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Kinetics Modeling of Platinum Leaching from Reforming Spent Catalysts by iodine/iodide Solution
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Baghalha, Morteza (Supervisor)
Abstract
Platinum is one of the most used catalysts in refining and petrochemical industries. Also, Platinum uses in other industries like automobile catalytic convertor. As respect to importance of Platinum in these industries, growth of its consumption in recent decades and its very high price, recovery of Platinum is essential. Hence, many of various methods including hydro-metallurgy are applied. In despite of these wide spreading experimental investigations, due to low information about the reactions and the nature of reaction products, a few investigations were done on kinetics of Platinum recovery. A new method that used iodine solution to extract Platinum from spent reforming catalysts was...
Philosophy of Chemistry: Its Autonomy and Major Problems
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Taghavi, Mostafa (Supervisor)
Abstract
Philosophy of Chemistry: The missed piece of Philosophy of Science’s tower. This thesis is intended to bring in this recently emerged branch of Philosophy of science. In section 1, some trends of Philosophizing in chemistry by some scientist and philosopher have been investigated. Why Philosophy of Chemistry had been turned off until recently? Section 2 deals with this question. In section 3 some problems in Philosophy of Chemistry have been introduced
Investigation of Strength and Ductility of Hinged Khorjini Connection
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Moghaddam, Hassan (Supervisor) ; Eskandari, Morteza (Co-Advisor)
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Khorjini connection is a type of connection in steel frames, in which the beam remains continuous at the intersection with column. In its ordinary form, this beam is connected to the face of column section using upper and lower angles. This type of connection is frequently used in construction of steel frames in Iran due to economic advantages and ease of fabrication. However since it is rarely used in other countries, its behavior and method of design is not described in international references and standards. The failure of the connections is a dominant type of seismic fraction in a building (The main reason of structural failures in Manjil and Roudbar earthquake – 1990). Contrary to the...
Control of malaria outbreak using a non-linear robust strategy with adaptive gains
, Article IET Control Theory and Applications ; Volume 13, Issue 14 , 2019 , Pages 2308-2317 ; 17518644 (ISSN) ; Vahidi Moghaddam, A ; Chizfahm, A ; Sharifi, M ; Sharif University of Technology
Institution of Engineering and Technology
2019
Abstract
The aim of this study is to develop a non-linear robust controller with adaptive gains in order to prevent malaria epidemic as a positive system with an uncertain model. The malaria outbreak is modelled by seven non-linear coupled differential equations for the population variables: susceptible, exposed, symptomatic infected and recovered humans and the susceptible, exposed and infected mosquitoes. The non-linear robust adaptive integral-sliding-mode controller is developed in order to appropriately adjust the use of treated bednets, treatment rate of infected individuals and the use of insecticide spray to control malaria epidemic. Accordingly, the numbers of exposed and infected humans and...
Effect of TiO2-based Nanocomposite Scattering Layer on Photovoltaic Characteristics of Dye Sensitized Solar Cell
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Seyyed Reihani, Morteza (Supervisor) ; Mohammadi, Mohammad Reza (Supervisor)
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Many efforts have been put into increasing the efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells that part of it has been devoted to structure and chemical composition of photoanode electrode. In this thesis, the effect of changes in the composition and its influence on light scattering ability in photoanode of dye sensitized solar cells was studied.First, the nanoparticles of titanium dioxide powder through solvothermal method as well as spherical particle and barium titanate powder by sol-gel method were synthesized. XRD and FE-SEM analyses indicated that synthesized powders are in good size and morphology regarding the intended chemical composition. Optical properties of TiO2 particles were...
Ant colony algorithm for the shortest loop design problem [electronic resource]
, Article Computers and Industrial Engineering, Elsevier ; Volume 50, Issue 4, August 2006, Pages 358–366 ; Kazemi, Morteza ; Sharif University of Technology
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In this paper, a new algorithm for solving the shortest loop design problem is presented. The shortest loop design problem is to find the shortest loop for an automated guided vehicle covering at least one edge of each department of a block layout. In this paper, first it is shown that this problem can be represented as a graph model. The properties of the presented model enable us to design a meta-heuristic based on ant colony system algorithm for solving the shortest loop design problem. Computational results show the efficiency of our algorithm in compare to the other techniques
Modeling, simulation, and optimal initiation planning for needle insertion into the liver
, Article Journal of Biomechanical Engineering ; Volume 132, Issue 4 , 2010 ; 01480731 (ISSN) ; Ahmadian, M. T ; Janabi Sharifi, F ; Sharif University of Technology
2010
Abstract
Needle insertion simulation and planning systems (SPSs) will play an important role in diminishing inappropriate insertions into soft tissues and resultant complications. Difficulties in SPS development are due in large part to the computational requirements of the extensive calculations in finite element (FE) models of tissue. For clinical feasibility, the computational speed of SPSs must be improved. At the same time, a realistic model of tissue properties that reflects large and velocity-dependent deformations must be employed. The purpose of this study is to address the aforementioned difficulties by presenting a cost-effective SPS platform for needle insertions into the liver. The study...
