This paper presents an experimental investigation of transformer dielectric response and solid insulation water content. The dielectric response was carried out on the base of Hybrid Frequency Dielectric Spectroscopy and Polarization Current measurements method (FDS &PC). The calculation of the water content in paper is based on the water content in oil and the obtained equilibrium curves. A re...

A physical system should be in a local equilibrium if it cannot be distinguished from a global equilibrium by “infinitesimally localized measurements”. This seems to be a natural characterization of local equilibrium, however the problem is to give a precise meaning to the qualitative phrase “infinitesimally localized measurements”. A solution is suggested in form of a Local Equilibrium Conditi...

This vignette demonstrates an analysis of the relative stabilities of 24 carboxylases from model organisms that grow optimally at different temperatures. In the chemical thermodynamic model, changes in both temperature and oxidation potential influence the relative stabilities of the proteins with an overall progression that fits with the growth temperatures of the organisms. The calculations s...

We study the dynamics of a two-dimensional driven inelastic gas, by means of direct simulation Monte Carlo techniques, i.e., under the assumption of molecular chaos. Under the effect of a uniform stochastic driving in the form of a white noise plus a friction term, the gas is kept in a nonequilibrium steady state characterized by fractal density correlations and non-Gaussian distributions of ve...