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Klaus Röbenack and Stefan Palis
The classical buck converter is a very common DC?DC converter, which reduces an higher input supply voltage to a lower output load voltage. Replacing the inductor and the capacitor by a transmission line, we obtain a distributed buck converter, which can...
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Christian Camacho, Hernan Alvarez, Jorge Espin and Oscar Camacho
This paper presents a dynamic sliding mode control (DSMC) for open-loop unstable chemical or biochemical processes with a time delay. The controller is based on the sliding mode and internal model control concepts. The proposed DSMC has an internal P/PD ...
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Thabang Mafokwane and Daramy Vandi Von Kallon
A non-intrusive cleaning method for boiler tubes at Sasol Synfuels power station at Secunda, in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa, is preferred over conventional methods that require boiler shutdown. The elected non-intrusive cleaning method utiliz...
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Gun-Baek So
As international regulations on greenhouse gas emissions are becoming stricter, the development of eco-friendly main engines is required for ocean-going ships. To use cryogenic LNG as a fuel for marine engines, it has to be converted to gas. This process...
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Nabil Nassif, Mostafa Tahmasebi, Iffat Ridwana and Pejman Ebrahimi
Buildings account for a large portion of the total energy use in the US; therefore, improving the operation of typical variable-air-volume (VAV) systems in buildings can provide a tremendous economic opportunity. ASHRAE Guideline 36 recommends a resettin...
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Arman Alahyari, David Pozo and Meisam Farrokhifar
With the recent advent of technology within the smart grid, many conventional concepts of power systems have undergone drastic changes. Owing to technological developments, even small customers can monitor their energy consumption and schedule household ...
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Baris Baykant Alagoz, Aleksei Tepljakov, Eduard Petlenkov and Celaleddin Yeroglu
Due to unpredictable and fluctuating conditions in real-world control system applications, disturbance rejection is a substantial factor in robust control performance. The inherent disturbance rejection capacity of classical closed loop control systems i...
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Hossein Alimohammadi, Baris Baykant Alagoz, Aleksei Tepljakov, Kristina Vassiljeva and Eduard Petlenkov
Real control systems require robust control performance to deal with unpredictable and altering operating conditions of real-world systems. Improvement of disturbance rejection control performance should be considered as one of the essential control obje...
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Ioana Nascu, Ioan Nascu
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This paper investigates the performance of a new predictive control approach used to improve the energy efficiency and effluent quality of a conventional Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP). A modified variant of the well-known Generalized Predictive Contr...
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Soon-kyu Hwang and Byung-gun Jung
Liquefied natural gas began to attract attention as a ship fuel to reduce environmental pollution and increase energy efficiency. During this period, highly efficient internal combustion engines emerged as the new propulsion system instead of steam turbi...
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