BITS Pilani Institutional Repository: Recent submissions

  • Comparative and performance analyses of unreliable server queues 
    Shekhar, Chandra (CRC Press, 2024)
    Queue-based scenarios with server breakdowns have become an exciting topic for queueing theorists, researchers, and practitioners in past decades. These queueing systems are generally used in many realistic waiting line ...
  • Different variants of unreliable server: An economic approach 
    Shekhar, Chandra (CRC Press, 2023)
    This chapter investigates a single-server finite-capacity service system in a Markovian environment for different variants of unreliable servers. Three diverse mathematical models are discussed using the queueing-theoretic ...
  • Maximum entropy solution for m^x/g/1 priority reiterate g-queue under working breakdown and working vacation 
    Shekhar, Chandra (IJMEMS, 2023)
    The maximum entropy principle has grown progressively more pertinent to queueing systems. The principle of maximum entropy (PME) presents an impartial framework as a promising method to examine complex queuing processes. ...
  • Electrical Conduction in Ammonium Perchlorate 
    Owen, G. P.; Thomas, J. M.; Williams, J. O. (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1972, 68 (12), 1972)
    D.c. along with a few a.c. electrical measurements are reported for ammonium perchlorate (AP) in compressed disc and single crystal form. The near-identity of the electrical conductivity of AP to that of certain other ...
  • Heats of Dilution of Sub-micellar Aqueous Surfactant Solutions 
    Birch, B. J.; Hall, D. G. (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1972, 68 (12), 1972)
    Heats of dilution of sub-micellar solutions of a series of sodium alkyl sulphates and alkyltrimethylammonium bromides are reported and two possible interpretations of the observed deviations from simple Debye-Hiickel theory ...
  • Phase Diagram and Thermodynamic Data for the Hydrogen/Vanadium System 
    Griffiths, R.; Pryde, J. A.; Righini-Brand, A. (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1972, 68 (12), 1972)
    Ultra-high vacuum techniques have been used to investigate the hydrogen/vanadium system in the pressure, temperature and concentration ranges 10-7-10Torr (1 Torr= 133.32 Nm~2), 260-460 K, and H/V = 0-0.85 (concentrations ...
  • Transition State Theory of Zeolitic Diffusion: Diffusion of CH4 and CF4 in 5A Zeolite 
    Ruthven, D. M.; Derrah, R. I. (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1972, 68 (12), 1972)
    A simple theory of zeolitic diffusion is developed from the principles of transition state theory. General expressions for the diffusivity are derived in terms of the lattice parameter and the partition function for the ...
  • Conductance Study on the Association Behaviour of Quaternary Ammonium Salts in Hydrogen-bonding Solvents 
    Goffredi, M.; Triolo, R. (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1972, 68 (12), 1972)
    Conductance measurements have been carried out at 25°C on the following systems: tctrabutyland tetrahexyl-ammonium perchlorates in methanol 4- dioxan mixtures, and tetrabutylammonium perchlorate in acetonitrile4- dioxan ...
  • Viscosity of the Isotopes of Hydrogen and their Intermolecular Force Potentials 
    Kestin, J.; Ro, S. T.; Wakeham, W. A. (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1972, 68 (12), 1972)
    Improved, absolute measurements of the viscosity of the three isotopes of hydrogen at 22, 25 and 28°C as well as of the three resulting viscosity ratios are described. The ratios have been determined by a direct calculation ...
  • Electrocrystallization of Ruthenium and Electrocatalysis of Hydrogen Evolution 
    Fleischmann, M.; Grenness, M. (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1972, 68 (12), 1972)
    The kinetics of the electrodeposition of ruthenium on vitreous carbon and the accompanying hydrogen evolution reaction has been investigated. Two mechanisms are proposed for the electrocrystallization of growth centres of ...
