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ARPN Journal of Engineering and
Applied Sciences
October 2019 | Vol. 14 No. 19 |
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Title: |
Optimization of annealing treatment in
production of functional wheat flour |
Author (s): |
Kone Kisselmina Youssouf, Karidioula
Daouda, Adje Anoh Felix, Soro Doudjo, Assidjo Nogbou Emmanuel, Yao
Kouassi Benjamin and Laguerre Jean-Claude |
Abstract: |
The
functionalization of native wheat flours was carried out by using
annealing (ANN) process. This ANN process was executed according a full
factorial design and the independent variables selected were
temperatures and the duration of treatment when initial moisture content
of flours was fixed at 70 % (wet basis). Then ANN treatment was
optimized by using response surface method (RSM) for three different
responses: gelatinization temperature, swelling capacity and lightness
color of flours. The effects of two factors were found to be more
significant at different level for all responses. The optimal ANN
process conditions for having functional flours with high gelatinization
temperature, high swelling capacity and high lightness of color, were
found at 70% (wb) for initial moisture content of native flour treated
at 54°C during 25 hours 34 min. The predictable values of the response
variables were 70.70 °C for gelatinization temperature, 18.7 N for
hardness, 7.3 g/g for Water Bound Capacity and 62.5 for lightness of
color. |
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Design and implementation of cell phone
jammer |
Author (s): |
Ahmed A. Thabit |
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The
developments of wireless communication systems like mobile phones make
it indispensable in our lives, this is due to the portability of mobile
devices. Mobile phones features can produce inconvenience in the places
where the silence and security are important. As well as, in certain
locations the using of phones is refused due to the safety and security
reasons and in exam places where the phone device is used in cheating.
Jammers are devices which appeared now days in the markets. These
jammers cutoff the link between the cell phone and base stations via
transmit a signal in the same frequency but larger power with no
interference within communications other than cellular in the specified
zone. Cell-phone signals usually emanate from a base-station that is
usually made up of a very tall building and a small-building housing the
radio-equipment. In this paper, Cell phone jammer device was proposed,
designed and finally implemented to create a temporary "dead zone" to
cell phones in Iraq to block the cell phone neither receiving nor
transmitting the signals to the base station. LCD is used with Arduino
to show a message if the signal is jammed or not yet. Cell phone jammers
are firstly designed for the military forces to disconnect the
communication by criminals and terrorists but recently it used civilian
in the colleges and hospitals and so on. The designed system obtained
the good results what we need to jam signals for dual band GSM 900, 1800
and 3G within a very short time reach to 30 sec. |
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Estimation of runoff for Bina river basin
using curve number model and GIS techniques |
Author (s): |
Ankit Balvanshi and H. L. Tiwari |
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Rainfall-Runoff computation of any basin plays a vital role in
development of the water resources project of any country. Looking on
the industrial importance of Bina river basin situated in Central India,
this basin was selected for rainfall-runoff modeling by implementing the
SCS CN conceptual model with the variation in initial abstraction ratio
value, along with the GIS tool. Runoff assessment is carried out using
daily rainfall data, gauge-discharge data, meteorological data of Bina
river basin, India. A new trial was made to estimate the runoff more
precisely by varying the Initial Abstraction Ratio for the Bina river
basin. The Bina catchment area of 1120 km2 has all
over hydrologic soil type C & D, which indicates high runoff potential
on ground. Results specify a initial abstraction ratio (?) value of 0.20
gives a better fit to the data and proved to be more precise for use in
runoff calculations in comparison to ? = 0.1, 0.15 and 0.25. The model
was evaluated on the Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency criteria and the
coefficient of determination (R2) for the years 1997, 1998, 2003 and
2007. The model showed Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency in the range of 0.70 to
0.90 and R2 values in the range of 0.71 to 0.94. The Composite Curve
Number came out to be 77 for the basin. It was concluded that initial
abstraction ratio ? = 0.1, 1.15 results in slight over prediction for
this catchment while ? = 0.25 slightly under predicts the runoff. This
research study indicates that the SCS CN model when employed with GIS
tool becomes more useful for the hydrological study of any basin having
hydrologic soil group C & D, with customary value of ? = 0.2. |
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Performance of Basic Geometric Codes over
fading channels |
Author (s): |
Osama Nashwan, Samer Issa and Khalil Saleh |
Abstract: |
Forward error correcting codes while having good efficiency on normal
channels, their performance is very poor over noisy (fading) channels. A
new group of codes, called Geometric Codes that has a greater efficiency
over fading channels has been designed. This paper presents the
