Drying is one of the most important operations in the food and processing industry, primarily because of maintaining the quality of foods intended for storage and use over a longer period of time. Therefore, this process is justifiable to use wherever possible, and most often for drying fruits, vegetables, medicinal herbs, etc. The process of dryin...

By Mirko Dobrnjac, Predrag Živković, Sanja Dobrnjac

In order to solve complex decision-making problems, MCDM has recently known a fast development. One of the main differences between the decision models consists in the way of evaluating the numeric and the non-numeric data that interfere while solving a problem. If the number of the criteria is not high and the evaluation contains both quantitative...

By Adela Berdie, Adeline Berdie, Sorin Jitian, Mihaela Osaci, Cristian Barz

The toroidal cutting edge, also called corner cutter, is a combination of the cylindrical-frontal milling cutter and the spherical head milling. The paper follows at generating the optimal trajectory for making the finished product with the toroidal cutting edge without having to use the flat end mill and the ball nose end mill. This trajectory is ...

By Andrei Raul Oșan, Marius Cosma, Vasile Năsui

Measuring the turbidity of water is an important step in testing its quality, since it is one of the methods for determining whether it is safe to use. Today, there are many methods for measuring the turbidity of water, some of them are designed specifically for regular research, others are used to monitor the quality of water associated with the u...

By Leonid Zamikhovskiy, Svitlana Petriv, Olena Zamikhovskaya

The galloping evolution of contemporary society, the abundance of information under its many forms, brings the man in the middle of a personal chaos in which he feels more and more lonely. In a lecture on the so called New Age concept, a journalist described the man in a way that reminded me: he one feels one, another does something else and he say...

By Călăuz Adriana Florentina

Robotics has slowly entered every domain where progress-imposed activities/ actions that were beyond the natural capabilities of humans. The most relevant example in this sense is the industry with all its branches where the higher and higher level of quality and output capacity have imposed the use of specialized devices that could perform faster ...

By Calin Liviu Vaida

The heating process inside a conductor, produced by the AC current Joule losses is very complex, because of the numerous parameters acting at the same time. For this reason, the experimental verification of calculated results would be welcome and this paper presents an attempt of temperature measurement procedure. First of all, in the laboratories ...

By Karolina Kasas Lazetic, Gorana Mijatovic, Dejana Herceg, Miroslav Prsa

Implementation of a project-based learning model in the higher education institution allots a task of coordination of the subject-oriented and project-oriented management of the educational process. The purpose of the paper is the development of the aspects of activity management of the institution of higher education to attract students to scienti...

By Lesya Shkitsa, Volodymyr Kornuta

The industrial field, like any other domains, come under several risks. The most common risk in this area is the risk of damage. This sort of risks is best quantified by technical specialists in each field. They come with technical solutions for damage risk, but the risks have an economic component too. Damage and economic losses caused by industri...

By Gherasim Solovestru Domide

In order to solve the problem of environmental safety improvement and the effectiveness of flushing out of well that are being drilled a modernized scheme of drilling rig pumping-circulatory system has been designed. System approach of modernizing separate elements of pumping-circulatory system has been used. The maximum air-tight pumping-circulato...

By Lesya Shkitsa, Teodoziya Yatsyshyn, Mikhaylo Lyakh, Olga Sydorenko