Muhammad Sharfi Najib

Universiti Malaysia Pahang | ump · Faculty of Manufacturing & Mechatronics Engineering

Free fatty acids (FFA) is one of the main content of palm cooking oil. High percentage of FFA in palm oil can affect human health and the quality of palm oil. Based on quality standards specification set by Malaysia Palm Oil Board (MPOB), the allowable content of free fatty acid (FFA) for crude palm oil (CPO) must not exceed 5%, meanwhile less than...

Cocoa bean (Theobrama cacao) is an essential raw material in the manufacture of chocolate, and their classification is crucial for the synthesis of good chocolate flavour. Cocoa beans appear to be very similar to one another when visualised. Hence, an electronic device named the electronic nose (E-Nose) is used to classify the odor of cocoa beans t...

This article explains about the development of an optical sensor system to detect and measure ammonia emission in the agricultural field. At initial stage, an open path optical technique where a cylindrical chamber is used to detect low concentration of ammonia in the UV region. The methodology describing the working principle of the sensor and the...

The environment is an invaluable gift. In an era of progress, economic activities and development projects are often carried out to improve living standards and keep pace with other developed countries. However, this activity has had a negative impact on the environment because some parties still fail to control the disposal of waste that can cause...

The environment is an invaluable gift. In an era of progress, economic activities and development projects are often carried out to improve living standards and keep pace with other developed countries. However, this activity has had a negative impact on the environment because some parties still fail to control the disposal of waste that can cause...

Oil and gas production and distribution processes technologies are highly complex and capital-intensive. Crude oil is a high demand commodity in Malaysia and across the world. Physical and chemical properties are used to classify crude oil in oil and gas industries. The human's nose cannot distinguish the difference of smell among various crude oil...

The pollination period is one of the crucial steps needed to ensure crop yield increases, especially in palm oil palm plantations. Most of the research has difficulty determining the pollination period of palm oil. Many problems contribute to this problem, such as difficut to reach and depedency of the polination insect as the insect activity is in...

Electrical resistance tomography is used to reconstruct the image of the objects within the medium of interest based on electrical conductivity distribution. Besides, the ordinary technique of ERT applied the invasive technique and causing corrosion to the electrodes because of the contact between the electrode and the conductive liquid. Therefore,...

The lubricant oil is one of the petroleum refinery product. The lubricant oil usage is very important in order to make sure the operation of vehicle engine at the highest performance. In determining the lubricant oil adulteration level, there were so many methods of classification using various instruments such as ICP-MS, AAS and Dielectric Spectro...

The issue of quality of agarwood quality among sellers and buyers is still ongoing due to manual olfactory methods. This study purpose classification of Malaccensis and Crassna agarwood in oil and smoke by electronic nose using Case-based Reasoning classifier. The CBR performance measurement shows that classification of agarwood Malaccensis and Cra...

Meat is the flesh or another edible part of an animal and includes uncooked meat prepared or otherwise but does not include meat products. Meat is the most valuable livestock product and for many people serves as their first-choice source of animal protein. Fraud meat products are causing annoyance to consumer’s, especially Muslim users. There are...

This book presents the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Electrical, Control & Computer Engineering 2019, held in Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia, on 29th July 2019. Consisting of two parts, it covers the conferences’ main foci: Part 1 discusses instrumentation, robotics and control, while Part 2 addresses electrical power systems. The b...

Electrical resistance tomography (ERT) reconstructs internal resistance images of the field from electrical measurements on the surface. The objective of this paper is to obtain the tomogram of the liquid-gas regime of ERT system by using multiple excitation sources. A linear back projection algorithm was implemented as a basic algorithm. Then, it...

Crude oil is one of the basic needs required for humans to ease their life. The quality of crude oil with the lowest wax content is very important, in order to sustain the transportation and production of crude oil from offshore to onshore. Based on literature from previous studies, the appearance of wax depends on the temperature which is called W...

Nowadays, waxy crude oil becomes one of the major concerns in the oil and gas industry. The waxy crude oil affects the production and transportation of the crude oil from offshore to onshore. Differentiation by image visualization in determining the type of waxy crude oil, with or without wax sometimes appear rather similar between each other. Henc...

Nowadays, the evolution of the vehicle technology had made the vehicle especially car to be equipped with a remote control to control the operation of the locking and unlocking system of the car's door and rear's bonnet. However, for the fuel or petrol lid, it merely can be opened from inside the car's cabin by handling the fuel level inside the ca...

Abstract—Agarwood is increasing in demand in the global market due to the presence of resinous wood that is widely used as an ingredient in perfumes, aromatherapy and traditional medicines. The popularity comes with concern on its unique smell (woody) and quality adulteration. This paper presents the response between chemical compositions in agarwo...

This paper describes a potential development of haze measurement system by measuring visibility of a medium instead of measuring con-centration of particulate matter in air. This measurement system is using an open path optical method to measure visibility of a few series of known-VLT thin film. VLT or visible light transmission rate plays an impor...

The wireless charging system now becomes one of the emerging technologies especially in the application of communication systems and beneficial to the wireless electronic appliances. Among them are mobile phones, cameras, personal digital assistance (PDA), cooler, torchlight and drill. Those wireless devices require battery to store and provide pow...

This paper describes an optical sensor system for quantifying ammonia at low concentration. An open path optical technique is used to measure ammonia concentration within the Ultraviolet region. Experimental results describing the operation of the sensor with wavelengths combination technique to enhance the Lower Detection Limit is presented. The r...

