erythromycin production is clearly enhanced by the addition of vegetable oils. however,whether this positive effect is brought about by the triglyceride or non-triglyceride fraction, isnot clear. the non-triglyceride portions of the oils accumulate in the waste during the refiningprocess leaving mainly triglycerides in the refined oil. in this research, sub-fractions of soybeanoil, including le...

In this study, low quality oils (waste cooking oils) with high acid value (4.81 mg KOH/g) were utilized as the feedstocks for a transesterification reaction enhanced by additional microwave power and use of an NaOH catalyst. The kinetics under different times temperatures was studied. It found that in microwave-assisted reaction, optimum conditions 600 W follows: catalyst 0.8 wt %, 12:1 molar r...

Biolubricants generated from biomass and other wastes can reduce the carbon footprint of manufacturing processes power generation. In this paper, properties uses biolubricants have been compared thoroughly with conventional mineral-based lubricants. The biolubricants, which are currently based on vegetable oils, discussed in terms their physicochemical thermophysical properties, stability, biod...

Gears are important element in a variety of industrial applications such as machine tool and gearboxes. An unexpected failure of the gear may cause significant economic losses. For that reason, fault diagnosis in gears has been the subject of intensive research. Vibration signal analysis has been widely used in the fault detection of rotation machinery. The vibration signal of a gearbox carries...

This paper presented a kind of blind source separation (BSS) technology and applied it into the gearbox fault diagnosis through the blind mixing signal separation. The algorithm based on the natural gradient fixed step-length was used to calculate the statistical independent source signal estimate value, and successfully extracted the fault information according to the separation signal power s...

Mechanical defects of a vehicle driving system can be dangerous on the road. Diagnostic systems, which monitor operations of electric and electronic elements and devices of vehicles, are continuously developed and improved, while defects of mechanical systems are still not managed properly. This article proposes supplementing existing on-board diagnostics with a system of diagnosing selected de...

In this paper, a study on the applications of the optimization and regression techniques for optimal calculation of partial ratios of helical gearboxes with second-step double gear-sets for minimal cross section dimension is introduced. From the condition of the moment equilibrium of a mechanic system including three gear units and their regular resistance condition, models for calculation of t...

In this paper the results of an experimental study on fault detection in a gearbox using motor current signature analysis is presented. Broken teeth and teeth wear have been artificially introduced in the gears as faults. Signal processing techniques like the multiresolution fourier transform (MFT) has been used for feature extraction from the current signals drawn by the induction motor drivin...

due to the high price of virgin vegetable oils and the drawbacks of the homogeneous catalytic transesterification, in this work an economically profitable alternative process was proposed for biodiesel synthesis in which transesterification of the low-cost waste cooking oil (wco) with methanol in a heterogeneous system was done. alumina impregnated with sodium hydroxide was utilized as a solid ...