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Wastewater Treatment of Wet Coffee Processing in an Anaerobic Sequencing Batch Reactor Pretreated with Electro Coagulation

Asha Gururaj & B. Manoj Kumar · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

The interest for improving the quality of coffee production has led to the increased use of wet processing so as to highlight the quality and aroma of the beverage. The coffee pulping process has been causing environmental problems at the local level not only due to the consumpti...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i1117404

Comparison Study between Theoritical and Numerical Analyses for Ball Bearing

Badr H. Bedairi, Ahmed B. Khoshaim & Badr S. Azzam · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

In this paper, a comparison study has been presented to see the difference between the theoretical and finite element analysis for ball bearing. Throughout that study, a finite element analysis is performed to determine the maximum contact pressure and maximum stresses induced in...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i1117402

Evaluation of Mechanical and Microstructural Properties of Al-SiC/Gr Particulate Produced by Stir Casting Technique

L. O. Mudashiru, I. A. Babatunde, S. O. Adetola & O. I. Kolapo · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

Stir casting is an economical process for the production of aluminum matrix composites. There are many parameters in this process, which affect the final microstructure and mechanical properties of the composites. In this study, micron-sized SiC and Gr particles were used as rein...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i1117401

Hybrid Method of Video Shot Segmentation Based on YCbCr Space Color Model

Sasmita Kumari Nayak & Jharna Majumdar · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

In this digital world, Video analysis is the most important and useful task. Currently, tremendous tasks have been done in video analysis like compressing the videos, video retrieval process and video database indexing, etc. For all these tasks, one common step is segmenting the...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i1117399

Effect of Egg Shell Composition on the Flexural and Hardness Properties of Epoxy Resin/ Egg Shell Particles Composite

I. C. C. Iloabachie, O. T. Ajina & A. C. Chime · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

The effect of calcined egg shell particles on the mechanical properties of epoxy resin had been studied. The egg shell was sun dried for 3 days and calcined at 800oC in an electrically fired furnace model KGVB. The calcined egg shell was ground in a locally fabricated pulverized...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i1117398

Adaptive Switching Hybrid Blast-STBC MIMO System

Mohammed Salemdeeb & Ammar Abu-Hudrouss · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

Fading in a wireless channel has negative effects on the performance of communication systems. Bell Laboratories layered space-time (BLAST) has been used to get a high data rate while space-time block codes (STBC) have been used to get a low bit error rate (BER) performance. Unde...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i1017396

Repair and Maintenance Cost Estimation for Two Power Sizes of Agricultural Tractors as Affected by Hours of Use and Age in Years: A Case Study, Dongola Area, Sudan

Mohamed H. Dahab, Montasir A. Gafar & Abdul Gadir M. Abdul Rahman · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

Repair and maintenance cost is considered as one of important items for machinery management and selection especially agricultural tractors. The present study was carried out in Dongola area for tractor repair and maintenance costs estimation. The data was collected from records...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i1017395

Velocity Slip Effect on MHD Power-Law Fluid over a Moving Surface with Heat Generation, Viscous Dissipation and Thermal Radiation

Falana Ayodeji & Babatope. O Pele · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

The problem of laminar boundary layer flow of power-law fluid over a continuous moving surface in the presence of a transverse magnetic field with velocity slip was investigated. The governing partial differential equations for the flow and heat transfer were transformed into non...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i1017394

Studying the effect of Eliminating Repeated Individuals from the Population in a Genetic Algorithm: Solution Perspectives for the Travelling Salesman Problem

Laura Michele Báez Villegas & Santiago Omar Caballero Morales · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

The Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) is one of the main routing problems in the Logistics and Supply Chain Management fields. Given its computational complexity, metaheuristics are frequently needed to solve it to near-optimality. In this aspect, Genetic Algorithms (GA) are prom...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i1017393

Development of High Sensitivity Illuminance Meter for Measurements in Lighting Engineering and Photometry

Eduard V. Kuvaldin · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

Possible ways of solving the main problems arising in development, manufacture and calibration of high-sensitivity Illuminance meters are considered. Methods of reducing the lower limit of measurement of Illuminance to 10-5 lux are proposed. Errors of correcting light filters of...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i1017390

An Optimised Traffic Control Scheme with Preference to Emergency Vehicles Leveraging RFID

Kenneth Akpado, Samuel Usoro & Nneka Ezeani · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

Emergency Vehicles (EV) such as ambulances, fire fighting vehicles, Road safety vehicles and other emergency vehicles encounter delays on their missions at traffic light control points due to traffic jams. The direct consequence of these delays results in unwarranted loss of live...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i1017391

The effect of TiO2 Nanoparticles in Epoxy Paint Formulation on Metal Surfaces

Le Huy Hai, Le Mai Xuan Truc & Nguyen Quoc Trung · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

Currently, epoxy paint is being widely used in the industry. Nanotechnology can create many small nanometer-sized materials with many applications, it has brought many outstanding properties to epoxy paints. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of TiO2 nanoparticles...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i1017392

A Literature Review on the Development of Remote Sensing in Damage Detection of Civil Structures

Khaled Ghaedi, Meisam Gordan, Zubaidah Ismail, Huzaifa Hashim & Marieh Talebkhah · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

Remote sensing technologies have a direct impact on gaining structural damage information due to their powerful flexibilities, such as wide field of view, non-contact, low cost, and fast response capacities. It is because remote sensing is often applied to monitor near-real-time...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i1017388

Investigation on the Flexural Modulus of Silicon Dies to Improve Die Mechanical Modeling Accuracy

Jefferson Talledo · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

Mechanical modeling of integrated circuit (IC) dies is commonly performed using the mechanical properties of the bulk silicon material. However, modeling results such as die deflection and the actual results were observed to have significant difference. This paper discusses the i...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i1017389

RSOB Shorting Defect Resolution through Looping Optimization and Ball Placement at Wirebond Process

Norman S. Calma, Jonathan C. Pulido & Frederick Ray I. Gomez · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

Wirebonding process is one of the most challenging assembly manufacturing process in semiconductor packaging industry. This paper discussed the wirebonding challenge and the solution to resolve the wire to die shorting on reverse stitch on ball (RSOB) and prevent irregular loopin...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i1017387