Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Author "Hahn, Juergen"
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Rabie, Ahmed Ibrahim El Said (2009-05-15)Access to clean drinking water is very important to the health and well-being of the population. Mathematical modeling, optimization, and online estimation are needed to solve challenging problems in water network applications ...
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Word, Daniel Paul (2013-07-09)The development of infectious disease models remains important to provide scientists with tools to better understand disease dynamics and develop more effective control strategies. In this work we focus on the estimation ...
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Jang, Won-Hyouk (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Natural gas plants can have multiple owners for raw natural gas streams and processing facilities as well as for multiple products. Therefore, a proper cost allocation method is necessary for taxation of the profits from ...
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Mann, Angelica (2013-02-04)Chemical and biological contaminants can enter a drinking water distribution system through one of the many access points to the network and can spread quickly affecting a very large area. This is of great concern, and ...
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Binmahfouz, Abdullah (2012-10-19)Using seawater in cooling systems is a common practice in many parts of the world where there is a shortage of freshwater. However, biofouling is one of the major operational problems associated with the usage of seawater ...
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Grooms, Daniel Douglas (2009-06-02)Much research in the area of process integration has focused on steady-state processes. However, there are many process units that are inherently unsteady-state or perform best when operated in an unsteady-state manner. ...
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Chu, Yunfei (2011-02-22)Mathematical modeling is a key component of various disciplines in science and engineering. A mathematical model which represents important behavior of a real system can be used as a substitute for the real process for ...
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BinMahfouz, Abdullah S. (Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)This work addresses the problem of using seawater for cooling and the associated environmental problems caused by the usage and discharge of biocides. The discharged biocide and its byproducts are toxic to aquatic lives ...
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Alotaibi, Meteab Aujian (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)A hierarchical procedure is developed to determine maximum overall yield of a process and optimize process changes to achieve such a yield. First, a targeting procedure is developed to identify an upper bound of the overall ...
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Newton, Billy W. (2010-01-16)Alcoholic steatosis (AS) is the initial pathology associated with early stage alcoholic liver disease and is characterized by the accumulation of fat in the liver. AS is considered clinically benign as it is reversible, ...
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Bansal, Loveleena (2013-12-10)Building quantitative models of biological systems is a challenging task as these models can consist of a very large number of components with complex interactions between them and the experimental data available for model ...
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Rajaraman, Srinivasan (Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)Fault detection and diagnosis have gained central importance in the chemical process industries over the past decade. This is due to several reasons, one of them being that copious amount of data is available from a large ...
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Singh, Abhay Kumar (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)In chemical processes, online measurements of all the process variables and parameters required for process control, monitoring and optimization are seldom available. The use of soft sensors or observers is, therefore, ...
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Al-Mutairi, Eid M. (2009-05-15)Processing facilities are normally designed with sufficient flexibility to handle nominal variations. When the process features planned changes in feedstock and products, scheduling is often used to optimize process ...
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Serpas, Mitchell Roy (2012-10-19)Soft sensors are an essential component of process systems engineering schemes. While soft sensor design research is important, investigation into the relationships between soft sensors and other areas of advanced monitoring ...
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Huang, Zuyi (2011-10-21)Mathematical models of signal transduction pathways are characterized by a large number of proteins and uncertain parameters, yet only a limited amount of quantitative data is available. The dissertation addresses this ...
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Nworie, Grace A. (2009-06-02)Extended missions to space have long been a goal of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Accomplishment of NASA's goal requires the development of systems and tools for sustaining human life for periods ...