Systems Engineering Report

The NPRDS is an industry-wide system for monitoring the performance of selected systems and components at U.S. commercial nuclear power plants. Information in NPRDS is derived from a standardized format input report prepared by U.S. nuclear plant licensees. The plants are as)ced to submit failure reports on catastrophic events and degraded failures within the defined reportable scope reporting of incipient events is optional. Command faults are not reportable unless they malce an entire system unavailable. In addition, the plants are as)ced to file component engineering reports on all components within the selected systems and reportable scope. These reports contain detailed design data, operating characteristics, and performance data on the selected systems and components (over 3000 components, from approximately 30 systems, per unit). The selected systems are primarily safety systems. 

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Tribus, M., El-Sayed, Y. "Thermoeconomic of Energy Systems", Final Report, DoE Agreement, DE-AC0-79ER10518.A000, Center for Advanced Engineering Study, MIT, Cambridge, MA 1982... 

El-Sayed, Y. M. and Evans, R. B., "Thermoeconomics and the Design of Heat Systems," Engineering School Report, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, Feb. (1969). 

Dieter Engineering Design A Materials. Processing Approach Doebelin Engineering Experimentation Planning, Execution, Reporting Driels Linear Control Systems Engineering... 

Barker, S.N., (1998) Gas turbines, reciprocating engines and other conversion devices in biomass to electricity systems. AEA, Report prepared for lEA Biomass Gasification Activity, Harwell. 

Vlachos, D.G. (2005) A Review of Multiscale Analysis Examples from Systems Biology, Materials Engineering, and Other Fluid-Surface Interacting Systems. Technical report, University of Delaware, Newark, DE. 

Chromatographers and chemical engineers use different values for the equilibrium constant, K. The definitions are the same in both fields. The equilibrium constant is the ratio of the equilibrium concentrations of the solute under study in the two phases of the system. However, chromatographers generally report concentrations as the mass of solute per unit volume of the phase considered, whether liquid or solid, with the result that the equilibrium constant is dimensionless. By contrast, chemical engineers report liquid phase concentrations as the mass of solute per unit volume of the liquid phase but solid (or rather adsorbed... 

Baumeister, M., Marquardt, W. The chemical engineering data model VeDa. Part 1 VDDL - the language definition. Technical Report LPT-1998-01, RWTH Aachen University, Process Systems Engineering (1998)... 

Kuraoka, K., Batres, R. An ontological approach to represent HAZOP information. Technical Report TR-2003-01, Process Systems Engineering Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2003)... 

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In parallel to this push for extending the borders of chemical process systems engineering to areas that have been traditionally the reserve of industrial engineers, a new concept of supply chemical chain was recently discussed in detail by Grossmann and Westerberg (2000), and in the United States National Academies report by Breslow and Tirrell (2003). The chemical supply chain extends from the molecule level to the whole enterprise. Breslow and Tirrell (2003) suggest that ... 

Krueger, K. W. (1999), Simulation Software Tool for Order Picking in a Person-Aboard Storage/ Retrieval System, Technical Report, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. 

Behrokh Khoshnevis, a professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Southern Cahfornia, reported on his better idea. Instead of sintering a layer by scanning it with a laser beam, his system quickly fuses the whole layer under an oven-like electric or gas heater. The powder outside the part s outline does not solidify because it gets treated in advance with a special liquid. Khoshnevis says his patented approach can polish off each layer in less than 15 seconds. In addition, it does not need a laser, which can cost tens of thousands of dollars. 

Ching, J., Beck, J. L., Porter, K. A. and Shaikhutdinov, R. Real-time Bayesian state estimation of uncertain dynamic system. Technical Report EERL 2004-01, Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 2004. 

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