Search results for " minimization"

Comparison between ozonation and the OSA process: analysis of excess sludge reduction and biomass activity in two different pilot plants

2012

The excess biomass produced during biological treatment of municipal wastewater represents a major issue worldwide, as its disposal implies environmental, economic and social impacts. Therefore, there has been a growing interest in developing technologies to reduce sludge production. The main proposed strategies can be categorized according to the place inside the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) where the reduction takes place. In particular, sludge minimization can be achieved in the wastewater line as well as in the sludge line. This paper presents the results of two pilot scale systems, to evaluate their feasibility for sludge reduction and to understand their effect on biomass activit…

Advanced energetics of a Multiple-Effects-Evaporation (MEE) desalination plant. Part II: Potential of the cost formation process and prospects for en…

2010

This paper represents the 2nd part of a paper in two parts. In part I a 2nd Principle analysis of a Multiple- Effects-Evaporation (MEE) process has been proposed. In this Part II perspectives for process improvement will be investigated, along two distinct research lines: the thermoeconomics-aided optimization of a new system and the increase of thermal efficiency for existing systems by a pinch-based plant retrofit. As concerns the first research line, a detailed productive structure for the plant stage (i.e. effect) examined in Part I is presented; the cost formation structure is then used to improve a simplified optimization process, revealing capable to properly reflect the interactions…

A worrisome failure of the CC2 coupled-cluster method when applied to ozone

2010

Abstract The approximate coupled-cluster singles and doubles model CC2 is widely used for calculations of excited states in large molecules. We demonstrate a surprising failure of the CC2 geometry optimization of ozone, whereby the CC2 method predicts a barrierless, exothermic, and symmetric dissociation to three oxygen atoms. This is particularly astonishing since both second-order Moller–Plesset perturbation theory and coupled-cluster singles and doubles give reasonable equilibrium structures. We find that [ [ H , T 1 ] , T 1 ] leads to an unbalanced treatment of T 1 and T 2 in the CC2 equations. Results presented here suggest that considerable caution should be exercised when applying th…

Complexity of probabilistic versus deterministic automata

2005

Efficiency Control for Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generators

2006

In this paper a control algorithm for the efficiency improvement of permanent magnet synchronous generators (PMSG) is presented. The proposed algorithm reduces the losses of the generator without affecting its performances. In details, after a description of a dynamic model of the PMSG, which has been purposely modified in order to take into account the iron losses, the basic equations and the constraints to obtain the loss minimization are presented and discussed. Some simulations of a specific PMSG employing the proposed algorithm are performed. The results of these simulations show that enhancement of the efficiency up to 3 % can be reached in comparison to a PMSG using a traditional con…

Minimization of detent force in a 1 kW linear permanent magnet generator for the conversion of sea waves energy: Numerical and experimental validation

2015

Linear permanent magnet generators are widely considered for the direct conversion of energy contained in sea waves [1-3]. Both planar and tubular structures have been proposed [4-6] and all these structures present several advantages: relative high efficiency, simplicity of the structures, high sturdiness. However, as all other linear machines they present some drawbacks: oscillations in the movement, distortion in the generated electromotive force (emf), etc. In this paper we focus our attention on the parasitic oscillations of the translator which are caused by the presence of a high detent force. Detent force is generated by the fact that magnetic energy presents a minimum when the leng…

Sustainable Approach to Waste-Minimized Sonogashira Cross-Coupling Reaction Based on Recoverable/Reusable Heterogeneous Catalytic/Base System and Ace…

2016

In this contribution, we present a chemically efficient and sustainable protocol for the palladium-catalyzed copper-free Sonogashira cross-coupling reaction, based on the use of a heterogeneous catalytic system. This consists in the combination of a palladium catalyst on highly cross-linked thiazolidine network on silica and a polystyrene-supported base. The solid catalyst/base system acts as a palladium scavenger avoiding leaching of the metal and consequent product contamination. The reaction can be conducted in safe and easily recoverable acetonitrile/water azeotrope as reaction medium. This proved to be an efficient greener alternative to the classic toxic aprotic media commonly used in…

Joint User Association and Dynamic Beam Operation for High Latitude Muti-beam LEO Satellites

2021

In Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites, which run in polar orbit, the area of overlap among beams becomes wider as the latitude of satellites increases, which leads to intolerable interference and extra energy consumption. To minimize the onboard power with QoS requirements, we propose an energy optimization model with considering power allocation, user association and dynamic beam ON/OFF operation jointly. Moreover, the frequent beam ON/OFF operations lead to the large number of user handovers, so handover cost is also considered in the model. The original problem is decomposed into two levels due to the high coupling of variables and the successive convex approximation is employed. A low com…

AMYR 2: A new version of a computer program for pair potential calculation of molecular associations

1998

AMYR is a computer program for the calculation of molecular associations using Fraga's pairwise atom-atom potential. The interaction energy is evaluated through a 1R expansion. The electrostatic energy is calculated through either the one-centre-per atom or the three-centres-per atom model by Hunter and Sanders. A pairwise dispersion energy term is included in the potential and corrected by a damping function. The program carries out energy minimizations through variable metric methods. The new version allows for the stationary point analysis of the intermolecular potential by means of the Hessian eigenvalues. Although using low-gradient thresholds optimization procedures to avoid many stat…

On Extremal Cases of the Hopcroft's Algorithm

2010

In this paper we consider the problem of minimization of deterministic finite automata (DFA) with reference to Hopcroft’s algorithm. Hopcroft’s algorithm has several degrees of freedom, so there can exist different executions that can lead to different sequences of refinements of the set of the states up to the final partition. We find an infinite family of binary automata for which such a process is unique, whatever strategy is chosen. Some recent papers (cf. Berstel and Carton (2004) [3], Castiglione et al. (2008) [6] and Berstel et al. (2009) [1]) have been devoted to find families of automata for which Hopcroft’s algorithm has its worst execution time. They are unary automata associated…