National Institute of Technology, Karnataka

About: National Institute of Technology, Karnataka is a education organization based out in Mangalore, Karnataka, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Corrosion & Cloud computing. The organization has 5017 authors who have published 7057 publications receiving 70367 citations.

Analysis of cardiac health using fractal dimension and wavelet transformation

Abstract: Analysis of heart rate variation (HRV) has become a popular non-invasive tool for assessing the activities of the autonomic nervous system (ANS). HRV analysis is based on the concept that fast fluctuations may specifically reflect changes of sympathetic and vagal activity. It shows that the structure generating the signal is not simply linear, but also involves nonlinear contributions. These signals are essentially non-stationary; may contain indicators of current disease, or even warnings about impending diseases. The indicators may be present at all times or may occur at random in the time scale. However, to study and pinpoint abnormalities in voluminous data collected over several hours is strenuous and time consuming. This paper presents the continuous time wavelet analysis of heart rate variability signal for disease identification. Fractal dimension (FD) of heart rate signals are calculated and compared with the wavelet analysis patterns. The FD obtained indicates more than 90% confidence interval for all the classes studied.

LiClO4 doped cellulose acetate as biodegradable polymer electrolyte for supercapacitors

Abstract: The possibility of producing a biodegradable polymer electrolyte based on cellulose acetate (CA) with varied concentration of LiClO4 for use in supercapacitors has been investigated. The successful doping of the CA films has been analyzed by FTIR and DSC measurements of the LiClO4 doped CA films. The ionic conductivity of the films increased with increase in salt content and the maximum ionic conductivity obtained for the solid polymer electrolyte at room temperature was 4.9 × 10−3 Ω−1 for CA with 16% LiClO4. The biodegradation of the solid polymer electrolyte films have been tested by soil burial, degradation in activated sludge, and degradation in buffer medium methods. The extent of biodegradation in the films has been measured by AC Impedance spectroscopy and weight loss calculations. The study indicated sufficient biodegradability of the materials. A p/p polypyrrole supercapacitor has been fabricated and its electrochemical characteristics and performance have been studied. The supercapacitor showed a fairly good specific capacitance of 90 F g−1 and a time constant of 1 s. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci, 2008

Cadmium (II) and nickel (II) biosorption by Bacillus laterosporus (MTCC 1628)

Abstract: Biosorption of heavy metals is a promising technology that involves removal of toxic metals from industrial waste streams and natural waters. The study describes the sorption of cadmium (II) [Cd (II)] and nickel (II) [Ni (II)] by dead biomass of Bacillus laterosporus , MTCC 1628. The biosorption conditions for the removal of Cd (II) and Ni (II) were examined by studying the effect of pH, contact time, biosorbent dosage and initial metal ion concentration. Shake flask studies yielded adsorption equilibrium in almost 120 min, for both the metals. It was found from Langmuir model that the maximum adsorption capacity for Cd (II) and Ni (II) ions was 85.47 mg/g and 44.44 mg/g respectively. Kinetic evaluation of the experimental data showed that the biosorption process followed pseudo-second order kinetics. Thermodynamic analysis showed that biosorption is an endothermic process with Δ H ° of 5.45 kJ/mol for Cd (II) biosorption and 24.33 kJ/mol for Ni (II) biosorption. The surface characteristics of B. laterosporus biomass before and after metal biosorption were analyzed by using scanning electron microscope (SEM) with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDAX) to study the changes in surface morphology and elemental constitution of the adsorbent. B. laterosporus exhibited a higher and better potential biosorbent for the removal of Cd (II) as compared to Ni (II) from aqueous solution.