This paper describes various power quality problems in distribution systems and their using application of Distribution Static Compensator (D-STATCOM). Here DSTATCOM uses as shunt active power filter system to mitigate harmonics which is created by nonlinear loads. Generally, a distribution static compensator (DSTATCOM) has been used for, reactive current compensation, harmonic current mitigation and load balancing are necessary in distribution system. This paper is aimed to improve power quality and harmonics distortion mitigation. This paper includes the detail discussion and configuration on the recently developed control scheme for DSTATCOM. The all schemes have been implemented using Matlab simulink toolbox and tested on various cases. The simulation results are presented, and discussed for various strategies.

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The MapReduce paradigm is now the de facto standard for processing and generation large scale datasets. Generally in MapReduce paradigm, user specifies a map function that processes a key/value pair to generate a set of intermediate key-value pairs & reduce function which merges all intermediate values associated with the same intermediate key. This paradigm is enough to solve many real world problems. Here fuzzy neural network is applied in the MapReduce paradigm to improve its efficiency. It is also referred as Neuro-fuzzy which is combination of artificial neural network and fuzzy logic. Now, here the key/value generated pair via map function is feed as input in neuro fuzzy system or model to improve efficiency of current map reduce paradigm. The proposed Fuzzy Neural Network model aims at training the fuzzy Neural Network model in MapReduce programming model. Since the MapReduce programming model has the ability to rapidly process large amount of data in parallel and can use the outcome of training process for the prediction purpose. This can produce better prediction accuracy. In order to train large data in distributed mode it can be effective in reducing the processing time.

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In this paper discusses the mechanism of artificial intelligence applied to software engineering process. Employing artificial intelligence in this manner, salvages the wastage of time in case of marketing, and also increases the quality of software systems. This paper relates AI techniques to software engineering processes specified by the IEEE 12207 standard of software engineering. The paper is driven by the activities and tasks specified in the standard for each software engineering process. This discussion brings the state of the art of AI techniques closer to the software engineering process, and highlights the open research problems for the research community. Surveyance of AI related to software engineering process is also described based on various procedures adapted to the specified standard.

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In recent years, big data are generated from a variety of sources, and there is an enormous demand for storing, managing, processing, and querying on big data. The MapReduce framework and its open source implementation Hadoop, has proven itself as the de facto solution for processing large amounts of data in parallel, and is intrinsically designed for batch processing and high throughput jobs. Although Hadoop has proven as de facto solution for batch jobs, there is growing demand for non-batch applications like: real-time queries, interactive jobs, and big data streams. Since Hadoop is not suitable for these non-batch jobs, new solutions are proposed to meet these new challenges. In this paper, we discuss the strength, features, and shortcomings of the standard MapReduce framework and its open source implementation Hadoop. In addition; we have discussed the significant extensions of MapReduce. Further, we have considered two categories of these solutions: real-time processing, and stream processing of big data. For each category, we have included paradigms and strengths.

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There are many methods of fault diagnosis of Power transformer but among all these Fra is the most suitable method for electrical and /or mechanical faults of a transformer. The concept of FRA has been successfully used as a diagnostic technique to detect the winding deformation, core and clamping structure of power transformer. In FRA measurement, the nine statistical indicators are used to detect the deviation in FRA signature. The effects of different winding parameters on FRA signature are described. The artificial neural network approach has been proposed to complement these nine indicators. ANN can be used to increase the efficiency and accuracy of diagnosis system. Neural network toolbox is used to train the multilayer feed-forward neural network. Different practical case studies and their data are used to train and test the multilayer feed-forward neural network. In this work Matlab-2014 is to be used. This paper presents the review of ANN with its relative advantages.

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In this paper energy and exergy analysis method for thermal power plant and analysis carried out on 55 MW coal base thermal power plant of DCM – Shriram Ltd. In the present, increasing demand of power has made the power plants of scientific interest, but majority of the power plants are designed by the energetic performance criteria based on first law of thermodynamics only. The first law of thermodynamics does not give all the ideas about the useful energy loss because the difference between the quality and quantity cannot be justified by it. In the energy analysis we can presents only quantitative results while in exergy analysis one can presents qualitative results about actual energy consumption. In this analysis it is shown that exergy efficiency is less at each and every point of power plant’s component compare to energy efficiency. It also presents major losses of available energy at combustor, super heater, economizer and air-pre heater section. In this article it is also shown energy efficiency, exergy efficiency, exergy destruction and energy losses comparison charts.

