An improved way of calculating hydraulic conductance (K) in a Cochard cavitron is described. Usually K is determined by measuring how fast water levels equilibrate between two reservoirs while a stem spins in a centrifuge. A regression of log meniscus position versus time was used to calculate K and this regression method was compared to the old technique that takes the average of discrete valu...

Attic design and construction have significant impacts on residential buildings’ energy performance. In order to understand how passive ventilation rates affect ridge-vent attic’s performance, a twodimensional steady-state finite volume model is employed to simulate the buoyancy-driven turbulent ventilation and heat transfer in a triangular attic space of a gable-roof residential building under...

Abstract In general, the electro-spinning of lignin requires it to be functionalised and/or blended with synthetic or natural polymers. This paper reports on use solvent fractionated lignin-lignin blend electro-spin BioChoice softwood Kraft lignin. The consisted acetone-soluble and ethanol-soluble in a binary acetone DMSO. Solvent fractionation was used purify where ash content reduced soluble ...

We fabricate a simple, compact, and stable temperature sensor based on a liquid-sealed photonic crystal fiber (PCF) in-line nonpolarimetric modal interferometer. Different from other reported PCF devices, it does not need expensive polarimetric devices, and the liquid is sealed in one fiber. The device consists of a stub of isopropanol-filled PCF spliced between standard single-mode fibers. The...