Engine Performance and Exhaust Emission Characteristics of Fuel Oil-Diesel Fuel Mixture in a Single Cylinder Engine

Cost for Diesel fuel is higher in recent years have cause problem to the consumer. It is necessary to find alternative fuel that is less expensive to be used for generating power. Fuel oil is a type of fuel that has been identified as a possible alternative source of fuel to be used for diesel engine. The engine performance and exhaust emission characteristics based on Diesel fuel and medium fuel oil (MFO) mixture is the main study in this project. Beside 100% Diesel fuel, a blend of 5%MFO, 10% MFO, 15% MFO and 20% MFO are used. The suitable viscosity of fuel mixture is studied as viscosity plays important criteria for the fuel to be used in diesel engine. Engine performance and exhaust emission of all fuel blends were investigated and compared with ordinary Diesel fuel in a single cylinder diesel engine without any modification. The experimental results show that the engine power and torque are lower than the value obtained from Diesel fuel. As for exhaust emission, adding MFO do increase CO emission and particulate matter, but reduce the NOx emission. It is proven that medium fuel oil can be used as an alternative fuel for diesel engine, with some lose of the engine performance and emission characteristics

Engine Performance and Exhaust Emission Characteristics of Fuel Oil-Diesel Fuel Mixture in a Single Cylinder Engine

The experimental results show that the engine power and torque are lower than the value obtained from Diesel fuel. As for exhaust emission, adding MFO do increase CO emission and particulate matter, but reduce the NOx emission. It is proven that medium fuel oil can be used as an alternative fuel for diesel engine, with some lose of the engine performance and emission characteristics

Modernisasi Pendidikan Pintar dalam Islam Bagi Generasi Z Memacu ke Arah Revolusi Industri 4.0

Pendidikan menurut Islam mempunyai kedudukan yang tinggi. Terse-barnya wahyu Ilahi yang dibawa oleh Rasullullah s.a.w. secara langsung Islam membawa satu kuasa besar terhadap ketamadunan manusia sejagat, meliputi seluruh aspek hidup dan kehidupan manusia. Perkembangan teknologi membolehkan perkembangan pembelajaran lebih efisien, efektif, fleksibel dan selesa. Modernisasi pendidikan pintar adalah pembelajaran berasaskan konteks boleh berlaku di mana-mana sahaja, yang merangkumi interaksi antara pelajar dan persekitaran. Salah satu masalah adalah teknik atau pendekatan yang diamalkan dalam persekitaran bilik kuliah umumnya telah membuatkan pelajar Gen Z berasa bosan semasa belajar. Oleh itu, adalah penting untuk memulakan kajian dengan lebih mendalam mengenai pendidikan pintar untuk menampung dan memenuhi keperluan komuniti digital. Makalah ini bertujuan membincangkan rangka kerja konseptual pendidikan pintar yang didorong oleh pelajar Gen Z yang melibatkan gaya pembelajaran yang dicadangkan dan aplikasi mudah alih sebagai projek inovasi dalam mempromosikan mengenai pengalaman pendidikan mereka. Dalam kajian ini, metodologi kuantitatif dan kualitatif akan digunakan untuk menilai balas dapatan melalui data sekunder, temubual dan soal selidik dengan pihak yang berkaitan. Tinjauan awal ini akan menjadi titik permulaan untuk institusi pengajian tinggi mula memahami idea Gen Z sambil bersiap sedia untuk perjalanan akademik mereka

Design And Development Of An Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Test-Bed (USM-AUV I).

In this paper, the development of an underwater robotic vehicle is described. The description includes the mechanical and controller design, and the sensor integration

Issues on Interbank Commodity Murabaha (CM) for liquidity management in Malaysia / Mohamad Zabidi Ahmad, Rosylin Mohd Yusof and Ahmad Rizal Mazlan

Purpose: The objective of this research is to highlight issues and review the Interbank Commodity Murabahah (CM) practice as a tool of liquidity requirement from both the Shariah and industry's operational perspectives. Accordingly, this study seeks to analyze the structure and mechanism of CM as an instrument to meet the liquidity need of Islamic financial institutions and provides an opportunity for investments. In doing so, the paper seeks to review issues related to Shariah and operations in Islamic banking. Design/methodology/approach: By interviewing with Treasurers, Shariah Scholars and funding dealers of Islamic banks in Malaysia, the study evaluates reassessment on CM practices and operational issues concerning risk and compliance. The study focuses on the Islamic Treasury Division of Islamic banks in Malaysia. Findings: The findings of the study suggest that the two most significant issues in Islamic liquidity management of Islamic banks in Malaysia are i) resembling interest ii) nature of trade-ability iii) structure of CM iv) the timing the transaction to be completed and v) the real brokerage cost involved in adopting the CM transactions. Research limitations/implications: The research proposes risk mitigation and enhanced Shariah compliance frameworks such as straight-through processing (STP) and commodity broker's standard guideline for Islamic banks to adopt CM practices. Practical implications: This study provides direction and guidance to the Islamic Commercial Banks, Commodity Brokers and regulator (BNM) involved in the banking system to reflect upon the importance to understand the issues and limitation of CM. By highlighting the importance of efficiency in terms of time and cost-saving together with Shariah issues, Islamic banks can design policies to enhance efficiency in order to either decide to maintain the adoption of CMP or to consider the proposed alternative. Social implications: Understanding the Shariah compliance and operational issues will enhance the integrity of Islamic banks, which is consistent with the Key Economic Growth Area of making Malaysia as International Islamic Financial Hub 2.0

