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Incorporating the interfacial friction angle concept into the PDC single cutter and full bit modeling
(2019-12)
Over the past century, oil and gas served an important role in the US energy sector. The oil industry continually has worked to reduce the drilling cost by increasing drilling efficiency. Drilling is a time-consuming and ...
Ex Vivo Generation of Dendritic Cells Within a Vascular Bioreactor
(2019-05)
Dendritic cells (DCs) play a prime role in the activation and control of the immune system and have promising potential in the treatment of cancer, viral infection, autoimmune diseases and transplantation rejection. DCs ...
Evaluating tissue culture platforms for use in drug development: A multi-method validational approach
(2017-12)
There has been significant interest in the development of synthetic tissue constructs for drug screening. Multiple approaches to developing tissue cultures that mimic in vivo conditions have been investigated, including ...
Quantitative structure-property relationship modeling & computer-aided molecular design: Improvements & applications
(2012-05)
Scope and Method of Study: The objective of this work was to develop an integrated capability to design molecules with desired properties. An automated robust genetic algorithm (GA) module has been developed to facilitate ...
New liquid holdup, load point and flooding velocity models in different regions of operations for a structured packed column
(2014-12)
Scope and Method of Study: Liquid holdup of structured packed column affects the pressure drop, flooding velocity, and HETP. For this reason, liquid holdup was used as an important model parameter by different researchers ...
Accelerating convergence of leapfrogging optimization - Applications to nonlinear process modeling and nonlinear model predictive control
(2014-07)
Conventionally used optimization methods in chemical engineering applications such as linear programming (LP), Levenberg-Marquardt and sequential quadratic programming (SQP) handle nonlinear objective function (OF) surfaces ...
Development of a predictive equation of state for equilibrium and volumetric properties of diverse molecules and their mixtures
(2014-12)
Accurate prediction of the phase equilibrium and volumetric properties of pure fluids and their mixtures is essential for chemical process design and related applications. Although experiments provide accurate data at ...
Characterization of petroleum refinery LP results under conditions of degeneracy
(2010-12)
Scope and Method of Study
Dynamic aspects of sprays for absorption applications
(2015-05)
Spray columns show potential for absorption applications such as CO2 capture because of the low gas phase pressure drop and resistivity to the corrosive action of amine solvents such as Monoethanolamine (MEA) due to the ...
Leapfrogging with improved initialization and its applications: Demonstration of leapfrogging on horizon predictive control of a heat exchanger
(2014-07)
Leapfrogging (LF) is a recently developed optimization technique that initially places players in random spots in the feasible decision variable space [1]. The approach to reach the global optimum is by "Leaping" the player ...