This paper summarizes the design and performances of recent breeding blanket concepts and identifies the key material issues associated with them. An assessment of different classes of concepts is carried out by balancing out the potential performance of the concepts with the risk associated with the required material development. Finally, an example strategy for blanket development is discusse...

Anaerobic Treatment of Whey Permeate Using Upflow Sludge Blanket Bioreactors

Since two decades, wavelet packet decompositions have been shown effective as a generic approach to feature extraction from time series and images for the prediction of a target variable. Redundancies exist between the wavelet coefficients and between the energy features that are derived from the wavelet coefficients. We assess these redundancies in wavelet packet decompositions by means of the...

The increasing complexity of the models, the abundant electronic literature and the relative scarcity of the data make it necessary to use the Bayesian approach to complex queries based on prior knowledge and structural models. In the paper we discuss the probabilistic semantics of such statements, the computational challenges and possible solutions of Bayesian inference over complex Bayesian n...

In this paper, we unify causal and non-causal feature selection methods based on the Bayesian network framework. We first show that the objectives of causal and non-causal feature selection methods are equal and are to find the Markov blanket of a class attribute, the theoretically optimal feature set for classification. We demonstrate that causal and non-causal feature selection take different...

Scoping nucleonic studies have been performed for a small imploding-liner fusion reactor concept. Tritium breeding ratio and time-dependent energy deposition rates were the primary parameters of ‘~~ --interestin the study. Alloys of Pb and LiPb were E E=c6”nsideredfor the liqu.i.d liner (blanket),and tri.t=Z63um breeding was found to be more than adequate r ~=s ‘-with blankets less than 1 m thi...

The use of lithium ceramic pebble beds has been considered in many blanket designs for the fusion reactors. Lithium ceramics have received a significant interest as tritium breeders for the fusion blankets during the last three decades. The thermal performance of the lithium ceramic pebble beds plays a key role for the fusion blankets. In order to study the heat transfer in the blanket, the eff...

This paper is a report of the performance of a new design of anaerobic bioreactor called the induced-blanket reactor or IBR. The IBR appears to treat high-solids organic matter (manure) effectively in a relatively short time without plugging. A 28 m (7500 gal), heated IBR has been in operation at the Caine Dairy, Utah State University’s dairy farm, since summer 2000. The bioreactor, an upflow-s...

In the paper we discuss applications of the Bayesian approach to new challenges in relevance analysis. Earlier, we formulated a Bayesian approach to Feature Subset Selection using Bayesian networks to jointly estimate the posteriors of Markov Blanket Memberships (MBMs), Markov Blanket Sets (MBSs), and Markov Blanket Graphs (MBGs) for a given target variable. These results of the Bayesian Multil...

Earlier, we formulated a Bayesian approach to Feature Subset Selection using Bayesian networks, which jointly estimate the posteriors of Markov Blanket Memberships (MBMs), Markov Blanket Sets (MBSs), and Markov Blanket Subgraphs (MBGs) for a given target variable. These results of the Bayesian Multilevel Analysis of relevance (BMLA) correspond respectively to a model-based pairwise relevance, r...