Moving bed heat exchangers (MBHE)s are used in industrial applications including waste recovery and the drying of solids. As a result, energy balance models have been developed to simulate transfer between moving gas phase. Within these models, phase change components within has not considered as liquefaction or desublimation does occur typical applications. However, available for cryogenic CO2...

Alex Bennet and David Bennet 1 Co-Founder, Mountain Quest Institute, Frost, West Virginia; Chair Emeritus, U.S. Federal Knowledge Management Working Group; former Chief Knowledge Officer and Deputy Chief Information Officer for Enterprise Integration of the U.S. Department of the Navy. 2 Co-Founder, Mountain Quest Institute, Frost, West Virginia; former Chairman of the Board and CEO of a profes...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Some frost-tolerant herbaceous plants droop and wilt during frost events and recover turgor and posture on thawing. It has long been known that when plant tissues freeze, extracellular ice forms. Distributions of ice and water in frost-frozen and recovered petioles of Trifolium repens and Escholschzia californica were visualized. METHODS Petioles of intact plants were cryo...

Frost protection or protecting plants from cold temperatures where they could be damaged must be a consideration in vineyard planning. Cold protection events commonly occur during “radiation” frost conditions when the sky is clear, there is little wind and strong temperature inversions can develop. These conditions can happen during spring, fall or winter when it is necessary to keep canes, bud...

[1] We studied soil properties of frost boils at nine zonal-vegetation locations across the North American Arctic Transect (NAAT) in order to better understand arctic soils and their interaction with other biogeophysical components of frost boil ecosystems. Soil genetic horizons were analyzed for particle size, pH, electrical conductivity, total organic carbon (OC) and nitrogen (N), bulk densit...