Murat Celep, Handan Sakarya, Cem Hayirli, Senel Yaran
An interlaboratory comparison of microwave power measurement (project UME-EM-10-02) was carried out among eight laboratories in Turkey. In this comparison, it was requested to make microwave power measurements at +10 dBm, 0 dBm and -15 dBm power levels with 0.03 GHz, 1 GHz, 7 GHz, 12 GHz and 18 GHz frequencies with their own measurement systems and methods. The measurement results and the expanded uncertainties were presented by the participant laboratories. Also, the normalized score ( E n ) of each participant laboratory were calculated and presented to evaluate the performance of the...
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Carles Aliau-Bonet, Ramon Pallas-Areny
Impedance measurements based on voltage pulse injection and current detection are simple to implement and fast, but transients produced in the current-to-voltage converter can yield large deviations in the impedance measured. Because those transients depend on the impedance being measured itself, it is difficult to avoid them when the measurement range is large. We propose to reduce those transients by controlling the rise time of the pulse being injected. For a particular implementation of the method, transient amplitude has been reduced to less than 2 % of the full scale voltage, as...
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Zbigniew Czaja, Bogdan Bartosinski
The new solution of a BIST called the JTAG BIST for self-testing of analog parts of electronic embedded systems is presented in the paper. The JTAG BIST consists of the BCT8244A and SCANSTA476 integrated circuits of Texas Instruments controlled via the IEEE 1149.1 bus. The BCT8244A is a scan test device with octal buffers, and the SCANSTA476 is a 12-bit ADC with 8 analog input channels. A self-testing approach is based on the fault diagnosis method in which we stimulate the tested analog part by a single square pulse using the BCT8244A and we sample the time response of the analog part two...
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Cristina Schreiner, Gabriel Dimofte, Thomas Schreiner
A new concept of hybrid bio-sensors are proposed for collecting microfluidic probes, in order to study and treat neurological disorders. The micro-electrode features at nanoscale are based on incorporating via electropolymerization of oxidized conjugated polymer - as charge-balancing - with dopants (e.g. Pyrrole derivatives, PEDOT, ProDOT, ProDOP and their copolymers), at the surface of carbon structures with nanopores of predefined architectures. The mechanical, fatigue and adhesion properties of the experimental coatings were assessed by using nanoindentation, high frequency impact and...
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G. Griffo, L. Piper, A. Lay-Ekuakille, D. Pellicanò, D. Scolozzi, E. De Franchis
This paper describes a prototype of a new buoy equipment for monitoring sea pollution that utilizes fluorescence chromatography of known biomass to determine which of them are present and in what capacity.The hardware system of the buoy is mainly composed of optical sensors for monitoring, circuitry on the measurement chain, the remote control system on GSM channel, and rechargeable battery with photovoltaic system.The software used in order to obtain a high resolution spectral analysis processing data is based on the Decimated Padé Approximant and Decimated Linear Predictor. Design is the...
Protecting Environment, Climate Changes and Pollution Control
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A. Esposito, L. Tarricone, M. Zappatore
This paper describes how to publish data coming from scattered and heterogeneous Electromagnetic (EM) field sensing systems in compliance with novel knowledge management techniques. Ontological modeling and Linked Data Principles have been exploited to interlink and organize, from a semantic point of view, measurement data with additional information describing sensors, measurement sites and techniques, emitting sources and devices, etc. From the very first achieved results, the proposed approach exhibits many appealing features. For instance, the possibility to seamlessly access different...
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Maria Grazia De Giorgi, Paolo Maria Congedo, Maria Malvoni, Marco Tarantino
Statistical methods based on Multiregression Analysis and Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have been developed in order to predict power production of a 960 kWp grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) plant in the campus of the University of Salento, Italy. The neural network has been used only as a statistic model based on time series of PV power and meteorological variables, as module temperature, ambient temperature and irradiance on module’s plain. In particular, a sensitivity analysis has been carried out in order to find those weather parameters with the best impact on the forecasting.
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G. Andria, F. Attivissimo, G. Cavone, A. M. L. Lanzolla, M. Spadavecchia
In the last ten years town of Taranto (Italy) is living a decisive phase of its own history, since is torn between the presence of some big hazardous industrial plants and the strong demand of eco-sustainable development. The increasing of manufacturing industries has leaded an undeniable economic and social growth, but, at the same time, has exposed the whole area to great environmental stresses. This concern is particularly true also for the Port of Taranto (PoT) because the harbor area is very close to the city, contributing to expose people to risk of serious health hazards. Although the...
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A. Lay-Ekuakille, A. Arnesano, P. Vergallo, R. Morello, C. De Capua
We present an architecture of controlling a proposed spectrometer system for detecting pollution in water and gas. The system is based on LED sensors using a Michelson interferometer and stepper–motor for moving split mirrors. The system is designed so that changes in LED light intensity could allow to detect a wide spectrum of polluted substances. The architecture uses a special duty-cycle to reduce the uncertainty of pollution detection. The electronic board of the system has been constructed and tested with encouraging results thanks to the use of a PMT (photomultiplier tube).
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A. Cocozza, A. Ficarella
Through analytical modeling of fluid flow and geomechanical phenomena is here given birth to an energy system that integrates CCS and geothermal energy. It uses the injection of CO 2 in deep saline aquifers to generate a range of pressures that facilitates the upgrade of geothermal fluids from geological formations that constitute the caprock or any porous aquifers overlaid with the aquifer reservoir. the uptake of these fluids promotes dissipate excess pressure and at the same time the settlement of primary consolidation of the formations overlying the aquifer subjected to the vertical...
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