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The objective of this thesis is the quantification and qualification of neonicotinoid insecticides using thin-layer chromatography (TLC). Neonicotinoids are a relatively new form of pesticides, which have been proven to be extremely lethal to the honey bee, Apis mellifera. In this paper six forms of neonicotinoid insecticides (i.e. Acetamiprid, Thiacloprid, Imidacloprid, Clothianidin, Thaimethoxam, and Nitenpyram) are analysed. The initial steps are to first find a suitable mobile phase eluent, followed by the search for a reagent causing a luminescence effect of the neonicotinoids on a TLC plate. Subsequently, a calibration method is then used to find the detection limit of this TLC experiment. The aim is, therefore, to achieve a standard method of quantifying and qualifying neonicotinoids via TLC. Whilst a suitable mobile phase has been established, an optimal fluorescent reagent has yet to be found and more research on the subject must be carried out.
Quarz crystal microbalances allow the monitoring of the adsorption process of mass from a liquid to their surface. The adsorbed mass can be analysed regarding to its protein content using mass spectromety. To ensure the protein identification the results of several measurements can be combined. A high content QCM-D array was developed to allow up to ten measurements parallel. The samples can be routed inside the array distributing one sample to several chips. The fluidic parts were prototyped using 3D printing. The assembled array was tight and the sample routing function could be demonstrated. A temperature controller was developed and implemented. The parameters for the PID controller were determined and the controller was shown to be able to keep the temperature constant over long time with high accuracy.
The Timed-Up-and-Go (TUG) test aims to assess mobility, balance, walking ability, and fall risk during walking. The instrumentalization of the TUG is already described in the literature and is beginning to be implemented in the industry. The products proposed by Zhortech and Digitsole, namely connected insoles, as well as additional sensors placed on the sternum and the right and eventually left femur allow the instrumentalization of the test.
An algorithm of detection and evaluation of the TUG has been developed in two versions. The first one (V1) aiming simply to calculate the total duration of the test. A second version is an improvement of V1, allowing to segment the TUG in three sub-phases: Sit-Stand, walking, Stand-Sit. These algorithms have been declined in a variant with the five sensors mentioned, and one without the sensor of the left femur.
The performance of the algorithms was compared to manual labeling performed on video. The comparison includes a bland-Altman plot and a correlation for the total test duration, but also for the sub-phase’s duration according to the two variants.
The TUG duration shows very good results regarding the limits of agreements (lLoA = -0.33 s and uLoA+0.6 s). The bias of 0.13 s indicated that the algorithm overrates the duration of the TUG. The results of the TUG subphases are less accurate. Although the correlation coefficient is between 0.76 and 0.96 for the different subphases, the limits of agreements are still very high, between -0.71 s and -0.5 s for the lLoA and +0.39 s and +0.58 s for the uLoA. These limits of agreements indicated that the Sit-Stand and Stand-Sit transition are not accurate enough yet. The dispersion is high for a transition that could last between about one and six seconds. The two variants, with and without a sensor on the left femur, present similar results.
The Project "Schluckspecht" of the University of Offenburg consists of participating in the European marathon called "Shell Eco-Marathon"(SEM) which consists of designing and building from the beginning a vehicle with the greatest possible energy efficiency. The University of Offenburg has participated in this project since 1998.
The team that forms the Schluckspecht project is made up of around 30 students from the faculties of mechanical engineering, process engineering, electrical engineering, medical technology and computer science, as well as the degree in Audiovisual Communication. The team was founded in 1998 and since then students have been developing and building high efficiency vehicles to participate in the European marathon Shell Eco.
In this project, students can put into practice all the theoretical knowledge obtained during their studies. Also can be learned how to work interdisciplinarity as a team, a skill that for now, many companies or require or seek.
The following topics are discussed in the Schluckspecht project, which are also ideal for the work of students:
-Conception construction and production of high efficiency vehicles.
-Computational design and manufacture of lightweight components and sets.
-Development of lightweight components and sets from renewable raw materials.
-Construction and development of special test benches, for example: motor test bench.
-Implementation and optimization of control strategies for autonomous driving
-Mechanical and electrical integration of sensors for autonomous driving
-Ergonomic studies and optimization of the driver's cabin.
The objective of the project is to develop and manufacture research vehicles that make individual mobility as efficient as possible from an energy point of view. To achieve this, current and future issues of the industry are discussed. In this project, both the theoretical and practical part of the light construction of vehicles and the reduction of friction, the variety of propulsion concepts (electric thrusters, fuel cells, diesel/petrol engines, Stirling engines) and autonomous driving are investigated. The services of the University of Offenburg together with some external partners are grouped together to make this wonderful project work.
The Projekt-Sweaty is a project of the University of Applied Sciences of Offenburg, an autonomous robot is being developed that competes against a set of several international colleges and universities in the RoboCup.
