Response surface methodology was employed to study the effect of formulation composition variables, water content (60%-80%, w/w) and oil and surfactant (O/S) ratio (0.17-1.33), as well as high-shear emulsification conditions, mixing rate (300-3,000 rpm) and mixing time (5-30 minutes) on the properties of sodium diclofenac-loaded palm kernel oil esters-nanoemulsions. The two response variables w...

Passive mixing based on microfluidics has won its popularity for its unique advantage, including easier operation, more efficient mixing performance and higher access to high integrity. The time-scale and performance of mixing process are usually characterized by mixing quality, which has been remarkably improved due to the introduction of chaos theory into passive micro mixers. In this paper, ...

Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite tropical wind and constituent measurements are used to estimate an upper limit of mid-latitude to tropical trace gas exchange by examining the phase of the N20/CH 4 ratio with respect to the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation winds. Assuming a simple diffusive model for tropical mid-latitude exchange in the 20-28 km region, the mixing times are estimated to be at lea...

In order to assure appearance quality of an industrial product, sensory inspection by human vision (visual inspection) is implemented in many manufacturing industries. This study focuses on the fact that the frequency of occurrence of defective products varies each time in production processes, and also considers the relationship between the mixing rate of the defective product and defect detec...

This paper explores the effect of impeller design on the chaotic mixing in a helical ribbon mixer. Numerical simulations using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method are used to solve for the fluid flow around the moving impellor. The mixing flow is visualised by extracting the hyperbolic Lagrangian Coherent Structures (LCS) of the flow from the Finite-Time Lyapunov Exponent (FTLE) fi...

We prove upper bounds on the rate, called ”mixing rate”, at which the von Neumann entropy of the expected density operator of a given ensemble of states changes under nonlocal unitary evolution. For an ensemble consisting of two states, with probabilities of p and 1 − p, we prove that the mixing rate is bounded above by 4 √ p(1− p) for any Hamiltonian of norm 1. For a general ensemble of states...

This study was designed to determine the optimum conditions of three different factors (mixing time, mixing temperature, and tube size) in reduction of cholesterol in milk using immobilized beta-CD beads. Immobilized beta-CD glass beads were prepared at different conditions of silanization and beta-CD immobilization reactions. In result, the glass beads (diameter 1 mm) at 20 mM 3-isocyanatoprop...

Most phytoplankton production occurs in the turbulently mixed surface layer of lakes and oceans. Environmental factors such as mixed layer depth and background turbidity substantially influence the availability of essential, production-limiting resources, i.e., light and nutrients. We tested the predictions of a dynamic model concerning the effects of water column mixing depth and background tu...

In this paper we investigate mixing and transport in correspondence of a meandering jet. The large-scale flow field is a kinematically assigned streamfunction. Two basic mixing mechanisms are considered, first separately and then combined together: deterministic chaotic advection, induced by a time dependence of the flow, and turbulent diffusion, described by means of a stochastic model for par...

CONTENTS. Page Themethod .......................... 388 The treatment of the different food-stuffs by the stomach .......... 392 The rate of gastric peristalsis .................. 392 The rate of discharge from the stomach .............. 393 Rate of discharge of fats .................. 394 Kate of discharge of carbohydrates ............... 397 Rate of discharge of proteids ................. 398...