A wind-powered reverse osmosis membrane (wind-membrane) system without energy storage was tested using synthetic brackish water (2750 and 5500 mg/L NaCl) over a range of simulated wind speeds under both steady-state and fluctuating conditions. The parameters varied were: i) average wind speed from 3.7 (system start-up) to 8.7 m/s; ii) wind turbulence intensity from 0.0 (steady-state conditions)...

In this paper, based on feedback linearization control method and using a special PI (propotational integrator) regulator (IP) in combination with a feed-forward controller, a three-phase induction servo-drive is speed controlled. First, an observer is employed to estimate the rotor d and q axis flux components. Then, two input-output state variables are introduced to control the dynamics of to...

manufacturing of an optical lenses demand a specialized technology and thus needs sophisticated precision manufacturing process. pmma is one of the most used optical polymer for manufacturing of optical lenses, the shaping of which into the required precision and accuracy is a challenging task. the focus of the present paper is to understand the effect of machining parameters on the surface cha...

Conventional drilling has been widely used for making holes in structural materials. However, drawbacks like high cutting forces, poor surface finish, temperatures, excessive tool wear, and undesirable burr formation while magnesium alloys have necessitated the development of alternative hole-making methods. Lately, helical milling process attracted interest facilitating assembly applications. ...

In the pharmaceutical industry, tablets are a common dosage form. As part of manufacturing process, powder in tablet press passes through feeding system called feed-frame before reaching die cavity. Under different conditions (e.g., paddle speed, turret speed), issues such as segregation blend components, over lubrication, and drug particle attrition often occur feed-frame, which affect final p...

Monitoring and observation of moving vehicles is beneficial for the analysis of traffic flow and cognition of other events. For identifying motion from the video feed, the system applies adaptive background subtraction using the OpenCV library for obtaining the threshold images containing blobs which represent moving vehicles. Applying certain operations on the blobs, the speed, class and numbe...

In the present paper, roughness, force and vibration signals from ball-end milling processes are analysed. From the roughness signal actual feed value was obtained as expected. From the force and vibration signals both the frequencies of harmonics corresponding to rotation speed of the tool and impacts of teeth were detected.