Trinidad has tar sand resources of about 2 billion barrels of oil on land in the Parrylands/Guapo and Brighton areas. With an oil price of over USD 25 per barrel, the commercial extraction of oil from Trinidad tar sands is viable, but it requires a careful study. The relatively small extent of this tar sand (about 10,000 acres and with depths varying from surface to less than 500 feet) and with...

In this study, radio frequency heat treatment at varying temperatures (50, 55, and 60°C) was applied to investigate its impact on the nutritional quality and protein solubility of corn. The nutritive value was measured in terms of crude protein content, in vitro protein digestibility, bioavailability of Fe and Ca, and antinutritional factors, tannins and total polyphenols contents. No significa...

SELF-CONSISTENT CALCULATIONS OF THE POWER DEPOSITION AND VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION DURING ICRH INCLUDING FINITE ORBIT WIDTHS, SPATIAL RF-INDUCED DRIFT AND DIFFUSION. Self-consistent calculations of ICRH for toroidally directed wave spectrum have revealed the importance of including finite orbit width and RF-induced spatial transport. This is in particular important for heating at higher harmonics i...

HANBIT is a magnetic mirror confinement device. Recently, with almost finishing the first campaign for the basic system development, it started the second campaign for the high-temperature plasma confinement physics study in mirror configuration. Here, we introduce briefly the HANBIT device and report initial physics experiments results on RF-plasma heating and confinement in the simple mirror ...

In this paper, a BSIMSOI RF gate resistance model for FDSOI MOSFET is introduced and verified. With the addition of the gate resistance model, the RF characteristic of FDSOI MOSFET could be modeled well. Self-heating effect (SHE) will affect RF data fitting significantly. A simple method to extract thermal resistance is proposed.

[1] Measurements of ionospheric electron temperature enhanced by the action of a powerful high-frequency radio wave on the F-region at the EISCAT facility near Tromsø, Norway are analyzed to obtain the electron heat source due to the radio wave as a function of transmitter power. The absorption of the wave in the D-region is accounted for and is found to have a significant influence on the F-re...