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A growing number of distributed information systems need to operate in open, dynamic and heterogeneous environments, and are required to adapt themselves to environmental changes in order to satisfy specific design objectives. These self-adaptive systems are inherently complex, mainly due to the complexity of their environments and the effects of dynamic adjustments made to their structure and behavior. Developing such complex systems is still an important challenge insoftware engineering.Agent technology is considered as an appropriate and powerful paradigm for developing complex and dynamic distributed systems. Intelligent/autonomous agents have been proved useful for enhancing flexibility... 

Today, the need to access very small environments is felt in various medical, industrial, biological and military fields. Due to their small size, microrobots have the ability to perform tasks that would be very difficult to do on a larger scale, but this ability of microrobots makes feeding and controlling them challenging. There are several methods for providing power and control of microrobots, which include their internal or external stimulation, among which the magnetic stimulation method is used in this research, which does not cause damage to body tissues.In this thesis, an electromagnetic system with nine cylindrical coils is used to control the three-dimensional movement of magnetic... 

Since steady state behavior of a plant is affected by the change of various inputs to the plant, the transient behavior of the chemical plants are also very important in their general performance. On the other hand, catalytic hydrotreating is one of the most important processes in crude oil refining process in many aspects such as economical, technical and environmental. Thus, the goal of this project was dynamic simulation and control of catalytic hydrotreating unit (UNIFINER Unit) of Tehran Refinery with using the HYSYS software. To fulfill this target, data that were necessary for simulation were gathered from Unifiner unit of Tehran refinery at first. Then, steady state simulation of the... 

In control engineering we want to set dynamic behavior of the system to a desired one and having a model that simulate systems behavior is necessary . System identification is a branch of chemical engineering that provide us this model , which divided into different branches itself . In this project we use object oriented programming to design and implement a software that support black box models such as Neural networks in addition to Mechanistic models (Which was implemented in previous project ) for identification . We use UML and C++ language in C++ Borland Builder in this project  

The gradual exhaustion of oil and gas resources and the various problems involved in their pollution makes it necessary to promote a renewable energy system. One of the most interesting developments of standalone systems based on the utilization of hydrogen is solar hydrogen system. Central and southern Iran exhibit an excellent solar climate which makes them ideal places for solar hydrogen systems. The economy of Iran is based on oil and it has one of the largest reserves of oil and gas in the world but the reserves would not be enough to meet the domestic and export markets starting in three to four decades. Moreover, elimination of energy subsidies in Iran, will led to more tendencies to... 

In this thesis a general model for simulation of solar cooler for domestic usage is developed. The model consists of 2 main parts: thermo-dynamical and economical calculations. The thermodynamic part consists of 4 sub models: a model for calculation of incoming solar radiation, cooling load demand calculation, the refrigeration cycle and the solar cycle with heat storage.As for hourly calculation of system performance part of the model produces the hourly received radiation data based on geographical position and orientation of the receiving surface. Base on results of the cooling load calculation for a 9 m2 studying room located in western part of Tehran, 1 TBR (3.516 kW) is chosen as... 

Traditionally, chemical Process design is focused on the selection of technologies and optimization based on economic consideration .In the 1970’s because of the global energy crisis, other consideration consider with economic goals .in this study we are eager to provide design procedures and guidance for optimizing chemical processes simultaneously based on economic and environmental aspects .this optimization is applied to production maleic anhydride(MA) from n-butane feedstock .an optimization algorithm based on the genetic algorithm with four decision variables(recycle flow ratio ,air to feed ratio ,solvent flow and reactor temperature ).for including dynamic objective in optimization... 

Focusing on fossil fuel to secure energy demand lead to big challenges. Hydrogen as alternative for fossil fuel has attracted a lot of attentions. Fuel cell with an electrochemical reaction which it’s byproducts are water and heat convert Hydrogen into electricity. High efficiency and low environmental pollution, persuade many researchers toward fuel cell commercialization. But problems such as high cost, high power oscillation and inertia, avoid fuel cell from significant development. One way to deal with these problems is using the fuel cell and battery hybrid system. In recent decade too many research has been made in utilizing this hybrid system in transportation. This project... 