simulated results for Basic Geometric Code and studies the effects of
its various parameters such as the number of bits per symbol, the number
of parity lines and the code rate. |
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Modeling of distillation column and
intelligent control of reflux drum |
Author (s): |
Lina Rose, Pamela D., P. Kingston Stanley
and P. Vijay Daniel |
Abstract: |
A
model based approach was chosen for such a complex MIMO system is due to
the restrictions the system bear in terms of control variables. Though
the process simply refers to separation of two or more liquid or vapor
components, the process flow and the component fractions really has to
be identified since that determines the quality of the distillate. A
pure modeling concept for a sophisticated process like distillation
column is demonstrated in this study. It’s a complex task to model the
distillation column and control the parameters since the process is a
multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system. Hence only based on many
assumptions about many of the control variables the response can be
found. The work has been extended to modeling and control of various
parts of column such as reflux drum and feed tray. Fuzzy Control of
Reflux Drum was carried out where, the analysis of approximate data has
done as a case study due to lack of industrial information. |
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Homes appliances control using bluetooth |
Author (s): |
Jamil Abedalrahim Jamil Alsayaydeh,
Mohamed Nj, Syed Najib Syed Salim, Adam Wong Yoon Khang, Win Adiyansyah
Indra, Vadym Shkarupylo and Christina Pellipus |
Abstract: |
New
technology applications in managing human living styles, workplaces
including residences have led to the discovery of different methods of
interacting and controlling both users and the buildings. This piece of
research work proposed a simpler system for users’ interaction with home
appliances, using Bluetooth technology for operation support. As a study
for this article, a combination of the Bluetooth and Arduino modules
with smart phones is introduced to provide building users with easier
access and control through a simple user interface. This designing way
showed also great management flexibility compared to using switches.
Controlling remotely home users and appliances is more convenient to its
residents. Home appliances can be easily monitored using smart phones
via Bluetooth connectivity because each one can communicate over nearer
cellular networks using some built-in communication capabilities. This
paper discussed about a combination of Android software and hardware,
with Bluetooth module and smart phones. Then, it explained how these
technologies set together have created a system that enables accessing a
control unit to turn “ON/OFF” status of the home devices. The concluding
sections are about the design and implementation of the proposed model
applying these technologies. |
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Mathematical modeling of the
polymerization of butadiene on neodymium-containing catalyst systems |
Author (s): |
Igor Grigoryev, Svetlana Mustafina and
Sofya Mustafina |
Abstract: |
A
mathematical model of the synthesis of butadiene rubber in a continuous
reactor under the action of a neodymium-containing catalytic systems has
been described. The mechanism of the process has been identified. An
infinite number of ordinary differential equations, describing infinite
number of the reaction components, has been used. Using the method of
statistical moments, the infinite system of ordinary differential
equations has been reduced to a system with a finite number of
equations. Thus, it becomes solvable. On the basis of the mathematical
model, the values of the monomer concentrations versus the
polymerization time have been constructed, and the values of number
average and weight average molecular weights have been found. |
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Title: |
Energy theft detection in multi tenant
data centers and distribution line using smart grids |
Author (s): |
M. Sivarathinabala and T. Niruban Projoth |
Abstract: |
In
recent years, High performance data centers is one of the challenging
research area in Cloud Computing. Multi Tenant Data centers are the
infra structures that runs in large-scale Internet-based services.
Energy consumption models are pivotal and efficient in designing and
optimizing energy-efficient operations to curb excessive energy
consumption in the data centers. Multi-tenant data centers (MTDCs) are
the data centers which are popular with different operational structure.
Despite the offered benefits, MTDCs are vulnerable to various cyber
attacks. An important cyber attack is energy theft which can be launched
by malicious tenants to reduce cost of the electricity consumption by
attacking their own smart meters or neighboring meters to undercount its
energy usage. Billions of money has been lost due to energy theft in
data centers each year. Localization of energy theft detection is an
effective way to limit the labor cost in detecting energy theft in data
centers. It can be facilitated through deploying Digital Protective
Relays (DPR) in the Power Distribution Unit of the data center; DPR is a
microprocessor based device for fault detection. Along with DPR, an
anamoly identification algorithm has been implemented called as Minimum
Covariance Determinant .The smart meters along with Advance Metering
Infrastructure is employed to measure the energy consumption of the
tenants in data center, which is implemented in smart grid environment.
Such that data from both smart meter and Digital Protective Relay is
send to the utility center to determine the Energy Theft in Multi Tenant
Data centers. |
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Artificial neural network modelling
approach for assessment of stratified thermal energy storage tank |
Author (s): |
Mohd. Amin Abd Majid, Afzal Ahmed Soomro
and Ainul Akmar |
Abstract: |
Thermal energy storage (TES) tank plays an important role in the energy
management of large buildings such as military bases and university
campus. Hence, the TES performance is important to be monitored. Various
methods to measure the performance of the TES covering both numerical
and analytical have been published. In this paper artificial neural
network (ANN) is used to measure the performance of the TES tank in
terms of thermocline thickness and half-cycle figure of merit. The ANN
with 14 temperature sensor data as input and the thermocline thickness
and half cycle figure of merit as the outputs is proposed. The model is
based on 14-90-2 configuration using back propagation Lavenberg-Marquadt.
The data of one year has been used in modelling. Based on the trial and
error the number of neurons were used and the optimum numbers of the
neurons found were 90. The overall R^2 for the model was 0.99 and
predictions compared with the actual data gave a 0.94R^2. |
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A simulation of random walk and cellular
automata method to generate nautilus motif as a beauty batik pattern |
Author (s): |
Risky Amalia Haris, Tito Waluyo Purboyo
and Purba Daru Kusuma |
Abstract: |
Batik
is a traditional pattern from Indonesia that usually implemented on a
fabric. The traditional pattern has been developed by computational
methods. There are many computational method that can be used to
generate a beauty batik pattern. For example, L-System method, Random
Walk method, and Cellular Automata Method. The existence of
computational methods give us an edge to generate beauty batik pattern.
In this paper, described how random walk and cellular automata work to
generate Nautilus motif as a beauty batik pattern, and how to
implemented it to web-based batik application, so that the motif can to
be customized. |
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Production of spinel forsterite
refractories using sheared serpentinized ultramafic rocks, Um Seleimat,
Egypt |
Author (s): |
W. Abdelwahab H. Mekky, A. Khalil and Z.
Belal |
Abstract: |
The
present work aims at assessment and utilization of some Egyptian sheared
serpentinized ultramafic rocks, from Um Seleimat ophiolites at Central
Eastern Desert (CED), for producing refractory forsterite and spinel
forsterite composites. Generally, Egyptian serpentinized ultramafic
rocks occur in two types, massive and sheared serpentinites. To perform
the study aim, two batches were designed on base of stiochiometrical
calculations of specific proportions of “used magnesia” and/or “calcined
bauxite” in addition to the serpentinized ultramafic rocks and fired at
1500oC for two hours to form forsterite and spinel forsterite. Chemical
and mineralogical studies were carried out for the starting materials,
while mineralogical composition, scanning electron microscope, EDAX as
well as physical parameters and thermo-mechanical properties, are done
for the fired batches. In addition, the compressive strength as well as
the refractoriness under load was done. The study results indicated that
forsterite and spinel composites were produced from serpentinites by
adding a calculated amounts of used magnesia and/or calcined bauxite
mixed to the studied sheared serpentinized rocks. Based on the
previously measured physical as well as thermo-mechanical properties of
the synthetic composites, it is recommended to be applied as refractory
materials in lining of permanent layer of iron and steel ladles and the
brick network in the heat exchangers of glass furnaces. |
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Despeckling of synthetic aperture radar
satellite imagery using various filtering techniques |
Author (s): |
N. Anusha and B. Bharathi |
Abstract: |
Active microwave imaging systems such as Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
is the Earth observation satellite which works day/night, irrespective
of the unconditional weather condition. Satellite Synthetic SAR images
are predominantly affected by multiplicative speckle noise. Noise is an
unwanted signal, which suppresses the quality of the image and makes the
processing of the image difficult and should be removed or reduced with
the help of filtering techniques. Different filtering techniques like
Min, Max, Mean, Median, Statistical and Adaptive filters are applied on
the speckle affected SAR images captured by RADARSAT-1 and Sentinel-1A
satellites. The results are compared qualitatively and from the obtained
results, it is observed that the Median filter is able to suppress
speckle noise by preserving the required details and is giving the
promising results compared to the other filters. |
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Assessment of the highways fencing impact
on the snow deposits formation at snowstorms |
Author (s): |
Viktor Vasilevich Ushakov, Mikhail
Gennadjevich Goryachev, Alexandr Petrovich Stepushin, Pavel Mikhailovich
Salamahin and Daria Yuryevna Korneeva |
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The
main consumer properties of the road are the ability to drive a vehicle
at high speed, safety, and comfortable traffic movement. The general
trends in the automotive industry are such that the performance of the
passenger car fleet increases approximately every 7-8 years. At the same
time, roads are modernized only every 20-30 years, while in Russia this
period is even longer for most public roads. It is important to
determine what needs to be done on the roads in order to increase the
speed of modern passenger cars while maintaining safe driving
conditions. From statistical data, it is known that approximately 22-25%
of the total number of road accidents are associated with unintentional
exits of cars from the roadway. The consequences of such accidents are
particularly severe, accounting for 20% of deaths and a large number of
injuries, while the material damage is characterized by a significant
deterioration of vehicles and goods transported. One of the main ways to
reduce the severity of these consequences and improve traffic safety is
the installation of fencing devices, which could retain the car, which
has lost the driver's control, on the carriageway, and not just to
retain the vehicle, but also to exclude departure on an oncoming lane,
reduce consequences from a road accident, and exclude fatal cases. |
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The development of a single camera stereo
vision system for starfruit inspection system |
Author (s): |
Tan Kok, Muhammad Izzat Zakwan, Musa Mohd.
