{"title":"Epoxidation of Waste Cooking Palm Oil with Peracetic Acid Catalyzed by Sulfuric Acid","authors":"Asem Abduqawi Alsofiany, Mohamad Faiz Mukhtar Gunam Resul","doi":"10.1109/ICOTEN52080.2021.9493511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOTEN52080.2021.9493511","url":null,"abstract":"The interest in the epoxidation of vegetable oils has increased significantly in recent years due to their sustainability, renewability, and biodegradability. In this study, waste cooking palm oil (WCPO) was epoxidized, which then can be introduced as a potential bio-based monomer. The epoxidation reaction was carried out by in situ generated peroxyacetic acid in the presence of a sulfuric acid catalyst in a tri-neck flask fitted with a condenser. Heating and stirring were provided by a heater-stirrer. In this study, the effect of the process operating parameters such as temperature (40– 60°C), catalyst loading (1.0-2.5%) and the molar ratio of hydrogen peroxide and acetic acid to the double bond (0.5-2.0) and (0.1-0.7) respectively, were investigated and the optimum conditions were established. A maximum relative conversion to oxirane of 56.8% and iodine conversion of 53.7% could be achieved at the optimum reaction conditions namely, temperature 60 °C within a reaction time of 4 hrs, catalyst loading 2.0%, hydrogen peroxide to unsaturation (1.5), acetic acid to unsaturation (0.5), and stirring speed of 900 rpm. The findings of this study provide keys to those interested in the epoxidation of WCPO for making valuable bio-based materials such as plasticizers, adhesives, and lubricants.","PeriodicalId":308802,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Congress of Advanced Technology and Engineering (ICOTEN)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125462397","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}
Mustakim, E. Rahmi, Mediantiwi Rahmawita Mundzir, Said Thaufik Rizaldi, Okfalisa, Idria Maita
{"title":"Comparison of DBSCAN and PCA-DBSCAN Algorithm for Grouping Earthquake Area","authors":"Mustakim, E. Rahmi, Mediantiwi Rahmawita Mundzir, Said Thaufik Rizaldi, Okfalisa, Idria Maita","doi":"10.1109/ICOTEN52080.2021.9493497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOTEN52080.2021.9493497","url":null,"abstract":"Geologically, the territory of Indonesia is where the three active tectonic plates meet which are always moving and colliding with each other, resulting in earthquakes, volcanic pathways, and faults. Earthquake is a natural disaster that cannot be avoided or prevented, but the consequences of earthquakes can be minimized. Based on data obtained from Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (MCGA), earthquakes often occur in Indonesia. Data obtained from earthquakes can be grouped to map the area of earthquake occurrence and an analysis will be carried out to determine the characteristics of earthquake clustering areas. The clustering in this is study conducted with two experiments, first experiment is Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) without dimensional reduction and second experiment is DBSCAN clustering with dimensional reduction using Principal Component Analysis (PCA). The best cluster results can be found by calculating the value of Silhouette Index (SI) of each cluster. From the two experiments, the highest SI value was obtained in experiment using PCA, which was 0.4137. Then the second experiment was used as the best cluster results with the highest Dept and Magnitude features in clusters 19 and 17 which showed the 5 main regions where earthquakes often occur are Sumatra, Banda Sea, Moluccan Sea, Irian Jaya and Sulawesi","PeriodicalId":308802,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Congress of Advanced Technology and Engineering (ICOTEN)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124075470","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":"Artificial Neural Network Approach Assessment of Short-Circuit Fault Detection in a Three Phase Inverter","authors":"M. Abid, S. Laribi, Zuhair S. Al-asgar, M. Larbi","doi":"10.1109/ICOTEN52080.2021.9493498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOTEN52080.2021.9493498","url":null,"abstract":"The design of a new technique based on Neural Networks for the diagnosis of three-phase inverters is the objective of this article. The new technique is based on the fast Fourier transform of the currents in the output of the inverter with the aim of detecting short circuits faults in the Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) switches of the inverter. These currents also form a database for the technique used from their modules and phases angles. Implementing this technique in the inverter, makes the location of the switch shorted easy and quick even if there is more than one switch shorted. Using SimPower / Simulink® MATLAB environment, the obtained results shown the perfect performance of the Artificial Neural Network method (ANN) to detect the short-circuit faults in three-phase inverters.","PeriodicalId":308802,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Congress of Advanced Technology and Engineering (ICOTEN)","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124395036","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}
Muhammad Kamran Arif, Umer Afzal, Channa Babar Ali, Azhar Hassan, Syed Yaseen Shah, Syed Aziz Shah
{"title":"Antenna Installation and Location Qualification Aircraft using Computational Electromagnetic Tools","authors":"Muhammad Kamran Arif, Umer Afzal, Channa Babar Ali, Azhar Hassan, Syed Yaseen Shah, Syed Aziz Shah","doi":"10.1109/ICOTEN52080.2021.9493487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOTEN52080.2021.9493487","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, antenna location qualification and co-site analysis were performed on Mirage aircraft. Two blade antennas operating within the frequency range of 0.960 GHz to 1.220 GHz and 0.400 GHz to 0.500 GHz have been designed, optimized and their location qualification on the Mirage fuselage has been carried out. The designed antennas are simulated by using the ‘CST Microwave Studio’ software in an isolated environment and also simulated by mounting the antennas onto an aircraft CAD model. The radiation pattern and return loss of the designed antennas are measured. The mutual coupling between the antennas mounted on the aircraft is measured and the coupling matrix is optimized.","PeriodicalId":308802,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Congress of Advanced Technology and Engineering (ICOTEN)","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133168940","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}
