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Title: Helping in Orthotics and Prosthetic Education (Semester Unknown) IPRO 309: ProstethicsAndOrthoticsInLatinAmericaIPRO309PosterSp11
Creator: Ende, Mark, Flowers, Kaleyhia, Zhang, Pablo Huang, Kocagoz, Sevi, Kuzel, Julia, Luttinen, Alexandra, Romo-ortiz, Esther, Sarvana, Saad, Svirkova, Bozhidara, Syvongsa, William
Date: 2011, 2011-05
Description: The objective of this semester’s IPRO 309 will be to incorporate three seminars into the framework proposed by last year’s IPRO 309. Fall 2010...
Show moreThe objective of this semester’s IPRO 309 will be to incorporate three seminars into the framework proposed by last year’s IPRO 309. Fall 2010’s IPRO 309 proposed an educational curriculum that helped train individuals in Orthotics and Prosthetics in Categories I, II, and III. The goal is to improve on last year’s IPRO proposal and bring it closer to completion. Although the awareness of medical advancements is central, the well-being of patients is also of equal importance. Compatibility of medical devices and their psychological impacts on patients need to be understood by people involved in orthotics and prosthetics. Also related to a better patient care, it is beneficial to create a feasible way of tracking patient information. To emphasize these, seminars will be introduced consisting of materials compatibility, patient well-being, and electronic medical record keeping. Material compatibility will explore aspects such as patient-device interaction and minimizing negative reactions due to the orthotic and prosthetic devices, which includes rashes or other sorts of discomfort. Patient well-being will evaluate the psychological impact of said devices on the patient and help them incorporate the devices into their daily lives. Electronic medical record keeping will introduce technology that will enable practitioners to gather and track the patient’s medical records with ease. The main technology to explore for this course would be the Quick Response (QR) Technology that is incorporated in many smartphones today. These seminars will help increase awareness that orthotics and prosthetics are not just medical fields, but instead a series of professional relationships with patients to help them endure the difficulties and pains they are going through. The goal is that medical professionals will be able to provide the best care possible to patients, both physically and mentally. Additional improvements will also be made on the capstone design course, introduced in previous IPROs, by incorporating methods being used in capstone courses at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
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Title: Small-Scale Desalination (Semester Unknown) EnPRO 354: Small-ScaleDesalinationEnPRO354FinalReportSp10
Creator: Adamczyk, Paul, Au, Bonnie, Bijonowski, Brent, Fanelli, Daniel, Hoxha, Edlira, Krauszowska, Monika, Pham, Nga, Rauf, Aamir, Schlessinger, Hannah, Wolber, Brian
Date: 2010, 2010-05
Description: Freshwater is one of Earth’s most precious resources and is now increasing in scarcity. Global warming induced climate change is now changing...
Show moreFreshwater is one of Earth’s most precious resources and is now increasing in scarcity. Global warming induced climate change is now changing rain patterns and causing record drought, growing global populations are increasing demand, and the individual demand per person is increasing and human populations urbanize and adopt modern plumbing. The biggest contributor to increasing demand for water is mismanagement and pollution. However for this project we will be focusing on water quantity rather than quality.
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Title: Insight: Anticipating the Future, Assessing the Impact (semester?), IPRO 341: Insight IPRO 341 Project Plan F06
Creator: Bastyzyk, Marta B., Hernandez, Jose, Kim, Tae Young, Lerash, Kevin, Lybolt, Crystal, Seatton, Brandon, Skontos, George, Sopko, Tyge, Vaks, Nir, Agan, Amber, Boone, Elizabeth, Buente, Adam, Coleman, Jessica, Gerding, Eric, Glass, Andrew, Goyak, Matt, Holt, Nicole, Mullendore, Jessica, Perchlik, Emily, Ripley, Paul
Date: 2006-12, 2006-12
Description: IPRO 341’s objective is to extensively research and evaluate the societal, economical and environmental implications of nanotechnology-based...
