Previous work (Verrillo, 1963, 1968) has shown that when measured as a change in absolute threshold, spatial summation occurs only at vibration frequencies above 40 Hz. The present study measured vibrotactile spatial summation at suprathreshold amplitudes. A matchingtask was used to investig-ate the effect of varying contactor size on sensory magnitude at three different vibration frequencies. ...

Liquid membrane processes have attracted many interests in recent years for removal of heavy metals such as cadmium from industrial wastewaters. In this study, a modified hybrid liquid membrane system is introduced. The setup is worked by applying the water-insoluble dioctyl phthalate as the organic solvent. N-octanol and tetra butyl ammonium bromide are added to the organic phase to increase t...

Two dimensional optical fiber measurement system is used to investigate experimentally the arc motion and reignition with four different configurations of quenching chamber in an AC contactor. It demonstrates that the splitter plate arrangement has significant effect on the arc motion in arc quenching chamber, and fixing arc runner in the first and last splitter plates benefits to arc motion, a...

Natural gas is becoming an increasingly important energy source, due to the increasing energy demands and declining oil reserves, whereas large volumes of natural gas are still widely available at remote locations. In view of the existing infrastructure for liquid fuels, natural gas is most efficiently used in the transport sector by converting it to liquid fuels via the Gas-To-Liquid process. ...

â  performance and capacity of sulfur recovery unit (sru) are greatly affected by the h2s:co2 ratio of the acid gas stream. the acid gases in iran contain around 35 mol% h2s and 60 mol% co2. this low concentration of h2s calls for more complex sulfur plant, larger equipments, and higher costs. acid gas enrichment processes (age) is run to upgrade low quality acid gas collected from gas treating...

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One of the modern techniques of mixture separation is the application of liquid membranes. They reveal the ability of selective transport of mixture components in which a liquid membrane constitutes a separate phase which separates two other liquid or gas phases. This property of membranes makes them useful in the textile and food industries, in hydrometallurgy, medicine, biotechnology, environ...

There are a variety of approaches to removing gaseous pollutants from effluent streams: absorption, adsorption, condensation, chemical reaction, incineration, and selective diffusion through a membrane. Absorption is an operation involving mass transfer of a soluble vapor component to a solvent liquid in a device that promotes intimate contact between the gas and the liquid. The driving force f...

CEB Biofilm Group In biological denitrification of wastewater nitrate (NO3 -) or nitrite (NO2 -) are converted into nitrogen gas (N2), in the absence of dissolved oxygen (DO) or under limited DO concentrations. A rotating biological contactor (RBC) is an attached growth bioreactor, that constitutes a very unique and superior alternative technology for carbon oxidation, phosphorus removal, nitri...