Nanotubes have been shown to possess intriguing mass transport properties, and are being incorporated into polymeric membranes for molecular separations. Although models have been developed to predict the effective permeability and selectivity of composite membranes with non-spherical fillers, they only apply to fillers with isotropic transport properties. However, molecular transport in tubula...

The adsorption and separation behavior of SO2-CO2, SO2-N2 and CO2-N2 binary mixtures in bundles of aligned double-walled carbon nanotubes is investigated using the grand-canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) method and ideal adsorbed solution theory. Simulations were performed at 303 K with nanotubes of 3 nm inner diameter and various intertube distances. The results showed that the packing with an inte...

Seawater is a complex electrolyte solution of water and salts with sodium chloride as the major constituent. However, the thermodynamic properties of seawater are considerably different from those of aqueous sodium chloride solution. In the literature, exergy analyses of seawater desalination systems have sometimes modeled seawater by sodium chloride solutions of equivalent salt content or sali...

The ultrasonic velocities in binary liquid mixtures of carbon tetrachloride with benzene, toluene, m-xylene, ethyl benzene and chloro benzene have been measured at entire mole fraction range at 303.15K, using ultrasonic interferometer of frequency 2 MHz. Isentropic compressibilities KS, deviations of KS from ideal mole fraction mixture law ΔKS, available volumes Va, Lennard Jones potential repu...

The application of the ideal binary mask to an auditory mixture has been shown to yield substantial improvements in intelligibility. This mask is commonly applied to the time-frequency (T-F) representation of a mixture signal and eliminates portions of a signal below a signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) threshold while allowing others to pass through intact. The factors influencing intelligibility of ...

A one-sided ideal of a ring has the insertion of factors property (or simply, IFP) if implies r for . We say a one-sided ideal of has the weakly IFP if for each , implies , for some non-negative integer . We give some examples of ideals which have the weakly IFP but have not the IFP. Connections between ideals of which have the IFP and related ideals of some ring extensions a...

Thermodynamic properties of the ST2 model for supercooled liquid water exhibit anomalies similar to those observed in real water. A possible explanation of these anomalies is the existence of a metastable, liquid-liquid transition terminated by a critical point. This phenomenon, whose possible existence in real water is the subject of much current experimental work, has been unambiguously demon...

This paper explores the use of an artificial immune system (AIS) for network intrusion detection. As one significant component for a complete AIS, static clonal selection with a negative selection operator is developed and the system is described in detail. Two important factors, the detector sample size and the antigen sample size, are investigated in order to generate an appropriate mixture o...

An experimental technique for in situ and real-time monitoring of mechanochemical reactions in a shaker ball mill was recently described, which utilises highly penetrating X-ray radiation available at the ID15B beamline of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility. Herein, we describe the first attempts to perform such reaction monitoring in a quantitative fashion, by introducing an internal ...