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Title: Fostering Synergy
Creator: Cooper, Andrea
Date: 2012-05-02, 2012-05
Description: Fostering Synergy will create a community based support system by pairing young mothers outgrowing the foster care system with community...
Show moreFostering Synergy will create a community based support system by pairing young mothers outgrowing the foster care system with community matriarchs in need of companionship. Each generation has social and physical needs that can be eased through the Fostering Synergy support system.
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Title: INSTANTANEOUS DETECTION OF SPATIAL GRADIENT ERRORS IN DIFFERENTIAL GNSS
Creator: Jing, Jing
Date: 2014, 2014-12
Description: Differential GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) is currently being ex- tended using a high integrity Ground Based Augmentation System ...
Show moreDifferential GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) is currently being ex- tended using a high integrity Ground Based Augmentation System (GBAS) to enable civil aircraft precision approach and landing. Differential GPS carrier phase measure- ments between ground-based GBAS reference antennas can provide the means to de- tect and isolate certain signal-in-space (SIS) failures and anomalies that are hazardous to aircraft, most notably ionospheric anomalies and ephemeris failures, which can be characterized as spatial range error gradients. In this research, we develop a monitor capable of instantaneously detecting multi-dimensional spatial gradient faults. The existence of large gradients, while rare, has prompted the development of numerous ground monitors for their detection. One drawback of previously proposed monitors is that their performance for a given ground antenna con guration is de- pendent on how antennas are paired to form measurement differences. In contrast, in this work a new monitor approach is developed to provide consistent detection performance, regardless of how the antennas are paired, by combining measurements from multiple, spatially separated ground antennas through a null space transforma- tion. It is shown that the `null space' monitor signi cantly improves the detection performance over existing fault detection algorithms and enables GBAS to support Category III precision approach and landing. The instantaneous carrier phase monitor cannot detect all gradients due to the presence of integer cycle ambiguities. These ambiguities cannot be resolved because the gradient magnitude is unknown a priori. Furthermore, it has been shown that the performance of such monitors is highly dependent on the reference antenna topol- ogy. The range of detectable gradients for all carrier phase monitors depends on two factors: the number of antennas and their con guration. One can always expand the detection range by using many antennas, but only at greatly increased operational cost. Optimizing antenna con guration has been overlooked as a means to improve performance; simple, heuristic arguments typically prevail in the associated siting decisions. For example, when given four antennas it is generally assumed that they should be sited in a square arrangement to balance performance in all directions. However, such heuristics do not provide the maximum detectable range of gradients, and exploiting the freedom to choose the antenna topology can dramatically expand the detectable range. Due to the presence of carrier phase cycle ambiguities, the re- sulting optimization problem is a constrained, mixed integer nonlinear programming problem. By solving the nonlinear program, the optimal GBAS antenna topology that maximizes the range of detectable gradients can be found for any number of antennas. For ionospheric fronts, the magnitude of the resulting gradient is bounded. However, orbit ephemeris faults can be arbitrarily large. The monitor must be able to detect all large gradients. To detect gradients beyond the capability of the car- rier phase monitor, code phase measurements are integrated into the monitor. Al- though we show this allows for the detection of all gradients, the number and spacing of ground antennas may not be suitable for all ground stations. Therefore, dual frequency carrier phase measurements are also considered to reduce the number of antennas required to achieve the desired detection performance. Finally, a search algorithm is developed to nd the antenna topology that enables the null space mon- itor to detect all hazardous gradients using code and dual frequency carrier phase measurements.
Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, December 2014
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Title: Design of Coal Desulfurization Processes to Improve the Environment (semester?), IPRO 346: Coal Desulfurization IPRO 346 Final Report F06
Creator: Mcdowell, Amy, Benegal, Salil, Doellman, Tony, Keen, Andrew, Kisiel, Greg, Maratt, James, Ogunride, Ranti, Olmos, Oscar, Toe, Myint
Date: 2006-12, 2006-12
Description: The objective of this IPRO is to choose an appropriate method (or combination of multiple methods) for desulfurizing coal before combustion...
Show moreThe objective of this IPRO is to choose an appropriate method (or combination of multiple methods) for desulfurizing coal before combustion takes place in a furnace for energy production. Three methods will be researched in order to find the best way of desulfurization- physical, chemical, and biological. Whichever method(s) is found to be the most effective at removing sulfur from coal will be chosen. After this decision the group will move forward and design the process equipment; later an economic assessment will be done to cost the equipment. All of the group’s goals will be completed within this semester.
