{"title":"EVALUATION OF NITRATE REMOVAL FROM DAIRY WASTEWATER BY MEMBRANE DISTILLATION: A LABORATORY MODEL APPROACH","authors":"Ali A. Hasan","doi":"10.31272/jeasd.27.1.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31272/jeasd.27.1.11","url":null,"abstract":"The dairy industry is considered one of the main industries not only in Iraq in particular but throughout the world. Different treatment methods have been used over time and in different countries. Here, membrane distillation has been used to treat wastewater generated by this industry to reduce the burden on the environment. In this paper, direct membrane distillation was used to remove nitrates from wastewater discharged from dairy plants. This method is easy to operate, easy to manage, and has many economic benefits. This article has been using the HACH instrument with all kits needed to achieve the tests. For determination of nitrates in samples by the Calmagite Colorimetric method. HACH Method 8030. 100 mL Marked Dropping Bottle. All other instruments have been achieved according to APHA, AWWA, and WEF. On the other hand, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) has been used to watch the formation of nitrate on membrane surfaces. The results obtained in treating the samples that were synthesized and prepared according to the characteristics of dairy wastewater showed the ability of this method to remove nitrates by up to 80-85%, on the other hand, temperature affects the value of MD and is directly relative to flux. The temperature of the treated water plays an important role in determining the percentage of nitrate removal through the membrane, as well as the latter's enjoying chemical and physical features that give them positive points in its removal of wastewater when the liquid temperature had been raised.","PeriodicalId":33282,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Sustainable Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43281852","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":"DESIGN AND SIMULATION OF HIGH GAIN SEPIC DC–DC CONVERTER","authors":"Ihsan A. Mejbel, Turki K. Hassan","doi":"10.31272/jeasd.27.1.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31272/jeasd.27.1.12","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a new model of the converter, a single-ended primary-inductor converter (SEPIC) type with a high gain voltage for clean energy sources. The suggested model is established by combining the traditional SEPIC DC-DC converter with two different circuits. The first circuit is a split-inductor circuit that is made of three diodes and two inductors, while the second circuit consists of two capacitors and two diodes. The suggested SEPIC DC-DC converter achieves a high voltage gain of 7.5 times the supply voltage when the duty cycle value is kept at 0.5 with only a unique controlled switch. The gain of the proposed converter is greatly increased while the ripple of output voltage and the input current is decreased for higher values of the duty cycle. In addition, the decreased value of the input current ripple results in limited switching stress. The suggested converter is analyzed in detail for continuous conduction mode (CCM). A MATLAB/ Simulink program is used to confirm the analysis of the suggested converter.","PeriodicalId":33282,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Sustainable Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46281049","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":"COMPARISON OF TIME AND TIME-FREQUENCY DOMAINS IMPULSIVE NOISE MITIGATION TECHNIQUES FOR POWER LINE COMMUNICATIONS","authors":"A. Mohammed, Maher K. Mahmood Al-Azawi","doi":"10.31272/jeasd.27.1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31272/jeasd.27.1.6","url":null,"abstract":"Impulsive noise is one of the foremost situations in power line communications that degrades the performance of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing used for the power line communications channel. In this paper, a channel version of the broadband power line communications is assumed when evaluating the bit error rate performance. Three impulsive noise environments are assumed, namely heavily, moderately, and weakly disturbed. The well-known time domain mitigation techniques are tested first. These are clipping, blanking, and mixing clipping with blanking. The results of Matlab simulations show that these time-domain mitigation techniques don't significantly improve the bit error rate performance. A hybrid domain of time and frequency mitigation techniques are used to enhance the bit error rate performance. The Matlab simulation results show that this hybrid domain of time and frequency approach outperforms time domain nonlinearities and can largely improve the bit error rate performance. Signal-to-noise ratio gains of about 8 dB, 10 dB, and 10 dB are obtained for heavily, moderately, and weakly disturbed channels, respectively, using the domains of time and frequency mitigation technique at a bit error rate of when compared to the blanking time domain technique.","PeriodicalId":33282,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Sustainable Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45599557","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":"SHEAR TRANSFER BEHAVIOR OF FIBROUS CONCRETE","authors":"Eman Jwad, W. A. Waryosh","doi":"10.31272/jeasd.27.1.