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    Integrated Safe Design of Industrial Processes under Uncertainty

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Meghdari, Mojtaba (Author) ; Rashtchian, Davood (Supervisor) ; Sharifzadeh, Monireh (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    Chemical industries are associated with hazardous chemicals and extreme operating conditions. Unsafe events can incur dramatic costs in terms of the loss of life, financial penalties and damages to the environment. Therefore, design of industrial processes which can be operated safely over a wide range of operating conditions is vital. Nevertheless, operation of industrial processes is a strong function of their design. If the process is initially poorly designed, ensuring its safe operation, if not impossible, would require costly modifications at the operational phases. This observation is due to the fact that process design decisions (e.g. design of process equipment) often have a... 

    Fuzzy clustering of vertical two phase flow regimes based on image processing technique

    , Article American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fluids Engineering Division (Publication) FEDSM, 1 August 2010 through 5 August 2010, Montreal, QC ; Volume 2 , 2010 , Pages 303-313 ; 08888116 (ISSN) ; 9780791849491 (ISBN) Ghanbarzadeh, S ; Hanafizadeh, P ; Hassan, M ; Bozorgmehry, R. B ; Sharif University of Technology
    2010
    Abstract
    In order to safe design and optimize performance of industrial systems which work under two phase flow conditions, it's often needed to categorize flow into different regimes. In present work the experiments of two phase flow were done in a large scale test facility with length of 6m and 5cm diameter. Four main flow regimes were observed in vertical air-water two phase flows at moderate superficial velocities of gas and water: Bubbly, Slug, Churn and Annular. Some image processing techniques were used to extract information from each picture. This information include number of bubbles or objects, area, perimeter, height and width of objects (second phase).Also a texture feature extraction... 

    Intelligent regime recognition in upward vertical gas-liquid two phase flow using neural network techniques

    , Article American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fluids Engineering Division (Publication) FEDSM, 1 August 2010 through 5 August 2010, Montreal, QC ; Volume 2 , 2010 , Pages 293-302 ; 08888116 (ISSN) ; 9780791849491 (ISBN) Ghanbarzadeh, S ; Hanafizadeh, P ; Saidi, M. H ; Bozorgmehry Boozarjomehry, R ; Sharif University of Technology
    2010
    Abstract
    In order to safe design and optimize performance of some industrial systems, it's often needed to categorize two-phase flow into different regimes. In each flow regime, flow conditions have similar geometric and hydrodynamic characteristics. Traditionally, flow regime identification was carried out by flow visualization or instrumental indicators. In this research3 kind of neural networks have been used to predict system characteristic and flow regime, and results of them were compared: radial basis function neural networks, self organized and Multilayer perceptrons (supervised) neural networks. The data bank contains experimental pressure signalfor a wide range of operational conditions in... 

    Modeling of forced vibration of marine structural systems under dynamic loads of sea waves

    , Article 18th Australasian Coastal and Ocean Engineering Conference 2007, COASTS 2007 and the 11th Australasian Port and Harbour Conference 2007, PORTS 2007, Melbourne, VIC, 18 July 2007 through 20 July 2007 ; 2007 , Pages 560-565 ; 9781622764280 (ISBN) Jafari, A ; Kanani, A ; Farahani, R. J ; Sharif University of Technology
    2007
    Abstract
    Predicting the reaction and function of marine structures towards sea waves, is of significant importance in the design of them. There are some uncertain parameters which can be optimized to increase safety factors as well as to decrease the costs. Knowing the maximum oscillation of marine structures due to dynamic forces will play a great role on structures' safe design. The objective of this paper is to employ a reliable numerical technique to analyze the interaction between marine structures and sea waves. Simulink is an object oriented dynamic simulation package. It can develop new analysis tools aimed at a better understanding and prediction of the physics that governs the behavior of... 

    Cell "vision": Complementary factor of protein corona in nanotoxicology

    , Article Nanoscale ; Volume 4, Issue 17 , 2012 , Pages 5461-5468 ; 20403364 (ISSN) Mahmoudi, M ; Saeedi-Eslami, S. N ; Shokrgozar, M. A ; Azadmanesh, K ; Hassanlou, M ; Kalhor, H. R ; Burtea, C ; Rothen Rutishauser, B ; Laurent, S ; Sheibani, S ; Vali, H ; Sharif University of Technology
    RSC  2012
    Abstract
    Engineered nanoparticles are increasingly being considered for use as biosensors, imaging agents and drug delivery vehicles. Their versatility in design and applications make them an attractive proposition for new biological and biomedical approaches. Despite the remarkable speed of development in nanoscience, relatively little is known about the interaction of nanoscale objects with living systems. In a biological fluid, proteins associate with nanoparticles, and the amount and the presentation of the proteins on their surface could lead to a different in vivo response than an uncoated particle. Here, in addition to protein adsorption, we are going to introduce concept of cell "vision",...