Application of the advanced control techniques and information technology in the biomedical engineering have been the focal point of the research communities in biomedical engineering due to the rapid growth of the nonlinear control theories along with the computer hardware. In this work the application of differential geometry and globally linearizing control has been applied to efficiently control the first phase of HIV disease based on the HIV infection model proposed in the literature. All the efforts have been in the way to obtain a suitable scenario of drug administration to suppress and control the infection. In the proposed scenario, drug administration is time dependant and... 

Inappropriate effects of fossil fuels and conventional power generation systems on the environment have necessitated a sustainable energy system for the next decade by growing interests in renewable energy systems. The world’s most fast-growing renewable energy resource is the wind energy. The main problem of wind power is the power fluctuations at the load side caused by the variable nature of wind speed, and the main issue in case of remote locations is the long-term storage of power generated by wind turbines. Batteries can be used to store a limited amount of energy for a short time. Although new advances in this field have been achieved, most common type of batteries is hardly able to... 

Fuel cells are a reliable technology for electrical power generation, widely regarded as a promising alternative for stationary and mobile applications. In order to supply vehicle required power, fuel cell must possess suitable transient response. In this work, a mathematical zero dimensional control-oriented model for a PEM fuel cell stack is developed. Afterwards, to increase the efficiency, four parameters including cathode air inlet flow rate, return manifold cross section area, anode hydrogen inlet flow rate and hydrogen humidity are optimized in different vehicle current demand. Also, in order to decrease water production inside the fuel cell membrane, considered parameters are... 

increasing energy demand and emission of environmental pollutant as a result of using fossil fuels and increase in waste generated due to human activities resulted in considering this source as a partial substitute for fossil resources in power application . Hence in this project biomass is considered as source of energy for heat and power application. Having low quality energy is the most important difficulty for application this resource as an energy carrier, so, gasification is applied to convert this source to gas with higher quality one. Produced gas in gasification enters to a micro turbine to meet thermal and electrical demand of the Sharif energy research institute. To investigate... 

All living entities requires energy to continue their lives. In human beings this energy is provide through consumption of food, at first the consumed food gets converted to glucose and the produced glucose enters the blood and then goes to the body cells in which it is used to produce the required energy. The essential hormone which makes it possible to use Glucose for energy production is INSULIN. In the patients suffering from Type 1 Diabetes, lack of Insulin production makes it impossible for the cells to use Glucose for the production of their required energy. In these patients due to the fact that the blood Glucose is not used by the cells, the Blood Glucose Level (BGL) increases,... 

The short life of Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) fuel cells is one of the critical criteria to their commercialization. A longer operation life time should be achieved to reach high reliability, low $/kWh cost and to use fuel cells as economical alternative energy systems.Therefore,diagnosing degradation mechanisms and the causes of power loss in fuel cell life time is of great importance. Operating conditions affect output power density and performance degradation. To achieve maximum power generation through fuel cell life time, a model is needed which is able to estimate power density and performance degradation simultaneously regarding to operating conditions. In present work, a... 

In this project a framework for Model Based Fault Diagnosis (MBFD) in a Gas Transmission Network (GTN) was developed. A black-box linear state-space model was used to capture dynamic behavior of an industrial benchmark for GTN. A full fledge commercial network simulator were used to obtain the required data for process identification. In order to check the robustness of the model zero mean white noise was imposed on various output obtained by the commercial simulator. Kalman filter was used to estimate the states of the GTN. These estimated states along with the measured output (all obtained from the commercial simulator) are almost similar to their corresponding estimated signal. This shows... 

This current reseach concentrates on designing and evaluation of stand-alone alternative energy system which consists of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell system (PEMFC), a photovoltaic (PV) panel, a proton exchange membrane electrolyser and a hydrogen storage tank.. To establish the minimum capacity of the system components, a system sizing model is developed in MATLAB Based on meteorological and the electrical yearly demand data which are extracted from DEDM model. The accuracy of the sub models is checked by comparing the experimental measurements of the system components obtained from other literatures with model outputs. The evaluation is based on demand profile, investment costs,...