Quaternary ammonium compounds, effective as sanitizing agents for food plant equipment under certain conditions, are not well suited as sanitizers for water of high mineral content. Mueller and Seeley (1951) have demonstrated under controlled conditions that various metallic cations can decrease the germicidal action of a quaternary in solution. Knowledge of how such interference takes place co...

Received Sep 2, 2016 Revised Aug 2, 2017 Accepted Aug 30, 2017 For decades, petroleum-based mineral oils are the insulating media conventionally used in the industry, particularly for high voltage (HV) applications. However, due to the disadvantages of mineral oils, there is growing interest in replacing these oils with environmentally friendly alternatives in order to fulfill the demanding req...

In this work, an overview of industrial employees' noise exposure level in five selected processing and manufacturing industries in Ilorin are evaluated and compared. Emphasis is given to noise emitted by individual industrial machinery from the selected industries. Event L(Aeq) and LN cycle were studied to identify the noisy machines and to generate baseline data. Findings show that, hammer mi...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate, in vitro, the shear bond strength presented by three brands of polycrystalline ceramic brackets and one brand of metallic bracket; verify the adhesive remnant index (ARI) after the tests, and analyze, through scanning electron microscopy (SEM) the enamel surface topography after debonding, detecting the release of mineral particles. METHODS Sixty bovine lower incisors w...

background: sun protection materials have been one of the major concerns in pharmaceutical industry since almost one century ago. various materials have been found to have such an effect but there are still many unknown substances that have not been discovered. objective: to introduce a novel mineral-based sun lotion with considerable uv absorption properties compared to commercially available ...

In today’s practice, mechanical surface treatments have been widely applied particularly in the automotive and aerospace industries. It was realized that the failure due to fatigue depends on many factors, and very often it develops from particular surface areas of engineering parts. So, it seems possible to improve the fatigue strength of metallic components by the application of suitable mech...

This study's aim is to evaluate the technical efficiency of Bangladesh's manufacturing industry. We utilized DEA analysis with selected three distinct models: CCR, BCC, and slack-based model. In this study, number firms, labour, salary/wages, industrial non-industrial cost are considered as inputs variables, gross output value set variable. Our found that Common efficient industries Manufacture...

The difference in the standard Gibbs free energy for the formation of any two oxides or sulfides is the chemical potential for selective reduction of metals from complex minerals. The magnitude of the Gibbs free energy difference is shown by plotting the univariant relationships for relevant sulfides and oxides. In this investigation, three examples of mineral sulfides are considered, and the e...