High Temperature Sorption Measurements for Determining Surface Effects of Solid Fuels

Household use of solid fuels and high-temperature frying.

Kalpana Balakrishnan, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, No. 1, Ramachandra Nagar, Porur, Chennai 600116, India Douglas Barnes, Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), Energy and Water Department, The World Bank Group, 1818 H Street NW, MSN H4-403, Washington DC 20433, USA (not present for evaluations) James A. Bo...

Interfacial temperature measurements, high-speed visualization and finite-element simulations of droplet impact and evaporation on a solid surface

The objective of this work is to investigate the coupling of fluid dynamics, heat transfer and mass transfer during the impact and evaporation of droplets on a heated solid substrate. A laser-based thermoreflectance method is used to measure the temperature at the solid–liquid interface, with a time and space resolution of 100 ls and 20 lm, respectively. Isopropanol droplets with microand nanol...

Household Use of Solid Fuels

Climate change Effects of Surface soil temperature profile in Ahwaz

In arid and semi-arid regions, soil surface warming is a considerable phenomenon causing a high thermal gradient which makes water flow intensely. The degree of soil temperature is effective on crop production, plant growth and soil microorganisms. In recent years, the ascending trend of temperature has been substantially noticed by researchers in the issues of pointwise climate change and at w...

High-resolution observations of combustion in heterogeneous surface fuels

In ecosystems with frequent surface fires, fire and fuel heterogeneity at relevant scales have been largely ignored. This could be because complete burns give an impression of homogeneity, or due to the difficulty in capturing fine-scale variation in fuel characteristics and fire behaviour. Fire movement between patches of fuel can have implications for modelling fire spread and understanding e...