1399results about "Chemical processes analysis/design" patented technology

A method of interactively navigating a user through a path of menu choices on a user interface may include displaying a current menu of choices on a first portion of a user interface display. The user interface allows for selecting of a menu item from the current menu of choices and to drill down through levels of menu choices based on selecting a menu item from a prior level of menu choices. A second portion of the user interface display presents past selected and past unselected menu items of the drilled-down levels. The past unselected menu items are displayed as selectable options. The user interface allows for jumping to a different path of menu choices by selecting a past unselected menu item from a previously navigated menu level displayed on the second portion of the user interface display.

A method for the evaluation, design and optimization of in-situ bioconversion processes for the conversion of carbon to methane and other useful gases and liquids. The method utilizes a comprehensive computer simulation model for accurately simulating the physical and dynamic conditions in a subterranean carbon-bearing formation and the effects of stimulating the growth of indigenous or non-indigenous microbes therein for the bioconverstion of carbon to methane and other useful gases and liquids. The method enables the prediction of bioconversion rates and efficiencies under a range of variables, and thus provides for the optimization of in-situ bioconversion process design and operation.

Embodiments of the invention include a method of simulating an ignition of a reactive multilayer foil. Other embodiments include various methods of igniting a reactive multilayer foil by transferring energy from an energy source to a reactive multilayer foil.

A method of predicting the composition of hydrocarbon products of a complex carbonaceous material when exposed to specific time and temperature conditions is disclosed. In one embodiment, the material is characterized to obtain elemental, chemical and structural parameters. A representative chemical structure of the material is constructed based on the characterization information. The representative chemical structure is then stochastically expanded to a molecular ensemble chemical structural model that includes heteroatoms. The chemical structural model is coupled to a compositional yield model and the composition of the material products is determined using kinetic modeling. Methods are provided of constructing a chemical structural model of complex carbonaceous material, of coupling a molecular ensemble of chemical structures to a thermal chemical mechanism, of updating an ensemble of chemical structures during the kinetic modeling to reflect chemical reaction products and of eliminating molecules from the system.

A biosensor has an abnormal output detection system that determines whether an output signal from the redox reaction of an analyte has a normal or abnormal shape or configuration. The abnormal output detection system improves the accuracy and precision of the biosensor in determining whether an output signal has a shape or configuration that may not provide an accurate and/or precise analysis of a biological fluid. The biosensor generates an output signal in response to the redox reaction of the analyte. The biosensor normalizes the output signal and compares the normalized output signal with one or more control limits. The biosensor may generate an error signal when the normalized output signal is not within the control limits.

A system for modifying a model of a chemical reaction or biochemical process responsive to experimental results generated by an in situ experiment conducted on an experimental platform includes a simulation engine and an analysis environment. The simulation engine generates an expected result from a model of the chemical reaction or biochemical process. The analysis environment communicates with the simulation engine, gathers data from an experimental platform, and compares the expected result to data gathered from the platform.

A preferred embodiment of the present invention comprises method for planning the synthesis of one or more chemical compounds with specified chemical properties, comprising the steps of: (a) representing a space of synthesis plans, wherein each synthesis plan in the space of synthesis plans represents one or more vitual reaction schemas applied to one or more classes of virtual input reactants; (b) representing a space of virtual compounds, wherein each compound in the space of virtual compounds is a product of one or more of said synthesis plans; (c) constructing a first mapping from the space of virtual compounds to range space representing the desirability of a compound, wherein the first mapping is determined by one or more compound properties being measured; and (d) searching the space of synthesis plans for desirable compounds as represented in the range space.

The invention discloses a modeling method for a mass transfer rate structure-effect regulating model of a micro-interface enhanced reactor. Rigorous theoretical derivation is adopted for respectively establishing a gas-side mass transfer coefficient calculation model and a liquid-side mass transfer coefficient calculation model. The mass transfer rate structure-effect regulating model established according to the modeling method disclosed by the invention can be adopted for directly viewing the relationship between the mass transfer rate and the bubble size and a theoretical basis is established for researching a micro-interface system, so that the target of acquiring the maximum energy efficiency and physical effect in the reaction process can be achieved in the manner of regulating structure parameter and operation parameter or an efficient reactor structure is designed under the conditions of given reaction target (task), energy consumption and material consumption.

