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- The world's playground: final_board_2
- Creator
- Yeon, Eungju
- Date
- 2012-04-25, 2012-05
- Description
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Olympic cultural center for 2012, Korea
- Title
- Delta Shelter (sequence unknown), IPRO 311 - Deliverables: IPRO 311 Final Report F09
- Creator
- Schug, Timothy, Bradley, Joshua, Cahan, Noah, Dobbin, Dan, Hallenbeck, Jeff, Jordan, Davyd, Strandquist, Brad, Dohm, Jacob, Hoffman, Kent, Lee, Woong-kyo, Waisath, Nathan
- Date
- 2009-12
- Description
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The Delta Tau Delta fraternity wants to make their current house as energy efficient and green as possible. The team will look at all aspects...
Show moreThe Delta Tau Delta fraternity wants to make their current house as energy efficient and green as possible. The team will look at all aspects of the DTD house and their operations to create a more energy efficient fraternity. During the term, the team will consider possible alternatives to many issues including but not limited to: mechanical heating system, building envelope, thermal properties of buildings perimeter, roofing materials, air infiltration, ventilation, and occupancy trends.
Deliverables for IPRO 311: Delta Shelter for the fall 2009
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- DEVELOPMENT OF AN EMBEDDED CONTROLLER FOR TWO QUADRANT OPERATION OF BLDC MOTORS IN AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS
- Creator
- Liu, Yizhe
- Date
- 2011-07-06, 2011-07
- Description
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Due to growing concerns over the availability of non-renewable petroleum products and the increasing emphasis on protecting our environment...
Show moreDue to growing concerns over the availability of non-renewable petroleum products and the increasing emphasis on protecting our environment from green house gas emissions, plug-in hybrid electric vehicle and hybrid electric vehicles have been gaining increasing popularity over recent years. This has led to the design of advanced drive systems using different electric motors such as BLDC, PMSM, IM and SRM. An electric motor/generator requires controller that not only has a strong I/O control function, but also high speed signal processing ability for realizing real time control. Therefore, a DSP (Digital Signal Processors), which integrates flexible multiple PWM signal generator, high speed high precision ADC and encoder interface for motor speed and position feedback, is considered as one of the strongest controllers for electric motor control. Owing to a growing emphasis on identification, interference, and communication of security services of drive train in intelligent PHEVs and HEVs, a DSP can also be used to identify and isolate security issues in the integrity of the drive train in PHEVs and EVs. This thesis has two main contributions: a) it focuses on the development of an embedded controller using TMS320LF2812 DSP to realize two quadrant control of the BLDC; and b) it develops an automotive test bench to identify and investigate some potential security issues using the embedded controller’s eCAN communication function.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, May 2011
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- Bifilar Magnetic Recording System
- Creator
- Camras, Marvin
- Date
- 1949-09-13
- Description
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Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
- Title
- Detonator
- Creator
- Savitt, Jacob, Stresau, Richard H., Weber, John P.
- Date
- 1962-11-06
- Description
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Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
- Title
- Distributed Feed Fuel Cell Stack
- Creator
- Al-qattan, Ayman M., Chmielewski, Donald J., Al-hallaj, Said
- Date
- 2012-03-20, 2009-12-15
- Description
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A fuel cell having a distributed fuel feed in which the heat generation profile can be better controlled. Fuel channel stack and system...
Show moreA fuel cell having a distributed fuel feed in which the heat generation profile can be better controlled. Fuel channel stack and system efficiency improvements are achieved.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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- Title
- Hafnium Base Alloy (Boron)
- Creator
- Hill, Vernon L., Nichols, Harry R.
- Date
- 2009-04-27, 1971-11-23
- Description
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Hafnium tantalum alloy containing about 15 and about 35 weight percent tantalum, between about 0.03 and about 2.0 weight percent boron, and at...
Show moreHafnium tantalum alloy containing about 15 and about 35 weight percent tantalum, between about 0.03 and about 2.0 weight percent boron, and at least one additional alloying agent selected from chromium, silicon and aluminum.
Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent
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- Title
- waterWORKS
- Creator
- Webster, Reed
- Date
- 5/3/2011, 2011-05
- Description
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Water shortages will be a global problem by the year 2025. With the Great Lakes Basin accounting for 95% of the fresh water in the United...
