Suspension polymerization process is commonly used to produce expandable polystyrene. In the conventional method for producing this polymer, two different initiators are added to the process at two different temperature levels. In the industrial scale, this process is time consuming and difficult to control. A new method (Multi-Stage Initiator Dosing, MID) is proposed, in which, the initiator i...

This study investigated whether loads for assistance exercises of the upper body can be predicted from the loads of the bench press exercise. Twenty-nine physically active collegiate students (age: 22.6 ± 2.5; weight training experience: 2.9 ± 2.1 years; estimated 1RM bench press: 54.31 ± 14.60 kg; 1RM: body weight ratio: 0.80 ± 0.22; BMI: 22.7 ± 2.1 kg·m(-2)) were recruited. The 6RM loads for ...

a bench scale aerobic sequencing batch reactor (sbr) was evaluated in terms of its potential to treat synthetic dairy wastewater. the 2-l plexiglass bioreactor was supplied with oxygen via a fine bubble air diffuser, fed with synthetic dairy wastewater under various operational conditions. to analyze the process, three significant independent variables — influent chemical oxygen demand (cod), m...

background this study demonstrates the removal efficiency of phenol from aqueous solutions by electrocoagulation process using aluminum electrodes and also investigates solution chemistry and polymeric natural organic matters on removal efficiency objectives: the main aim of this work was to focus on the removal of phenol by electrocoagulation process using aluminum electrodes. materials and me...

ethylene bis-stearamide is one of the important acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene ()abs)( polymer additives, which is used as lubricant, slip agent and mold release agent. in this research, ethylene bis-stearamide for abs application was synthesized using stearic acid and ethylene diamine under reflux condition. refluxing prevented ethylenediamine from evaporation and thus the initial molar ratio...

Project Description The EERC is performing fundamental research to understand mechanisms responsible for conversion of mercury to other chemical species within combustion and gasification flue gas. This research is imperative for development and validation of improved mercury emission measurement, monitoring, and control. Several tasks are devoted to understanding mercury transformations. Unbur...

This paper aims to demystify the performance of SystemVerilog and UVM testbenches when using an emulator for the purpose of hardware-assisted testbench acceleration. Architectural and modeling requirements are described, followed by a recommended systematic approach for maximizing overall testbench acceleration speed-up and achieving your ultimate performance expectations.

This work proposes a validation methodology to siliconprove a set of logic cells generated by software. It also presents an approach for the automatic design of testbenches to validate the cells in the set.

Collusion is covert co-operation between participants of a game. It poses serious technical, game design, and communal problems to multiplayer games that do not allow the players to share knowledge or resources with other players. In this paper, we review different types of collusion and introduce two measures for collusion detection. We also propose a model and a simple game, implemented in a ...