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In the present study, we researched the influence of storage time on quality of soy protein-celery composite paper. During the storage time, the protein content in the paper does not change significantly; Aerobic plate counts were decreased along with the increase of the storage time; Composite paper and celery paper color index values indicated that their value was related to the color yellowish-green (-2 to +2), except for celery paper in the 0 months; papers DPPH• radical scavenging rate sharply decreased, and was not detected till the third months.

Two equivalent models based on sandwich panel theory and equivalent panel theory were discussed in this paper. By analyzing the performance of fiber - paper honeycomb sandwich structure compound panel by bending load, the computational results are in accordance with test and Engineering software ANSYS. Therefore, it shows that the finite element equivalent models are reasonable and practical for the optimization design of fiber - paper honeycomb sandwich composites.

Cationic polyacrylate emulsion was used as surface sizing agent and the effects of emulsion properties on paper printability were studied. Cationic polyacrylate emulsion increases the printability of sized paper. The printability has greatly improved increase with the increase use of emulsion dosage, but the increase of emulsion viscosity influences the printing operation, and one layer of emulsion has already achieve the desired effect, therefore one layer of emulsion is properly.

The color reproduction is based on visual perception. The psychophysics experiments present the light source; illuminants and view background affect the results of color matching. Paper is a typical substrate for printed color matching and effects printed color greatly. Now almost all of print papers contain optical brightening agents, which changes significantly the color appearance of printed color and makes color shifting of printed color matching. This paper used CAT02 chromatic adaptation models to transform the measurements of printed color in paper with and without OBA, compared the effect of printed color matching between before and after transforming with display, present the method using chromatic adaptation transforms to improve the accurate of printed color matching.

Silica of hollow structure exhibits a number of special characteristic. In this paper, a new way to prepare hollow silica spheres which can be used as filler for paper was reported. In this approach, when silica shells were coated on polyvinylacetate (PVAc) template particles by the sol-gel method, the PVAc cores would be dissolved synchronously, forming hollow spheres. Neither additional dissolution nor a calcination process was needed to remove the PVAc cores. The morphology of the hollow silica spheres was also characterized by TEM. It was shown that the hollow silica spheres with 130-400nm in diameter and 15-35nm in the shell thickness could be synthesized. The possible formation mechanism was also brought forward. The possibility and potential advantages in usage as filler for paper were analyzed theoretically. We confer that this filler can improve the printability of the paper, and reduce its density compared with traditional fillers.

The paper takes self-developed great aqueous inking oil formulated into screen-printing aqueous ceramic ink under glaze color of once firing as the breakthrough point to choose proper decal paper and the best paper structure. It adopts modern screen-printing technology and searches new production process of ceramic decal under glaze color to solve some problems, such as the uselessness of fine lines, the mistakes of the short line, fault ink and color problem during delicate screen-printing and appliqué, and the defects of injury of glaze during appliqué, and to research new and high-grade screen-printing ceramic decal paper under glaze color of once firing.

In this research, paper material with different performance (e.g. brightness, fiber type, filler retention, coating weight, etc.) is the main subject. According to analysis of physicochemical properties for paper material and experimental results for corresponding printing qualities, the research presents the relationship between paper optical property and printing quality. And on that basis, it also pays more attention to optical effects (such as reflection, scattering, absorbing, concentration) and mechanism of paper with different brightness, research on best visual brightness, contrast and so on, which reveals vision laws among paper optical performance, printings and humans.

In this paper, the drying experiments of paper sludge were performed at different drying conditions. The drying kinetics and phenomena of paper sludge were investigated. The effective diffusivity and the activation energy of the paper sludge during drying had been evaluated. At the same time, seven empirical models were used to model the experimental data, such as Newton, Page, Modified Page, Henderson and Pabis, Logarithmic, Two term, Two Term exponential et al. Three statistical parameters (The coefficient of determination (R2), root mean square error (RMSE) and the residual sum of square (RSS) ) were used to evaluate goodness of fit of the tested models.

