{"title":"Fabrication and Characterization of Polyimide-CNTs hybrid membrane to enhance high performance CO2 separation","authors":"T. Kusworo, B. Budiyono, A. Ismail, A. Mustafa","doi":"10.12777/IJSE.8.2.115-119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12777/IJSE.8.2.115-119","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the CO 2 separation performance of a hybrid membranes flat sheet based on polyimide incorporated with carbon nanotubes (CNTs) particles. CNTs was selected and its loading were a 1 wt% in total solid. The hybrid composite membranes were fabricated in order to increase their separation performance for the gaseous mixture of CO 2 and CH 4 . Hybrid Composite membrane incorporated carbon nanotubes were mannufactured by the dry-wet phase inversion technique using flat sheet membrane casting machine system, in which the CNTs were embedded into the polyimide membrane and the resulting membranes were characterized. The results from the FESEM, DSC and FTIR analysis confirmed that chemical modification on carbon nanotubes surface had taken place. Sieve-in-a-cage’ morphology observed shows the poor adhesion between polymer and unmodified CNT. The results revealed that the good multi-wall carbon nanotubes dispersion leads to enhanced gas permeation properties. It is also concluded that addition of carbon nanotubes particles into the matrix of Polyimide polymer has significant effect on the membrane structure and properties.","PeriodicalId":14209,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Science and Engineering","volume":"8 1","pages":"115-119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.12777/IJSE.8.2.115-119","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66730471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of IT Impact of Using Accounting Information System in Vietnam","authors":"Shiow-Luan Wang, Thi-Xuyen Do","doi":"10.6159/IJSE.2015.(5-1).16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6159/IJSE.2015.(5-1).16","url":null,"abstract":"The proliferation of Internet and Information Technology (IT) has been transformed a lot in business features by the effect of networked environment change. IT settings and related facilities in business should be easy to use and support the satisfaction of users' needs. Business is supported to use Accounting Information System (AIS) because of its efficiency, cost-efficient, automated, easy- payment and easier billing. The aim of this study aimed to describe the IT impact of business in Vietnam nowadays and understand the information needs of users through an analysis of AIS in the traditional and the present way of software user. The findings revealed that most of the users were satisfied with their AIS on the IT impact; they still need professional assistance in their using IT for information needs.","PeriodicalId":14209,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Science and Engineering","volume":"5 1","pages":"111-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71316487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Cloud-Assisted P2P Streaming Architecture for Mobile Users","authors":"許子衡, 吳麟佑","doi":"10.6159/IJSE.2015.(5-1).24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6159/IJSE.2015.(5-1).24","url":null,"abstract":"雲端運算結合同儕網路成為即時視訊串流與多媒體服務品質的重要研究議題。由於不穩定的無線網路訊號傳輸及同儕節點任意加入與離開,使用者常會遭受長時間的等待和突發性的下載中斷,進而影響觀賞影片的意願。本論文提出一結合雲端運算技術與同儕網路技術的視訊串流傳輸架構,並藉由雲端技術強大的運算能力,加強視訊串流傳輸的彈性,改善網路傳輸的服務品質。當多媒體提供者上傳視訊內容到雲端儲存空間,雲端服務控制器通知Master/Reducer進行視訊編碼,編碼後的視訊資料再由主控節點進行合併傳回雲端儲存空間。當雲端串流伺服器收到不同同儕運算網路子樹根節點(Roots)的視訊傳輸要求時,則會將不同解析度視訊串流依照分層方式,分成為視訊基本層(Base Layer, BL)和視訊加強層(Enhancement Layer, EL)傳輸給各個不同同儕子樹根節點(Roots),同儕運算網路根節點(Roots)再將視訊串流傳輸給其他同儕節點(Peers),提供高穩定性、高擴展性、及低成本的串流傳輸架構。","PeriodicalId":14209,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Science and Engineering","volume":"5 1","pages":"173-179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71316428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"σ-N天際線:一種新的天際線搜尋類型","authors":"黃璽合, 李強","doi":"10.6159/IJSE.2015.(5-1).28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6159/IJSE.2015.(5-1).28","url":null,"abstract":"The skyline query problem has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Given a dataset, a skyline query returns data points that are not dominated by other points. This study extends the concept of skyline query to a so-called σ-neighborhood skyline query (σ-N skyline query). In contrast to the past skyline query, the σ-N skyline query not only finds the skyline points, but also retrieves points that are competitive with the skyline points. The σ-N skyline query can be useful for applications such as decision making, market analysis, and business planning, as it is able to provide more flexible answers for a user. This paper defines the novel problem, proposes a new index tree and intelligent algorithms to resolve this problem, and conducts a set of simulations to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the algorithms.","PeriodicalId":14209,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Science and Engineering","volume":"5 1","pages":"205-208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71316442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"利用訊號變化與遮蔽效應之802.11 MAC碰撞避免協定","authors":"陳柏岳, 盧彥甫, 陳青文","doi":"10.6159/IJSE.2015.