The relevance of the research is caused by the need to ensure optimal ratios of the octane number of gasoline and the cost of organizing the process in a catalytic reformer with a capacity of 1 ...million tons per year for raw materials in conditions of variable quality of raw materials and quality of fuel gas. The effectiveness of gasoline production depends not only on increasing the octane number, but also on reducing the costs of the process organization. The existing systems for controlling the catalytic reforming do not ensure the achievement of optimal ratios of the octane number of gasoline and the costs of the process organization. It is necessary to develop a control system for the catalytic reforming process, which ensures the achievement of these ratios. The main aim of the research is to achieve optimum octane number ratio of gasoline and process organization costs in a catalytic reformer with a capacity of 1 million tons per year for raw materials in conditions of varying quality of raw materials and quality of fuel gas by developing a management system. Object of the research is the catalytic reforming unit with a capacity of 1 million tons per year for raw materials. Methods: fuzzy sets theory, decision theory in fuzzy conditions, computational mathematics, automatic control theory. Results. The authors have set the task of controlling the process of catalytic reforming at a L-35-11 / 1000 reformer with a capacity of 1 million tons per year for raw materials and carried out the analysis of the process as a control object with the identification of its features. The paper describes the set of input and output parameters of the control object and introduces the expression for determining the generalized optimality criterion. The authors developed the system for controlling the catalytic reforming. The implementation of the proposed system ensures the achievement of optimal ratios of the octane number of gasoline and production costs.
The work solves the problem of automation of machining process namely turning to produce parts having the planes parallel to an axis of rotation of part without using special tools. According to the ...results, the availability of the equipment of a high speed electromechanical drive to control the operative movements of lathe machine will enable one to get the planes parallel to the part axis. The method of getting planes parallel to the part axis is based on the mathematical model, which is presented as functional dependency between the conveying velocity of the driven element and the time. It describes the operative movements of lathe machine all over the tool path. Using the model of movement of the tool, it has been found that the conveying velocity varies from the maximum to zero value. It will allow one to carry out the reverse of the drive. The scheme of tool placement regarding the workpiece has been proposed for unidirectional movement of the driven element at high conveying velocity. The control method of CNC machines can be used for getting geometrically complex parts on the lathe without using special milling tools.
The OPERA experiment was designed to study νμ→ντ oscillations in the appearance mode in the CERN to Gran Sasso Neutrino beam (CNGS). In this Letter, we report the final analysis of the full data ...sample collected between 2008 and 2012, corresponding to 17.97×1019 protons on target. Selection criteria looser than in previous analyses have produced ten ντ candidate events, thus reducing the statistical uncertainty in the measurement of the oscillation parameters and of ντ properties. A multivariate approach for event identification has been applied to the candidate events and the discovery of ντ appearance is confirmed with an improved significance level of 6.1σ. |Δm322| has been measured, in appearance mode, with an accuracy of 20%. The measurement of the ντ charged-current cross section, for the first time with a negligible contamination from ν¯τ, and the first direct evidence for the ντ lepton number are also reported.
The OPERA neutrino detector in the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory (LNGS) has been designed to perform the first detection of neutrino oscillations in direct appearance mode through the study of ...the νμ→ντ channel. The hybrid apparatus consists of an emulsion/lead target complemented by electronic detectors and it is placed in the high energy long-baseline CERN to LNGS beam (CNGS) 730 km away from the neutrino source. Runs with CNGS neutrinos were successfully carried out in 2008 and 2009. After a brief description of the beam, the experimental setup and the procedures used for the analysis of the neutrino events, we describe the topology and kinematics of a first candidate ντ charged-current event satisfying the kinematical selection criteria. The background calculations and their cross-check are explained in detail and the significance of the event is assessed.