  • Reaction Kinetics of Polymer Substituents: Neighbouring-substituent Effects in Single-substituent Reactions 
    Boucher, E. A. (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1972, 68 (12), 1972)
  • Reaction Kinetics of Polymer Substituents Neighbouring-substituent Effects in Pairing Reactions 
    Boucher, E. A. (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1972, 68 (12), 1972)
    Kinetic equations are derived for a model in which the probability of reaction involving a particular pair of polymer substituents depends on whether none, one or two of the adjacent pairs have already reacted. The extent ...
  • Infrared Spectra and Catalytic Activity of Supported Molybdenum Hexacarbonyl 
    Howe, R. F.; Davidson, D. E.; Whan, D. A. (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1972, 68 (12), 1972)
    Infrared spectroscopy has been used to study the olefin disproportionation catalysts consisting of molybdenum hexacarbonyl supported on silica, alumina and magnesia. Activation of the catalysts is found to cause decomposition ...
  • Kinetics of Ternary Complex Formation between Magnesium Species and 5-Nitrosalicylic Acid 
    Cayley, G. R.; Hague, D. N. (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1972, 68 (12), 1972)
    The temperature-jump relaxation method has been used to measure the rate constants and activation parameters for the formation and the dissociation of the 1 : 1 complex between magnesium and 5-nitrosalicylic acid (nsa) and ...
  • Kinetics and Thermodynamics of the Complex-formation of Nickel(II) and Cobalt(II) Ions with Ammonia and Pyridine- 2-azodimethylaniline in Water, at Pressures from 1 bar to 2 kbar 
    Caldin, E. F.; Grant, M. W.; Hasinoff, B. B. (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1972, 68 (12), 1972)
    Thermodynamic and kinetic measurements have been made at a series of pressures from 1 bar to 2 kbar on the reactions of nickel(IQ and cobalt(II) ions with ammonia and with the large bidentate ligand PADA (pyridine-2-azod ...
  • Adsorption of n-Alkane Vapours on Graphon 
    Clint, J. H. (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1972, 68 (12), 1972)
    Adsorption isotherms on Graphon have been obtained for a scries of n-alkanes from C5 to Ci2- Isosteric heats of adsorption as a function of fractional surface coverage were calculated for the members C6> C7 and C8. Areas ...
  • Salt Effects in Foam Films 
    Ingram, B. T. (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1972, 68 (12), 1972)
    Measurements have been made of the excess tensions, equilibrium thicknesses and compositions of aqueous foam films stabilised by either n-decyl methyl sulphoxide or n-dccyltrimethylammonium n-decyl sulphate and containing ...
  • Measurements of Heats of Combustion by Flame Calorimetry: Part 8.—Methane, Ethane, Propane, n-Butane and 2-Mcthylpropane 
    Pittam, D. A.; Pilcher, G. (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1972, 68 (12), 1972)
    The heats of combustion of the gaseous alkanes, Ct to C4, have been measured at 25°C and 1 atm pressure using a flame calorimeter. A/7c°(methane, g) = -890.71 ±0.38 kJ mol-1 △^(ethane, g) = -1560.69 ±0.25 kJ mol-1 △^(propane, ...
  • Dipole Moments of Electron Donor-Acceptor Complexes of Iodine with Oxygen Bases 
    Sobczyk, Lucjan; Danel, Julitta (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1972, 68 (8), 1972)
    Dipole moments of electron donor-acceptor (EDA) complexes of iodine with dimethyl sulphoxide tn-n-octylphosphine oxide, pyridine-Moxidc, 4-picoline-A^-oxidc and triphenylarsine oxide have been measured in benzene solutions. ...
  • Colloid and Surface Chemistry of Polymer Latices: Part 1—Adsorption and Wetting Behaviour of n-Alkanols 
    Ottewill, R H; Vincent, B (Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1972, 68 (8), 1972)
    A polystyrene latex, containing particles with a carboxylated surface, has been used as a model system for measurement of the adsorption of the n-alkanols, methanol, ethanol, propanol and butanol. Complementary measurements ...