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Towards Solving the Complexity Associated with Continuous Countercurrent Decantation (CCD) System in Solid–Liquid Separation Processes
Continuous countercurrent decantation (CCD) washing is an important unit operation employed mostly in hydrometallurgical, mining, and chemical process industries. In many of the hydrometallurgical processes CC...
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Influence of Al Variation on the Mechanical Properties and Critical Shear Stress of Twinning in Fe-Mn-Al-C Steels
The deformation behavior of three tensile deformed high-Mn steels with varying Al contents (0, 1 and 3 wt.%) is discriminated on the basis of their respective critical shear stress of twinning, derived from th...
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Characterization for Identification of Possible Beneficiation Strategies for Low-Grade PGE Ores from Mesoarchean Boula-Nuasahi Igneous Complex, Singhbhum Craton, India
Comprehensive characterization studies are carried out to develop a suitable beneficiation process for treating low-grade platinum group elements (PGEs) ore from Mesoarchean Boula-Nuasahi Igneous Complex in so...
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Dynamic Mechanical Properties of a Biocomposite Reinforced with Sodiumbicarbonate-Treated Sisal Fibers at Different Frequencies
The effect of different frequencies on the glass-transition temperature, storage and loss moduli, and dam** of untreated and sodium bicarbonate-treated sisal fibers reinforced biocomposites have been analyze...
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The Influence of Geotechnical Parameters on Sinkhole Subsidence and Its Model Development for Underground Coal Mines in Central India
Excavations in shallow depth and the presence of weak overlying rock may disturb the strata conditions due to which caving start and creates a cavity in the subsurface and finally sinkhole. In central India, t...
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Alkali/alkaline earth ion-exchanged and palladium dispersed MCM-22 zeolite as a potential catalyst for eugenol isomerization and Heck coupling reactions
Alkali and alkaline earth metal ions (Na+, K+, Cs+, Mg2+) exchanged MCM-22 zeolites were prepared and subsequently palladium (2 wt.%; Pd) was dispersed on above exchanged MCM-22 zeolite materials. All the MCM-22 ...
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Characterization and Pre-concentration of Low Grade PGE Ores of Boula Area, Odisha using Gravity Concentration Methods
Platinum group elements (PGEs) are scarce in nature and have very limited deposits of economic importance world over. The deposits have very low tenor and require pre-concentration to recover the PGE values. C...
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A Stacking Fault Energy Perspective into the Uniaxial Tensile Deformation Behavior and Microstructure of a Cr-Mn Austenitic Steel
A Cr-Mn austenitic steel was tensile strained in the temperature range 273 K (0 °C) ≤ T ≤ 473 K (200 °C), to improve the understanding on the role of stacking fault energy (SFE) on the deformation behavior, as...
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Migration of arsenic in multi-aquifer system of southern Bengal Basin: analysis via numerical modeling
A heterogeneous anisotropic steady-state groundwater flow model for the multi-aquifer system of a part of southern Bengal Basin shows that human intervention has changed the natural groundwater flow system. At...
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Martensitic Transformation During Cold Rolling Deformation of an Austenitic Fe-26Mn-0.14C Alloy
A high-Mn austenitic steel was deformed in cold rolling to study the martensitic transformation and microstructure using X-ray diffraction and electron backscatter diffraction. Despite heavy deformation of 70 ...
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Threat of land subsidence in and around Kolkata City and East Kolkata Wetlands, West Bengal, India
This paper attempts to estimate the possible rate of land subsidence of Kolkata City including Salt Lake City and the adjoining East Kolkata Wetlands located at the lower part of the deltaic alluvial plain of ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Evolution of Recrystallization Texture in AISI300 Series Austenitic Stainless Steels After Cold Rolling to Large Strain
The present paper deals with the evolution of texture in austenitic stainless steels during annealing after 95% cold rolling. After 95% cold rolling, the texture is mainly of the brass type {110} <112> along w...
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Kinetics of the γ → ε Martensitic Transformation in Fine-Grained Fe-26Mn-0.14C Austenitic Steel
A high-Mn Fe-26Mn-0.14C austenitic steel was hot deformed at 900 °C, 1000 °C, and 1100 °C with the strain rate of 5 s−1 followed by air cooling (AC) or water quenching (WQ). Deformation at 1100 °C results in the ...
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X-ray Diffraction Study on Cooling-Rate-Induced γ fcc→ε hcp Martensitic Transformation in Cast-Homogenized Fe-26Mn-0.14C Austenitic Steel
The thermal stability of a cast homogenized austenitic steel with basic composition Fe-26Mn-0.14C has been studied using the Rietveld entire X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern fitting technique. The decomposition...
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Closed convex hull of multivalent symmetric close-to-convex functions of order β with the Montel normalization
We obtain a one-to-one tranformation of the family of multivalent symmetric close-to-convex functions of order β, onto the family of multivalent symmetric close-to-convex functions of order β with the Montel n...
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Development of abrasive cut-off wheel having side grooves
The abrasive cut-off wheel fails prematurely during the routine sectioning of workpiece, which may cause injury to the operator. One of the major reasons of premature failure is the improper mixing of the abra...
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Correlation between deformation bleaching and mechanoluminescence in coloured alkali halide crystals
The present paper reports the correlation between deformation bleaching of coloration and mechanoluminescence (ML) in coloured alkali halide crystals. When the F-centre electrons captured by moving dislocations a...
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Sodium chloride induced changes in leaf growth, and pigment and protein contents in two rice cultivars
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) seedlings were grown under NaCl stress. The leaf growth of resistant cv. Damodar was less affected than that of the susceptible cv. Jaya. The leaf protein content showed no distinct cult...
