This work concerns dryout experiments in which a tube, initially containing water, filled up or partially filled and at 1,2 or 3 atmosphere pressures, is heated. The initial water column experience three thermal regions. The first region, called the first period, involves heating of the tube until saturation conditions are obtained in the water. Boiling of the water in the tube causes swelling ...

Several 2-D “minimum structure” inversion algorithms (de Groot-Hedlin and Constable, 1990) are available for interpretation of profile oriented resistivity data (e.g. Oldenburg and Li, 1994; Loke, 1995). For very large data sets these algorithms are intensive to run and the models are often hard to interpret in terms of a layered geological model which is the most suitable model type in sedimen...

In this paper combination of a load-commutated inverter (LCI) and a voltage-source inverter (VSI) are employed for performance analysis of induction motor drive. Performance of the drive has been evaluated through the different variation in reference speed and load torque. proposed LCI-based induction motor drives include the following Advantages: 1) sinusoidal motor phase current and voltage b...

A Review of Acrylamide: An Industry Perspective on Research, Analysis, Formation, and Control DOMINIQUE TAEYMANS a , JOHN WOOD a , PETER ASHBY b , IMRE BLANK c , ALFRED STUDER c , RICHARD H. STADLER c , PIERRE GONDÉ d , PAUL EIJCK d , SAM LALLJIE e , HANS LINGNERT f , MARIANNE LINDBLOM g , REINHARD MATISSEK h , DETFLEF MÜLLER i , DAN TALLMADGE i , JOHN O'BRIEN j , SARA THOMPSON j , DAVID SILVAN...

This paper presents a methodology to integrate life cycle assessment (LCA)in thermoeconomic models used for the optimal conceptual design of energy conversion systems. It is illustrated by an application to a thermo-economic model developed for the multi-objective optimization of combined synthetic natural gas (SNG) and electricity production from lignocellulosic biomass. The life cycle invento...

Laws of nature are universal in scope, hold with unfailing regularity, and receive support from a wide array of facts and observations. The Law of Conservation of Information (LCI) is such a law. LCI characterizes the information costs that searches incur in outperforming blind search. Searches that operate by Darwinian selection, for instance, often significantly outperform blind search. But w...

Ascertaining the relationships between sediment transport processes and vegetation cover is essential for watershed soil and water conservation. However, it is not easy to realize this target on a large scale. In this study, the location-weighted landscape contrast index (LCI) based on the “source-sink” theory of ecological processes was introduced to unravel the response of sediment yield to v...

urinary 1-hydroxypuren (1-ohp) is commonly used as a major metabolite and biological indicator of the overall exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (pahs). for evaluation of human exposure to such compounds, biological monitoring is an essential process, in which, preparation of samples is one of the most time-consuming and error-prone aspects prior to chromatographic techniques. in this...

This paper presents a spectral domain low-coherence interferometry (SD-LCI) method that is effective for applications in on-line surface inspection because it can obtain a surface profile in a single shot. It has an advantage over existing spectral interferometry techniques because it uses cylindrical lenses as the objective lens in a Michelson interferometric configuration to enable the measur...