(MPOB Transfer of Technology)
Crude petroleum contains sulphur compounds and most of them are removed during the refining process. The presence of some sulphur compounds remaining in the diesel fuel can have a corrosion, it is used as an indicator of the cohesiveness of a fuel. Main Research: Yung Chee Lian
Cetane number is a defined parameter designed to provide an indication of the ignition quality of diesel fuels. A higher cetane number means that the fuel has better ignition quality than fuels with lower cetane numbers. Cetane number is a measure of a fuel’s ignition delay, which is the time period between the start of … Read more
With the growing focus today on noise-control issues and the emergence of sound quality as an important aspect of product design, acoustic material testing is becoming increasingly relevant to researchers, engineers, designers and manufactures from a broad range of industries. Products like bio-composites, fibre-reinforced plastics, felt and insulators are being used as sound dampening components, … Read more
Mycorrhizas are symbiotic associations that are formed between the roots of most plant species and soil fungi (Bagyaraj, 1984). Benefits of arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) associations include improved nutrient uptake by fungi, extending their hyphae through the plant roots into the surrounding soil and transporting the nutrients directly into the plant. Numerous studies also suggests that … Read more
The growing demand for localized predictions, spatial pattern and hotspot analyses over large regions has prompted the application of the Geographical Information System (GIS) and geostatistics that can be used to analyse and manage plant disease information data. GIS has been used most extensively for mapping distributions of disease or specific genotypes of plant pathogen … Read more