Show moreIPRO 341’s objective is to extensively research and evaluate the societal, economical and environmental implications of nanotechnology-based products, mainly building materials, and detail the possible obstacles in integration of this technology into design, public policy issues and general public engagement
Deliverables for IPRO 341: Insight: Anticipating the Future, Assessing the Impact for the Fall 2006 semester
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Title: Developing a document Control Sytem (Semester Unknown) IPRO 347: Developing a document Control Sytem IPRO 347Project Plan Su08
Creator: Basiourski, Vitali, Cabrera, William, Drag, Christopher, Erogbogbo, Samad, Ike, Richard, Krolikowski, Maciej, Mendez, Daniel, Mersch, Erin, Orlichenko, Anton, Roediger, Justin, Zouridis, Despina
Date: 2008, 2008-07
Description: The IPRO 347 team is being sponsored by Abrasive Form to lead the company into a paperless form of tracking projects. Abrasive Form currently...
Show moreThe IPRO 347 team is being sponsored by Abrasive Form to lead the company into a paperless form of tracking projects. Abrasive Form currently uses a paper folder, which they call the “job folder” to hold all the important documents for completing incoming projects. This job folder travels along with the pieces of the project until the project is completed. Once a project has been completed, and the final product is shipped out, the job folder for that project is then kept in an on-site filling cabinet. So far this has led to several problems for Abrasive Form. As the company is increasing in size and completing increasing amounts of projects, they have had to dedicate a large portion of their offices to the storing of old job files. Abrasive Form keeps all of their completed job folders to ensure that all liability for the company is covered, and whenever necessary throughout the lifespan of completed projects in the field, Abrasive Form is able to prove that their work was of the quality that was requested. This has also lead to a lot of time being wasted by the employees of Abrasive Form traveling to the back offices where the job folders are held to look up information. The IPRO 347 team will be helping Abrasive Form come up with a solution to this very serious problem. The solution generated thus far is to scan all the documents contained within the paper job folders into PDF form, and use a digital filing program (such as Bugzilla which is a free open source program) to organize the PDF files into sub folders, and allow for quick referencing based on critical criteria such as the job number, part number, customer name, or part number. All this information would then be contained in a single server that can be accessed on any computer throughout the company through an internal network.
Sponsorship: Abrasive-Form
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Title: New Product Evaluation and Improvement (Semester Unknown) IPRO 341: NewProductEvaluationandImprovementIPRO341Poster2Su09
Creator: Assaliyski, Marin, Attard, Ryan, Basiourski, Vitali, Dorn, Lawrence, Feldman, Laurie, Grabowski, Luke, Guerrero, Jose, Rusz, Vlad, Tchobanova, Natacha, Zellarchaffers, Priscilla
Date: 2009, 2009-07
Description: The team’s purpose is to test the current new design for Versatility Tool Works cabinet, and make suggestions for improvements if needed....
Show moreThe team’s purpose is to test the current new design for Versatility Tool Works cabinet, and make suggestions for improvements if needed. Additionally, the team’s purpose was extended to develop a next‐generation tool storage cabinet and also to identify potential new markets for the company to pursue. This will require a truly inter‐professional team to analyze everything from the engineering of the tool storage cabinet to market research of the current and potential markets.
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Title: Operation Smooth Brews (Semester Unknown) IPRO 345: OperationSmoothBrewsIPRO345FinalPresentationSp09
Creator: Haurberg, Soren, Kim, Kayoung, Kleps, Andrew, Pyle, Kiyomi, Roslund, Rich, Sarraf, Basel, Seo, Hee, Song, Junhyung, Stachowiak, Kyle, Vankley, Robert
Date: 2009, 2009-05
Description: Operation Smooth Brew's mission is defined by working closely with Euclid Beverages to analyze its status quo warehousing processes and...
Show moreOperation Smooth Brew's mission is defined by working closely with Euclid Beverages to analyze its status quo warehousing processes and introduce sufficient enhancements to them.
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Title: Global Warming and Community Outreach (Semester Unknown) IPRO 331: GlobalWarmingandCommunityOutreachIPRO331FinalPresentationSp10
Creator: Bober, Kamil, Desai, Sapna, Abu-amara, Hashem, Jani, Arjun, Cho, Haein, Haznar, Daria, Gonzalez, Arturo
Date: 2010, 2010-05
Description: Utilize previous presentations to inform and educate the public about the cause, impact, and responses to global warming. Divide the overall...
Show moreUtilize previous presentations to inform and educate the public about the cause, impact, and responses to global warming. Divide the overall issue into major aspects including the ones set by previous IPRO‟s while adding our own.