The cases of children being trapped and suffocated in unattended vehicle keep increasing even though the awareness campaign on the safety of children in non-moving vehicle were carried out by government. Various methods were introduced by researchers to overcome this issue but yet to be effective. Among them were the usage of capacitive sensor, mic...

The present invention relates to an apparatus when used as detector in assessing quality of agarwood tree directly from the tree in field of plantation or assessing quality of agarwood essential oil by measurement of odor profile of the agarwood tree or odor profile of the agarwood essential oil.

Lubricant oil is one of the most important elements needed for every car engine in order to reduce the friction between moving parts in a car engine, reduce engine temperature and preventing the entry of contaminant. People have difficulties in identifying the degradation level of lubricant oil. Because of that, fake or recycled lubricant oil appea...

This paper describes a potential development of methyl mercaptan or bad breathing gas measurement in the 200 nm–250 nm region. Methyl mercaptan shows a potential peak selection at 204 nm and the absorption cross section spectrum display a similar pattern with the theory. A cross sensitivity analysis is also reported and it shows that there are no d...

Fish has high quality protein and other essential nutrients and are an important part of a healthful diet. It is important to make sure the quality of fish to avoid food poisoning. There are three methods to know the quality of fish which is sensory, microbiology and chemical methods. Nowadays, some fish monger use formalin to make fish looks fresh...

Honey is one a well-known healthy natural products. By image visualization, honeys look quite similar between each other. Hence an electronic device is one of significant instrument that can be employed for detection namely an ENose. E-Nose comprises of an array of electronic chemical sensors that capable of recognizing odor profiles. This device i...

Nowadays, Kelulut is one of a bee species, yet different in size, it produces a honey that is clearer in colour as compared to natural honey bee. However, study on Kelulut honey grade is not yet extensively explored. Hence, this research aim is to classify Kelulut honey based on smell pattern recognition. In order to sense the smell of Kelulut hone...

Gravitational Search Algorithm (GSA) is a metaheuristic population-based optimization algorithm inspired by the Newtonian law of gravity and law of motion. Ever since it was introduced in 2009, GSA has been employed to solve various optimization problems. Despite its superior performance, GSA has a fundamental problem. It has been revealed that the...

This paper describes an optical fibre sensor system for displaying of ammonia gas spectrum. An open path optical technique is used to analyze the absorption lines of ammonia within the Ultra Violet Region. Experimental results describing the operation of the sensor with varying gas concentrations are presented and are compared with recorded results...

Preheating requirements in the process of determining grade of agarwood oil is making the process difficult and lessen the efficiency. According to the present invention, there is provided a method of determining grade of agarwood oil at ambient temperature comprising (a) taking an amount of sample from said agarwood oil; (b) exposing said sample d...

Ammonia emission in the atmosphere is a major concern in EU countries. In 2005 it was reported by European Environmental Agency (EEA) that 93% of the EU15 countries come from agricultural sector. This paper reported an open-path differential optical absorption spectroscopy (DOAS) system to monitor ammonia emission in the agricultural sector. In the...

Agricultural was an important industry which have economy impact by trading goods for others application such as perfume, aromatherapy and others. Agar wood one of high valuable products that give economic impact for several of countries which price of agar wood to its certain grade. The grade were manipulated by traders to get higher price using l...

Using an array of sensors (E-nose) to classify Agarwood has proven to be successful and produced performance close to an expert level (90% of expert level performance) but it has proven difficult to eliminate misclassifications without over-fitting. In our effort to improve our result we explored a self-improving Case-Based Reasoning approach and r...

Agarwood is an important agricultural product widely used in fragrance industries. It can be found in various parts of ASEAN countries. The price of the Agarwood is determined according to its quality, which is generally decided based on certain grade. This paper proposes an intelligent grading technique for the wood using advanced signal processin...

This paper presents the classification of Agarwood region from Malaysia and Indonesia. The aim of this paper is to design model-based on artificial neural network (ANN). The ANN model was employed with portable E-nose to classify the Agarwood region. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method is effective and significant to the c...

This paper presents the use of anti-sway angle control approaches for a two-dimensional gantry crane with disturbances effect in the dynamic system. Proportional-derivative (PD) and proportional-derivative (PD)-type fuzzy logic controller are the techniques used in this investigation to actively control the sway angle of the rope of gantry crane sy...

Universal stretch and bending machine (USBM) is a combination of stretch machine and bending machine which are used in car door sash production. The main purpose of combining these two machines is to reduce the number of machines, space utilization and increase productivity. This paper presents the design and modeling for revolute control technique...

Real-time application using MATLAB is very difficult to be implemented since the implementation requires very long and tedious programming code. This paper presents an approach to design real-time signal generator system that uses Graphical User Interface (GUI) development tools provided in MATLAB 6.5. The real-time signal generator GUI aimed to co...

Direct Current (DC) motor position control using Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) is one of the applications which are widely used in automation industries. The aim of this project is to implement a Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) controller in a DC motor control system of The Conveyor System. The project is consists of two stages, classi...

This paper presents the design and modeling for servomotor position control using state-space technique. The aim of this paper is to compare the control performance between State-feedback controller with integral control and State- feedback controller without integral control. A mathematical model of the system is derived and verified by SIMULINK/M...

The difficulty of a Water Tank Level Control System (WTLCS) is often operates under unstable condition such as above setpoint level or below setpoint level. The unstable condition normally contributes to damage of devices and equipments of a process plant. However, this problem can be solved by introducing feedback controller by visualizing it usin...