Study of Traffic Noise Pollution at Penang Sentral Area, Butterworth, Penang

Noise pollution has become a major environment issue that happen at the urban area in the city. The noise pollution can affect the mental and physical health of the people nearby the resources of the sound. The lack of sleep, poor performance during working or studying and hearing impairment is one of the impacts because of constant noise pollution. The objectives of this research are to measure the traffic noise level at three difference area which are SMK Convent Butterworth, KTM Butterworth, and Surau Al- Hidayah Balai Pukat. The objective is to determine the traffic noise index and equvalent continuous noise pollution at three differences area which are SMK Convent Butterworth, KTM Butterworth, and Surau Al-Hidayah Balai Pukat and lastly to identify the awareness about the traffic noise pollution around the Penang Sentral community. The research area is Penang Sentral, Butterworth, Pulau Pinang. The hand-held sound level meter has been used to collect the data. The research will be conduct during peak hour for 5 days at three different stations around Penang Sentral area. The aim of this study is able to reduce the noise pollution and improve the health of the student and residents. The result from this study is there are noise pollution around the Penang Sentral area. The LAeq has exceed 70 dBa at the Surau Al Hidayah and KTM Butterworth. The TNI at the 3 location also has exceed 74 dBa. The people around the area also aware about the noise pollution in Penang Sentral area and they agree that noise pollution can cause health problem. The authorities play a big roles to overcome this problem. They have to plan the city planning before approve the building to be constructed. At the Penang Sentral area indeed has a noise pollution around the area

Analysis of Traffic Noise Pollution at School Area that Located in Gemencheh Town, Negeri Sembilan

Humans have caused a great deal of tremendous progress in recent times. However, in order to accomplish progress, one of the challenges generated by humans was Road Traffic Noise, which was caused by the unavoidable arrival of vehicles on the road. This research study was done primarily in three school areas: SMK Dato Mohd Taha, SJK(C) Sin Min, and SK Datuk Abdullah, all of which are located in Gemencheh town. The sound level meter (SW-524) was utilized for the measurement. For three days, each school was monitored (07:30-08:30) in the morning and (12:30-1:30) in the afternoon for one-hour data traffic noise collection: Day 1 (Sunday), Day 2 (Monday), and Day 3 (Tuesday) (Tuesday). In addition, a questionnaire survey was distributed to school pupils in order to determine their level of awareness. . According to the data studied traffic noise, SMK Dato Mohd Taha had the highest Leq 92.11dBa, TNI 139.5dBa, and Lnp value of 70.90dBa. In addition, SJK(C) Sin Min recorded 29.1dBa. Meanwhile, SK Datuk Abdullah does not violate the DOE's real noise limit. DOE's actual noise limit for Leq was 60dBa, TNI was 74dBa, and Lnp was 88dBa. According to the data acquired, the Leq, TNI, and Lnp surpass the DOE Malaysia's maximum noise limit guidelines. The largest number of respondents (schoolchildren) who replied "Yes" in the questionnaire survey was 51 for SMK Dato Mohd Taha. In comparison to SK Datuk Abdullah, there was just one "Yes" response. This depicts the SMK Dato Mohd Taha disastrous position. This depicts the disastrous scenario of the SMK Dato Mohd Taha traffic noise since its road was the main road between Tampin and Gemas. SK Datuk Abdullah respondents also responded "No" with 99 respondents

Investigation of organic composition of potential plants as alternative fiber in paper making industry

Malaysia was known as a country that rich with a source of agro waste material. Three different crops had been studied which include the pineapple (Ananas Comosus) leaf, corn (Zea mays) stalk and Napier grass (Pennisetum purpureum). Those crops were characterized as agro waste material in Malaysia and have a high potential to become an alternative fiber. The objective of this work was to analysis the chemical composition which are pineapple leaf, corn stalk and Napier grass; to investigate the properties of hand sheet made from those crops; to determine the influence of different pulping process and process variables on the physical and chemical properties. Every chemical components analyse; Cellulose, Hemicellulose, Ash and Lignin content by TAPPI Test Method. All of three samples were undergo acidic and alkali pulping process. Fiber Analyser was used for fiber analysis and SEM use for observation on sample. From pulping process, the step will continue for papermaking. Lastly, tensile, bursting, folding, and tearing tester machine will test paper production. Result shows that pineapple leaf gives high cellulose content (66.2%) and lower lignin content (4.2%) compared corn stalk and napier grass. Alkaline pulping shows a quality of pulp rather than acidic pulping process due to the pulp strength and colour of fiber. Corn stalk gives a high potential to be an alternative for mechanical properties viewed. High tensile index (90.99 Ndg), burst index (6.64 kpa*m21g) and fold index (3.51 Nm) by corn stalk paper rather than pineapple leaf and napier grass but lower in tear index (2.85 ~ m ~ l gT)h.is wass due to the long fiber length by pineapple leaf about 13.36 mm fi-om SEM images. This arrangement form and effect a structure of fiber. Based on all tests, corn stalk materials have high potential to be fiber substitution but pineapple leaf and napier grass have their own characteristic to be alternative fiber. This research also promote green technology where one of the solid waste material technology for waste from agricultural residue

Olahan Larut Lesapan Semi-Aerobik Tapak Pelupusan Sanitari Pulau Burung Menggunakan Gabungan Kaedah Penggumpalan-Pengelompokan Dan Penurasan [TD455. Z39 2008 f rb].

