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    Adaptative Integral Sliding Mode Based Course Keeping Control of Unnamded Surface Vehicle
    (Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022, 10, 68, 2022) González-Prieto, José Antonio; Pérez-Collazo, Carlos; Sing, Yogangh
    This paper investigates the course keeping control problem for an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) in the presence of unknown disturbances and system uncertainties. The simulation study combines two different types of sliding mode surface based control approaches due to its precise tracking and robustness against disturbances and uncertainty. Firstly, an adaptive linear sliding mode surface algorithm is applied, to keep the yaw error within the desired boundaries and then an adaptive integral non-linear sliding mode surface is explored to keep an account of the sliding mode condition. Additionally, a method to reconfigure the input parameters in order to keep settling time, yaw rate restriction and desired precision within boundary conditions is presented. The main strengths of proposed approach is simplicity, robustness with respect to external disturbances and high adaptability to static and dynamics reference courses without the need of parameter reconfiguration.
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    OrthoSpar, a novel substructure concept for floating offshore wind turbines: Physical model tests under towing conditions
    (Ocean Engineering 245 (2022) 110508, 2022) Büttner, T.; Pérez-Collazo, C.; Abanades, J.; Hann, M.; Harper, P.; Greaves, D.; Stiesdal, H.
    An important condition of any port-assembled floating offshore wind turbine concept is the de-ballasted trans-port stage. As the hydrostatic and dynamic stability may vary greatly from the operational condition, it needs to be carefully investigated in early stages of the design-phase. In this work, physical modelling of the transport of the de-ballasted OrthoSpar device was carried out to determine roll and pitch RAOs, as well as load charac-teristics of the towing line. Towing was simulated with a stationary model being subjected to currents. To examine the influence of wave direction, a range of model orientations towards the incident waves were tested in still water and together with the simulated towing state. Roll and pitch motions were found to be highly dependent on the wave frequency and a result of a low damping ratio. The towing load amplitude was found to be influenced by the towing direction regarding the wave direction.
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    Microwave Assisted Alkaline Pretreatment of AlgaeWaste in the Production of Cellulosic Bioethanol
    (Energies, 2021, 14, 5891, 2021) Maceiras, Rocío; Alfonsín, Víctor; Seguí, Luis; González, Juan F.
    Biomass pretreatment has an important role in the production of cellulosic bioethanol. In this study, the effectiveness of microwave assisted alkaline pretreatment of algae waste was analysed. After pretreatment, the product was hydrolysed using sulphuric acid. The effects of microwave power, irradiating time, solid–liquid ratio and NaOH concentration were examined. Under the best conditions, the fermentable sugars were converted to cellulosic bioethanol using Saccharomyces Cerevisiae with a bioethanol yield of 1.93 0.01 g/g and a fermentation efficiency of 40.4%. The reducing sugars concentration was 30% higher than that obtained from conventional hydrolysis without pretreatment. The obtained results suggest that microwave assisted alkaline pretreatment is effective in improving the production of cellulosic bioethanol of algae waste compared to that without microwave effect. Considering energy consumption, low microwave power and short microwave irradiation time are favourable for this pretreatment.
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    Analysis of Heat Transfer Characteristics of a GnP Aqueous Nanofluid through a Double-Tube Heat Exchanger
    (Nanomaterials 2021, 11(4), 844, 2021) Calviño, Uxía; Vallejo, Javier P.; Buschmann, Matthias H.; Fernández-Seara, José; Lugo, Luis
    The thermal properties of graphene have proved to be exceptional and are partly maintained in its multi-layered form, graphene nanoplatelets (GnP). Since these carbon-based nanostructures are hydrophobic, functionalization is needed in order to assess their long-term stability in aqueous suspensions. In this study, the convective heat transfer performance of a polycarboxylate chemically modified GnP dispersion in water at 0.50 wt% is experimentally analyzed. After designing the nanofluid, dynamic viscosity, thermal conductivity, isobaric heat capacity and density are measured using rotational rheometry, the transient hot-wire technique, differential scanning calorimetry and vibrating U-tube methods, respectively, in a wide temperature range. The whole analysis of thermophysical and rheological properties is validated by two laboratories. Afterward, an experimental facility is used to evaluate the heat transfer performance in a turbulent regime. Convective heat transfer coefficients are obtained using the thermal resistances method, reaching enhancements for the nanofluid of up to 13%. The reported improvements are achieved without clear enhancements in the nanofluid thermal conductivity. Finally, dimensionless analyses are carried out by employing the Nusselt and Péclet numbers and Darcy friction factor.
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    Tuning the thermal properties of aqueous nanofluids by taking advantage of size-customized clusters of iron oxide nanoparticles
    (Journal of Molecular Liquids 344 (2021) 117727, 2021) Elsaidy, Amir; Vallejo, Javier P.; Salgueiriño, Verónica; Lugo, Luis
    In this study, the thermal conductivity of aqueous nanofluids containing clusters of iron oxide (Fe3O4/γ-Fe2O3) nanoparticles has been investigated experimentally for the first time, with the aim of assessing the role of a controlled aggregation of nanoparticles in these final nanofluids. For that, clusters of iron oxide nanoparticles of different cluster size (46–240 nm diameter range) were synthesized by a solvothermal method and fully characterized by transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy. The rheological behavior of the optimal nanofluids was also studied by rotational rheometry. The nanofluids were obtained by dispersing the clusters of iron oxide nanoparticles in water taking into account different solid volume fractions (from 0.50 to 1.5 wt%) and the experiments were conducted in the temperature range from 293.15 K to 313.15 K. The study reveals and quantifies enhancements in the thermal conductivity of nanofluid with increase of cluster size and temperature. Furthermore, a 0.50 wt% concentration of clusters of iron oxide nanoparticles within the whole range of proposed nanofluids offers great stability and improved thermal conductivity for heat transfer applications with an small dynamic viscosity increase. In addition, the larger the size of the clusters of iron oxide nanoparticles, the greater the increase in thermal conductivity for the designed Fe3O4/γ-Fe2O3 cluster-based nanofluids, with thermal conductivity values following a constant upward trend and reaching a maximum increase of 4.4% for the largest synthesized clusters (average size of 240 nm). These results open the door for the development of iron oxide-based nanofluids on which taking advantage of an optimized aggregation of nanoparticles by using size-customized clusters.