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Comparison of Eight Month Coastal Polluted Porcelain and Epoxy Resin Outdoor Insulators
Waluyo Waluyo;
Ngapuli I. Sinisuka;
Parouli M. Pakpahan;
Suwarno Suwarno;
Maman A. Djauhari
Journal of Engineering and Technological Sciences Vol. 40 No. 2 (2008)
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DOI: 10.5614/itbj.eng.sci.2008.40.2.4
This study presents the experimental results of eight months naturally coastal polluted outdoor porcelain and epoxy resin insulators. The experiments were leakage current and applied high voltage measurements used a two-channel storage digital oscilloscope, in the hermetically sealed chamber, where temperature, humidity , pressure and applied voltage could be adjusted and measured simultaneously. The leakage current waveforms were analyzed using FFT and the relation to environmental parameters were analyzed using correlation matrix of multivariate statistical tools. It was also conducted SEM and EDAX tests. Base on the correlation coefficient matrix, the humidity contributed to leakage current amplitude and phase angle on the porcelain insulator were very significant, with the correlation coefficient were 0.60 and -0.68 respectively. Whereas, on polluted epoxy resin insulator, the humidity did not influence to leakage current and phase angle considerably. Generally, the surface became rougher than the new one. The most three chemical elements in pollutants were chlorine, silicon and ferrum.
Development Study of Turbulent κ-ε Model for Recirculation Flow III: Two Dimension Recirculation Flow in a Reservoir
M. Syahril B. Kusuma
Journal of Engineering and Technological Sciences Vol. 41 No. 1 (2009)
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DOI: 10.5614/itbj.eng.sci.2009.41.1.1
An assessment of recirculation flow in Jatiluhur reservoir is conducted based on two dimensions turbulent κ-ε model. The numerical model was developed using finite difference method where hydrodynamic equation was solved by the combination of Mc Cormack and splitting methods. The κ-ε equation is solved using quickest scheme in convection term, central scheme in diffusion term and Euler scheme in reaction term. The simulations were done for maximum incoming flow during the rainy season and the dry season. Model results are compared to field measurement from which it is found that rainy season scenario has shown better agreement. Maximum incoming flow released in the rainy season could generate a boundary layer greater average velocity and more recirculation flow than that in the dry season. Further development is required to get more accurate results for the case with less average velocity.
Development of Intelligent Controller with Virtual Sensing
Yul Y. Nazaruddin;
Puji Astuti
Journal of Engineering and Technological Sciences Vol. 41 No. 1 (2009)
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DOI: 10.5614/itbj.eng.sci.2009.41.1.2
In many industrial plants, some key variables cannot always be measured on-line and for the purpose of control, an alternative of sensing system is required. This paper is concerned with a development of an alternative intelligent control strategy, which is an integration between the neuro-fuzzy based controller and virtual sensing system. This allows an immeasurable variable to be inferred and used for control. The virtual sensor is composed of the Diagonal Recurrent Neural Network (DRNN) for plant modeling and the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) as the estimator with inputs from DRNN. The integration between virtual sensor and the controller enables a development of an on-line control scheme involving the immeasurable variable. The real -time implementation demonstrates the applicability and the performance of the proposed intelligent control scheme, especially in dealing with nonlinear processes.
Synthesis and Activity Test of Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 for the Methanol Steam Reforming as a Fuel Cellâs Hydrogen Supplier
IGBN Makertihartha;
Subagjo Subagjo;
Melia Laniwati Gunawan
Journal of Engineering and Technological Sciences Vol. 41 No. 1 (2009)
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DOI: 10.5614/itbj.eng.sci.2009.41.1.3
The synthesis of hydrogen from hydrocarbons through the steam reforming of methanol on Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 catalyst has been investigated. This process is assigned to be one of the promising alternatives for fuel cell hydrogen process source. Hydrogen synthesis from methanol can be carried out by means of methanol steam reforming which is a gas phase catalytic reaction between methanol and water. In this research, the Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 catalyst prepared by the dry impregnation was used. The specific surface area of catalyst was 194.69 m2/gram.The methanol steam reforming (SRM) reaction was carried out by means of the injection of gas mixture containing methanol and water with 1:1.2 mol ratio and 20-90 mL/minute feed flow rate to a fixed bed reactor loaded by 1 g of catalyst. The reaction temperature was 200-300 °C, and the reactor pressure was 1 atm. Preceding the reaction, catalyst was reduced in the H2/N2 mixture at 160 °C. This study shows that at 300 °C reaction temperature, methanol conversion reached 100% at 28 mL/minute gas flow rate. This conversion decreased significantly with the increase of gas flow rate. Meanwhile, the catalyst prepared for SRM was stable in 36 hours of operation at 260 °C. The catalyst exhibited a good stability although the reaction condition was shifted to a higher gas flow rate.
