Processes, Volume 10, Issue 4

The corner defects in the casting slab greatly influence the product quality. These defects may extend during the heating and rolling process and even result in the discarding of the rolled plate as scrap. A corner cleaning equipment based on the sca...

Surface cracks are easily produced after friction between continuous casting billets and copper layers in mold cavity, but the formation mechanism is not clear. Based on a steel-based hot-dip copper plating experiment, this study simulated the action...

For the study of the transition strategies of continuous chemical processes, both continuity and dynamic characteristics in the physical sense are critical. The continuous transition strategy has a higher information density and can describe the real...

In loess the aggregate is the basic structural unit, and its stability is an important factor affecting the composition, water stability and strength of loess. However, due to the difficulty of sample preparation, few scholars have done independent r...

Alizarin dye is toxic and has a negative influence on human life and the environment. Consequently, the scientific community faces a difficult issue in developing efficient approaches for removing alizarin from water streams. Six distinct deep eutect...

Modern agriculture uses pesticides to improve the quality and quantity of crops. However, pesticide residues can remain on agricultural products, posing very serious risks to human health and life. It is recommended to wash fruits and vegetables befo...

As important parameters in the characterization of aerobic granulation, the shape and average diameter were related to substrates. The previous studies disclosed that the morphology change in aerobic granules was the result of growth and the relative...

Due to the harsh working environment of the tractor, the transmission can often be faulty. In order to ensure the reliability of its operation, it must be monitored and the fault discovered. In this paper, the support vector machine (SVM) method is u...

Photocatalytic oxidative desulfurization has attracted much attention in recent years due to the continuous tightening of the sulfur content requirements in motor fuels and the disadvantages of the industrial hydrodesulfurization process. This work i...

COVID-19 vaccines are used worldwide to promote immunity and, in that sense, vaccination is a step forward toward ending the pandemic. Nevertheless, current vaccines must be ultra-cold or cold-stored. Vaccine coolers’ energy demand and greenhou...

Montenegro faces serious challenges in terms of waste tire management. The main goal of our paper is to consider the financial and economic justification of the implementation of the first phase of the project of collection, takeover and transport, s...

Sewage-water treatment comprehends primary, secondary, and tertiary steps to produce reusable water after removing sewage contaminants. However, a sewage-water treatment plant is typically a power and energy consumer and produces high volumes of sewa...

The electrohydraulic servo variable speed volume pump control system (hereinafter referred to as ESPCS) is integrated with a permanent magnet synchronous motor (hereinafter referred to as servo motor), a fixed-displacement pump, and a hydraulic cylin...

A mathematical modeling approach was used to test different design modifications in a flash smelting settler to reduce the copper losses in slag, which is economically disadvantageous for copper processing using the pyrometallurgical route. The main...

An annular jet pump (AJP) and a screw centrifugal pump (SCP) are special-purpose pumps used for transportation. The flow fields in the AJP and SCP are like those in a diffuser without and with an impeller, respectively. The flow from diffuser inlet t...

Proper inventory management is vital to achieving sustainability within a supply chain and is also related to a company’s cash flow through the funds represented by the inventory. Therefore, it is necessary to balance excess inventory and insuf...

Here, FeAlO_x catalytic deconstruction of polyethylene in a domestic microwave oven is reported. With the starting weight ratio of FeAlO_x to polyethylene at 1:1, the concentration and yield of H₂ reach up to 67.85 vol% and 48.1 mmol g⁻¹_plastic,...

The primary goal of business organization is optimally maximizing their productivity and profit whilst reducing the cost resulting from lost sales and services given to their customers, which can be achieved by exceeding the balance between the deman...

α-amylases are ubiquitous enzymes belonging to the glycosyl hydrolase (GH13) family, whose members share a high degree of sequence identity, even between distant organisms. To understand the determinants of catalytic activity of α-amylase...

Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) have been used for the pretreatment of lignocellulose and showed selective dissolution for different lignocellulosic components. In this study, six new ternary DESs were synthesized on the basis of anhydrous oxalic acid...

In recent years, sewage sludge (SS) and bio-waste management have attracted increasing environmental attention. In this study, hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) technology is investigated in the framework of a co-treatment of sewage sludge digestate (...

Around the globe, only 30–50% of the amount of oil estimated to be in reservoirs (“original oil in place”) can be obtained using primary and secondary oil recovery methods. Enhanced oil recovery methods are required in the oil proce...

The current study aims to investigate the thermal-diffusion and diffusion-thermo effects on heat and mass transfer in third-grade fluid with Darcy–Forchheimer relation impact over an exponentially inclined stretching sheet embedded in a porous...

The paper presents a useful engineering model for the design of preliminary hybrid rocket engines. This model involves the experimentally obtained equation regarding the speed of the burning interface between solid fuel and gaseous phase, called the...

Transient stability during grid fault is experienced differently in modern power systems, especially in wind-turbine-dominated power systems. In this paper, transient behavior and stability issues of a direct drive wind turbine during fault recovery...

