Production of activated carbon coated polystyrene resins under hydrothermal conditions and their use for gold cyanide adsorption

Polystyrene beads were coated with activated carbon under hydrothermal conditions above the glass transition temperature of polystyrene. By precisely controlling the temperature between 140 and 145 °C under vigorous mixing conditions in the presence of an excess of activated carbon, the surface of polystyrene beads were made sufficiently tacky so that finely sized activated carbon particles adhered to their surfaces, producing polystyrene/activated carbon, PS-AC, beads. The usefulness of these beads, as an alternative to pure activated carbon particles, for adsorption of gold cyanide ions under industrial conditions, was also demonstrated experimentally.     

Robust Fault Tolerant Control Design for Nonlinear Systems not Satisfying Matching and Minimum Phase Conditions

International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems - This paper proposes an adaptive sliding mode fault tolerant control design for lipschitz nonlinear system subject to simultaneous actuator...     

Relationships Between Textural Modifications,Lipid and Protein Oxidation and Sensory Attributes of Refrigerated Turkey Meat Sausage Treated with Bacteriocin BacTN635

In this study, bacteriocin “BacTN635” was used to maintain quality and extend shelf life of refrigerated turkey meat sausage. Connections between lipid and protein oxidations and instrumentally textural changes using Bayesian networks during storage of turkey meat sausage were also studied. BacTN635 slowed down metmyoglobin and carbonyl group accumulation and delayed the disappearance of sulphydryl proteins (P < 0.05) in turkey meat sausage. This bacteriocin led to a decrease in primary and secondary lipid oxidation (P < 0.05) and enhanced texture characteristics of sausage by reducing hardness (P < 0.05) and controlling the elasticity lose during refrigeration. We have also investigated the correlations between protein and lipid oxidation and instrumentally measured the parameters of turkey meat sausage treated by BacTN635. The developed model, based on Bayesian network techniques, can automatically learn emerging models in data to explain protein and lipid oxidation and texture modification relationships. Equally, sensorial parameters were used for constructing regression models to predict overall acceptability. In conclusion, BacTN635 could be a promising tool for extending the safety and quality of refrigerated turkey meat sausage. This bacteriocin could be a strong candidate for future applications in a wide range of meat products.     

Susceptibility to corrosion damage of pipeline steels under coating disbondments

This study provides an experimental investigation on the corrosion behaviour of three carbon steels used for pipeline application. The susceptibility of these materials to corrosion damage was analysed in order to simulate its service conditions particularly under disbonded coating. Monitoring of open‐circuit potential (E_free), polarization resistance (R_p) and measuring of the weight loss during immersion time were used to evaluate the corrosion behaviour of the studied materials. All the corrosion experiments were performed in two aqueous solutions: natural seawater and synthetic one (3 wt% NaCl solution). The morphology of the corrosion products was examined by optical microscopy. The results obtained from electrochemical tests have shown different behaviour for the studied steels into the retained corrosive environments: more stable potentials (E_free), higher R_p‐values with large fluctuations evolution were found in natural seawater. The gravimetric measurements have also shown a continuous variation of the weight loss throughout the exposure period in the sodium chloride solution. However, it seemed that a passive behaviour was observed in natural seawater. A little difference was observed between all the studied steels in terms of corrosion kinetics. The steel, having the little ferritic grain size, seems to be more resistant to corrosion damage. Qualitatively, a porous and non‐adherent oxide film was observed on the corroded surface in the synthetic solution; while, the rust layer, which is formed in the natural seawater, has acted as a barrier of corrosion process. Finally, all the results obtained from both electrochemical tests and weight loss measurements were in reasonably good accordance. The important common point that can be concluded was that all the tested materials seem to be more suitable for natural seawater than 3 wt% NaCl solution. Also, they are not recommendable to be used in an environment where chloride attack is possible and important.     

Treatment of olive-pomace oil refinery wastewater using combined coagulation-electroflotation process

Electroflotation is an aeration process which can be used to treat effectively industrial effluents. In the present work, a combined version of the electroflotation process with the coagulation operation was conceived to treat the olive pomace oil refinery wastewater. Batch and continuous mode of treatment was done in order to optimize the main operating parameters affecting the suspended solids elimination. In batch mode, the methodology of experimental research was adopted with these operating parameters: current density, pH and coagulant concentration. Then, the continuous mode aimed to optimize the residence time. As a main finding, the suspended solid removal efficiency and chemical oxygen demand abatement efficiency exceeded 92%.     

Deep network in network

Neural Computing and Applications - The different CNN models use many layers that typically include a stack of linear convolution layers combined with pooling and normalization layers to extract...