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  title info:
    title: VDE
    sub title: an expert system for evaluation of vapor-liquid equilibrium data
  name:
    name part: Campestre, Jean Robert
    name part: 1953-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Hall, K. R.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Holste, J. C.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Lively, W. M.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Watson, A. T.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Wilhoit, Randolph C.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1990
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 218 leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm + 2 computer discs
  abstract: Evaluated data, more specifically vapor-liquid equilibrium (VLE) data, for designing equipment and improving models are critical to the chemical process industry. Because designs based on poor data often lead to inefficient or unsafe processes, with significant capital and human costs, there is an increasing concern and need for good data. Evaluation is a lengthy, strenuous, and costly task which requires considerable expertise. Therefore, the expertise for evaluating data is not readily available to small or middle-size corporations. The evaluation procedure includes error estimations, consistency tests, fitting to models, and eventual comparisons of data sets. In particular, the assessment of the errors requires a knowledge derived from years of experience with the experimental procedures. The need for numerical methods (including simulation and optimization) and for symbolic methods (including logical and heuristic reasoning) is characteristic of engineering and science. Hybrid expert systems, which couple numeric and symbolic computing, offer the best available technology to capture these fundamental aspects of scientific activities. They offer the best tools to capture the reasoning and the knowledge of data evaluators. VLE-DATA-EXPERT (VDE), a user-friendly hybrid expert system for the evaluation of vapor-liquid equilibrium data from published data, has been developed on a SUN-3/80 workstation using the Automated Reasoning Tool (ART). An architecture somewhat similar to the so-called blackboard offers sufficient modularity for incremental growth and maintenance. Ample use of menus and graphics improves the friendliness of the system. VDE reduces experts' evaluation time and helps novices to estimate imprecisions and inaccuracies of temperature, pressure, and composition from the relevant information provided in the publications, and to perform the statistical analysis of the data. These estimations are very challenging because the necessary information often i…
  note: by Jean Robert Campestre.
  note: "Major subject: Chemical Engineering."
  note: Contains 2 computer disks in back pocket.
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A & M University 1990
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Expert systems (Computer science)
  subject:
    topic: Vapor-liquid equilibrium
  subject:
    topic: Chemical Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Expert systems (Computer science)
  subject:
    topic: Vapor-liquid equilibrium
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-1207742
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 920123
    record change date: 20220103134949.0
    record identifier: in00001049326
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng