for all industrial processes, modelling, optimisation and control are the keys to enhance productivity and ensure product quality. in the current study, the optimization of process parameters for improving the conversion of isoeugenol to vanillin by psychrobacter sp. csw4 was investigated by means of taguchi approach and box-behnken statistical design under resting cell conditions. taguchi desi...

background: car wash wastewater contains several contaminants such as organic matter, oil, grease, detergents and phosphates, all of which are harmful for the environment. in this study, the application of electrocoagulation (ec) to treat car wash wastewater has been studied, and the operating parameters optimized. the electro-fenton (ef) for further contaminant removal was also investigated. m...

efforts to improve the quality of bakery products are increasing every day. several techniques were developed for this purpose. in this study the possibility of betterment and optimization of quality properties of dough and barbari bread with emphasis on process variables using rotatable response surface methodology were investigated. the independent process variables for baking process were do...

background and objectives: lactobacillus delbrueckii ssp bulgaricus is widely used in dairy industries as a starter for yogurt production. this study was designed using response surface methodology (rsm) in 12 batch ph-controlled cultures of lactobacillus delbrueckii sub-ssp. bulgaricus for determining the effect of temperature and ph on the biomass production of a native strain of l. bulgaricu...

Bone drilling process is the most prominent process in orthopedically surgeries and curing bone breakages. It is also very common in dentistry and bone sampling operations. Due to complexity of the material that is machined, bone, and the sensitivity of the process, bone drilling is one of the most important, common and sensitive processes in biomedical engineering field. The most critical prob...

The aim of this study, is to use finite element simulation to achieve the optimal geometry of a broaching tool that creates the lowest tensile stress at the machined surface of the Ti6Al4V alloy. It plays a major role in reducing production costs and improves the surface integrity of the machined parts. The type and amount of residual stress determined by the thermal and mechanical loads transm...

Potassium chloride (KCl) is a highly water soluble substance which is usually used to prevent hypokalemia. Oil in water disperse phase encapsulation method was used to prepare KCl loaded microcapsules using beeswax and carnauba wax as a hydrophobic matrix. The morphology and characteristics of KCl loaded microspheres were studied using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), photon correlation spec...

Finite element (FE) models are widely used to predict the dynamic characteristics of aerospace structures. These models often give results that differ from the measured results and therefore need to be updated to match the measured data. FE model updating entails tuning the model so that it can better reflect the measured data from the physical structure being modeled 1. One fundamental charact...

This study aims to extract Glycyrrhizic Acid (GA) from Glycyrrhiza glabra L. (licorice) using a novel, high efficiency, and low-cost extraction method. Water was chosen as the proper solvent for the extraction process to eliminate the requirement of harmful and toxic solvents, prepare an environmentally friendly process, and reduce the costs. The effect of differe...

A Response Surface (RS) strategy is presented for the evaluation of the response statistics of dynamic systems subjected to stochastic excitation. The proposed approach adopts a strategy based on the High Dimensional Model Representation (HDMR), which gives a Gaussian Model (GM) of the response. The GM requires only a reduced number of analyses which can be adopted for all the degrees of freedo...