scholarly journals Building Out Your ROI: Making Sure Your Next Furnace Acquisition Makes You Money

Author(s):  
Bryan Stern

Abstract Ensuring profitability is top priority when considering whether to purchase a new piece of equipment. However, whether a furnace purchase will add value is a difficult question to answer. Between complex heat treatment cycles and varying utility consumption, the number of variables that contribute to a value statement can be overwhelming. For heat treaters, this can make it difficult to know what to charge for services to stay competitive and still hit target break-even timelines. The design of the equipment itself can have a dramatic impact on operating cost, which further increases complexity. Using a systematic approach to evaluate purchase decision can protect payback periods and recover value that is lost using more common simplified approaches.

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Sotya Anggoro

<p>Corrosion occurs in almost all metals. Even corrosion-resistant metals are corroded, but their corrosion rate is different from ordinary or non-corrosion resistant metals. This study examines the corrosion rate that occurs in stainless steel that is stainless steel. Stainless steel contains high enough chromium levels that can reduce the rate of corrosion that occurs. The metal material to be studied is the AISI 420 steel, which belongs to the Martensitic Stainless Steel class. This study examined the effect of heat treatment on corrosion rate and hardness level of AISI 420 steel. The heat treatment carried out was Quenching at 1020<sup>o</sup>C with a holding time of 60minutes with an oil cooling medium. After quenching the subsequent heat treatment is tempering with temperature variations of temperature 200<sup>o</sup>C and 300<sup>o</sup>C with a resistance time of 45 minutes and air cooling media. The results of this study showed that the base material specimens had the highest corrosion rate of 0.569 mm/y. The lowest corrosion rate is in specimens with quenching process with a value of 0.267 mm/y. The highest Vickers hardness values were found in specimens with quenching process with a value of 551 kg/mm<sup>2</sup>. The lowest hardness value is in the specimen with tempering process at 300<sup>o</sup>C with 405 kg/mm<sup>2</sup>.</p>


2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 232-234
Author(s):  
Alma Lorena Urias Sauceda ◽  
Nora Estela Ponce Fernandez ◽  
Pollorena Gregorio Lopez ◽  
Cindy Rosas Dominguez

The consumption of dry common beans in Mexico has been modified by eating habits. The green bean seed or sarazo, is harvested When the seeds Have Reached Their maximum size but the seeds are not ripe, contributing to ancestral recipes That still prevail in Sinaloa. The objective was to evaluate the chemical composition of sarazo bean consumed in Sinaloa Formulations, as a value-added food alternative. Sarazo bean seeds (Azufrado Higuera) was used. The treatments were sarazo fresh beans (FC), cooked beans (FCO), cooked beans with vegetables at 4.6% (F1) and beans with 47% of vegetables and meat products (F2). The chemical composition was evaluated in triplicate with the standardized methods of the AOAC (2000). The experimental design was completely random, the analysis included a one-way ANOVA and Differences Between average values ​​were evaluated With the Tukey (p≤0.05) test. The results Showed That, in fat content, F2 Showed Differences (p≤0.05) With respect to FC, FCO and F1, Caused by the Addition of fat include meat products in ITS That composition. In protein, FC showed no difference (p> 0.05) With FCO, by heat treatment but the Addition of meat products had a significant Increase in F2. The heat treatment affected the soluble fiber. The cooking modifies the chemical composition; however, the main effect was the Addition of other components: such as vegetables and meat products. In protein, FC showed no difference (p> 0.05) With FCO, by heat treatment but the Addition of meat products had a significant Increase in F2. The heat treatment affected the soluble fiber. The cooking modifies the chemical composition; however, the main effect was the Addition of other components: such as vegetables and meat products. In protein, FC showed no difference (p> 0.05) With FCO, by heat treatment but the Addition of meat products had a significant Increase in F2. The heat treatment affected the soluble fiber. The cooking modifies the chemical composition; however, the main effect was the Addition of other components: such as vegetables and meat products


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 9915
Author(s):  
Maria Dimopoulou ◽  
Vivian Offiah ◽  
Kolawole Falade ◽  
Alan M. Smith ◽  
Vassilis Kontogiorgos ◽  
...  

This research studied the commercial exploitation of an indigenous African crop in order to formulate high value products, with a potential significant impact on the local economy. More specifically, the present work investigated the extraction of polysaccharides from baobab in a bench-scale unit, focusing on the overall yield and the techno-economic assessment of the extraction process. Preliminary technoeconomic analysis for two scenarios (with and without ethanol recycling) was performed to determine the economic viability of the process and the development of the baobab market both in Nigeria and the UK. A full economic analysis was undertaken for each of the two scenarios, considering all operating and capital costs, and the production cost of baobab polysaccharides was estimated based on a constant return on investment. Combining the operating cost with the average polysaccharide yield, the minimum profitable selling price in the UK was estimated to be between £23 and £35 per 100 g of polysaccharide, which is comparable to the commercial selling price of high purity polysaccharides. An assessment of a scaled-up plant was also performed under Nigerian conditions and the results showed that such an investment is potentially viable and profitable, with a minimum profitable selling price of £27 per 100 g, a value comparable to the UK-based scenarios.


