In this research, the development of a novel brominated
poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene
oxide) (BPPO)-based homogeneous anion exchange membrane (AEM) via
the solution casting method was reported. Fourier transform infrared
spectroscopy was used to confirm the successful development of the
BPPO-based AEM. The prepared AEM showed excellent thermal stability.
It exhibited an ion exchange capacity of 2.66 mg/g, a water uptake
(
W
R
) of 68%, and a linear swelling ratio
of 31%. Methyl orange (MO), an anionic dye, was used as a model pollutant
to evaluate the ion exchange ability of the membrane. The adsorption
capacity of MO increased with the increase in contact time, membrane
dosage (adsorbent), temperature, and pH while declined with the increase
in initial concentration of MO in an aqueous solution and molarity
of NaCl. Adsorption isotherm study showed that adsorption of MO was
fitted well to the Freundlich adsorption isotherm because the value
of the correlation coefficient (
R
2
= 0.974)
was close to unity. Adsorption kinetics study showed that adsorption
of MO fitted well to the pseudo-second-order kinetic model. Adsorption
thermodynamics evaluation represented that adsorption of MO was an
endothermic (Δ
H
° = 18.72 kJ/mol) and spontaneous
process. The AEM presented a maximum adsorption capacity of 18 mg/g.
Moreover, the regeneration of the prepared membrane confirmed its
ability to be utilized for three consecutive cycles. The developed
BPPO-based AEM was an outstanding candidate for adsorption of MO from
an aqueous solution.
Along with economic dispatch, emission dispatch has become a key problem under market conditions. Thus, the combination of the above problems in one problem called economic emission dispatch (EED) problem became inevitable. However, due to the dynamic nature of today’s network loads, it is required to schedule the thermal unit outputs in real-time according to the variation of power demands during a certain time period. Within this context, this paper presents an elitist technique, the second version of the non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSAGII) for solving the dynamic economic emission dispatch (DEED) problem. Several equality and inequality constraints, such as valve point loading effects, ramp rate limits and prohibited operating zones (POZ), are taken into account. Therefore, the DEED problem is considered as a non-convex optimization problem with multiple local minima with higher-order non-linearities and discontinuities. A fuzzy-based membership function value assignment method is suggested to provide the best compromise solution from the Pareto front. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is verified on the standard power system with ten thermal units.
In recent years, there has been more research on the use of photonic crystals PCs in the field of detection. The application of these materials as gas sensors seems very promising, because of their miniaturization and high spectral sensitivities. The aim of this work is to contribute to the design and study of a resonant microsystem based on one-dimensional photonic crystals for applications such as optical devices with high quality factor for detecting and measuring the concentration of gas in the air. Indeed, we have proposed a gas monitoring structure. This nanosystem is formed by an alternating stack of silicon Si layers and air with a resonant nanocavity in the middle. The numerical results show that the resonance peak that appears on the Photonic Band Gap (PBG) is caused by the creation of the nanocavity within the periodic 1D structure. This resonance peak can be used as a reference for real-time detection and environmental monitoring. In addition, we theoretically studied the relevance of these photonic systems and analyzed the effect of the intrinsic and extrinsic parameters of this device on the detection performance. We have also tried to improve the performance of such a device for the effect study of the inclination variation of the radiation incidence source on the selectivity of the detector.
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