Micro reactors and process intensification
Thesis - 5 pages - Physics
In recent decades there has been a significant increase in the energy efficiency of the process industry by optimization of unit operations. In many cases the limits of what can be done on a unit-operation scale have been reached. To develop chemical production routes and products that consumes...
Biodiesel: A cleaner source of energy
Thesis - 7 pages - Physics
A majority of the countries in the world are importers of petroleum and its products. The fossil fuels are being consumed at a rate, which is a million times faster than their rate of formation. The prices of petroleum products are mounting at an alarming pace due to the unmatched contribution to...
Pneumatic valves
Thesis - 6 pages - Physics
Today the performance requirements of process plants are becoming increasingly difficult to satisfy. In fact, without process control it is difficult to operate most modern processes safely and profitably. To understand the process dynamics and its behavior Apex has developed compact setups....
Bio-diesel: An Eco-friendly alternative
Thesis - 20 pages - Physics
Today, an attempt is made to find alternative, nonrenewable energy sources to replace conventional fossil fuels. Currently national energy demands are exponentially increasing as we are progressing into digital age and the population is increasing. One such method that is currently being refined...
Compact heat exchangers
Tutorials/exercises - 5 pages - Physics
A heat exchanger that has a large surface area per unit volume is called a compact heat exchanger. The ratio of the heat transfer surface area to that of a heat exchanger to its volume is called area density ‘?'. A heat exchanger with ?>700m2/m3 is classified as being compact. Compact heat...
Evaporative pertraction
Thesis - 8 pages - Physics
Evaporative Pertraction is membrane processes that has fascinating advantages over conventional process for the separation of volatile solutes from aqueous solutions. This novel athermal Membrane separation process retains flavors and fragrances better than thermal techniques. It promises to play...
Common effluent treatment methods
Thesis - 7 pages - Physics
Pollution may be defined as any condition in which certain substances are present in such concentrations that they can produce undesirable effects or changes in physical, chemical, biological, radiological properties of air, water, soil. Such substances are called pollutants. The primary air...
Taking a closer look at coal
Thesis - 10 pages - Physics
The word "coal" came from Anglo-Saxon col, which meant charcoal. Coal was not mined in Britain before the late Middle Ages; i.e. after ca. 1000 AD. Mineral coal was referred to as sea-coal, either because it was found on beaches occasionally having fallen from the exposed coal seams above or...
Methods for removal of H2S from effluent gas
Thesis - 6 pages - Physics
The environment performs three basic functions in relation to man. First, it provides living space and other amenities that make life qualitatively rich for man. Second, the environment is a source of agricultural, mineral, water and other resources that are consumed directly. Third, the...
Conserved pathways of limb development in vertebrate embryos
Thesis - 5 pages - Biology
Mice and chick embryos serve as ideal test subjects in the analysis of developmental characteristics. Through in-vivo manipulation, signaling frameworks have been constructed to explain and describe the development of limbs (Tickle, 2004). The basis of all development relies on several...
A comparative study between propofol and thiopentone with topical lignocaine for the insertion of a laryngeal mask airway
Case study - 48 pages - Medical studies
LMA is a device commonly used in the practice of anesthesia. A condition for insertion of LMA, haemodynamic stability and respiratory depression following induction with Propofol was compared with Thiopentone preceded by topical Lignocaine. The study was a prospective, randomized, comparative...
Tissues
Thesis - 12 pages - Biology
Organisms are classified into two types based on the number of cells they are composed of- unicellular and multicellular. Multicellular organisms have many cells. But unlike in unicellular, where one cell performs all the functions, cells of multicellular organisms do not perform all the...
Crystal growth and its characterization
Tutorials/exercises - 26 pages - Physics
Recent developments in semiconductor research technology over that last decade have lead to a renew interest in the growth of single crystals with better physical perfection and high crystal growth is newly emerging field in this study of material science which involves control phase change the...
Determination of various protein concentrations by means of spectrophotometry
Tutorials/exercises - 11 pages - Biology
Spectrophotometry relies on the varying capabilities of molecules to absorb photons of light. This absorbance is characteristic of specific compounds, and can therefore be utilized to quantify and classify the presence/quantities of various compounds. (Harris, 2007) With the use of standard...
Ion selective electrode potentiometry
Tutorials/exercises - 11 pages - Physics
The use of ISEP offers great selectivity in the determination of trace elements. With the utilization of a fluoride ion selective electrode, the concentration within the unknown sample were determined to be approximately 0.0423 +/- 3.5x10-4 mol/L. (Standard deviation = 4.58 x 10-4) In comparison...
