Effect of catalyst and oxidant concentrations in a TEMPO oxidation system on the production of cellulose nanofibers.

In traditional TEMPO oxidation systems, the high cost of TEMPO catalysts has been a significant barrier to the industrialization of oxidized CNF. From an economic perspective, presenting the characteristics of various CNFs produced with the oxidation systems with reduced catalyst usage could facilitate the industrial application of CNF across a wide range of fields. In this study, it was demonstrated that reducing the amount of TEMPO catalyst used (from 0.

Estimation of Heating Temperature for Fire-Damaged Concrete Structures Using Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System.

The structural performance of concrete structures subjected to fire is greatly influenced by the heating temperature. Therefore, an accurate estimation of the heating temperature is of vital importance for deriving a reasonable diagnosis and assessment of fire-damaged concrete structures. In current practice, various heating temperature estimation methods are used, however, each of these estimation methods has limitations in accuracy and faces disadvantages that depend on evaluators' empirical judgments in the process of deriving diagnostic results from measured data.

Performance evaluation of reflective electro-absorption modulator based optical source using a broadband light seed source for colorless WDM-PON applications.

The performance of reflective electro-absorption modulator (R-EAM) based optical source has been evaluated for the use in high-capacity wavelength-division multiplexed passive optical networks (WDM-PONs). In our measurements, a broadband light source (BLS) was used as a seeding source for the cost-effective implementation of R-EAM based optical source. At first, a bit-error rate (BER) floor at 10(-6) was observed even in a back-to-back configuration with the BLS seeded R-EAM source.