The invention provides a multi-source information fusion technique based coal-fired boiler SCR catalyst life evaluation method. The multi-source information fusion technique based coal-fired boiler SCR catalyst life evaluation method includes the following steps: performing multiple sampling on a catalyst used in a power station boiler, performing laboratory detection on a sample, and acquiring a microscopic feature index capable of representing the activity of the catalyst; acquiring a macro-performance index of the catalyst sample through a micro reactor test; counting and mining power station historical operation data to acquire a macro index capable of reflecting the power station SCR reactor performance; and fusing the indexes associated with the catalyst life, and completing comprehensive evaluation of the catalyst life. The evaluation method can acquire a catalyst life prediction model according to historical laboratory detection data and an actual operation parameter of the catalyst through a fuzzy mathematical method, and can improve the accuracy and stability of catalyst performance evaluation.

The database is populated with target chemicals, corresponding listings of reagent chemicals, corresponding listings of equipment and corresponding listings of procedures. The database is then searched in response to user identification of a target chemical. In response, a listing is displayed of reagent chemicals that are used to synthesize the target chemical, equipment that is used to synthesize the target chemical, and a procedure that is used to synthesize the target chemical by reacting the reagent chemicals in the equipment according to the procedure. An icon-based reaction editor and/or context-sensitive Boolean query option generators may be provided. A reaction template may be used to perform predictive chemistry. A reaction relay may be used to graphically display related chemicals and procedures using a hub and spoke arrangement.

The present invention is directed to systems and methods for evaluating performance, performing process control, optimization and design of gravity separation process systems that are used to separate immiscible liquid dispersions (e.g., water-in-oil, oil-in-water mixtures) and emulsions for two-phase (liquid-liquid) or three-phase (gas-liquid-liquid) systems. According to one aspect, the design, simulation and control of such systems is performed using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software that is configured for determining the separation efficiency of separators on the basis of the true geometry and multidimensional flow field and for a distribution of droplet sizes with the influence of the emulsion concentration on the rheology of the oil-in-water or water-in-oil dispersion. The results of the CFD simulations can be used to adjust input parameters of the separator to maximize the separation efficiency of the separator such that it outputs liquid streams containing minimal amounts of immiscible liquid dispersions.

A method of producing an alkylene oxide includes passing a reaction mixture comprising alkylene, oxygen and a gaseous chlorine-containing promoter species over a supported catalyst containing silver and a promoting amount of rhenium to undergo an epoxidation reaction at a first operating condition. The method further includes subsequently performing the epoxidation reaction at a preferred operating condition. The preferred operating condition is characterized by an efficiency of the epoxidation reaction toward the alkylene oxide where the efficiency is lower than that of a maximum efficiency achievable at an operating temperature corresponding to the preferred operating condition.

Formalized graphical reaction rules and conventions accounting for chemical states and binding or reaction states are provided for modeling complex biological systems such as signal transduction pathways. A system model is derived by defining typed attributed graphs which delimit molecular entities and their possible states. Graph transformation rules defining a class of potential reactions are defined and applied to the graphs and all new graphs that subsequently arise as a result of graph transformation. In one embodiment, a model is generated through the use of graph-rewriting rules which are associated with rate laws and applied iteratively to a seed set of chemical species graphs until a termination condition occurs.

The invention discloses a method for establishing a DO prediction model based on an optimized BP neural network. The method comprises following steps: variables are selected on the basis of predicting aeration tank DO; data is pretreated; an initial prediction model of the aeration tank DO is established; and modeling data is used for training network models to obtain an initially built DO prediction model and then the model prediction effect is analyzed; parameter and structure optimizations on the initially built DO prediction model are performed one by one and then the initial weight and threshold of BP network are optimized by means of the mind evolutionary algorithm; after the optimized DO prediction model is obtained, the prediction precision and prediction performance of the optimized model are evaluated. The method improves the prediction accuracy of the time sequence data, improves the model performance to a certain extent and improves the prediction accuracy, and facilitates the implementation of the precise control of the aeration tank aeration in the sewage treatment plant.