The OPERA experiment has conclusively observed the appearance of tau neutrinos in the muon neutrino CNGS beam. Exploiting the OPERA detector capabilities, it was possible to isolate high purity ...samples of νe, νμ and ντ charged current weak neutrino interactions, as well as neutral current weak interactions. In this paper, the full dataset is used for the first time to test the three-flavor neutrino oscillation model and to derive constraints on the existence of a light sterile neutrino within the framework of the 3+1 neutrino model. For the first time, tau and electron neutrino appearance channels are jointly used to test the sterile neutrino hypothesis. A significant fraction of the sterile neutrino parameter space allowed by LSND and MiniBooNE experiments is excluded at 90% C.L. In particular, the best-fit values obtained by MiniBooNE combining neutrino and antineutrino data are excluded at 3.3σ significance.
A
bstract
The OPERA experiment has discovered the tau neutrino appearance in the CNGS muon neutrino beam, in agreement with the 3 neutrino flavour oscillation hypothesis. The OPERA neutrino ...interaction target, made of Emulsion Cloud Chambers, was particularly efficient in the reconstruction of electromagnetic showers. Moreover, thanks to the very high granularity of the emulsion films, showers induced by electrons can be distinguished from those induced by
π
0
s, thus allowing the detection of charged current interactions of electron neutrinos. In this paper the results of the search for electron neutrino events using the full dataset are reported. An improved method for the electron neutrino energy estimation is exploited. Data are compatible with the 3 neutrino flavour mixing model expectations and are used to set limits on the oscillation parameters of the 3+1 neutrino mixing model, in which an additional mass eigenstate
m
4
is introduced. At high Δ
m
41
2
(≳0.1 eV
2
), an upper limit on sin
2
2
θ
μe
is set to 0.021 at 90% C.L. and Δ
m
41
2
≳ 4 × 10
− 3
eV
2
is excluded for maximal mixing in appearance mode.
A
bstract
A first result of the search for
ν
μ
→
ν
e
oscillations in the OPERA experiment, located at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory, is presented. The experiment looked for the appearance of
...ν
e
in the CNGS neutrino beam using the data collected in 2008 and 2009. Data are compatible with the non-oscillation hypothesis in the three-flavour mixing model. A further analysis of the same data constrains the non-standard oscillation parameters
θ
new
and
suggested by the LSND and MiniBooNE experiments. For large
values (
>
0.1 eV
2
), the OPERA 90% C.L. upper limit on sin
2
(2
θ
new
) based on a Bayesian statistical method reaches the value 7
.
2 × 10
−3
.
Latest results of the OPERA experiment on nu-tau appearance in the CNGS neutrino beam N. Agafonova, A. Alexandrov, A. Anokhina, S. Aoki, A. Ariga, T. Ariga, A. Bertolin, C. Bozza, R. Brugnera, A. Buonaura, S. Buontempo, M. Chernyavskiy, A. Chukanov, L. Consiglio, N. D'Ambrosio, G. De Lellis, M. De Serio, P. del Amo Sanchez, A. Di Crescenzo, D. Di Ferdinando, N. Di Marco, S. Dmitrievsky, M. Dracos, D. Duchesneau, S. Dusini, T. Dzhatdoev, J. Ebert, A. Ereditato, J. Favier, R. A. Fini, F. Fornari, T. Fukuda, G. Galati, A. Garfagnini, V. Gentile, J. Goldberg, S. Gorbunov, Y. Gornushkin, G. Grella, A. M. Guler, C. Gustavino, C. Hagner, T. Hara, T. Hayakawa, A. Hollnagel, K. Ishiguro, A. Iuliano, K. Jakovcic, C. Jollet, C. Kamiscioglu, M. Kamiscioglu, S. H. Kim, N. Kitagawa, B. Klicek, K. Kodama, M. Komatsu, U. Kose, I. Kreslo, F. Laudisio, A. Lauria, A. Longhin, P. Loverre, M. Malenica, A. Malgin, G. Mandrioli, T. Matsuo, V. Matveev, N. Mauri, E. Medinaceli, A. Meregaglia, S. Mikado, M. Miyanishi, F. Mizutani, P. Monacelli, M. C. Montesi, K. Morishima, M. T. Muciaccia, N. Naganawa, T. Naka, M. Nakamura, T. Nakano, K. Niwa, S. Ogawa, A. Olchevsky, N. Okateva, K. Ozaki, A. Paoloni, L. Paparella, B. D. Park, L. Pasqualini, A. Pastore, L. Patrizii, H. Pessard, C. Pistillo, D. Podgrudkov, N. Polukhina, M. Pozzato, F. Pupilli, M. Roda, T. Roganova, H. Rokujo, G. Rosa, O. Ryazhskaya, A. Sadovsky, O. Sato, A. Schembri, I. Shakiryanova, T. Shchedrina, E. Shibayama, H. Shibuya, T. Shiraishi, S. Simone, C. Sirignano, G. Sirri, A. Sotnikov, M. Spinetti, L. Stanco, N. Starkov, S. M. Stellacci, M. Stipcevic, P. Strolin, S. Takahashi, M. Tenti, F. Terranova, V. Tioukov, S. Tufanli, A. Ustyuzhanin, S. Vasina, P. Vilain, E. Voevodina, L. Votano, J. L. Vuilleumier, G. Wilquet, B. Wonsak, C. S. Yoon
