Whereas natural ventilation design in hot climates is intended to mitigate discomfort effect of thermal transmission into building interiors, the uncertainty of the aggregate effect of the strategy on interior air temperature in hot dry climates has been expressed. This study investigated how air temperature in rooms of a residential building in a hot dry climate is affected by some natural ven...

Dry screw compressor are limited to maximum pressure ratios of approximately 3:1 due to the high gas temperatures resulting from the compression process, which cause them to deform To attain higher pressure ratios the compressors must be cooled. The main features of heat transfer in screw compressors are reviewed qualitatively and resulting from this, an analytical and experimental study was ca...

The comparison of recalibrated spectra from the atmospheric emitted radiance interferometer prototype (AERI-00) and lineby-line radiative transfer model (LBLRTM) calculations show much smaller differences in the 800-1200 cm atmospheric -1 window region under “clear conditions” compared with the preliminary calibrated data. Results indicate that the new AERI-00 data is in good agreement with sim...

Patients with dry eyes resulting from the practolol syndrome present a therapeutic challenge. Very frequent instillation of preservative-free drops are the only therapy in most cases. Using an entirely new agent--a hydrophilic polymer in insert form--we have provided in this open study an alternative therapy which shows some subjective and objective advantages. Few patients experienced problems...

This study explores the inverse relationship between sea level pressure and tropical cyclones in the tropical Atlantic (TA). Upper-air observations, the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (formerly the National Meteorological Center)/National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCEP/NCAR) reanalysis, and regional SSTs provide clues as to the physics of this relationship using composite ...

Recent warm, dry summers showed the vulnerability of the European power sector to low water availability and high river temperatures. Climate change is likely to impact electricity supply, in terms of both water availability for hydropower generation and cooling water usage for thermoelectric power production. Here, we show the impacts of climate change and changes in water availability and wat...

The Fukushima accident sequence The earthquake and the subsequent tsunami that devastated part of Northeast Japan on March 11th, 2011, led to a series of accidents in the Fukushima Daichi nuclear plant, constructed and operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). Only three of the six units of the plant (all of them boiling water reactors, BWR) were operating at that time. The sequence of ...

On a television show, a pre-cooled bare-skinned person (TV host) passed through engulfing kerosene flames. The assumption was that a water film should protect him during 0.74 s flame exposure in an environment of 86 kW/m² heat flux. The TV host got light burn inflammation on the back, arms and legs. The present work studies skin temperatures and burn damage integral of such dangerous flame expo...