Stuttgart, Universiẗat, Diss., 2000.

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Syftet med projektet är att behandla flygaskan med hjälp av surt processvatten för att utvinna olika metaller, som zink, så att det sedan kan deponeras på ett enklare och billigare sätt, samt även at utveckla en metod för att utvinna mer zink med minsta möjliga andel surt processvatten (5 % HCl). Olika metaller med fokus på zink studerades i labbskala på Högskolan i Borås. Flygaskan och det sura processvattnet som har använts i denna studie är från Renova ABs anläggning. Resultatet visar att vid behandling av flygaskan med surt processvatten var den maximala mängden zink som utvanns 88% under de olika försöken som gjordes i labbet. Det finns olika faktorer bakom resultatet, såsom halten av surt processvatten, pH, blandningstiden och askans elementsammansättning, vilka kan påverka halten utvunnen zink. / Sweden produces large amount of fly ash from waste combustion annually. Combustion the waste generates two types of ashes, bottom ash/slag, and fly ash. Bottom ash is considered to be more environmentally friendly and has a wide area of application such as road constructions on landfills. While the fly ash has high level of heavy metals and for instance dioxines which are harmful for the environment. This type of ash are deposited in a landfill and gets classified as a hazardous waste which is expensive given that the deposit fee is high. The fact that fly ash contains valuable metals as zinc, methods of recovering it are being developed such as acid leaching. This is a promising method as the leachate used are acid process water making the usage of the chemicals substantially lower which makes it financially viable. Waste incinerators in Sweden produce approximately 200 000 tons of fly ash annually and the majority of it is transfered to Norway to get treated and put on a landfill. Some waste management companies, e.g. Renova, are using another method called “the Bamberg method” where fly ash is mixed with sludge to form a cake and put in the company’s own landfill. The projects goal is to leach the fly ash by using acidic process water to obtain the metallic substance particularly zinc making it easier and cheaper to landfill the ash and also to optimize this method to get the most zinc out of the ash using minimum amount of the acidic process water (5% HCI). The laboratory work took place in the University of Borås. Fly ash and the acid process water which were used under the laboratory work was obtained from RenovaAB. The results shows that leaching the fly ash with acidic process water gave different release of zinc but was 88% at most. The variation in the results depends on a few factors such as amount of acidic process water, pH, time, blending time and the ashes content. This project took environment and access to acidic water in consideration, which optimized the method of using less amount of acid process water to get the most zinc as possible. The results shows that leaching fly ash with acid process water is cost efficient and easy way to recover zinc, which satisfy the goals of the project.

Stuttgart, Univ., Diss., 2007.

