A deterministic EOQ model with delays in payments and price-discount offers

It is the purpose of this paper to model the retailer’s profit-maximizing strategy when confronted with supplier’s trade offer of credit and price-discount on the purchase of merchandise. Generally, retailers have to face many types of demands for different kinds of goods. In real situation, retailers have to correlate between the selling price and supplier’s trade offer, keeping in mind profit-maximization strategy. In the proposed model, all increasing deterministic demands are discussed analytically, numerically and graphically in the environment of permissible delay in payment and discount offer to the retailer.     

Electric stress distribution in paper oil insulation due to sulphur corrosion of copper conductors

Failure of paper oil insulation due to formation of copper sulphide in transformer windings is a serious issue affecting the performance and life of large transformers. Though chemical effects leading to corrosion are well understood, quantification of electric stress and its correlation to formation and migration of copper sulphide has not been reported in literature. Hence electric stress distribution under copper corrosion using FEM simulation has been studied and discussed in this paper. The simulation results are compared and correlated to experimental findings. The study clearly points towards increase in electric stress in unaffected paper and non-uniform electric stress distribution in paper–oil insulation system. Implications of using enamel coating on copper conductor as a mitigation technique to combat copper corrosion is also discussed.     

Synthesis and characterization of chiral enantiopure bis-chromanones: a Baylis-Hillman approach

Enantiopure bis-chromanones were prepared from (S)-Binol and bromo esters via a Baylis-Hillman approach. Chiroptical studies indicate that the two-naphthyl units of the chromanone system are non-coplanar.     

Exploring anionic emission of 2-benzoyl benzimidazole in micellar environments

In this paper, an interesting transformation of the emission of anionic conformer of 2-benzoyl bezimidazole in ionic and non-ionic micelles is reported. Deprotonation is hindered in cationic and non-ionic micelles owing to probe molecule's passage deep inside positive ion-rich Stern-layer in contrast with anionic micelle. The orientation of probe molecule in the two ionic micelles, as determined from the spectral properties is opposite in nature. Micellar environment shields the formation of mono- and di-cationic species at very low pH. Three decay times of the probe in different time domains were attributed to three possible anionic species and they are modified differently in ionic and neutral micelles. Quantum chemical calculations also predict the existence of three different possible anionic species.     

Growth of single crystals of copper and their thermal profile estimation

Copper crystals have been grown by Czochralski technique in a 6-bar argon gas environment. X-ray analysis shows that these are single crystals and are strain-free. A slight pressure environment that is truly hydrostatic seems to improve the quality of the crystals. Thermal profile estimation results show that the values of temperature which decrease upto the neck region are same in magnitude as those measured during the experiments and that necking improves the thermal profile and, consequently, the crystal quality. No facet formation has been observed in these crystals.