A Numerical Model to Investigate Optimum Liquid Carbon Dioxide Seeding Rate in Weather Modification Projects

Molecular model for carbon dioxide optimized to vapor-liquid equilibria.

A molecular model for carbon dioxide is presented, and the parameters of the Lennard-Jones sites, the bond length, and the quadrupole moment are optimized to experimental vapor-liquid equilibrium data. The resulting molecular model shows mean unsigned deviations to the experiment over the whole temperature range from triple point to critical point of 0.4% in saturated liquid density, 1.8% in va...

High pressure carbon dioxide pasteurization of liquid food Supercritical carbon dioxide pasteurization of liquid food

Using a Numerical Weather Model to Improve Geodesy

The use of a Numerical Weather Model (NWM) to provide in situ atmosphere information for mapping functions of atmosphere delay has been evaluated using Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) data spanning eleven years. Parameters required by the IMF mapping functions (Niell 2000, 2001) have been calculated from the NWM of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and incorporat...

Multi-objective optimization of time-cost-quality-carbon dioxide emission-plan robustness in construction projects

Today, the construction industry is facing intense competition and success in this competition depends on several factors. Project managers try to minimize project time and cost, carbon dioxide emission and at the same time maximizing the quality of project and its plan robustness. In this paper, study construction project scheduling considering a discrete trade-off between time, cost, quality,...

A 3D Numerical Model to Investigate Mechanical, Thermal and Material Flow Characteristics in Friction Stir Welding of Copper Sheets

The objective of this study was to develop a numerical model for the prediction of temperature distribution, effective plastic strain distribution, and especially material flow in friction stir welding of copper plates. The DEFORM-3D software was used by incorporating a lagrangian incremental formulation. Threedimensional results of the material flow pattern which were extracted using the po...

Encapsulated liquid sorbents for carbon dioxide capture.

Drawbacks of current carbon dioxide capture methods include corrosivity, evaporative losses and fouling. Separating the capture solvent from infrastructure and effluent gases via microencapsulation provides possible solutions to these issues. Here we report carbon capture materials that may enable low-cost and energy-efficient capture of carbon dioxide from flue gas. Polymer microcapsules compo...