The Monte Generoso Beds

Commentary on Generoso et al

Commentary on “Improving the seasonal cycle and interannual variations of biomass burning aerosol sources” by Generoso et al. L. Giglio and J. D. Kendall Science Systems and Applications, Inc., NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 923, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA Received: 21 October 2003 – Accepted: 26 November 2003 – Published: 27 November 2003 Correspondence to: L. Giglio ([email protected]...

Porosity of Packed Beds of Spherocylinders Using the Monte Carlo Method

Applications of granular materials, such as packed particle beds, are frequent in the oil and gas sector. Granular solids can also be used as adsorbents for natural gas storage in vehicles. Therefore, knowledge of the properties of such materials is important for safe and efficient equipment design. In this work, in order to evaluate the influence of particle shape on the porosity of particle b...

Flow through Packed Beds and Fluidized Beds

Chemical engineering operations commonly involve the use of packed and fluidized beds. These are devices in which a large surface area for contact between a liquid and a gas (absorption, distillation) or a solid and a gas or liquid (adsorption, catalysis) is obtained for achieving rapid mass and heat transfer, and particularly in the case of fluidized beds, catalytic chemical reactions. You wil...

The Safety of Hospital Beds

Who needs beds?

We wish to respond to two recent articles highlighting a decline in the frequency of bedside teaching and advocating a return to this traditional clinical education set piece [1, 2] We agree with the assertion that bedside teaching has, in the past, proved to be an important form of clinical education through which learners gain professional, communication, physical examination and reasoning sk...