Olahan penggumpalan-pengelompokan meluas digunakan untuk mengolah air dan air sisa. Coagulation-flocculation are widely used in water and wastewater treatment. Coagulation-flocculation process is effective for removing high concentration organic pollutants and heavy metals in water and wastewater

The application of electro-coagulation in biodiesel wastewater treatment

A large quantity of oily wastewater is generated by biodiesel refineries which results in terrible environmental pollution and resource utilization problems. This wastewater must be treated before being released into the environment due to it normally rich in biological oxygen demand (BOD) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) which usually have damaging and harmful effects on plants, sea, river as well as surface and groundwater sources. Conventional biodiesel wastewater treatment methods such as gravity separation and skimming, air flotation, coagulation, de-emulsification and flocculation, posses several disadvantages including high operation cost, low efficiency, corrosion and recontamination problems. Indeed, most of these conventional methods unable to remove the micron or submicron sized oil droplets efficiently. Currently, new processes for efficient and adequate treatment of various industrial wastewaters with relatively low operating costs have been developed to meet the strict environmental regulations. At this point, the electrocoagulation process has attracted a great deal of attention in treating industrial wastewaters because of its versatility and environmental compatibility. Therefore, in this chapter, the advatages and application of electro-coagulation techniques were reviewed and discussed

Editorial Preface

It is with great pleasure that we present the 3rd issue of Volume 9 of the International Journal of Integrated Engineering (IJIE). This edition features the latest findings and research in the area of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering.This issue contains eleven articles. The first article proposed a new solution, named RRFAST, to overcome rerouting problem of FAST TCP. The second article aimed to study and assess the diameter and displacement of the carotid arterial wall movement from B-mode ultrasound image for the early detection of atherosclerosis. The third article presented a Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) tool for prioritising alternative solutions to power generation problems. The fourth article focused on determining the characteristics of the spray produced in the simulation of spray biodiesel using constant volume chamber by using computational fluid dynamic (CFD). The fifth article presents a development of a temperature control system by means of the proportional controller to control the temperature inside the mini container during the NIRS data acquisition process. In the sixth article, the authors developed a single phase inverter that is used to understand the concept of inverting voltage output control using Raspberry Pi as the microcontroller. In the seventh article, the authors present their finding on the capability of peat soil (PS) and activated carbon (AC) as a potential composite adsorbent for the removal of colour and Fe from a stabilized landfill leachate. The eighth article presents the design and development of a simple and low cost interactive rehabilitation module for stroke patients. In the ninth article, the authors share their findings on the combination of Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) and laser diode with LabVIEW software on Optical Tomography System (OTS) for monitoring multiphase flow. In the tenth article, the authors examined the effect of different spatial filters performance towards mammogram de-noising. In the last article, the authors report on the efficiency of coagulation and flocculation process in the removal of suspended solids, colour, Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) and Oil and Grease using ferric chloride and ferric sulfate for the treatment of biodiesel wastewater.We would like to extend our sincere gratitude and appreciation for the enthusiastic and vigorous support and contributions from the Editorial Board and Reviewers of IJIE for taking time and effort to review manuscripts. As no manuscript is accepted or rejected without careful reading by experts in a particular area to which the paper is related. The experts have maintained a high standard of scholarship and we believe the readers of this Journal deserves.It is our hope that this fine collection of articles will be a valuable resource for International Journal of Integrated Engineering (IJIE) readers and will stimulate further research in the area of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering. We strongly encourage authors to submit their articles and readers to provide feedback. In order to access the online version of this issue along with archived editions please visit our website http://penerbit.uthm.edu.my/ojs/index.php/ijie/. We would like to thank all the authors who have contributed manuscripts in IJIE and those who are awaiting their manuscripts for publication in subsequent issues

Editorial Preface

This special issue of International Journal of Integrated Engineering contains 27 papers contributions by post-graduate students in Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM). All contents provide deep research results on various fields of engineering such as in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering. These papers are selected from the post-graduate seminar in 2017 and they are experienced two-stage peer-review (reviewed by the Centre of Graduate Studies and Editorial boards).Â

Editorial Preface

It is with great pleasure that we present the 4th regular issue of Volume 10 of the International Journal of Integrated Engineering (IJIE). This edition features the latest findings and research in the area of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering.We would like to extend our sincere gratitude and appreciation for the enthusiastic and vigorous support and contributions from the Editorial Board and Reviewers of IJIE for taking time and effort to review manuscripts. As no manuscript is accepted or rejected without careful reading by experts in a particular area to which the paper is related. The experts have maintained a high standard of scholarship and we believe the readers of this Journal deserves.It is our hope that this fine collection of articles will be a valuable resource for International Journal of Integrated Engineering (IJIE) readers and will stimulate further research in the area of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering. We strongly encourage authors to submit their articles and readers to provide feedback. In order to access the online version of this issue along with archived editions please visit our website http://penerbit.uthm.edu.my/ojs/index.php/ijie/.We would like to thank all the authors who have contributed manuscripts in IJIE and those who are awaiting their manuscripts for publication in subsequent issues

Editorial

This special issue of International Journal of Integrated Engineering provides deep research on Mechanical Engineering, contains 30 papers contributions by more than 50 authors from various institutions. Theses papers are selected from three occasions held in 2018 such as International Conference on Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (ICME2018), Symposium on Damage Mechanisms in Materials and Structures (SDMMS2018) and International Conference and Symposium on Occupational Safety and Health (ISOSH2018). This special appreciation goes to all Editorial Team members and also Guest Editorial Team members for the evaluation process with strict comments to improve the quality of the content