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Disposal of solid waste through landfill generates landfill leachate. It leads to sever environmental harmful and health effects. Treatment of Sanitary landfill leachate is considered as one of the most significant environmental issues. This paper has been investigated Electrocoagulation treatment process using Iron electrode for sanitary landfill leachate in terms of efficiency and economical beneficial. The effects of process variables like pH, applied cell voltage, operating time are on COD and NH3-N removal efficiencies. This process was carried out in a batch reactor of 1 litter capacity and samples of 0.5 l were taken out for analysis at 15, 30, 45 minutes of operation and at 3, 6, 9V . Results obtained from the experiments showed that COD and NH3-N removal efficiency 45.79% and 43.21% for 9V, 30 minutes of operation.

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This paper describes a variety of fundamental research of laser engraving of Stainless Steel 316 which the authors have recently performed. Laser engraving is machining process where material is engraved by laser process. Laser Engraving is most effective technique in the machining of hard materials and removes the material layer by layer. Basically many types of industrial lasers like, carbon dioxide (CO2) laser and neodymium-doped yttrium Aluminium garnet (Nd: YAG) laser, fiber laser, semiconductor laser which are used for laser engraving process. The aim of the present work to investigate the influence of the process parameters (laser power, scanning speed, and laser frequency) on material removal rate, Engraving depth and surface roughness is experimentally measure. This paper deals with the review of papers by authors.

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Pulse rate is usually checked to estimate overall health and fitness level of the heart. For the most part, the heart rate should be monitored continuously for the patients with heart problems for instance bradycardia or tachycardia. So for continuous monitoring of pulse rate is achieved through photoplethysmography (PPG) which has a drawback of surrounding lights interference. The proposed technique uses a wrist pulse sensor with a resonator which transmit RF signal to the major artery. The RF signal gets reflected from the walls of the radial artery which is sensed by the resonator Antennae. This system shows better results when compared to PPG.

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Diabetic retinopathy has turned out to be one of the most common causes of vision loss in diabetic patients. Hence, it becomes inevitable for diagnosing it at an early stage. Various visual features like exudates, cotton wool spots, microanuerysms and hemorrhages are responsible for detecting diabetic retinopathy from retinal fundus image. Exudates are basically bright yellow lesions. Optic disc is normal feature of any retinal fundus image which is also highly illuminated region in the fundus image. So, when exudate detection is carried out, optic disc is also detected which gives incorrect output which implies the necessity of optic disc elimination at the preliminary stage of processing. The paper proposes and investigates a novel method for optic disc elimination which involves thresholding and morphological processing on the red channel of the image. The sensitivity of the methodology is found to be 75.02% for ‘diaretdb’ database and 80.95% for images from ‘Bankers Retina Clinic & Laser Centre, Ahmedabad’.

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This Paper is represents to develop an automatic tripping mechanism for the three phase supply system. As various faults occurs on the power system. They are either temporary or permanent faults, which may damage and disturb the power system components. Hence they need to be identified and cleaned. In this paper, the proposed technique provides the output as if the fault is temporary then automatically tripping occurs after a brief interruption in the event of temporary faults, while it remains in tripped condition in case of permanent fault. The fault may be permanent as well as temporary faults occurred in system. Single L-G fault, also two is more faults are occurred in the system and system can be affected by such faults. For this necessity, the proposed mechanism is useful. This control system comes in action by sensing fault and isolates the load or connected equipment from main supply system.

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In recent years, the concepts and techniques relating to women’s safety has got a greater impact to the society. Girls are assaulted in many cities and villages so the insecurity issues act as a major crisis. This system is mainly involved in protecting women from physical and mental harms. The strap with sensors in it, is wrapped around the women’s hand like a wrist watch. The sensors will sense the Blood pressure (BP), heart rate and temperature of women. If any abnormality arises the information is transferred to the respective receiver as an alert message from the server. The server will forward the message to the intern person and it will send alert to the hospital when the pulse rate is decreased and to the nearest police station when the pulse rate is increased. The intern person will be provided with the specific android application to access the server. The intern person’s mobile number will be stored in the server specifically.

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A prototype system is being developed based on a mobile Smart-phone linked via Web Server to an ARM kit which has a temperature sensor and a gas sensor to enable analysts to self-manage their own industry. It deals with the robust and reliable evaluation of Temperature with a Smart-phone. The objectives of the work are to design the system around a chemical industry. The key principle in design is to make the system accessible to the analyst in the simplest manner. The device available to measure the temperature is LM35 and that to detect the presence of LPG is MQ-6. The system will show the output in a digital manner on an LCD of the kit. These values are sent over the web domain to the Android-based device. The main purpose of the project is to help analyst obtain their industry environment at home and to keep a record of their measurements. Temperature can vary throughout the day depending on activity. One or two measurements taken at different times are not enough to properly define the environment temperature. It is preferable to take numerous measurements. It is in your interest to carry out a large number of measurements. In our project we are successfully integrating temperature sensor IC LM35 and gas sensor MQ-6 with the ARM kit LPC2148 from where the readings are successfully transferred to the mobile device.

