Browsing by Author "School of Engineering and Technology"

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    • Development and performance evaluation of a natural draft mixed-type solar dryer for agricultural products 

      Orisaleye, J. I.; Ogbonnaya , M.; Ogundare, A. A.; Ismail, Sikiru O. (2018-11-11)
      Reduced moisture content enhances storage properties of agricultural products and reduces post-harvest losses. Effective drying can be achieved using solar dryers in regions with abundant solar radiation. In this study, a ...

    • Development of a haptic environment for biomedical engineering simulation An educational software to help demonstrate a virtual human torso model 

      Vahedi, B.; Tiu, W. (2009)
      In the current world, by and large, computer interaction relies on visual and auditory feedback and to make interactions more realistic, tactile response would be essential e.g. for medical training simulations. Haptic ...

    • Development of a vibration measurement device based on a MEMS accelerometer 

      Onuorah, Chinedum Anthony; Chaychian, Sara; Sun, Yichuang; Siau, Johann (SciTePress, 2017)
      This paper proposes a portable and low cost vibration detection device. Enhanced vibration calculation, reduction of error and low storage memory are complementary accomplishments of this research. The device consists of ...

    • Development of an automated smart trap for wheat pathogens 

      Kaye, Richard; Johnston, Ian; Baxter, Richard; Munro, Ian; Tracey, Mark; Day, Rodney; McCluskey, Daniel (2017-03-16)
      National surveys show fungicide use on wheat continues to increase despite fluctuations in disease pressure, reaching a 30 year high in 2012 (Defra). Septoria tritici is the most significant foliar disease in UK wheat ...

    • Development of low cost ceramic moulding composites as fire barriers 

      Ren, Guogang; Hogg, P.J.; Woolstencroft, D.H. (2009)
      This paper investigates the fire barrier and heat insulation properties of newly developed low cost ceramic mouldable composites using a modern small scale testing method which exposes testing panels to the fire on one ...

    • Development of natural HEMP fibre sheet mould composites (NF- SMC) 

      Ren, Guogang; Patel, H.; Hapuarachchi, D.; Crowther, S.; Fan, M.; Hogg, P.J. (2009)
      The use of natural fibres as reinforcement in polymer composites has generated much interest in recent years due to environmental legislation and improvements on natural fibre performance and process-abilities. This research ...

    • Development of sustainable biodegradable lignocellulosic hemp fiber/polycaprolactone biocomposites for light weight applications 

      Dhakal, H. N.; Ismail, S.O.; Zhang, Z.; Barber, A.; Welsh, E.; Maigret, J. E.; Beaugrand, J. (2018-10-01)
      Biocomposites with poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) as matrix and lignocellulosic hemp fiber with varying average aspect ratios (19, 26, 30 and 38) as reinforcement were prepared using twin extrusion process. The influence of ...

    • Development report EnviGuard Port physical components (D5.4) 

      Suckow, Bjorn; Johnston, Ian; Hanken, Thomas; Dortu, Fabian; Riesgo, Teresa; Veenstra, Theo; Munro, Ian (Technologie-Transfer-Zentrum Bremerhaven, 2017-01-19)

    • Developments in wavelength division multiple access networking 

      Senior, J.M.; Handley, M.R.; Leeson, M.S. (1998-12-01)
      The last few years have seen a growing interest in WDM for optical networks in order to increase capacity and overcome the electronic bottleneck. Alongside the improvement in WDM components there has been continuing ...

    • Diagnosis and prognosis of slow speed bearing behavior under grease starvation condition 

      Elforjani, Mohamed (2017-04-28)
      The monitoring and diagnosis of rolling element bearings with acoustic emission and vibration measurements has evolved as one of the much used techniques for condition monitoring and diagnosis of rotating machinery. ...

    • Diameter effect on the heat transfer of supercritical hydrocarbon fuel in horizontal tubes under turbulent conditions 

      Cheng, Zeyuan; Tao, Zhi; Zhu, Jianqin; Wu, Hongwei (2018-04-01)
      This article presented a numerical investigation of supercritical heat transfer of the hydrocarbon fuel in a series of horizontal tubes with different diameters. The Reynolds averaging equations of mass, momentum and energy ...

