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- High Throughput Non-Photochemical Laser Induced Nucleation
- A method for the high-throughput non-photochemical laser induced nucleation of crystals from aged supersaturated solutions in which short high-intensity laser pulses are used to induce nucleation in an array or sequence aged supersaturated solutions. The laser reduces nucleation time and 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. The high-throughput methodologies allow more crystals to grow in a given amount of time., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, 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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- Switched Reluctance Machine
- A switched reluctance machine (SRM) having a rotor and stator pole numerical relationship of S number of stator poles and R number of rotor poles, where R=2S-2, when S is greater than 4; provides improved power density, torque production, torque ripple, and acoustic noise, and is readily adaptable to existing hardware such as known controllers and the like., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Non-Invasive Blood Glucose Monitoring (semester?), IPRO 331
- The overall objective of this IPRO project is to help in the development of a non-invasive blood glucose monitoring technique for patients afflicted with diabetes., Deliverables for IPRO 331: Non-Invasive Blood Glucose Monitoring for the Fall 2004 semester
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- Magnetic Transducer Head
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Semantic News Aggregation Software (Semester Unknown) IPRO 327
- Design and build software to provide Web searchable news data and related semantic information from current events. This information will be extracted from online news sources, processed by our software to add semantic information, and then organized and presented in a logical manner through a Web interface., Deliverables
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- Preparation of 1-Benzoyloxydipropyl Sulfide
- Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- Magnetic Recording System and Method
- Magnetic recording circuitry supplies to the recording head in addition to the signal to be recorded a train of constant amplitude pulses of extremely short duration and of low duty cycle; for example, pedestal pulses of polarity corresponding to the signal are superimposed on the signal for higher positive and negative signal amplitudes, while alternating polarity pulses are supplied during periods of low signal amplitude, such that the transducer system exhibits a substantially linear transfer function., Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- Medical Informatics: Scoping Health Care Information Technology (semester?), IPRO 372
- This IPRO team will explore the current state of software support for healthcare and will culminate efforts to provide conclusions regarding the state of medical informatics. This team will also develop display concepts that demonstrate the principles of effective ecological display design for healthcare., Deliverables for IPRO 372: Medical Informatics: Scoping Health Care Information Technology for the Fall 2004 semester
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- Magnetic Recorder with Pad to Damp High Frequency Vibration of Tape
- Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent
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- A Business Plan for the Production of Crumb Rubber by Solid State Shear Extrusion (Spring 2003) EnPRO 351
- Hamid Arastoopour in Chemical Engineering has developed and patented technology for processing scrap rubber from tires in an extruder. This technology breaks the chemical bonds that result in the rubber being vulcanized. This allows the rubber to be reformed into new shapes and re-vulcanized resulting a true recycling of the material into new rubber parts. Most other rubber recycling technology only grinds up the rubber. These technologies allow the rubber to be used as a filler but does not allow true recycling of the rubber. There is a tremendous supply of used tires are a significant environmental problem as well as waste of a potential resource. This technology could provide the means to effectively use this waste. This EnPRO will look at the issues and opportunities associated with commercializing this exciting technology. This will include an assessment of additional technology development that is needed, an analysis of the cost of implementing this technology, sources of scrap rubber, as well as the market for the recycled rubber. It will also look at possible ways to fund the development. The EnPRO will be supported by a business representative in addition to technical faculty., Sponsorship: IIT Collaboratory for Interprofessional Studies under the Auspices of the Ed Kaplan Entrepreneurial Program, Project Plan for EnPRO 351: A Business Plan for the Production of Crumb Rubber by Solid State Shear Extrusion for the Spring 2003 semester
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- Electrical Musical Instrument
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Using Controlled Unsteady Fluid Mass Addition to Enhance Jet Mixing
- A rectangular jet was excited by controlled unsteady fluid mass addition using two miniature fluidic jets placed on either side of its narrow dimension. The subharmonic of the primary's preferred jet column frequency [St(D-e) = fD(e)/U-J = 0.15] was forced in the antisymmetric mode because such forcing persists for longer downstream distances than the fundamental. Details of the phase-averaged flowfield, velocity gradient terms, velocity spectra, and the mean and fluctuating flowfields were documented. The fluidically excited mode grew and persisted in the flow beyond the potential core region. Unsteady fluid mass addition of 12% (4% momentum addition) per fluidic jet resulted in a 35% reduction of the potential core length and about a 60% increase in the normalized mass flux (percentages are with reference to the primary unforced jet). On the basis of the results, it appears that fluidic devices have the potential for use in shear flow control applications.
