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: Magazine Type Magnetic Recording Apparatus; Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

: Enhanced Oil Recovery Using Flash-Driven Steamflooding; The present invention is directed to a novel steamflooding process which utilizes three specific stages of steam injection for enhanced oil recovery. The three stages are as follows: As steam is being injected into an oil-bearing reservoir through an injection well, the production rate of a production well located at a distance from the injection well is gradually restricted to a point that the pressure in the reservoir increases at a predetermined rate to a predetermined maximum value. After the maximum pressure has been reached, the production rate is increased to a value such that the predetermined maximum pressure value is maintained. Production at maximum pressure is continued for a length of time that will be unique for each individual reservoir. In some cases, this step of the steamflooding process of the invention may be omitted entirely. In the third stage of the steamflooding process of the invention, production rates at the producing well are increased gradually to allow the pressure to decrease down from the maximum pressure value to the original pressure value at the producing well. The rate of pressure reduction will be unique for each reservoir. After completing stage three, the three stages can be repeated or the steamflood may be terminated as considered desirable., Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent

: Hybrid Energy Storage System; A hybrid energy storage system for supplying power to an application with a fluctuating load profile, such as, for example, electric vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, wind energy harvesting equipment and solar energy harvesting equipment. The hybrid energy storage system includes an ultra-capacitor electrically connected to a DC bus and a power source electrically connected to the DC bus via a controlled switch. The hybrid energy storage system further including a DC/DC converter connected between the power source and the ultra-capacitor, the DC/DC converter boosting a voltage of the power source to charge the ultra-capacitor. The DC/DC converter is preferably controlled to maintain a voltage of the ultra-capacitor at a higher value than the voltage of the power source., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

: Zero Energy Lab AND Designing the IPRO Team Collaboratory Space (sequence unknown), IPRO 337 - Project Plan: IPRO 337 Project Plan F09; The goal of this IPRO is to continue the research and application of previous research into ‘Zero Energy’ techniques, while simultaneously evaluating an old CTA building on the IIT campus for its feasibility both as a collaboratory IPRO space and as a ‘Zero Energy’ building., Project plan for IPRO 337: Zero Energy Lab AND Designing the IPRO Team Collaboratory Space for the fall 2009 semester.

: The Effects of Green Technology on Electrical Contractors (Semester Unknown) IPRO 338; The purpose of this IPRO is to develop a template for a website to host a user-friendly online database of green technologies information for the Electrical Contractors’ Association of the City of Chicago. This website will involve providing data on green electrical products with cut sheets, pricing and distributor information, return on investment projections, and LEED certification facts. The use of this website should help create a well informed transition from industry standard electrical products, to green alternative products, as well as cut down on miscommunication between architects and electrical contractors., Sponsorship: Electrical Contractors’ Association of the City of Chicago, Deliverables

: Refuable Electric Car (Semester Unknown) IPRO 313; To make significant strides toward creating a working prototype of a refuelable electric vehicle using a zinc air battery and to raise public awareness of the potential of this technology., Deliverables

: Hafnium Base Alloys; Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent

: Flow characteristics of a rectangular multielement supersonic mixer-ejector; This study describes a technique that combines the benefits of focusing schlieren and phase conditioning. Focusing schlieren blurs and drops contrast of non-critical features whereas phase conditioning emphasizes periodic flow features, and their combination produces unique results. The supersonic jets that we studied produced an intense tone referred to as screech. The measured screech tone signal was used as input to the phase conditioning circuit that adjusted the strobing light source to the vertical synchronization pulse of a CCD camera. The sharp video images obtained by this technique could either be frozen or continuously swept through one period of screech to acquire a slow motion video record of the jet unsteadiness. Two cases were visualized in this study: first, an underexpanded jet from a convergent rectangular nozzle at various fully expanded Mach numbers. Second, a supersonic jet emerging from a convergent-divergent rectangular nozzle at a design Mach number of 1.4, artificially excited by impingement tones. The results of this study illustrate the usefulness of this system in visualizing oscillatory flows.

: Research Web (Semester Unknown) IPRO 321; IPRO 321 has the task of facilitating the performance of undergraduate research in the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) by creating a website called ResearchWeb that integrates and connects undergraduates with colleagues, faculty members and resources., Deliverables

: Hair Cutting Apparatus with Rotary Hair Cutters Having Overlapping Paths of Movement; Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent

: Method and Apparatus for Rendering Medical Materials Safe; Infectious medical materials are rendered harmless by heating heterogeneous medical materials having wet and dry portions with a radio-frequency electric field. The medical materials may be comminuted prior to heating. The medical materials are exposed to the radio-frequency electric field in order to heat the medical materials. The medical materials may include sorted medical or veterinary waste which after heat treatment may be recycled., Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent

: Rugate Optical Filter Systems; A heterodyning interferometric monitoring apparatus for simultaneously measuring in situ and in real time the optical and physical thicknesses of a sample during a deposition process. A linearly polarized monochromatic light beam is passed through a frequency shifter which produces therefrom a dichromatic light beam having two orthogonally linearly polarized components at respective different frequencies. The dichromatic beam is applied to a modified Twyman-Greene interferometer, from which two heterodyne light beams emerge. The first of the two light beams is a combination of light at the first frequency reflected from the sample and light at the second frequency reflected from a reference plate, from which the physical thickness of the sample can be determined using a heterodyne signal detector. The second light beam is a combination of light at the first frequency passed through the sample and light at the second frequency passed through the reference plate, from which the optical thickness of the sample can be determined using another heterodyne signal detector., Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent

: Continiuous improvements of the Global Supply Chain for a Plumbing Systems Manufacturer (Semester Unknown) IPRO 306; The IPRO 306 team for the Spring '09 semester is sponsored by Sloan Valve Company, a long-standing family owned company, to assist in supply chain operations. Sloan Valve wishes to both streamline it's processes and increase employee training and understanding of quality control systems. To this end, the IPRO team will assist them on these two projects., Sponsorship: SLOAN Valve Company, Deliverables

: Bulk Demagnetizer System and Method; Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent

: Fast Digital Comparison Circuit for Fuzzy Logic Operations; A fast digital logic circuit for comparing two binary numbers and outputting the greater of the two is disclosed., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

: Environmental Contamination Detection and Analyzing System and Method; A method and system for detecting environmental contamination, such as subsurface contamination, include a test probe located in a medium. The probe is adapted to collect a fluid sample from the medium for determining the presence of a contaminant having a vapor pressure. Pneumatic communication lines extend from a test point and connect to the probe. A detector/analyzer is connected to the distal end of the communication lines of the probe. While connected, a fluid sample is taken into the probe and transported in the pneumatic communication lines by a carrier gas to the detector/analyzer for analysis of the contaminant. The general principle is applicable for contaminant detection and/or analysis in soil masses, liquid masses and gases., Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent

: Intelligent process monitoring by interfacing knowledge-based systems and multivariate statistical monitoring; An intelligent process monitoring and fault diagnosis environment has been developed by interfacing multivariate statistical process monitoring (MSPM) techniques and knowledge-based systems (KBS) for monitoring multivariable process operation. The real-time KBS developed in G2 is used with multivariate SPM methods based on canonical variate stare space (CVSS) process models. Fault detection is based on T-2 charts of state variables. Contribution plots in G2 are used for determining the process variables that have contributed to the out-of-control signal indicated by large T-2 values, and G2 Diagnostic Assistant (GDA) is used to diagnose the source causes of abnormal process behavior. The MSPM modules developed in Matlab are linked with G2. This intelligent monitoring and diagnosis system can be used to monitor multivariable processes with autocorrelated, cross-correlated, and collinear data. The structure of the integrated system is described and its performance is illustrated by simulation studies., Endnote format citation

: Prototyping and User Testing of an On-Line Information Tool for Public Participation in Large-Scale Infrastructure Projects, Summer 2011, IPRO 320: Ethics Statement; Leveraging the existing technologies currently available in the marketplace enables the IPRO to create a team-networking solution that reaches more stakeholders and provides a richer, more enhanced venue for project collaboration. The solution devised by the IPRO must be easily accessible and interactive allowing for data capture, storage, retrieval and viewing amongst an array of end-user devices. To provide a successful solution, this IPRO will storyboard the concept over the summer, prototype the concept during the fall and execute usability studies the prototype during the spring semesters., Sponsorship: Parsons Brinkerhoff, Prototyping and User Testing of an On-Line Information Tool for Public Participation in Large-Scale Infrastructure Projects, Summer 2011, IPRO 320

: Heat Treat (semester?), IPRO 304; IPRO 304 is the continuation of IPRO 330 (Spring 2006) and was created to develop an Information Tool for the Metals Industry with a focus on Heat Treatment, in this case. The development of an Information Tool for Heat Treatment requires across-disciplinary knowledge of the fundamentals of heat treatment process, as well as an in-depth understanding of and the practical skills required for the development of computer software, Deliverables for IPRO 304: Heat Treat for the Fall 2007 semester.

: Technical and Market Integration of Hydroelectric Energy (semester?), IPRO 343; The objectives are to design a small hydroelectric power plant on an existing low head dam on Fox River and investigate and evaluate the technical and market integration issues of the new hydro-electrical energy into the current power grid., Sponsorship: Alexander Tseng, Deliverables for IPRO 343: Technical and Market Integration of Hydroelectric Energy for the Fall 2006 semester

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