THE DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF EXPERIMENTS. By Oscar Kempthorne. New York, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1952. 631 pp. $8.50. This book by a teacher of statistics (as well as a consultant for \"experimenters\") is a comprehensive study of the philosophical background for the statistical design of experiment. It is necessary to have some facility with algebraic notation and manipulation to be able to use the volume intelligently. The problems are presented from the theoretical point of view, without such practical examples as would be helpful for those not acquainted with mathematics. The mathematical justification for the techniques is given. As a somewhat advanced treatment of the design and analysis of experiments, this volume will be interesting and helpful for many who approach statistics theoretically as well as practically. With emphasis on the \"why,\" and with description given broadly, the author relates the subject matter to the general theory of statistics and to the general problem of experimental inference. MARGARET J. ROBERTSON

The Design and Analysis of Experiments

Experimental design and multiple response optimization. Using the desirability function in analytical methods development

A review on dark fermentative biohydrogen production from organic biomass: Process parameters and use of by-products

Can nanoparticles really enhance thermal stability of polymers? Part I: An overview on thermal decomposition of addition polymers

Protection of environment is of immediate concern and this can only be achieved by avoiding the use of chemicals for fuel production. Lignocellulosic waste is becoming popular as a feedstock for biofuel production. The can be converted into usable form for biofuel production by using a suitable pretreatment method. Different pretreatment methods have been used by researchers which are physical, chemical, physico-chemical, biological and combined pretreatments. Evidently chemical pretreatment is found to be more expensive as a large amount of chemicals are used for pretreating the lignocellulosic substrate. It has been shown that combined pretreatments are more effective as compared to single pretreatment and there is an extensive scope of combinations which can also be applied in future. Recent review critically discusses and compares different pretreatment methods, biomass resources, chemical composition of different agricultural biomass and the use of this biomass for bioenergy generation. Various pretreatment processes used for bio-hydrogen, bio-methane, bio-ethanol, bio-methanol bio-butanol and bio-diesel production are also discussed.

Pretreatment of lignocellulosic wastes for biofuel production: A critical review

Application of emulsion nanofluid membrane for the removal of methylene blue dye: stability study

Here we are using artificial neural network (ANN) model to predict the thermo mechanical properties of polycarbonate-organically modified MMT clay (pc-clay) nanocomposites. The data for designing the model was obtained from dynamic mechanical analyzer (DMA). The results were obtained at different temperature conditions (30–150°C) and compositions (1%, 3% and 5%) of clay. Transition points for pure clay were used as additional input to hasten the results. The correlation coefficient was 0.999 when comparing experimental output with ANN output.

Thermo mechanical properties of polycarbonate-OMMT clay nanocomposites using artificial neural network

LDPE:PLA and LDPE:PLA:OMMT polymer composites: Preparation, characterization, and its biodegradation using Bacillus species isolated from dumping yard

Synthesis of magnetite nanoparticle from potato peel extract: its nanofluid applications and life cycle analysis

This chapter deals with the development of self-healing polymeric coating for fatigue corrosion. The materials get degrade under action of corrosion and loading of stress. The polymeric coating is based on self-healing materials in which healing agent is embedded with polymer shell. The ultrasound-assisted methods used for the formation of nanocontainer and microcapsules are discussed in this chapter. The formation of stable nanocapsules/nanocontainer synthesis and its dispersion in epoxy polyamide using sonochemical approach are also detailed in this chapter. From the case studies it was found that with increasing loading of microcapsules/nanocapsules reduces the corrosion and offers increase in shelf life of polymeric coating. The extension of life of coating depends on relative magnitude of the mechanical kinetics of crack propagation and chemical kinetics of healing. This type of coating has ability to detect the chemical changes, which are associated with corrosion site.

Shriram S. Sonawane

Papers

Application of emulsion nanofluid membrane for the removal of methylene blue dye: stability study

Thermo mechanical properties of polycarbonate-OMMT clay nanocomposites using artificial neural network

LDPE:PLA and LDPE:PLA:OMMT polymer composites: Preparation, characterization, and its biodegradation using Bacillus species isolated from dumping yard

Synthesis of magnetite nanoparticle from potato peel extract: its nanofluid applications and life cycle analysis

Self-healing polymeric coating for corrosion inhibition and fatigue repair