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Hydrogen gas is considered as a clean fuel and energy carrier that its storage for future uses is a challenging issue. One of the methods to store it, is adsorption on a group of adsorbents called metal-organic frameworks. In this research, one of these frameworks called ZIF-8, has been selected to study hydrogen storage capability. To evaluate the effect of having two metals, a mixture of two metals was used in the synthesis process. To characterize the structure of the synthesized adsorbents, X-ray powder diffraction (XRD),adsorption and desorption of nitrogen at temperature of 77 K, Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM), energy-dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS) and... 

There are several case history records of liquefaction in gravelly layers with more broadly-graded particles than uniform sands which have been typically examined. Liquified deposits, in many cases, were subjected to initial static shear stress associated with the sloping ground condition or the adjacent shallow foundations prior to liquefaction. There are several graphs and recommendations for practitioners to consider the effects of the initial static shear stress on liquefaction resistance in design processes, developed based on the results of experiments on uniform clean sands. However, data for the effect of the initial static shear stress on the liquefaction strength of gravelly soils... 

The process of human populations growth, limited resources of fossil fuels and its environmental consequences have driven the international community to Renewable Energy. Microbial fuel cell (MFC) has ability of simultaneous wastewater treatment and electricity generation (Energy). This technology can be considered as one of the proposed solutions to reduce costs of wastewater treatment and power generation. Separators are one of the major components of the MFC that have direct impact on cell performance. On the other hand, high costs of the conventional types have caused to limiting development of the MFC in the last decade.
In this study, inexpensive and available glass wool membrane... 

According to studies, cancer is the second leading cause of death in the world and millions of people die from this disease every year. Early diagnosis is one of the most important factors in controlling and treating the disease. The ability of circulating tumor cells to diagnose and monitor the disease has led many researchers to focus on studying and researching these cells in recent years. However, due to the fact that the concentration of this type of cells in the blood is very low, their isolation is associated with challenges. Various methods isolate CTCs based on physical, biological and other differences in characteristics. In this study, we investigate performance of a microfluidic... 

In this study, the effect of submerged vanes on the flow pattern and dimensions of separation zone at a 90˚ open-channel Junction were investigated. The experiments were conducted in three stages. First, for validity of data with the results of webber et al, using ADV, velocities was teken without submerged vanes.in the second stage, experiments with dye injection was performed at confluence for several initial arrangement of vanes. From 54 different arrangements, two arrangements were selected. In three stage, three dimensional velocities was teken in two arrangement selected. Due to the significant reduction the size of separation zone in one of these arrangements, with moving this... 

Usage of FRP material is developed in recent year, because advantages of this material researcher studied the effect of this strengthening method on beam column and masonry structures, but few research’s related to RC arches that strengthen with FRP. This studies showed performance of structure properties but many parameters influence. In this research, a model developed that can model RC arch with FRP till complete failure, after verifying model with experimental result parametric study done. This parameter are effect of strengthening scheme, influence of shape of arch and geometry of arches. Concrete damage plasticity used for modeling behavior of concrete, also for modeling interface... 

Two phase cross flows around a body have seldom been studied until now and considering these flows can play a significant role in long-term reliability and safety of industrial systems. In this paper flow regimes, drag coefficient and void fraction around different cross-section prisms were considered. To achieve this aim, main equations of flow have been developed for investigation of drag coefficient in air-water two phase. Our numerical analyses were performed by a designed and written CFD package which is based on Eulerian-Eulerian approach. Geometries, which have been studied in this article, are: circle, rectangle and triangle, for different aspect ratio and leading edge angle,... 

Nowadays, cancer, which has been mentioned as the disease of the century, is the second leading cause of death throughout the world, and its incidence is constantly increasing. Isolation of circulating tumor cells is one of the most critical steps in diagnosing and controlling cancer progression. Due to the rarity of cancer cells compared to other cells in the blood sample, the isolation process requires optimal and high-precision devices. With the advent of inertial microfluidics, the ability to control the particles movement, the processing of blood samples as quickly and accurately as possible, and the viability of cells with a high percentage, introduced microfluidic systems as a... 

Phase separation of a 50:50 binary system composed of two prolate ellipsoids with different axis ratios is investigated through molecular dynamics simulation. The system can be considered as a coarse-grained model of a binary liquid crystal mixture. Phase separation has been detected in the system by changing the density as the control parameter. The system goes through two different phase changes, one being the phase change due to phase separation and the other one due to orientational phase transition. In the latter case coexistence of the two particles results in simultaneous phase transition  

In this project, two centrifugal microfluidic platforms with the goal of separation and genetical study of circulating tumor cells have been designed, simulated and fabricated. Circulating tumor cells are the ones that are detached from the cancer tumors, entered the blood and disseminated the danger of cancer through other parts of the body. Both passive and active methods of separation are investigated in this study. The passive method is based on the inertial effects of the fluid and the active method is based on the magnetophoretic force exerted from an external magnetic field. In order to use the active method, the magnetic nanoparticles are attached to the breast cancer cells by the... 

In the present investigation, experimental design, synthesis and evaluation of Verapamil, Albumin, Immonuglubline G and Trypsin imprinted polymers and finally Albumin imprinted poly(dopamine) nano-layer were presented. A bimodal polymerization approach as a combination of precipitation and dispersion polymerization was taken towards producing 500 nm particles for verapamil imprinting purpose. In this case the imprinting factor was 2.17. In a challenge for producing spherical particles with predefined size and pore properties the hierarchical polymerization in packed beds, using porous silica particles (particle size ca. 40 µm) was developed, as well. The method resolving the problems... 

There are a wide variety of radar systems that one of them is MIMO Radars. After a spark in communication in 1998 that developed MIMO communication, recently there has been a great attention towards MIMO radar systems. Researchers have studied this topic from several points of view. Generally, MIMO radar systems are divided into two categories: MIMO radars widely separated antennas and MIMO radars with collocated antennas. One of the important issues of widely separated MIMO radars, is the placement manner of receivers in the geometrical area. This radar’s performance is very dependent to placement of the antennas, because the performance is dependent to relative position of... 

There are a wide variety of radar systems that one of them is MIMO Radars. After a spark in communication in 1998 that developed MIMO communication, recently there has been a great attention towards MIMO radar systems. MIMO radars divided into co-located and widely separated branch. In this thesis, the spatial diversity and multiplexing gain and the tradeoff between them in MIMO communication and MIMO radar systems investigated. Diversity and multiplexing gains in communication defined analytically, so diversity and multiplexing gain presented as detection probability improvement and throughput or capacity improvement respectively. Also tradeoff between these two gains investigated... 

Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) isolation from a blood sample has an important value in cancer research and its treatment. Microfluidics provides a great potential for target cell separation from biological samples by using different physical principles. Among the microfluidic cell separation methods, the inertial microfluidic devices are advantageous in handling samples for point-of-care diagnostics due to their simple structure, fast, label-free and low-cost characteristics. In this thesis, first, we designed and investigated the application of a symmetric serpentine inertial microfluidic device for the separation of CTCs from whole blood. For this purpose, numerical modeling was performed... 

In this thesis, the separation process for used and relatively new catalysts of residue fluid catalytic cracking unit by applying an electric field was evaluated. The main purpose of this dissertation is to simulate and design a separation system for separating used and relatively new catalysts of the FCC process in the electrostatic fields. In this regard, various separators were studied, and most of them were simulated under different circumstances. Finally, after examining and analyzing the particle behavior in each of the scenarios, the proposed system was introduced as more effective and efficient than the other separators in order to achieve the ideal separation of the used and... 

The adsorption equilibria of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrogen on pelletized cation-exchanged faujasite zeolite (with alkali, alkaline earth, and transition metal ions) have been investigated by a volumetric apparatus. The standard instrumental analytical techniques, including X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) coupled with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), and atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) were utilized to characterize binder-free modified zeolites. The EDX spectra and AAS results revealed that the ion-exchange was successfully achieved with expected tendencies. The results indicate that the type of cation present in the zeolite... 

Rapid growth in energy consumption and environmental concerns over conventional power generation technologies has increased the need for alternative energy sources. Kinetic hydropower has been available for decades, however, despite its minimal environmental impact, commercialization has been limited. The main purpose of the first part of this thesis is investigation of flow properties near the convergent-divergent nozzles with various geometries. Two parameters that studied include variation of drag force on body and mean velocity of water flow in middle cross section. In the second part, we studied a horizontal marine current turbine (which its geometry is taken from a NREL wind... 

Current study reports a state-of-the-art approach for synthesis of nanocatalyst based on Oxo-vanadium Schiff base complex which itself is, covalently, immobilized on core-shell magnetic nanoparticles of silica-modified magnetite (Fe3O4@SiO2) and the substantial potential it offers as heterogeneous catalyst in selective oxidation of sulfides.Synthesized materials and complexes in this project were characterized by means of modern spectral devices such as FT-IR, XRD and SEM.Unlike routine process of the preparation of heterogeneous catalysts that requires further modification of the core-shell nanoparticles with capping agents, here we have been capable of cutting some time-consuming steps... 

Cancer is an abnormal growth of cells which is one of the major cause of worldwide’s mortality. Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs) are rare cancer cells released from the primary or metastatic tumors and transported though the peripheral circulatory system and spreads in body and seize healthy organs. Early detection of CTCs can help in overtaking the cancer, hence isolation of CTCs is an essential step for many therapeutics. In spite of its clinical potential, the isolation and detection of CTCs has been a challenging task due to its rare presence amongst other blood cells (as low as 1–10 CTCs per billions of blood cells), similarity to white blood cell in size and also variability in terms of... 

Today, the determination and therapy of numerous illnesses, including malignant growth, relies upon the information and assessment of platelets, so blood testing and cell examination is fundamental to survey the movement of disease. The lab on a chip innovation is utilized as an extremely productive device in cell studies. The lab on a chip is used as a foundation and a substrate for making a legitimate stream for cell processes in medication. This innovation is a gadget or framework with millimeters or centimeters aspects like a chip, and it performs research facility handling on a micron-scale. In spite of the fact that it has a few impediments, it has so many values; for example, it...