One-dimensional chemotaxis kinetic model
, Article Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications ; Volume 18, Issue 2 , 2011 , Pages 139-172 ; 10219722 (ISSN) ; Sharif University of Technology
2011
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In this paper, we study a variation of the equations of a chemotaxis kinetic model and investigate it in one dimension. In fact, we use fractional diffusion for the chemoattractant in the Othmar-Dunbar-Alt system (Othmer in J Math Biol 26(3):263-298, 1988). This version was exhibited in Calvez in Amer Math Soc, pp 45-62, 2007 for the macroscopic well-known Keller-Segel model in all space dimensions. These two macroscopic and kinetic models are related as mentioned in Bournaveas, Ann Inst H Poincaré Anal Non Linéaire, 26(5):1871-1895, 2009, Chalub, Math Models Methods Appl Sci, 16(7 suppl):1173-1197, 2006, Chalub, Monatsh Math, 142(1-2):123-141, 2004, Chalub, Port Math (NS), 63(2):227-250,...
Love Wave Propagation in a Functionally Graded Magneto-Electro-Elastic Half-Space with Quadratic Variations
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Eskandari, Morteza (Supervisor)
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The propagation behavior of Love wave in functionally graded magneto-electro-elastic half-spaces with a quadratic variation is addressed. The magneto-electromechanical coupling factor, the dispersion relations, electric potential, magnetic potential and displacement are obtained analytically for both magneto-electrically open and short conditions. The effect of gradient coefficient on phase velocity, group velocity and magneto-electromechanical coupling factor are plotted and discussed. Research on the wave propagation in magneto-electro-elastic materials is still very limited. This work provides us with a theoretical foundation to design and practically apply SAW devices with high...
Modeling Reaction and Distribution of Water in Nanopores of the Cathode Catalyst Layer of PEM Fuel Cell
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; baghalha, morteza (Supervisor)
Abstract
In the proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEM, the produced water would be divided into two phases of vapor and liquid. distribution of both liquid and vapor phases in different cell layers affects the performance, the efficiency and the life of a fuel cell significantly. Moreover, Nano pores of the cathode catalyst layer are involved with some phenomena such as electrochemical reaction kinetics, heat and mass transfer and interface phase change. One of the most important problems in the performance of fuel cells is distribution of liquid water in the porous areas. Water flooding in fuel cells causes to delay in oxygen transport to active sites in the catalyst layer because the pores of...
Elastic Analysis of a Surface Stiffened Transversely Isotropic Half-space Under a Buried Horizontal Point Load
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Eskandari, Morteza (Supervisor)
Abstract
In this study, the interaction between thin plate completely bonded to the transversely isotropic halfspace and a concentrated force applied horizontally (Mindlin-type force) are considered. This problem has been solved analytically. This problem is used as sample for thin solid films and surface coating technology, where the surface of solid is covered by thethin plate for increasing its stiffness. Moreover, this problem is a good sample when homogenous solid is subjected to contact loading and can be seen that mechanical properties of material which is near the solid surface varies; consequently, a two-phase solid is created.Because of the influence of noted inhomogeneity, solid is...
Modeling and Simulation of the Catalyst Regeneration Process of FCC Unit of Abadan Refinery
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Baghalha, Morteza (Supervisor)
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Hydrodynamics plays a crucial role in defining the performance of fluidized beds. The numerical simulation of fluidized bed is very important in the prediction of its behaviour. From this point of view, in the present study a dynamic two dimensioanl model is developed for the modeling of regenerator system of a UOP fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit of Abadan refinery with a high-efficiency regenerator. Of the various modeling and simulation techniques, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is employed in this thesis. Effects of gas velocity, the transient local solid volume fraction, pressure drop for gas and solid phase, solid holdup distribution and solid circulation pattern have been...
Database Schema Extraction Prevention Through DBMS Error Handling
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Amini, Morteza (Supervisor)
Abstract
Nowadays large volume of sensitive data of organizations are stored in the databases. Thus, databases are attractive to the attackers to execute different types of attacks with different purposes. The useful information that attackers try to achieve in the preliminary steps of the attacks against the databases, is the database structure or schema. One of the popular approach to extract the schema of a database is to analyze the returned error messages from its DBMS. Hence, a solution to prevent schema disclosure via the error messages is customizing and modifying them. To achieve this goal, in this thesis, we propose a framework to handle and customize the error messages automatically and...
