In order to counter the common perception that molecular diagnostics are too complicated to work in low resource settings, we have performed a difficult sample preparation and DNA amplification protocol using instrumentation designed to be operated without wall or battery power. In this work we have combined a nearly electricity-free nucleic acid extraction process with an electricity-free isot...

Kinetic studies for the non-isothermal decomposition of unirradiated and γ-irradiated silver acetate with 10(3) kGy total γ-ray doses were carried out in air. The results showed that the decomposition proceeds in one major step in the temperature range of (180-270 °C) with the formation of Ag(2)O as solid residue. The non-isothermal data for un-irradiated and γ-irradiated silver acetate were an...

Thermal convection in a lid cooled cavity with phase change was studied experimentally and numerically. The ow and ice front structures, and their dependence on the ow parameters (Rayleigh number) were investigated. In the experiment, the onset of convection in an initially isothermal uid (water) in a 383838mm plexiglas box, which is instantaneously cooled from isothermal top wall to a temperat...

the kinetics of molybdenite oxidation was studied by non-isothermal tga-dta with heating rate 5 ºc.min-1.the model-fitting kinetic approach applied to tga data .the coats-redfern method used for model fitting. the popular model-fitting gives excellent fit for non-isothermal data in chemically controlled regime. the apparent activation energy was determined to be about 34.2 kcalmol-1 with pre-ex...

Abstract: Non-isothermal flow through a rotating curved duct with square cross section is studied numerically by using the spectral method, and covering a wide range of the Taylor number, Tr, 2000 0   Tr and Dean number, , Dn 0Dn 2000. A temperature difference is applied across the vertical sidewalls for Grashof number Gr = 500, where the outer wall is heated and the inner one cooled. The r...

An isothermal tokamak, Isomak, is investigated to demonstrate that nearly exact, rigidly toroidally rotating Maxwellian solutions exist for both the ions and the electrons. For the ions this Maxwellian solution is valid in the limit in which unlike collisions of the ions with the electrons are weak and the induced electric field unimportant, while for Maxwellian electrons unlike collisions can ...

Particle-wall interactions determine in different ways the operating conditions of plasma sources, ion accelerators, and beams operating in vacuum. For instance, a contribution to gas heating is given by ion neutralization at walls; beam losses and stray particle production-detrimental for high current negative ion systems such as beam sources for fusion-are caused by collisional processes with...

Experiments are performed to assess the feasibility of cooling high flux heat sources flush mounted on the inner wall of a cylindrical vessel by a dielectric liquid flowing at high velocity parallel to the vessel wall. Fluid motion is induced by rotating a stirrer having radial blades about the axis of the vessel. The study focusses on examining critical heat flux (CHF) enhancement attributed t...

Introduction: Radiation associated with Io’s Pele-type volcanic plumes is studied numerically. Infrared (IR) radiation from three SO vibrational bands ( , and ) in the plume has been examined previously [1] using an optically thin gas model within DSMC [2]. In the present work, the model is improved such that opacity at the band centers is accounted for; it is found that the plume gas dynamics ...

Isothermal and non-isothermal torrefaction characteristics and kinetics of microalga Scenedesmus obliquus (S. obliquus) CNW-N are studied using thermogravimetric analysis. The pyrolysis of S. obliquus CNW-N with increasing temperature is characterized by four-stage decomposition. Depending on the torrefaction temperature, light, mild, and severe torrefaction from the weight loss and the maximum...