Browsing by Author "Rashmi, S"

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    Bioplastic Formulation from Agro Was
    (2015-12-26T06:10:24Z) Akshata, S; Lavanya, M; Rashmi, S
    At present Petroleum-based plastics are widely used which have many drawbacks like the amount of energy requirement is more to produce the plastics, the waste generated as a result of plastic production, and the accumulation of waste due to slow degradation rate. It is because of these negative impacts of conventional plastic use, attention is being focused on environmentally friendly plastics from alternative sources. Agro waste emerged as a resource with a significant potential to be employed as a raw material for the production of biodegradable plastics. There is a lot of research going on, where scientists are trying to isolate polymer from microorganisms also (Genetic Engineering). Our research aims at formulating Bioplastics that uses secondary feedstock (Field bean peels and corn husk) instead of dedicated crops. Cellulose was extracted from these sources and degraded into glucose units. Fermentation was done to produce lactic acid from glucose. Later Lactic acid was converted into lactide and then polymerization was done to get PLA (Polylactide). PLA was brittle in nature when it was dried; therefore PLA was blended with PVA (Polyvinyl alcohol) which eliminated brittleness and resulted in a fine Biopolymer.
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    Monitoring Of School Kids Using Android Virtual Evices And Near Field Communication (NFC)
    (2015-12-18T09:43:18Z) Deepika, G; Ramya, M; Rashmi, S; Shobha, D
    School kids monitoring is of great importance for parents who send their kids to school via school transport vehicle. There are many applications that exist for monitoring the vehicle as the kids go to school and come back from school. The existing system gives the tracking report of vehicle and its exact location. Even some applications give vehicle position update information to the parents. This system helps the parents only with the information of the vehicle but they don’t tell whether their kid is in the bus or not. Assume that some kid has participated in cultural program. They are not able to take the vehicle allotted to them or suppose the kid has missed the vehicle to reach his/her house. In that case parents are not able to monitor the kid after school time. This was the problem of existing approaches. In proposed system we are planning to send email / SMS confirmation to the parent when the kid steps into the vehicle using Android Mobile phones through Near Field Communication (NFC) features.