Conservation of Leaves of a Medicinal Plant of Western Algeria （Pistacia atlantica）

In our context, and in the goal to valorize the Pistacia atlantica species Desfthat grows spontaneously in Algeria occidental except the coastline, and that is used by the nomadic populations in their daily consumptions, we are thinking about drying its leaves. Here, the biochemical analysis of dried leaves ofPistacia atlantica is determined, the sorption is other ms are of great importance in the food industry, especially in the drying; the sorption isotherms of pistachio leaves were measured by the gravimetric method at three temperatures 40, 50 and 60 ℃. The equilibrium was achieved after eight days for desorption and seven days for adsorption with water activity ranging from 5% to 90%. Only the GAB and Peleg models were found to be the most suitable for describing the sorption curves. The isosteric heat of sorption of Pistacia atlantica leaves decreases with an increase in moisture content and was found to be an exponential function of moisture content for adsorption and desorption. The pistachio leaves could be considered as a rich natural source of valuable nutriments （carbohydrates, proteins and lipids）; lipid fraction is equal to 2.25%; proteins are the second macronutriment that predominates in these sheets： 4.35%; accordingly carbohydrates content was about 25.77%.

A Cryptographic-Based Approach for Electricity Theft Detection in Smart Grid

In order to strengthen their security issues,electrical companies devote particular efforts to developing and enhancing their fraud detection techniques that cope with the information and communication technologies integration in smart grid fields.Having been treated earlier by several researchers,various detection schemes adapted from attack models that benefit from the smart grid topologies weaknesses,aiming primarily to the identification of suspicious incoming hazards.Wireless meshes have been extensively used in smart grid communication architectures due to their facility,lightness of conception and low cost installation;however,the communicated packets are still exposed to be intercepted maliciously in order either to falsify pertinent information like the smart meter readings,or to inject false data instead,aiming at electricity theft during the communication phase.For this reason,this paper initiates a novel method based on RSA cryptographic algorithm to detect electricity fraud in smart grid.This new method consists of generating two different cryptograms of one electricity measurement before sending,after which the recipient is used to find the same value after decrypting the two cyphers in a normal case.Otherwise,a fraudulent manipulation could occur during the transmission stage.The presented method allows us to kill two birds with one stone.First,satisfactory outcomes are shown:the algorithm accuracy reaches 100%,from one hand,and the privacy is protected thanks to the cryptology concept on the other hand.

Model Identification and Control of Evapotranspiration for Irrigation Water Optimization

Water conservation starts from rationalizing irrigation,as it is the largest consumer of this vital source.Following the critical and urgent nature of this issue,several works have been proposed.The idea of most researchers is to develop irrigation management systems tomeet the water needs of plants with optimal use of this resource.In fact,irrigation water requirement is only the amount of water that must be applied to compensate the evapotranspiration loss.Penman-Monteith equation is the most common formula to evaluate reference evapotranspiration,but it requiresmany factors that cannot be available in many cases.This leads to a trend towards behavior model estimation.System identification with control is one of the most promising applications in this axis.The idea behind this proposal depends on three stages:First,the estimation of reference evapotranspiration(ET0)by a linear ARX model,where temperature,relative humidity,insolation duration and wind speed are used as inputs,and ET0 estimated by Penman-Monteith equation as output.The results show that the values estimated by thismethodwere in good agreement with the measured data.The second part of this paper is tomanage the quantity of water.For this purpose,two controllers are used for testing,lead-lag and PID.To adjust the first controller and optimize the choice of its parameters,Nelder-Mead algorithm is used.In the last part,a comparative study is done between the two used controllers.