JTAM ROTARY ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Deni Setiadi ◽  
Achmad Kusairi Samlawi

The role of steel in the industrial world today is very important, especially in terms of making components related to violence such as gears, fly wheel, axe, and so forth.This steel has a high hardness for components that require hardness, to uletan and resistance to friction. get hardness and resistance to steel hence need heat treatment process using Quenching process. The material of this research is S45C carbon steel with specimen number 1 for hardness test before treatment and after treatment with rockwell test, this process is done in Central Laboratory of FMIPA UM, unfortunate. In this process heat treatment is carried out at temperatures of 800⁰C and 900⁰C with water and oil cooling medium, from the results of comparative analysis on S45C steel before and after the treatment obtained increased hardness. This can be seen from the test analysis in which 93 kgf of hardness n is for the untreated specimens. At a temperature of 800⁰C with a water cooling medium at a crude value of 94.6 kgf, and on oil cooling medium at a hardness value of 92.5 kgf. At a temperature of 900⁰C with a water cooling medium at a hardness value of 93.5 kgf and on the oil cooling medium at a value of 93 kgf. Can be concluded from all the cooling media is the highest media water with value of violence 94.6 kgf.Keywords: S45C Steel, Quenching, Cooling


2018 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 03021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Vorsina ◽  
Tatiana Moskalenko ◽  
Valerii Mikheev

This article studies the possibility of intensification of Kharanorskoe deposit brown coal alkaline activation by way of electromagnetic microwave radiation (EMR) exposure in order to obtain sorbents. There is data that presents investigation of qualitative and adsorption properties of sorbents obtained from 0-2 mm brown coal samples impregnated with potassium hydroxide at a KOH / coal of 1 g / g weight ratio and subjected to thermolysis at 800 °C in the thermal shock mode. The authors carried out a detailed analysis of three options for thermal treatment of the coal-alkali mixture ahead of thermolysis: coalalkali mixture drying to indiscrete mass, EMR treatment and combination of ones. The design of a laboratory microwave oven for heat treatment of raw materials based on the use of EMR at a frequency of 2,450 MHz is presented. It was found out that the effect of electromagnetic microwave radiation with a frequency of 2.450 MHz makes it possible to increase the adsorption activity on iodine by 4-6%, reaching a value of 97%, to significantly shorten the time of preliminary heat treatment of the coalalkali mixture and to shorten the thermolysis time when sorbents obtain.


2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (139) ◽  
pp. 327-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joost Augusteijn

Why certain Irishmen came to use violence to obtain their political objectives during the Anglo-Irish War of 1919–21 has proved a difficult question. A number of local studies of the experience of volunteers, following the example of David Fitzpatrick, have provided insights into the process of radicalisation but have not dealt with this aspect of the subject explicitly. A more systematic approach has been taken in the attempt to explain the strong variations in the intensity of activity throughout the country. What caused these variations has indeed been a matter of contention ever since the Anglo-Irish War itself. Michael Collins often voiced complaints about ‘slack’ areas in language that left little to the imagination. Since the publication of Erhard Rumpf’sNationalismus und Sozialismus in Irlandin 1959 historians have sought to explain the unequal distribution of violence by comparing the level of I.R.A. activity in a particular county with certain geographically distributed social and economic variables. Hitherto these attempts have been unable to produce a full explanation for regional variations.


Processes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 1078
Author(s):  
Irina Ioannou ◽  
Leila Chekir ◽  
Mohamed Ghoul

The application of food processes can lead to a modification of both the structure and the activities of flavonoids. In this article, the effect of heat treatment and exposure to light on the antioxidant activity of 6 model flavonoid solutions (rutin, naringin, eriodictyol, mesquitol, luteolin, and luteolin 7-O-glucoside) was studied. The evolution of the antioxidant activity measured after heat treatment of 130 °C at 2 h and an exposure to visible light for 2 weeks is measured by the ABTS (2,2′-Azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) diammonium salt) method and represented by a new parameter called ΔTEAC. The model solution of Mesquitol showed the highest increase in ΔTEAC after a heat treatment, a value of 200 mM was obtained. The increase in ΔTEAC is always greater with thermal treatment than with light exposure. Thus, temperature and light lead to different degradation pathways of the flavonoid. In vivo measurements were carried out with solutions of naringin, erodictyol, and luteolin 7-O-glucoside. Heated solutions of flavonoids do not exhibit toxicity on cells. The specific activities of superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxide have been determined and have shown an increased impact on the potential anti-cancer of these solutions by enhancing their cellular antioxidant activity, as well as modulation of the oxidative stress.


