Degradation of AB25 dye in liquid medium by atmospheric pressure non-thermal plasma and plasma combination with photocatalyst TiO2

In this work, degradation of the anthraquinonic dye Acid Blue 25 by non-thermal plasma at atmospheric pressure with and without photocatalyst is investigated. Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is used as a photocatalyst. The dye degradation by plasma in the presence of TiO2 is investigated as a function of TiO2 concentration, dye concentration and pH. The degradation rate is higher in acidic solutions with pH of 2 to 4.3, especially at pH 2, and decreases to 0.38 mg L-1 min(-1) with the increase of pH from 2 to 5.65. A similar effect is observed in basic media, where a higher degradation rate is found at pH = 10.3. The degradation rate increases in the presence of TiO2 compared to the discharge without photocatalysis. The results show that the degradation of the dye increases in the presence of TiO2 until the catalyst load reaches 0.5 g L-1 after which the suppression of AB25 degradation is observed. The results indicate that the tested advanced oxidation processes are very effective for the degradation of AB25 in aqueous solutions

Fuzzy Logic Maximum Structure and State Feedback Control Strategies of the Electrical Car

AbstractThis paper treats the design and control of different models and control strategies for an Electric Vehicle (EV). An hybrid controller is designed using a fuzzy logic integrated in Maximum Control Structure (FL-MCS), the FL nonlinear controller involves online estimation of the total reference force which corresponds to a torque reference to be applied to MCS. The second proposed regulator is a states feedback controller using the Linear Quadratic Regulation (LQR) to optimise and to determine the feedback control parameters. The LQR allows reducing the consumption of the energy according to the desired EV's dynamic performances, these lasts can be changed depending on the choice of Q and R matrices. In this work, we apply and validate the proposed control strategies by a comparison between our simulation results and the results of the classical MCS, which has been developed by L2EP (Lille, France) to control the EV speed under Matlab/Simulink

Modification of glassy carbon electrodes by 4-chloromethylphenyl units and d-glucosaminic acid

The present work is dealing with the attachment of d-glucosaminic acid (D-GA) on glassy carbon electrode by two different methods. Firstly, the electrode was modified by chloromethylphenyl groups by reduction of 4-chloromethylphenyldiazonium cations followed by the nucleophilic substitution of the chlorine by the amine functionality of D-GA and secondly by the direct immobilization of the amine terminated molecule. The generality of the nucleophilic substitution reaction and the direct immobilization of an amine were also demonstrated with reactants bearing an electroactive ferrocene moiety; 4-nitrophenylferrocene (NFc) and 4-ferrocenylaniline (FcA). The surfaces modified with FcA and NFc were investigated by cyclic voltammetry, and the D-GA modified electrodes were characterized by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. A preliminary evaluation of the efficiency of these surface modifiers to prevent protein adsorption was realized by scanning electron microscopy

HYBRID MAXIMUMCONTROL STRUCTUREUSING FUZZY LOGICOF ELECTRIC VEHICLE

This paper presents a Modelling of traction control system of an Electric Vehicle (EV) based on the Energetic Macroscopic Representation (EMR) and the Maximum Control Structure (MCS). This last is using Fuzzy Logic Control(FLC) toinvert the EMR accumulation element for the control task. A developed combination of fuzzy control strategy with SMC combines the advantages of these two approaches and facilitates the inversion of the accumulation elements. In order to validate the simulation results, a comparison between the results obtained by MCS using IP controller which has already been developed by L2EP laboratory (Lille, France) and the presented MSC-FLC obtained by Matlab/Simulink software tool is include

Summary of the SUSY Working Group of the 1999 Les Houches Workshop

The results obtained by the Working Group on Supersymmetry at the 1999 Les Houches Workshop on Collider Physics are summarized. Separate chapters treat "general" supersymmetry, R-parity violation, gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking, and anomaly mediated supersymmetry breaking.Comment: LaTeX, 110 pages with numerous .ps and .eps files. proc.tex is main tex fil

Neutral Higgs bosons in the MNMSSM with explicit CP violation

Within the framework of the minimal non-minimal supersymmetric standard model (MNMSSM) with tadpole terms, CP violation effects in the Higgs sector are investigated at the one-loop level, where the radiative corrections from the loops of the quark and squarks of the third generation are taken into account. Assuming that the squark masses are not degenerate, the radiative corrections due to the stop and sbottom quarks give rise to CP phases, which trigger the CP violation explicitly in the Higgs sector of the MNMSSM. The masses, the branching ratios for dominant decay channels, and the total decay widths of the five neutral Higgs bosons in the MNMSSM are calculated in the presence of the explicit CP violation. The dependence of these quantities on the CP phases is quite recognizable, for given parameter values.Comment: 25 pages, 8 figure

Search for charginos in e+e- interactions at sqrt(s) = 189 GeV

An update of the searches for charginos and gravitinos is presented, based on a data sample corresponding to the 158 pb^{-1} recorded by the DELPHI detector in 1998, at a centre-of-mass energy of 189 GeV. No evidence for a signal was found. The lower mass limits are 4-5 GeV/c^2 higher than those obtained at a centre-of-mass energy of 183 GeV. The (\mu,M_2) MSSM domain excluded by combining the chargino searches with neutralino searches at the Z resonance implies a limit on the mass of the lightest neutralino which, for a heavy sneutrino, is constrained to be above 31.0 GeV/c^2 for tan(beta) \geq 1.Comment: 22 pages, 8 figure

Hadronization properties of b quarks compared to light quarks in e+e- -> q qbar from 183 to 200 GeV

The DELPHI detector at LEP has collected 54 pb^{-1} of data at a centre-of-mass energy around 183 GeV during 1997, 158 pb^{-1} around 189 GeV during 1998, and 187 pb^{-1} between 192 and 200 GeV during 1999. These data were used to measure the average charged particle multiplicity in e+e- -> b bbar events, _{bb}, and the difference delta_{bl} between _{bb} and the multiplicity, _{ll}, in generic light quark (u,d,s) events: delta_{bl}(183 GeV) = 4.55 +/- 1.31 (stat) +/- 0.73 (syst) delta_{bl}(189 GeV) = 4.43 +/- 0.85 (stat) +/- 0.61 (syst) delta_{bl}(200 GeV) = 3.39 +/- 0.89 (stat) +/- 1.01 (syst). This result is consistent with QCD predictions, while it is inconsistent with calculations assuming that the multiplicity accompanying the decay of a heavy quark is independent of the mass of the quark itself.Comment: 13 pages, 2 figure

Search for composite and exotic fermions at LEP 2

A search for unstable heavy fermions with the DELPHI detector at LEP is reported. Sequential and non-canonical leptons, as well as excited leptons and quarks, are considered. The data analysed correspond to an integrated luminosity of about 48 pb^{-1} at an e^+e^- centre-of-mass energy of 183 GeV and about 20 pb^{-1} equally shared between the centre-of-mass energies of 172 GeV and 161 GeV. The search for pair-produced new leptons establishes 95% confidence level mass limits in the region between 70 GeV/c^2 and 90 GeV/c^2, depending on the channel. The search for singly produced excited leptons and quarks establishes upper limits on the ratio of the coupling of the excited fermio