In present work, numerical analysis of three novel PEM fuel cells with tubular geometry was conducted. Tree different cross section was considered for PEM, namely: circular, square and triangular. Similar boundary and operational conditions is applied for all the geometries. At first, the obtained polarization curve for basic architecture fuel cells was validated with experimental data and then...

The fatigue life of tubular joints commonly found in offshore industry is not only dependent on the value of Hot-spot stress (HSS), but is also significantly influenced by the through-the-thickness stress distribution characterized by the degree of bending (DoB). The determination of DoB values in a tubular joint is essential for improving the accuracy of fatigue life estimation using the stres...

The development of an indirect measurement model for electro thermal furnace and its implementation in a reconfigurable architecture are the main issues of this article. The proposed measurement system is based on the system model, the principle of conservation of energy and the laws of thermodynamics are applied to build a model of the thermal system where the Kalman theory is applied for filt...

Power quality determines the fitness of electrical power to consumer devices. .Voltage flicker and harmonics are the types of power quality problems that are introduced to the power system as a result of arc furnace operation. Utilities are concerned about these effects and try to take precautions to minimize them. Therefore an accurate model of an arc furnace is needed to test .In this paper a...

A temperature control method is developed for reheating steel slabs in an industrial furnace. The work was motivated by the need for mathematically simple furnace control schemes that feature accuracy, robustness, applicability to online control, and capabilities of non-steady-state operating scenarios, where the temperature goals and other properties of the slabs may vary considerably. The pro...

The Braze Feedback Loop (BFL) is a large, multiprogram project with the goal of supporting concurrmt engineering during product development. This system is primarily intended for use during detailed product and process design, where the initial design of both the product and process have been completed and the lust hardware is being made with the wocess as designed. As an informational feedback...

In steel industry, without consideration of blast furnaces, reheating furnaces are classified the biggest energy consumers. The research of efficient control algorithms permitting less energy consumption has become an important issue for those furnaces. In this paper, a nonlinear Model Predictive Controller (MPC) is designed for a steel slab walking-beam reheating furnace. A numerical nonlinear...

In this paper a data mining approach for variable selection and knowledge extraction from datasets is presented. The approach is based on unguided symbolic regression (every variable present in the dataset is treated as the target variable in multiple regression runs) and a novel variable relevance metric for genetic programming. The relevance of each input variable is calculated and a model ap...

DETERMINATION OF Cd AND Pb IN FUEL ETHANOL BY FILTER FURNACE ELECTROTHERMAL ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY. A method was developed for quantification of Cd and Pb in ethanol fuel by filter furnace atomic absorption spectrometry. Filter furnace was used to eliminate the need for chemical modification, to stabilize volatile analytes and to allow the application of short pyrolysis step. The determ...