Conference Papers: Recent submissions
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Effect of chemical modified water hyacinth fiber with polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) synthetic on mechanical properties of LDPE/NR/WHF composites
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Graduate Studies, 2010-10-16)The effect of chemical modification on the mechanical properties of low density polyethylene/natural rubber/water hyacinth fiber composites was investigated. The chemical use to modify water hyacinth fibers were polyvinyl ... -
Effect of normalization method on classification of speech dysfluencies using LPC, LPCC and WLPCC
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Graduate Studies, 2010-10-16)The main aim of this paper is to discuss the enhancement of the classification performance on the speech dysfluencies, namely, prolongations and repetitions after employ statistical normalization (SN) on signal and ... -
Mathematical modeling and simulation of a distillation column
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Graduate Studies, 2010-10-16)Distillation column processing is the most vital separation technology for today’s industry. An inclination to controlling distillation columns in a manner that is economically efficient depends much on the selection ... -
Model reference adaptive neuro-controller with on-line parameter estimation
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Graduate Studies, 2010-10-16)In this paper, a Model Reference Adaptive Neuro- Controller is developed, in which the error between the outputs of the plant and the reference model is used to adapt the controller parameters. The Model Reference Adaptive ... -
Response of induction motor to balance voltage sags and momentary interruption
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Graduate Studies, 2010-10-16)This paper presents result of experimental study of induction motor behavior when subjected to voltage sags and interruption. Small induction motors were used to investigate this phenomenon. A shaffner “Profline 2100” EMC ... -
Emotion detecting humanoid – the use of GPSO Algorithm
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Graduate Studies, 2010-10-16)Recently, we implemented a real-time expert system that receives a live video stream of the face of a human subject and recognizes any of the six basic facial emotions expressed by the subject. The expert system ... -
Multi-stage ozonation and biological treatment for the removal of azo dye industrial effluent
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Graduate Studies, 2010-10-16)This research focused on the treatment of dye industrial effluent by single-stage and multi-stage ozonation and biological treatment process. It was done as to evaluate the performance of ozonation and biological treatment ... -
Tribology and wear theory of aluminium composites: Review and discussion
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Graduate Studies, 2010-10-16)In this review, the classical and contemporary wear theories and wear mechanisms are discussed. The development of wear theories are started from adhesive and abrasive to delamination theory, mechanical mixed layer (MML) ... -
Stress corrosion cracking behavior of austenitic stainless steels in natrium chloride solution
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Graduate Studies, 2010-10-16)Stress corrosion cracking (SCC) of austenitic stainless steels of types 304, 310 and 316 will be investigated as a function of applied stress at room temperature in natrium chloride solutions under a constant applied ... -
Knowledge-based system for environmental impact assessment application to oil refinery plant in Iran a case study: TEHRAN oil refinery
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Graduate Studies, 2010-10-16)In present project, attempts have been made to consider oil general issues in addition to oil refinery environmental impact assessment because the oil general issues have direct and close connection oil refinery environmental ... -
Prediction of austenite grain growth during hot rolling of 0.028% Nb steel
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Graduate Studies, 2010-10-16)Effects of rolling temperatures and deformation on the grain growth predictions of hot rolled Nb Steel (A572 Grade 50) were investigated. Hot rolling process was conducted by using a laboratory hot rolling mill, in which ... -
Harmonic performance of single phase transformer with DC biased
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Graduate Studies, 2010-10-16)Direct current (DC) flowing through the earthed neutrals of transformer windings causes a DC component in magnetizing current. Owing to nonlinearity, the waveform of this current is strongly distorted. A high enough ... -
Vehicle interior sound quality evaluation using energy based features
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Graduate Studies, 2010-10-16)The comfort in the car interior is already become a need for the passengers and the buyers. Due to high competition in car industries, all the car manufacturers are concentrating in improving the interior noise comfort of ... -
Development of Flight Control Unit for semi autonomous AMAC-Q
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Graduate Studies, 2010-10-16)This paper contains the method of development of Flight Control Unit (FCU) for semi autonomous AMAC-Q (Autonomous Mini Air Craft – Quadrotor). To develop the Flight Control Unit, the characteristic and placement of the ... -
Free vibration of a rectangular plate with interemediate elastic support
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Graduate Studies, 2010-10-16)This paper presents a semi-analytical method to investigate the effect of intermediate elastic support on the natural frequencies of rectangular plate based on the finite strip transition matrix method. A singular value ... -
Development of bipedal walking mobile robot
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Graduate Studies, 2010-10-16)This paper describes the design, fabrication, control of walking stability and analysis of bipedal mobile robot. The main objective of the project is to study about the theories and the practical challenges involved ... -
Catalytic effect on pyrolysis of rice straw
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Graduate Studies, 2010-09-16)A study of the catalytic pyrolysis on rice straw was carried out in a fixed-bed reactor. The work objectives were to determine the effect of catalyst on distribution of product yield and bio-oil characterization. The ... -
A case study for environmental impact assessment of oil refinery in Iran with emphasis of Environmental and Social Action Plan (ESAP)
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Graduate Studies, 2010-10-16)Oil giant projects in the industrial and economic growth and welfare of human communities have been designed and implemented are in no doubt about the negative environmental effects such as water pollution, soil, air, loss ... -
Velocity profiles and friction factor analysis of liquid flow in microstructured microchannel
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Graduate Studies, 2010-10-16)In this work, simulations were performed for the flow of water through rough microchannel taking into consideration a pressure-driven flow. Analysis on pressure drop, friction factor and velocity profile have been investigated ... -
Recognition of facial expression using neural network
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Graduate Studies, 2010-10-16)In this paper, we attempted to recognize facial expression by using Haar-like feature extraction method. A set of luminance stickers were fixed on subject’s face and the subject is instructed to perform required facial ...