Author(s):  
В.В. ДЕРЕВЕНКО ◽  
Г.И. КАСЬЯНОВ ◽  
А.Д. НОВОЖЕНОВА ◽  
А.Б. БОРОВСКИЙ ◽  
Г.Х. МИРЗОЗОДА (МИРЗОЕВ)

На основе системного подхода с элементами функционально-структурного анализа рассмотрены традиционные схемы технологических линий для переработки плодов и семян тыквы с целью определения эффективности технологических операций. Выявлены недостатки при проведении гидроочистки семян тыквы от фрагментов плодов с их просеиванием через вращающийся ситовой цилиндр барабанной моечной машины и при подготовке масличного сырья к влаготепловой обработке – измельчению семян тыквы на вальцевых станках. В качестве объекта исследования были выбраны семена тыквы сортов Лазурная, Гитара, Штирийская масляная, Мускатная, Кормовая, выращенной в РФ и Таджикистане. Исследованы качественный состав СО2-экстрактов из семян тыквы, химический и аминокислотный составы СО2-шротов. Установлено, что в СО2-шроте из семян тыквы содержится, %: белка 22–25, липидов 6–13, углеводов 28–37. Представлены комплекс технологических предложений и высокоэффективная технологическая система на модульном уровне для осуществления рациональной поэтапной переработки семян тыквы с целью получения масла прессовым способом и последующим получением из жмыха СО2-экстрактов и высокобелковых СО2-шротов для обогащения блюд общественного питания. On the basis of a systematic approach with elements of functional and structural analysis, traditional schemes of technological lines for processing fruits and pumpkin seeds are considered in order to determine the effectiveness of technological operations. Disadvantages when carrying out hydro treatment of pumpkin seeds from fragments of fruits with their sifting through a rotating sieve drum washing cylinder device and in the preparation of oilseed raw materials to moisture and heat treatment – grinding pumpkin seeds for rolling machines are revealed. Seeds of pumpkin varieties Lazurnaya, Gitara, Shtiriyskaya maslyanaya, Muskatnaya, Kormovaya , grown in Russia and Tajikistan were chosen as the object of study. Qualitative composition of CO2-extracts from pumpkin seeds, chemical and amino acid compositions of CO2-meal were investigated. It was found that the CO2-meal from pumpkin seeds contains,%: protein 22–25, lipids 6–13, carbohydrates 28–37. A set of technological proposals and a highly efficient technological system at the modular level for the implementation of rational stage-by-stage processing of pumpkin seeds in order to obtain oil by pressing method and subsequent production of CO2-extracts from the cake and high-protein CO2-meals for the enrichment of public catering are presented.


2019 ◽  
pp. 9-21
Author(s):  
K. L. Pashkevych ◽  
N. A. Kryvonis ◽  
M. O. Vyshnevska ◽  
O. O. Rogotchenko

To analyze the classifications of modern fashion consumers in accordance with current realities of the fashion industry market for clothing design. The systematic approach to the chosen object of research has been used; the analytical-typological and comparative methods have been applied. The research contains a critical analysis of publications on selected topics and is based on a sociological survey and statistical processing of data. An overview of modern studies has allowed to characterize the behavior of fashion industry consumers and to classify them according to different criteria. The factors influencing the decision of consumers about fashion goods purchasing, the classification of clothing consumers have been analyzed and the purchasing behavior of Ukrainian women as consumers of fashion goods has been investigated. A survey has been conducted in order to study the typology of Ukrainian consumers of fashion industry products. As a result of the survey, it has been found that Ukrainian women buy fashion goods mainly for aesthetic reasons, firstly considering the products design; clothing is a tool for them to look stylish, express themselves and stand out among others. Most women buy clothes in multi-branded shopping malls, and online shopping for fashion goods over the Internet is not popular among Ukrainian women. Ukrainians prefer fashion clothes of foreign manufacturers, only occasionally buying home-made products. The motives and behavioral patterns of fashion industry consumers have been investigated, the factors influencing the purchase decision have been determined, the main characteristics of Ukrainian fashion industry consumers for clothes design have been determined. Modern consumers of fashion industry market have been characterized, the attitude of Ukrainian clothing consumers to shopping and fashion has been determined. The research results can be used to teach subjects related to the theory of fashion and fashion industry.


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