Currently, lubricants producers, electrical, electronic and cars producers share waste oil management responsibility. The extended producer responsibility (EPR) regime for WEEE was updated to incorporate the mandate of using economic incentives correctly regarding applying hierarchy principle in management. Moreover, EPR on end life vehicles (ELV) accomplish principle. This work aims evaluate s...

Two bacterial strains phylogenetically identified as Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains RM1 and SK1 displayed extensive degradation ability on waste engine oil (SAE 40W) in batch cultures. Spectrophotometric analysis revealed the presence of various heavy metals such as lead, chromium and nickel in the waste engine oil. The rate of degradation of waste engine oil by the isolates, for the first 12 d...

Waste management and energy systems are often interlinked, either directly by waste-to-energy technologies, or indirectly as processes for recovery of resources—such as materials, oils, manure, or sludge—use energy in their processes or substitute conventional production of the commodities for which the recycling processes provide raw materials. A special issue in Energies on the topic of “Ener...

AIM To determine how eugenol affects fermentation parameters and faecal coliforms in cattle and swine waste slurries stored anaerobically. METHODS AND RESULTS Waste slurries (faeces:urine:water, 50:35:15) were blended with and without additives and aliquoted to triplicate 1-l flasks. Faecal coliforms were eliminated in cattle and swine waste slurries within 1 or 2 days with additions of eugen...

Gearbox is an important mechanical device to transmit power. In order to ensure the normal operation of gearbox under the condition of top load, high efficiency and high precision, it’s necessary to extract fault feature information using signal processing method and to further analyze and research gearbox fault. In the paper an improved de-noising method based on de-noising of singular value d...

This paper presents modern vibration signalprocessing techniques for vehicle gearbox fault diagnosis, via the wavelet analysis and the Squared Envelope (SE) technique. The wavelet analysis is regarded as a powerful tool for the detection of sudden changes in non-stationary signals. The Squared Envelope (SE) technique has been extensively used for rolling bearing diagnostics. In the present work...

This paper presents the modelling of an autonomous amphibious vehicle developed at the Australian Centre for Field Robotics, Sydney. All parts of the vehicle’s driveline from the engine, CVT, gearbox to wheels are analysed and modelled. Results from simulation, compared with data from characterising experiments, show that these models are valid and can be used for the control purpose. Keyword: ...

We analyze food-item level data collected from 50 adults from the United States using the Remote Food Photography Method® to provide the first estimates of plate waste gathered from adults across multiple consecutive meals and days in free-living conditions, and during laboratory-based meals with fixed food items and quantities. We find average plate waste in free-living conditions is 5.6 grams...

Waste materials such as waste tire rubber (WTR), cooking oil (WCO), bio-oils, engine (WEO), and other oils have been the subject of various scientific studies in sustainable research field. The current environmental concerns identified to protect natural resources reuse materials. Accordingly, this work reviews use recycled mixed with (waste oil, oil) bio-oils that can be extracted from rejuven...

Gearbox is a very complex mechanical system that can generate vibrations from its various elements such as gears, shafts, and bearings. Transmission path effect, signal coupling, and noise contamination can further induce difficulties to the development of diagnostic system for a gearbox. This paper introduces a novel information reconstruction approach to clustering and diagnosis of gearbox si...