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Title: Impacts of Sulfur Capture Technology in Coal Power Plants (sequence unknown), IPRO 302 - Deliverables: IPRO 302 Midterm Presentation F09
Creator: Contreras, Abraham, Dickman, Justin, Enadeghe, Gregory, Garcia Rodriguez, Hector, Haddad, Michael, Kyle, Ryan, Mongillo, Michael, Murphy, Ryan, Shonubi, Oluwaseun, Swillum, Bryce, Wolber, Brian, Worthon, Terrika
Date: 2009-12
Description: The IPRO team was investigating the net impact of sulfur capture technologies used in current and next generation power plants in the United...
Show moreThe 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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Title: Machine Vibration Monitoring and Control Solutions for A. Finkl & sons (semester?), IPRO 331: Finkl Machine Vibration Monitoring and Control Solutions IPRO 331 Midterm Report Sp06
Creator: Lipanovich, Rachel, Calik, Martin, Barnard, Leland, Lee, Christopher, Matute, Matthew, Schreckengost, Mark, Sanchez, Daniel, Cahan, Craig, Kunin, Vitaliy, Min, Kyoung-min, Song, Sung, Contreras Vega, Jose
Date: 2006-05, 2006-05
Description: The purpose of this IPRO is to develop a system to automatically detect a problem with a mill at A. Finkl & Sons Co. The system with either...
Show moreThe purpose of this IPRO is to develop a system to automatically detect a problem with a mill at A. Finkl & Sons Co. The system with either turn the mill off or warn the operator when a tooth breaks, or some other irregularity occurs. This system will involve measuring vibration, sound, power, or some combination of these variables. This will replace the current setup, which involves an operator staying in close proximity to the mill to turn it off when a tooth breaks or any other irregularity occurs
Sponsorship: A. Finkl & Sons
Deliverables for IPRO 331: Machine Vibration Monitoring and Control Solutions for A. Finkl & sons for the Spring 2006 semester
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Title: Delta Hook Technologies (DHT) EnPRO 358: DHT EnPRO358MidTermPresentationSu10
Creator: Alkhovsky, Julie, Benjamin, Bryan, Carimichael, Jake, El-natour, Ibrahim, Lozanoski, Phillip, Pierce, Nicholas, Prout, Savannah, Richie-smith, Robert, Steponavicius, Nerijus, Tchobanova, Natacha, Walther, Alyssa, Winstanley, Samuel
Date: 2010, 2010-07
Description: Recreational fishing in the United States generates over a billion dollars of economic output and providing well over a million American’s...
Show moreRecreational fishing in the United States generates over a billion dollars of economic output and providing well over a million American’s with jobs. There are many variations of fishing hooks available that retain the same basic shape and structure, the most popular examples being, the standard J-hook and the standard treble hook. However, there are many limitations associated with existing fishing hooks. One such limitation is that fishing hooks are not able to reliably hold the fish after embedding. Introducing a barb to the hook helps resolve this issue, doing so however creates problems when setting the hook and furthermore, barbs can cause damage to the fish during the removal of the hook. Another concern is that contemporary fishing hooks have problems with snagging on nearby rock formations, algae, weeds, or other vegetation in the water.
Sponsorship: DHT
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Title: Enhancing Psychology Research through Advanced Communications Technology (semester?), IPRO 306
Creator: Abou-nemeh, Tarek, Chiu, Tina, Franke, Kevin, Hernandez, Krystin, Jacob, Alice, Jones, Chris, Miller, Chelsea, Vilenchik, Vlad, Walter, Stephanie
Date: 2007-05, 2007-05
Description: The purpose of the research done in the IPRO 306 Mood Research Lab is to contribute to the body of knowledge regarding the patterns and...
Show moreThe purpose of the research done in the IPRO 306 Mood Research Lab is to contribute to the body of knowledge regarding the patterns and accuracy of retrospective recall of affect in persons with Major Depressive Disorder. This will be accomplished by using Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) equipped with a standardized mood inventory to measure the recall accuracy in volunteers from the non-hospitalized, clinically depressed population and comparing it to that of volunteers from the healthy population.
