Biomass derived fuels are preferred as alternative Fuels for IC engine due to its abundant availability and renewable nature. In the present work, the performance and emissions of diesel and diesel additive blended with palm kernel oil is studied, where the fuel, namely, methyl ester of palm kernel oil and diesel with additive were chosen and used as fuel in the form of blends. Various proporti...

Crude oil blending is an important unit operation in petroleum re…ning industry. A good model for the blending system is bene…cial for supervision operation, prediction of the export petroleum quality and realizing model-based optimal control. Since the blending cannot follow the ideal mixing rule in practice, we propose a static neural network to approximate the blending properties. By input-t...

Drying temperature and time effect on oil quality parameters of both seed and kernel from a sunflower hybrid of potential high oil content was evaluated. Drying tests were carried through two treatments of thin layer drying, consisting the first in getting the equilibrium moisture content and the second a safe storage moisture value, both in a range of temperatures from 25 °C to 90 °C. Prolonge...

The first step in walnut breeding programs is to identify and evaluate superior genotypes of fruit trees. Hence, there are various walnut breeding programs in various areas of Iran. A study aimed to evaluate the morphological and chemical characteristics of selected superior genotypes of walnut was conducted in the Shahroud region in 2011-2012.  The following genotypes were selected in this stu...

An overview from the perspective of one manufacturer is provided on products that utilise either palm oil or palm kernel oil. The manufacturer is Macphie of Glenbervie while the products are of a wide-ranging nature for use in bakery, food service and food-manufacturing. Much of the discussion concerns cream alternatives on the grounds that this product-category places great demand on the type ...

We review the recently proposed method of Relevance Vector Machines which is a supervised training method related to Support Vector Machines. We also review the statistical technique of Canonical Correlation Analysis and its implementation in a Feature Space. We show how the technique of Relevance Vectors may be applied to the method of Kernel Canonical Correlation Analysis to gain a very spars...

Real-time computing on parallel machines has not received much attention, although many real-time applications can bene t from high performance computing. The RealTime Parallel Benchmark Suite (RTPBS) is designed to help evaluate the suitability of parallel machines for real-time computations. The suite contains application level, kernel level, and low level benchmarks. The purpose of this pape...