Set Up and Calibration of a Spatial Tool for Simulating River Discharge of Western Java in Recent Decades: Preliminary Results and Assessments
Poerbandono Poerbandono;
Philip J. Ward;
Miga M. Julian
Journal of Engineering and Technological Sciences Vol. 41 No. 1 (2009)
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DOI: 10.5614/itbj.eng.sci.2009.41.1.4
This paper discusses a study of the application of global spatiotemporal climate datasets and the hydrological model STREAM (Spatial Tools for River Basin Environmental Analysis and Management Options). In the study, set up and calibration of STREAM for the reconstruction of monthly discharge for several locations in the western part of Java, Indonesia, for the period 1983 -2002 are carried out. The set up includes the preparation of monthly precipitation and temperature datasets, a digital elevation model of the domain being studied, and maps of land cover and soil water holding capacity. Discharge observations from six stations located mostly in the upper parts of major watersheds in the domain are used to calibrate the model by comparing simulated and observed discharge variables. The model performs reasonably well. Comparison between computed and observed mean monthly discharges yield correlation coefficients ranging from 0.72 to 0.93. The computed mean annual discharge in five out of six observation stations ranges between -8 and 5% with respect to the mean annual observed discharge. This study offers a tool which can be used for reconstructing historical discharge
Pressure Drop Correlation Covering Dilute to Dense Regimes of Solid Particle-Gas Flow in a Vertical Conveying Pipe
Yazid Bindar;
N. A. Sutrisniningrum;
D. Santiani
Journal of Engineering and Technological Sciences Vol. 41 No. 1 (2009)
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DOI: 10.5614/itbj.eng.sci.2009.41.1.5
More general correlations between pressure drop and gas-solid flow variables are developed from the present experimental data. The correlation was modeled for a pneumatic conveying system in a vertical pipe. The transition boundary between dense and dilute regimes is constructed from the pressure drop correlations. The gas-solid particle flow variables are quantified by the gas Reynolds (Nref) and the solid Froude (Frp) numbers. The dense flow regime is indicated by the decrease of the pressure drop with the increase of the gas Reynolds number. In contrary, the dilute regime exhibits the increase of the pressure drop with the gas Reynolds number. The proposed correlations were built at the range of gas Reynolds number f from 360 to 500 and solid Froude number from 0,01 to 0,02.
Decision Support System for Selection of Suitable Mariculture Site in the Western Part of Java Sea, Indonesia
W. Windupranata;
R. Mayerle
Journal of Engineering and Technological Sciences Vol. 41 No. 1 (2009)
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DOI: 10.5614/itbj.eng.sci.2009.41.1.6
Mariculture (marine aquaculture) has been intensified and has created essential employment opportunities over the last two-decades in Indonesia, as well as many other countries in the world. This development has negative impact to the environment. Considerable amounts of nutrient waste in dissolved and particulate form were released by intensive fish farming into the environment through feed excess, soluble fish excretion and faeces production. One of the first steps to avoid the dangerous environmental impacts is careful site selection to minimize environmental impacts arising from the farming activities (sustainability) as well as to guarantee adequate conditions from the operational point of view (suitability).The paper focuses on the development of a Decision Support System (DSS) as a tool for the appropriate selection of mariculture site location. The DSS is based on physical, chemical and sediment criteria as well as on data of conflicting coastal use. The GIS analysis results in a map indicating the suitable areas for the improved method of offshore cage mariculture. In this study, emphasis was placed on finfish species; however the methods and results may be employed for other species as well following some modifications.The DSS was applied for the western part of Java Sea, Indonesia. The data were acquired from direct field measurement, numerical modeling and existing information from particular agencies. Numerical modeling was used to obtain spatial and temporal distributions of hydrodynamic parameters (i.e. current velocities and water levels). The Delft3D modeling system (Delft Hydraulics, The Netherlands) was employed for this purpose. The DSS was developed under GIS application of ESRI® ArcGISâ„¢ using weighted overlay method. The results showed the adequacy of the system for supporting governmental authorities in the implementation, environmental controlling, and estimation of overall carrying capacity for environmental sustainable marine fish farming.
