Five-zone Simulating Moving Bed (SMB) system, designed for ternary separation, is a modified form of standard four-zone SMB which is only effective in binary separation. It was reported in literature that the five-zone SMB separates the extract-II stream with a lower purity value than that of raffinate and extract-I streams. To address this issue, five zone SMB was designed, using safety ma...

Proficient Content Based Image Retrieval system is a much needed system for plenty of image retrieval supporting applications, which retrieve images more rapidly from giant image databases. Block Truncation Coding (BTC) is one of the prominent and simple techniques used most of the time. This method is built on color properties of an image for image retrieval. In this paper a novel Static Thepa...

Phase equilibria in the ternary Ti-Ag-Cu system have been studied thermodynamically and experimentally at various temperatures. The thermodynamic analysis was performed by combining the most recent data on the binary Ag-Cu, Ti-Ag and Ti-Cu systems and experimental information obtained by the diffusion couple technique. The eutectic and three noneutectic binary Ag-Cu alloys were melted and annea...

generalizing the concepts of -fuzzy (left, right, lateral) ideals, -fuzzy quasi-ideals and   -fuzzy bi (generalized bi-) ideals in ternary semigroups, the notions of -fuzzy (left, right, lateral) ideals, -fuzzy quasi-ideals and -fuzzy bi (generalized bi-) in ternary semigroups are introduced and several related properties are investigated. some new results are obtained.

New data are presented on the phase equilibria and crystal chemistry of the binary systems Sr0-Bi203 and SrO-CuO and the ternary system SrO-Bi2O3-CuO. Symmetry data and unit cell dimensions based on single crystal and powder x-ray diffraction measurements are reported for all the binary SrO-Bi2O3 phases, including a new phase identified as Sr6Bi2O9. The ternary system contains at least four ter...

The blocks of a balanced ternary design, BTD(V,B; ρ1, ρ2, R;K,Λ), can be partitioned into two sets: the b1 blocks that each contain no repeated elements, and the b2 = B − b1 blocks containing repeated elements. In this note, we address, and answer in some particular cases, the following question. For which partitions of the integer B as b1 + b2 does there exist a BTD(V,B; ρ1, ρ2, R;K,Λ)?

Let (ωn)0<n be the sequence known as Integer Sequence A047749 In this paper, we show that the integer ωn enumerates various kinds of symmetric structures of order two. We first consider ternary trees having a reflexive symmetry and we relate all symmetric combinatorial objects by means of bijection. We then generalize the symmetric structures and correspondences to an infinite family of symmetr...

Recently a significant improvement in the thermoelectric performance of p-type ternary PbTe-PbSe and PbTe-PbS systems has been realized through alternating the electronic band structure and introducing nano-scale precipitates to bulk materials respectively. However, the quaternary system of PbTe-PbSe-PbS has received less attention. In the current work, we have excluded phase complexity by fabr...

It is known that any self-dual Boolean function can be decomposed into compositions of 3-bit majority functions. In this paper, we define a notion of a ternary majority formula, which is a ternary tree composed of nodes labeled by 3-bit majority functions and leaves labeled by literals. We study their complexity in terms of formula size. In particular, we prove upper and lower bounds for ternar...