Left hepatic vein (LHV) that drains blood into a coronary sinus (CS) is an extremely rare congenital anomaly of systemic vein drainage with only single reports published. In most of these cases the unusual venous connection was found incidentally during diagnostics or surgery. The case of a two-year-old boy in whom the anomaly was discovered during open heart surgery for partial anomalous pulmo...

Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are promising electrochemical devices that enable the highest fuel-to-electricity conversion efficiencies under high operating temperatures. The concept of multi-stage electrochemical oxidation using SOFCs has been proposed and studied over the past several decades for further improving the electrical efficiency. However, the improvement is limited by fuel dilutio...

This work analyzes the efficiency and economic performance of different configurations of a coal-fed Integrated Gasification Fuel Cell (IGFC) plant with CO2 capture. Our analysis evaluates novel configurations, providing a detailed economic assessment for each case. The plants studied here are based on a pressurized Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) based power cycle integrated with a Shell coal gas...

Biomass gasification process has been predicted and optimized based on temperature, pressure, gasifying agent ratios by integrating Aspen Plus simulation with the high-dimensional model representation (HDMR) method. Results show that temperature biomass to air ratio (BMR) have significant effects process. HDMR models demonstrated high performance in predicting H2, net heat (NH), higher heating ...

In order to exchange the wood biomass energy for electric power with small capacity and high efficiency, it is most effective use a reciprocating engine operated gasifier. On other hand, such small-capacity system often installed in urban areas. Therefore, strict emission regulation should be observed. Normally, as low heating value (LHV) of bio-syngas small, stoichiometric mixture achieve maxi...

Accurately and efficiently predicting the LHV of MSW is vital for designing operating a waste-to-energy plant. However, previous prediction models possess limited geographical applicability. In this paper, we employ multiple linear regression artificial neural network (ANN) techniques to predict LHV. These data-driven utilize 151 globally distributed datasets identified during systematic litera...

Figure 1: Axial contrast-enhanced computed tomography (A) shows heterogeneous hepatic parenchyma and ascites, as well as widely dilated venous collateral in the left haemithorax. The dilated venous collateral joined the middle and left hepatic veins. Sagittal CT scan (B) shows membranous obstruction of the inferior vena cava. DVC: dilated venous collateral; LHV: left hepatic vein; MHV: middle h...

BACKGROUND Congenital anomalies of the venous system are rare, involve the inferior vena cava (IVC), a persistent left superior vena cava (PLSVC), and the left hepatic vein (LHV), and can make cardiac diagnostic and therapeutic procedures difficult. CASE PRESENTATION We present a 67-year-old woman without heterotaxy syndrome associated with interruption of the left IVC that continued with the...

Non-existence of a local hidden variables (LHV) model for phenomenon benchmarks its use in device-independent quantum protocols. Nowadays photon-number resolving weak-field homodyne measurements allow realization emblematic gedanken experiments. Alas, claims that we can have no LHV models such experiments on (a) excitation pair spatial modes by single photon, and (b) two weakly squeezed vacuum ...