Defective cables in the electric power systems of nuclear power plants can cause failure of essential components in control and instrumentation or power distribution subsystems, resulting in potential safety concerns. Due to this problem, a nondestructive and non-intrusive condition assessment technique is highly desirable to evaluate cable status and to predict the remaining useful life of a c...

Process hygiene plays a major role in the production of high quality beer. Knowledge of microorganisms found in the brewery environment and the control of microbial fouling are both essential in the prevention of microbial spoilage of beer. The present study examined the growth of surface-attached beer spoilage organisms and the detection and elimination of microbial biofilms. Moreover, the det...

To develop a matched sealing material for socket rehabilitation of grey cast iron pipes, an epoxy resin is modified by the addition of different components to improve the flexibility. Three different modifications are made by adding ethylene-propylene diene monomer (EPDM) rubber powder, reactive liquid polymer (ATBN) and epoxidized modifier. In this paper the effect of the modification method a...

Magnetorheological elastomers (MREs) are mainly composed of magnetizable particles and elastic polymer. The polymer matrix plays an important role in mechanical performances of MREs. In this study, the polyurethane (PU), which is synthesized by using toluene diisocyanate (TDI) and poly (propylene glycol) (PPG-220), is selected as a matrix because it has better degradation stability than natural...

Diels-Alder chemistry has been used for the thermoreversible cross-linking of furan-functionalized ethylene/propylene (EPM) and ethylene/vinyl acetate (EVM) rubbers. Both furan-functionalized elastomers were successfully cross-linked with bismaleimide to yield products with a similar cross-link density. NMR relaxometry and SAXS measurements both show that the apolar EPM-g-furan precursor contai...

Impact polypropylene (PP) copolymers (IPCs) are important materials for many commercial applications. These usually synthetized through different methods involving two consecutive reactions in the same phase or phases. Here, a laboratory-scale synthesis method based on sequential liquid- and gas-phase two-step process single reactor is developed. Propylene homopolymers IPCs were synthesized wit...

in this research we used heavy propylene tetramer (hpt) and a1c13 —bf3 (lewis acids) ascatalyst and ethanol, n-propanol and n-butanol as co-catalyst. using lewis acids as catalyst, thehpts form molecules with higher molecular weight. since the raw materials of the reaction are byproducts of other reactions, are not pure and contain various compounds with different m.w andalso different chemical...