Mokji, A. Shamsul Rahimi A. Subki, Amar Faiz Zainal Abidin, Kamaru Adzha
Kadiran, Mohd. Zaidi Mohd. Tumari, Syahrul Hisham Mohammad, Muhammad
Salihin Saealal and Ili Najaa Aimi Mohd. Nordin |
Abstract: |
In
this paper, we proposed the application of monocular stereo vision
system which specific for starfruit quality inspection purpose. The
system only uses one camera and a moving conveyor belt for producing a
stereo pairs in generating the depth value of the starfruit. Since most
of the fruit quality inspection only involve in one camera and a
conveyor belt system for checking the quality, the proposed system can
be easy to be apply in existing machine vision system. The single camera
setup also made the camera calibration system become simple compare to
binocular stereo vision system. With only taken two images on moving
object, the depth value can be obtained successfully. |
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Substantiation of dredging technology of
water-bearing deposits at subzero air temperatures |
Author (s): |
Victor Evgenievich Kislyakov, Ravil
Zinnurovich Nafikov, Aleksandr Konstantinovich Kirsanov, Pavel
Viktorovich Katyshev, Natalya Aleksandrovna Shkaruba and Ekaterina
Vasilevna Zaitseva |
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The
article deals with the problem of reducing dredge performance when
operating at subzero air temperatures. This problem is particularly
relevant for deposits located in the Far North, where the dredging
season is limited by climatic conditions. During the period of subzero
air temperatures dredge performance decreases significantly due to the
icing of dredge structure. In consequence, dredging operations are
terminated until the occurrence of favorable conditions for work. The
article presents the review of the existing methods aimed at extending
the dredging season, providing their systematization, which is based on
the methods of water lanes’ maintenance and formation in the open-pit
dredging. The authors propose a method to isolate the open-pit mine with
artificial materials, as well as consider the application of similar
structures in the dredging industry. Existing structures are used to
store mineral dumps, protect the environment from dust, as well as for
other purposes. It was revealed that the most perspective material to
isolate dredges was polycarbonate, possessing a number of advantages. An
experiment was conducted to confirm the effectiveness of this method by
creating a facility in the form of a hangar model. The hangar model was
performed on a scale in compliance with geometric similarity. Thermal
sensors and an infrared camera were used to record the results. This
allowed obtaining the distribution of thermal fields in the constructed
experimental hangar. The developed mathematical model allows determining
the temperature inside the isolated space of the open-pit dredging
depending on the water temperature of the open-pit and the ambient air
temperature. It is revealed that the application of the proposed method
will extend the dredging season, or even make it year-round. The authors
have calculated hangar sizes while all sizes were accepted minimum for
reducing the cost of construction and keeping the heat inside it. The
application of the proposed method for straight and oblique dredging was
considered. The hangar area was determined for the development of mines
with dredges of different standard size. The optimal method of rock
excavation was revealed. The authors offer the scope of application, as
well as the technology aimed at extending dredging season. |
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Technical efficiency of application of