Digital printing has been playing a more and more important role in printing industry for its convenient production and quick turnaround. By experimental method, the differences of digital prints with different paper were detail analyzed, includes different base weight papers of the same category, and different categories papers with the same base weight. Results showed that the printing quality of offset paper with 120 g/m2base weight was better than that of 100 g/m2, and that printing quality of art paper was better than matt art paper with the same base weight. Other characteristics of different papers were investigated too. The method and conclusion provides in this paper would be helpful for choosing appropriate material for production activities.

By experimental methods, the influence of paper's properties on solid ink density and color reproduction results of digital prints was investigated, and different printing requirements on paper surface properties are analyzed. Different categories of paper were used, of which whiteness and smoothness was analyzed firstly, and then were output by same test target. Result shows that the paper's properties will impact on print quality to some extent, different paper should be taken for different images. The results of this paper has some practical guidance for printing companies, which can be used to research the printability of printing inks and papers, optimize printing process, improve printing quality, and provide method of standardization of process control.

Mica paper is made as one kind of insulation material, but low strength limits its applications. Surface modification is proved to be an effective way to enhance its strength. In this paper modifier like ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid, cationic polyacrylamide, cationic starch, ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid plus cationic polyacrylamide and ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid plus cationic starch are introduced to improve strengths of mica paper. Finally ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid plus cationic starch is chosen as modifier of mica flakes. After modification mica paper can reach high tensile strength of 19.84N/cm, which is more than six times high than mica paper without any modification.

The influences of the paper properties on ink-jet printing quality are very complex. In order to predict the printing quality quickly and accurately, it is necessary to establish a mathematical model and an evaluation system, based on which we can estimate the paper used for ink-jet printing is suitable or not. In this paper, five kinds of ink-jet papers with different properties were chosen, and the properties including brightness (X2),gloss(X3),roughness(X4),air permeability(X5) and absorbency(X6), were tested; then ink-jet printing in the same conditions was carried out and different printing parameters were tested, including solid density(D),dot-gain(DG),print contrast(K)and hue(H). Through combining analysis of each single printing quality parameter with some paper properties by using PCA of SPSS, the correlation functions D/DG/K/H(X2, X3, X4, X5, X6) were obtained. Meanwhile, a comprehensive function Y(D, DG, K, H) involving the printing quality parameters was achieved through synthesis data processing of SPSS. This study shows the influences of paper properties on the printing quality parameters and their corresponding weights, and it also proposes a prediction model of paper printability, which can provide a theory reference for printing work in ink-jet printing.

With the rapid development of color science, especially the ink-jet printing, the evaluation of the color copy effectiveness become one of the most important evaluation parameters in the ink-jet printing. Meanwhile, it makes the evaluation of the effectiveness of color reproduction become more and more quantitative. This paper selects four ink-jet printing papers with different types and physical properties, according to measurement and analysis of the whiteness, gloss, roughness, absorption and other performance parameters of the papers, it shows the effect from the various performance parameters of ink-jet printing paper to color reproduction. At the same time, the study of this paper offers a certain practical guidance to the selection of ink-jet printing paper as well as the improvement of replication precision of ink-jet printing.

Based on the experiment, this paper used principal component analysis and multiple regression analysis to establish a fuzzy evaluation system between the paper performance and print qualities. Five kinds of ink-jet paper with different surface characteristics were chosen in this paper to test their properties including absorbability, gloss, roughness, whiteness etc. During the same printing condition, using the digital proofer of EPSON Stylus Pro7880c, the standard wedge of GATF, solid color lumps and standard lines were printed on these paper samples; dot gain and solid densities were tested by SpectroEye, then contrast-K was calculated, the qualities of lines were analyzed with QEA image Analysis. Finally, paper surface characteristics were analyzed with principal components analysis, and definition of printing was analyzed by QEA Image Analysis, correlation between paper basic performance and the characteristics of printing qualities, such as dot gain, solid density, definition and contrast-K, and an integral evaluation function and a model were established. When evaluating on paper, as long as its surface characteristics were tested, the printability of different paper can be evaluated in a fuzzy and integral way through the calculation of the model and evaluation function. This work offers a certain theoretical reference and practical guidance to the selection of ink-jet paper and the improvement of ink-jet qualities.

