In pharmaceutical manufacturing, the utmost aim is reliably producing high quality products. Simulation approaches allow virtual experiments of processes in the planning phase and the implementation of digital twins in operation. The industrial proce...
Flotation is one of the most widely used separation methods in mineral processing, and its performance is strongly influenced by complex physicochemical and hydrodynamic conditions. Flotation behaviour is commonly described using kinetic models. This...
Prospective environmental and technological assessment of emerging chemical processes is necessary to identify, analyze and evaluate the technologies that are highly imperative in the transition towards climate neutrality. The investigation of the en...
Fused deposition modeling (FDM), as one of the most widespread and cost-effective additive manufacturing (AM) technologies, faces ongoing challenges in improving the dimensional accuracy and mechanical properties of complex shapes. The repeated heati...
A business process is a set of activities executed in a specific sequence involving various actors. This relationship between actors, activities, and sequence is crucial for achieving the goals and objectives of organizations. Business process modeli...
The cryogenic carbon capture (CCC) process is a promising post-combustion CO2 removal method. This method is very novel compared with conventional and well-developed methods. However, cryogenic carbon capture is not yet commercially available despite...
The numerical accuracy of drop process simulation and collision response for drones is primarily determined by the finite element modeling method and simplified method of drone airframe structure. For light and small drones exhibiting diverse shapes...
Production planning is an important factor for production efficiency in the shipyard. However, planning is currently executed by manual operations based on the experience of field workers because of the complexity of the target shipbuilding project....
With the emergence of big data and cloud technologies, companies now evolve in complex IT environments. This situation requires good practices for data process automation to be adopted to ensure system interoperability. Visual computing helps compani...
Petroleum is a valuable mineral resource from which base fuels and innumerable materials are produced. Its optimized utilization requires a deeper understanding of its chemistry, that can be obtained by improved characterization and molecular modelin...
In this article, the optimization of a realistic oil and gas separation plant has been studied. Using Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS) and rigorous process simulations, surrogate models using Kriging have been established for selected model responses....
Biomass gasification has obtained great interest over the last few decades as an effective and trustable technology to produce energy and fuels with net-zero carbon emissions. Moreover, using biomass waste as feedstock enables the recycling of organi...
Die forging is a widely used production method for manufacturing high-strength components with high accuracy and good mechanical properties. Since the die forging process involves many complicated thermo-mechanical coupled field physical problems, su...
Chemical and oil processes are intrinsically sources of potential hazards. Although traditional qualitative hazard identification methods are simple, systematic, and flexible, such methodologies present limitations related to the inherent subjectivit...
This paper provides an epistemological and methodological analysis of the recent practice of using neural language models to simulate brain language processing. It is argued that, on the one hand, this practice can be understood as an instance of the...
Process simulation represents an important tool for plant design and optimization, either applied to well established or to newly developed processes. Suitable thermodynamic packages should be selected in order to properly describe the behavior of re...
The atmospheric water vapor is commonly monitored from ground Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) measurements, by retrieving the tropospheric delay under the Zenith Wet Delay (ZWD) component, linked to the water vapor content in the atmosphere...
Mass transfer is central to food processing but remains difficult to quantify because food materials are heterogeneous, multiphase, porous, biologically structured, and dynamically changing. Under these conditions, experiments alone cannot fully capt...
Parallel seam welding (PSW) is the most commonly employed encapsulation technology to ensure hermetic sealing and to safeguard sensitive electronic components. However, the PSW process is complicated by the presence of multiphysical phenomena and non...
The author-proposed skeletal sand mold, which mainly includes a shell, air cavities and a truss support structure, has been experimentally proven to be very useful in controlling the cooling of casting at local areas and at different periods of the c...
A simulator and an algorithm for the automatic creation of operation charts based on process conditions were developed on the basis of an existing comprehensive electric arc furnace process model. The simulator allows direct user input and real-time...
Sensitivity analysis of selected parameters in simulation models of logistics facilities is one of the key aspects in functioning of self-conscious and efficient management. In order to develop simulation models adequate of real logistics facilities’...
An innovative modeling approach for the simulative description of the part quality of rubber materials, including the processing history, is presented in this paper. This modeling approach, the so-called average curing speed (ACS) model, is based on...
Simulating the hydrological processes of an inland river basin can help provide the scientific guidance to the policies of water allocation among different subbasins and water resource management groups within the subbasins. However, it is difficult...
The residue hydrotreating process plays a significant role in the petroleum refining industry. In this process, modeling and simulation have critical importance for process development, control, and optimization. However, there is a lack of relevant...
