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- Graphical Input System
- Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- An Illinois Wind Generator System in Chicago (Spring 2003) IPRO 307
- The goals of this project are to analyze the wind resources in Chicago, verify the efficiency of a TurbodynamX wind turbine design, develop a business plan for TurbodynamX, Inc., and research feasibility for a wind farm at Iroquois Landing. These objectives were accomplished through the following tasks: Collect and analyze wind data from a monitoring system located at 87th Street and Lake Michigan, Collect and analyze wind and power data from a TurbodynamX prototype wind turbine once installed, Perform market research for Illinois and Wisconsin, Analyze market data and generate a marketing plan Collect information on and around Iroquois Landing, Sponsorship: TurbodynamX, Project Plan for IPRO 307: An Illinois Wind Generator System in Chicago for the Spring 2003 semester
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- Measurement of the strong coupling αS from the 3-jet rate in e⁺ e⁻ annihilation using JADE data
- We describe a measurement of the strong coupling αS(MZ₀ ) from the 3-jet rate in hadronic final states of e⁺ e⁻ annihilation recorded with the JADE detector at centre-of-mass energies of 14 to 44 GeV. The jets are reconstructed with the Durham jet clustering algorithm. The JADE 3-jet rate data are compared with QCD predictions in NNLO combined with resummed calculations. We find good agreement between the data and the prediction and extract αS(MZ₀ ) = 0.1199±0.0010(stat.)±0.0021(exp.)±0.0054(had.)±0.0007(theo.) ., Sponsorship: IIT College of Science, High Energy Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory
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- THE BIFURCATION BEHAVIOR OF AN AUTOTHERMAL PACKED-BED TUBULAR REACTOR
- The analysis of a chemical reactor by numerical bifurcation techniques can completely define the multiplicity and stability of its equilibrium states and can give insights into the reactor's parametric sensitivity and dynamical behavior in the neighborhood of the chosen operating points. In this paper, we will present some of the numerical bifurcation techniques used and developed in analyzing an autothermal packed bed tubular reactor. The bifurcation behavior found will be cataloged over the range of relevant reactant inlet conditions, and an explanation for the isolated solution branches characteristic of this reactor will also be presented., Endnote format citation
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- DISTURBANCE GROWTH TRIGGERED BY STEADY HEATING OF A JETS NOZZLE EXIT BOUNDARY-LAYER
- Experiments were conducted to investigate how heating only the nozzle exit boundary layer of an axisymmetric jet, with an unheated potential core, affects disturbance growth in the initial shear layer. The exit boundary layer had a minimum density ratio of 0.74, was laminar, and had a constant momentum thickness (theta) for all levels of nozzle heating used in this study. The fluctuating velocity (u') and temperature (t') in the exit boundary layer increased monotonically with increasing nozzle temperature. Low-amplitude acoustic excitation produced a more rapid growth of coherent velocity fluctuations for the heated case than for the unheated. (C) 1995 American Institute of Physics.
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- Low Noise Record Medium and Method for Producing the Same
- Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- Automatic Insulin Pumps Using Recursive Multivariable Models and Adaptive Control Algorithms
- A method and device for monitoring or treating patient glucose levels. The device includes a glucose sensor for measuring a glucose level of a patient, a physiological status monitoring system for measuring at least one physical or metabolic variable of the patient, and an automatic controller in communication with the glucose sensor and the physiological status monitoring system. The controller includes a prediction module for automatically predicting a future glucose level using data measured by the glucose sensor and the physiological sensor., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Improving the IPRO Processes (semester?), IPRO 338
- Most IPRO teams experience a significant delay in start up, spending about four weeks trying to figure out exactly what has previously been done, what problem they are trying to solve, and what the team must accomplish to solve the problem. This delay can be attributed to several reasons including high student turnover—85% of students in an IPRO are new each semester and there is a lack of delivering process knowledge between semesters., Deliverables for IPRO 338: Improving the IPRO Process for the Summer 2005 semester
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- Particle Sensing Apparatus, Method and Flow Direction Collar Therefor
- A flow direction collar is positionable in an electrical zone sensing apparatus with an elongated bore therein disposed in substantial alignment with an aperture through which particles carried by a liquid pass while being electrically sensed. The collar is positioned immediately upstream of the aperture to cause a directional flow of the liquid along a path substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis for the aperture. The flow through the collar directs the particles to flow along paths substantially parallel to the aperture axis thereby reducing the turbulence about the particle created by abrupt changes in velocity. Preferably, the collar includes a housing for telescoping on the bottom of a detection tube., Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- Method and Apparatus for In Situ Decontamination of a Site Contaminated with a Volatile Material
