Improvement of oxidative stability of soybean oil by blending with a more stable oil was investigated. Autoxidation of blends and interesterified blends (9:1, 8:2, 7:3 and 1:1, w/w) of soybean oil and palm olein was studied with respect to fatty acid composition, fatty acid location and triacylglycerol composition. Rates of formation of triacylglycerol hydroperoxides, peroxide value and volatil...

Faculty of Computer Science by Kai Wang Pengbo Li Panoramic image stitching is an active research topic and lots of methods was developed to achieve a nice stitched panorama under different limitation of raw pictures. For example, pictures need to be aligned properly, pictures need to has same exposure level, or pictures need to be horizontal or vertical in space. In this project, we followed t...

*Correspondence: Cherng-Yuan Lin, Department of Marine Engineering, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung 202, Taiwan e-mail: [email protected] Biodiesel is a renewable, clean, alternative energy source with advantages, such as excellent lubricity, superior biodegradability, and high combustion efficiency. Biodiesel is considered for mixing with fishing boat fuels to adjust their fuel cha...

The problem of how to plan coal fuel blending and distribution from overseas coal sources to domestic power plants through some possible seaports by certain types of fleet in order to meet operational and environmental requirements is a complex task. The aspects under consideration includes each coal source contract’s supply, quality and price, each power plant’s demand, environmental requirem...

PURPOSE To investigate the optimal blending percentage of adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction (ASIR) in a reduced radiation dose while preserving a degree of image quality and texture that is similar to that of standard-dose computed tomography (CT). MATERIALS AND METHODS The CT performance phantom was scanned with standard and dose reduction protocols including reduced mAs or kVp. ...

Conceptual projection from one mental space to another always involves projection to "middle" spaces—abstract "generic" middle spaces or richer "blended" middle spaces. Projection to a middle space is a general cognitive process, operating uniformly at different levels of abstraction and under superficially divergent contextual circumstances. Middle spaces are indispensable sites for central me...

While continuous powder mixing has been an area of active research in recent years, effects of operating conditions on the mixing performance has not been well understood yet. Based on our previously developed periodic section modeling (Gao et al., 2012), this paper examines the effects of operating conditions on two significant parameters of the continuous blending processes: axial velocity an...