decade, a rising number of firms have adopted international environmental management and product standards such as the international ISO 14001 management standard or organic certification. While emerging research analyzes the impact of these practices on environmental performance or financial performance, there is, to our knowledge no empirical research on the effect of these standa...

in many crops, incorrect management of nitrogen and water is one of the most important factors in the resources productivity such as water and nitrogen. in order to evaluate the effects of different nitrogen levels (zero, 50, 100 and 150 kg ha-1) and irrigation application rates (100, 75 and 50% of water requirement per species) on corn, sesame and sugar beet, three separate experiments was con...

this paper undertakes the synthesis of a logic-based switching h2/h∞ state-feedback controller for continuous-time lti singular perturbation systems. our solution achieves a minimum bound on the h2 performance level, while also satisfying the h∞ performance requirements. the proposed hybrid control scheme is based on a fuzzy supervisor managing the combination of two controllers. a convex lmi-b...