Parmi les cibles architecturales susceptibles d'être utilisées pour réaliser un système de traitement sur puce (SoC), les architectures reconfigurables dynamiquement (ARD) offrent un potentiel de flexibilité et de dynamicité intéressant. Cependant ce potentiel est encore difficile à exploiter pour réaliser des applications massivement parallèles sur puce. Dans nos travaux nous avons recensé et analysé les solutions actuellement proposées pour utiliser les ARD et nous avons constaté leurs limites parmi lesquelles : l'utilisation d'une technologie particulière ou d'architecture propriétaire, l'absence de prise en compte des applications parallèles, le passage à l'échelle difficile, l'absence de langage adopté par la communauté pour l'utilisation de la flexibilité des ARD, ...Pour déployer une application sur une ARD il est nécessaire de considérer l'hétérogénéité et la dynamicité de l'architecture matérielle d'une part et la parallélisation des traitements d'autre part. L'hétérogénéité permet d'avoir une architecture de traitement adaptée aux besoins fonctionnels de l'application. La dynamicité permet de prendre en compte la dépendance des applications au contexte et de la nature des données. Finalement, une application est naturellement parallèle.Dans nos travaux nous proposons une solution pour le déploiement sur une ARD d'une application parallèle en utilisant les flots de conception standard des SoC. Cette solution est appelée MATIP (MPI Application Task Integreation Platform) et utilise des primitives du standard MPI version 2 pour effectuer les communications et reconfigurer l'architecture de traitement. MATIP est une solution de déploiement au niveau de la conception basée plate-forme (PBD).La plateforme MATIP est modélisée en trois couches : interconnexion, communication et application. Nous avons conçu chaque couche pour que l'ensemble satisfasse les besoins en hétérogénéité et dynamicité des applications parallèles . Pour cela MATIP utilise une architecture à mémoire distribuée et exploite le paradigme de programmation parallèle par passage de message qui favorise le passage à l'échelle de la plateforme.MATIP facilite le déploiement d'une application parallèle sur puce à travers un template en langage Vhdl d'intégration de tâches. L'utilisation des primitives de communication se fait en invoquant des procédures Vhdl.MATIP libère le concepteur de tous les détails liés à l'interconnexion, la communication entre les tâches et à la gestion de la reconfiguration dynamique de la cible matérielle. Un démonstrateur de MATIP a été réalisée sur des FPGA Xilinx à travers la mise en oe{}uvre d'une application constituée de deux tâches statiques et deux tâches dynamiques. MATIP offre une bande passante de 2,4 Gb/s et une la latence pour le transfert d'un octet de 3,43 µs ce qui comparée à d'autres plateformes MPI (TMD-MPI, SOC-MPI, MPI HAL) met MATIP à l'état de l'art. / Among the architectural targets that could be buid a system on chip (SoC), dynamically reconfigurable architectures (DRA) offer interesting potential for flexibility and dynamicity . However this potential is still difficult to use in massively parallel on chip applications. In our work we identified and analyzed the solutions currently proposed to use DRA and found their limitations including: the use of a particular technology or proprietary architecture, the lack of parallel applications consideration, the difficult scalability, the lack of a common language adopted by the community to use the flexibility of DRA ...In our work we propose a solution for deployment on an DRA of a parallel application using standard SoC design flows. This solution is called MATIP ( textit {MPI Application Platform Task Integreation}) and uses primitives of MPI standard Version 2 to make communications and to reconfigure the MP-RSoC architecture . MATIP is a Platform-Based Design (PBD) level solution.The MATIP platform is modeled in three layers: interconnection, communication and application. Each layer is designed to satisfies the requirements of heterogeneity and dynamicity of parallel applications. For this, MATIP uses a distributed memory architecture and utilizes the message passing parallel programming paradigm to enhance scalability of the platform.MATIP frees the designer of all the details related to interconnection, communication between tasks and management of dynamic reconfiguration of the hardware target. A demonstrator of MATIP was performed on Xilinx FPGA through the implementation of an application consisting of two static and two dynamic hardware tasks. MATIP offers a bandwidth of 2.4 Gb / s and latency of 3.43 microseconds for the transfer of a byte. Compared to other MPI platforms (TMD-MPI, SOC-MPI MPI HAL), MATIP is in the state of the art.

Magister Pharmaceuticae - MPharm / This study was based on Dioxy MP 14 (DMP), a brand of stabilized chlorine dioxide (SCD). The active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) of DMP is chlorine dioxide (CD) which is a potent oxidant and biocide. These properties have proved invaluable for various applications. The main goals of this study were: to evaluate the effectiveness of DMP for disinfecting Mycobateria tuberculosis (TB) contaminated medical instruments, devices, floors and surfaces; to investigate the stability of DMP; and to explore possibilities for medical application of DMP. Evaluation of disinfectant activity of DMP on TB was performed using the spectrophotometric method, a modification of the European suspension test, EN 14348. M. bovis BCG was employed as surrogate in this test. Results were as follows: The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC₉₀) = 12.5 ppm; the minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) = 15.4 ppm; the Mycobactericidal Effect (ME) = 8.8log reduction; and the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC₉₀) x minimum exposure time (CT) = 12.5 ppm.s. The long term stability study of DMP was performed by monitoring the rate of degradation of DMP stored in the fridge (2-8 °C), in the oven (40 °C), and under ambient conditions (15-30 °C). Analytical methods of assessing DMP concentration was by Iodometric titration method. The shelf life of DMP stored in a transparent bottle at room temperature was 9.8 weeks, as opposed to 52.7 weeks when stored in an amber colored reagent bottle at the same temperature. Both oven samples had an expiry date of about 20 weeks and the fridge samples about 70 weeks. Foam formulations for a vaginal douche (VGD), mouth rinse (MRF), and foot/sit bubble bath (F/SBB)], were developed in the laboratory. DMP and the formulated concentrate were designed to be mixed just prior to administration. During foam evaluation studies, a mechanical overhead stirrer was used to generate foam. Foamability was assessed by quantifying the amount of foam generated. The stability of foams were assessed by: 1) determining the rate of foam decay and the rate of foam drainage observed concurrently from foam loaded in a measuring cylinder; and 2) determining the life span of single bubbles of each foam system i.e. the bubble breaking time (BBT). The density of each foam system was also determined. Potentiometric acid base titration was used to select suitable adjuster alkali, and to show the benefits of employing a buffer. Concentrate development was initiated by a simple mixture of all the ingredients followed by stirring and observing the deviations from desired quality attributes of the product. The subsequent five processes were improvements designed to circumvent the shortcomings of the initial procedure to arrive at the optimized method E. Prototype formulations were employed to optimize excipient quantities to eventually arrive at an optimized master formula. In foam evaluation, it was found that sodium lauryl sulphate/ammonium lauryl sulphate/cocoamidopropyl betaine/cetostearyl alcohol (SLS/ALS/CAPB/CSA) foam system was the most appropriate to use in the formulation. NaOH was selected as the adjuster solution and KHP as the buffer. The dosage formula (DF) of the VGD and F/SBB was determined to be MDF = 5 ml of 50 ppm DMP + 5 ml concentrate + 40 ml water = 50 ml and that of MRF as MDF = 19 ml diluted concentrate + 1 ml of 50 ppm DMP. In conclusion, DMP was found to be a highly effective disinfectant against Mycobacteria. DMP has reasonable shelf life if stored appropriately. Pharmaceutical formulation from DMP was found to be delicate due to the narrow pH window of DMP stability, but is feasible.

