Canada has experienced a significant increase in the transport of diluted bitumen (dilbit), a predominant oil sands product that combines bitumen with diluents derived from oil-gas condensates and other proprietary compounds. The proportion of diluent and the chemical composition of dilbit vary to meet seasonal transport requirements. While the toxic effects of a variety of crude and refined oi...

This paper details the experimental and numerical analysis of a combustion process for atmospheric swirl burners using methane with added ammonia as fuel. The research was carried out lean methane–air mixtures, which were doped up to 5% preheated 473 K. A flow internal recirculation induced by different outflow angles from swirling blades, 30° 50°, where tested equivalence ratio 0.71. NO CO dis...

This paper presents an interactive approach of Genetic Algorithm and Machine Learning being used as tool for optimizing the Fuel Consumption oil-fired rotary furnace operating with 20% preheated excess air. The author has attempted to solve a crucial problem fuel consumption in ferrous foundries. Based on experiments carried self-designed developed 200 kg foundry, it was found that parameters l...

In this paper, the dynamic behavior of laser induced optical breakdown in impure water was studied by using a pump- probe technique. The plasma was induced by a 1064 nm Nd:YAG laser pulse (with pulse duration ~10 ns) in distilled water with two types of impurities: (I) a solution (highly diluted salt water as a conductor) and (II) a colloidal (TiO2 in colloidal nanoparticle form as a dielectric...

The sip gene encoding for a conserved highly immunogenic surface protein of Streptococcus agalactiae was amplified using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and subcloned into prokaryotic expression vector pET32a (+) and expressed as a recombinant protein in E. coli BL21 (DE3). An indirect enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was developed using the purified Sip protein as a coating antigen, w...