industrial production of thermoset composite components involves the application of a vacuum bagging and autoclave pressure to minimize void percentage, usually to less than 5%. phenolic resin systems generate water as a reaction byproduct via condensation reactions during curing at elevated temperatures. in this paper, vacuum bagging and simple manufactured autoclave curing systems are used fo...

introduction: we previously shown that microinjection of glutamate into the hdb of rat elicited cardiovascular depressive responses. microinjection of ap5 (an nmda receptor antagonist, 2.5 mm, 50 nl) and cnqx (an ampa receptor antagonist, 1 mm, 50 nl) caused no significant changes in the blood pressure and heart rate. microinjection of bicuculline (bmi: a gabaa receptor antagonist, 1 mm, 50 nl)...

application of automatic systems, including discharge measurement technology is one of the effective methods for improving delivery management, water use efficiency, flexibility, and performance of irrigation networks. several aspects such as hydraulic, technical, physical, environmental, economic, social, and managerial, have significant impact on these systems selection. due to diversity of t...

Recent developments in the industrial refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump sector have included significant increases in the typical operating pressures of systems. With ammonia this offers several opportunities to capitalise on the high critical temperature and high index of compression of the refrigerant in order to deliver heat efficiently in the temperature range 70C – 90C. It also...

An evaluation of the stability and accuracy of modern physiologic pressure measuring systems is reported with a brief review of some of the problems of catheter pressure recording. Evaluation of stability consisted of measuring the drift of the baseline, and of the calibration factors of the gage and amplifier combination with time and temperatures change. Evaluation of the accuracy of these pr...

We measured the flow-resistance of five commercially available 10 cm H2O expiratory positive-pressure (EPP) valves (n = five per valve type) at bias flows of between 0 and 2,000 ml/s. We found that individual valves of each type and manufacturer functioned similarly. Different valve types, however, functioned differently: with one type, system pressure was higher than rated (p less than 0.05), ...

Nucleation rate measurements of water in the presence of nitrogen as a carrier gas are reported at total pressures near 10, 25, and 40 bar, and temperatures of 230 and 250 K. The results were obtained using our pulse-expansion wave tube, particularly suited for high pressure nucleation research. Enhanced fugacity of water vapor in the mixture, due to the presence of nitrogen, was quantitatively...

Reservoir models with many grid blocks suffer from long run time; it is hence important to deliberate a method to remedy this drawback. Usual upscaling methods are proved to fail to reproduce fine grid model behaviors in coarse grid models in well proximity. This is attributed to rapid pressure changes in the near-well region. Standard permeability upscaling methods are limited to systems with ...

In this study, the pressure drop for the binary mixtures of particles differing in size and density in a pseudo-2D spouted bed was experimentally studied. A binary mixture of solid particles including sand, Gypsum, and polyurethane was used in the experimental setup. Effects of static bed height, cone angle, particles diameter, and a particles weight fraction on the bed pressure drop were e...

reservoir models with many grid blocks suffer from long run time; it is hence important to deliberatea method to remedy this drawback. usual upscaling methods are proved to fail to reproduce fine gridmodel behaviors in coarse grid models in well proximity. this is attributed to rapid pressure changesin the near-well region. standard permeability upscaling methods are limited to systems with lin...