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Title: DYNAMIC ESTIMATION OF TEMPERATURE AND CONCENTRATION PROFILES IN A PACKED-BED REACTOR
Creator: Windes, L. C., Cinar, A., Ray, W. H.
Date: 1989
Publisher: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
Description: A two-dimensional nonlinear distributed-parameter optimal state estimation algorithm has been developed and applied to an exothermic packed...
Show moreA two-dimensional nonlinear distributed-parameter optimal state estimation algorithm has been developed and applied to an exothermic packed bed catalytic reactor. Temperature and concentration profiles were estimated from limited temperature and/or concentration measurements. Orthogonal collocation was used to solve the differential sensitivity and filtering equations. Both simulations and on-line experiments with a pilot scale packed bed reactor for the partial oxidation of methanol have been used to study the effects of measurement choice, model parameter errors, and unmeasured process disturbances. Excellent tracking of the reactor profiles was achieved with only one or two properly placed temperature sensors.
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Title: Recent developments in Monte Carlo simulations, Proceedings of the XLIII International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics
Creator: Thompson, Jennifer M.
Date: 2013-09-15, 2013-09-15
Publisher: IIT Press
Description: This talk outlines the current status of Monte Carlo simulations in particle physics. It demonstrates the implementation of automated NLO...
Show moreThis talk outlines the current status of Monte Carlo simulations in particle physics. It demonstrates the implementation of automated NLO contributions to matrix elements. The matching methods MC@NLO and POWHEG are outlined and results using various NLO tools are presented. The first plots from POWHEG showing the matching of NNLO matrix elements to the parton shower are also presented.
Sponsorship: IIT College of Science, High Energy Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory
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Title: The academic library building in the digital age : a study of construction, planning, and design of new library space
Creator: Stewart, Christopher
Date: 2010
Publisher: Association of College & Research Libraries
Description: The Academic Library Building in the Digital Age: A Study of Construction, Planning, and Design of New Library Space is the first...
Show moreThe Academic Library Building in the Digital Age: A Study of Construction, Planning, and Design of New Library Space is the first comprehensive study of planning and construction of academic library buildings completed entirely in the new century. Given digitization of collections, the dynamic mix of new learning spaces with traditional library functions, and other factors informing contemporary library design, the digital age has not raised so much the question of if libraries will survive, but how they will survive. This book answers this question, among others, by looking to academic library building projects completed in recent years.
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Title: Devices that Assist Blind & Visually-Impaired Individuals in Swimming and Other Exercise Activities (sequence unknown), IPRO 310 - Deliverables
Creator: Dykeman, Kimberly, Healton, Michaela, Lipman, Timothy, Ludwig, Ross, Park, Jay, Reilly, Jeffrey, Sarkar, Smita, Sirk, Phillip, Toro, Branden
Date: 2009-12
Description: The objective is to develop, test, and implement assistive technology with the community that promotes safety and improves independence of...
Show moreThe objective is to develop, test, and implement assistive technology with the community that promotes safety and improves independence of blind and visually impaired (BVI) swimmers.
Sponsorship: Chicago Lighthouse for the Blind & Visually-Impaired. Notre Dame University
Deliverables for IPRO 310:Devices that Assist Blind & Visually-Impaired Individuals in Swimming and Other Exercise Activities for the fall 2009 semester.
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Title: Electromagnetic Playback System
Creator: Camras, Marvin
Date: 1961-12-12
Description: Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent

Title: Electrohydrodynamic Conduction Pump
Creator: Yagoobi, Jamal Seyed, Bryan, James E.
Date: 2009-05-14, 2005-08-23
Description: An electrohydrodynamic (EHD) conduction pump is provided for pumping dielectric liquids, and a particular adaptation for mass transport of...
Show moreAn electrohydrodynamic (EHD) conduction pump is provided for pumping dielectric liquids, and a particular adaptation for mass transport of isothermal and non-isothermal single phase liquids. The EHD conduction pump does not require direct injection of electric charges into the fluid. The EHD conduction pump includes an EHD pumping section and associated connecting tubes with electrodes arranged in series in the pumping section. The electrodes are coupled to a high voltage low current dc power supply. A positive polarity dc voltage is applied to the electrodes. Various electrode configurations may be used, such as three-needle, hollow-tube, or pin-needle electrode configuration.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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Title: Magnetic Recorder Head
Creator: Camras, Marvin
Date: 1946-12-03
Description: Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation
United States Patent

Title: Magnetic Record Duplicating Device for Producing Magnetic Records
Creator: Camras, Marvin
Date: 1959-01-06
Description: Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent

