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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.

: 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

: 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

: Method of Repelling Insects with Amino-Aldehydes; Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent

: 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.

: Silver Nanorods As Indicators of Thermal History (Semester Unknown) IPRO 348; Silver Nanorods As Indicators of Thermal History, heat pum, NaOH,, Deliverables

: Magnetic Recording Device; Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation, United States Patent

: 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.

: 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

: Robotic Cane Devices; A robotic cane may include a grip handle, a cane body extending from the grip handle at a first end, a motorized omni-directional wheel coupled to a second end of the cane body, a balance control sensor, and a controller module. The balance control sensor provides a balance signal corresponding to an orientation of the robotic cane. The controller module may receive the balance signal from the balance control sensor and calculate a balancing velocity of the motorized omni-directional wheel based at least in part on the balance signal and an inverted pendulum control algorithm. The controller module may further provide a drive signal to the motorized omni-directional wheel in accordance with the calculated balancing velocity. The calculated balancing velocity is a speed and direction of the motorized omni-directional wheel to retain the robotic cane in an substantially upright position., Sponsorship: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

: Multi-Resolution Depth Estimation Using Modified Census Transform for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems; A computer-implemented depth estimation method based on non-parametric Census transform with adaptive window patterns and semi-global optimization. A modified cross-based cost aggregation technique adaptively creates the shape of the cross for each pixel distinctly. In addition, a depth refinement algorithm fills holes within the estimated depth map using the surrounding background depth pixels and sharpens the object boundaries by exerting a trilateral filter to the generated depth map. The trilateral filter uses the curvature of pixels as well as texture and depth information to sharpen the edges., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

: BP Whiting Refinery Expansion: Developing Lake Michigan Wastewater Cleanup Options (Semester Unknown) IPRO 346; IPRO346 will focus on familiarizing itself with British Petroleum’s (BP) wastewater treatment plant (WTP) for its oil refinery in Whiting, IN. Specifically, this IPRO will analyze the current permits and their stipulations regarding the amount of ammonia and total suspended solids (TSS) in the wastewater being dumped in Lake Michigan. Ultimately, possible methods and designs will be devised to reduce the levels of ammonia and TSS remaining in treated wastewater. These designs will take the form of a process flow sheet with a computer simulation to model the designs. At the culmination of this IPRO we will have several different models for possible upgrades to the Whiting refinery wastewater treatment plant to reduce the levels of ammonia and TSS in the wastewater entering Lake Michigan as well as a cost to implement each solution., Deliverables

: A Greener IIT (Semester Unknown) IPRO 326; IIT’s core vision is built around the principle that no matter how good we get, we can always improve. As the University seeks to assert itself as a member of the top tier of academic institutions in the U.S., there are many ideas for improvement up for implementation. Among these ideas is the goal to make IIT the most sustainable, urban university campus in the United States. IPRO 326 (“A Greener IIT”) is based upon the idea that in order to accomplish this, we must improve the sustainability of IIT’s main campus landscape., Deliverables

: Electrical Measuring System; Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

: Green Building (Semester Unknown) IPRO 335; The teams’ task is to demonstrate the interdisciplinary cooperative requirements as needed to fulfill a mission of sustainability. This IPRO simulates an actual building development within the Chicago City limits. Specifically a green building development, which means that there is an increase in efficiency of the resources used while the building is constructed, operative, and removed., Deliverables

: Sustainability Planning of IIT Buildings (semester?), IPRO 320; The objective of IPRO 320, Sustainability Planning of IIT Buildings, is to contribute to the problem solving necessary to implement energy efficiency improvements in existing buildings and to the central steam and electric systems. Alternate possibilities for energy use in context with their building type and surroundings will be discovered through research of other university buildings at the University of Chicago, Loyola University, and IIT. This research will then be used in finding alternate forms of energy generation to secure the sustainability of the IIT campus., Deliverables for IPRO 320: Sustainability Planning of IIT Buildings for the Fall 2006 semester

: Modeling, monitoring and control strategies for high temperature short time pasteurization systems - 3. Statistical monitoring of product lethality and process sensor reliability; Statistical process monitoring (SPM) is used in food processing industries to improve productivity and product quality. SPM can also provide information to operators on how close a process is to non-compliance to product safety limits, and carry out periodic checks of sensor accuracy at high frequency. Traditional SPM tools such as Shewhart charts are not appropriate for continuous food processes because of autocorrelation in data. Four alternative SPM techniques are presented and applied to high temperature short time (HTST) dairy pasteurization. The study attempted to achieve compliance of the HTST process operation with the recommended Pasteurized Milk Ordinance by providing a margin between the alarm limits of the monitoring chart and the safety limits. Monitoring of residuals and parameter change detection techniques ave used for monitoring processes with autocorrelated variables. Hotelling's T-2 and residuals of canonical variates techniques are used for monitoring multivariable processes., Endnote format citation

: Method for Forming EI Lamination for Shell-Type Core; Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

: Sound Motion Picture Film; Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

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

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