Bacteria foraging based algorithm for optimum economic load dispatch with non-convex loads
Thesis - 11 pages - Physics
An algorithm based on Bacteria Foraging (BF) was developed to solve the problem of finding the optimum load allocation amongst the committed units in power system with non-convex loads. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated on a test case of 15 units. The performance of the...
Reliability based design of spur, helical and bevel gears
Thesis - 4 pages - Physics
The concept of reliability is greater importance in the design of various machine members. As reliability is now an exceedingly important aspect of competitiveness, there is need to design reliability into products. Conventional engineering design uses a deterministic approach. It disregards the...
Analysis of energy efficiency, throughput and packet delay for both non-persistent and p-persistent CSMA when two nodes collide
Thesis - 7 pages - Physics
Power efficient wireless technologies are being developed to combat the finite battery power in wireless portable computing devices. This paper investigates energy efficiency, throughput and packet delay for non- persistent and p-persistent CSMA, two protocols popularly applied in current...
Biometrics guards for vehicles
Thesis - 7 pages - Physics
Recent Reports on the auto industry trends states that the car industry is growing at a rate of 8% world over. The Indian car segment is scaling a growth rate of more than 10 -20 percent. This growth has also resulted in growth of one more Industry the car theft industry as more the number of...
Non conventional energy sources i.e. wind power (Use of power electronics in wind energy for obtaining the stability)
Thesis - 7 pages - Physics
The role of induction generators and power electronic converters for energy conversion system is significant. Self-excited induction generator (SEIG) in stand- alone application provides a significant reduction in system operating costs due to fact that wind power is freely available. SEIG also...
Renewable energy: Achievements and potentials
Thesis - 3 pages - Physics
The potential of non-conventional energy sources is enormous as they can in principle meet many times the world's energy demand. Renewable energy (non-conventional) sources such as small hydro power, biomass, wind, solar, and geothermal can provide sustainable energy services, based on the use of...
Implementation of circular lattice model for cyclostationary process
Thesis - 4 pages - Physics
to implement the circular lattice structure which comes under the area of statistical signal processing. The circular lattice structure can be used with wavelets, multi-rate signal processing systems. FPGAs perform the computation of different coefficients of the circular lattice model....
Non conventional energy
Thesis - 5 pages - Physics
The sun, wind, water & bio-mass are either Perennial or renewable sources of energy. Any or more of these sources are available in almost each part of the country. These available sources can be utilized effectively for useful purpose through technological means. Bio-mass is renewable energy...
Wake up fresh alarm system clock generator unit
Thesis - 10 pages - Physics
Sleep is the regular state of natural rest observed in all human beings. Melatonin is a hormone that our body generates to help sleep. The quantity of the same varies in our body in context to the stage of our sleep. It was studied that melatonin is dependent on the ambient intensity of light....
Study of dental-disease identification in digital radiographs using feature extraction
Thesis - 4 pages - Physics
Conventional film radiography, CT scan, digital radiograph etc. are different imaging modalities which support diagnosis of dental diseases. Amongst all latest advancements digital radiography is more comfortable technique in terms of its interpretation. Image enhancement technique is a right...
Implementation of speed controller of PMDC motor: A fuzzy logic based approach
Thesis - 5 pages - Physics
This paper focuses on one of the armature control methods of speed control of PMDC motor by using fuzzy logic, which is implemented in MATLAB tool box. The use of fuzzy logic in the control system is to reduce the complexity and probably to minimize the mathematical work is in the area of...
Concrete mix design and concrete testing: An experiment using the slump test and compression test
Thesis - 5 pages - Physics
This paper investigates the design of a concrete mix to a specified strength. In particular, it studies the behavior of concrete under compressive loading in order to determine properties such as (1) the compressive strength taken on concrete cylinders taken at 2, 7, 14 and 28-day intervals and...
Hardness and impact test of metals: An experiment using the Rockwell hardness test and the Brinell hardness test (Macroindentation measurements)
Thesis - 6 pages - Physics
Solid material objects come in contact with each other, exerting and transferring forces. The outcome from this contact is subject to the relative hardness of each material and to the magnitude of the stresses induced relative to their yield or fracture strengths. In order to predict accurately...
The effects of controlled release and congestion in a flow shop with prohibited early shipments
Thesis - 10 pages - Physics
Experiments were conducted with a simulation model of a flow shop with prohibited early shipments under a wide variety of conditions including congestion, which was modeled separately as “blocking” and as “material handling cost (MHC).” Congestion was found to significantly...
Fault tolerance in object tracking sensor network
Thesis - 5 pages - Physics
Sensor network is a system of nodes where each node is equipped with a battery which is used to supply power, a certain amount of computation, communication, a device for sensing and with some storage media. The reliability of wireless sensor networks is affected by faults that may occur due to...
