Plant wide control problems in the activated sludge process have been revisited. The ultimate criteria for controlling a complete plant have been systematically addressed only infrequently. In principle, the effluent has to meet the standard at a minimal cost. Basically, the process is at the time driven by disturbances, mostly via the influent flow, but sometimes created within the plant. An esse

Background/objectives: Patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are at present treated with galantamine without actual knowledge of plasma concentration levels. The aim of this presentation is to analyse the relationship between galantamine plasma concentration, dose, demographics and body mass index (BMI). Methods: A total of 84 AD patients recruited at the Memory Clinic in Malmö, Sweden, treated w

The paper addresses aspects of virtual pedagogical agents’ visual style (realism – iconization) in relation to their social style (task oriented – relation oriented). Two studies are presented that investigate which visual and social styles users prefer and how they articulate their preferences. The first study involved 42 university students; the second study involved 90 elementary school childre

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Batch management systems are traditionally composed of two subparts, one assuring the creation and configuration of the recipes, and the other assuring the execution of the recipes, i.e., driving the equipments to make a product. By reducing the total time needed for producing a product, the market can be reached quicker and more money can (hopefully) be earned. Time to market is an important key

The share of distributed generation (DG) is expected to grow rapidly in near future. In addition to the environmental aspects also the shorter construction period can be considered as a key driving force accelerating the development. However, there are also some severe barriers before wider employment of DG is possible. One of them is the connection to network or grid. Especially when we consider

Popular Abstract in Swedish Globala klimatförändringar, nationell säkerhet och ekonomisk stabilitet är alla starka drivkrafter för utveckling av nya drivmedel. Två intressanta alternativ är vätgas och metangas producerade från förnyelsebara råvaror. Detta kan göras i biologiska processer där bakterier omvandlar socker till vätgas eller metangas. Dessa processer måste dock utvecklas och förbättras A great deal of research is being carried out on the biological production of hydrogen and methane. However, little effort has been devoted to studying the technical and economic feasibility of these processes. The main objective of the work presented in this thesis was to perform techno-economic analyses to improve our understanding of the processes by identifying the bottlenecks, and to provide