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- Method for Improving Local Descriptors in Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
- A method for improving searches in a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing system that includes a plurality of server computers. A content file, identified by a descriptor including at least one metadata term and a mathematical identifier that uniquely identifies the content file in one of the server computers, is selected for searching. Other server computers are searched to find one or more matching content files; one that has a descriptor with a mathematical identifier matching the mathematical identifier of the first content file. The descriptors of the matching content files are returned to the searching server computer and used to expand the local descriptor., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Solid Fuel from Biomass for Cogeneration (Semester Unknown) IPRO 349
- Renewable energy is one of the most important and widely researched topics today. It is classically defined as any form of energy coming from any naturally replenish-able source. This may include everything from solar to wind power, as well as biomass or biofuels. When considering biomass, or any (living or recently-dead) biological material, the chemical energy of the molecules is generally collected through combustion. The area of liquid fuels from biomass has especially gained much notoriety and support in recent years. This is due to the lower emissions and clean-burning nature of these fuels when compared to more traditional approaches, as well as the obvious renewable nature of the starting material. While vegetable oils or animal fats can be used as a replacement for diesel fuels, corn, switchgrass, or other grains are more widely used to produce ethanol for use in common combustion engines. Today’s E85 fuel is sold to customers with a chemical makeup of 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline. The use of solid biomass as a direct supplier of energy, however, is an area still left relatively unexplored in this growing field. In theory, and as preliminary research suggests, harvesting energy directly from solid biomass may be considerably more efficient than gathering it from its processed liquid counterpart. In fact, some studies suggest that the energy acquired from burning ethanol is up to 67% lower than is contained in the plant cellulose from which it is derived.[1] There are, however, several other factors besides energy projections to consider when looking at the economic and market viability of such an approach. For example, one of the main advantages of liquid fuels over solid is the ease of transportation and storage. Additionally, the feasibility of developing a whole new process of biomass collection and processing must be balanced with economic and logistical constraints. This includes not only careful analysis of energy and cost balances, but also in-depth examination of all equipment, manpower and environmental limitations. IPRO 349 was established to examine these (and many more) considerations in the viability of sold fuel from biomass. Specifically, we have narrowed the scope of our research to biomass derived from corn stover (leaves and stalk left in the ground after harvesting) within the state of Illinois. Illinois was chosen because it is currently the largest producer of corn in the nation.[2] Corn stover has been shown to have an energy content of 5,290 Btu/lb. wet, and 7,560 Btu/lb. dry.[2]With such an approach, it may be possible to utilize what would otherwise be considered “waste” to produce useable, renewable energy. For the purposes of this project, cogeneration, or the simultaneous generation of both electricity and useful heat will be examined., Deliverables
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- Combined Magnetic Transducer Head and Coupling Transformer
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Method for Detecting a Mass Density Image of an Object
- A method for detecting a mass density image of an object. An x-ray beam is transmitted through the object and a transmitted beam is emitted from the object. The transmitted beam is directed at an angle of incidence upon a crystal analyzer. A diffracted beam is emitted from the crystal analyzer onto a detector and digitized. A first image of the object is detected from the diffracted beam emitted from the crystal analyzer when positioned at a first angular position. A second image of the object is detected from the diffracted beam emitted from the crystal analyzer when positioned at a second angular position. The first image and the second image are combined mathematically to derive a mass density image of the object., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- Means for Counteracting Shunt Reluctance of a Transducer Head Gap
- Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent
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- NONLINEAR PREDICTIVE CONTROL OF PERIODICALLY FORCED CHEMICAL REACTORS
- A nonlinear model-predictive control strategy is developed to maintain the superior-to-steady-state performance of a periodically forced chemical reactor. The performance of the predictive con troller is investigated in the presence of measurement disturbances and parametric uncertainty. It is also shown that statistically inferred input-output models can be a substitute whenever detailed fundamental models are not available. A nonlinear autoregressive polynomial model based on observed plant data is built and incorporated into the control scheme. The catalytic oxidation of ethylene in a periodically-forced, continuous stirred-tank reactor is considered as the test case., Endnote format citation