"Sweaty" is a soccer-playing humanoid robot who participated in the RoboCup World Cup in Brazil for the first time in 2014.
RoboCup is a competition aimed at developing a robot soccer team that surpasses the human world champion team. The competition started in 1997 the first official RoboCup games and conferences were held with great success. More than 40 teams took part and more than 5,000 spectators attended. RoboCup’s rules change to promote advances in robot science and technology and to bring the league’s challenges closer to the real world.
Building a robot that plays football will not in itself generate a significant social and economic impact, but the realization will certainly be considered an important success for the field of robotics.
Thanks to the interaction of all the faculties, the team consists of professors and students from the fields of mechanical and process engineering, electrical engineering, information technology, and information and media technology. Students can use the project during their studies and use the knowledge acquired in practice to implement and through their own creative ideas complement.
The Lattice Boltzmann Method is a useful tool to calculate fluid flow and acoustic effects at the same time. Although the acoustic perturbation is much smaller than normal pressure differences in fluid flow, this direct calculation is a great advantage of the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM). But each border used in calculation produces a multitude of reflections with the acoustic waves, which lead to an unusable result. Therefore, it is worked on different absorbing techniques.
In this thesis three absorbing layer techniques are described, explained and reviewed with different simulations. The absorbing layers are implemented in a basic LBM code in C++, and with this umpteen simulations within a box were performed to compare the different absorbing layers. The Doppler effect and a cylinder flow are also examined to compare the damping efficiencies.
The three studied absorbing techniques are the sponge layer, the perfectly matched layer and a force based Term II absorbing layer. The sponge layer is easy to implement but gives worse results than a calculation without any absorbing layer. The perfectly matched layer and a force based absorbing term provide very good results but the perfectly matched layer has problems with instability. The force based absorbing layer represents the best compromise between the additional computation time due the absorbing layer and the achieved damping efficiency.
Global energy demand is still on an increase during the last decade, with a lot of impact on the climate change due to the intensive use of conventional fossil-based fuels power plants to cover this demand. Most recently, leaders of the globe met in 2015 to come out with the Paris Agreement, stating that the countries will start to take a more responsible and effective behaviour toward the global warming and climate change issues. Many studies have discussed how the future energy system will look like with respecting the countries’ targets and limits of greenhouse gases and their CO2 emissions. However, these studies rarely discussed the industry sector in detail even though it is one of the major role players in the energy sector. Moreover, many studies have simulated and modelled the energy system with huge jumps of intervals in terms of years and environmental goals. In the first part of this study, a model will be developed for the German electrical grid with high spatial and temporal resolutions and different scenarios of it will be analysed meticulously on shorter periods (annual optimization), with different flexibilities and used technologies and degrees of innovations within each scenario. Moreover, the challenge in this research is to adequately map the diverse and different characteristics of the medium-sized industrial sector. In order to be able to take a first step in assessing the relevance of the industrial sector in Germany for climate protection goals, the industrial sector will be mapped in PyPSA-Eur (an open-source model data set of the European energy system at the level of the transmission network) by detailing the demand for different types of industry and assigning flexibilities to the industrial types. Synthetically generated load profiles of various industrial types are available. Flexibilities in the industrial sector are described by the project partner Fraunhofer IPA in the GaIN project and can be used. Using a scenario analysis, the development of the industrial sector and the use of flexibilities are then to be assessed quantitatively.
The present document is aimed to propose a suitable thermal model for the cooling down process of a one piston air cooled reciprocating compressor. In order to achieve this, a thermographic camera is used to record the temperature of different measuring points throughout different operating conditions. This data is later analyzed, with statistical tools and graphical visualization. The thermal phenomena present in the thermal process is characterized according to the compressors' geometry. Finally, using the analysis and taking into consideration the thermal phenomena the optimal thermal model is selected. This paper belongs to a bigger project and the last step is to simulate the compressor and the accuracy of the proposed model.
As society continues to age, the implementation of hip stems increases every year. However, there are a variety of different hip stem designs.
The aim of this project is to analyze which hip stem design implemented in a femur is most effective under different static loading conditions such as gait and sideways falling. In addition, a four-point-bending test was carried out. Therefore, the tech-niques were simulated in silico by FEA with Abaqus/CAE 2019.
A short stem, a straight stem and an anatomical stem were tested. All prosthesis are cementless press-fit stems. Each hip stem was examined in physiological and osteoporotic bone applying all three tests. To compare the stems the tests were also applied on a native bone model as a reference. Boundary conditions were used in order to simulate the tests.
The average von Mises stress, tension, compression and the risk of fracture were extracted and compared.
Biomechanical results show that the straight stem induces higher von Mises stresses compared to the anatomical stem. The risk of fracture is higher for osteo-porotic bone than for physiological bone. However, there is no risk of fracture as all the results are below the risk of value.