Non-native aquatic species can be introduced in new areas through emptying of the ballast tanks, with a high impact on health, economy and environment. This is considered by the International Maritime Organization (IMO): (i) in 2004, the IMO adopted the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments (BMW Convention) in orde...

The interest in recovery of various functional proteins from large volume of industrial broths and biological wastewater streams has increased in recent years, due to the advancement in genetic engineering, and concerns about recycling limited resources and environmental protection (Lan, 2001). Ion exchange adsorption and chromatography have long been used for downstream processing in the biote...

Recent developments in the design and application of tomographic sensors for measurements in industrial processes are reviewed. The principal sensing methods and their relative performance are summarized. Industrial scale applications, future prospects and limitations of the technology are discussed.

One of the topics after two decades of applying import substitution policy in Iran manufacturing sector is the importance of industrial export expansion and foreign relations. The main impetus to this policy transfer is the market expansion and potential gains of exploiting the economies of scale and technical upgrades. Based on this argument this research estimates the efficient scale and gain...

In this study, an industrial polycrystalline SiC tile was successfully sintered by pressureless sintering at 2150°C for 1 hour. The physical and mechanical properties of silicon carbide including density, hardness, bending strength, and fracture toughness were evaluated. The results indicated that the mentioned properties were 3.08 g.cm-3, 2503 HV0, 249.3 MPa, and 1.23 MPam0.5</...

Gaining understanding of a large-scale industrial program is often a daunting task. In this context dynamic analysis has proven it’s usefulness for gaining insight in object-oriented software. However, collecting and analyzing the event trace of large-scale industrial applications remains a difficult task. In this paper we present a heuristic that identifies interesting starting points for furt...

The author considers specific features of software and methods of operation applied in two machine translation systems based on a common linguistic approach and intended to translate texts from English and German into Russian on an industrial scale. He describes the software structural pattern and linguistic tools used in the systems, as well as structures of specialised information files and t...

An H2O2 sensor for the application in industrial sterilisation processes has been developed. Therefore, automated sterilisation equipment at laboratory scale has been constructed using parts from industrial sterilisation facilities. In addition, a software tool has been developed for the control of the sterilisation equipment at laboratory scale. First measurements with the developed sensor set...