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FIG. 8-57 Product moisture from a cocurrent dryer can be regulated through temperature control indexed to heat load. 

By photolithographic techniques, we most specifically mean multi-color photolithography where spatially controlled index of refraction variations are created by photo-initiation of physical and chemical changes in the material. Again, this topic has been reviewed in considerable depth elsewhere so we will only briefly review the central concept here [2,3,5,63,64]. 

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The values of P/O change within the range of 1-3, and characteristic of the substrate undergoing oxidation and characteristic of the organ s physiological role. In the case of excess oxygen and inorganic phosphate, the respiratory activity of the mitochondria is controlled by the amount of ADP available. In the controlled state called state 4, the amount of ADP is low. With the addition of ADP, the respiratory rate increases sharply this active state is called state 3. The ratio of the respiratory rates of state 3 to state 4 is called the respiratory control index. 

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Recently, a third piece of evidence was added by Chan and Freedman [161], who showed that an antibody towards subunit III specifically blocked proton translocation in cytochrome oxidase vesicles. Resting or coupled respiration was stimulated so that the respiratory control index fell by a factor of two. These findings exactly parallel those obtained by removal of subunit III [55,172]. 

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Nessi et al. (Nl) succeeded in rupturing the PMN membrane by adding heparin to the cell suspension. The oxygen consumption, which was measured by a photometric method, could be stimulated by the addition of ADP. An oxygen curve in stage 3, an acceptor control index, and an oxidative phosphorylation quotient with different substrates were obtained according to the scheme of Chance and Williams (Cl). 

Dip coating is the deposition of a solid film on a substrate by immersion in a sol or solution, withdrawal, and drying. The simplicity of dip coating, a cousin of painting, belies the fact that films of very high quality can be applied. Indeed, optical-quality films of controlled index and thickness are readily obtainable with simple, inexpensive apparati. Complex shapes can be coated in one step this simplicity is not always possible with evaporative or sputtering techniques. For bulky objects, dip coating is far easier to scale up than vacuum techniques. Finally, the admirable purity of solution chemistry, such as the popular sol-gel route, can be exploited. 

The term controlled index means that the refractive index can be made smaller than that of the bulk precursor by controlling the microstructure via the porosity. When silica is deposited, for example, the film index n can be varied over a wide range (7) from n = 1.1 to 1.5. This process control makes sol-gel coatings interesting for many optical, electronic, and sensor applications, but the evolution of the microstructure during film formation is not well understood, in spite of efforts to survey the variables (8, 9). This chapter reviews the important factors determining the microstructure of dip-coated films and explores at length two of them, evaporation and surface tension. 

The term controlled index means that the refractive index can be made smaller than that of the bulk precursor by controlling the microstructure via the porosity. When silica is deposited, for example, the film index n can be varied over a wide range [7] from n= 1.1 to 1.5. This... 

Photosynthetically grown (red) as well as heterotrophically in the dark developed (white) membranes from R. palustris undergo "respiratory control" (2) by influencing the electron flow rates, when substrate is present in excess, upon the addition of ADP, Pi and Mg2+ (3). This acceptor control by phosphorylating substrates resulted in a retardation of electron transport in chromatophores, whereas the flow rate was stimulated in white membranes from / . palustris (Fig.2). However, even in totally RpFi-depleted chromatophores an acceptor control by ADP, Pi and Mg2+ can be observed (Tab.2) with an acceptor control index (4) of 1.6. 

Sol-gel techniques are being employed to fabricate components not only for mainstream applications such as photonics, thermal insulation, electronics and microfluidics, but also for more exotic applications such as space dust and radiation collectors [1]. Methods have been developed to tailor the physical properties of sol-gel materials to the requirements of a specific application. For example, porosity and pore size distribution can be controlled by forming micelles in a sol [2-4-] gels can be made hydrophobic by derivatizing the otherwise hydrophilic pore walls with hydrophobic moieties [5] superhydrophilicity can be obtained by ultraviolet irradiation [6, 7] mechanical strength can be increased by cross-linking the oxide nanoparticles that make up the gel [1, 8, 9], and optical properties can be controlled by adding chromophores and nanoparticles to control index of refraction, absorption and luminescence [10-12]. 

A practical method is the one proposed by Zhang and Soong (1992), who suggested a sequential procedure to find the optimal placement of viseoelastic dampers, based on the controllability index method presented by Cheng and Pantelides (1988). The procedure consists in adding dampers one by one to the structure in the story where the optimal location index is maximiun, assuming that all the dampers have the same size. Since all dampers have the same size the method is more practical than other optimization methods. 

Heuristic approaches are particularly applicable to structural engineering problems because they allow for problem-specific apriori knowledge (Liu et al., 2005). The adaptation of the controllability index, previously used to determine optimal actuator locations for active stmctural control (Cheng and Pantelides, 1988), to sequentially place dampers where their effects are maximised (Zhang and Soong, 1992) was an irmovative... 

Cheng and Pantelides (1988) pioneered an approach in which the locations of active controllers were optimized in terms of a controllability index. This controllability index as defined by them is a measure associated with the structure s response to a specific earthquake. The basic idea underlying the controllability index method is that a controller is optimally placed when it is located at a position where the displacement or relative displacement response ofthe uncontrolled system i s the maximum. Though it was done in the context of active control, the philosophy was very much applicable for addressing the positioning issues in passive control. 

Vinson and Georgakis in their original work called this index as Output Controllability Index. It was subsequently renamed Operability Index [16, 39] to avoid confusion with the system theory concept of state controllability. Strictly speaking the operability indices and the operating spaces to be discussed in this section should be additionally qualified as steady-state. For the sake of brevity, we are not adding this prefix. 

The chapter is organized as follows In section 2, we first review basic results on I/O-controllability of linear systems. In section 3, a new t)fpe of I/O-controllability index is introduced, the Robust Performance Number. In section 4, I/O-controllability analysis by optimization is presented. Sections 5 and 6 contain two case studies an air separation plant and a reactive distillation column where these tools are applied to select the best control structure and quantify the process I/O-controllability. The evaluations of the control structures are validated by simulations with low order controllers which can easily be obtained from the analysis, in particular from the computed or estimated attainable performance of the chosen structure, using the procedure described in [9, 42, 29]. So the construction of practically relevant controllers of minimal complexity is seamlessly integrated with the analysis. 

The specific surface area and pore structure are the most basic macroscopic physical properties of solid catalysts. Pore and surface are the reactive rooms of heterogeneous catalytic reactions, and the amount of surface area directly influences the level of catalytic activity. If the surface properties of catalyst are uniform, then their activity is directly proportional to their surface area. Catalytic reactions are generally influenced by the diffusion under industrial conditions, and the activity, selectivity and lifetime and almost all properties of catalyst are related to these two macroscopic physical properties. Although the activity for most catalysts is not proportional to their surface area, the surface area is still a visual physical quantity to evaluate catalyst performance, and sometimes acts as a control index of preparation. 

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