Deliverables for IPRO 346: Design of Coal Desulfurization Processes to Improve the Environment for the Fall 2006 semester.
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Title: Community Leadership in Bronzeville Public School (Fall 2003), IPRO 303: Community Leadership in Bronzeville Public School IPRO 303 Fall2003 Final Presentation
Creator: Coogan, David
Date: 2003, 2003-12
Description: The goal of this project is to implement a parent involvement program in three of Bronzeville's public schools: Beethoven Elementary School,...
Show moreThe goal of this project is to implement a parent involvement program in three of Bronzeville's public schools: Beethoven Elementary School, Hartigan Specialty School, and Woodson North Middle School. Research in the field of education has long shown that parental involvement can boost academic achievement, even in neighborhoods with a high concentration of poverty. Although Bronzeville has many poor schools, the aforementioned schools were selected because they have either been placed on academic probation, as a result of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law, or have experienced a significant drop in attendance, as a result of the CHA Plan for Transformation. To positively effect the parents whose children attend these schools, last semester's IPRO team researched and designed a parent involvement program, in conjunction with the principals, teachers, and parents at the three schools and our community partners, The Grand Boulevard Federation (GBF) and IIT's Office of Community Development. This program calls for the construction of a parent's resource room filled with supplemental curricular materials, ongoing workshops for parents on helping children with their homework, after-school enrichment activities for children, adult education classes for the parents, and increased communication between teachers and parents regarding student performance. See www.iit.edu/~ipro303s03 for more details. Community out-reach workers from the GBF will recruit parents into the program, using brochures and handouts designed by the IPRO team. Together, they will assist each school build-up their parent resources. Ongoing, informal assessment will be conducted, both in terms of parent needs and program effectiveness. Central to the entire project will be a consensus-based, communicative practice in which the principals, the teachers, the outreach workers, the IPRO team, and a core group of parents jointly determine the most effective ways to involve parents in their children's education.
Sponsorship: IIT Collaboratory for Interprofessional Studies in collaboration with the IIT Office of Community Development, Grand Boulevard Federation, Hartigan Speciality School, Beethoven Elementary School and Woodson North Middle School
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Title: Kalleidos (Spring 2011) IPRO 303: KalleidosIPRO303MidTermPresentationSp11
Creator: Rakauskaite, Ausrine, Siver, Ben, Pyrkh, Hanna, Kovacs, Hilary, Jewell, John, Jin, Keojin, Arroyo, Marcos, Michael, Mark, Koto, Melanie, Curran, Morgan, Kushaare, Rishi, Ri, Sujin, Liu, Xiaochen
Date: 2011, 2011-05
Description: “Over the last few years there has been an explosion of different websites that allow average person to contribute different content such as...
Show more“Over the last few years there has been an explosion of different websites that allow average person to contribute different content such as pictures, comments, stories and reviews about places around them. While there are many companies that focus on aggregating such data into common stream - complexity of interpreting such data in a meaningful actionable way remains a challenge for many companies including NAVTEQ.” [Appendix B]  Identify new content from real time feeds which include 1. Points of Interest and their attribution (e.g. Hours of Operation, Languages Spoken at locale, etc…) 2. Any associated content (e.g. events, relationships to other Points of Interest (e.g. same owner, etc…)  Create visualizations based on this content - some basic examples could include 1. Hot/Not So Hot real estate areas (new construction, sales) based on agent and broker social media updates 2. High/Low crime areas based on social media stream 3. Hot/Not city zones based on number of people tweeting/updating Facebook/checking in/etc… in certain areas, parties, POIs.
Sponsorship: NAVTEQ
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Title: CHANGES OF BACTERIAL SPECIES AND HEME PROTEIN OCCURRENCE IN ACTIVATED SLUDGE COMMUNITIES CULTURED IN THE LABORATORY
Creator: Wang, Xiaomeng
Date: 2016, 2016-05
Description: An activated sludge sample that had originally been collected from an aeration tank of the Stickney wastewater treatment plant in Chicago, and...