(5-1).19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6159/IJSE.2015.(5-1).19","url":null,"abstract":"IEEE 802.11 DCF is widely used and able to avoid the collisions of the hidden terminal problem in a wireless network. However, there may be collisions existing in the DCF MAC protocol. That is, when a node in NAV state does not receive any control signal, a collision may occur after the node ends the NAV period. In this paper, to solve this collision problem, a detailed analysis about the problem is given. Afterwards, according to the analysis, we utilize the “masking effect” and the detection of signal variation to design the MAC collision avoidance protocol. With the received signal strength and the variation of received signal strength of a node, the node can determine whether there are other transmissions occurring in the transmission range. Therefore, a node can determine whether the period of NAV state can be extended to avoid collisions. Simulation results show that our proposed MAC protocol can efficiently reduce 60% and 41% collisions than the IEEE 802.11 DCF protocol and OCS-MD. In addition, our proposed MAC protocol also shows shorter transmission delay and lower retransmissions than the 802.11 DCF and OCS-MD to have better network throughput.","PeriodicalId":14209,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Science and Engineering","volume":"5 1","pages":"131-140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71316365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reliability based design optimization of concrete mix proportions using generalized ridge regression model","authors":"R. Aggarwal, Maneek Kumar, R. Sharma, M. Sharma","doi":"10.12777/IJSE.8.1.26-37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12777/IJSE.8.1.26-37","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents Reliability Based Design Optimization (RBDO) model to deal with uncertainties involved in concrete mix design process. The optimization problem is formulated in such a way that probabilistic concrete mix input parameters showing random characteristics are determined by minimizing the cost of concrete subjected to concrete compressive strength constraint for a given target reliability. Linear and quadratic models based on Ordinary Least Square Regression (OLSR), Traditional Ridge Regression (TRR) and Generalized Ridge Regression (GRR) techniques have been explored to select the best model to explicitly represent compressive strength of concrete. The RBDO model is solved by Sequential Optimization and Reliability Assessment (SORA) method using fully quadratic GRR model. Optimization results for a wide range of target compressive strength and reliability levels of 0.90, 0.95 and 0.99 have been reported. Also, safety factor based Deterministic Design Optimization (DDO) designs for each case are obtained. It has been observed that deterministic optimal designs are cost effective but proposed RBDO model gives improved design performance.","PeriodicalId":14209,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Science and Engineering","volume":"8 1","pages":"26-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66730176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Phang, C. Chu, S. Kumaresan, M. M. Rahman, S. Yasir
{"title":"Preliminary study of seaweed drying under a shade and in a natural draft solar dryer","authors":"H. Phang, C. Chu, S. Kumaresan, M. M. Rahman, S. Yasir","doi":"10.12777/ijse.8.1.10-14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12777/ijse.8.1.10-14","url":null,"abstract":"A solar dryer was designed to study the seaweed drying process under natural convection and compared to a shade drying process. A dewatering pre-treatment process was initially applied to enhance drying process for both methods. The initial weight of seaweed before pre-treatment and after pre-treatment was recorded and the seaweed was then introduced into the solar drying system and shade drying system. The air temperature and relative humidity inside the solar dryer and surrounding were recorded during experiment. A representative sample on each tray was taken for final moisture content determination where the difference of seaweed weight less than 5% for subsequent measurement. The average weight loss of seaweed from pre-treatment was about 54%. The final moisture content of seaweed for solar drying was in the range of 24-61% (d.b.) and for shade drying was in the range of 40-48% (d.b.) with a standard deviation of final moisture content of 20.45% for solar drying and 3.78% for shade drying. The total time for solar drying inclusive of pre-treatment was 6 days and shade drying was 9 days. The drying kinetics of each method was modeled and the results of this