Privacy Preserving Access Control for Service Composition in Cloud Computing
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Amini, Morteza (Supervisor)
Abstract
Cloud computing is a new computing environment where computing infrastructure, platform and software are provided as a service. Rapid growth of cloud environments has increased the importance of security requirements and challenges for both service providers and users in cloud. Two main security issues in software as a service (SaaS) delivery model are access control and privacy preserving in basic web services and also in composite services obtaining through the automatic composition and inference of policies from the ones specified for basic services. In this thesis, we present a privacy preserving access control model and framework for service composition in SaaS delivery model of cloud...
An Access Control System for Time Series Data in NoSQL Databases
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Amini, Morteza (Supervisor)
Abstract
An important class of applications which have been rapidly growing recently is the one that create and use time series data. These types of data sets are ordered based on the timestamps associated to their data items. In practice, traditional relational databases are unable to satisfy the requirements of these data sets; however, NoSQL databases with column-wide data structure are appropriate infrastructure for them. These databases are very efficient in read and write operations (especially for time series data, which are ordered) and are able to store unstructured data. Time series data may contain valuable and sensitive information; hence, they should be protected from the information...
Numerical Simulation of a Telescopic Metallic Yielding Damper
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Eskandari, Morteza (Supervisor)
Abstract
In this study, a new type of metallic yielding damper called Telescopic damper is proposed and analyzed numerically. The damper comprises of three concentric steel tubes connected together by lead shear keys. The relative axial deformation of steel tubes under axial forces results in shear deformation and yielding in lead shear keys and dissipates energy. The inner steel tube has a lock which limits its movement to some certain extent and beyond this limit the outer tube activates. Therefore, a multi-linear force-deformation behavior with two different yield plateaus is expected for the introduced telescopic damper. The multi-level yield plateaus of damper makes it effective in both low and...
Information-flow Analysis in Android Apps for Protecting User Privacy
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Amini, Morteza (Supervisor)
Abstract
The rapid growth of Android operating system alongside its open-source nature has made it as the most popular operating system of mobile devices. On the other hand, regarding the increasing computational power of mobile devices, a wide variety of applications are coming to this type of devices. Meanwhile unfortunately many malicious softwares trying to keep up with other applications, are targeting this popular operating system. Therefore with regard to the fact that this type of devices usually store private and sensitive information of their users, security of mobile operating systems is considered very important. Having this matter in mind, the goal of this research work has been...
Secure- multiparty Computation Protocol for Privacy Preserving Data Mining
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Amini, Morteza (Supervisor)
Abstract
Privacy preserving data mining helps organizations and companies not only to deal with privacy concerns of customers and regular limitations, but also to benefit from collaborative data mining. Utilizing cryptographic techniques and secure multiparty computation (SMC) are among widely employed approaches for preserving privacy in distributed data mining. The general purpose of secure multiparty computation protocols to compute specific functions on private inputs of parties in a collaborative manner and without revealing their private inputs. Providing rigorous security proof of secure multiparty computation makes it a good choice for privacy preservation, despite of its cryptographic...
Analysis of Slabs Stiffened by Cables and Pedestals
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Eskandari, Morteza (Supervisor)
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In this study, a new concrete slab stiffened by concrete pedestals and steel cables is introduced. The slab system is studied by employing both analytical and numerical methods. The steel cables are connected to the edges of slab and the concrete pedestals mounted at the bottom face of slab act as the middle supports of cables. The tension force in the cable and its inclination results in upward forces acting at the bottom face of slab. With the aims of classical theory of thin plates and the superposition technique, the problem of a simply supported rectangular slab stiffened by cables is studied analytically. The obtained results are verified by a numerical modelling implemented in SAP2000...
Parametric Study of Telescopic Metallic Yielding Dampers
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Eskandari, Morteza (Supervisor)
Abstract
The parametric study of a new introduced metallic yielding damper called telescopic damper is addressed. The telescopic damper comprises of three concentric steel pipes connected together by lead shear keys. The inner and outer steel pipes are subjected to axial loading which results in the shear yielding of the embedded lead cylinders. The inner steel pipe has a lock which limits its movement to some certain extent and beyond this limit the outer tube activates. Employing ABAQUS software, the behavior of damper under cyclic loading is studied numerically. The finite element model is verified by available results in the literature. The effects of inner and outer steel pipes thickness,...