Biomass processing plants have a trade-off between two competing cost factors: as size increases, the economy of scale reduces per unit processing cost, while a longer biomass transportation distance increases the delivered cost of biomass. The competition between these cost factors leads to an optimum size at which the cost of energy produced from biomass is minimized. Four processing options ...

An experiment was conducted to determine the effect of hatching egg size on hatchability and hatch-weight of indigenous Venda chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus). Three different egg size groups classified into small: (<49 g) medium: (50-59 g) and large:(60-69 g) were used in the experiment. A complete randomized design was used for the experiment. Simultaneously a quadratic type equation was u...

This research aims to formulate and to optimize a nanoemulsion-based formulation containing fullerene, an antioxidant, stabilized by a low amount of mixed surfactants using high shear and the ultrasonic emulsification method for transdermal delivery. Process parameters optimization of fullerene nanoemulsions was done by employing response surface methodology, which involved statistical multivar...

We consider the simulation of large cube-connected cycles (CCC) and large butterry networks (BFN) on smaller ones, a problem that arises when algorithms designed for an architecture of an ideal size are to be executed on an existing architecture of a xed size. We show that large CCC's and BFN's can be embedded into smaller networks of the same type with (a) dilation 2 and optimum load, (b) dila...

An experimental and analytical investigation of sampling, which focused on the sizing of population for optimum performance, was performed using the OneMax problem. A fixed-size population and population sizes that vary according to the number of samples were considered in this study. For the case of varying population sizes, population sizing models that ensure proper decision making of the GA...

A model capable of predicting the minimum content of Aflatoxin M1 (AFM1) in Iranian while brine cheese has been developed using a chemometric approach to determine the optimum processing conditions. Renneting temperature, cut size, stirring time, press time, curd size and saturated brine pH were all regarded as process variables. Threedimensional response surface and contour plots were drawn. T...

— This paper evaluates the performance of fractal based variable step-size LMS (FBVSLMS) algorithm on the estimation of multipath fading channel for nonstationary process transmission. The algorithm exploits the statistics of the nonstationary process and uses non-diagonal step-size matrix to design an adaptive LMS filter in order to estimate slow fading correlated Rayleigh channel, in particul...

Oil production optimization is one of the main targets of reservoir management. Smart well technology gives the ability of real time oil production optimization. Although this technology has many advantages; optimum adjustment or sizing of corresponding valves is still an issue to be solved. In this research, optimum port sizing of inflow control devices (ICDs) which are passive control valves ...

Using shells collected from a sediment trap series in the Madeira Basin, we investigate the effects of seasonal variation of temperature, productivity, and optimum growth conditions on calcification in three species of planktonic Foraminifera. The series covers an entire seasonal cycle and reflects conditions at the edge of the distribution of the studied species, manifesting more suitable grow...

The present work establishes the optimized spatial arrangement for an array of aligned microcantilever sensors placed inside a fluidic cell. The results of the present investigation show that the optimum spacing distance between the microcantilevers decreases as the fluidic cell height decreases. An increase in the flow Reynolds number is found to increase the optimum spacing distance. However,...