Continuous Process Dynamics, Stability, Control and Automation
Author: Kal Renganathan Sharma
Affiliation: Adjunct Professor, Natural
Sciences, San Jacinto College District, Houston, TX Physics,
College of Science and Technology, Texas Southern University, Houston, TX
Place of Birth:
Madurai, Tamil Nadu State, India; October 8th
1963, Naturalized USA Citizen: April, 1998
Biography: Kal Renganathan Sharma has received his B.Tech., M.S.
and Ph.D degrees in chemical engineering and has underwent post doctoral
training. He is a prolific author with 740 publications: 14 Books, 7 Book-Chapters,
555 Conference Papers, 51 Journal Articles and 113 other presentations. He has
instructed 2930 students at HBCUs, deemed universities in India and
universities. His work has been cited in the Encyclopedia of Polymer Science
and Technology, Wikipedia in Portuguese amongst 330 citations. He is a Fellow
of Indian Chemical Society and is a member of the editorial board of seven
journals. His articles in Journal of Encapsulation and Adsorption Sciences has
been downloaded more than 3383 times. He has held high level positions in
academia and has industrial experience.
Audience: AIChE, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, New York, NY recently
celebrated their centennial or 100th anniversary in 2008. Both
the chemical process industry and the industrial controls market size are increasing.
Process Control as a required course in the chemical engineering degree
plan in a number of US universities came out in the late 60s or 70s. I instruct
CHEG 4033 Process Dynamics and Control, MCEG 3073 Automatic Controls and MCEG
3193 Introduction to Robotics, CHEG 3043 Equilibrium Staged Separations, ELMT
2043 Industrial Electronics etc. I have served as the chairman of
Continuous Mass Club: Technical Community of Monstanto Minichapter between
1990-1993. This book is a natural outgrowth of these scholarly and research
activities. A modern textbook is proposed that keeps pace with the
progress in personal computing resources available to the student these days.
Emphasis is placed on industrial application over rosy predictions. For instance, ideal
PID control, proportional integral derivative control is not physically
realizable. The competition of this book has a entire chapter devoted to PID
control. Filters have to be added and then it is longer PID, it becomes FPID,
filtered PID control! Discussions on overshoot is in excess of its
occurrence in real applications. A careful scrutiny of overshoot can lead
to the conclusion that it is more a mathematical artifact and less a
engineering possibility It can be shown that overshoot per se violates second
law of thermodynamics.. This book is more focused on the applications
rather than on tuning and elloborate algebra. Calculus, Laplace transforms and
other mathematical methods are used when necessary. A entire chapter is devoted
to pharmacokinetic studies. Discussions on life systems draws the student
attention more than hypothetical mathematical exercises. A entire chapter
is devoted to control of robots. Advances made in nanorobots are also discussed
in a separate chapter. Separate Chapters are devoted to mathematical
models and process dynamics.
Diagnostics of Electrical Equipment Faults and Power Overhead Transmission Line Condition by Monitoring Systems (Smart Grid): Short-Circuit Testing Of Power Transformers
Author: Alexander Yu. Khrennikov
Affiliation: Ph.D., Doctor of Science (Electrical Engineering); Scientific Secretary of S&T Center of Federal Grid Company of Unified Energy System, Russia
Birthplace: May 5, 1964; Bratsk (former USSR); citizen of the Russian Federation
Biography: Alexander Yu. Khrennikov was born in Bratsk, Russia, in 1964. He received Philosophy Doctor Degree in Electrical Engineering from Samara City University of Technology in 2009 in the field of diagnostic modeling of technical parameters of power transformer-reactor electrical equipment. Now, he works as Scientific Secretary of S&T Center of Federal Grid Company of Unified Energy System, Russia. The author has more than 200 scientific and technical publications. His main research interests concentrate in the field of Transformer Short-circuit testing, Transformer winding fault diagnostic, Frequency Response Analysis, Smart Grid and Information-measuring systems. He is CIGRE member and Prof. of Moscow Energy Institute, Russia.
Audience: Book is intended for the leaders and the specialists of the technical service enterprises of electrical and distribution networks and electrical stations, students of higher educational institutions, students of the courses of an increase in the qualification of power engineers, researchers & scientists in the field of electrical engineering. It will be for the specialists of electric railway transport, gas & oil industry, nuclear power stations, hydro electric power stations, electric metallurgy and other.
