A Method for Preparation of Ordered Porous Silicon Based on a 2D SiO_2 Template

A new method for fabricating ordered porous silicon is reported. A two-dimensional silica nanosphere array is used as a template with a hydrofluoric acid-hydrogen peroxide solution for etching the nanospheres. The initial diameter and distribution of the holes in the resulting porous silicon layer are determined by the size and distribution of the silica nanospheres. The corrosion time can be used to control the depths of the holes. It is found that the presence of a SiO2 layer, formed by the oxidation of the rough internal surface of the hole, is the primary reason allowing the corrosion to proceed. Ultraviolet reflection and thermal conductivity measurements show that the diameter and distribution of the holes have a great influence on properties of the porous silicon.

A Novel ANFIS Based SMC with Fractional Order PID Controller

Interacting The highest storage capacity of a circular tank makes it pop-ular in process industries.Because of the varying surface area of the cross-sec-tions of the tank,this two-tank level system has nonlinear characteristics.Controlling theflow rate of liquid is one of the most difficult challenges in the production process.This proposed effort is critical in preventing time delays and errors by managing thefluid level.Several scholars have explored and explored ways to reduce the problem of nonlinearity,but their techniques have not yielded better results.Different types of controllers with various techniques are implemented by the proposed system.Sliding Mode Controller(SMC)with Fractional Order PID Controller based on Intelligent Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Infer-ence System(ANFIS)is a novel technique for liquid level regulation in an inter-connected spherical tank system to avoid interferences and achieve better performance in comparison of rise time,settling time,and overshoot decrease.Evaluating the simulated results acquired by the controller yields the efficiency of the proposed system.The simulated results were produced using MATLAB 2018 and the FOMCON toolbox.Finally,the performance of the conventional controller(FOPID,PID-SMC)and proposed ANFIS based SMC-FOPID control-lers are compared and analyzed the performance indices.

Resource Utilization Pattern and Development in Hills——A Case for the Pindar Basin of Garhwal Himalaya, India

Agrarian system is well adapted in Himalayan eco-system. Hence, the people have adopted the traditional subsistence cereal farming and it becomes the main stay of Himalayan people. About 80 percent of the workable force is attached with agriculture and its allied practices, according to the census of 1991. Although, horticultural farming runs parallel with agriculture, its proportion in terms of land is quite less, resulted in a negligible place in the economy of the region. Human resources, mainly men are attached with national security after recruitment in Army. While, women play a vital and integrated role in maintaining the workable potential in the field of agriculture and are known as backbone of economy. An animal resource implies foremost and wider part in agricultural system and economy as well. Water resources are unutilized yet, while almost all the major rivers of our country are originated from and flowing through this region. Increasing population causes forest resources depletion. The economy of the region is rested either on 憈raditional cereal farming?or 憁oney order based?development, which could not take place due to its remoteness from the main streams of the country. The impact of modern technology with innovation in agricultural system remains impracticable due to unwillingness of people in one hand and on the other hand, adverse geographical conditions like topography, climate etc. which could not permit the uses of modern innovation in the field of agriculture. As for infra-structurally,this region is lacked behind, due to its inaccessibility. While, this region is bestowed with numerous rivers, many places for tourists and pilgrims, and huge forest resources. They might be used evenly in the development processes. The practice of tourism will help for the further development, particularly, in the wake of the newly born state, Uttaranchal. The present paper aims to evaluate the present potentiality of resources and their balanced utilization in the Pindar Basin. A precise study has been done on resource utilization, ecology and environment with keeping view in mind that more or less exploitation of resources could not influence the environment and the economy of the region.

Rational fabrication of ordered porous solid strong bases by utilizing the inherent reducibility of metal-organic frameworks

Ordered porous solid strong bases(OPSSBs)have attracted great research interest due to the excellent performance as heterogeneous catalysts in various reactions.The main obstacle for fabricating OPSSBs is the requirement of high temperature to produce strong basicity on ordered porous materials.For example,the temperatures of 600-650℃ are required for the decomposition of base precursor NaNO_(3)to basic sites on mesoporous silica SBA-15 and zeolite Y.Such high decomposition temperatures are energy-intensive and harmful to the structure of supports.Herein,we report the fabrication of OPSSBs by utilizing the redox interaction between base precursor and low-valence metal centers(e.g.,Cr^(3+))in metal-organic frameworks(MOFs).The base precursor NaNO_(3)on MIL-101(Cr)can be converted to basic sites entirely at 300℃,which is quite lower than those of the conventional thermal conversion on SBA-15 and zeolite Y(600-650℃).The exploration on decomposition mechanism reveals that the valence change of Cr^(3+)to Cr^(6+)takes place during the conversion of NaNO_(3)to basic sites.In this way,MOFs-derived base catalysts have been synthesized successfully by the host-guest redox strategy and exhibit high catalytic activity in typical base-catalyzed reactions.

A recursive implementation of the ALIENOR optimization method

Purpose-A recursive scheme for the ALIENOR method is proposed as a remedy for the difficulties induced by the method.A progressive focusing on the most promising region,in combination with a variation of the density of the alpha-dense curve,is proposed.Design/methodology/approach-ALIENOR method is aimed at reducing the space dimensions of an optimization problem by spanning it by using a single alpha-dense curve:the curvilinear abscissa along the curve becomes the only design parameter for any design space.As a counterpart,the transformation of the objective function in the projected space is much more difficult to tackle.Findings-A fine tuning of the procedure has been performed in order to identity the correct balance between the different elements of the procedure.The proposed approach has been tested by using a set of algebraic functions with up to 1,024 design variables,demonstrating the ability of the method in solving large scale optimization problem.Also an industrial application is presented.Originality/value-In the knowledge of the author there is not a similar paper in the current literature.