Abstract The contribution of this thesis is to improve the understanding of acoustic dynamics in the audio duct with HQ (Herschel-Quincke tube) is essentially a hollow side-tube that travels along a main-duct axis and attaches to the main-duct at each of the two ends of the tube. In this project the detailed measurements of acoustic in a duct with HQ induced by a loudspeaker at various frequencies have been carried out experimentally. Two microphones have been used to measure the net acoustic power transmission in the duct downstream of HQ and compared with the net acoustic power transmission in the duct without the HQ. Two types of HQ and three different ducts have been studied. The acoustic wave signals are traveling in the duct as a plane wave these waves are generated by a signal generating system with a known sinusoidal wave (sine wave). One of the microphones is located just before the HQ-duct interface and the other microphone after the HQ in the duct. Labview software is used to analyze the signals with a sampling rate of 44100s/sam and number of samples is 20000. This study makes an exhaustive understanding of power spectrum of two acoustic channels in the duct with and without HQ. The results show that there is a great potential for HQ tube system to attenuate the noise over conical and cylindrical sections. The sound attenuation on conical section with short HQ shows about 70% and that of cylindrical section a meager 47% at higher frequency. Further more the sound attenuation of cylindrical section with long HQ is occurred at low frequencies.
رضوان نجمي الكوني الشريف (2010)

Abstract For this study, two identical single-effect of single basin solar stills are designed, fabricated, tested, and evaluated, where one of them is employed alone which is referred to as “passive still”, while the other is coupled to a flat plate solar collector introducing what so called the active still. Both are installed at the same site in Tripoli-Libya and they are oriented due to south. Measurement of various temperatures, solar intensities, humidity, wind speed and distillated water production are taken each hour for several days of August under various operating conditions. Two operational modes are considered; each of the passive and active stills is operating for the whole day. These tests were performed using seawater and water basin different depths. The water production of the active still is reported to be 6.6 L/m2.day which is higher than that of the passive still by 56 per cent approximately. The maximum daily efficiency is calculated to be 24 per cent approximately for the active still system while it is 14 per cent approximately for the passive still. Yet, the still thermal performance seems to have a complex function of geometrical, constructional, and operational conditions, site characteristics and layout details.
صالح أحمد سرابيط (2010)

Abstract The quadruple-tank process has been widely used in control literature to illustrate many concepts in multivariable control, particularly, performance limitations due to multivariable right half-plane zeros. The main feature of the quadruple-tank process is the flexibility in positioning one of its multivariable zeros on either half of the‘s’ plane A nonlinear and linear dynamic model for the quadruple-tank process are derived. The nonlinear model is derived from Johansson nonlinear dynamic system and describes the complicated dynamics of the physical plant when the system is setting in the non-minimum phase. The simulation results show that PID controllers have acceptable performances especially when the system is minimum-phase system while in the non-minimum-phase the controller is poor. Also it is shown that the linear quadratic Gaussian with loop transfer recover (LQG/LTR) is better than PID controller when the system is minimum-phase while in the non-minimum-phase the controller is not acceptable because (LQG/LTR) compensators generally cannot be designed for non-minimum-phase plants. Simulation results show that the proposed Decentralized fuzzy logic controller has a remarkable performance for tracking the multi step reference trajectories while at the same time it is robust against voltage changes. The Simulation results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed control methodology.
أبوبكر عبدالكريم أبو شاقور (2010)