Large amounts of sludge are produced in China each year. Its safe disposal and the recycling technology is the only way to solve the problem of sludge pollution, in which the sludge solidification technology is very important. Since the hygroscopic property and self-hardening property of paper sludge ash are important factors for developing cheap and effective sludge curing agent formulations, the research is practically valuable. The present research studies the basic engineering properties of paper sludge ash, its PH value, heavy metals in the extracting solution, hygroscopic property, microstructure and shear strength. The results show: the PS ash was weakly alkaline; the extracting heavy metals are of little pollution; hygroscopic property decreases with increasing pressure and there is a minimum water absorption; shear strength decreases as the water content increases.

By using method of mathematical statics and literature, we carry out stratified statistic, generalization and analysis of the scientific papers about Taekwondo in Core Chinese Journals (CCJ) during 2000-2010 according to five dimensions, including published time, the application of research methods, research fields, professional title and organization of authors, and language of citation. The result shows that not many scientific papers about Taekwondo have published in CCJ of these 11 years; research methods have been used widely, but the specific research method is rather single; contents of research are very wide; the authors are mainly lecturers and the organizations are mainly based on independent sports colleges; the major language of citation is Chinese and foreign languages are very few, especially Korean – there is no citation in Korean.

This paper analyzes the bag-making process and control requirements of paper and yarn compounding bag-making machine (PYCBMM). The overall control scheme is established. Configuration software WinCC Flexible 2008, Siemens touch panel MP377, Siemens PLC S7-200, Siemens frequency converter MM440, rotary encoder, color sensor, and other elements are synthetically applied to design the PYCBMM control system. During 12 months commissioning operation, the control system is stable, reliable, and easy to operate. All the technical indices outperform the design requirements.

Referring to the military sonar hunting submarine principle，the author converts the multi-constraint issue into the multidimensional space search issue and calculates the differences between the current solution and expectation in each dimension to determine the direction and the scope for the next search. Then the probability of better solutions and the efficiency are both improved. This article mainly make experiments in the auto-generation of test paper. The auto-generation of test paper is proved to meet the needs in practice.

Screen printing fluorescent security inks can be widely applied in the field of anti-counterfeiting packaging and printing special. Paper-based screen printing fluorescence security ink was prepared by europium polymer fluorescent material as fluorescent agent, alkyd resin etc as links, meanwhile various additives were added. The performance of europium polymer was studied by IR, UV spectra, fluorescence spectra, and fluorescent security performance of ink were studied by fluorescence spectrophotometer, the results showed that the fluorescence emission spectrum was narrow, and had a main peak at 612nm and high fluorescence efficiency, so this ink had good fluorescence security performance. The fineness,viscosity,stability etc printability of the ink were studied by fineness gauge, viscosity meter, the test result showed that the ink had good printability, can be applied in the security printing process of screen printing.

The study on the method of the color measurement of gold and silver foil paper is important to control color quality in the printing industry. The methods used in the experiments were to study the role of the gold tone and silver tone by studying the influence of gold tone and silver tone with different content on the chromatic value of normal color ink with different tone and different saturation. In the experiments, chromatic value of SPIN and SPEX respectively in the diffuse light conditions of color measurement could represent the chromatic value of the ink containing gold or silver ink. Then the difference of L values between SPIN and SPEX was defined as lightness difference. The ratio of the difference of saturation between SPIN and SPEX to their sum was defined as saturation ratio. Therefore, the Correlation Properties between lightness difference and saturation ratio was quantified. The result shows that with the quantity of gold and silver ink increasing, saturation ratio has linear relation with lightness difference for the same color. Similarly, with the saturation of normal ink colors increasing, saturation ratio has linear relation with lightness difference for a series of colors containing the same quantity of gold and silver ink .

