Showing papers in "Journal of Applied Research and Technology in 2017"

TL;DR: This work surveys the application of WSN in environmental monitoring, with particular emphasis on water quality, taking into account their coverage, energy and security concerns.

TL;DR: In this paper, the problem of unsteady mixed convection electrical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow and heat transfer induced due to nanofluid over a permeable stretching sheet using Buongiorno model is investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, a cost effective and environmental friendly technique for the green synthesis of silver nanoparticles from 1 mM silver nitrate (AgNO3 ) solution through the extract of ripe Carica papaya peel of various concentrations (5 ml, 10 ml, 15 ml, 20 ml, 25 ml) is described.

TL;DR: In this paper, undoped and Ni-doped TiO 2 ( x Ni ǫ = 0.00, 0.50, 1.00 and 2.50 ) thin films fabricated on glass substrates by using a combination of solid-state reaction and dip coating techniques.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new advanced combined treatment technology has been investigated to control the total treatment cost of textile dye effluent using upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor.

TL;DR: The proposed work has a unique multi-objective function which consists of minimizing power loss, and total voltage deviation, as well as maximizing the voltage stability index (VSI) subject to equality and inequality system constraints.

TL;DR: In this paper, a hybrid aluminum metal matrix composite (AMMC) was developed through two-step compocasting method by reinforcing constant amount of flyash cenosphere (10%) and varying quantity of graphite (2, 4% and 6%).

TL;DR: In this article, an SBR (sequencing batch reactor) was used to treat synthetic and real textile wastewaters in a 24-hour cycle time, and Remazol Brilliant Blue R, a reactive dye, was used as the model dye.

TL;DR: In this paper, the reaction surface methodology based on the central composite rotatable design (CCRD) was applied to study and optimize the photodegradation process of ZnS/TiO 2 nanocomposite.

TL;DR: In this article, the Static VAR Compensator (SVC) and Static Synchronous Compensators (STATCOM) are compared by their most important features, such as the performance VI and VQ curves, the response time, the physical size, the cost and behavior in steady-state and transient stability.

TL;DR: In this paper, a non-isolated high voltage gain DC-DC converter has been presented for the input voltage of 15 V and an output voltage of 150 V with 100 W output power.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the use of synthesized mesoporous carbon in the fixed bed adsorption, as a promising process, to eliminate tetracycline from wastewater.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of rattan filler of nanoparticle size on the physical, thermal, and mechanical properties of the composite were examined, and the results showed that the high degree of crystallinity was discovered in PP/R5 and the tensile properties of both materials were comparable although the former demonstrated higher moduli of elasticity and rupture.

TL;DR: In this article, an analytical approach is conducted to evaluate the droop control method in an islanding microgrid and the effects of droop gains on decoupling of active power and reactive power control, voltage regulation, power oscillation and system stability are studied.

TL;DR: The results demonstrate that neural network based opinion mining approach outperforms the support vector machine method in terms of precision, recall and f-score, and it is shown that the performance of radial basis function neuralnetwork method is superior than probabilistic neural network method in Terms of the performance measures used.

TL;DR: In this article, the Taguchi method was applied to synthesized CaO 2 nanoparticles for the removal of benzeneacetic acid, and the results showed that the most significant factors were adsorbent dosage with 93.78% contribution.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on the study of the cutting conditions which influence the cutting force and surface roughness in terms of spindle speed, feed rate, axial, radial depth of cut and weight percentage of silicon carbide particle.

TL;DR: In this article, an under-frequency load shedding method based on the forecast minimum frequency of system is proposed, where the samples of the power system frequency are taken after disturbance; then, particles warm optimization algorithm is used to forecast the minimum frequency based on these samples.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a unified simple analytical model that can be applied to thin-film photovoltaic cells, which is based on the basic physics of hetero-junction devices, but it takes into consideration that the space charge region can extend along the major part of the cell length, particularly for very thin cells, causing important effects that typically are not observed in conventional junction devices.

TL;DR: In this paper, the microstructure (size and morphology of eutectic Si), impact toughness and sliding wear properties of A356 Al-Si alloy and composites containing 10, 20 and 25% of SiCp reinforcement produced by semisolid stirring technique were investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed energy-efficient quaternary minimum and maximum logic circuits based on carbon nanotube field effect transistor (CNTFET), which are simulated using Synopsys HSPICE with the Stanford 32 nm CNTFET technology and the performance parameters and sensitivity to process and temperature variations are evaluated through comprehensive simulations.

TL;DR: Simulations and results show that this method is effective for using fuzzy controller for controlling the liquid level in a conical tank system.

TL;DR: The experimental results show that LDP outperforms GLCM in classifying informal settlements, and is compared to the popular gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) using four classifiers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the behaviour of a polymer matrix beam reinforced with graphene and carbon fibres at nano and micro level reinforcements, respectively, to study mainly the strength aspects for structural applications.

TL;DR: In this paper, a batch mode experiment was performed to determine the adsorption equilibrium of cyanide in aqueous solution and 90.6% of the results showed that the experimental and the predicted values from the models were in agreement.

TL;DR: This work presents the development, assessment and comparison of four techniques for identifying dynamic parameters in an industrial redundant manipulator robot with 5 degrees of freedom and determined the sensitivity of the model identified – due to the variations of the estimated parameters.

TL;DR: A new approach for texture classification based on the combination of dyadic wavelet transform with different wavelet basis functions and Laws’ masks named as Multi-resolution Laws' Masks (MRLM) is proposed in this paper to further improve the performance of Laws' mask descriptor.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of locally produced clay (Algeria) along with the effects of their size and rate on physical and mechanical properties of the composite material was investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the synthesis of new acid dyes from 4-amino-1-(4-sulfophenyl)-3-methyl-5-pyrazolone and phenol derivatives and their metal complexes (Cu (II) and Fe (II)).