Many researchers have investigated how to increase the overall efficiency of solar-driven thermal systems. Several key parameters, such as collector efficiency and storage tank characteristics, may impose some constraints on the annual solar fraction (ASF) of such systems. In this paper, the behaviour of integrating the phase change material (PCM) in SDHW systems is modelled and optimized n...

Internal melt ice-on-coil tank with built-in horizontal tubes is a kind of ice tank used widely. Its discharge process is effected greatly by density different between ice and water. The existing models developed for internal melt ice-on-coil tank are concentric cylinder models which are applicable to tank with built-in vertical tube or to case when all water in tank is frozen, but is not appli...

TRAF family member-associated NF-κB activator (TANK) is a scaffold protein that assembles into the interferon (IFN) regulator factor 3 (IRF3)-phosphorylating TANK-binding kinase 1 (TBK1)-(IκB) kinase ε (IKKε) complex, where it is involved in regulating phosphorylation of the IRF3 and IFN production. However, the functions of TANK in encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV) infection-induced type I IFN...

Analytical and experimental studies conducted at the NASA Langley Research Center for investigating integrated cryogenic propellant tank systems for a Reusable Launch Vehicle are described. The cryogenic tanks are investigated as an integrated tank system. An integrated tank system includes the tank wall, cryogenic insulation, Thermal Protection System (TPS) attachment sub-structure, and TPS. A...

This study assesses the risk to soil and groundwater in the event of a spill of hazardous materials transported in railroad tank cars. Tank cars are designed to be resistant to damage in accidents to reduce the probability of a spill. For safety and economic reasons, the damage-resistant design of tank cars is commensurate with the degree of hazard posed by the product they are intended to tran...

The design and construction of a small wave-sediment tank, built and instrumented for under $10,000, is described. The tank is equipped with a piston-type wavemaker, capable of producing both small-amplitude and solitary waves. The middle section of the tank contains a sediment bed appropriate for wave-soil-structure interaction and sediment transport experiments. Wave energy is absorbed by a g...

Tank No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 Energy (MeV ) 19.7 36.7 50.1 No. of Cell 76 43 27 Length (m) 9.92 9.44 7.32 Tank dia. (mm) 561.1 561.1 561.1 DT dia. (mm) 140 140 140 Stem dia. (mm) 34 34 34 Bore dia. (mm) 13, 18 22 26 Table 1. DTL design parameters Figure 1. rf-contactors (a) rf-contactor between the end-plate and the tank, (b) rfcontactor between the stem of the drift tube and the tank (a) (b) End plate

Water-tank models of meso-scale atmospheric processes often show good qualitative agreement of bulk quantities and flow characteristics and good quantitative agreement of turbulence quantities with field observations. However, it was demonstrated in the first part of this two-part communication that the similarity of velocities of thermally driven upslope flows in atmosphere and water tank is v...

This life cycle design (LCD) project was a collaborative effort between the National Pollution Prevention Center at the University of Michigan, General Motors (GM), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The primary objective of this project was to apply life cycle design tools to guide the improvement of fuel tank systems. Two alternative fuel tank systems used in a 1996 GM vehicl...

A number of important advances have been made in the area of joint equalization and decoding of data transmitted over intersymbol interference (ISI) channels. Turbo equalization is an iterative approach to this problem, in which a maximum a posteriori probability (MAP) equalizer and a MAP decoder exchange soft information in the form of prior probabilities over the transmitted symbols. A number...