Flameless combustion is of a great interest since it simultaneously provides higher thermal efficiency together with controlling the pollutant emission such as NOX. This technology has been used to provide large energy savings in power system and industrial heating applications. In this technology, the preheat temperature of the combustion air must be higher than the auto-ignition temperature of the reactant mixture. In this review, papers concern the effect of firing mode to reduce pollutant emissions such as NOX emission and combustion efficiency for flameless combustion were reviewed. Summaries on the influences of the firing mode in the flameless combustion were presented, discussed and analyzed. The review concludes that all the previous studies have asserted that a parallel firing mode gives much lower pollutant emissions and high efficiency compared with staggered and counter modes.

Return voltage diagnostic method is an effective method of non-destructive diagnosis in transformer insulating state. The current study is that through experiments get polarization spectrum to analysis the transformer insulating state, but not yet carried out the influence of various factors to the experimental results. So, based on the Debye model and specific parameters comes from one equivalent model of the actual transformer, this paper using RVM methods to simulation analysis maximum return voltage and dominant time constant under different factors. Simulation results show that the diagnostic methods that combine maximum return voltage value with dominant time constant can preferably reflect the transformer insulation state.

Pattern of number of PD events ("NE" for short) variation detected by UHF online monitoring was found through experiments, demonstrating that in the first half life of oil-paper insulation the NE value declined at the beginning and then kept stable, while it increased sharply in the later half. Least square linear regression was applied to calculate the changing rate ("CR" for short) of the latest 168 measurements of NE, which turned out to be an appropriate indicator of life stage for its monotonicity over time from the initiation of PD till final breakdown. The Grubbs method was also applied to exclude erroneous data and to determine the credible variation of CRs.

This paper proposed on-line detect method of eliminating the influence of sample order and adapting adjustment parameters, according to BP network was slow convergence and computationally intensive. Improving the speed and efficiency of training, the recognition process was more reliable and recognition results were more accurate. The experiment showed that improved BP network could meet the requirements of online testing, and recognition rate reached more than 91%.

Based on the background of cushioning package design for the wine bottles, the analysis on the cushioning properties of honeycomb paper core is presented. The reverse design method based on the function relationship of cushioning package is proposed, to make the cushioning structure design and cushioning dimension design as well as the buffering pad checkout, including strength check, deflection check and creep deformation check to make sure design meets the requirements. The function relation of the maximum acceleration and static stress between arbitrary dropping height and thickness of cushion is obtained. The reverse design method can obtain any curve of any dropping height and any cushioning thickness through several experimental tests. The flexibility, what is more important is that the method can greatly reduce test time, saves the cost of enterprises and technology research & development. The method provides a new way to the cushioning package design.

In order to accurately analyze the mechanisms of suction piece and deflector rod, and achieve the coordination relations of the sheet separation function between the trajectories; establish the mathematical models of trajectories ( absorbing papers of suction piece, dialing and pressing of deflector rod); and pregame by VB. This method realizes the accurate trajectory design.

The research described in this article focuses on one important aspect of monitoring scientific and technological trends and tries to examine topics of research and trends in the photovoltaic field. The data used to examine the research and trends were scientific and technological literature published during the last five years, which were exhaustively collected from the two SCI journals that specialize in photovoltaic and solar energy research. In order to analyze the 2,031 academic papers colllected, text-mining was applied. As a result, research topics were identified through document clustering and classified through text categorization into four major subjects; ‘Cell’, ‘Module/Array’, ‘System’ and ‘Relative/Advanced.’

In recent years, there have been extensive studies and rapid progresses in automatic text classification, which is one of the hotspots and key techniques in the information retrieval and data mining field. Feature extraction and classification algorithm are the crucial technologies for this problem. This paper firstly proposed feature extraction algorithm based on key words, the algorithm selected key words set from special part of scientific papers, and employed mutual information to extract features. And then, proposed an improved hierarchical classification method, and realized hierarchical classification of Chinese scientific papers.

As a high technique environmental friendly material, Wood-plastic composite (WPC) material has wide range of applications and is extruded by recycled wood fiber products and wasted LDPE. Waste Paper-Al-Plastic materials including Tetrapak beverage and milk boxes are used to extrude the WPC as thermal insulation exterior wallboard instead of normal wood fiber material in the present research. In this paper, simulated thermal insulation and Oxygen index combustion test were operated at the Lab conditions. Some experimental results are presented as follow: heat transfer coefficient of 100mm thick WPC hollow wall is 0.922 W/m2•K, which is equivalent to the thermal insulation performance of a 0.35m thick fly ash aerated concrete block. Oxygen index of 27 indicates that WPC is inflammable material. Zinc borate (ZB) and ammonium polyphosphate (APP) are effective flame retardant for Paper-Al-Plastic WPC.

A method is established to determine eight kinds of residual solvents in paper package by HS-GC/MS, such as benzene, toluene etc. Response surface method is used to optimize pretreatment temperature and time, the terminal pre-temperature is 100 °C, with time 40min. The result reveals that the pretreatment-temperature has a significant impact on peak area and pretreatment-time has no significant influence. The residual solvents in sample was separated using HP-5MS chromatographic column; Flow velocity of He:1ml/min; Inlet temperature:250°C; programmed temperature: keep 2 min at initial temperature of 35 °C, then rise to 100 °C at a rate of 10 °C/min and keep 3min; the total time is 14.5min. The eight kinds of residual solvents can be effectively separated by this method. The linear range was 0.330~7.956mg/m2 and the correlation coefficient was between 0.995~0.999.The Recovery rate was 99%~114.8% and the relative standard deviation (n=5) was 0.916%~1.333%.

Soil suction is one of the most important parameters for unsaturated soils. An experimental program was carried out to measure the maric suction of soil specimens of a residual soil in Xiamen by filter paper method. Initial water content, soil structure, and stress state were taken into account to investigate the hysteresis loop of SWCC. The air-entry value of test soil is about 140kPa and residual saturation is about 18%. The soil specimen at wet of optimum has the largest hysteresis loop for a relatively uniform pore-size distribution. However, the soil specimen at dry of optimum has the smallest hysteresis loop. The soil specimen at optimum lies between them. For specimens subjected to different stress states under various applied loads, the higher the applied load on the specimen, the smaller the size of hysteresis loop. In drying or wetting process, there is a significant difference in matric suction though soil specimens are at same water content. Therefore, for this kind of soil, it should be attention that the shear strength may be greatly reduced during rainstorms.

This study describes a new precise recycle module as a clean poduction pocess and an environmental protection consideration that uses micro electroetching (MECE) and a new design of an intercross tool to remove defective transparent conducting oxide (TCO) nanostructures from the optical PET diaphragm surfaces for e-paper surface. This process takes very little time to remove the TCO easily and cleanly and is highly efficient both technically and economically. A large diameter of the cathode of the intercross tool combined with a small gap between the cathode and the workpiece corresponds to a higher removal rate of TCO. This higher feed rate combined with enough voltage results in a shorter machining time. A high rotational speed of the intercross tool can also improve dregs discharge and allows a higher feed rate of the optical PET. A small end radius of the cathode or a thin cathode of the bulge-form tool takes less time for the same amount (20 nm) of TCO removal.

Modal analysis was done to steel shaft and rubber shaft, and their top ten orders of nature frequency were obtained. The lowest nature frequency of steel shaft is 64HZ and the rubber steel’s is 2.2463HZ. Doppler vibration measurement was done to main shaft of paper advance mechanism and the time domain signal and frequency domain signal were obtained when the rotational speed is 80, 160, 240, 320, 400 Rpm. The frequency and amplitude were obtained by signal analysis. It proves that the nature frequency of steel main shaft is much higher than measuring result, but the seventh and eighth order nature frequency of rubber material is in accord with measuring result of laser doppler vibration.