Deliverables for IPRO 306: Enhancing Psychology Research through Advanced Communications Technology for the Spring 2007 semester
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Title: The 21st Century Farm (Semester Unknown) IPRO 336
Creator: Al-sabah, Mohammad, Antenor, Regine, Binet, Adrien, Broda, Dawid, Davis, Jacob, Derdelakos, Alexander, Gubser, Michael, Im, Hyeon, Handzel, Katarzyna, Kling, William, Lockom, Frank, Millham, Joseph, Nielsen, Lisa, O’keefe, Trevor, Ochoa, Jannette, Oraziman, Indira, Ostberg, Kristin, Phillips, Zachary, Schmidt, Michael, Silvestre, Ivan, Simmonds, Claire, Jake, Skaggs, Konrad, Sobon, Philip, Speroff, Todorova, Ralitza, Valmores, Travis, Wiff, Alexander
Date: 2010, 2010-05
Description: US POPULATION IS OVER 300,000,000 CITIZENS. CURRENTLY 81% OF AMERICANS LIVE IN CITIES, TRANSLATING INTO ABOUT 243,000,000 PEOPLE IN AND AROUND...
Show moreUS POPULATION IS OVER 300,000,000 CITIZENS. CURRENTLY 81% OF AMERICANS LIVE IN CITIES, TRANSLATING INTO ABOUT 243,000,000 PEOPLE IN AND AROUND CITY CENTERS AND GROWING. US CENSUS PROJECTIONS ESTIMATE THAT BY 2050 THE TOTAL POPULATION WILL REACH 438,000,000; WITHOUT ADJUSTMENTS TO URBAN PERCENTAGE THAT NUMBER INCLUDES ALMOST 350,000,000 PEOPLE LIVING IN A METROPOLITAN AREA.
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Title: Ramovation (Summer 2011) IPRO 364: Ramovation IPRO364 Summer2011 Final Presentation
Creator: Chlebek, Alicia, Mier, Fernando, Durbin, Grace, Pangere, Nick, Jureidini, Jad, Wylie, William, Oskierko-jeznacki, Evan, Law, Joseph, Weir, Joanna, Durbin, Kay, Lamoureux, Courtney, Sakib, Nazmus, Marx, Michael, Seryapin, Igor
Date: 2011, 2011-07
Description: IPRO 364: Ramovation has the great opportunity to assist our community partner, Save the Ramova organization, in the development of...
Show moreIPRO 364: Ramovation has the great opportunity to assist our community partner, Save the Ramova organization, in the development of preliminary design and business opportunity assessments for the renovation of the Ramova Theater. IPRO 364 is a continuing IPRO from the spring 2011 semester. From the spring semester, the IPRO 364 team created a preliminary program for the Ramova Theater renovation. The preliminary program was informed by analysis gathered from three research methods: case studies on other theater renovations, survey responses from the Bridgeport neighborhood and surrounding colleges, and contextual studies on neighborhoods similar to Bridgeport. A preliminary budget for the renovation was also determined. To tackle the summer 2011 IPRO workload, the summer team will divide into several sub groups which include the Design/Clean Energy Group, Budget/Finance Group, Case Study/Survey Group, and the Interview Group. In the summer semester, the IPRO team will expand on the preliminary program and preliminary budget created by the spring team. The IPRO group hopes the output from the Spring 2011, Summer 2011, and subsequent semesters will assist the Save the Ramova organization in presenting Ramova Theater renovation ideas to key stakeholders and also help spur development on the Halsted St. corridor of Bridgeport.
Sponsorship: Save the Ramova Organization
Project Plan for IPRO 364: Ramovation for the Summer 2011 semester
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Title: Affordable and Sustainable Water Solution for Under-Privileged Communities In India (Semester Unknown) EnPRO 355: AcaraChallengeEnPRO355FinalPresentationSp10
Creator: Xufeng, Miao, Rojo, Beitia David, Dias, Diego, Swingler, Mark, Shah, Pranay, Mbaegbu, Amaka, Choi, Tae
Date: 2010, 2010-05
Description: India’s huge and growing population is putting severe strain on all of the country’s natural resources. Most water sources are used on a...
Show moreIndia’s huge and growing population is putting severe strain on all of the country’s natural resources. Most water sources are used on a domestic, industrial and agricultural basis. The quality of the water used is presumed to be the major problem that the people face, but the real problem is the quantity of water supplied. Quite a few organizations have been engaged with supplying drinking water to the community, but still not enough to address the needs of all the different sectors of the community, especially irrigation. In order to increase the availability of water to the people, it is necessary that the people have alternative means of supply of water, and a strong sense of the value of water.
