Pengeringan pati sagu sangat dipengaruhi oleh beberapa faktor diantaranya suhu dan kecepatan aliran udara pengering. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mengetahui pengaruh pengering yang digunakan pada PCRD terhadap perubahan warna kering. Variabel perlakuan dalam ini, terdiri dari (T) (v). Setiap variabel dilakukan sebanyak tiga kali yaitu untuk T1 (50°C), T2 (75°C), T3 (100°C). Sedangkan v1 (15 m/s...

New pneumatic actuators developed in the author's laboratory will be presented with their applications to new mechatronics. Examples of them are a pneumatic rubber actuator for compliant robots, a micro pneumatic tube actuator assisting the colonscope insertion, a pneumatic stepping motor with high torque and resolution, a pneumatic drive bicycle, an intelligent pneumatic cylinder which has enc...

In the paper, a low friction pneumatic cylinder and a sliding table, and both of them are embedded with aerostatic bearings are designed. A low friction pneumatic table is constructed by combining the pneumatic cylinder and the sliding table. The characteristics for the friction force versus velocity of the pneumatic cylinder and the pneumatic table are measured. Moreover, a hybrid self-tuning ...

Vertical pneumatic transport in a lab-scale vertical lifter has been studied using Laser Doppler Anemometry (LDA). The experimental system consists of a lower fluidized silo, an upper receiving tank and a connecting vertical transport pipe made of clear glass. The experimental study has been performed in order to get detailed information of the complex gas-particle flow behavior in a dilute ver...