A method for the prediction of adverse cross-reactions between lead candidate biomolecules and potential reactant molecules, often biopolymers, is described. In a computational system, reactions are modeled within a suitable environment, in order to determine a reaction profile between a lead candidate molecule and a potential reactant molecule. A risk assessment is then generated for each lead based on a plurality of reaction profiles for the lead with respect to a plurality of potential reactant molecules. The method includes provisions for redesign and optimization of the lead candidate, possibly iterative in nature, in order to avoid predicted adverse cross-reactions.

Methods and systems for automated polynucleotide synthesis design are provided. Example embodiments provide an Automated Polynucleotide Synthesis Design System (“APSDS”), which automatically generates a synthesis design for a designated target sequence specification. In one embodiment, the APSDS comprises a synthesis design engine, user interface support, a synthesis rules data repository, and a synthesis data repository. The APSDS automatically generates a synthesis design by receiving a target sequence(s) specification, generating a potential synthesis design, evaluating the potential design against synthesis rules, and when the evaluation indicates that the potential design is not successful according to the synthesis rules, adjusting the design to generate a new potential synthesis design and repeating the process of evaluating and adjusting until a potential synthesis design is found that satisfies the synthesis rules or until no solution is found.

A forward synthetic method is described that utilizes recursive application of established organic chemical reactions to derive more complex synthons from available reagents than are available from the reagent synthons themselves. The product of each reaction serves as the starting point for further reactions thereby permitting the generation of multiple complex molecular structures. This synthon generation procedure typically yields 20 ? 30 new structures within the limits of easily accessible syntheses based upon each starting reagent. More complex syntheses yield even more structures. The generated synthons are characterized with a molecular structural descriptor possessing a neighborhood property and can be further characterized with features. The synthons are searched for three dimensional shape and feature similarity to molecular fragments derived from query molecules, typically pharmacological molecules of interest. Identified synthons can be assembled into molecules possessing the same three dimensional shape and likely activity as the molecule of interest.

A hydroprocessing catalyst has been developed. The catalyst is a crystalline transition metal tungstate material or metal sulfides derived therefrom, or both. The hydroprocessing using the crystalline transition metal tungstate material may include hydrodenitrification, hydrodesulfurization, hydrodemetallation, hydrodesilication, hydrodearomatization, hydroisomerization, hydrotreating, hydrofining, and hydrocracking.

The invention discloses a reactor primary loop coolant flow field, temperature field and stress field coupling calculation method. The method comprises the following steps: 1) constructing a high-temperature gas cooled reactor core model and a steam generator model with the same size as actual equipment; 2) establishing a computational domain 1, a computational domain 2 and a computational domain3; 3) setting equipment materials and fluid domains in the computational domain 1, the computational domain 2 and the computational domain 3; 4) setting areas and boundary layers of a flow field, a temperature field and a stress field; 5) meshing the flow field, the temperature field and the stress field; 6) adopting a k-epsilon turbulence model in the computational domain 1 and the computationaldomain 3, and adopting a porous medium model in the computational domain 2; 7) obtaining flow field, temperature field and stress field distribution results of the computational domain 1, the computational domain 2 and the computational domain 3, and 8) obtaining optimal operation parameter configuration of the high-temperature gas cooled reactor at different power levels. The method can realize coupling numerical simulation calculation of the coolant flow field, the temperature field and the stress field of a reactor primary loop.

The invention discloses a method for determining a chemical synthesis route. The method includes the steps: receiving a chemical synthesis request for requesting a chemical synthesis route of a targetcompound; inputting the target compound to a classification model, and obtaining a reaction rule corresponding to the target compound, wherein the classification model is a machine learning model taking the compound as input and taking the reaction rule as the output; according to the reaction rule, performing decomposition inverse synthesis analysis on the target compound to obtain raw materialsrequired for synthesizing the target compound; and according to the raw materials, determining a chemical synthesis route corresponding to the target compound. The method realizes automatic design ofthe chemical synthesis route through the classification model, and the classification model has high accuracy and strong generalization ability, can be applied to the new reaction, and does not needto be trained again, thus improving the design efficiency of the chemical synthesis route. The present invention also discloses a training method, apparatus and device for a classification model and amedium.

