Low Temperature Chemical Reaction Systems for Thermal Storage

Thermal Attacks on Storage Systems

Disk drives are a performance bottleneck for data-intensive applications. Drive manufacturers have continued to increase the rotational speeds to meet performance requirements, but the faster drives consume more power and run hotter. Future drives will soon be operating at temperatures that threaten drive reliability. One strategy that has been proposed for increasing drive performance without ...

Temperature-induced plasticity in membrane and storage lipid composition: thermal reaction norms across five different temperatures.

Temperature is a key environmental factor inducing phenotypic plasticity in a wide range of behavioral, morphological, and life history traits in ectotherms. The strength of temperature-induced responses in fitness-related traits may be determined by plasticity of the underlying physiological or biochemical traits. Lipid composition may be an important trait underlying fitness response to tempe...

Low-Cost Temperature Logger for a Polymerase Chain Reaction Thermal Cycler

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a method of amplifying DNA which is normally carried out with a thermal cycler. To obtain more accurate and reliable PCR results, the temperature change within the chamber of the thermal cycler needs to be verified and calibrated regularly. Commercially available temperature loggers commonly used for temperature verification tests usually require a graphical u...

Pcm-graphite Composites for High Temperature Thermal Energy Storage

Numerical investigation on sensible thermal energy storage with porous media for high temperature solar systems

In this paper different high temperature TES components are numerically analyzed. The difference is defined by the different type of porous medium employed in the storage. Two different porous media are considered: spheres or foams. In all cases a ceramic material is considered. In the formulation of the model it is assumed that the system geometry is cylindrical, the fluid and the solid thermo...