Accurate predictions of the failure behaviors of quasi-brittle materials are of practical significance to underground engineering. In this work, a novel anisotropic damage model is proposed based on continuous damage mechanics. The anisotropic damage...
A combination of simulation and experimental approaches to optimize the vacuum carburizing process is necessary to replace the costly experimental trial-and-error method in time and resources. In order to accurately predict the microstructure evoluti...
The reverse osmosis (RO) process is one of the best desalination methods, using membranes to reject several impurities from seawater and brackish water. To systematically perceive the transport phenomena of solvent and solutes via the membrane textur...
Accurate simulation and forecast for soil processes has always been a challenge for river management and environmental conservation. However, the sediment modeling technique remains insufficient for catchments characterized by special soil erosion co...
Angelica sinensis (Oliv.) Diels is an important medicinal plant widely cultivated in China. Under climate change, its growth dynamics and yield formation face considerable uncertainty, yet dynamic simulation studies remain limited and quantitative as...
Modern society consists of various groups according to their respective interests. The importance of the citizen participation decision-making process in which such various groups get involved in the numerous decision-making of the society has been e...
Traditional vacuum system designs often rely on a 100% reserve, lacking precision for accurate petrochemical computations under vacuum. This study addresses this gap by proposing an innovative modeling methodology through the deconstruction of a typi...
During the sintering process of NdFeB bulks, temperature changes and significant temperature differences between the bulk interior and the surface region will produce high residual stress. Temperature field and stress field prediction during the sint...
Land use/land cover changes (LULCC) have been affected by ecological processes as well as socioeconomic and human activities, resulting in several environmental problems. The study of the human–environment system combined with land use/land cover dyn...
In biological micromanipulation, cell penetration is a typical procedure that precedes cell injection or oocyte enucleation. During this procedure, cells usually undergo significant deformation, which leads to cell damage. In this paper, we focus on...
This paper presents a functional microstructured surface, named Polar Microstructure. Polar microstructure is a three dimensional (3D) structured surface possessing a pattern of distribution of latitude and longitude micro-topographies with geometric...
The current energy and climate crisis calls for immediate action in replacing fossil fuels with those derived from renewable sources. The Energreen process performs the direct liquefaction of biomass to produce a liquid biofuel for the cement industr...
The Eastern Huang–Huai region of China is a representative mining area with a high groundwater level. High-intensity underground mining activities have not only induced land cover and land use changes (LUCC) but also significantly changed the w...
Background: Logistics process development increasingly relies on simulation and artificial intelligence (AI), yet existing approaches provide limited methodological guidance for integrating these technologies throughout the process development lifecy...
One of the main problems of modern manufacturing systems is the increasing complexity related to modern Industry 4.0 technologies that are fundamentally changing manufacturing and logistics processes and operations. Industry 4.0 includes, e.g., flexi...
The production and consumption of polymer composites has grown continuously through recent decades and has topped 10 Mt/year. Until very recently, polymer composites almost exclusively had non-recyclable thermoset matrices. The growing amount of plas...
This article presents selected issues related to the reliability of the power supply for electronic security systems (ESSs) used in smart buildings (SBs). ESSs operate in diverse environmental conditions and are responsible for the safety of lives, p...
The software development process (SDP) is complex because it uses specific knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to deliver value to people, and the user’s needs are always growing and becoming more complex. Practitioners and academics have...
The article discusses the methods for classifying processes for testing and processing metals by plastic deformation, based on the characteristics of their stress–strain state. The basic methods for determining the stress and strain states usin...
The grinding process is a key link in mineral processing production and a typical complex, controlled process. The steady-state model is limited by its model structure and thus difficult to applyied in a control system. A hybrid modeling method drive...
Proactive prevention and fighting fire at industrial facilities, often located in urbanized clusters, should include the use of modern methods for modeling danger zones that appear during the spread of the harmful combustion products of various chemi...
Date palm fruits (Phoenix dactylifera) contain high levels of fructose and glucose sugars. These natural sugar forms are healthy, nutritional and easily assimilate into human metabolism. The successful production of soluble date sugar powder from nut...
This work reports on experimental and numerical results of the gray-to-white transition (GWT) during solidification of a hypereutectic gray cast iron (GCI) in a casting test using a stub-to-carbon (STC) connection assembly. Since in this process non-...
The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of a simulation nursing education program in terms of clinical reasoning, problem-solving process, self-efficacy, and clinical competency using the Outcome-Present State-Test (OPT) model in nursing s...
High-voltage switchgears can generate high-frequency and high-amplitude electromagnetic interference during their operation, which may lead to abnormal outputs of the measurement devices, thus giving rise to measurement errors or protective relay mal...
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