Show moreAn activated sludge sample that had originally been collected from an aeration tank of the Stickney wastewater treatment plant in Chicago, and had previously been cultured at low dissolved oxygen (DO) for 48 weekly passages was used as starting material for continuation of the low DO acclimation. The culture was continued at low dissolved oxygen in synthetic wastewater for 25 additional weekly passages to study what would happen to the activated sludge if the low DO continued. In order to do that, some important data were measured during the culture, including the specific oxygen uptake rates (SOUR) which could reflect the ability of oxygen utilization, 16S rDNA information which could tell the community diversity of sludge, and the dominant species genome data which suggested what really happened to the sludge and some reasons. The results showed that SOUR decreased modestly during the course of low DO adaptation, which was contrary to the results of the previous study. There were significant changes in community structure with respect to bacterial species during the first fifteen additional passages. Species known to produce both flavohemoglobins (FHbs) and truncated hemoglobins (trHbs) were common at all passages tested, although the dominant species were totally different from passage to passage. Specifically, during the course of the experiment, the frequency of cells encoding an FHb decreased substantially, from 84% to 50%, while the percentage of cells encoding a trHb decreased slightly from 84% to 78%. The overall content in the culture of heme b (the heme type found in bacterial hemoglobins) decreased, however, during continuation of the low DO conditions. So it is indicated that the oxygen utilization ability of the activated sludge does not increase all the time.
M.S. in Biology, May 2016
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Title: Web-Based Supervisor, Management and Leadership Training (semester?), IPRO 306
Creator: Allen, Kelleny, Chandrasekharan, Nivedita, Engel, Jeff, Greiling, Michael, Hays, Julian, Hofland, Andrew, Kadzban, Adam, Lagiglio, Michael, Lee, Florence, Mehr, Andrew, Moss, Elizabeth, Segal, Jason
Date: 2007-12, 2007-12
Description: The primary purpose of the Interprofessional Project (IPRO) 306 team is to enable a group of students from diverse cultural, economic, and...
Show moreThe primary purpose of the Interprofessional Project (IPRO) 306 team is to enable a group of students from diverse cultural, economic, and academic backgrounds to work towards a common goal and conjointly succeed. The secondary purpose of the IPRO 306 team is to develop a topical web-based supervisory, management, and leadership program. In pursuing our objectives, we will gain familiarity and understanding of the best training methods, the most significant and universal leadership traits for organizational effectiveness, and an appreciation for our own unique strengths on an interdisciplinary team.
Deliverables for IPRO 306: Web-Based Supervisor, Management and Leadership Training for the Fall 2007 semester
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Title: Widget Applications to Enhance the Tru2Way Consumer Experience (sequence unknown), IPRO 312 - Deliverables: IPRO 312 IPRO Day Presentation F09
Creator: Alsharief, Yagoob, Aulfata, Muluken, Curtis, Christopher, Dhewaju, Anusuya, Mooney, Kevin, Mutyaba, Kevin, Ndoping, Marco, Onaissi, Samah, Peterson, Naomi, Siwek, Steven, Wallace, Sean, Yi, Won-jae
Date: 2009-12
Description: The IPRO teams objectives are to provide Comcast with feedback from an outside perspective, allowing them to see where their Tru2Way system...
Show moreThe IPRO teams objectives are to provide Comcast with feedback from an outside perspective, allowing them to see where their Tru2Way system needs additional attention or support.
Sponsorship: Comcast
Deliverables for IPRO 312: Widget Applications to Enhance the Tru2Way Consumer Experience for the fall 2009 semester
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Title: COMPUTATION AND ANALYSIS OF TUMOR GROWTH
Creator: Turian, Emma
Date: 2016, 2016-05
Description: The ability of tumors to metastasize is preceded by morphological instabilities such as chains or fingers that invade the host environment....
