This study shows that spruce woodmeal can be an alternative cellulosic-based wood additive for newsprint applications. This study used unbleached wood flour produced from Spruce sawdust, ground and sieved to a particle size of 20-40 µm, 40-70 µm, 70-120 µm and 200-...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2020/v10i117027
An handsheet study was performed to compare the application of unmodified pearl corn starch and cationic tapioca starch on 100% recycled paperboard. To analyze the benefits tensile index, Canadian Standard Freeness, and starch retention was measured. The results found that cation...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2019/v9i417024
Aims: In this research project, a refrigeration system that will preserve the quality of fresh maize was developed. Study Design: Design of refrigeration system. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Federal University of Technology, A...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2019/v9i417025
Aims: This research involves the development of a sawdust fired fluidized bed reactor for the production of synthetic gas for domestic cooking. Study Design: A sawdust fired fluidized bed reactor using AutoCAD inventor. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Mechanical Engine...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2019/v9i417023
This research work emphasizes on design of a robust control for a 3DOF robotic manipulator under uncertainties. The plant model was achieved using the independent joint method and the uncertainty problem was addressed by designing a robust controller using H-Infinity synthesis wh...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2019/v9i417022
New design for a certain issue in semiconductor industry is another way to modify the standard configuration into specified limit or to make a possible solution of the problem. This paper presents a new modified design for wirebond top plate with a bias platform structure that w...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2019/v9i317021
The aim of this research was to determine the pressure drop along a 450 km long multiproduct pipeline. Empirical formulae and quantitative methods were applied in order to establish pressure drop as an operating parameter. Flow rates used were obtained from the daily operation re...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2019/v9i317020
In this project, he develops the evaluation of seven thesaurus software tools, in the implementation of a controlled vocabulary, for the CAAC (Collections and Archives of Contemporary Art of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Cuenca, UCLM) in collaboration with UC3M; framed in the "Medi...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2019/v9i317019
Ethiopia has been started traditional irrigation practice since ancient time for the aim of subsistence food production. Since 1950’s modern irrigation system was introduced in Awash and Rift Valley basins for production of industrial crops. Government, donors and non-governmenta...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2019/v9i317016
The concern of this paper is to develop simple workshop application models for predicting the mechanical properties and the evaluation of the thermo-mechanical behaviour of chopped strand fibre-mat reinforced thermoset composites. A hybrid of empirical and strength of materials a...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2019/v9i317015