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Processes, Volume 7, Issue 2

February 2019 - 64 articles

Cover Story: The anaerobic bacterium Clostridium difficile is an opportunistic pathogen responsible for chronic and sometimes life-threatening infections in the colon of the human gastrointestinal tract. C. difficile (Cd) dysbiosis is characterized by a dramatic decrease in health-promoting species from the phylum Firmicutes (represented by Faecalibacterium prausnitzii; Fp), a dramatic increase in the phylum Proteobacteria (represented by Escherichia coli; Ec), and no consistent trends in the phylum Bacteroidetes (represented by Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron; Bt). This paper addresses the problem of C. difficile expansion through the development of a biofilm metabolic model that provides spatial predictions of nutrient diffusion, species abundances, and metabolite cross-feeding. View this paper.
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Articles (64)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,738 Views
20 Pages

25 February 2019

Groundwater contamination previously occurred at a broad range of locations in present-day China. There are thousands of kinds of contaminants which can be divided into soluble and insoluble categories in groundwater. In recent years, the non-aqueous...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,437 Views
14 Pages

Availability Assessment of IMA System Based on Model-Based Safety Analysis Using AltaRica 3.0

  • Haiyong Dong,
  • Qingfan Gu,
  • Guoqing Wang,
  • Zhengjun Zhai,
  • Yanhong Lu and
  • Miao Wang

25 February 2019

The integrated modular avionics (IMA) system is widely used in all classes of aircraft as a result of its high functional integration and resource utilization in developing advanced avionics systems. However, a series of challenges related to safety...

  • Article
  • Open Access
121 Citations
11,719 Views
31 Pages

An Integrated Delphi-AHP and Fuzzy TOPSIS Approach toward Ranking and Selection of Renewable Energy Resources in Pakistan

  • Yasir Ahmed Solangi,
  • Qingmei Tan,
  • Nayyar Hussain Mirjat,
  • Gordhan Das Valasai,
  • Muhammad Waris Ali Khan and
  • Muhammad Ikram

25 February 2019

Pakistan has long relied on fossil fuels for electricity generation. This is despite the fact that the country is blessed with enormous renewable energy (RE) resources, which can significantly diversify the fuel mix for electricity generation. In thi...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
70 Citations
9,706 Views
21 Pages

Carbon Mineralization by Reaction with Steel-Making Waste: A Review

  • Mohamed H. Ibrahim,
  • Muftah H. El-Naas,
  • Abdelbaki Benamor,
  • Saad S. Al-Sobhi and
  • Zhien Zhang

24 February 2019

Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is taking the lead as a means for mitigating climate change. It is considered a crucial bridging technology, enabling carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels to be reduced while the energy transition to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,109 Views
14 Pages

21 February 2019

The motivation of this work is to investigate experimentally the influence of nonthermal plasma (NTP) application on the reaction kinetics of atmospheric pressure steam gasification of charcoal using a thermostatically controlled drop tube reactor. A...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
9,123 Views
12 Pages

21 February 2019

The use of hydrogen gas as a means of decoupling supply from demand is crucial for the transition to carbon-neutral energy sources and a greener, more distributed energy landscape. This work shows how simple commercially available titanium nitride co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,635 Views
28 Pages

21 February 2019

Binary cycle experiment as one of the Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) technologies has been known to provide an improved alternate scenario to utilize waste energy with low temperatures. As such, a binary geothermal power plant simulator was developed to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,564 Views
24 Pages

A Composite Evaluation Model of Sustainable Manufacturing in Machining Process for Typical Machine Tools

  • Lishu Lv,
  • Zhaohui Deng,
  • Tao Liu,
  • Linlin Wan,
  • Wenliang Huang,
  • Hui Yin and
  • Tao Zhao

20 February 2019

Machine tool is the basic manufacturing equipment in today’s mechanical manufacturing industry. A considerable amount of energy and carbon emission are consumed in machining processes, the realization of sustainable manufacturing of machine too...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,005 Views
18 Pages

Parallel Conical Area Community Detection Using Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization

  • Weiqin Ying,
  • Hassan Jalil,
  • Bingshen Wu,
  • Yu Wu,
  • Zhenyu Ying,
  • Yucheng Luo and
  • ZhenYu Wang

20 February 2019

Detecting community structures helps to reveal the functional units of complex networks. In this paper, the community detection problem is regarded as a modularity-based multi-objective optimization problem (MOP), and a parallel conical area communit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,890 Views
22 Pages

19 February 2019

The application of the hole cleaning device in downhole is a new technology that can improve the problem of cuttings accumulation in the annulus and improve the hole cleaning effect of the wellbore during drilling. In this paper, the Reynolds Average...

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