One of the most important steps in the wet limestone–gypsum flue gas desulfurization (WFGD) process is limestone dissolution, which provides the dissolved alkalinity necessary for SO2 absorption. Accurately evaluating the rate controlling step in sorbent dissolution process is important in the design and efficient operation of WFGD plants. In the present work, the kinetics of paper white mud(PWM) in dissolution process has been studied by using a pH-stat method. The results obtained indicated that PWM dissolution in WFGD conditions obeys the modified shrinking core model. PWM dissolution kinetics follows the film diffusion and surface reaction control and the rate controlling step of PWM is film diffusion control. The activation energies of PWM in film diffusion and surface reaction steps are 11.9±0.7 kJ/mol and 13.7±1.3 kJ/mol, respectively.

The effect of surface treatment of ceramic fibers on properties of handsheets was discussed. It is indicated with the addtion of ceramic fibers, the tightness of handsheets increases and the tensile index, elongation and tear index increase at first and then decrease. The tightness, tensile index, elongation and tear index of handsheets with surface treated ceramic fibers are higher than that with untreated ceramic fibers. The ceramic fibers and paper fibers can interweave into three dimensional networks.

The effect of relative humidity (RH) on the energy absorption characteristics of honeycomb paperboard and multi-layered corrugated paperboard (MLCP) is investigated experimentally. The concept of specific load is employed to compare the energy absorption properties of these two structural parts with different constructions and materials. Results indicate that energy absorption capacity of honeycomb paperboard is insensitive to RH in the range of 40%~75%; when RH is higher than 75%, energy absorption decreased significantly with the increasing of RH. While for MLCP, its energy absorption properties decline continually by small margin as the RH increase in relative humidity range between 40%-95%. Energy absorption properties of honeycomb paperboard far outweigh that of MLCP in humidity range of 40%-85%, however, in extremely humid environment (95%RH), energy absorption of honeycomb paperboard is nearly equal to that of MLCP. Results of this research can be applied in the optimum design and material selection of paper-based cushioning materials in actual logistics environments.

Constructing papermaking industry eco-industrial park is a importance way which can solve the dilemma of resource, environment, and economic development from enterprise group hierarchy. By ecological theories of “key specises” and eco-industrial chain, this paper analyses the feasibility of china’s papermaking industry constructing eco-industrial park. By way of case analysis, prove that constructing papermaking industry eco-industrial park is a feasible way of realizing sustainable development of china’s papermaking industry.

the paper introduces the advantages and disadvantages of the honeycomb core composite wallboard, and put forward various solutions on the problems that the honeycomb core composite wallboard on juncture place easily crack. According to the advantages and disadvantages, the optimal measures are to use CFRP paste connection joints. Tested by experiments, the results show that: for using cellular wall materials as new buildings retaining wall materials, CFRP enhancement processing juncture surface can effectively restrain cracks, and the results are ideal; for existing buildings retaining wall, gives suggestions about enhancement processing, and proves its feasibility.

The sandwich external wall panel is made of fireproof Paper Honeycomb Board (PHB) as kernel material, and the external surface is covered by colorful extruded steel board, while the internal surface is coated with the thermal insulating frothing ceramic board or the calcium silicate board, which works as the insulating layer or protecting layer of the panel. Two types of formation design are suggested, i.e., Type-A and Type-B. After corresponding thermal calculation, the maximum thermal transmission factor is determined as 0.424W/(m2• K), which complies with the threshold stipulated in the National Code for external wall panel used in cold climate area. The newly designed wall panel will save 65% of energy when compared with the traditional one made in 1980.