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In ancient time, after the discovery of wheel by man, it has been used extensively for various purposes and it is vital part of human life for ages. These wheels runs human life faster and faster with new technology and one such technology is on board air inflation system used in automobiles. Tyres are the second-highest cost for the trucking industry. The on board air inflation system is used to maintain the pressure of tyres in running condition. The environmental conditions varies according to region, seasons because of this, it require maintaining the tyres pressure for better performance according to conditions. The most important application of this system is in military vehicle. For the military vehicle, the environmental condition, land conditions are continuously varying and they have to face very worst condition like heavy rainfall, snowfall, deserts. At that remote place no such devices are available for maintenances of the tyres. At some crucial times like war conditions or any flood conditions there is no time to filling the air. Thus there arises a need for automatic tyre inflation system. This can be done by employing appropriate technique. This paper deals with the fabrication approach of automatic tyre inflation system.

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Low limb impaired patients experience difficulties in doing their daily activities. The smarter solution to this concept is Smart Wheelchair. The proposed system is a robotic wheelchair that can be commanded by patient himself/herself. This system provides flexibility to choose different modalities to command the wheelchair, in addition to be suitable for people with different levels of disabilities. Patient can command the wheelchair with their eye blinks, eye and head movements and through brain signals. The wheel chair can also be operated like an auto-guided vehicle or in an autonomous way. The system provided with an easy to use and flexible graphical user interface onboard a personal digital assistant, which is used to allow users to choose commands to be sent to the robotic wheelchair. Several experiments were carried out with people with disabilities, and the results validate the developed system as an assistive tool for people with distinct levels of disability.

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Road transport acts as a linchpin of modern social club and economy now days. It is really hard to imagine life without it. Huge road network and road traffic because increasing number of road accidents. Road accidents are a subject of great personal tragedy, social and economic losses. Road accidents are increasing at an alarming rate day by day. Inadequate and delayed care is one of the significant factors causing road safety degradation. Therefore it is important to road engineers know all the road deficiencies that are commanded to maintain at a higher floor to maintain the route network in good and secure condition. Various road deficiencies such as large potholes, shoulder drop off, absence of necessary traffic furniture and so on are affecting road safety adversely. However road maintenance is limited to filling pothole, cleaning drainage facilities without replacing traffic signs, route crossing off, safety rails and other safety features essential to produce a safe road network. Thither is a need for maintenance of all road distresses components so road network remains in good and safe status for a longer duration. Hence, this study presents a road accident trends in India and identifies various maintenance deficiencies and their effects in road accidents. Thus, this study shows how poor road maintenance increases road accidents. This field also identifies the strength of improved road maintenance, conditions such as improved road surface condition, presence of proper traffic furniture and so on in reducing road accidents. Thus, it is expected that this study will be useful for road engineers in understanding how proper road maintenance affects in reducing road accidents.

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Different materials with pozzolanic properties such as fly ash. Condensed silica fume, blast furnace slag and rice husk ash have played an important part in the production of high performance concrete. During the late 20th century, three has been an increase in the consumption of mineral admixture by the cement and concrete industries[4]. The increasing demand for cement and concrete is met by the partial replacement for energy intensive Portland cement. Pozzolanic materials have long demonstration their effectiveness in producing high performance concrete. Artificial pozzolanas such as supplementary cementing material in many part of the world[2]. This work evaluates the compressive strength of rice husk ash (RHA, Wheat Straw Ash (WSA), Fly Ash, (FA) as a partial replacement for OPC in concrete[1]. The main aim of this work is to determine the optimum %( 10, 20, 30) of Rice husk ash (RHA), Wheat Straw Ash (WSA), Fly Ash, (FA), as partial replacement of cement for M40 grade of concrete[3]. In addition, results show that Rice husk ash(RHA), Wheat Straw Ash (WSA), Fly Ash, (FA), -/* (GP) as an artificial pozzolanic material has enhanced the durability of concrete.

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The cost of tensile member of concrete has always attracted attention of civil engineers to be supplemented by some cheaper material. This paper focuses the advantages of using naturally available material namely basalt as fibre reinforcement to enhance the strength as well as reinforcement akin properties in the concrete. Basalt an igneous origin rock has excellent load bearing properties can be a choice for massive concrete works in the construction industry. In the paper the engineering properties of basalt fibres are worked out experimentally and were discussed as a comparable choice of already in use synthetic fiber materials. Basalt being cheap and easily available fibre may be used for the construction of structural units with cement-paste or cement mortar / concrete composites have great potential, especially for developing countries.