A system, apparatus, and/or method is disclosed for determining a value of a property of a considered chemical composition. An identity of a sample chemical composition may be received. A sample chemical composition may comprise ingredients. Each of the ingredients may be associated with a value of a chemoinformatic property of chemoinformatic properties of the sample chemical composition. A value of a property of the sample chemical composition and at least one of (1) the identity of the sample chemical composition or (2) the values of the chemoinformatic properties of the ingredients of the sample chemical composition may be input into a model. The value of the property of the considered chemical composition may be determined, via the model, based on at least one of (1) an identity of the considered chemical composition or (2) values of chemoinformatic properties of ingredients of the considered chemical composition.

The invention provides a modeling and optimizing method of a high-sulfur natural gas purification process oriented to energy saving and consumption reduction. The method comprises the steps that process parameters influencing the desulfurization efficiency and performance indexes of a desulfurization unit are selected and then are acquired to form sample sets; normalization is conducted on the sample sets to form normalized sample sets, and a training sample and a testing sample set are selected from the normalized sample sets; a neural network model is established based on the training sample, and initial state variables of the neural network model are determined; the optimal state variable of the neural network model is estimated by utilizing an ST-UPFNN algorithm; according to the optimal state variable, the neural network model is updated; preference functions of H2S concentration and CO2 concentration are established respectively; process parameters of H2S concentration and CO2 concentration are optimized by utilizing an MOGA algorithm, and the optimized process parameters are introduced into the updated neural network model, the system performance of the optimized process parameters is calculated, and average values of the system performance of actual samples are compared. The production efficiency of high-sulfur natural gas purification can be improved by utilizing the method.

A method and system for calculating the free energy difference between a target state and a reference state. The method includes determining one or more intermediate states using a coupling parameter, performing molecular simulations to obtain ensembles of micro-states for each of the system states, and calculating the free energy difference by an analysis of the ensembles of micro-states of the system states. The method can be particularly suited for calculating physical or non-physical transformation of molecular systems such as ring-opening, ring-closing, and other transformations involving bond breaking and/or formation. A soft bond potential dependent on a bond stretching component of the coupling parameter and different from the conventional harmonic potential is used in the molecular simulations of the system states for the bond being broken or formed during the transformation.

The invention discloses a construction method of a multi-scale prediction model of a chloride ion diffusion coefficient of prestressed concrete. The method is characterized by: regarding the concreteas a cement-based composite material composed of different-scale materials, establishing prediction models of chloride ion diffusion coefficients of the different-scale cement-based materials in sequence with gradual transition from small-scale hardened cement slurry to large-scale concrete, then considering influences which are of prestress inside the prestressed concrete and on chloride ion diffusion thereof, and finally, establishing the multi-scale prediction model of the chloride ion diffusion coefficient of the prestressed concrete. According to the method, influences of prestress levelson chloride ion diffusion are studied by starting from multi-scale structure formations of the cement-based materials, and the established multi-scale prediction model of the chloride ion diffusion coefficient of the prestressed concrete has very important significance for chloride ion penetration resistance study and durability design of the prestressed concrete.

The invention discloses a latent structure mapping algorithm-based soft measurement method for DXN discharge concentration in a municipal waste solid incineration process. The method comprises the steps of firstly, collecting and preprocessing process variables of the complete municipal waste solid incineration process and easily detected exhaust gas concentration; secondly, based on variable importance in projection (VIP) of a linear latent structure mapping algorithm and an input feature selection ratio set according to experience, determining input features of a soft measurement model; andfinally, building a selective ensemble kernel latent structure mapping model based on adaptive selection kernel parameters of a control training sample ensemble construction strategy. The method can preset a feature selection parameter and a structure parameter of the soft measurement model and a selection threshold and a weighting strategy of an ensemble sub-model according to actual demands of an industrial process, and is suitable to build the small sample collinear data-based difficultly detected parameter soft measurement model.