2,051 research outputs found
Landfill leachate treatment by combination of electro - fenton and sequencing batch reactor method
Landfill leachate contains a large amount of organic, inorganic and heavy metal contents. Untreated leachate is a potential source to effect of soil, surface and groundwater. The combined treatment offers an alternative technique in dealing to leachate treatment. This research is to determine the effectiveness of combined electro-Fenton and sequencing batch reactor (SBR) method on the removal of SS, colour, COD and NH3-N. The experimental involved three major parts were coagulation-flocculation, electro-Fenton and SBR method. This process could be operated independently in a batch mode and optimum conditions for each treatment were identified. In the combined process, leachate was first fed to coagulation-flocculation for pre-treatment. Then, the effluent from that process was oxidized in electro-Fenton process. The final process is the effluent of leachate was fed to a SBR method. The combined treatment was operated under the optimum conditions for all the processes. The result of coagulation-flocculation shown PAC is more effective at 2500 mg/L of optimum dosage. After coagulation-flocculation process, the removal of SS, colour, COD and NH3-N were 80%, 77%, 61% and 35% respectively. The result of electro-Fenton shown Al-Al is more effective at 200 A/m2 of optimum current density, 25 minutes of optimum reaction time, 4 of optimum pH, 800 mg/L of optimum H2O2 dosage and 1000 mg/L of optimum FeSO4•7H2O dosage. After electro-Fenton process, the removal of SS, colour, COD and NH3-N were 87%, 95%, 82% and 65% respectively. The final process of SBR effluent was approaching neutral pH at 6.90 at 2800 mg/L of optimum MLSS and 6 h of optimum reaction time. The overall performance of combined treatment on the removal of SS, colour, COD and NH3-N were 84%, 82%, 87% and 78% respectively. Thus, this combined treatment offers as an alternative technique for landfill leachate treatment on the removal of pollutants
Adaptive spatial mode of space-time and spacefrequency OFDM system over fading channels
In this paper we present a 2 transmit 1 receive (1 Tx : 1 Rx) adaptive spatial
mode (ASM) of space-time (ST) and space-frequency (SF) orthogonal frequency division
multiplexing (OFDM). At low signal to noise ratio (SNR) we employ ST-OFDM and switch
to SF-OFDM at a certain SNR threshold. We determine this threshold from the intersection
of individual performance curves. Results show a gain of 9 dB (at a bit error rate of 10-3) is
achieved by employing adaptive spatial mode compared to a fixed ST-OFDM, almost 6 dB
to fixed SF-OFDM, 4 dB to Coded ST-OFDM and 2 dB to a fixed coded SF-OFDM, at a
delay spread of 700 ns
Quantitative infrared thermography resolved leakage current problem in cathodic protection system
Leakage current problem can happen in Cathodic Protection
(CP) system installation. It could affect the performance of
underground facilities such as piping, building structure, and
earthing system. Worse can happen is rapid corrosion where
disturbance to plant operation plus expensive maintenance
cost. Occasionally, if it seems, tracing its root cause could be
tedious. The traditional method called line current
measurement is still valid effective. It involves isolating one
by one of the affected underground structures. The recent
methods are Close Interval Potential Survey and Pipeline
Current Mapper were better and faster. On top of the
mentioned method, there is a need to enhance further by
synthesizing with the latest visual methods. Therefore, this
paper describes research works on Infrared Thermography
Quantitative (IRTQ) method as resolution of leakage current
problem in CP system. The scope of study merely focuses on
tracing the root cause of leakage current occurring at the CP
system lube base oil plant. The results of experiment
adherence to the hypothesis drawn. Consequently, res
Forecasting wind speed data by using a combination of ARIMA model with single exponential smoothing
Wind serves as natural resources as the solution to minimize global warming and has been commonly used to produce electricity. Because of their uncontrollable wind characteristics, wind speed forecasting is considered one of the best challenges in developing power generation. The Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA), Simple Exponential Smoothing (SES) and a hybrid model combination of ARIMA and SES will be used in this study to predict the wind speed. The mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) and the root mean square error (RMSE) are used as measurement of efficiency. The hybrid model provides a positive outcome for predicting wind speed compare to the single model of ARIMA and SES
Distribution of tetrodotoxin among tissues of pufferfish from Sabah and Sarawak waters
Puffer fish, mainly from Tetraodontidae family known to possess a neurotoxin or tetrodotoxin (TTX) which can cause a puffer fish poisoning and adverse effect to human health. In current study, the tetrodotoxin (TTX) concentration in different tissues (liver, skin, muscle) of 14 species of puffer fish from Sabah and Sarawak waters were analysed and determined by application of liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). Overall, extracted toxin for all specimens were shown to be toxic with result more than 0.2 μg/g as calculated based on TTX standard curve. Among the tissues, liver were found to be highest in TTX concentration (91.0 μg/g), followed by muscle (51.1 μg/g) and skin (6.87 μg/g). Moreover, TTX concentrations among puffer fish species were significantly differences (p<0.05) with Arothron immaculatus (275 μg/g) showed highest mean value, while the lowest value was detected in Lagocephalus lunaris (4.92 μg/g). From this finding, LC-MS/MS application could be a potential tools to determine the TTX and advisedly used as a procedure in screening of seafood for monitoring program. Furthermore, baseline data of TTX levels in selected puffer fish from the study could be important information and used as guideline in order to mitigate puffer fish poisoning cases especially in East Malaysia waters
