the effects of operating parameters such as feed temperature and permeate-side pressure on the performance of a commercial pva membrane in the dehydration of toluene by a pervaporation (pv) membrane system is studied in the present work. the results obtained indicate that increasing temperature in the range of 40 to 70 °c and reducing permeate pressure in the range of 1 to 10 mmhg increase memb...

among the different classes of physical properties of foods, color is considered the most important visual attribute in quality perception. consumers tend to associate color with quality due to its good correlation with physical, chemical and sensorial evaluations of food quality. this study used an inexpensive method to predict sweet cherries color parameters by combining image processing and ...

As basic parameters in speech processing we regard pitch, duration, intensity, voice quality, signal to noise ratio, voice activity detection and strength of Lombard effect. Taking in account also adverse conditions the performance of many published algorithms to extract those parameters from the speech signal automatically is not known. A framework based on competitive evaluation is proposed t...

open-celled foams are capable to allow the passage of fluids through their structure, because of interconnections between the open cells or bubbles and therefore these structures can be used as a membrane and filter. in thiswork, we have studied the production of polystyrene open-celled microcellular foam by using co2 as blowing agent. to achieve such structures, it is necessary to control the ...

ground penetrating radar (gpr) is one of high resolution geophysical methods for locating missed objects, buried equipments. gpr is a nondestructive testing method that is useful in various kinds of explorations such as mapping the archaeological sites. the safety of the archaeological sites is one of the most concerns of the archaeologists. one of the best gpr applications is in archaeology as...