Show moreWater shortages will be a global problem by the year 2025. With the Great Lakes Basin accounting for 95% of the fresh water in the United States it will soon become our most valuable natural resource. In re-defining urban relationships to the Great Lakes a healthy, ecologically stable, and regenerative water system can become our greatest national asset. Providing a prototype solution for one of these urban areas (Traverse City, MI) may set a precedent for long term protection of the Great Lakes.
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- HIGH RISE BUILDING: turbine whole view
- Creator
- Sun, Yanfang
- Date
- 2012-05-08, 2012-05
- Description
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MIXED USE HIGH RISE BUILDING DESIGN COMBINING WIND TURBINE, IN ORDER TO FIND A SUSTAINABLE WAY TO USING CLEAN ENERGY
- Title
- Signal Transducer Systems
- Creator
- Camras, Marvin
- Date
- 4/24/2009, 1970-04-14
- Description
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Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent
- Title
- Two-phase Heat Transport Device using Electrohydrodynamic Conduction Pumping
- Creator
- Yagoobi, Jamal Seyed, Pearson, Matthew R.
- Date
- 2013-10-30, 2013-10-29
- Description
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An electrohydrodynamic conduction liquid pumping system having a vessel configured to contain a liquid therein, a single pair or multi-pairs...
Show moreAn electrohydrodynamic conduction liquid pumping system having a vessel configured to contain a liquid therein, a single pair or multi-pairs of electrodes disposed in a circularly spaced apart relationship to each other inside the vessel and configured to be oriented in the liquid. A power supply is coupled to the electrodes and configured to generate electric fields in-between each electrode pair to induce a net radial pumping of the liquid. A heat source is provided to produce heat sufficient to boil and vaporize the liquid while non-vaporized liquid moving toward the heat source prevents over-heating of the heat source. A heat sink is configured to have a operating temperature below the vaporization temperature of the liquid so that contact of the vapor with the heat sink will condense the vapor into a liquid to replenish the liquid supply moving toward the heat source.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
Primary US Patent Classification 417/48
US Patent Classification 361/700
US Patent Classification 361/702
International Patent Classification F04B 37/00
International Patent Classification H05K 7/20
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- Title
- HIGH RISE BUILDING: perspective 1
- Creator
- Sun, Yanfang
- Date
- 2012-05-08, 2012-05
- Description
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MIXED USE HIGH RISE BUILDING DESIGN COMBINING WIND TURBINE, IN ORDER TO FIND A SUSTAINABLE WAY TO USING CLEAN ENERGY
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- FORCED PERIODIC OPERATION OF TUBULAR REACTORS
- Creator
- Ozgulsen, F., Cinar, A.
- Date
- 1994-10
- Publisher
- PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
- Description
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Forced periodic operation of tubular reactors can increase conversion and yield if proper operating conditions and forcing policies are...
Show moreForced periodic operation of tubular reactors can increase conversion and yield if proper operating conditions and forcing policies are selected. A numerical approach is proposed for computing the effects of periodic input forcing by a shooting algorithm. Such computational tools permit the assessment of the benefits of forced periodic operation of a specific reactor system and the identification of the ranges of operating conditions where forced periodic operation is beneficial. This information provides valuable insight for planning detailed experimental studies. Determining the influential input variables and bracketing the ranges of the operating conditions for improving reactor performance will reduce significantly the experiments needed for selecting the most favorable reactor operation policies. The application of the numerical algorithm is illustrated by assessing the benefits of forced periodic operation to a CO oxidation reactor model. The results reveal substantial improvement in performance with slow cycling in feed concentration.
Endnote format citation
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- Title
- Method and Apparatus for Treating Materials
- Creator
- Schey, John A.
- Date
- 2009-04-27, 1971-02-09
- Description
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Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent
- Title
- Process to Allocate Channels in a Sectorized Cellular Network
- Creator
- Nguyen, Vincent Ahndzung, Wan, Peng-jun, Frieder, Ophir
- Date
- 2012-05-02, 2012-04-24
- Description
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The invention disclosed is a process to allocate channels in a sectorized cellular network. A system of allocating cellular frequencies ...
