2022 August - 239 articles
In today’s linear economy, waste streams, environmental pollution, and social–economic differences are increasing with population growth. The need to develop towards a circular economy is obvious, especially since waste streams are compos...
Lithium-ion batteries are state of the art and, still, their performance is constantly improving. To increase the energy density and electric conductivity, electrodes are usually calendered. Hereby, a higher degree of compaction, while reducing struc...
The failure of thickeners at high temperature results in gelled acid acidification fracturing. To solve the problem, 8 kinds of polymers were synthesized by free radical polymerization of aqueous solution using AM, AMPS, NaAMPS, MAPTAC, DTAB and NVP...
Research aimed at finding alternative fuels to replace petroleum diesel (petrodiesel) used in controlled combustion engines (CCEs) has identified biodiesel as one of the main candidates, due to its sustainability and potential for use in energy matri...
While COVID-19 vaccines are generally available, not all people receive vaccines. To reach herd immunity, most of a population must be vaccinated. It is, thus, important to identify factors influencing people’s vaccination preferences, as knowl...
To improve the battery state of charge (SOC) of the electric vehicle (EV), this paper proposes a master–slave electro-hydraulic hybrid electric vehicle (MSEH-HEV). The MSEH-HEV uses a planetary row as the core transmission component to realize...
The non-oxygenated oil product of the pyrolysis of polypropylene cannot be used directly as an engine fuel due to its high content of alkenes. However, high pressure of hydrogen gas is commonly employed in the hydrotreatment of alkenes to produce alk...
Lignite’s large abundance, physicochemical properties and low cost are attractive for industrial wastewater remediation. However, directly applying lignite for wastewater treatment suffers low efficiency. Here, we synthesize highly efficient ze...
Powder deaggregation in Dry Powder Inhalers (DPI) with carrier-based formulations is a key process for the effectiveness of drug administration. Carrier-wall collisions are one of the recognised mechanisms responsible for active pharmaceutical ingred...
Bubble size and its distribution are the important parameters which have a direct impact on mass transfer in bubble column reactors. For this, a new robust image processing technique was presented for investigating hydrodynamic aspects and bubble beh...
This paper focuses on the use of AI in various MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical System) biosensor types. Al increases the potential of Micro-Electro-Mechanical System biosensors and opens up new opportunities for automation, consumer electronics, indus...
This work focused on the optimization of the ultrasound (US) extraction of polyphenols from sweet cherry pulp by monitoring cyanidin-3O-rutinoside, quercetin-3O-rutinoside, and trans-3-O-coumaroylquinic acid, representing the main anthocyanin, flavon...
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Aiming at the problem of low positioning accuracy caused by modal aliasing and noise interference in DC cable fault location analysis of a VSC-HVDC system, a double-ended fault location method for flexible DC cables based on improved local mean decom...
Agricultural productivity plays a vital role in a country’s economy, which can be increased by providing the proper water needed for crops. Proper water provision ensures suitable moisture and appropriate conditions essential for crops, water r...
Identifying combustion regimes is important for understanding combustion phenomena and the structure of flames. This study proposes a combustion regime identification (CRI) method based on rotated principal component analysis (PCA), clustering analys...
Both anthropogenic and natural sources of pollution are regionally significant. Therefore, in order to monitor and protect the quality of Langat River from deterioration, we use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to model the river water quality. This stud...
Currently, the concern for achieving and fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a constant in advanced societies. The scientific community and various organisations are working on obtaining an information system that will make it poss...
Countries have started to aggressively undertake energy structure transformation strategies in order to reach the objective of carbon neutrality. Both clean and efficient coal energy use and clean energy use will be crucial to the process of changing...
Hydraulic fracture networks, especially fracture geometry, height growth, and proppant transport within the networks, present a critical influence on productivity evaluation and optimization of fracturing parameters. However, information about hydrau...
The objective of this research work was to investigate the potential of control models based on reinforcement learning in the optimization of solar thermal cooling systems (STCS) operation through a case study. In this, the performance of the install...
A large number of microfluidic applications are based on effective mixing. In the application of water purification, the contaminated water needs to be effectively mixed with a solution that is loaded with nanoparticles. In this work, the Tesla valve...
An electro-hydraulic servo pump control system realizes the basic action of a hydraulic cylinder by controlling the servo motor, which effectively improves the problems of a traditional valve control system such as high energy consumption, low power-...
Wind resistance is one of the most important safety targets for high-rise buildings, especially slab-shaped ones with relatively large length–width ratios. In this study, the characteristics of wind pressure on a reduced-scale model of a slab-s...
The thermal management of electronic devices has become a major problem in recent years. Therefore, there is a growing need for research on many new materials and innovative fluids due to the developing technology and increasing cooling need in elect...
Health monitoring and fault diagnosis of liquid rocket engine (LRE) are the most important concerning issue for the safety of rocket’s flying, especially for the man-carried aerospace engineering. Based on the sensor measurement signals of a ce...