    • Direct torque control of multilevel SVPWM inverter in variable speed SCIG-based wind energy conversion system 

      Merabet Boulouiha, H.; Allali, A.; Laouer, M.; Tahri, A.; Denai, Mouloud; Draou, A. (2015-08-01)
      Direct torque control (DTC) theory has been successfully used in a variety of high performance industrial AC drives. This paper presents the application of DTC space vector modulation (DTC-SVM) to two and three level voltage ...

    • The discovery of a very cool binary system 

      Burningham, B.; Leggett, S.K.; Lucas, P.W.; Pinfield, D.J.; Smart, R.L.; Day-Jones, A.C.; Jones, H.R.A.; Murray, D.N.; Nickson, E.; Tamura, M.; Zhang, Z.; Lodieu, N.; Tinney, C.G.; Zapatero Osorio, M.R. (2010)
      We report the discovery of a very cool d/sdL7+T7.5p common proper motion binary system, SDSS J1416+13AB, found by cross-matching the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large Area ...

    • The discovery of an M4+T8.5 binary system 

      Burningham, B.; Pinfield, D.J.; Leggett, S.K.; Tinney, C.G.; Liu, M.C.; Homeier, D.; West, A.A.; Day-Jones, A.C.; Huelamo, N.; Dupuy, T.J.; Zhang, Z.; Murray, D.N.; Lodieu, N.; Navascues, D.B.Y.; Folkes, S.; Galvez-Ortiz, M.C.; Jones, H.R.A.; Lucas, P.W.; Calderon, M.M.; Tamura, M. (2009)
      We report the discovery of a T8.5 dwarf, which is a companion to the M4 dwarf Wolf 940. [Please see original online abstract for complete version with correct notation]

    • Discovery of the benchmark metal poor T8 dwarf BD+01 2920B 

      Pinfield, D.J.; Burningham, B.; Lodieu, N.; Leggett, S.; Tinney, C.G.; van Spaandonk, L.; Marocco, F.; Smart, R.; Gomes, J.; Smith, Leigh; Lucas, P.W.; Day-jones, A.; Murray, D.; Katsiyannis, A. C.; Catalan, S.; Cardoso, C.; Clarke, James; Folkes, S.; Galvez-Ortiz, M.; Homeier, D.; Jenkins, J.; Jones, H.R.A.; Zhang, Z. (2012)
      We have searched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer first data release for widely separated (<=10,000AU) late T dwarf companions to Hipparcos and Gliese stars. We have discovered a new binary system containing a K-band ...

    • Discovery of the first L dwarf plus giant binary system and eight other ultracool dwarfs in wide binaries 

      Zhang, Z.; Pinfield, D.J.; Day-Jones, A.C.; Burningham, B.; Jones, H.R.A.; Yu, S.; Jenkins, J.S.; Han, Z.; Galvez-Ortiz, M.C.; Gallardo, J.; Garcia Perez, A.E.; Weights, D.; Tinney, C.G.; Pokorny, R.S. (2010)
      We identify 806 ultracool dwarfs (of which 34 are newly discovered L dwarfs) from their Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) riz photometry and obtain proper motions through cross-matching with the United Kingdom Infrared ...

    • Dispersoid and grain size effects on fatigue crack growth in AA2024-type alloys 

      Xu, Y.; Gregson, P.J.; Sinclair, I. (2000-01-01)
      Fatigue crack growth resistance is known to be influenced by a combination of intrinsic materials behaviour and crack shielding processes. In metallic alloys, shielding due to crack closure is known to be important, however, ...

    • Distinguishable de-identified faces 

      Sun, Zongji; Meng, Li; Ariyaeeinia, A. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015-05)
      The k-anonymity approach adopted by k-Same face de-identification methods enables these methods to serve their purpose of privacy protection. However, it also forces every k original faces to share the same de-identified ...

    • Distribution Network Voltage Unbalance Control under High Penetration of Single-Phase Photovoltaic Microgeneration 

      Bot, Youcef; Allali, Ahmed; Denai, Mouloud (2016-05-19)
      Electricity distribution networks are now faced with increasing penetration level of small-scale decentralized renewable energy generation. Meanwhile, distribution network operators are concerned with adverse impacts such ...

    • A Divide-and-Conquer approach for denoising and modeling the CN Tower lightning current derivative signal 

      Nedjah, O.; Hussein, A.M.; Krishnan, S.; Rahimeefar, K.; Sotudeh, R. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2008)
      The CN Tower is a transmission hub and an instrumented tower for the measurement of the lightning return stroke current derivative. The recorded data are corrupted by different kinds of noise, and need to be denoised for ...