Engine Performance and Exhaust Emission Characteristics of Fuel Oil-Diesel Fuel Mixture in a Single Cylinder Engine

Cost for Diesel fuel is higher in recent years have cause problem to the consumer. It is necessary to find alternative fuel that is less expensive to be used for generating power. Fuel oil is a type of fuel that has been identified as a possible alternative source of fuel to be used for diesel engine. The engine performance and exhaust emission characteristics based on Diesel fuel and medium fuel oil (MFO) mixture is the main study in this project. Beside 100% Diesel fuel, a blend of 5%MFO, 10% MFO, 15% MFO and 20% MFO are used. The suitable viscosity of fuel mixture is studied as viscosity plays important criteria for the fuel to be used in diesel engine. Engine performance and exhaust emission of all fuel blends were investigated and compared with ordinary Diesel fuel in a single cylinder diesel engine without any modification. The experimental results show that the engine power and torque are lower than the value obtained from Diesel fuel. As for exhaust emission, adding MFO do increase CO emission and particulate matter, but reduce the NOx emission. It is proven that medium fuel oil can be used as an alternative fuel for diesel engine, with some lose of the engine performance and emission characteristics

Constructing a Shariah Document Screening Prototype Based on Serverless Architecture

The aim of this research is to discuss the groundwork of building an Islamic Banking Document Screening Prototype based on a serverless architecture framework. This research first forms an algorithm for document matching based Vector Space Model (VCM) and adopts Levenshtein Distance for similarity setting. Product proposals will become a query, and policy documents by the central bank will be a corpus or database for document matching. Both the query and corpus went through preprocessing stage prior to similarity analysis. One set of queries with two sets of corpora is tested in this research to compare similarity values. Finally, a prototype of Shariah Document Screening is built based on a serverless architecture framework and ReactJS interface. This research is the first attempt to introduce a Shariah document screening prototype based on a serverless architecture technology that would be useful to the Islamic financial industry towards achieving a Shariah-compliant business. Given the development of Fintech, the output of this research study would be a complement to the existing Fintech applications, which focus on ensuring the Islamic nature of the businesses

Research Article Countering Recommendation from CICR on Social Impact of FDI in Liberia: Strategies for Sime Darby to Overcome the Problems

Abstract: Liberia has initiated a paradigm shift to develop its agriculture sector through Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). An investment from Sime Darby Plantations has created social impact towards the local, culture and land use. Center for International Conflict Resolution or CICR has seen these problems as a threat to social development in Liberia. Eleven recommendations have been delivered to Sime Darby as a solution to cater all problems that should conserve the local, culture and the land use. In order to assist Sime Darby, this study aims to highlight a strategy for Sime Darby to counter all recommendations from CICR. This study was conducted over a period of three months with several documents and files being investigated. Documents from CICR and Sime Darby have been analyzed thoroughly in order to propose a promising resolution. Three factors have been seen as solutions to Sime Darby to overcome the problems whilst it will assist them on their investment in Liberia. Sime Darby has to execute all strategies that will promise a long run investment in Liberia whilst building their own image as a people-friendly company

Graduates employment classification using data mining approach

Data Mining is a platform to extract hidden knowledge in a collection of data.This study investigates the suitable classification model to classify graduates employment for one of the MARA Professional College (KPM) in Malaysia.The aim is to classify the graduates into either as employed, unemployed or further study.Five data mining algorithms offered in WEKA were used; Naïve Bayes, Logistic regression, Multilayer perceptron, k-nearest neighbor and Decision tree J48.Based on the obtained result, it is learned that the Logistic regression produces the highest classification accuracy which is at 92.5%. Such result was obtained while using 80% data for training and 20% for testing.The produced classification model will benefit the management of the college as it provides insight to the quality of graduates that they produce and how their curriculum can be improved to cater the needs from the industry

Assessing email responsiveness: The case of hotels in Malaysia

The advancement of Information Technology (IT) has given tremendous effects on hotel industry.IT has been perceived as the competitive weapon to survive in the intense competition in the hotels business. As a result, in 2003, 63% of hotels listed by the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Tourism of Malaysia provided their e-mail as a medium of communication for its online patrons.Despite the successful technology initiation among hotels in Malaysia, the effectiveness of implementation of technology in relation to customer service still remains unknown.Do these hoteliers responsively reply the customer e-mail? The aim of the study is to investigate the quality aspect of the online customer service in Malaysian hotel industry. In 2004, 200 hotels with the e-mail addresses were sent a typical room query and their responses were recorded to examine their e-mail quality.Even though, the hotels performed well for each quality variable, the overall finding showed that the chance that a guest would receive a quality reply was only at 12 out of 200 or 6%.Practical and theoretical contributions are also discussed in this paper