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Applied Sciences, Volume 2, Issue 4

December 2012 - 9 articles

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Articles (9)

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,864 Views
15 Pages

19 December 2012

A technique for broadband spectral amplitude control of light pulses produced in high-order harmonic generation (HHG) is presented. It has been shown elsewhere that broadband spectral phase control in HHG is achievable using a computerized feedback l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
10,365 Views
15 Pages

Power Management System for Load Banks Supplied by Pitch Controlled Wind Turbine System

  • Adel Merabet,
  • Raquel Keeble,
  • Vigneshwaran Rajasekaran,
  • Rachid Beguenane,
  • Hussein Ibrahim and
  • Jogendra S. Thongam

28 November 2012

An automatic power management system, to monitor the distribution of power to a set of load banks, is presented in this paper. The required power is generated from a laboratory-size pitch-controlled wind turbine experimental workstation. The manageme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
17,033 Views
21 Pages

22 November 2012

In this paper, a design fuzzy logic controller for a variable speed permanent magnet wind generator connected to a grid system through a LC-filter is proposed. A new current control method of grid side conversion is developed by integrating the fuzzy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
9,234 Views
7 Pages

Host–Guest Complex of β-Cyclodextrin and Disulfide Form of 4-Aminothiophenol

  • Taylor A. Cappadona,
  • Lee M. Daniels and
  • Tasneem A. Siddiquee

25 October 2012

An inclusion complex of β-cyclodextrin and 4-aminothiophenol was assembled by hydrophobic interaction of the host (β-cyclodextrin) and guest (4-aminothiophenol). The complex was isolated as crystalline solid and studied by single crystal X-ray diffra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,245 Views
19 Pages

Use of Residual Biomass from the Textile Industry as Carbon Source for Production of a Low-Molecular-Weight Xylanase from Aspergillus oryzae

  • Gilvan Caetano Duarte,
  • Leonora Rios de Souza Moreira,
  • Diana Paola Gómez-Mendoza,
  • Félix Gonçalves de Siqueira,
  • Luís Roberto Batista,
  • Lourdes Isabel Velho do Amaral,
  • Carlos André Ornelas Ricart and
  • Edivaldo Ximenes Ferreira Filho

23 October 2012

Pretreated dirty cotton residue (PDCR) from the textile industry was used as an alternative carbon source for the submerged cultivation of Aspergillus oryzae and the production of xylanases. The filtered culture supernatant was fractionated by ultraf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
83 Citations
17,268 Views
16 Pages

22 October 2012

Bio-ethanol is one of the energy sources that can be produced by renewable sources. Waste potato mash was chosen as a renewable carbon source for ethanol fermentation because it is relatively inexpensive compared with other feedstock considered as fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
10,858 Views
12 Pages

18 October 2012

With an increased focus on solutions to the ensuing “climate crisis”, the need for energy storage systems is becoming increasingly important as a means to increase the penetration of renewable technologies such as wind energy. The Vanadium Redox Batt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,544 Views
17 Pages

10 October 2012

This paper presents a computer model that will evaluate the performance of a thermo-chemical accumulator. The model is based on operational data such as temperatures and flow rates. The ultimate goal for this model is to estimate the coefficient of p...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,060 Views
27 Pages

9 October 2012

Organic fluorinated materials demonstrate their excellent electro-optic properties and versatility for technological applications. The partial substitution of hydrogen with fluorine in carbon-halides bounds allows the reduction of absorption losses a...

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