A thermoplastically extruded snack was produced from different blends of corn grits and silver carp minced meat. Response Surface Methodology (RSM) was used to study the effect of fish meat content and to optimize the feed composition. Fourteen treatments from central composite design considering minced fish content (0-3 kg) and corn (7-10 kg) were used as the independent variables. The expansi...

Pose estimation is one of the vital issues in mobile robot navigation. Odometry data can be fused with absolute position measurements to provide better and more reliable pose estimation. This paper deals with the determination of better relative localization of a two wheeled differential drive robot by means of odometry by considering the influence of parameters namely weight, velocity, wheel p...

A number of nutritional factors influencing glucose oxidase (EC 1.1.3.4) production by Aspergillus niger NCIM 545 were studied. The synthesis of glucose oxidase by A. niger was investigated in two steps using submerged fermentation at 30±2 °C and 180 rpm for 96 h. Primarily, nutritional components were selected by onefactor-at-a-time method, and the significance of each component with respect t...

equilibrium adsorption property of multi-walled carbon nanotubes with oh group was studied using experimental design for the adsorption of co2 , ch4 and h2 . the effect of temperature, pressure, their binary interactions and quadratic terms were studied for adsorption capacity of nanotubes and the results were analyzed by the face centered central composite design method and analysis of varianc...

in this work, response surface methodology (rsm) and artificial neural network (ann) were used to predict the decolorization efficiency of reactive red 33 (rr 33) by o3/uv process in a bubble column reactor. the effects of four independent variables including time (20-60 min), superficial gas velocity (0.06-0.18 cm/s), initial concentration of dye (50-150 ppm) and ph (3-11) were investigated us...

inulin is widely used in functional foods throughout the world for its health-promoting and technological properties. helianthus tuberosus is cultivated widely in the northern part of iran. helianthus tuberosus can be a valuable source of inulin. to optimize conventional extraction of inulin, various combinations of time, temperature, and solvent: solid ratio, were used. in this research, a ser...

Most preset response surface methodology (RSM) designs offer ease of implementation and good performance over a wide range of process and design optimization applications. These designs often lack the ability to adapt the design on the basis of the characteristics of application and experimental space so as to reduce the number of experiments necessary. Hence, they are not cost-effective for ap...

Response surface methodology was applied to determine the optimal medium composition for sulphuric acid production by an indigenous Thiobacillus thiooxidans. With a view to reducing the number of experiments and obtaining the mutual interactions between the variables, a 24 full-factorial central composite design was employed for experimental design and analysis of the results. Four independent ...

The wire electrical discharge machining (WEDM) experiments has been conducted using air and water mixture as a dielectric medium, is called environmental friendly near dry WEDM. In this technology, the dielectric fluid (Deionized water) is replaced by liquid-air to minimize the environmental impact in the machining zone and operator health. The effect of discharge current (I), Pulse width (TON)...

The current study aimed to improve riboflavin production by native bacterial isolates and medium components. Bacterial species Bacillus subtilis ASU8 (KU559874) and Bacillus tequilensis ASU9 (KU559876) showed high potentiality for riboflavin production. The optimal growth and riboflavin production were achieved after 48 h. The impact of glycine addation to the basal medium was explored by apply...