Farrah Nuramanina Mohd Anuar, N. Othman, Wahid Ali Hamood Altowayti
{"title":"Assessments of Concentrations of Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) In Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM) Campus Area, Batu Pahat","authors":"Farrah Nuramanina Mohd Anuar, N. Othman, Wahid Ali Hamood Altowayti","doi":"10.1109/ICOTEN52080.2021.9493458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOTEN52080.2021.9493458","url":null,"abstract":"More air contaminants have an effect on public health. In recent decades, the topic of production of air pollutants has gained a lot of public interest and research attention. One of the main gases responsible for air pollutants is sulphur dioxide (SO2). The purpose of this research is to explore sulphur dioxide differences at various locations in the campus area of Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM). For this purpose, air pollutant data from thirteen areas were measured at different times. The maximum levels of sulphur dioxide were recorded in the afternoon and the minimum in the morning. SPSS study (one-way ANOVA) of the SO2 concentration at various locations in UTHM revealed eight independent groups for all locations at p<0.5. The highest concentration of SO2 were recorded at KKTDI (a) with the reading of 0.198 and the lowest concentration of SO2 reading were at PKU with the reading of 0.03 ppm. The results of this investigation show that SO2 concentrations are strongly associated to locations near emission sources and have a significant fluctuation in the atmosphere.","PeriodicalId":308802,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Congress of Advanced Technology and Engineering (ICOTEN)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121391958","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":"Investigating the Information Security Awareness at Taibah University (TU)","authors":"D. Hasan, Linah Faisal Tasji","doi":"10.1109/ICOTEN52080.2021.9493509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOTEN52080.2021.9493509","url":null,"abstract":"Information is one of the critical assets in every organization. Maintaining these assets and ensuring their security is a challenge, since it is a responsibility for every organization member. One of these challenges is employee, faculty, and student lack of security awareness that could affect the organization's assets. Therefore, this research paper investigates and examines the information security policy awareness in Taibah University's committee and their overall understanding of security. A qualitatively method is used to gain in depth data about TU committee’s awareness. An online survey was conducted to measure students’, faculty, and other employees’ awareness of three topics including, Taibah University security policies, information security crimes, and basic security actions. The findings of the survey shown a lack of security awareness and mostly between bachelor’s degree students. Therefore, TU institute should improve security education and provide training courses, workshops, and online libraries to raise students' awareness of security. A list of recommendations are proposed to enhance this awareness. This survey will help practitioners understand security awareness challenges and explore new and promising research opportunities in this field. To the best of our knowledge, this paper constitutes the first survey focusing on security policies awareness in TU.","PeriodicalId":308802,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Congress of Advanced Technology and Engineering (ICOTEN)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115297791","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}
Channa Babar Ali, Muhammad Hashsham Chishti, Umar Anjum, Shahzad Arshad, Abdulfattah Noorwali, Syed Aziz Shah
{"title":"Design of 15W X-Band GaN Based Transmit / Receive Module for Airborne Active Phased Array Radar Applications","authors":"Channa Babar Ali, Muhammad Hashsham Chishti, Umar Anjum, Shahzad Arshad, Abdulfattah Noorwali, Syed Aziz Shah","doi":"10.1109/ICOTEN52080.2021.9493439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOTEN52080.2021.9493439","url":null,"abstract":"Transmit / Receive module (TRM) is the core component that addresses key requirements of next generation Active Electronically Scanned Array Radars i.e. multifarious functionality, modularity and scalability. Furthermore, ostensible requirements of miniaturization, wideband performance, high-output power and apt electrical performance exacerbate design intricacies of TRM. Thus, the proposed paper aims to design TRM ranging from 8.5 GHz – 11 GHz, with 15W output power while meeting half-the-wavelength size constraint. Moreover, the proposed paper focuses to devise apt architecture, opt substrate optimally, propose PCB layer and MMIC stack-up, design high-frequency transmission lines, perform crosstalk analysis and propose test-setup for validation of TRM. The proposed architecture of TRM was validated through RF budget simulation in Visual System Simulator (AWR) followed by transmission lines design in ANSYS HFSS, Multi-layer PCB design in Cadence Allegro and Crosstalk simulations in ANSYS SIwave. In a nutshell, the achieved performance of TRM was up-to-the-mark in terms of returns loss and fractional bandwidth as return losses of all high-frequency transmission lines were below -20 dB and fractional bandwidth < 40% was attained over the entire X-Band from 8 GHz to 12 GHz. Furthermore, the near-end crosstalk (NEXT) and far-end crosstalk (FEXT) were achieved to be < 7%.","PeriodicalId":308802,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Congress of Advanced Technology and Engineering (ICOTEN)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125362171","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}
Abu Shadate Faisal Mahamude, Wan Sharuzi Wan Harun, K. Kadirgama, K. Farhana, D. Ramasamy
