Cement industry has an production output of clinker which directly affects the quality of cement. Different raw materials preferred and furnace conditions followed have an essential impact on clinker and cement ...

Bricks, as one of terra cotta based construction materials have a large production capacities in Afyonkarahisar/Turkey industry. Continuous improvements either in raw materials or manufacturing conditions take great ...

Ceramic filters have extensively been preferred in foundry processes including gray & nodular, steel, aluminium and magnesium materials. Filtration is carried out to keep solid particles like inclusion or oxides away from ...

Ferrochromium processes generate a vast quantity of ferrochromium slags which are accumulated in landfills. Not only economical uselessness but also detrimental environmental effects occur due to the accumulation of these ...

Waste management strategies have an essential role for more sustainable environment as well as for circular economy model. With this motivation, foamed glasses are one of the key candidate for achieving waste utilization ...

For many water resources planning and management studies such as water budget and hydrological modeling, it is very important to estimate areal precipitation from point observation stations. There are many deterministic ...

For many years, the adaptation of the historical maps to those used today has been one of the felds of study of cartography and geodesy. In this process, the frst problem is that the coordinate system in historical maps ...

In this paper, a new solar tracking system designed and constructed at Afyon Kocatepe University to maximize the efficiencies of different photovoltaic (PV) panels is proposed. The system is composed of two main parts: ...

The adsorption behavior of quaternary ammonium cationic surfactants with different hydrocarbon chain lengths, i.e. HDTMA (hexadecyltrimethylammonium), TDTMA (tetradecyltrimethy- lammonium) and DDTMA (dodecyltrimethylammonium), ...

The effects of La2O3 additions up to 5 wt.% on the thermal stabilities of sol-gel derived alumina gels were studied. Observations were made on pore size, total pore area, phase changes at various sintering temperatures ...