The Hydromechanics Laboratory supports midshipmen education, as well as midshipmen, faculty and staff research, in the areas of naval architecture and ocean engineering. The laboratory facilities include a large towing tank (380-ft long, 26ft wide, and 16-ft deep), a small towing tank (120-ft long, 8-ft wide, and 5-ft deep), a coastal engineering wave basin (52-ft long, 48-ft wide, and 2-ft dee...

In this study, the economic and environmental feasibility of a process configuration based on Bioenergy Carbon Capture Storage (BECCS) concept is assessed. The research analyses production jet fuel from forestry residues-derived syngas via Fischer-Tropsch (FT) technology. Further, CO2 removed in cleaning section not released to environment, instead it permanently sequestrated. produced Sustaina...

Biogas is competitive, viable, and generally a sustainable energy resource due to abundant supply of cheap feedstocks availability wide range biogas applications in heating, power generation, fuel, raw materials for further processing production chemicals including hydrogen, carbon dioxide biofuels. The capacity based has been growing rapidly the past decade with global electricity generation i...

Water Gas Shift Reaction: The turn-over-rate (TOR) for the water gas shift (WGS) reaction of 1.4 nm Au/Al2O3 is approximately 20 times higher than that of 1.6 nm Pt/Al2O3. In addition, Au has high activity at lower reaction temperature than Pt. Operando XAFS experiments at both the Au and Pt L3 edges reveal that under reaction conditions, the catalysts are fully metallic. Adsorption of CO, H2 a...

BACKGROUND Accurate measurement of free thyroxine (FT(4)) is important for diagnosing and managing thyroid disorders. Most laboratories measure FT(4) by direct analogue immunoassay methods. The validity of these methods have recently been questioned. The inverse log-linear relationship between FT(4) and thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) is well described and provides a physiological rationale o...

CONSTANS (CO) regulates flowering time by positively regulating expression of two floral integrators, FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) and SUPPRESSOR OF OVEREXPRESSION OF CO 1 (SOC1), in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). FT and SOC1 have been proposed to act in parallel pathways downstream of CO based on genetic analysis using weak ft alleles, since ft soc1 double mutants showed an additive effect in s...

an extensive study of fischer-tropsch synthesis (fts) on alumina-supported cobalt catalysts promoted with different amounts of ruthenium and rhenium is reported. up to 2 wt% of promoters, are added to the catalyst by coimpregnation. the catalysts are characterized by different methods including: bet physisorption, x-ray diffraction, hydrogen chemisorption, and temperature-programmed reduction. ...