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Title: Volumes of Light - A School of the Performing and Visual Arts, Brooklyn.: School of the Arts Brooklyn Board 1
Creator: Cabal González, Sara
Date: 2012, 2012-05
Description: The school is a proposal for high-level academic performance in the form of an art condenser that will also be used after hours to house...
Show moreThe school is a proposal for high-level academic performance in the form of an art condenser that will also be used after hours to house community art events. Thus, it will act as a catalyst for future college students and serve as a magnet for neighborhood residents. As the art disciplines require, the classroom and their respective studio are integrated and considered as the basic unit that define different volumes for each art form. The massing, orientation, and materiality bring a unique quality of light to those “volumes of light”.
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Title: Increasing Alternative Transportation at IIT (Semester Unknown) IPRO 352: IncreasingAlternativeTransportation@IITIPRO352PosterSp11
Creator: Wu, Yijin, Williams, Tiauna, Binggeser, Peter, Hammond, Tom, Harris, Raymond, Potter, Quintin, Nguyen, Trang, Ross, Connor, Manoharan, Tryphaena, Muchna, Joseph, Ramminger, Max, Varghese, Danny, Lademan, Anthony
Date: 2011, 2011-05
Description: We want to celebrate the sustainable image of IIT by promoting bicycling at IIT. We want to increase awareness about the benefits of biking...
Show moreWe want to celebrate the sustainable image of IIT by promoting bicycling at IIT. We want to increase awareness about the benefits of biking and how it is the most useful and the most easiest and fastest way of transportation around IIT We want to continue the efforts of IIT and its attempt to be a more environmentally friendly and sustainable campus by showing the school the advantages of bicycling at IIT. We want to promote the facts of bicycles and the benefits it will bring to the community if used in a greater capacity.
Sponsorship: IIT
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$Diffractive cross sections implemented in PYTHIA8-MBR VS LHC results$

Title: Diffractive cross sections implemented in PYTHIA8-MBR VS LHC results, Proceedings of the XLIII International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics
Creator: Goulianos, Konstantin
Date: 2013-09-15, 2013-09-15
Publisher: IIT Press
Description: Diffractive cross sections implemented in the pythia8-mbr Monte Carlo simulation are reviewed and compared to results obtained at the Large...
Show moreDiffractive cross sections implemented in the pythia8-mbr Monte Carlo simulation are reviewed and compared to results obtained at the Large Hadron Collider.
Sponsorship: IIT College of Science, High Energy Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory
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Title: New United Center Arena (semester?), IPRO 335
Creator: Austin, Adon, Boundaoui, Elyes, Grajewski, Jeffrey, Hallberg, Amanda, Imam, Erum, Jahnke, Nicholas, Kechagias, Kallinikos, Mcdougal, Donald, Medina, Jorge, Patel, Jinit, Pedrola, Blanca, Kazimi, Syed, Roustan, Arianna, Sanz, Dennis, Suk, Myung-eun, Tay, Cyril, Rivera, Robert
Date: 2006-05, 2006-05
Description: This project involves design of a multipurpose sporting arena to be located within the city of Chicago. The arena should seat a capacity of...
Show moreThis project involves design of a multipurpose sporting arena to be located within the city of Chicago. The arena should seat a capacity of about 20,000 spectators and will house such sports as pro and college basketball, ice hockey, arena football, and also will be used for musical events. Assume the arena is to be located at the current location of United Center with the same amount of above ground area available for parking.
Deliverables for IPRO 335: New United Center Arena for the Spring 2006 semester
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Title: OPTIMAL SIGNAL TIMING DESIGN FOR URBAN STREET NETWORKS UNDER USER EQUILIBRIUM BASED TRAFFIC CONDITIONS
Creator: Liu, Yi
Date: 2015, 2015-05
Description: In the ever-growing travel demand, traffic congestion on freeways and expressways recurs more frequently at a higher number of locations and...