In order to know the application of bentonite in color ink-jet paper, an acid bentonite was prepared by modifying with sulphuric acid. Both of sodium bentonite and acid bentonite were characterized and evaluated with scanning electron microscope. The study result from printing quality testing showed that if the formulation of acid bentonite, under the dosage of 35% PVA and PDMDAAC 3% respectively, was used as the pigment, the print effect could be better.

The theory of natural frequencies were acquired from vibration experiment, meanwhile, the first order frequencies of honeycomb sandwich structure composites were obtained by using the sandwich laminboard theory and equivalent panel theory via the finite element software ANSYS. The simulation results were compared to the experiment results to get the error of calculation of the two different equivalent methods, thereby we can select more appropriate equivalent method to ensure the veracity of the result analysis and provide a reference for the optimization design of the fiber-paper honeycomb sandwich structure composites.

A cost combined life cycle environmental assessment was carried out to estimate the economic and environmental impact of wastewater treatment in the pulp production site of China. Results showed that the impact seen from abiotic depletion, acidification, eutrophication, global warming, fresh water aquatic ecotoxicity, and marine aquatic ecotoxicity categories represented an important contribution to the overall environmental impact, while the impact seen from human toxicity, terrestrial ecotoxicity, and photochemical oxidation categories played relatively small role. Specifically, the machine, electricity, coagulant production processes had the highest contribution to the overall environmental and economic impact. Improving electricity and chemicals applications efficiency are the efficient way to minimize overall environmental and economic impacts.

Forest-paper integration has lots of effect on ecological environment , mainly including biodiversity, soil erosion, soil quality and non-point pollution，the paper takes bamboo raw material forest base of He Jiang and Na Xi in province Si Chuan as a research，analyzes Plant Diversity by quadrat survey procedure，analyzes land use pattern by remote sense technique，and analyzes physical properties of soil，presents study direction on the forestry-paper integration of raw material forest base.

It was found that slagging in high temperature zone is one of the major problems in the refinery, petrochemical, pulp and paper, and steel industries; especially in biomass and coal pulverized power plant. Slagging conditions are critical factors influencing reliability and availability on a biomass utility boiler. In this study, several types of slagging were collected for chemical analysis. It was revealed that the chemical composition and other properties of received slagging showed unique results based on the type of feedstock fuel materials.

India is a fastest growing major economy in 2018, with a growth rate of 7.4 per cent GDP. Energy use in developing countries like India has risen more than fourfold over the past three decades and is expected to continue increasing rapidly in the future. Energy is essential for a economical growth of any county. Biofuels derived from renewable resources will become a alternative supplement for the conventional energy sources in meeting the increasing requirements for transportation fuels. In the present paper, effort are made to evaluate the pongamia biodiesel of 20% Blend (PB20) with neat diesel as an alternative fuel for CI engine. The pongamia oil is converted into pongamia methyl esters (Biodiesel) using two step process Esterification and Transesterification. The fuel properties of raw pongamia methyl ester and blend (PB20) are evaluated as per ASTM/BIS standards to check their feasibility as an alternative fuel. The prepared blend is used to run the computerized CRDI diesel engine at different load conditions. From the experimental investigation made, PB20 has a potential to be as an alternative fuel for diesel engine. The performance of PB20 with respect to Brake Thermal Efficiency (BTHE), Mechanical Efficiency, Brake Mean Effective Pressure (BMEP) and Specific Fuel Consumption (SFC) is comparatively low when compared to neat diesel. The P-Ɵ and P-V diagram shows that the combustion of PB20 is as similar to that of neat diesel.