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31272/jeasd.27.1.9","url":null,"abstract":"Fibrous concrete's shear strength behavior is important in structural design. Brackets, corbels, and ledger beams are examples of concrete members that might collapse in shear. Such a failure might be brittle and sudden. Fibers improve concrete's behavior by increasing residual shear transfer and reducing crack development and extension. In an experimental study, nine push-off specimens were divided into three groups and examined as part of the experiment. Conventional concrete, conventional concrete with 1% glass fiber, and conventional concrete with 1% steel fiber were the groups. There were three push-off specimens with various shear reinforcement ratios in each of the groups that were examined (0.0, 0.45, and 0.68%). The specimens utilized had dimensions of 500mm x 250mm x 125mm. The vertical slip and horizontal separation at the shear plane were measured using two-stroke linear variable displacement transducers (LVDT). The effect of fiber type and the ratio of transverse reinforcement across the shear plane were the parameters evaluated. The presence of fibers enhances final shear strength, which is more obvious in specimens without stirrups in the shear plane. Where the addition of 1% of glass fiber to normal strength concrete increased ultimate shear strength by 32.26%, 12.38%, and 12.5%, while adding 1% of steel fiber to normal strength concrete increased ultimate shear strength by up to 53.22%, 19%, and 25%, respectively, for the specimens without stirrups, two stirrups, and three stirrups. The fibrous specimens were stiffer and ductile failure was seen. Steel fibers improved overall concrete shear behavior better than glass fibers.","PeriodicalId":33282,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Sustainable Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45776867","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":"Heat transfer augmentation by using different techniques in heat sinks: A review study","authors":"Hiba Khayoon Mohsen, N. Hamza","doi":"10.31272/jeasd.27.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31272/jeasd.27.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"The current paper reports the major trends in scientific research that occurred recently in the field of removing generated heat in electronic equipments using passive majorly and active minorly. The studies in literature are distributed between many sub-categories like: changing the geometry of extended surfaces, or the material that manufactured from, the working fluid that passed over them and / or the dimension of channel whether mini or micro.","PeriodicalId":33282,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Sustainable Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41426778","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":"EVALUATION OF THE PROCUREMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX PROJECTS IN ERBIL GOVERNORATE","authors":"A. Mohammed","doi":"10.31272/jeasd.27.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31272/jeasd.27.1.5","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to evaluate the procurement management system of residential complex projects in Erbil Governorate by adopting a case study for (20) constructed projects during 2007-2019, to calculate the percentage of procurement management practice and the risks that have a significant impact on cost, time, and quality. Based on a literature review and discussion with experienced construction managers and procurement officers, a questionnaire has been designed which represents a successful plan for a procurement management system that consists of ten phases, each of five items, and the risk results associated with the improper practice. The questionnaire was delivered to stakeholders working on residential complex projects to calculate the average practice of procurement management. It is revealed that 70% of residential complex projects practiced procurement management process with a percentage below 50%. Which is considered below the acceptable rate. The average practice of procurement management phases ranges between 33% for procurement risk management and 58.5% for forecasting. The study reviled that the practice of procurement management affects the cost and time mostly. There are 26 risks that range between high and significant categories for cost and 22 risks range between high and significant categories for time. The most significant factors for procurement management are creating an appropriate risk response plan, integrating the procurement plan with the budgeting, scheduling procurement due to dates and quantities, using the tendering procedure, and procurement quality assurance. This study may contribute to solving problems for future projects by improving the current system.","PeriodicalId":33282,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Sustainable Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45373722","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":"THE INFLUENCE OF INFILL DENSITY AND SPEED OF PRINTING ON THE TENSILE PROPERTIES OF THE THREE DIMENSION PRINTING POLYLACTIC ACID PARTS","authors":"Muhammed Kasim Mehdi, Bashar Owed","doi":"10.31272/jeasd.27.1.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31272/jeasd.27.1.8","url":null,"abstract":"The primary aim of this research was to determine the effect of infill-density (ID), and the speed of print on the microstructure and tensile behavior of 3D printed elements by conducting the tensile test. The tensile behavior of 3D-printed elements is essentially dependent on the ID that is stratified through printing. Here specimens were printed from PLA and divided into three groups the first group printed at speed of 40mm/s and (50,75,100) % infill ratio. And the second group printed at speed of 50 mm/s and (50,75,100) % infill ratio. The third group printed at speed of 60mm/min and (50,75, 100) % infill ratio. The specimens were printed in accordance with ASTM D638 of the tensile test. From all specimens, the best result was obtained in first group specimen 3 at an infill ratio of 100% and speed of print of 40mm/min. from the microstructure examination, the brittle fracture features (smooth region) and ductile fracture characteristics (deformed patterns) were observed in the infill ratio (ID) percentage.","PeriodicalId":33282,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Sustainable Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47662433","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}
Sadiq K. Ahmed, Madhukar Chandra, Zaid A. Abdul hassain
{"title":"REDUCING THE CROSS-POLARIZATION PATTERN IN A DUAL-POLARIZED ANTENNA USING SPIRAL AND SPLIT RING RESONATORS","authors":"Sadiq K. Ahmed, Madhukar Chandra, Zaid A. Abdul hassain","doi":"10.31272/jeasd.26.6.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31272/jeasd.26.6.4","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces the design of a new dual polarization rectangular microstrip patch antenna based on metamaterial structures at X-band. The work focuses on two distinct configurations of a microstrip patch antenna utilizing metamaterials. Pairs of spiral ring resonators are loaded into a rectangular patch antenna system in the first design. The second strategy involves inserting a split ring resonator at the end of microstrip feed lines. The utilization of metamaterial structures in the microstrip antenna system compensates for the patch antenna's asymmetric current distribution of the flow, resulting in symmetrical current distribution. The simulation results display an import cross-polarization cross-polarization discrimination (XPD) and good port decoupling. The antenna system has various characteristics, including a basic structure and metamaterial inclusions that take up a small amount of space, making the suggested metamaterial inclusions more beneficial for dual-linear polarized patch antenna construction. These prototypes are suitable to work for polarimetric radars.","PeriodicalId":33282,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Sustainable Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43097403","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 REVIEW ON BOND PERFORMANCE OF FRP-CONCRETE SYSTEM AT VARIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS","authors":"R. Al-Safy","doi":"10.31272/jeasd.26.6.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31272/jeasd.26.6.6","url":null,"abstract":"Strengthening concrete structures with Fibre Reinforced Polymer (FRP) is one of the most commonly used technique to repair and rehabilitate concrete members due to the advanced properties of FRP over other conventional materials such as steel plates. The required performance of FRP-concrete system is linked to achieve proper bond between FRP and concrete substrates that as exposed to different environmental conditions. In the current paper, a review is conducted to highlight the most reported work by other researchers regarding the bond behavior of concrete members that strengthened with FRP in shear-tension and exposed to temperature-based conditions and compared with ambient conditions. The current review focused on the conducted work on FRP/concrete system that strengthened with two different installation techniques (externally bonding (ES) and near–Surface mounted (NSM)) using two different bonding agents (epoxy-based adhesive (EBA) and cement-based adhesive (CBA)) with and without modification. The adoption of two specific bond test procedures (adhesion and single lap shear tests) at ambient conditions and temperature-based conditions was also reviewed intensively to clarify the advantages and drawbacks associated with each test. Some reported findings by others in conducting bond test methods for different FRP/concrete systems were highlighted as well to address the gap in knowledge and the need for further research in this regard.","PeriodicalId":33282,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Sustainable Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49550707","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":"الاستثمار واستدامة التراث العمراني من خلال إعادة الاستخدام","authors":"أريج كريم مجيد السدخان, كاظم محسن إبراهيم","doi":"10.31272/jeasd.26.6.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31272/jeasd.26.6.8","url":null,"abstract":"تناول البحث مفردتي الاستثمار واستدامة التراث العمراني، لا بكونهما متضادين (يمثل الاستثمار حالة الانعتاق عن هذا التراث)، وإنما بوصفهما مركبتي التطوير من خلال تطويع التراث العمراني لمواكبة متطلبات الحياة المعاصرة مع الإبقاء على الصورة التقليدية للتراث، يمثل الاستثمار أداة التطوير فيه. \u0000ان الاهتمام بالتراث العمراني واستدامته بوصفه فعاليةً اقتصادية بالمعنى الأعم ومشروعاً استثماريا بالمعنى الأخص، يتطلب تطوراً في قراءة قيم التراث لتشمل القيم الاقتصادية فيه والتي تعد من الدراسات الحديثة التي تبنى عليها الجدوى الاقتصادية للاستثمار في مشاريع التراث العمراني بغية استدامته. \u0000 تمثلت مشكلة البحث في: الحاجة الى تعميق المعرفة في طبيعة الدور الذي يلعبه الاستثمار من خلال اعادة الاستخدام في استدامة التراث العمراني. يهدف البحث الى: تعميق المعرفة في علاقة الاستثمار باستدامة التراث العمراني من خلال اعادة الاستخدام. من خلال فرضيته المتمثلة في: إن الاستثمار الامثل في التراث العمراني يكون من خلال أعادة استخدام هذا التراث وهو الاسهام الامثل في استدامته. \u0000تم تقصي هذه العلاقة والتعزيز بالأمثلة المحلية والعربية والعالمية للتوصل الى إن إعادة الاستخدام بوظائف سياحية أو ثقافية مطلوبة لدى المجتمع المحلي تعد الطريقة الاقتصادية الأمثل لاستدامة التراث المعماري لما توفره من تمويل ذاتي لمتطلبات الاستدامة، وتسهم في جعل هذا التراث حيوياً وفاعلاً في الحياة الاجتماعية، فضلا عن المنافع المجتمعية المترتبة عليه.","PeriodicalId":33282,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Engineering and Sustainable Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41740876","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}