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Despite the unstoppable global drive towards electric mobility, the electrification of sub-Saharan Africa’s ubiquitous informal multi-passenger minibus taxis raises substantial concerns. This is due to a constrained electricity system, both in terms of generation capacity and distribution networks. Without careful planning and mitigation, the additional load of charging hundreds of thousands of electric minibus taxis during peak demand times could prove catastrophic. This paper assesses the impact of charging 202 of these taxis in Johannesburg, South Africa. The potential of using external stationary battery storage and solar PV generation is assessed to reduce both peak grid demand and total energy drawn from the grid. With the addition of stationary battery storage of an equivalent of 60 kWh/taxi and a solar plant of an equivalent of 9.45 kWpk/taxi, the grid load impact is reduced by 66%, from 12 kW/taxi to 4 kW/taxi, and the daily grid energy by 58% from 87 kWh/taxi to 47 kWh/taxi. The country’s dependence on coal to generate electricity, including the solar PV supply, also reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 58%.
Wave-like differential equations occur in many engineering applications. Here the engineering setup is embedded into the framework of functional analysis of modern mathematical physics. After an overview, the –Hilbert space approach to free Euler–Bernoulli bending vibrations of a beam in one spatial dimension is investigated. We analyze in detail the corresponding positive, selfadjoint differential operators of 4-th order associated to the boundary conditions in statics. A comparison with free string wave swinging is outlined.
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For optimization of production processes and product quality, often knowledge of the factors influencing the process outcome is compulsory. Thus, process analytical technology (PAT) that allows deeper insight into the process and results in a mathematical description of the process behavior as a simple function based on the most important process factors can help to achieve higher production efficiency and quality. The present study aims at characterizing a well-known industrial process, the transesterification reaction of rapeseed oil with methanol to produce fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) for usage as biodiesel in a continuous micro reactor set-up. To this end, a design of experiment approach is applied, where the effects of two process factors, the molar ratio and the total flow rate of the reactants, are investigated. The optimized process target response is the FAME mass fraction in the purified nonpolar phase of the product as a measure of reaction yield. The quantification is performed using attenuated total reflection infrared spectroscopy in combination with partial least squares regression. The data retrieved during the conduction of the DoE experimental plan were used for statistical analysis. A non-linear model indicating a synergistic interaction between the studied factors describes the reactor behavior with a high coefficient of determination (R²) of 0.9608. Thus, we applied a PAT approach to generate further insight into this established industrial process.
AI-based prediction and recommender systems are widely used in various industry sectors. However, general acceptance of AI-enabled systems is still widely uninvestigated. Therefore, firstly we conducted a survey with 559 respondents. Findings suggested that AI-enabled systems should be fair, transparent, consider personality traits and perform tasks efficiently. Secondly, we developed a system for the Facial Beauty Prediction (FBP) benchmark that automatically evaluates facial attractiveness. As our previous experiments have proven, these results are usually highly correlated with human ratings. Consequently they also reflect human bias in annotations. An upcoming challenge for scientists is to provide training data and AI algorithms that can withstand distorted information. In this work, we introduce AntiDiscriminationNet (ADN), a superior attractiveness prediction network. We propose a new method to generate an unbiased convolutional neural network (CNN) to improve the fairn ess of machine learning in facial dataset. To train unbiased networks we generate synthetic images and weight training data for anti-discrimination assessments towards different ethnicities. Additionally, we introduce an approach with entropy penalty terms to reduce the bias of our CNN. Our research provides insights in how to train and build fair machine learning models for facial image analysis by minimising implicit biases. Our AntiDiscriminationNet finally outperforms all competitors in the FBP benchmark by achieving a Pearson correlation coefficient of PCC = 0.9601.