Ramie solid waste as chips can be used as raw material for pulp. Ligninolytic enzymes of laccase widely used for pretreatment of the pulping process of ramie chips by biodelignification using laccase produced byPenicilliumsp. LX/08 has been done. This study aims to obtain optimal concentrations of lignin and CuSO4as enzyme inducers to increase laccase production fromPenicilliumsp. LX/08 during biodelignification process and its effect on the quality of ramie pulp. The biodelignification process of ramie chips was carried out by solid state fermentation (SSF) method with six days incubation time. Two inducer type treatment factors (CuSO4and lignin), and variations in the concentration of each lignin (0.25 g/L, 0.5 g/L, 0.75 g/L) and CuSO4(0.25 mM, 0.5 mM, 0.75 mM) were investigated in this study. The pulping process was carried out by the soda process in a digester under conditions: 12% active alkaline, temperature of 165°C for 3.5 hours. The results showed that 0.75 mM and 0.5 g/L of lignin were the optimal concentrations which could increase the laccase activity ofPenicilliumsp. LX/08 by 343 U/L and 25,8 U/L, respectively. The quality of ramie pulp showed a decrease in Kappa Number of 9,34% with an increase in pulp yield to 55,43%. Based on these results, the pretreatment method using laccase produced byPenicilliumsp. LX/08 can assist the pulping process of ramie.

Spent catalyst is listed as one of the hazardous wastes. Based on the toxicity characteristic shows that spent catalyst contains some heavy metals at concentration above the regulations limits. This situattion becomes an important issue in nowadays. In this research, fungus Aspergillus niger was investigated to produce weak organic acid (citric acid). Batch experiments were performed to compare the leaching efficiency from spent catalyst of pulp density (2% and 4%) and particle size (212 µm, 150 µm and 75 µm). Result showed that after direct bioleaching process, maximum recovery of valuable metal 24.94%, 7.42%, 1.09%, 3.51%, 4.87% and 1.66% were achieved for aluminum, calcium, iron, copper, silver and platinum respectively at 2% pulp density. Overall data shows that metal recovery at pulp density 2% are higher than 4% pulp density. The maximum recovery based on particle size shows that the smaller particle (75 µm) the higher metal recovery (Al, Ag and Pt) and for some metals was different such as Fe, Cu and Ca.

In this paper, the cockle shell was studied as a catalyzer for biodiesel production. The cockle shell was heated at the various temperatures from 200 to 1300 °C for 4 h in the furnace. Then, the crystal structure and function group of unheated and heated cockle shell were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), respectively. The results indicated that the initial phase of cockle shell is aragonite phase. After heat at 400 °C, the aragonite phase transformed to calcite phase. Moreover, the calcite phase of cockle shell was completely changed to calcium oxide (CaO) after heated at 800 °C. Eventually, the yield of biodiesel used the CaO derived from cockle shell were determined by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR). The results show that the CaO derived from cockle shell can be used as a catalyzer of biodiesel preparation. However, the biodiesel used CaO from cockle shell after heated at 1100 to 1300 °C as a catalyzer have the higher yield than other heated temperature. Finally, the results of this research indicated that the CaO from cockle shell could be used as a catalyst for biodiesel production.

This study was carried out to investigate the effect of beating process to the characteristics of pulp and paper produced from oil palm oil male flower spikes (OPMFS). OPMFS pulp was prepared according to chemical Soda-AQ pulping process. 60 gsm handsheet of oil palm male flower spikes paper were prepared from OPMFS pulp with four different beating times which are 0 revolution, 1000 revolutions, 2000 revolutions and 3000 revolutions. All physical and mechanical characteristics were investigated according to TAPPI and MS ISO standards. The results show that overall physical and mechanical characteristics of POMFS paper were influenced and enhanced by beating process between 0 until 3000 revolutions. This research demonstrate some potential characteristics of palm oil male flower spikes (OPMFS) paper to be investigated as a newly explored non-wood based raw material for papermaking raw material for papermaking.

Biomass fly ash is an ash combustion product. It is composed of the particulates (fine particles of fuel) driven out of biomass-fired boilers together with the flue gases. The understanding of the behaviour and property of fly ash is very important in order to predict the consumable part lifetime inside industrial boiler system. In this research study, the several characterization processes were carried out. It was revealed that biomass fly ash obtained from different sources presented unique property and more results were displayed in experimental result section.