The intersection behavior of hydraulic fractures and single natural fractures has been studied in detail; however, in fractured reservoirs, natural fractures are numerous and interlaced and the intersection of hydraulic fractures and multiple natural...

This research topic aims at enterprise-wide modeling and optimization (EWMO) through the development and application of integrated modeling, simulation and optimization methodologies, and computer-aided tools for reliable and sustainable improvement...

The short-circuit flow, which is discharged from the vortex finder without separation, seriously affects the processing efficiency of the hydrocyclone. In this paper, the experimental test and numerical simulation methods are used to study the effect...

Person re-identification(Re-ID) technology has been a research hotspot in intelligent video surveillance, which accurately retrieves specific pedestrians from massive video data. Most research focuses on the short-term scenarios of person Re-ID to de...

This paper focuses on the problem of event-triggered $H_{\infty }$ asynchronous filtering for Markov jump nonlinear systems with varying delay and unknown probabilities. An event-triggered scheduling scheme is adopted to decrease the transmission rate of...

The use of food agricultural wastes as a source of bioactive compounds is an alternative to reduce their environmental impact and generate the possibility of producing value-added products as functional foods. This study aimed to extract and microenc...

Plate heat exchangers (PHEs) have significant potential to improve energy efficiency in the process industries. However, realizing their full potential to achieve such energy savings requires a systematic approach to screen the many options available...

A 20-ft containerized biological pilot system consisting of both an anaerobic expended granular sludge bed (EGSB) and an aerobic biofilm continuous flow intermittent clean (CFIC^®) system has been designed, constructed, and delivered onsite at a p...

There is a huge carbon pool in the lakeside, which is sensitive to environmental changes and can very easily be transformed into a carbon source as land from the lake is reclaimed. In this paper, West Mauri Lake was employed as a case study to examin...

The zigzag (ZZ) classifier is a sorting and classification device with a wide range of applications (e.g. recycling, food industry). Due to the possible variation of geometry and process settings, the apparatus is used for various windows of operatio...

The hot jet of an aero engine is one of the main radiation sources of infrared detectors in 3–5 microwave bands. Transverse jets were introduced into a hot jet to enhance mixing and reduce the infrared radiation characteristics. This proved to...

“High-performance thin-layer chromatography (HPTLC)” methods for gefitinib (GFT) estimation are scarce in the literature. In addition, greener analytical techniques for GFT estimation are also lacking in the literature. Accordingly, an at...

The Glycemic Index (GI) has been described by an official method ISO (International Organization for Standardization) 26642:2010 for labeling purposes. The development of in vitro methods for GI measurement has faced significant challenges. Mass tran...

The production process of a smart factory is complex and dynamic. As the core of manufacturing management, the research into the flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP) focuses on optimizing scheduling decisions in real time, according to the cha...

The increasing share of variable renewable energies in the power grid is an incentive to explore demand response strategies. Chlor-alkali processes are high potential candidates, according to previous publications. Within Germany’s chemical ind...

In this study, novel lanthanide-containing double-decker polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS) were prepared by combining the partially condensed TetraSilanolPhenyl POSS with terbium (Tb³⁺) and europium (Eu³⁺) ions. This open-cage POSS possess...

This article is concerned with the problem of leader-following consensus tracking control for multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems under deception attacks and actuator saturation. While guaranteeing the expected control performance, a novel ad...

The construction of underground gas storage mostly focuses on depleted gas reservoirs. However, the depleted gas reservoir used to build underground gas storage in China is located far from the main gas consumption economic zone. It is necessary to r...

Micro-Electric Discharge Machining ($\mu$-EDM) is one of the widely applied micromanufacturing processes. However, it has several limitations, such as a low cutting rate, difficult debris removal, and poor surface integrity, etc. Hybridization of the...

Rice storage conditions include location, granary depth, storage time, temperature and atmosphere. The fungi community varies during storage, but how these communities change remains unexplored so far. This study collected rice samples from granaries...

The performance of low-pressure axial flow fans is directly affected by the three-dimensional bending and twisting of the blades. A new blade design method is adopted in this work, where the radial distribution of blade angle and blade bending angle...

TC21 titanium alloy is a new high damage-tolerant structural material for aerospace applications; its welding performance is very critical for the manufacturing of structural parts. In this research, the inertia friction welding (IFW) process of TC21...

The stress-relief coal mine methane surface gas venthole is considered an effective method by which to realize coal mine methane exploitation and outburst prevention. Existing stress permeability models for caved zones, fractured zones, and bending s...

Cu-based bimetallic materials have been widely reported as efficient catalysts for electrocatalytic nitrate reduction. However, the faradaic efficiency and selectivity are still far from satisfactory. Herein, Cu-Fe bimetallic nanoalloys with adjustab...

The etiology of cardiovascular disease is still an unsolved world problem, and high morbidity, disability, and mortality are the main characteristics of cardiovascular diseases. There is, therefore, a need for effective and rapid early prediction of...