Show moreThe ability of tumors to metastasize is preceded by morphological instabilities such as chains or fingers that invade the host environment. Parameters that control tumor morphology may also contribute to its invasive ability. In this thesis, we investigate tumor growth using a two-phase Stokes model. We first examine the morphological changes using the surface energy of the tumor-host interface and investigate its nonlinear dynamics using a boundary integral method. In an effort to understand the interface stiffness, we then model the tumor-host interface as an elastic membrane governed by the Helfrich bending energy. Using an energy variation approach, we derive a modified Young-Laplace condition for the stress jump across the interface, and perform a linear stability analysis to evaluate the effects of viscosity, bending rigidity, and apoptosis on tumor morphology. Results show that increased bending rigidity versus mitosis rate contributes to a more stable growth. On the other hand, increased tumor viscosity or apoptosis may lead to an invasive fingering morphology. Comparison with experimental data on glioblastoma spheroids shows good agreement especially for tumors with high adhesion and low proliferation. Next, we evaluate tumor regression during cancer therapy by a combined modality involving chemotherapy and radiotherapy. The goal is to address the complexities of a vascular tumor (e.g. apoptosis and vascularization) during treatment. We introduce an apoptotic time delay and study its impact on tumor regression using numerical and asymptotic techniques. In particular, we implement the linear-quadratic model and identify two extreme sets of parameter data, namely the slow, and fast tumor response to therapy. Numerical simulations for the slow response set show good agreements with data representing non-small cell lung carcinoma. Using the evolution equation for tumor radius with time delay, we find that tumors with shorter time interval to the onset of apoptosis shrink faster.
Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, May 2016
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Title: Monitoring of multivariable dynamic processes and sensor auditing
Creator: Negiz, A., Cinar, A.
Date: 1998-10
Publisher: ELSEVIER SCI LTD
Description: Industrial continuous processes are usually operated under closed-loop control, yielding process measurements that are autocorrelated, cross...
Show moreIndustrial continuous processes are usually operated under closed-loop control, yielding process measurements that are autocorrelated, cross correlated, and collinear. A statistical process monitoring (SPM) method based on state variables is introduced to monitor such processes. The statistical model that describes the in-control variability is based on a canonical variate (CV) state space model. The CV state variables are linear combinations of the past process measurements which explain the variability of the future measurements the most, and they are regarded as the principal dynamic dimensions. A T-2 statistic based on the CV state variables is utilized for developing the SPM procedure. The CV state variables are also used for monitoring sensor reliability. An experimental application to a high temperature short time (HTST) pasteurization process illustrates the proposed methodology.
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Title: Large Scale Integration of Sustainable Energy and Congestion Management in Western Interconnection
Creator: Aflaki Khosrosha, Kaveh
Date: 2012-07-12, 2012-07
Description: Large scale sustainable energy like wind and solar energy integration to the bulk grid could introduce inevitable challenges to regional...
Show moreLarge scale sustainable energy like wind and solar energy integration to the bulk grid could introduce inevitable challenges to regional transmission and generation systems. The most important challenges for transmission system are the congestion management and planning for transmission expansion to transfer the zero cost generated electricity. Another big challenge is competition of current fuel based generation units in the electricity market with zero cost sustainable energy. In this dissertation all these challenges identified and analyzed for large scale grid. This thesis brings a new method used to study transmission congestions in Western Interconnection of the United States. The process involved Security-Constrained Unit Commitment (SCUC) formulation applying its results for analysis of transmission congestion. This thesis also presents results and findings in simulation of the system operation in the Western Interconnection of the United States with the inclusion of large scale wind and solar energy integration for year 2030. High level of wind and solar energy with the forecasted wind and solar time series profiles were integrated to the Western Interconnection grid. Their impact on different existing types of generation plants is studied. The sensitivity of the fuel prices, wind turbine power output, load volatility and demand side management as well as carbon tax are analyzed in different possible scenarios. In order to incorporate large scale of sustainable energy into a bulk electricity grid footprint, planned transmission expansion showed need to take place. Transmission expansion reduces grid congestion and balances Locational Marginal Prices (LMP). This thesis explores the advancements in high-performance computing and visual analytics of economic-based transmission expansion in the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC). This expansion is based on 2018 and 2029 forecasted data. It identifies transmission congestions and average of LMP for each area, and expands the transmission system while accommodating large scale wind and solar energy to achieve the Department of Energy’s renewable energy vision for year 2030. An iterative transmission expansion analysis, based on the average LMP for each area, is used to identify the minimum WECC transmission lines required. All results are visualized on the Geographical Information System (GIS) format map of North America.