Show moreIn the ever-growing travel demand, traffic congestion on freeways and expressways recurs more frequently at a higher number of locations and for longer durations with added severity. This becomes especially true in large metropolitan areas. Particular to the urban areas, excessive crowdedness caused by inefficient traffic control also results in urban street networks operating in near or over-saturated conditions, leading to unpleasant travel experience due to long delays at intersections. As a consequence, the recurrent traffic congestion on roadway segments and vehicle delays at intersections inevitably compromise energy efficiency, traffic mobility improvement, safety enhancement, and environmental impacts mitigation. All too often, neither restraining travel demand nor expanding system capacity is desirable and practical. Conversely, effectively utilizing the capacity of the existing transportation system has been increasingly thought of as the solution to congestion relief. With respect to the urban street networks, developing effective means for urban intersection signal optimization becomes essential to reduce intersection delays. Conventional signal timing optimization methods use historical traffic data and assume that traffic flows will remains unchanged after the implementation of new signal timing plans. Traffic flows are assumed to be constant, but in fact, when signal timing plans change, travel times for some travel routes will alter, which requires drivers in the network to adjust their choice of travel routes to arrive at the destinations, and result in redistribution of traffic in the network. Therefore, the effects of interactions between signal timing plans and traffic flows need to be explicitly taken into consideration. This study introduces a new methodology that jointly considers signal timing optimization and traffic assignment in an overall analytical framework that contains model formulations under assumptions consistent with real world situations. Such a framework is well suited for applications in real world cases. Specifically, the overall optimization framework is formulated as a bilevel optimization problem. In the proposed basic model, at the upper level, a traffic signal timing optimization problem for urban network is introduced to minimize system total travel time by optimizing signal green splits. At the lower level, a static user equilibrium problem is formulated for networkwide traffic assignment. In the vehicle delay estimation, the time-dependent stochastic delay model in the 2010 Highway Capacity Manual (HCM 2010) is employed and formulated as Variational Inequality constraints, what allow the state-of-the-art MPEC solver, GAMS/NLPEC, to solve the problem for a local optimal effectively and efficiently. The bi-level optimization model is first tested using a small network (the test network) and a computational experiment using a subarea network in the Chicago central district is conducted to assess the practicality of the model formulation in real world applications. In order to import more reality to the basic model and also consider the potential system benefit that comes from different signal phasing design, an enhanced model is developed based on the basic model by employing integer and binary variables. Formulating the problem with binary variables allows for the selection of proper phasing design. Heuristic solution methods are proposed and tested using the test network.
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, May 2015
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Title: DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF THE KIRIE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT MODEL
Creator: Mendez, Thomas E.
Date: 2012-07-15, 2012-07
Description: The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRDGC) is tasked with protecting the public’s water supply and improving the...
Show moreThe Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRDGC) is tasked with protecting the public’s water supply and improving the quality of water in their service area’s watercourses. Principal in this mission are the seven wastewater treatment plants that are operated by MWRDGC. The greater Chicago area possesses a combined sewer system (CSS) that combines sanitary sewage and stormwater runoff. Because of this CSS, water reclamation plants are burdened with not only processing sewage and sanitary waste, but also stormwater runoff. As a result there can be a large variation in water quality and quantity. MWRDGC’s newest water reclamation plant is the James C. Kirie Water Reclamation Plant, which was completed in 1980. This plant operates as a nitrification plant with no separate distinct denitrification process. It is important to note that no clearly defined unit processes such as nitrification towers are utilized at the Kirie Water Reclamation Plant. Nitrification occurs primarily in the aeration basins and is currently sufficient to meet water quality standards. However, because of the current regulatory climate, stricter standards on effluent discharge are likely in the near future especially with respect to nutrients. Stricter standards on total nitrogen in effluent instead of the current ammonia limits are one such expected water quality change. As a result of this expectation, modeling modifications and processes at a treatment plant can be a key tool in adjusting to evolving standards. Because water reclamation plants vary greatly depending on their technology, influent and processes, computer modeling provides a convenient way to assess how the plant will react to dynamic changes in influent quality and still be able to meet static effluent standards. Although computer modeling has been applied to water reclamation plants for some time now, there are no clearly defined or accepted protocols for this modeling. Combined with the variation exhibited by various types of water reclamation plants, often modeling protocols must be custom created for individual plants or types of plants. What follows is a study and simulation of the Kirie Water Reclamation Plant. Simulation was used to examine wet weather events at the Kirie Water Reclamation Plant. Wet weather phenomena were explored in step-wise manner to determine the relative effects of different perturbations in influent water quality and quantity. The results show the various effects in effluent quality depending upon the variable or combination of variables deviated. Deviations in temperature and flow dominate all other variations simulated and result in the largest effect on effluent water quality. Deviations of 50% to both temperature and flow simultaneously yielded an increase in effluent BOD and NH3 at twice and six times the steady state values, respectively.
M.S. in Environmental Engineering, July 2012
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