This paper investigates the influence of material properties on the performance of an optical fiber wound mandrel composite fiber optic interferometer mandrel by using the ANSYS Cad tool, The acoustic sensitivity of an optical fiber considered analytically, High sensitivity obtained with low young modulus, very thick polymer coatings. The thick coating realized by embedding optical fiber in pol...

Cordyceps militaris 202 is a potential fungus for biotransformation zein, due to its various proteases, high tolerance and viability in nature. In this article, single factor experiment and response surface methodology were applied to optimize the liquid fermentation conditions and improve the ability of biotransformation zein. The optimized fermentation conditions were as follows: inoculum con...

Introduction Microcellular foams with cell sizes less than 10 μm and cell densities larger than 10cells/cm [1] are gaining commercial importance as lightweight structural materials. The idea of introducing small bubbles in solid polymers was first proposed by Num P. Suh [2] in 1890s and the rationale was that if the bubbles are even smaller than the critical flaws in the polymer matrix and can ...

Foamed alumina was previously synthesised by direct foaming of sulphate salt blends varying ammonium mole fraction (AMF), foaming heating rate and sintering temperature. The optimal product was produced with 0.33AMF, foaming at 100 °C/h and sintering at 1600 °C. This product attained high porosity of 94.39%, large average pore size of 300 µm and the highest compressive strength of 384 kPa. To i...

The primary degradation of a linear alcohol ethoxylate (AE) and a branched nonylphenol ethoxylate (NPE) was investigated in bench-scale activated sludge units treating a synthetic sewage feed. Biotreaters were gradually adapted to 10-100 mg/J surfactant and effluents monitored for loss of nonionic ethoxylate, foaming, feed BOD removal, nitrification and biosolids growth. Both surfactants were d...

Broken rice is an underutilized by-product of milling. Proteins prepared from broken rice by treatments with alkaline protease and papain have been characterized with regard to nutritional and functional properties. The protein content and the protein recovery were 56.45 and 75.45 % for alkaline protease treatment, and 65.45 and 46.32 % for papain treatment, respectively. Protease treatment inc...

Aluminum foam is usually used as the core of composite materials by combining it with dense materials, such as in Al foam core sandwich panels and Al-foam-filled tubes, owing to its low tensile and bending strengths. In this study, all-Al foam-filled tubes consisting of ADC12 Al-Si-Cu die-cast aluminum alloy foam and a dense A1050 commercially pure Al tube with metal bonding were fabricated by ...

(1) A more convenient method for maintaining constant turbidity in the culture cell is described. (2) An improved culture cell and cell wipers which do not cause foaming are described.

Foaming and spill-out from the drive end of the rotating stainless steel cylinder oxygenator has been a serious problem, but sure remedies for both defects have been discovered. Oxygenation has always been 85 to 100% even with flow rates over 6 litres/minute. The machine was passed as safe for clinical use after test runs had been made on dogs in 1959, at which time the cause of oxygenator fail...

Many materials require functionally graded cellular microstructures whose porosity is engineered to meet specific requirements of diverse applications (e.g. polymers and/or ceramics that mimic biological material such as soft tissue and bone). It has been shown in previous work that the bubble growth rate of a polymeric foam can be influenced by the surrounding acoustic environment and, once so...