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, July 2012
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Title: Green Building (Semester Unknown) IPRO 335: GreenArtStudioIPRO335Brochure2Sp09
Creator: Antol, Marcin, Balkany, Grahm, Block, Shawn, Campbell, Brittanie, Hart, Carl, Hodgson, Ashley, Korbus, Tracy, Limpinyakul, Jutarop, Lis, Tom, Llakmani, Anton, Macklin, Brandon, Mcguire, Luke, Modi, Nishant, Nguyen, Linh, Nigamatzyanov, Tagir, Palomo, Kaye, Ramey, Ronald, Saracino, Anthony, Socher, Daniel, Tan, Sophia, Williams, Jeremy
Date: 2009, 2009-05
Description: The teams’ task is to demonstrate the interdisciplinary cooperative requirements as needed to fulfill a mission of sustainability. This IPRO...
Show moreThe 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.
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Title: A Recyclables Business Model for IIT (Semester Unknown) EnPRO 352: ARecyclablesBusinessModelForIITEnPRO352PosterF10
Creator: Wright, Sarah, Fraser, Linnea, Kim, Joseph, Mccabe, Mary, Goduco, Mike, Ramirez, Hugo, Vega, Daniel, O’toole, Bill, Shin, Eddie, Cumar, Raghuveer
Date: 2010, 2010-12
Description: contain the employees necessary to run and maintain the multiple programs which will be controlled by the Student Recycling Business. This...
Show morecontain the employees necessary to run and maintain the multiple programs which will be controlled by the Student Recycling Business. This business will also be in charge of creating events which will help to get the students, staff and faculty of IIT more involved in the recycling process. For prolonged success, the marketing component of any business plan is possibly one of the most essential. Within a student-run business, the need for campus support is enough motivation to implement an effective marketing strategy to advertise the products and gain an appropriate reputation. In terms of recycling, to achieve desired results for a specific objective requires that the target audience is fully informed. Thus, an awareness campaign must be introduced before any expected business success is observed. As shown by the provided data, the large diversity on campus has and most likely will always remain a unique attribute of IIT. Not only do the ethnicity and gender size vary from one category to the next, but the large demographic range (age) that is not presented due to unattainable information is also a significant factor in target marketing. Having language barriers and large generational gaps makes it difficult to impose a single marketing strategy all over campus. A successful marketing plan will overcome these obstacles with ideas that integrate all backgrounds and avoid cultural seclusion.
Sponsorship: IIT
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Title: AXISYMMETRICAL JET FORCED BY FUNDAMENTAL AND SUBHARMONIC TONES
Creator: Raman, G, Rice, Ej
Date: 1991-07
Publisher: AMER INST AERONAUT ASTRONAUT
Description: A circular jet was excited simultaneously by two harmonically related tones. The results of this excitation on jet behavior are reported for...
Show moreA circular jet was excited simultaneously by two harmonically related tones. The results of this excitation on jet behavior are reported for three pairs of Strouhal numbers [St(D) = f*D/U(j) = 0.2 and 0.4, 0.3 and 0.6, 0.4 and 0.8]. For each case, the initial phase difference between the two tones was varied in steps of 45 deg for one full cycle, and the amplitude of the fundamental and subharmonic tones was varied independently over the range of 0.1-7.0% of the jet exit velocity. Several results of this study agreed with other published findings, such as a critical amplitude or the fundamental being required for subharmonic augmentation and the initial phase difference being critical in determining whether the subharmonic is augmented or suppressed. In addition, the detailed documentation or several aspects of this phenomenon, measured in the same experimental facility in a controlled manner, brought out two important points that had eluded previous researchers. First, at high levels of the fundamental and subharmonic forcing amplitudes, the subharmonic augmentation is independent of the initial phase difference. Second, two-frequency excitation is indeed more effective than single-frequency excitation in jet mixing enhancement. Higher spreading rates seem to go along with higher subharmonic levels.
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Title: Creating a Contemporary and Dynamic Science Fair Bank for Chicago Public Schools (Semester Unknown) IPRO 330: Creating a Contemporary and Dynamic Science Fair Bank for Chicago Public Schools IPRO 330 Brochure Sp08
Creator: Baldwin, Leah, Campbell, Keith, Diaz, Rocio, Gim, Yewon, Pak, Angela, Parrillo, Anthony, Steward, Shane, Tate, Joshua, Ten Eyck, Patrick, Totlebe, Aimee
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: IPRO 330 has one clear and main purpose: to increase high school student interest in Science and Mathematics in Chicago Public Schools. This...
