We successfully treated a patient with occupational hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) caused by Grifola frondosa (Maitake) mushroom spore with an extra-fine aerosol corticosteroid; beclomethasone dipropionate (BDP) dissolved in hydrofluoroalkane-134a (HFA). A 49year-old woman developed respiratory symptoms 3 months after beginning work on a mushroom farm. She was diagnosed as HP based on radiol...

The capillary tube/suction line heat exchanger (SLHX) is widely used in small refrigeration systems. The refrigerant flowing in the SLHX experiences frictional and accelerational head losses, flashing, and heat transfer simultaneously. The simulation of refrigerant flow through SLHX is important since this will help engineers analyze and optimize the SLHX incorporated in a refrigeration system....

a State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Science, 46 Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China b Jiangsu Institute of Meteorological Science, 16 Kunlun Load, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210009, China c Hong Kong Observatory, 134A, Nathan Road, Kowloon 999077, Hong Kong, China d School of Civil Engineering and Environmental, University of Oklahoma...

We have operated successfully glass Resistive Plate Counters (RPC) at the BELLE experiment by using a nonflammable gas mixture of 30% argon, 8% butane-silver and 62% freon, HFC-134a. This freon is nonozone depleting freon, but a freon has a high global warming potential in general. Thus a gas mixture for RPC might be desired to be freonless in the near future. We have tested the performance of ...