Affiliation: Shyam Akashe: Associate Professor, Electronics of Communication Engineering, ITM University, Gwalior, India Khushboo Mishra: Assistant Professor, Electronics of Communication Engineering, ITM University, Gwalior, India
Birthplace: Gwalior, India, 22nd May 2014, Citizenship: Indian
Biography: Dr. Shyam Akashe is
born in “Achalpur” a city in Maharashtra, India on 22nd May 1976. He did M.Tech
in Communication Technology & Management from Institute of Technology &
Management, Gwalior, (M.P.), India in the year 2006. He received Ph.D from
Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab, India in the year 2013. The title of Ph.D
thesis topic is Low Power Memory Cell Design. His major fields of study are low
power VLSI Design, VLSI signals processing, FPGA Design and Communication
System. Dr. Shyam Akashe worked as Associate Professor at Electronics and
Communication Engineering Department of ITM University, Gwalior, MP, India. Dr.
Shyam Akashe has authored/co-authored more than 150 research papers in peer
reviewed international/national
journals and conferences.
Audience: UG and PG
Engineering Students of Branches like Computer science, Electronics &
Communication, Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering.
Affiliation: Chemistry Department, DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, India
Birthplace: Amritsar (Punjab), 14-03-1946, Indian
Biography: Professor Gurdip Singh retired in 2008 from DDU Gorakhpur University and worked as an Emeritus Scientist (CSIR), Emeritus Fellow (UGC) during 2008-2013. Presently he is working as Emeritus Scientist (DST). His major research fields are: Nanomaterials, High Energetic Materials, Essential Oils & Oleoresins and Solid State Sulfonation. He has published three books, more than 250 research papers and 21 review articles. He has one paten. Dr. Singh is a life member of HEMSI, ITAS, CSI, ISCA, EOAI, ISCB and AFST. He is a recipient of Dr. Dhingra Award (1991) and NETZSCH-ITAS award (2004). Twenty two students have already been awarded Ph. D. degree under his guidance.
Audience:This book is written for everyone involved with energetic materials irrespective of their background; Universities, Institutes, R&D laboratories, Quality assurance, Production agencies, Forensic laboratories, Armed forces (Army, Navy and Air Force), Homeland securities, Chemical Industries etc. It is hoped that this presentation will serve to stimulate more research interest in high energetic, nanoenegetic and nanomaterials. Professional people, groups or institutions related to energetic materials will find it useful in their work. Those industries which produce explosives for various purposes, this book will also help them.
Affiliation: Ri-Gui Zhou: College of Information Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, China Naihuan Jing: Center of Quantum Algebra, South China University of Technology, China and Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University, USA
Birthplace: Ri-Gui Zhou: Jiangxi,China; March 2, 1973; Chinese Naihuan Jing: Jing: Wuhan, China on January 18, 1962, Citizen: USA
Biography:
Rigui Zhou was born on Mar.2,
1973. He received his B.S. degree (June, 1997) from the Shan Dong university,China,
M.S.degree(May, 2003) in the Department of Computer Science and Technology of
Nanchang Hangkong University,China. And PhD. in the Department of Computer
Science and Technology of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronauts (November,
2007), China.
From 2008 to 2010, as a Post Doctoral fellow in the Tsinghua University,China. From
2010 to 2011, also as a Postdoc of Carleton
University, Ottawa, Canada. From 2014 to 2015,
As a visiting Scholar 0f North Carolina
State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
Currently he is a Professor of College of Information
Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, China. He is a member of China Computer
Federation(CCF) and IEEE.
His research interests include quantum reversible logic, quantum image processing and quantum
genetic algorithm, et al.
Naihuan Jing, Ph.D. from Yale, has worked at the IAS in Princeton,
University of Michigan and University of Kansas before
joining North Carolina
State
University,
where he is a Professor. He was a recipient of Fulbright Scholarship, Humboldt
Research Award
and Cheung Kong Chair Professorship. He was Distinguished
Chair Professor at South China University of Technology,
and visiting professors to MSRI Berkeley, Max-Planck Institute of Mathematics
in Bonn and Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig. His
main research areas are quantum groups, representation theory, and quantum
computation.
Stainless Steel: Microstructure, Mechanical Properties and Methods of Application
Editors: Alokesh Pramanik and Animesh Kumar Basak
Affiliation: Alokesh Pramanik: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University, Bentley, Perth, Western Australia Animesh Kumar Basa: Adelaide Microscopy, Medical School North, The University of Adelaide,
Australia
Birthplace: Alokesh Pramanik: Bangladesh, 1974, Citizenship: Australia Animesh Kumar Basak: Bangladesh, 1974, Citizenship: Australia
Biography: Dr. Animesh Basak has
graduated
in 2002 with a B.Sc. in Metallurgical Engineering degree from Bangladesh
University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh with
honours. Upon completion of Masters and PhD degree in
Materials Science and Engineering, from Katholieke Universeteit Leuven
(KULeuven), Belgium, he started working in different Australian
universities. Dr.
Basak’s research interests include nanostructured materials, high resolution
electron microscopy and probe analysis, nano-scale fabrication of materials,
deformation mechanisms novel materials, nano-mechanics, tribology and
tribo-corrosion, electrochemistry and electrochemical measurement techniques.