Human face detection using localized feature extraction
Thesis - 5 pages - Physics
Human face detection aims to detect the presence and subsequently the position of face or faces in an image is an important task in automated facial image analysis. Humans are able to detect and identify faces in a scene with little or no effort. Our brain analyses, performs segmentation ,...
Integrated system for speech recognition & voice recognition using DSP and neural networks
Thesis - 3 pages - Physics
Neural Networks find great application in the field of signal processing. Here in this paper too we have proposed a simple algorithm to achieve better efficiency in speech recognition and also capable of distinguishing between male and female voices. Speech recognition is the process of...
Methamphetamine laboratories: A challenging hazardous chemical cleanup situation
Thesis - 4 pages - Physics
For several months, Greg Sweeney operated a makeshift methamphetamine (meth) lab in the basement of his flower shop in Clendenin, West Virginia. He then used the floral delivery truck to deliver the meth and hide dumping of the hazardous wastes such as toluene that had been left over after...
Chemical communication lab
Thesis - 3 pages - Physics
Table 1 shows each chemical with their respective ?l, density, molecular weight, and Q values. The ?l is the rate of droplet length change, and the Q value is the emission rate, in molecules per cubic centimeter per second. The densities and molecular weights were given in the lab book (DeLissio,...
Determining the heating value of a fuel
Thesis - 6 pages - Physics
We carried out this experiment in order to determine the heating value of Diesel fuel. We used a bomb calorimeter as the main apparatus along with a precision scale and a capsule filled with Diesel fuel. We performed the experiment under a pressure of 25 atmospheres. We took measures to compare...
Bench top cooling tower
Thesis - 8 pages - Physics
The cooling tower experiment was carried out using a Bench Top Cooling tower with an orifice at the top. In this case a wet cooling tower, where the coolant comes in to direct contact with atmospheric air and undergo energy and mass transfer was taken in to consideration. The best possible values...
Heat convection of rectangular and cylindrical fin bases
Thesis - 8 pages - Physics
The convective heat transfer lab was conducted in order to observe and analyze the heat transfer rates and various other criteria of two different geometries of heat sinks. First a rectangular fin heat sink and then a cylindrical pin fin heat sink were subject to a flow of air in a wind tunnel....
Measurement of fluid flow characteristics through ducts
Thesis - 11 pages - Physics
This experiment which was conducted in order to closely examine fluid flow characteristics was carried out in three stages. The apparatus that were under investigation in order were, Obstruction Meters, a Rotameter and a Circular Duct. The basic underlying principle for this experiment was the...
Temperature measurement methods using thermocouples, a thermistor and a hot plate
Thesis - 10 pages - Physics
This experiment was conducted in order to analyze temperature measurement through close observation of a K-Type and a T-Type thermocouple, a Thermistor and a hot plate. Each instrument was calibrated with respect to boiling water and Ice water in order to obtain results required. Bias Errors...
Using ethics to solve dilemmas in the world of engineering
Thesis - 3 pages - Physics
This report explores the importance of engineering ethics to arrive at reasonable conclusions to a dilemma between two vendors. This is done so by exploring answers to the three questions of whether or not the engineer of ACME should confront the other non engineering employee from ACME,...
Biodegradability of starch
Thesis - 3 pages - Physics
This experiment looked at the biodegradability of starch based packing peanuts in an environment of soil, in order to test its potential use in compost. This experiment determined the speed of the decomposition of our subject by measuring the changes in mass over a period of time. Four starch...
Aristotle's four causes
Thesis - 3 pages - Physics
In Physics, Aristotle discusses the four causes, especially the final cause. The original school of thought says things in nature happen to form the way they are by chance and that they happen to be purposeful, but did not form for a purpose. Aristotle attempts to reject this original notion...
Spectrum of consciousness: Evolution of the spectrum
Thesis - 13 pages - Physics
In this chapter, Wilber explains how the information given in the previous chapters relate to the spectrum model of consciousness. He summarizes the previous chapters and shows how they relate to the creation of the spectrum. Wilber describes the spectrum as an infinitely long continuum in...
Comparing the burning rates of two candles and the chemical reactions involved
Thesis - 7 pages - Physics
In chemistry and many other sciences, it is very important to visualize your data. In the world today, everything is visual: television, computers, and advertising ads and pictures. Because the whole world is so visually oriented, it is imperative to construct a visual out of the data you have....
Molar solutions
Thesis - 9 pages - Physics
Before the experimenting phase of the lab, the students must first calculate the molarity of the given solutions so that exact reacting ratio will occur between the two solutions when mixed. One reactant will be constant, as in each lab the molarity and the volume of that reactant will remain the...