Observasi Peresapan Antibiotik Untuk Pasien Rawat Inap Di Rumah Sakit Swasta Selangor, Malaysia, Periode Oktober Sampai Desember 2004
OBSERVASI PERESAPAN ANTIBIOTIK UNTUK PASIEN RAWAT INAP DI RUMAH SAKIT SWASTA SELANGOR, MALAYSIA, PERIODE OKTOBER SAMPAI DESEMBER 200
Critical gap analysis of merging sections at Kuala Lumpur middle ring road
At merging sections, drivers normally slow down and sometimes need to stop while seeking a suitable gap before merging with the mainstream. Thus, there will always be several observed rejected gaps and an accepted gap which can be used to determine the smallest average gap, so-called critical gap. This study was carried out to determine critical gap values at selected merging sections at the Jalan Tun Razak and the DUKE Expressway uses the Maximum Likelihood method. Data were collected by using videotaping method and the gap acceptance data were extracted for analysis. A gap acceptance event at highway merging sections in this study was redefined due to unavailability of stopping vehicles at the ramp junction. Therefore, the gap data were estimated starting from a ramp’s vehicle passing the end of gore marking to where it merges with the mainstream. The analysis of the critical gap takes into consideration accepted gaps greater than 5 seconds to avoid forced entry due to lead impedance of successive vehicles on mainstream. The critical gap values obtained in this study, according to vehicle classification were ranged between 4.5 to 5.0 seconds, which are slightly smaller if compared to critical gap values for particularly left turn from minor movement at priority junction of the Arahan Teknik (Jalan) 11/87 and the United States Highway Capacity Manual 2000. The findings shall help to study driving behavior of local drivers, especially at priority control facilities such as merging sections
Energy-Efficient Low-Complexity Algorithm in 5G Massive MIMO Systems
Energy efficiency (EE) is a critical design when taking into account
circuit power consumption (CPC) in fifth-generation cellular networks. These
problems arise because of the increasing number of antennas in massive
multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, attributable to inter-cell
interference for channel state information. Apart from that, a higher number
of radio frequency (RF) chains at the base station and active users consume
more power due to the processing activities in digital-to-analogue converters
and power amplifiers. Therefore, antenna selection, user selection, optimal
transmission power, and pilot reuse power are important aspects in improving
energy efficiency in massive MIMO systems. This work aims to investigate
joint antenna selection, optimal transmit power and joint user selection based
on deriving the closed-form of the maximal EE, with complete knowledge
of large-scale fading with maximum ratio transmission. It also accounts for
channel estimation and eliminating pilot contamination as antennasM→∞.
This formulates the optimization problem of joint optimal antenna selection,
transmits power allocation and joint user selection to mitigate inter-cellinterference
in downlink multi-cell massiveMIMO systems under minimized
reuse of pilot sequences based on a novel iterative low-complexity algorithm
(LCA) for Newton’s methods and Lagrange multipliers. To analyze the precise
power consumption, a novel power consumption scheme is proposed for
each individual antenna, based on the transmit power amplifier and CPC.
Simulation results demonstrate that the maximal EE was achieved using the
iterative LCA based on reasonable maximum transmit power, in the case the
noise power is less than the received power pilot. The maximum EE was
achieved with the desired maximum transmit power threshold by minimizing pilot reuse, in the case the transmit power allocation ρd = 40 dBm, and the
optimal EE=71.232 Mb/j
Penerapan Model Pembelajaran Inquiry Training Untuk Meningkatkan Hasil Belajar Fisika Pada Siswa Kelas X SMA N 4 Pekanbaru
The purpose of this study was to determine the increase in Physics Learning Outcomes class X SMA N 4 Pekanbaru using model Inquiry Training. The research was conducted of the month April 2017 to July 2017. The form of this study was Quasi Experimental Design with design Intact Group comparasion. The sample of research in class X1 and X2 with the number of students 38 and 37 students in SMA N 4 Pekanbaru. Where in class X2 as experiment class and class X1 as control class. The research instrument used is test result of cognitive learning. Data collection techniques are tests of cognitive learning outcomes. Data analysis techniques used are descriptive and inferential analysis.The results showed that the average score of the absorption of students with the application of training inquiry is 71.51% with the higher category, while the average absorption class with the application of conventional learning 63.71% with a lower category. Thus concluded that the application of learning models Inquiry Training can improve student learning outcomes in learning Physics in harmonious vibration material in class X SMA N 4 Pekanbaru
Simulation of Bennet and Brassard 84 protocol with Eve's attacks
A simulation of BB84 protocol of QKD using photonic simulator OptiSystem is demonstrated. The simulation is divided into two categories which are without security attacks scenario and with several attacks scenario that consists of Intercept and Resend and sent new qubits. The simulation results meet the theory of BB84. This project is able to provide better understanding about the quantum key distribution process especially in BB84 protocol
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