{"title":"Glance on the Convergence of Godard Blind Equalization: Review","authors":"M. Al-Rawi, M. Al-Rawi","doi":"10.14416/J.IJAST.2015.03.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14416/J.IJAST.2015.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies the convergence of Godard blind equalization which based on least mean square (LMS) algorithm. It focuses on studying the effect of changing the step-size of LMS algorithm on the convergence of Godard algorithm. Simulation results show that the increase in step-size has negative impact on the convergence.","PeriodicalId":352801,"journal":{"name":"King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok International Journal of Applied Science and Technology","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114970730","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}
R. Charoen, Wanticha Savedboworn, Samart Phuditcharnchnakun, Thanakit Khuntaweetap
{"title":"Development of Antioxidant Gummy Jelly Candy Supplemented with Psidium guajava Leaf Extract","authors":"R. Charoen, Wanticha Savedboworn, Samart Phuditcharnchnakun, Thanakit Khuntaweetap","doi":"10.14416/J.IJAST.2015.02.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14416/J.IJAST.2015.02.002","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this research was to develop gummy jelly candy supplemented with the crude extract of Psidium guajava Linn. leaf. Effect of drying temperature (50, 60 and 70 ° C) on the total antioxidant activity (TAA) of the obtained crude extracts was investigated using the DPPH method at various pH conditions (4.0, 6.5 and 8.5). Results showed that the crude extract obtained from the drying temperature of 50°C and testing condition at pH 4.0 had the highest TAA value. However, there was interaction between drying temperature and pH conditions, thus the treatment at 50°C, pH 6.5 and 70°C, pH 4.0 was not significant different.The relationships between temperature and pH on TAA were explained using the multiple regression (R 2 =0.987). The crude extracts caused changes in texture properties of gummy jelly indicated by decreases in gumminess and chewiness of the products. Result was consistent with the results obtained from sensory evaluation (9-points hedonic scale) that sensory texture (springiness and toughness) and color scores decreased. This study suggested that the extraction of Psidium guajava Linn. leaf has the potential to be used as antioxidant supplements and it can be used in gummy jelly products.","PeriodicalId":352801,"journal":{"name":"King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok International Journal of Applied Science and Technology","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115164158","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}
Sriwiang Tipkanon, R. Charoen, Wanticha Savedboworn, A. Abdallah
{"title":"Hydrolysis Optimization of Isoflavone Conversion in Soy Germ (Chiang Mai 60) Using Response Surface Methodology (RSM)","authors":"Sriwiang Tipkanon, R. Charoen, Wanticha Savedboworn, A. Abdallah","doi":"10.14416/J.IJAST.2015.02.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14416/J.IJAST.2015.02.001","url":null,"abstract":"Response surface methodology (RSM) was employed to optimize the hydrolysis conditions of isoflavone conversion in soy germ by using central composite design (CCD) of three factors. A five-level, three variables design was adopted. The three independent variables investigated in this experiment were pH (X 1 ) 3 – 8; reaction temperature (X 2 ) 25 – 75 ° C; and reaction time (X 3 ) 2 – 12 h. Dependent variables were highly fitted to the regression equation for the both of total amount of isoflavone glucosides (Y 1 ) and total amount of isoflavone aglycones (Y 2 ). The high regression coefficient values indicated that the variables were highly fitted to the regression equation for the both of total isoflavone glucosides (R 2 = 0.937) and total isoflavone aglycones (R 2 = 0.956) concentration. Optimum hydrolysis conditions for maximizing the determination of total isoflavone aglycones content were: pH = 5.3, reaction temperature = 51 ° C and reaction time = 7.5 h.","PeriodicalId":352801,"journal":{"name":"King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok International Journal of Applied Science and Technology","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124848325","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}
K. Hildebrandt, F. Schulte-Hubbert, L. Medina, P. Mitschang
{"title":"Influence of Fabric Parameters on Surface Waviness of FRPC: An Experimental Investigation and Development of a Model on Surface Waviness","authors":"K. Hildebrandt, F. Schulte-Hubbert, L. Medina, P. Mitschang","doi":"10.14416/J.IJAST.2015.01.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14416/J.IJAST.2015.01.002","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with the surface development of continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composites, so called organic sheets, during processing. To investigate the effect of the textile parameters on the surface development organic sheets with different steel wire fabrics and a polycarbonate matrix were manufactured using a laboratory press. The fabrics differed in fiber diameter and mesh size. The results showed that both textile parameters have a significant influence on the characteristic surface waviness of the FRPC. Increasing fiber diameters and mesh sizes lead to higher maximum waviness. Organic sheets with a fiber diameter of the reinforcement less or equal 50 μm could not be differentiated anymore and had no visible waviness. Based on the equation for linear thermal expansion a thermo rheological process model was developed to predict the surface waviness. The model describes the waviness creation including a pressure induced compensating polymer flow. A waviness comparison of experimental data with calculated results shows a good agreement.","PeriodicalId":352801,"journal":{"name":"King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok International Journal of Applied Science and Technology","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121399226","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":"Strategies for Alleviating in vitro Low Protein Solubility in Applied Biotechnology and Microbiology","authors":"Aiya Chantarasiri, V. Meevootisom, S. Wiyakrutta","doi":"10.14416/J.IJAST.2014.12.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14416/J.IJAST.2014.12.003","url":null,"abstract":"From research to application, high protein solubility is usually a desired property yet sometimes difficult to achieve. The in vitro low solubility of the fully folded proteins is relevant to applied microbiological studies, biochemical studies, biopharmaceutical studies, high-resolution structural studies, and applications demanding high protein concentration. This insufficient protein solubility depends largely on the surface property of the protein molecule. To alleviate this problem, approaches emphasized on the improvement of water-binding ability or prevention of protein aggregation were employed including the use of chemical additives, fusion with solubility enhancement tags, and molecular engineering of the surface amino acid residues. With the availability of the three-dimensional structure of the target proteins, the effect of different surface amino acid residues on protein solubility could be systematically investigated. With the applications of advanced bioinformatics tools and guided by protein three-dimensional structure, solubility-improving mutagenesis can be designed and executed with a high chance of success. Integrating rational molecular engineering with other available approaches will be the effective strategy for alleviating in vitro low solubility of important proteins in the future.","PeriodicalId":352801,"journal":{"name":"King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok International Journal of Applied Science and Technology","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129282359","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}
O. A. Oyelaran, Bukola Olalekan Bolaji, M. A. Waheed, M. Adekunle
{"title":"Performance Evaluation of the Effect of Binder on Groundnut Shell Briquette","authors":"O. A. Oyelaran, Bukola Olalekan Bolaji, M. A. Waheed, M. Adekunle","doi":"10.14416/J.IJAST.2014.11.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14416/J.IJAST.2014.11.004","url":null,"abstract":"Densification of biomass is often required to combat the negative handling characteristics of these low bulk density materials. A high-quality densified product is strongly desired, binding agents are usually added to comminuted biomass material to improve the quality of the resulting briquettes. Many materials naturally possess such binding agents; however, they may not be enough or available in a form that can contribute to product binding. The briquettes were prepared from groundnut shell with different cassava starch as binder in varying percentage (5, 10, 15 and 20%) by weight. The prepared briquettes after sun drying for 21 days were subjected to water boiling test for assessing the quality and suitability of briquetted fuel as domestic fuel. The groundnut shell briquettes burnt with good flame and observed 14.47 to 18.46% thermal efficiency while that of wood is 10.31%. The average burning rate of the briquettes ranges between 0.587 and 0.881 kg/hr while that of wood (V) is 1.166 kg/hr. The average specific fuel consumption of the briquettes ranges between 0.067 and 0.267 J/g while that of wood is 0.332 J/g. The boiling time for briquettes is between 14.80 to 23.15 minutes and 13.05 to 19.08 minutes for cold and hot start respectively while for wood are 28.05 and 19.20 minutes for cold and hot starting respectively. Comparatively briquette with 20% binder performs better.","PeriodicalId":352801,"journal":{"name":"King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok International Journal of Applied Science and Technology","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123558216","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}
Wiboon Riansa-ngawong, Maneewan Suwansa-ard, P. Prasertsan
{"title":"Kinetic Analysis of Xylose Production from Palm Pressed Fiber by Sulfuric Acid","authors":"Wiboon Riansa-ngawong, Maneewan Suwansa-ard, P. Prasertsan","doi":"10.14416/J.IJAST.2014.12.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14416/J.IJAST.2014.12.001","url":null,"abstract":"Palm pressed fiber (PPF) is lignocellulosic materials containing xylose and glucose. These high sugars contained in PPF can be used as a substrate for ethanol production by microorganisms. The PPF was delignified using sodium hypochlorite as a pretreatment for sugars production. By using mathematic model, 30.6 g L -1 of xylose and 2.2 g L -1 of glucose was obtained under t he optimum condition of 5 % (v.v -1 ) H 2 SO 4 at 120 oC for 30 min. At this condition, acetic acid and furfural concentrations were produced at 7.2 g L -1 and 0.9 g L -1 , respectively. Kinetic parameters were also investigated in order to predict concentrations of xylose, glucose, acetic acid and furfural in the delignified PPF hydrolysate. Yield of xylose was 85.74% of the initial xylose content.","PeriodicalId":352801,"journal":{"name":"King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok International Journal of Applied Science and Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130994671","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":"Simulation of Die-swell Flow for Oldroyd-B Model with Feedback Semi-implicit Taylor Galerkin Finite Element Method","authors":"Nawalax Thongjub, V. Ngamaramvaranggul","doi":"10.14416/J.IJAST.2014.12.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14416/J.IJAST.2014.12.002","url":null,"abstract":"This work is focused on creeping die-swell flow for Oldroyd-B fluid in two-dimensional axisymmetric system. The governing equations are solved via a combination of semi-implicit Taylor-Galerkin/pressure-correction finite element method and feedback condition. Some extra techniques for local velocity gradient recovery scheme and streamline-upwind/Petrov-Galerkin method are employed to improve the stability of solutions. For each time step after velocity field is computed, the specific region of die swell jet is adjusted while finite triangle elements in this area are re-meshed. Finally, the benchmark of swelling ratio with other literatures and analytical theory is presented in positive direction.","PeriodicalId":352801,"journal":{"name":"King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok International Journal of Applied Science and Technology","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129862832","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":"Improving Security with Two-factor Authentication Using Image","authors":"Supakit Mahitthiburin, Sirapat Boonkrong","doi":"10.14416/J.IJAST.2014.11.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14416/J.IJAST.2014.11.003","url":null,"abstract":"Most of today’s authentication mechanisms only involve the use of username and password. This is known as one-factor authentication. Even though the method is the most commonly used, there have been problems with its security. This research, therefore, aims to design and develop a two-factor authentication that can improve the security of authentication mechanism. The proposed method contains an extra factor of authentication in image. Combining with the use of username and password, users are allowed to draw anything they want to make up another factor. This makes it different from other existing image authentication mechanisms which force users to choose pre-defined images. The proposed method was tested with thirty users to determine the most appriate security threshold. The performance of the system was evaluated, and the satisfactory survey was also taken.","PeriodicalId":352801,"journal":{"name":"King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok International Journal of Applied Science and Technology","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131760911","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}
Kunthaleeporn Kerddonfak, T. Srinophakun, Suthipong Laikitmongkol
{"title":"Dynamic Simulation and Start-up Scenario a Pilot Distillation Column for Separating C6-C8 Hydrocarbons","authors":"Kunthaleeporn Kerddonfak, T. Srinophakun, Suthipong Laikitmongkol","doi":"10.14416/J.IJAST.2014.11.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14416/J.IJAST.2014.11.002","url":null,"abstract":"A pilot distillation column was fabricated for multipurpose functions, such as separation testing compared with a real plant distillation column, and sample preparation for other projects. The packing efficiency of this column was developed by changing the packing material. Packing efficiency is normally an important key index, especially after a revamp. Aspen Dynamic was used to generate the best procedure for the start-up operation, covering three variables: the distillate rate, the reflux rate and the bottom rate. The start-up procedure according to these three parameters was divided into six scenarios. In addition, the effect of reflux rate and feed location was the operating conditions, including temperature profile of the column, benzene concentration in the overhead stream, and liquid levels in the reflux drum and sump. The test run data matched well, with 0.6 Murphree efficiency. The optimal procedure for the start-up operation was found to be a distillate rate – bottom rate – reflux rate scenario, which took just 9 h to reach a steady state.","PeriodicalId":352801,"journal":{"name":"King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok International Journal of Applied Science and Technology","volume":"143 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122021055","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}