Dietary advices in disease prevention
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
Dietary advices aimed at reducing disease risk of the entire population can be of major benefit for the nation's health because even a relatively small reduction in risk factors in a large number of moderate-risk people could lead to much greater benefit for the total population than a large...
Developing a menu driven housing loan module
Thesis - 20 pages - Computer science
Loan Management System (LMS) integrates various packages with a view to avoid duplicity of work and optimize the very usage of the network resources. The purpose of this project is to specifically design a module (Housing Loan) of the loan management system to systematically grant financial...
Pressure ulcer program proposal
Thesis - 4 pages - Medical studies
Pressure ulcers are one of the largest risks facing patients in hospitals today. The program that is described in this proposal sets out an agenda for dealing with this problem in a way that focuses on prevention. It is important because increasing numbers of patients are entering hospitals...
Bioreactor: Optimizing E.Coli fermentation for Bacteria directed enzyme prodrug therapy
Thesis - 10 pages - Biology
E.coli strain WM04 was determined as a viable option for Bacteria Directed Enzyme Prodrug Therapy. Determination of suitability for animal testing depends on sufficient quantities of bacteria being produced through fermentation. Optimal operating conditions are found for the production of WM04 by...
Profession in Dentistry
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
What do you want to be when you grow up? I've been asked this question many times since I was young. My reply was always rapid and quick from a teacher to a nurse to a tattoo artist. My answer changed as frequently as I changed my socks. This question, however, has slowly formulated to...
The evidence for a link between stress and ill health
Thesis - 4 pages - Medical studies
This essay is going to examine the evidence for a link between stress and ill health. It will include sections on what stress is, how it is caused and its effects on the body and the mind. This essay is going to look at and evaluate different psychologist's views on stress and the effects it has...
Overview of hardware & information technology
Tutorials/exercises - 39 pages - Computer science
A computer is a device that accepts information (in the form of digital data) and manipulates it for some result based on a program or sequence of instructions on how the data is to be processed. Complex computers also include the means for storing data (including the program, which is also a...
What's wrong with May?
Thesis - 6 pages - Medical studies
In April 2006, a 92-year-old Caucasian widow, May C., fell in her kitchen 10 miles west of Yakima, Washington, resulting in a compound fracture of her right femur. May called her LifeLine service for help and was transported to Providence Yakima Medical Center. Surgical repair of her leg was...
The fundamental unit of life: Cell
Case study - 11 pages - Biology
When you look at a your house, you can see that it has got walls, doors ,windows and ventilators. All these things are the building blocks of your house. Similarly , bodies of all living organisms are made up of small unit which is called as a cell, as like bricks are the fundamental units of a...
Study on impeller manufacturing for centrifugal fans
Thesis - 27 pages - Physics
The Tail Rotor Spindle is the one of the main component in the Helicopters. The helicopters are used for transportation, for construction, for firefighting, search and rescue, and a variety of other jobs that requires its special capabilities. Helicopters are the most versatile flying machines...
Commodity futures market
Dissertation - 40 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
India has a long history of commodity futures trading, extending over 125 years. Still, such trading was interrupted suddenly since the mid seventies in the fond hope of ushering in an elusive socialistic pattern of society. As the country embarked on economic liberalization policies and signed...
A study of the power press
Thesis - 17 pages - Physics
Press is a tool used to work on sheet metal to convert its shape to the required item. Power presses are used for producing large quantities of components quickly, accurately and economically from the cold working of mild steel and other ductile materials. The components produced range over an...
Domain name service
Dissertation - 93 pages - Computer science
DNS began in the early days of the Internet when the Internet was a small network created by the Department of Defense for research purpose. Before DNS, computer names, or hostnames, were manually entered into a file located on a centrally administered server. Each site that needed to resolve...
Campaign information system
Presentation - 64 pages - Computer science
Model: The model is represented by entity beans. An entity bean represents a business object in a persistent storage mechanism View: The view in a Java EE application may be represented by a Java Server Page. Alternately, the code to generate the view may be part of a servlet. Controller: The...
Online help desk
Thesis - 52 pages - Computer science
Online Help Desk (OHD) for the facilities in the campus. This is an Intranet based application that can be accessed throughout the campus. This system can be used to automate the workflow of service requests for the various facilities in the campus. This is one integrated system that covers...