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In helical antenna mostly Metal wires are used. These are generally used as the radiator of helical antenna. helical antenna results like - Gain can be determined by the helical coil number namely the longer helical wire is the higher gain of antenna. However when the number of turns is too large the improvement of result is weak and the fabrication of antenna becomes very complicated. Axial-mode helical antenna will be employed to improve gain. To provide reliable communication. Simulation and optimizing of helix antenna will be done by electromagnetic software-Computer Simulation Technique (CST) MWS. Optimized results of return loss, gain, efficiency, etc. It can be improvised by proposed design of helical antenna.

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In the last few years, SMS (Short Message Service) has made a big impact on the way we communicate. Instead of communicating over the phone using voice, people rather prefer SMS not only for messaging but also for information exchange. This project proposes a method of building an extendable generic application which can be used to provide email facility using mobile SMS as well as SMS alert on receiving any email.

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This paper describes the literature review of a Design And Development Of Industrial Generator Silencer. Diesel engine generator sets in heavy industry plants and residential/official buildings can cause serious noise problems. Diesel generators are used very commonly in shops, offices and in industry, today in order to supply power during power shutdowns .Exposure to noise causes detrimental effects on neuroendocrine, cardiovascular, respiratory and digestive systems. Chronic exposure to noise causes fatigue and interferes with concentration, thus reducing work efficiency. Experimental studies on the assessment and control of near-field noise levels due to the operation of a generator were undertaken by employing ant vibration mounts (made up of rubber, polyurethane foam, wool– felt).The enclosure of generator is made up of CRCA sheet of 2mm thickness and use Polyurethane foam of 25mm thickness inside the enclosure which reduce noise level. The muffler is made up of CRCA sheet of 1.2mm thickness, inner assembly is made up of same material. The generator muffler is enclosed with 3mm thick wool-felt for better sound absorption and thermal resistant. The wool-felt reduce the noise level 2dB(A). Silencer is installed to reduce noise where large quantities of high pressure air or gas are discharged into the open air. In this paper CFD analysis technique is used to modify the existing geometry of silencer.

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Hearing aids are gadgets utilized by hearing hindered persons to balance the hearing loss. They can't totally beat the perceptual bends brought on by a hearing loss however support the user to decode speech. The focus of this paper is to develop simple Digital Hearing Aid (DHA) noise reduction model using MATLAB simulation and programming language that works in real time mode or offline mode. Implementation of the structured DHA system includes the DC blocking filter using MATLAB programming and adaptive noise reduction filter.

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The quantity of goods and materials on hand is termed as inventory. Optimization of inventory is a difficult task because excess inventory results in high cost and lower inventory results in stock outs. Inventory cost is reduced by forecasting the desired inventory with continuously varying demand. If the transportation cost is less than inventory cost, the inventory level can be separated with respect to production time. When transportation cost exceeds the inventory cost, the products can be purchased in large scale. So in order to reduce the rate of uncertainty a model is developed for managing the level of inventory. This model minimizes the inventory level as the raw materials are purchased at the production start time by knowing the availability of the production sources and it avoids production stoppages.

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In general, Quad copter are very much difficult to control by only manual control without using any sensors. So, if we use some specific motion sensors and apply some algorithms to the values read from these sensors, the Quad copter can itself balance its motion. If we use this technique to control the Quad copter, it can then be called as "Autonomous”. The payload of our Quad copter design includes a camera and telemetry that will allow us to watch live video from the Quad copter on a laptop that is located up to 400 m away. The continuation of work on the Quad copter to improve performance and controllability will be continued. Our project has verified that it is possible to build a small-scale Quad copter that could be used for both military and commercial use. These constraints have forced compromise in components selected and methods used for prototype development. Our team’s Quad copter prototype is a very limited version of what could be created in a production facility using more advanced technology. We used smartphone as remote control device. Currently our Quad copter has achieved stability to flight as well as autonomous altitude hold. We are working on our software so that we can achieve better controllable flight. It is possible to produce a small scale UAV that performs functions of interest to the military as well as commercial/industrial applications.

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In Electromyographic signal analysis it needs to use a threshold level on electromyographic signal for detection of muscles activity. EMG Thresholding is project of biomedical and rehabilitation field. It is the main step for check the threshold set level on electromyogram. This paper describes an algorithm of EMG Thresholding by using array, filtering, spectral measurements, thresholding and Wavelet Deniose in LabVIEW and analyzing the result.

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