In process optimization, a process is adjusted so as to optimize a set of parameters while meeting constraints, with the objective to either minimize the total processing time or maximize the throughput. This article focused on the process optimizati...
In order to prepare a novel landfill liner material, we used industrial calcium-containing waste (slag, fly ash, and desulfurized gypsum) to solidify municipal sludge. The mechanical and permeability properties of the solidified sludge material (SSM)...
The chlor-alkali industries produce caustic soda (NaOH), chlorine (Cl2), and hydrogen (H2) as primary products. In 2021, the global chlor-alkali market was valued at $63.2 billion. The article evaluates the global aspects of chlor-alkali industries a...
This study investigated the effects of the addition of chitosan (0–1.0%) or glucono-δ-lactone (GDL) (0–60 mM) on the gel properties, microstructure, and texture of pea-based tofu-type product. Following the addition of 0.5% chitosan...
Erosion wear is a common failure form of slotted screen in service. In this paper, based on CFD software and sand production data of a gas field in the Tarim Basin, the particle velocity and shear force at the slot of the flow field in the sieve tube...
In this study, the dual nature of quaternary ammonium ionic liquid–didecyldimethylammonium perchlorate, [DDA][ClO4], was evaluated. A novel and sensitive in situ ionic liquid dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction method (in situ IL-DLL...
Lupinus mutabilis protein-rich seeds must be debittered before consumption. The aim of this research was to assess free phenolic compounds, antioxidant capacity and FT-NIR spectra of flours from debittered seeds of 33 Andean ecotypes of L. mutabilis,...
The transformation behaviors of Zn during co-pyrolysis of waste tires and coal were studied in a fixed-bed reaction system. The effects of pyrolysis temperature and the Zn content of coal mixture on the Zn distributions in the pyrolytic products (cok...
Biopharmaceutical and pharmaceutical manufacturing are strongly influenced by the process analytical technology initiative (PAT) and quality by design (QbD) methodologies, which are designed to enhance the understanding of more integrated processes [...
Source term estimation (STE) is crucial for understanding and addressing hazardous gas leakages in the chemical industry. Most existing methods basically use an atmospheric transport and dispersion (ATD) model to predict the concentrations of hazardo...
A side channel pump is a pump with a high head and a small flow that is widely used in various industrial fields. Many scientists have studied the hydraulic performance, pressure fluctuation characteristics, and gas-liquid mixed transport characteris...
Petroleum-based plastics have become a big problem in many countries because of their non-degradability and that they become microplastics in the environment. This study focused on the optimization of production medium and conditions of polyhydroxyal...
Equipping wastes with interesting properties in response to the circular economy could release environmental burdens by reducing resource exploitation and material manufacturing. In this study, we demonstrated that the waste regenerated activated car...
The present study evaluated the effect of gum arabic (GA) edible coating pretreatment on the quality of dried red raspberries. Red raspberries were independently pretreated with varied concentrations of GA (3, 5, and 10% (w/v) by dipping for 2 min be...
Pumped-storage hydropower (PSH) stations are an efficient emission-free technology to balance renewable energy generation instabilities. The pump-turbine is a core component of PSH stations requiring frequent start-up, shutdown, and working condition...
Heavy metal pollution in soil seriously harms human health and animal and plant growth. Among them, cadmium pollution is one of the most serious issues. As a promising remediation material for cadmium pollution in soil, functionalized biochar has att...
Desalination is set to become a major source of drinking water in several Middle Eastern countries over the coming decades. Solar distillation is a simple power-independent method of water desalination, which can be carried out in active or passive m...
Candida auris is an emerging multidrug-resistant yeast with high mortality rate, especially in patients with underlying co-morbidities. It has been known to contaminate the environment and colonize human skin for prolonged periods in healthcare setti...
Petroleum spills and land contamination are becoming increasingly common around the world. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and other pollutants found in petroleum are constantly migrating underground, making their migration in soil a hot rese...
Minimizing the makespan is an important research topic in manufacturing engineering because it accounts for significant production expenses. In bakery manufacturing, ovens are high-energy-consuming machines that run throughout the production time. Fi...
The combined disinfection process of ultraviolet and sodium hypochlorite has more advantages than the single disinfection method in reducing the disinfectant dosage, shortening the reaction time, and resisting the impact of water quality changes and...
In June 2021, the United States (US) Department of Energy (DOE) hosted the first-ever Hydrogen Shot Summit, which lasted for two days. More than 3000 stockholders around the world were convened at the summit to discuss how low-cost clean hydrogen pro...
The reverse push-the-bit rotary steerable method based on the principle of a “labor-saving lever” provides a feasible technical solution for further improving trajectory control ability of the rotary steerable drilling system, further pro...
The problem of global warming and its relationship with human activity is increasingly evident [...]
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