How can we measure draft power required during ploughing(loadis moving), when using any other tractor attachents like seed drills/harrows/ploughs?

We have a residue management project running here in our station, inside this project we want to measure draft power variation due to different factors. In this case, we need to measure the power...

06 January 2020 6,812 3 View

Do we have any technology that can decay straws of maize, rice,wheat etc in farmers field faster than they decay with simply incorporating in soil?

I frequently visit farmer's fields in Bara and Parsa districts of Nepal. I heard many times that burning the straws is not farmers favorite choice but are compelled to do so for getting the next...

28 May 2019 2,638 12 View

How to remove the KOH from ethanolic etherification without using extraction method?

Etherification was carried out between aromatic -OH group and alkyl chloride in the presence of ethanolic KOH. The precursor is a bulky dye compound that consists of an aromatic -OH group and an...

23 May 2019 7,830 5 View

Is it possible for a polymer to have optical band gap of 1.3 V and electrochemical band gap of 1.7 V?

Based on the reviews I read, most polymers got close value for optical and electrochemical band gap. I tried to calculate these band gap from UV-vis spectra and cyclic voltammetry. But the band...

01 January 2018 9,567 2 View

Can I use cellulose Soxhlet thimble instead of glass fibre thimble for the Soxhlet extraction in polymerization?

I read that most previous studies used glass fibre thimble instead of the cellulose thimble. The solvents are methanol, acetone, hexane, toluene, dichloromethane, chloroform. If I use cellulose...

15 May 2017 397 2 View

Why the entire FTIR spectrum shifted to the left after dimerization?

18 February 2017 1,096 3 View

How can I get freshly powdered KOH from commercially bought KOH pallets?

The KOH absorb atmospheric moisture quite fast when I manually powdered it.

06 February 2017 862 3 View

Which is the suitable NMR solvent for compound that does not dissolve in DMSO-d6 and CDCl3?

I would like to scan NMR for a compound name : 4,4'-dibromo-2,2'-diaminobiphenyl. According to some papers, the NMR solvents used are either CDCl3 or DMSO-d6. However, when I try to dissolve my...

07 January 2017 3,224 9 View

What is the purpose of adding HBr in bromination? Hbr/Br2 system.

Is the HBr was added to prevent the formation of HBr as by-product from Br2 during the reaction (minimize the wastage of Br2)? And to move the reaction forwards faster?

03 December 2016 3,324 8 View

Why DMSO is used even though the compounds are soluble in DMF?

I get to know that the solvent DMF is technically similar to the DMSO for organic synthesis, just that DMSO can dissolve more compounds than the DMF. Is there any special reason that DMSO is used...

19 November 2016 1,101 6 View

What are the values needed for gabor filter's parameter for cifar10 data?

Hi, I implemented a code to gabor filter cifar10 data but the images after being filtered and stacked are not clear like the original images. I think the problem is in the way I am using the...

03 March 2021 6,317 1 View

Is There Any Feasible Method To Test Fluorescent Compounds Other Than Fluorescence Spectrometers ??

Is There Any Feasible Method To Test The Efficiency Of Fluorescent Compounds Other Than UV Spectrometers ? Suggestions Would Be Appreciated !

02 March 2021 5,785 3 View

What thickness need for ITO to use as conductive layer?

I want to do RF sputtering of ITO on glass substrate using magnetron sputtering. what thickness do i need to make it good conductive layer to use it for PSC. Moreover, whats about thickness of...

01 March 2021 395 3 View

Glass fiber content in a gypsum board ?

Any idea on how to get the volumic ratio of glass fiber in a gypsum board ? Thank you for your help !

01 March 2021 2,501 3 View

Concrete compressive strength databases?

I am looking for datasets similar to this one: http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Concrete+Compressive+Strength I am looking for concretes with different types of aggregates (Recycled,...

27 February 2021 6,801 3 View

How to properly calculate the fluid solid heat transfer between polypropylene matrix and glass fiber in a porous medium?

I'm building a cfx model of thermoplastic pultrusion process on ansys and i have a doubt on how is the proper way to set this parameter in a porous medium

24 February 2021 1,915 1 View

Are there any candidates for an Einstein's bare cosmological constant?

It is commonly accepted that General Relativity has its own 'bare' cosmological constant that contributes together with the cosmological constant resulting from vacuum energy density for an...

23 February 2021 5,448 8 View

How to properly calculate Interfacial area density in a porous domain?which are possible value for glass fiber?

I'm doing a cfx simulation of a multiphase flow in pultrusion and i set the Interfacial Area density in the heat exchange of a porous medium in this way IAD=Total fiber lateral surface of fiber...

23 February 2021 6,043 1 View

How can I measure the thickness of thin layers deposited on textured glass susbtrates?

I want to measure the thickness of aluminum oxide and titanium oxide layers deposited on textured glass substates. The layer thicknesses are typically below 100nm.

21 February 2021 5,465 4 View

What is difference between In-line transmission (%) and Total transmission (%) value of optically transparent Ceramics?

I am working on transparent/translucent zirconia-based ceramics. In many papers, I have seen that they are reporting both In-line transmission (%) & Total transmission (%) value of...

20 February 2021 9,405 6 View