Geometry Effect Investigation on a Conical Chamber with Porous Media Boundary Condition Using Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) Technique
Yazid Bindar
Journal of Engineering and Technological Sciences Vol. 41 No. 2 (2009)
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DOI: 10.5614/itbj.eng.sci.2009.41.2.1
The present study is an attempt to introduce a method for optimizing the geometry of a unit process. The comprehensive unit process performances are generated by a CFD engine. The CFD engine can simulate the unit process performances at whatever conditions. Both design geometry and operating variables were used on the CFD simulation. The burden on a simplified process was taken out from CFD simulation. A complex geometry of a unit process is represented by a secondary reformer. A secondary reformer has a conical chamber as a space to undergo a combustion reaction before entering a catalyst bed. This complexity is added by the boundary on a porous solid surface as the top surface of the catalyst bed. The conical angle affects the flow pattern inside the conical chamber having a porous solid surface as its base. The conical angle above 65° results the disappearing of the recirculation flow. The inlet distance from the porous solid surface also can exhibit different characteristics of recirculation flow. The closer the distance to the porous solid surface, the stronger the recirculation is. The inlet velocity values have no significant effect on the flow pattern. The introduction of a solid volume inside the geometry creates distortion in the flow pattern. In the application, the inserted solid volume is equivalent to a burner. It means that the use of the burner inherently produces some problems of the flow distribution.
Vortex-induced Vibration of a Flexible Free-hanging Circular Cantilever
R. W. Prastianto;
K. Otsuka;
Y. Ikeda
Journal of Engineering and Technological Sciences Vol. 41 No. 2 (2009)
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DOI: 10.5614/itbj.eng.sci.2009.41.2.2
The behavior of a free-hanging riser of floating offshore structures would be different from a typical at-sea-floor-terminated riser type of oil or gas platforms. For the design purpose, the present study was intended to incorporate some important factors of the riser conditions (i.e. bidirectional vibration, freeend condition, and spanwise variation of response amplitude) for investigating its dynamics characteristics. An experimental investigation on time-dependent motion of a flexible free-hanging circular cantilever subjected to uniform crossflows has been carried out. The free-end condition cantilever has a 34.4 aspect ratio and a low mass ratio of about 1.24. The cylinder freely oscillates in both inline and transverse to the flow. Reynolds number varied from 10,800 to 37,800. The "jump phenomenon" was found in the inline motion of the cylinder that agrees well with an existing comparable work. At high flow velocities, the 3rd higher harmonic frequencies of the cylinder transverse response became predominant that produce quite different motion characteristics compared to the other existing comparable works with 2-dimensional bottom-end condition. Generally, the results suggested that the flexible free-hanging cantilever generate different vortex wake mode than either, a uniform (a short-rigid flexiblymounted cylinder) or a linear amplitude variation along the span case (a pivoted cylinder)
A Field Observation on Lightning Performance Improvement of Overhead Distribution Lines
Reynaldo Zoro;
Ryan Mefiardhi;
Syarif Hidayat;
Redy Mardiana
Journal of Engineering and Technological Sciences Vol. 41 No. 2 (2009)
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DOI: 10.5614/itbj.eng.sci.2009.41.2.3
Two feeders of 20 kV overhead distribution lines which are located in a high lightning density area are chosen to be observed as a field study due to their good lightning performance after improvement of lightning protection system. These two feeders used the new overhead ground wire and new line arrester equipped with lightning counter on the main lines. The significant reduced of lines outages are reported. Study was carried out to observe these improvements by comparing to the other two feeders line which are not improved and not equipped yet with the ground wire and line arrester. These two feeders located in the nearby area. Two cameras were installed to record the trajectory of the lightning strikes on the improved lines. Lightning peak currents are measured using magnetic tape measurement system installed on the grounding lead of lightning arrester. Lightning overvoltage calculations are carried out by using several scenarios based on observation results and historical lightning data derived from lightning detection network. Lightning overvoltages caused by indirect or direct strikes are analyzed to get the lightning performance of the lines. The best scenario was chosen and performance of the lines were improved significantly by installing overhead ground wire and improvement of lightning arrester installation.