Show moreThe invention disclosed is a process to allocate channels in a sectorized cellular network. A system of allocating cellular frequencies (channels) to the sectors among the cells within a tile is disclosed which maximizes channel set usage within the tile while avoiding co-channel interference between cells. According to the present system, no infrastructure rebuild is required. The disclosed approach further supports all currently used cellular technology. By alternating and rotating the channel assignments across sectors, what is a seemingly locally poor algorithm utilizing additional local channels is actually a globally good algorithm which is efficient in terms of the total number of channels used owing to short reuse distance and low number of cell types.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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- Title
- STATISTICAL METHODS FOR LARGE-SCALE TRANSPORTATION NETWORK TRAFFIC VOLUME FORECASTING
- Creator
- Meng, Xiao
- Date
- 2012-11-27, 2012-12
- Description
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Forecasting is the procedure of making declarations about future events whose actual outcomes have not yet been observed. A lot of decisions...
Show moreForecasting is the procedure of making declarations about future events whose actual outcomes have not yet been observed. A lot of decisions are made based on predictions of future unknown events. Knowing the essence of forecasting, it is not hard to interpret what traffic volume forecasting is. Traffic volume forecasting is the process of estimating the number of vehicles that will be on a planned highway in the future. It plays important roles in different aspects of transportation and related field, such as highway level of service analysis, measure of effectiveness, highway improvement and expansion, geometric design and air quality analysis, etc. A good forecast is needed for decision making in future land use and transportation planning. City and county planners can provide useful information about land use planning and projected developments. County engineers may provide information about future county projects that may cause detours and changes in traffic patterns along a trunk highway. Highway designers need forecasted traffic volumes to ensure proper geometric designs. Since short term forecasting has been a hot topic on research, many statistical methods have been used, such as the mean, historical moving average, exponential smoothing, and autoregressive integrated moving average. Among them, Box Jenkins method (Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average) has been found as the best model on forecasting of time series data with seasonality and trend.
M.S. in Civil Engineering, December 2012
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- DYNAMIC SIMULATION AND LOAD MODELING FOR VOLTAGE RECOVERY STUDIES WITH THREE-PHASE AND SINGLE-PHASE INDUCTION MOTORS
- Creator
- Zhang, Jingpei
- Date
- 2017, 2017-05
- Description
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Transient stability topics have been popular in modern power systems and time domain simulation provides an efficient evaluation for...
Show moreTransient stability topics have been popular in modern power systems and time domain simulation provides an efficient evaluation for correlative studies. So far, we have been working on developing advanced time-domain simulator TS3ph, which implements simulation on electromechanical level but with three-phase completed network model to enable unbalanced modeling and simulation. In this paper, modeling and development work of TS3ph are being introduced. Positive-sequence equivalent and three-phase based models, including static var compensator, governor and three-phase induction motor models, are built and validated to evaluate their dynamic behaviors in transient state. Moreover, research work on single phase induction motor model development, including important motor behaviors such as motor stalling, is also introduced in this paper for voltage collapse and recovery study. This is indeed the first time to apply such model on electromechanical simulator as well.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, May 2017
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- Zero CommunIITy: A Prototype for a Zero-Energy Residential Development (sequence unknown), IPRO 323 - Deliverables: IPRO 323 Final Report F09
- Creator
- Bohac, Adam, Brady, David, Bueno, Juan, Coughlin, Daniel, Depalma, Lowell, Gonzalez, Juan, Gross, Josh, Hernandez, Carlos, Iversen, Jennifer, Mckinley, Keanen, Moceri, Michael, Modi, Nishant, Wisniewski, Anthony, Zacharias, Bryan
- Date
- 2009-12
- Description
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The teams purpose is to seek a union between living comfortably and living sustainably. To design for a future Chicago‐area community, which...
Show moreThe teams purpose is to seek a union between living comfortably and living sustainably. To design for a future Chicago‐area community, which first minimizes its energy consumption and then uses the most sustainable methods to fulfill the remaining needs of the inhabitants. Ideally we will design a model community which will challenge conventions within the fields of design, planning, engineering, and everyday living. This community will also serve as an example to Chicago‐area municipalities about the benefits of sustainable planning, design, and living.
Sponsorship: Consultant from A. Epstein & Sons; Jeremy Poling
Deliverables for IPRO 323:Zero CommunIITy: A Prototype for a Zero-Energy Residential Development for the fall 2009 semester
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- Method of Producing Hydrazine
- Creator
- Gunning, Harry E., Khan, Allan
- Date
- 1956-02-28
- Description
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Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent