Analytical method to detect adulteration of ground roasted coffee

In this work, an HPLC-based detection method for identification of coffee powder adulterated with roasted barley, wheat and rice powders was developed by using various chemical indices such as monosaccharides (mannose, rhamnose, glucose, galactose, xylose and arabinose), trigonelline and nicotinic acid. As a quality assurance, the recovery efficiencies were 84.1%–90.2% for the monosaccharides, 113.6% for trigonelline and 114.9% for nicotinic acid. The limits of detection were 0.047–0.070 mmol kg⁻¹ for the monosaccharides, 0.209 mg kg⁻¹ for trigonelline and 0.117 mg kg⁻¹ for nicotinic acid. The glucose concentration in coffee samples adulterated with roasted barley, wheat and rice at 99:1 (w/w) mixing ratio was significantly different from the control coffee sample. The limit of discrimination from adulterated coffee samples was 1% (w/w) when glucose was used as a chemical index (P < 0.05).     

Mixed convective heat transfer enhancement in a ventilated cavity by flow modulation via rotating plate

The present study numerically explores the mixed convection phenomena in a differentially heated ventilated square cavity with active flow modulation via a rotating plate. Forced convection flow in the cavity is attained by maintaining external fluid flow through an opening at the bottom of the left cavity wall while leaving it through another opening at the right cavity wall. A counter-clockwise rotating plate at the center of the cavity acts as an active flow modulator. Moving mesh approach is used for the rotation of the plate and the numerical solution is achieved using arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian finite element formulation with a quadrilateral discretization scheme. Transient parametric simulations have been performed for various frequency of the rotating plate for a fixed Reynolds number (Re) of 100 based on maximum inlet flow velocity while the Richardson number (Ri) is maintained at unity. Heat transfer performance has been evaluated in terms of spatially averaged Nusselt number and time-averaged Nusselt number along the heated wall. Power spectrum analysis in the frequency domain obtained from the fast Fourier transform analysis indicates that thermal frequency and plate frequency start to deviate from each other at higher values of velocity ratio (>4).     

APuML: An Efficient Approach to Detect Mobile Phishing Webpages using Machine Learning

Wireless Personal Communications - The recent trend in wireless technology has been tremadously increased the demand of higher frequency bands from every corners of the mobile technology. As next...     

A Comprehensive Survey of Emergency Communication Network and Management

Wireless Personal Communications - The performance of wireless communication network is important in emergency rescue operations while ensuring optimum usage of limited wireless resources. Due to...     

Investigation of thermal performance of SAC variables using fuzzy logic based expert system

The thermal performance of a solar air collector (SAC) is investigated experimentally under the different climatic conditions of north eastern India using fuzzy logic based expert system (FLES). The FLES based on subtractive clustering (SC) with the fuzzy logic method where here, SC is used for extraction of optimal fuzzy IF-THEN rules while a fuzzy logic is used for modeling of SAC variables. This work considered four input variables [like mass flow rate (m), collector tilt angles (θ), solar radiation (Q), temperature (T)] and the four output variables [i.e. efficiency (η), exergetic efficiency (η_II), temperature rise (∆T), and pressure drop (∆P)]. First, 272 trials of experimentation on SAC are performed by varying m from 0.0078 to 0.0118 kg/s and θ from 30 to 60°, whereas the variation of metrological data is obtained in different working days. Then modeling and parametric analysis is carried out for SAC. Experimental results reveal that the value of η increases with the increase in m, Q, T and θ up to 45°. The higher value of m results in a higher value of ∆P and that reduces the value of η_II. Also, FLES model provides comparable and acceptable values for SAC. At last, validation of the FLES model is done via published data to confirm the results.

     

Evaluation of Multipoint Dosing Strategy in a Miniaturized Tubular Reactor: Nitration of Salicylic Acid

A 2D non‐isothermal reaction engineering model for a tubular reactor was developed for a complex reaction network of salicylic acid nitration. The influence of different operating and design parameters was studied to minimize the amount of secondary nitration products and limit the maximum temperature inside the reactor. Critical temperature effects were observed for larger reaction tubes, whereas close to isothermal conditions were perceived in smaller tubes. With single‐point dosing of both reactants, complete conversion can be achieved but formation of secondary nitration products cannot be avoided. For a given number of dosing points, a suitable combination of the operating parameters allowed to achieve complete conversion and better yield of the desired product.     

Hydrodynamic dispersion of reactive solute in a Hagen-Poiseuille flow of a layered liquid

An analysis of the solute dispersion in the liquid flowing through a pipe by means of Aris-Barton's ⒈method of moments',under the joint effect of some finite yield stress and irreversible absorption into the wall is presented in this paper.The liquid is considered as a three-layer liquid where the center region is Casson liquid surrounded by Newtonian liquid layer.A significant change from previous modelling exercises in the study of hydrodynamic dispersion,different molecular diffusivity has been considered for the different region yet to be constant.For all time period,finite difference implicit scheme has been adopted to solve the integral moment equation arising from the unsteady convective diffusion equation.The purpose of the study is to find the dependency of solute transport coefficients on absorption parameter,yield stress,viscosity ratio,peripheral layer variation and in addition with various diffusivity coefficients in different liquid layers.This kind of study may be useful for understanding the dispersion process in the blood flow analysis.