SciPost physics proceedings,
2019
1
Journal Article
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OPERA is a long-baseline experiment designed to search for $\nu_{\mu}\to\nu_{\tau}$ oscillations in appearance mode. It was based at the INFN Gran Sasso laboratory (LNGS) and took data from 2008 to ...2012 with the CNGS neutrino beam from CERN. After the discovery of $\nu_\tau$ appearance in 2015, with $5.1\sigma$ significance, the criteria to select $\nu_\tau$ candidates have been extended and a multivariate approach has been used for events identification. In this way the statistical uncertainty in the measurement of the oscillation parameters and of $\nu_\tau$ properties has been improved. Results are reported.
It is proposed to take into account the influence of uncontrolled disturbances on the regulation of pressure in the stabilization column of a catalytic reforming unit by changing the coefficients of ...the denominator polynomial of the transfer function of the automatic pressure control system based on robust stability methods. To describe the problem in a general form, a general view of the polynomial of the denominator of the transfer function of the automatic pressure control system in the stabilization column of the catalytic reformer is obtained. The purpose of the study is to determine the maximum range of change in the coefficients of the polynomial of the denominator of the transfer function of an automatic pressure control system in the stabilization column of a catalytic reformer, at which robust stability is maintained. Methods - methods of robust stability, automatic control theory. A family of polynomials of the denominator of the transfer function of the automatic pressure control system in the stabilization column of a catalytic reformer with squared uncertainty parameters is considered.The problem of determining the area of robust stability of a family of polynomials is reduced to determining the areas of stability of four edge polynomials and the intersection of all areas to determine the area of robust stability of the family. In general, the problem of determining the robust stability of each edge polynomial is described. To determine the area of robust stability of the family of polynomials of the denominator of the transfer function of the automatic pressure control system in the stabilization column of the catalytic reformer, three polynomials, including the nominal one, are specified. Based on the general description of the problem, the radius of stability of each edge polynomial is determined using a graphical criterion and the construction of a Tsypkin-Polyak hodograph. Results - based on the intersection of the stability regions of four rib polynomials, the robust stability region of the family of polynomials of the denominator of the transfer function of the automatic pressure control system in the stabilization column of the catalytic reformer with a stability radius of 1.5 was determined. Conclusion - this result can be used in the development of an automatic pressure control system in the stabilization column of the catalytic reformer and the choice of regulator settings.
Abstract
This paper describes a new νe identification method specifically designed to improve the low-energy ($\lt {30}\, {\rm GeV}$) νe identification efficiency attained by enlarging the emulsion ...film scanning volume with the next-generation emulsion readout system. A relative increase of 25–70% in the νe low-energy region is expected, leading to improvements in the OPERA sensitivity to neutrino oscillations in the framework of the 3 + 1 model. The method is applied to a subset of data where the detection efficiency increase is expected to be more relevant, and one additional νe candidate is found. The analysis combined with the ντ appearance results improves the upper limit on sin 22θμe to 0.016 at 90% C.L. in the MiniBooNE allowed region $\Delta m^2_{41} \sim {0.3}\, {\rm eV}^{2}$.
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