Dagens intensiva användning av plast genererar mikroplaster som på olika sätt sprids ut i vår omgivning och medför risker för naturliga system världen över. Dessa mikroplaster härrör från bland annat hushåll, industrier och deponier, och färdas ofta med avloppsvattten och i viss utsträckning dagvatten till reningsverk. Där renas vattnet och en stor del av mikroplasterna ansamlas i det slam som bildas i samband med vattenreningen. Slammet består till stora delar av organiskt material och näring, och betraktas ofta som en resurssnarare än avfall. Cirka 50 % av det slam som bildas i europeiska reningsverk används som gödningsmedel inom jordbruk. Det innebär att slamgivor potentiellt är källor för spridning av stora mängder mikroplast. Idag är kunskapen om mikroplaster i slam relativt liten och en standardiserad metod för extrahering av mikroplaster ur slam saknas, vilket begränsar möjligheten att se problemets magnitud. Detta examensarbete strävar efter att bidra till utformandet av en sådan metod, och undersöker förekomsten av mikroplaster i slam från Ekeby reningsverk i Eskilstuna och Käppalaverket på Lidingö utanför Stockholm med hjälp av två olika metoder. De båda metoderna kombinerar oxidativ nedbrytning med hjälp av fenton-reagens och densitetseparering för att skilja mikroplaster från organiskt och inorganiskt material. Skillnaden mellan de olika metoderna är att den ena innehåller ett oxiderande moment och den andra två. Rapporten behandlar huruvida det extra oxiderande momentet har någon betydande skillnad för utvinningen av mikroplaster ur slam, samt om förekomsten av mikroplasterskiljer sig åt mellan slam från de två olika reningsverken. Resultaten visar att det finns en skillnad mellan de två extraheringsmetoderna samt viss skillnad mellan förekomsten av mikroplaster i de olika slammen. I rapporten diskuteras huruvida skillnaden mellan resultaten av de två olika metoderna beror på det extra oxiderande momentet, eller andra tillkommande effekter. Vad gäller mikroplasters förekomst i slam från de olika reningsverken fastslås att de skiljer sig åt kvantitativt, och i viss mån även kvalitativt.

Stuttgart, Univ., Diss., 2008.

This master thesis deals with integration of IPv6 network protocol into production computer network of Mendel University in Brno in the routing field. The integration includes the Dual Stack transition mechanism, IPv6 address plan, static routing at the perimeter of the university network, and OSPFv3 and MP-BGP routing protocols. Proposed integration plan was verified in the Laboratory of computer networking at the Department of Informatics at FBE MENDELU, and it serves as a template for a final implementation in the production network.

Ad-hoc on-demand networks have received a significant interest in the literature. Many routing schemes for such networks focus on finding the optimal path. In this work, however, we consider the routing problem from the viewpoint of sustaining QoS (quality of service) requirement. Some algorithms such as MP-DSR already have considered this problem in terms of the end-to-end reliability requirement. While the MP-DSR algorithm is capable of resolving the issue to a certain extent, it only considers disjoint paths between a pair of source and destination nodes. In reality due to mobility of nodes there may not exist such disjoint paths. In this work the proposed approach is independent of the nature of the paths, and yet it achieves the required reliability to satisfy QoS requirement.