Six diesel-degrading bacterial strains were isolated from oil-polluted sites located in central Taiwan. The floating activity of the isolates in an oil-supplemented liquid medium was monitored. Cell-surface hydrophobicity as well as cell-free and cell-residue emulsification activities were also investigated. Three isolates, identified as Gordonia alkanivorans CC-JG 39, Rhodococcus erythropolis ...

The floating photovoltaic system is a new concept in energy technology to meet the needs of our time. The system integrates existing land based photovoltaic technology with a newly developed floating photovoltaic technology. Because module temperature of floating PV system is lower than that of overland PV system, the floating PV system has 11% better generation efficiency than overland PV syst...

in the current study, floating dosage form containing acyclovir was developed to increase its oral bioavailability. effervescent floating tablets containing 200 mg acyclovir were prepared by direct compression method with three different rate controlling polymers including hydroxypropyl methylcellulose k4m, carbapol 934, and polyvinylpyrrolidone. optimized formulation showed good floating prope...

Today many argue that there appears to be an epidemic case of “fear of floating”. Some have further claimed that credible inflation targeting – a popular regime choice today – and fear of floating are identical regimes. This paper takes a different view. We modify Calvo and Reinhart’s (2002) approach to analyze the behavior of exchange rates, reserves, interest rates and inflation across 88 exc...

Presented herein is a closed-form mathematical solution for the construction of an orthogonal cross section of intersecting cylinder surface geometry created from a single planar section. The geometry in its 3-dimensional state consists of the intersection of two cylindrical surfaces of equal radii which is bounded on all four sides by planes orthogonal to the primary cylinder axis. A multivari...

This paper presents finite element analysis (FEA) of a coated and uncoated cylinder heads of a diesel engine to examine the distribution of temperature and stress. A thermal barrier coating system was applied on the combustion chamber of the cylinder heads, consists of two-layer systems: a ceramic top coat (TC), made of yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ), ZrO2-8%Y2O3 and also a metallic bond coat...

peanuts, an oilseed crop, contain about 46% oil. the peanut shell can be used as fuel or pallets and its dry matter as feedstuff. the whole pods consist of 1-6 kernels. shelling is done at harvest time when the pod moisture content is 5-10%. in this research, a peanut sheller was designed and developed to separate the shell from the pod. the sheller included a hopper, sheller cylinder, concave,...

This paper investigates the use of floating gate MOS devices for analog trimming. A floating gate MOSFET structure, in which tunneling occurs at the corners of a polysilicon slab, has been fabricated using a standard 1.2p.m n-well CMOS process. The analog storage performance of the floating gate is evaluated. A threedimensional device simulator, DAVINCI, is used to characterize the field enhanc...

The paper presents results from the Collaborative Computational Project in Wave Structure Interaction (CCP-WSI) Blind Test Series 2. Without prior access to physical data, participants, with numerical methods ranging low-fidelity linear models fully non-linear Navier–Stokes (NS) solvers, simulate interaction between focused wave events and two separate, taut-moored, floating structures: a hemis...

nowadays, the application of floating breakwaters in small or recreational harbors has found more popularity. these types of breakwaters are more flexible in terms of design, configuration and especially installation compared with fixed breakwaters. in the current study, the performance of floating breakwater (fbs) under regular waves was studied using the physical modeling method. for the mode...