- A method for removing a contaminant from a treatment region of a contaminated region of a site in the earth having water therein and being contaminated with the contaminant includes heating the earth by establishing an electric field through the treatment region. The electric field gives rise to an electric conduction or displacement current through the treatment region. The electric current electrically heats at least a portion of the treatment region to a temperature below the boiling point of water to evaporate the water. A vacuum is drawn in a nether region of the site to collect water vapor evolved from the water and contaminant vapor evolved from the contaminant by movement of air from the surface of the earth, while the water vapor strips the contaminant from the earth. The contaminant vapor is disposed of in an innocuous manner., Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- alcometer
- The purpose of IPRO 351 is to research and develop a device that will be a non- invasive blood alcohol concentration (BAC) meter. Our mission is to provide a safe and accurate BAC device that will help reduce the amount of people who drive while impaired. IPRO 351 has a vision of having a non-invasive biometric blood alcohol ignition interlock device (BBAIID) that can be installed on any vehicle., Deliverables
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- Automatic Insulin Pumps Using Recursive Multivariable Models and Adaptive Control Algorithms
- A method and device for monitoring or treating patient glucose levels. The device includes a glucose sensor for measuring a glucose level of a patient, a physiological status monitoring system for measuring at least one physical or metabolic variable of the patient, and an automatic controller in communication with the glucose sensor and the physiological status monitoring system. The controller includes a prediction module for automatically predicting a future glucose level using data measured by the glucose sensor and the physiological sensor., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- A morphologically structured model for penicillin production
- A morphologically structured model is proposed to describe penicillin production in fed-batch cultivations. The model accounts for the effects of dissolved oxygen on cell growth and penicillin production and variations in volume fractions of abiotic and biotic phases due to biomass formation. Penicillin production is considered to occur in the subapical hyphal cell compartment and to be affected by availability of glucose and oxygen. As it stands, the model provides a wide range of applicability in terms of operating conditions. The model has been tested for various conditions and has given satisfactory results. A series of glucose feeding profiles have been considered to demonstrate the capabilities of the proposed model. It is concluded that the model may be valuable for the interpretation of experimental data collected specifically for metabolic flux analysis during fed-batch cultivation because the elements of measured specific production rates are determined from measurements of the concentrations of the components and their mass balances. The proposed model may be further used for developing control strategies and model order reduction algorithms, Endnote format citation for DOI:10.1002/bit.10115
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- Undergraduate Research on Interprofessional Education (semester?), IPRO 301
- IPRO301, Undergraduate Research on Interprofessional Education, is an IPRO designed to improve the existing IPRO experience for IIT undergraduates. The four main areas of ongoing research include expanding the current learning objectives, their bodies of knowledge and question banks, assessing the influence of groupware such as iGROUPS on team functioning, increasing rater reliability during assessment periods, such as judging scores on IPRO day, as well as assessing and increasing students’ ethical awareness., Deliverables for IPRO 301: Undergraduate Research on Interprofessional Education for the Fall 2007 semester
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- Advanced Systems Applied to Student Loan Rehabilitation Processes (semester?), IPRO 313
- IPRO 313 Advanced Systems Applied to Student Loan Rehabilitation Processes worked with the IPRO sponsor Financial Management Systems Company (FMS) to to design and build a student loan rehabilitation tool. FMS is primarily a collections company that is growing rapidly. Each year FMS receives accounts from private and government agencies and must collect from those accounts in order to receive a commission, their payment. The IPRO team had met with the sponsor many times over the course of the semester to gather requirements, map and layout FMS’ process model and in general have a better understanding of what FMS does. The team needed a better understanding of the problem and what the problem meant for FMS. FMS is in need of a tool that is able to track accounts over the course of their loan rehabilitation program quickly and effectively allow the tracking of trends over a period of time., Sponsorship: Financial Management Systems, Deliverables for IPRO 313: Advanced Systems Applied to Student Loan Rehabilitation Processes for the Spring 2006 semester
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- Alloys as Cathode Materials for Lithium-Air Batteries
- A Li-air battery is provided. The battery contains: an anode compartment containing lithium or a lithium alloy as active metal; a cathode compartment supplied with an O2 source; and a lithium ion conductive membrane separating the anode compartment from the cathode compartment. The cathode compartment contains an air electrode with a skin alloy platinum or palladium catalyst., Sponsorship: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Laboratory Notebook 51
- This laboratory notebook relates to the "Furans in food; Mechanism in food" project which is under the Chemical Constituents and Allergens Platform with Peter Varelis as the Principle Investigator.
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- Process for Chromium Recovery from Aqueous Solutions
- A process for recovery of chromium in an aqueous solution comprising converting the chromium to chromyl chloride, separating the chromyl chloride from the aqueous solution, either as a heavy underlayer, or by extraction into a solvent, purifying the chromyl chloride, hydrolyzing the purified chromyl chloride to form a solution, and drying or precipitating the solution to form chromium, either as chromic acid or a chromate salt., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent