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- Aqueous Flooding Methods for Tertiary Oil Recovery
- A method of aqueous flooding of subterranean oil bearing formation for tertiary oil recovery involves injecting through a well into the formation a low alkaline pH aqueous sodium bicarbonate flooding solution. The flooding solution's pH ranges from about 8.25 to 9.25 and comprises from 0.25 to 5 weight percent and preferably about 0.75 to 3.0 weight percent of sodium bicarbonate and includes a petroleum recovery surfactant of 0.05 to 1.0 weight percent and between 1 and 20 weight percent of sodium chloride. After flooding, an oil and water mixture is withdrawn from the well and the oil is separated from the oil and water mixture., Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- Controlled Nucleation of Protein Crystals
- A method for the non-photochemical laser induced nucleation in which short high-intensity laser pulses are used to induce nucleation in supersaturated solutions including protein solutions. The laser induces nucleation only in the area where the beam is focused or passes through, resulting in fewer nuclei than would be achieved by spontaneous nucleation. In addition, the laser reduces nucleation time significantly., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Zero Energy Lab (Semester Unknown) IPRO 337
- 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., Deliverables
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- Magnetic Recorder Head
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Magnetic Recording Head
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation, United States Patent
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- Recent results from the search for the critical point of strongly interacting matter at the CERN SPS
- Recent searches at the CERN SPS for evidence of the critical point of strongly interacting matter are discussed. Experimental results on theroretically expected signatures, such as event-to-event fluctuations of the particle multiplicity and the average transverse momentum as well as intermittency in particle production are presented., Sponsorship: IIT College of Science, High Energy Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory
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- Doing What Others Do: Norms, Science, and Collective Action on Global Warming
- Does rhetoric highlighting social norms or mentioning science in a communication affect individuals’ beliefs about global warming and / or willingness to take action? We draw from framing theory and collective-interest models of action to motivate hypotheses that are tested in two large web-based survey-experiments using convenience samples. Our results show that attitudes about global warming, support for policies that would reduce carbon emissions, and behavioral intentions to take voluntary action are strongly affected by norm-based and science-based interventions. This has implications for information campaigns targeting voluntary efforts to promote lifestyle changes that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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- Assessiong and Improving Interprofessional Education at IIT (semester ?), IPRO 339
- The main goal of IPRO 339 is to continue to improve upon the IPRO program experience by creating and selecting IPRO proposals and also developing teambuilding games, both of which are to adhere to the IPRO Learning Objectives of teamwork, communication, project management, and ethics., Sponsorship: Tom Jacobius, Deliverables for IPRO 339: Assessing and Improving Interprofessional Education at IIT for the Fall 2006 semester
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- Method and Apparatus for Detecting Damage in Turbine Blades by their Magnetic Characteristics
- Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- Harvesting & Beneficial Use of Condensate from Air Conditioning Systems, Summer 2011, IPRO 346: GanttChart34
- In an age where sustainability and “going green” have reached an all time high in both the media, and in politics, new initiatives are being explored more than ever before. Many of these initiatives would require drastic changes both in the way corporations do business, and in the way average citizens live their lives. However, there are initiatives which require very little change in lifestyle and business practice, and potentially represent great savings to those who choose to implement them. Like its predecessors, IPRO 346 aims to raise public awareness of the recycling and reuse of condensate produced by air-conditioning systems. This condensate is a byproduct of all AC units, and is currently sent straight to the sewer. Studies conducted by previous IPROs have not only indicated great potential for this initiative, but have also shown a great deal of public interest. Unfortunately, they have also revealed government policies and city codes which greatly restrict the use of this abundant resource. The aim of IPRO 346 is to work towards a change in these policies through the demonstration of a viable system. Members of the team equipped with a model of the systems we propose will meet with public officials, and others interested in the system, demonstrating its potential in hopes of getting policies in place which would allow such a system to be implemented. The IPRO has two main objectives: the development of a prototype and model for demonstration, and the marketing of the idea through the use of both social networks, and presentations to anyone interested. It is the aim of this team, that the accomplishment of these goals will result in both public demand for AC condensate recycling systems, and public policies which allow their use., Harvesting & Beneficial Use of Condensate from Air Conditioning Systems, Summer 2011, 346
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- Single Well Stimulation for the Recovery of Liquid Hydrocarbons from Subsurface Formations
- Water is vaporized in an annular upper region of a subsurface formation into which borehole extends from the surface. This creates a substantially nonconducting dielectric in such region extending outwardly from the borehole. Such vaporization is preferably achieved by the application of electrical power to an electrode disposed in the borehole. Liquid is produced through the borehole from a lower region of the formation to cool the lower region near the borehole and maintain an electrically conductive path between the formation and the electrode in such lower region through which electrical power is applied to the formation., Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- Impacts of Sulfur Capture Technology in Coal Power Plants (sequence unknown), IPRO 302 - Deliverables
- The IPRO team was investigating the net impact of sulfur capture technologies used in current and next generation power plants in the United States. It planned to use this knowledge to determine which sulfur capture technologies produce the greatest benefit for industry and society and to find the marketability of the sulfur byproducts created in these power plants., Sponsorship: Sargent & Lundy, LLC, These are the deliverables for IPRO 302: Impacts of Sulfur Capture Technology in Coal Power Plants from the Fall 2009 semester.
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- Optimal Placement of Wavelength Converters in Trees and Trees of Rings
- A method for determining an optimal placement of wavelength converters in an optical network while optimizing bandwidth use in which a skeleton undirected graph of a WDM network is generated, a contraction graph is constructed from the skeleton undirected graph, and a minimum vertex cover of the contraction graph is determined., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Sports Technology for the Fans (Fall 2003) IPRO 355: Sports Technology for the Fans IPRO355 Fall2003 Final Presentation
- Develop an interactive, handheld wireless device that allows a spectator to view various camera angles and replays of players and areas on a field. Enhances a sports fan’s experience by making it more interactive and personalized, brings more people to the stadium thus increasing ticket sales and revenue for stadium owner., Sponsorship: NA, Project Plan for IPRO 355: Sports Technology for the Fans for Fall 2003 semester
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- Method of Repelling Insects with Amino-Aldehydes
- Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- Resonant interaction of a linear array of supersonic rectangular jets: An experimental study
- This paper examines a supersonic multi-jet interaction problem that we believe is likely to be important for mixing enhancement and noise reduction in supersonic mixer-ejector nozzles. We demonstrate that it is possible to synchronize the screech instability of four rectangular jets by precisely adjusting the inter-jet spacing. Our experimental data agree with a theory that assumes that the phase-locking of adjacent jets occurs through a coupling at the jet lip. Although synchronization does not change the frequency of the screech tone, its amplitude is augmented. The synchronized multi-jets exhibit higher spreading than the unsynchronized jets, with the single jet spreading the least. We compare the near-field noise of the four jets with synchronized screech to the noise of the sum of four jets operated individually. Our noise measurements reveal that the more rapid mixing of the synchronized multi-jets causes the peak jet noise source to move upstream and to radiate noise at larger angles to the flow direction. Based on our results, we have grounds to believe that screech synchronization is advantageous for noise reduction internal to a mixer-ejector nozzle, since the noise can now be suppressed by a shorter acoustically lined ejector.
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- Silver Nanorods As Indicators of Thermal History (Semester Unknown) IPRO 348
- Silver Nanorods As Indicators of Thermal History, heat pum, NaOH,, Deliverables
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- Magnetic Recording Device
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation, United States Patent
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- Laboratory Notebook 9
- This laboratory notebook relates to the Combat Ration Network (Coranet) project which is connected with High Pressure Processing (HPP) on O2 permeation with Tatiana Koutchma as the Principle Investigator.
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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