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Objective: The objective of the study was to extract the essential oil and to determine the physicochemical properties, chemical composition of the essential oil from Myrtus communis leaves by using GC-MS. Methods: 500 g of the powdered material (dried leaves) was subjected to hydro-distillation using Clevenger-type apparatus for 3 hours and the essential oil was dried over anhydrous sodium sulphate. The physicochemical properties essential oil such as solubility, density, specific gravity, refractive index, optical rotation, specific rotation, acid value, saponification value and ester value were determined, which are used to determine the quality of essential oils extracted from plant leaves. The chemical composition of the essential oil of Myrtus communis leaves was analysed using GC-MS. Results: The yield of essential oil of Myrtus communis leaves was 0.463  0.001 g/100 gram of dry sample which is 0.463  0.001 % (w/w) with pale yellow colour and pleasant odour. The essential oil of Myrtus communis leaves was slightly soluble in water and ethanol while it was soluble in chloroform, petroleum ether and ethyl acetate. The essential oil was subjected to GC-MS analyses, twenty eight components representing 99.949 % of the total oil composition. Conclusion: The present study indicates that the extraction of essential oil from Myrtus communis leaves and GC-MS analysis, the essential oil of this plant have a potential of secondary metabolites which can be exploited as a good source of bioactive substances.

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In electricity market with a deregulation withmany times will become difficult for dispatchingpower, whichis obtained with thepower congestion in transmission lines due to flow of power in buses. To reduce the flow of power in buses and system loss in lines which are heavily loaded, toimproveloadability and system stability for which an Interline Power Flow Controller used. In this article, Disparity Utilization Factor for Line is utilized with the optimal tuning and placement with Gravitational Search Algorithm IPFC hinged transmission lines for power congestion. The rankingof transmission lines by line congestion in terms of relative DLUF. According to the IPFC placementwith the essentialminimum congested, weakline connected to the same bus in the congested distribution network. IPFC optimal Sizing is carried with Gravitational Search Algorithm. The multiobjective function is chosen for parameters tuning of IPFC. A suggested IEEE-30 bus test network is implemented by a graphical representation whichis considered in this study toreduce LUF in transmission lines with IPFC optimal placement. Bothactive power losses and reactive power losses in power systemare necessary to be minimized after every iterationof IPFC optimal tuning. The proposed tuning in this articlegives effectivenesswith the reduction in the values of power system with the objective functions.

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