{"title":"Numerical Studies of Graphene Hybrid Nanofluids in Flat Plate Solar Collector","authors":"Abu Shadate Faisal Mahamude, Wan Sharuzi Wan Harun, K. Kadirgama, K. Farhana, D. Ramasamy","doi":"10.1109/ICOTEN52080.2021.9493516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOTEN52080.2021.9493516","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to present the fundamental properties related to heat transfer of nanofluids and hybrid nanofluids in solar collector numerically. To deduct the energy consumption and to improve the efficiency of the flat plate solar collector, a research study was conducted to expand its wings in various pathways. Computational simulation is one of them and plays a vital role to diminish the cost before the practical experiment. In this study, graphene, CNC nanofluids, and hybrid nanofluids (CNC + graphene) were used for numerical simulations, which were transferred to the header and riser tubes of the collector. Different attributes such as internal energy, heat transfer rate, surface heat transfer coefficient, surface Nusselt number, molecular Prandtl number and skin friction coefficient of nanofluids and hybrid nanofluids were evaluated and compared with the base fluid. The geometry was prepared based on the actual model of the solar collector using a software. The numerical study reported a satisfactory enhancement of internal energy, heat transfer rate, surface heat transfer coefficient of graphene and the hybrid of graphene nanofluids. Besides, nanofluids and hybrid nanofluids performed in a stable non-dimensional number but showed a rising trend in the skin friction coefficient.","PeriodicalId":308802,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Congress of Advanced Technology and Engineering (ICOTEN)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126239649","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":"Automation of Bug-Report Allocation to Developer using a Deep Learning Algorithm","authors":"Tariq Saeed Mian","doi":"10.1109/ICOTEN52080.2021.9493515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOTEN52080.2021.9493515","url":null,"abstract":"Software bug maintenance is an important aspect of all software projects. The assignment of bug reports is essential in order to resolve bugs efficiently. In the case of open-source software developments and large projects, where many developers are engaged on different aspects of software development, it can be difficult to assign bug removal tasks to an appropriate developer. An increase in reported bugs, coupled with an increase in the number of software developers, will complicate the bug triage process. In these situations, bug triaging might be slow and may increase the Bug Tossing Length (BTL). An automated system to triage bug reports could potentially reduce BTL, as manual assignment of bug reports is tiresome, costly, and very time-consuming. The assignment of bug reporting to an irrelevant developer who does not possess sufficient experience to deal with the bug will adversely impact BTL and customer satisfaction. Text-based classification methods have the potential to make a strong contribution to automating the bug triaging process. In this research, different types of Information Retrieval and Machine Learning algorithms are used to determine the appropriate developer/s to rectify the reported bugs. This study used deep learning algorithms, such as the Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Network, to automate the bug triaging process. Bug reports contain textual data related to the bug information. In this research, the pretrained GloVe model is employed for word-to-vector representation of bug reports’ textual information. In this framework, developers’ activities are monitored based on their working history. To test the proposed approach, three large datasets, Net-Beans, Eclipse, and Mozilla, are used. It was observed that the proposed technique produced better results in terms of accuracy, recall, precision and f-measure compared to traditional Machine Learning algorithms for bug report recommendation.","PeriodicalId":308802,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Congress of Advanced Technology and Engineering (ICOTEN)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125881411","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":"Sun Closeness/Clearance Estimation for 3 Different Days","authors":"Ardan Hüseyin Eşlik, E. Akarslan, F. Hocaoglu","doi":"10.1109/ICOTEN52080.2021.9493545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOTEN52080.2021.9493545","url":null,"abstract":"With the need for clean and sustainable energy, solar energy use has increased significantly in recent years. However, power fluctuations due to solar energy variability are among the main challenges in using photovoltaic systems. One of the most critical factors that cause these fluctuations is the clouds that block the sun’s radiation. In this study, the motions of clouds are tracked, and the motions they could take in the future are estimated. Thus, in the short term, it has been tried to determine the moments when sudden solar radiation changes may occur by estimating the closeness and clearance of the sun. For this purpose, firstly, sky images are collected at regular intervals with the help of a digital camera placed in the main campus area of Afyon Kocatepe University. The Shi-Tomasi algorithm determines the points to be tracked on the collected sky images. Then, the points determined by using the Lucas-Kanade optical flow algorithm are tracked on sequential images. By analyzing the clouds’ motions, the clouds with the risk of obstructing the sun are detected, and the motion estimations are made using the calculated direction and speed information. Finally, due to the experiments performed on datasets obtained from 3 different days, sun closeness/clearance estimations at the 1-second resolution at 120 seconds time horizon are reached. The obtained results showed that the approach could be used successfully in cloud motion estimation in different cloudy conditions.","PeriodicalId":308802,"journal":{"name":"2021 International Congress of Advanced Technology and Engineering (ICOTEN)","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125985326","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}