Title: SCALABLE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM SOFTWARE FOR EXTREMESCALE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
Creator: Wang, Ke
Date: 2015, 2015-07
Description: Distributed systems are growing exponentially in the computing capacity. On the high-performance computing (HPC) side, supercomputers are...
Show moreDistributed systems are growing exponentially in the computing capacity. On the high-performance computing (HPC) side, supercomputers are predicted to reach exascale with billion-way parallelism around the end of this decade. Scientific applications running on supercomputers are becoming more diverse, including traditional large-scale HPC jobs, small-scale HPC ensemble runs, and fine-grained many-task computing (MTC) workloads. Similar challenges are cropping up in cloud computing as data-centers host ever growing larger number of servers exceeding many top HPC systems in production today. The applications commonly found in the cloud are ushering in the era of big data, resulting in billions of tasks that involve processing increasingly large amount of data. However, the resource management system (RMS) software of distributed systems is still designed around the decades-old centralized paradigm, which is far from satisfying the ever-growing needs of performance and scalability towards extreme scales, due to the limited capacity of a centralized server. This huge gap between the processing capacity and the performance needs has driven us to develop next-generation RMSs that are magnitudes more scalable. In this dissertation, we first devise a general system software taxonomy to explore the design choices of system software, and propose that key-value stores could serve as a building block. We then design distributed RMS on top of key-value stores. We propose a fully distributed architecture and a data-aware work stealing technique for the MTC resource management, and develop the SimMatrix simulator to explore the distributed designs, which informs the real implementation of the MATRIX task execution framework. We also propose a partition-based architecture and resource sharing techniques for the HPC resource management, and implement them by building the Slurm++ real workload manager and the SimSlurm++ simulator. We study the distributed designs through real systems up to thousands of nodes, and through simulations up to millions of nodes. Results show that the distributed paradigm has significant advantages over centralized one. We envision that the contributions of this dissertation will be both evolutionary and revolutionary to the extreme-scale computing community, and will lead to a plethora of following research work and innovations towards tomorrow’s extremescale systems.
Ph.D. in Computer Science, July 2015
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Title: Reproducing Transducer for Moving Dielectric Record
Creator: Camras, Marvin
Date: 1965-01-12
Description: Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent

Title: Method and Compositions for Flame Spraying
Creator: Bradstreet, Samuel W.
Date: 1959-09-15
Description: Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent

Title: Mobile Sanitizing Devices and Systems for Dispensing Sanitizer Solution
Creator: Ota, Yasuhiro, Ryumae, Masaru, Sato, Keiichi, Sano, Shin
Date: 2013-10-30, 2013-10-22
Description: A mobile sanitizing device may include a sanitizer solution dispenser module, a motorized wheel assembly, and a controller module. The...
Show moreA mobile sanitizing device may include a sanitizer solution dispenser module, a motorized wheel assembly, and a controller module. The sanitizer solution dispenser module may be operable to dispense the sanitizer solution. The motorized wheel includes at least one wheel and is coupled to the sanitizer solution dispenser module. The controller module includes a microcontroller and a memory, and is programmed to log a sanitization record into a sanitization history of at least one user, compare the sanitization history of the user with a sanitization standard, and control the motorized wheel assembly to cause the mobile sanitizing device to approach the user to dispense sanitizing solution to the user when the sanitization history does not meet the sanitization standard.
Sponsorship: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
Primary US Patent Classification 340/573.1
US Patent Classification 340/539.1
US Patent Classification 340/618
US Patent Classification 700/245
US Patent Classification 901/1
International Patent Classification G08B 23/00
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Title: Method of Making Magnetic Impulse Record Members
Creator: Camras, Marvin, Flanders, Hyrum E.
Date: 1949-11-29
Description: Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent

Title: Hybrid Living Space in the Context of Balat, Istanbul
Creator: Unal, Nezihe Merve
Date: 2010-05
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Title: Initiating Strategies for Urbanization and Housing Patterns
Creator: Rehan, Natale
Date: 2010-07-30