Show moreIPRO 330 has one clear and main purpose: to increase high school student interest in Science and Mathematics in Chicago Public Schools. This is a very lofty and broad goal, so IPRO 330 has chosen to use the Chicago Public School Science Fair program as a vehicle to achieve this purpose. IPRO 330 is a continuing IPRO, meaning that we have a foundation and a base of work that has already been accomplished. As a result, one of the project goals of this team will be to obtain in-depth feedback from professionals within IIT, from Chicago Public Schools, and certainly from other professional education venues as well. Specifically, we will be looking to obtain feedback from the three most involved sources in high school students’ lives: students, teachers, and parents. This may be the most vital part of our project, because we want to make sure that our projects and guides are of high quality and high interest to high school students. IPRO 330 has an existing bank of Science Fair projects and guides which are located on the website sciencefair.math.iit.edu. In an effort to make our website more effective and more appealing, we will have team goals to create more Science Fair projects, and guides which will target areas that Chicago Public High School Students typically have trouble addressing, such as data analysis. We feel like the guides are a way to really implement more mathematics into the Science Fair program as a whole. In addition, there will be a group of students in our IPRO focused on improving the website and implementing new projects. IPRO 330 will address these objectives by first having all members, including faculty advisors, attend and judge a Chicago Public School Science Fair. This will allow everyone working on this project to get a better sense of what we are working on, make some contacts with teachers and Science Fair Coordinators, and even get feedback from students who used the website as a resource for their project. After this initial phase, the group will break up into three teams, an infrastructure team, a communication team, and a project and guides team. In these sub teams, IPRO 330 will be able to more effectively deal with more specific issues that arise
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Title: Solid Fuel from Biomass for Cogeneration (Semester Unknown) IPRO 349: Solid Fuel from Biomass for Cogeneration IPRO 349 Final Presentation Sp08
Creator: Mikesell, Jonathan, Dlugosz, Anna, Heffernan, Joseph, James, Joshua, Vassi, Anna, Yap, Ying Bing, Yeap, Xin Yi, Chacko, Serena, Ruidera, Ryan, Stanfield, Terrance
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: Renewable energy is one of the most important and widely researched topics today. It is classically defined as any form of energy coming from...
Show moreRenewable 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.
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Title: Improving Audio Quality and Energy Efficiency in Mobile Devices and Intercom Systems (Semester Unknown) IPRO 344: ImprovingAudioQualityandEnergyEfficiencyInMobileDevicesandIntercomSystemsIPRO344BrochureF09
Creator: Algie, Teague, Bartolomei, Anthony, Bian, Joy, Chiles, Jeffrey, Gavris, Calin, Ieong, Iat, Han Jun, Chang, Kim, Woochan, Lee, Harry, Miller, Nathan, Shegarfi, Roozbeh
Date: 2009, 2009-12
Description: A. The focus of the IPRO 344 iFidelity team for the Fall 2009 semester is to gather and analyze data from our audio system and further refine...
Show moreA. The focus of the IPRO 344 iFidelity team for the Fall 2009 semester is to gather and analyze data from our audio system and further refine and improve upon the hardware and procedures developed in previous semesters. B. The team has set objectives of improving the audio performance of our kiosk, experimenting, testing and demonstrating the improvement empirically, establishing a frame of reference to compare our design to currently used intercom systems, and refining the kiosk circuitry and enclosure.
Sponsorship: Shure Inc.
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Title: Power Management for Multi-module Energy Storage Systems in Electric, Hybrid Electric, and Fuel Cell Vehicles
Creator: Lukic, Srdjan, Emadi, Ali
Date: 2012-03-20, 2010-12-28
Description: An electric energy storage system (EESS) for providing a power management solution for a multi-subsystem energy storage in electric, hybrid...
Show moreAn electric energy storage system (EESS) for providing a power management solution for a multi-subsystem energy storage in electric, hybrid electric, and fuel cell vehicles. The EESS has a controller that determines when to draw power from each subsystem as needed by the vehicle.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
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Title: A study of the effects produced on Portland cement by the addition of various percentages of hydrated lime
Creator: Knuepfer, Claude Albert, Hook, Leonard Doolittle
Date: 2009, 1915
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/studyofeffectspr00knue
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology; Bibliography: leaf 99

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