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  • Sustainable building design framework : an integrated approach

    Creator:
    Piacenza, Joseph R.
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    This paper combines two research publications working toward the development of an integrated framework for commercial sustainable building design. Current methodologies utilize a traditional architectural top-down approach to sustainable building design practices that consumes financial and temporal resources early in the design process. By identifying the array mechanical subsystems required...
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    construction, and do not account for costs incurred because of deficiencies in the building design [42]. A

  • Determining the dimensional requirements of a reliable compression sealing method for use in microchannel hemodialysers

    Creator:
    Ward, Dustin K.
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    Almost 600,000 people in the United States were treated for End Stage Renal Disease in 2010. A majority of those people received hemodialysis from central medical facilities. It has been reported a better treatment option for these patients would be realized if the patients had more frequent hemodialysis treatments. A...
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    initial clamp design. Thank you Neill Thornton for all of your help and training in the lab as well as

  • Development of self-registration features for the assembly of a microchannel hemodialyser

    Creator:
    Porter, Spencer D.
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    More than 1.2 million people worldwide require regular hemodialysis therapy to treat end stage renal failure. In the United States alone, there are 300,000 patients and the National Kidney Foundation predicts that this number will double in the next 10 years. Currently most dialysis patients receive treatment at a dialysis...
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    to help when problems arose. Thank you Mark McGuire, your design of the first clamping system and

  • Single- and multi-functional arrayed microchannel fluidic devices

    Creator:
    Fisher, Luke W.
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    Novel fluidic devices that utilize an array of microchannels to achieve their designed purpose are discussed. Examples of devices include: fuel reforming using Microreactors, chip cooling using microchannel heat sinks, and microchannel devices used for biological applications. The devices that have directly contributed to this research include: a microchannel water...
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    heat energy conversion. The water pasteurizer discussion focuses on the design, fabrication, and

  • Design of a single lamina for a microchannel dialyzer with a focus on bubble removal

    Creator:
    Mohammadi, Mahshid
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    A microchannel-based hemodialyzer offers a novel approach to hemodialysis practice and holds many promises for improving dialysis treatment efficiency and quality of life for kidney patients. The hollow fiber hemodialyzer, a conventional dialysis device, has certain limitations including non-uniformity of the dialysate flow path which necessitates the use of a...
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    rate. In the microchannel-based design, successive stacked layers alternate between blood flow and

  • Numerical design of a high-flux microchannel solar receiver

    Creator:
    Rymal, Charles
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    This thesis discusses the design of several microchannel solar receiver devices for use in CSP (concentrated solar power) using CFD (computational fluid dynamics) simulations. The goal is to demonstrate that, by taking advantage of the higher heat transfer coefficienct of microchannels, solar receivers can achieve higher efficiency than current receiver...
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    . The high risk design features a circular micro-pin-fin array created using chemical etching and is

  • Reverse engineering, modeling, and redesign of a vibratory conveyor

    Creator:
    Foglesong, Timothy J.
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    Some successful products are still developed and produced without the benefit of modern design techniques. One such product is a vibratory conveyor that has been developed largely through prototype iteration. The manufacturer has collaborated with Oregon State University to introduce model-based design into the development process. This research details a...
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    Masters Thesis
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    creation of the col- laboration project to final recommendations, both actual design outcomes and guidance

  • Bottom-up cost modeling for vanadium redox flow battery component manufacturing

    Creator:
    Southworth, Zachary J.
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    In the U.S. there are increasing energy demands that require an ever-increasing need for the large-scale use of new energy resources. Specifically, sporadic renewable energy sources are being incorporated into utility energy portfolios. Thus, supporting stationary energy storage technologies are needed to make these renewable sources reliable and feasible for...
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    contributed to the design, writing, and interpretation of cost model data throughout the model development

  • An economic and environmental assessment model for microchannel device manufacturing

    Creator:
    Gao, Qi
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    A key application of microchannel process technology (MPT) is its implementation in heat exchanger devices, since a larger surface contact area can be realized than in conventional approaches, thus achieving high heat transfer efficiency. To justify high volume production of configurations validated as prototypes, and to select from among the...
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    construction and validation, Dr. Karl Haapala advised the methodology development and drafting of thesis

  • Laser keyhole welding for microlaminating a high-temperature microchannel array

    Creator:
    Lajevardi, Babak
    Abstract:
    Microchannel process technology (MPT) components are chemical unit operations which exploit highly-parallel arrays of microchannels to process large fluid volumes for portable and distributed applications. Microchannel heat exchangers (MCHXs) have demonstrated 3 to 5 times higher heat fluxes when compared to conventional heat exchangers resulting in proportionate reductions in size...
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    exchanger via laser welding and investigation of defects AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Babak