World Journal of Engineering: Volume 13 Issue 2

An overview on tube inserts configurations and performances in tubular exchangers

Mazen M. Abu-Khader

The purpose of this paper is to update a previous review work (Abu-khader, 2006, Heat & Mass Transfer, Vol. 43 No. 2, pp. 123-134) and highlight the new research methods on the…

Review of sustainable energy sources in Kerman

Bahrampour Hamid, Askari Mohammad Bagher, Bahrampour Mohammad Reza, Bahrampour Mahboubeh

This paper aims to identify and introduce areas in Kerman with a very high potential for produce energy from renewable energy. In this paper, with studying renewable energy…

Memory features of water cyclically treated with magnetic field

Jacob Azoulay

This paper aims to study the properties of cyclically treated pure water in magnetic fields and its comparison with pure untreated water.

Performance of energy scavenging device by considering fatigue of PZT

K. Viswanath Allamraju, Srikanth Korla

Purpose is to design the energy harvesters and to know the limit of the application of load on the PZT material. Fatigue failures of the designed products is merely bothering the…

New algorithm for behaviour-based mobile robot navigation in cluttered environment using neural network architecture

Anish Pandey, Dayal R. Parhi

This study concerns an on-line path planning technique for a behaviour-based wheeled mobile robot local navigation in an unknown environment with hurdles, using the feedforward…

The percolation mechanism of surfactant-free microemulsions witnessed by the conductivity measurement

Zhen Li, Xianwei Liu, Yiwei Lian, Juan Xie, Xiaorui Gao, Tao Chang

This paper aims to report the conductivity measurement of ten different surfactant-free microemulsions (SFMEs)

Exergoenvironomic modelling and performance assessment of selected gas turbine power plants

Sunday Olayinka Oyedepo, Richard Olayiwola Fagbenle, Samuel Sunday Adefila, Md Mahbub Alam

This study aims to use an environomics method to assess the environmental impacts of selected gas turbine power plants in Nigeria.

Deformation analysis and reinforcement of jin-gang tower in jacking method

Xiaonan Zhang, Sanyuan Shi, Hongyu Zhao, Man Lu, Xuguang Li

This paper aims to first analyze the reasons of a brick-wooden building tilts in Yunnan province in China. Then, a jacking method which combines the stress release methods and the…

De-noising interferogram inSAR using variance and absolute deviation functions

Tarek Bentahar, Djamel Benatia, Mohamed Boulila

In this paper, a new efficient method to de-noise the interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar interferogram, also called wrapped phase image, is proposed with the aim to reduce…

The improvement of XD-MSM friction tester based on Labview

Guimei Wang, Xiaomei Li

With the widespread use and development of automobile, much attention has been paid to its security issues. So to ensure the driving safety, the automobile must be equipped with…

Probabilistic fuzzy controller based robotics path decision theory

B.K. Patle, D.R. Parhi, A. Jagadeesh, Sunil Kumar Kashyap

This paper aims to comprise the new ideas for the efficient implementation to autonomous mobile robot navigation over the complex environment in presence of static obstacles.