Title: CO2 CAPTURE AND HYDROGEN PRODUCTION IN SORBENT ENHANCED WATER-GAS SHIFT (SEWGS) PROCESS WITH REGENERABLE SOLID SORBENT
Creator: Zarghami Khanehsar, Shahin
Date: 2015, 2015-07
Description: Carbon dioxide emission from fossil fuel combustion and its impact on global warming is one of the most critical environmental issues nowadays...
Show moreCarbon dioxide emission from fossil fuel combustion and its impact on global warming is one of the most critical environmental issues nowadays. Coal as a main source of produce energy is the most CO2-intensive fossil fuel. Advanced power generation processes that use gasification technology, such as Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC), which offer higher efficiency, are among the leading contenders for power generation in the 21st century. In an IGCC process, because of high pressure, carbon dioxide in the fuel gas is at higher concentration, which can be captured and sequestered at lower costs. Utilization of regenerable MgO-based sorbents has been shown to be an effective method for capturing CO2 from gasification-based processes at elevated temperatures and pressures (i.e. p > 20 atm and 330° < T < 450°C). Low cost MgO based sorbent can be prepared through modification of natural dolomite. The reactivity of the sorbent in carbonation/regeneration cycles has a significant impact on the economics of the proposed regenerable process. Although the sorbent can be regenerated in successive cycles, the sorbent reactivity and capacity gradually decline during the cyclic process. Therefore, it is crucial to develop a better understanding on the role of the key parameters affecting the reactivity of the sorbent going through the cyclic carbonation/regeneration process. In this work, a systematic study on the sorbent preparation parameters (i.e., calcination temperature, calcination duration, calcination temperature ramp, potassium concentration, impregnation duration, drying temperature, re-calcination temperature, and re-calcination duration) was conducted to understand the effect of each parameter on the overall capacity and reactivity of the sorbent. The concentration of potassium additive (as carbonation reaction promoter) has the most significant effect on the reactivity of the sorbent and the optimum K/Mg molar ratio appears to be in the range of 0.1-0.16. The reactivity of the sorbent toward carbon dioxide at various operating conditions (i.e. temperature, CO2 concentration and steam concentration) was experimentally evaluated. The presence of steam significantly improves the reactivity of the sorbent which is attributed to formation of more favorable pore structure as well as the existence of a parallel carbonation reaction pathway involving the formation of a transient MgO.H2O* compound. The optimum carbonation reaction temperature in the presence of steam is around 380˚C. The effect of cycling on CO2 capture capacity of MgO-based sorbent was also experimentally investigated in this work. Series of carbonation/regeneration cycles (up to 25) have been carried out in a dispersed bed reactor to determine the effect of various variables on long term durability of the sorbent. The gradual loss of CO2 sorption capacity appears to be mainly due to loss potassium (a carbonation reaction promoter) in the cyclic process. Durability of the sorbents improves in the presence of steam, which is likely due to the favorable changes in the pore structure of the sorbents. A kinetic model was developed to fit the reactivity curves obtained from the dispersed bed tests at different operating conditions which was needed to predict the sorbent/catalyst performance in the regenerative process. Model parameters were defined and discussed for each of the operating conditions, as well as dispersed bed cyclic tests. Furthermore, the thermal behavior and the kinetics of partial decomposition of dolomite were studied in a dispersed-bed reactor to improve the reactivity of the sorbent. The microstructure and the nature of the solid products were found to be strongly dependent on the CO2 partial pressure near the reacting interface and on the decomposition temperature. A significant increase in the rate of the dolomite decomposition reaction was found in the presence of steam. Steam improves the kinetics of decomposition, modifies the radial distribution of the pores; and improves the connectivity of the pores inside the dolomite particles, which decreases the diffusion resistance of produced carbon dioxide inside the particle. A shrinking core model with variable product layer diffusivity was used to fit the experimental data and determine the kinetic parameters of the dolomite decomposition reaction. The results indicate that transport of CO2 across the reacting interface in the porous particle was the main limiting factor in the decomposition reaction at the experimental conditions investigated. A lab-scaled high-pressure/high-temperature packed-bed reactor was utilized to evaluate the performance of the sorbent in simultaneous water-gas shift reaction and sorbent carbonation environment. It was shown that the CO2 in the coal gas can be removed by regenerable MgO-based sorbents at temperatures around 350°C, and the CO2 removal can shift WGS reaction to enhance hydrogen production. Therefore, Sorbent Enhanced Water-Gas-Shift (SEWGS) can result in much higher hydrogen production without lowering the temperature, leading to higher overall process efficiency.
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, July 2015
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Title: Feedback for a Flux Gate Reproducing System
Creator: Wiegand, David E.
Date: 1961-10-24
Description: Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent

Title: The Odd Couple: FINAL POSTER
Creator: Bacheller, Tim
Date: 5/4/2011, 2011-05
Description: The socio-political structure of Belgium, a whole containing disparate parts, serves as the catalyst for The Odd Couple: two individual...
Show moreThe socio-political structure of Belgium, a whole containing disparate parts, serves as the catalyst for The Odd Couple: two individual secondary schools in Brussels, one Dutch-speaking, the other French-speaking, sharing the same site. The common element shared among the two schools is the public realm. Rather than shunning the public, the public is encouraged to actively engage in activities within the building. In this way the common spaces throughout the building take on the role of serving the needs and desires of both schools and the public, resulting in the necessity for dialogue and cooperation. By filtering program through a socio-political lens, a “school” typology emerges that emphasizes interaction and extramural learning.
Sponsorship: Conger-Austin, Susan
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Title: Laboratory Notebook 106
Creator: Cooper, Kerri, Lee, Alvin, Slade, Peter
Date: 2010-09-09T21:17:47Z
Description: Validating ozone's optimal conditions on a sucrose food matrix embedded with Bacillus Spores

Title: Tension Indicating Fastener
Creator: Dally, James W.
Date: 2009-04-30, 1973-02-27
Description: A bolt having a shank and integral head has a strip of photoelastic material mounted on the head for manifesting in the form of photoelastic...
Show moreA bolt having a shank and integral head has a strip of photoelastic material mounted on the head for manifesting in the form of photoelastic fringes linearly related to bolt tension the bending stresses created in the head during loading of the bolt. To determine the tension in the bolt during or after loading, polarized light is directed toward the photoelastic strip and reflected light from the strip is analyzed to measure fringe order. The fringe order is related to the amount of bending stresses in the head of the bolt by a predetermined calibration curve, the bending stresses being linearly related to bolt tension.
Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent
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