Acoustic emission method has a major application in the detection of the oil storage tank damage. Therefore, classification of acoustic emission signals has great significance. A classification method based on support vector machines is proposed for its good generalization performance and less training data. Based on cross validation method, the genetic algorithm is compared with the grid searc...

Most solar cookers usually perform a single task of solely cooking food during sunshine hours. Solar coupled with thermal energy storage (TES) material for off-sunshine are expensive and require complex engineering designs, cannot be used dual purposes, example, water heating cooking. In this paper, cooker that can tasks as well storing to periods is presented. The experimental setup composed p...

In this article a new method is introduced for the automatic estimation of all relevant parameters oil storage tanks using single high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image. For given tank, will estimate its maximum capacity and determine whether it has fixed or floating roof. with roof, amount stored also be estimated. If SAR time series available images can processed jointly, exploi...

Sloshing refers to a certain kind of fluid movement that changes as it progresses. It possesses properties are both nonlinear and exceedingly unpredictable, these affect the tank wall. This effect may lead structural wear, which in turn can cause fail. Benzene gasoil liquids used test sloshing liquid accompanying pressure on wall caused by baffles partially full tanks. To attain this, modeling ...

96 Abstract: A technique is described and demonstrated for generating high-resolution 3-D images of the objects on the seabed, combining synthetic aperture sonar with bathymetric (interferometric) processing. This has applications in surveying of oil wells, pipelines and shipwrecks, and in defence in mine hunting. It is shown that the technique is very sensitive to platform motion errors, and w...

Western Research Institute is developing a new pyrolysis process called ROPE© (Recycle Oil Pyrolysis and Extraction) for recovering products from tar sands that require a minimum of upgrading to produce finished, marketable fuels or that can be used as a diluent to decrease the pour point of bitumen for transportation. The concept consists of two pyrolysis steps: (1) retorting tar sand at a low...

In a 1989 study, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) determined that organophosphate pesticides used in orchard dormant spraying were being deposited on non-target row crops grown at distances less than and greater than 0.4 km from the site of pesticide application. The residues found on non-targeted crops may have been the result of drift during pesticide application or tr...