Dieses Buch vermittelt die grundlegenden Kenntnisse für den Layoutentwurf digitaler und analoger Schaltungen. Neben den ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Grundlagen werden auch Werkzeugaspekte behandelt. Das Werk befähigt Ingenieure, einen Schaltplan oder eine Netzliste in eine Layoutdarstellung zur Fertigung eines integrierten Schaltkreises (IC) oder einer Leiterplatte umzusetzen. Nach einer einleitenden Übersicht zu Fertigungstechnologien, Besonderheiten der Mikroelektronik und den Aufgaben des Layoutentwurfs behandelt Kap. 2 zunächst die technologischen Grundlagen der IC-Fertigung. Darauf aufbauend werden nachfolgend alle Aspekte des Layoutentwurfs vertieft: Schnittstellen, Entwurfsregeln und Bibliotheken (Kap. 3), Entwurfsstile, -modelle und -flüsse (Kap. 4), Entwurfsschritte (Kap. 5), Besonderheiten des analogen IC-Entwurfs (Kap. 6) und schließlich Zuverlässigkeitsmaßnahmen (Kap. 7). Das Buch eignet sich als Lehrbuch in den Ingenieurwissenschaften und als Nachschlagewerk für Schaltungs- und Layoutentwickler in der Industrie.
Analog integrated circuit sizing is notoriously difficult to automate due to its complexity and scale; thus, it continues to heavily rely on human expert knowledge. This work presents a machine learning-based design automation methodology comprising pre-defined building blocks such as current mirrors or differential pairs and pre-computed look-up tables for electrical characteristics of primitive devices. Modeling the behavior of primitive devices around the operating point with neural networks combines the speed of equation-based methods with the accuracy of simulation-based approaches and, thereby, brings quality of life improvements for analog circuit designers using the gm/Id method. Extending this procedural automation method for human design experts, we present a fully autonomous sizing approach. Related work shows that the convergence properties of conventional optimization approaches improve significantly when acting in the electrical domain instead of the geometrical domain. We, therefore, formulate the circuit sizing task as a sequential decision-making problem in the alternative electrical design space. Our automation approach is based entirely on reinforcement learning, whereby abstract agents learn efficient design space navigation through interaction and without expert guidance. These agents’ learning behavior and performance are evaluated on circuits of varying complexity and different technologies, showing both the feasibility and portability of the work presented here.
This article proposes several modified quasi Z-source dc/dc boost converters. These can achieve soft-switching by using a clamp-switch network comprised of an active switch and a diode in parallel with a capacitor connected across one of the inductors of the Z-source network. In this way, ringing at the transistor switching node is mitigated, and the voltage at the turn-on of the transistor is reduced. Even a zero voltage switching (ZVS) of the main transistor is possible if the capacitor in the clamp-switch network is adequately chosen. The proposed circuit structure and operating mode are described and validated through simulations and measurements on a low-power prototype.
Für das Gelingen der Wärmewende und des von Klimaschutzminister Robert Habeck eingeforderten Wärmepumpenhochlaufs gilt es mannigfaltige Herausforderungen zu lösen. Welche Chancen in diesem Zusammenhang eine Kombination von Wärmepumpe und Kraft-Wärme-Kopplung (KWK) eröffnet, wird im folgenden Beitrag erörtert.
Different network architectures are being used to build remote laboratories. Historically, it has been difficult to integrate industrial control systems with higher level IT systems like enterprise resource planning (ERP), manufacturing execution systems (MES), and manufacturing operations management (MOM). Getting these systems to communicate with one another has proven to be relatively difficult due to the absence of shared protocols between them. The Open Platform Communications United Architecture (OPC-UA) protocol was introduced as a remedy for this issue and is gaining popularity, but what if open-source protocols that are widely used in the IT industry could be used instead? This paper presents the development of an IT-Architecture for a cyber-physical industrial control systems laboratory that enables a seamless interconnection and integration of its elements. The architecture utilises Node-Red technology. Node-RED is an open-source programming platform developed by IBM that is focused on making it simple to link physical components, APIs, and web services. This cyber-physical laboratory is for learning principles of an industrial cascaded process control factory. Finally, this text will also discuss future work relating to digital twin (DT). A coupled tank system is selected as a teaching factory to illustrate a range of fluid control application in a typical chemical process factory.