growth regulator in the production and storage of apples |
Author (s): |
A. I. Belyaev, Yu. N. Pleskachev, N. Yu.
Petrov, V. P. Zvolinsky, S. D. Fomin, A. M. Pugacheva, Ye. V. Kalmykova
and O. V. Kalmykova |
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The
paper presents the results of study of effect of treatment of fruit
trees with the growth-regulating product Mival-Agro which contributed to
increase in productivity of all the studied cultivars, to higher
accumulation of sugars and vitamins that provided reduction of losses
when storing of apples caused by physiological and microbiological
diseases of fruits, exerted positive effect in increasing mean weight of
fruits of all cultivars under study, and resulted in considerable
increase in yield of fruits with high marketable properties and decrease
in microbial population of microorganisms on the surface of fruits
during the storing period. The quantity of microorganisms on the surface
of apples was assessed prior to and at the end of storing period. The
data received can be used when development of new methods of storing
apples. |
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The results of the development of typical
pavements for Moscow streets and roads |
Author (s): |
Viktor Vasilevich Ushakov, Mikhail
Gennadjevich Goryachev, Sergey Vladimirovich Lugov, Ekaterina Valerievna
Kalenova and Andrey Nikolaevich Kudryavtcev |
Abstract: |
The
specialists of Moscow Automobile and Road Construction State Technical
University (MADI) have updated the portfolio of typical pavements for
Moscow. Due to the difficulty of forecasting the situation in the road
freight transport sector, the dynamic development of land public
transport and the high risks of wrong decisions of design organizations,
it is necessary to use typical solutions for designing road surfaces.
Moreover, there is a serious problem of making a correct assessment of
the design decisions from the state expert body. The modern principles
of design and estimation are used for designing typical pavements of
Moscow. The best proven road materials extracted and produced in Moscow
region are used in the layers of road surfaces. This article describes
the fundamental decisions implemented when developing a new version of a
portfolio of pavements and provides their examples. |
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Comparison between klinkenberg-corrected
and water permeability: A review |
Author (s): |
Izzat Ahmad Mohamed Zaidin, Maqsood Ahmad
and Mostafa Ghasemi Baboli |
Abstract: |
Absolute liquid permeability value is required as an input for dynamic
model initialization for reservoir simulation studies. Industry standard
practice is to obtain either Klinkenberg-corrected permeability values
or liquid permeability values. Klinkenberg-corrected permeability values
are obtained from gas permeability measurement and corrected for
Klinkenberg effect, on the other hand liquid permeability value is
obtained from laboratory measurement of brine permeability. The
theoretical assumption is that both of these permeability measurement
should produce similar values but experimental measurements show that
Klinkenberg-corrected permeability values are usually higher than water
permeability values. The amount of time and cost spend on determining
these two values for each core sample can be reduced if a correlation is
developed describing the relationship between these two values of
permeability for specific region. Water permeability values of specific
region can be predicted using the established correlation thus saving
time and cost to determine the value of permeability experimentally.
There are handful of studies regarding the correlation between
Klinkenberg-corrected and water permeability however most of the studies
are region-specific and narrow. Further more the factors for the
difference between Klinkenberg-corrected and water permeability values
are still unclear and without evident proof. This article provides a
review of this specialized area of study from the early to recent
contributions on the relationship between Klinkenberg-corrected and
water permeability values and its factors. |
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A perspective on text hiding methods |
Author (s): |
Raka Adinugraha, Tito Waluyo Purboyo and
Randy Erfa Saputra |
Abstract: |
Steganography is the art of hiding data within another data. Is a useful
technique for hiding data such as image, audio, text etc behind cover
files. There are exists various techniques for text Steganography, and
all of them have their own respective strong and weak points. For each
text Steganography used, they have different requirements and rules on
how they applied. Many Text Steganography techniques are proposed, all
of them have something in common that was to increase embedding rate of
the secret data within the cover files and to rises suspicion as little
as possible from an unintended observer. Steganography is a promising
technique as a supplement to Cryptography, because the chiper text will
certainly raise suspicion because it forms, and there is where
Steganography comes in to hide those encrypted message to some cover
files thus reducing risk the secret message get revealed. This paper
provides a general overview and a brief idea of Text Steganography
techniques. |
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Fuzzy diagonal optimal algorithm to solve
Fully Fuzzy Transportation problems |
Author (s): |
M. K. Purushothkumar, M. Ananathanarayanan
and S. Dhanasekar |
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In
this paper a diagonal optimal algorithm is proposed to solve Fully Fuzzy
Transportation problems using the approach of Diagonal optimal method.
In this proposed method the Fuzzy optimal solution of a Fuzzy
Transportation problem is obtained by using optimal Diagonal method
[17]. Yager’s ranking technique is used to order the Fuzzy numbers. This
method can be applied to solve all kinds of Fuzzy transportation problem
such as unbalanced Fuzzy TP, Fuzzy Degeneracy problem, Fuzzy TP with
prohibited routes and many more. |
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