study will be utilized to enhance the design and operations of seaweed solar dryers.","PeriodicalId":14209,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Science and Engineering","volume":"8 1","pages":"10-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.12777/ijse.8.1.10-14","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66730106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modelling of HTR (High Temperature Reactor) Pebble-Bed 10 MW to Determine Criticality as A Variations of Enrichment and Radius of the Fuel (Kernel) With the Monte Carlo Code MCNP4C","authors":"Hammam Oktajianto, E. Setiawati, V. Richardina","doi":"10.12777/ijse.8.1.42-46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12777/ijse.8.1.42-46","url":null,"abstract":"Gas-cooled nuclear reactor is a Generation IV reactor which has been receiving significant attention due to many desired characteristics such as inherent safety, modularity, relatively low cost, short construction period, and easy financing. High temperature reactor (HTR) pebble-bed as one of type of gas-cooled reactor concept is getting attention. In HTR pebble-bed design, radius and enrichment of the fuel kernel are the key parameter that can be chosen freely to determine the desired value of criticality. This paper models HTR pebble-bed 10 MW and determines an effective of enrichment and radius of the fuel (Kernel) to get criticality value of reactor. The TRISO particle coated fuel particle which was modelled explicitly and distributed in the fuelled region of the fuel pebbles using a Simple-Cubic (SC) lattice. The pebble-bed balls and moderator balls distributed in the core zone using a Body-Centred Cubic lattice with assumption of a fresh fuel by the fuel enrichment was 7-17% at 1% range and the size of the fuel radius was 175-300 µ m at 25 µ m ranges. The geometrical model of the full reactor is obtained by using lattice and universe facilities provided by MCNP4C. The details of model are discussed with necessary simplifications. Criticality calculations were conducted by Monte Carlo transport code MCNP4C and continuous energy nuclear data library ENDF/B-VI. From calculation results can be concluded that an effective of enrichment and radius of fuel (Kernel) to achieve a critical condition was the enrichment of 15-17% at a radius of 200 µ m, the enrichment of 13-17% at a radius of 225 µ m, the enrichments of 12-15% at radius of 250 µ m, the enrichments of 11-14% at a radius of 275 µ m and the enrichment of 10-13% at a radius of 300 µ m, so that the effective of enrichments and radii of fuel (Kernel) can be considered in the HTR 10 MW. Keywords —MCNP4C, HTR, enrichment, radius, criticality","PeriodicalId":14209,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Science and Engineering","volume":"8 1","pages":"42-46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66730319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Drying Characteristics and Product Quality of Lemon Slices Dried with Hot Air Circulation Oven and Hybrid Heatpump Dryers","authors":"Yong Hong Lee, S. Chin, B. Chung","doi":"10.12777/IJSE.8.1.69-74","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12777/IJSE.8.1.69-74","url":null,"abstract":"In this research, drying characteristics and product quality of Coulomb-force-assisted heatpump and oven dried lemon slices were studied. Lemon slices with 3 mm thickness each, were dried using oven and Coulomb-force-assisted-heatpump dryer with and without auxiliary heater at different drying conditions. It was found that the drying rate of the lemon slices dried by all drying methods showed only falling rate states, which indicates the drying kinetics were controlled by internal moisture diffusion. Oven drying of lemon slices at 60°C showed the highest drying rate among all, followed by oven dried slices at 50°C, Coulomb-force-heater-assisted-heatpump (CF-HT-HP) dried slices at 31°C, Coulomb-force-assisted-heatpump (CF-HP) dried slices at 22°C, oven dried slices at 40°C and heatpump dried slices at 22°C. The average effective moisture diffusivity value for the slices dried with these drying methods was found in the range of 16.2 to 63.8´10 -4 mm 2 min -1 . In terms of quality assessment, CF-HP dried lemon slices retained the highest amount of Vitamin C as compared to the lemon slices dried by other drying methods. However, it retained relatively lower amount of total phenolic content (TPC) as compared to oven dried products. Among of all, CF-HP drying method produced dried lemon slices with the highest Vitamin C (6.74 mg AA / g dry weight) whereas oven dried lemon slices at 50°C preserved most of the TPC in the dried slices, which recorded as 13.76 mg GA / g dry weight.","PeriodicalId":14209,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Science and Engineering","volume":"8 1","pages":"69-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.12777/IJSE.8.1.69-74","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66730512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}