In the framework of building a new eco-neighborhood in Grenoble, France, an innovative urban heating network is under construction, which seeks to couple low temperature substation (47–72 °C), 200 m2 solar thermal field, 180 kWh Phase Change Material (PCM) heat storage unit (based on tube and shell assembly), smart management system. This paper focuses design preliminary operation PCM component...

In this study, three SBCs are developed as (i) SBC with phase change material (PCM: waste cooking oil and C 4 H O 3 ), (ii) a novel nanocomposite PCM (NPCM), (iii) without NPCM. The proposed cooker integrated NPCM (MgAl 2 /Ni/Fe -PCM) was experimentally its performance evaluated using fuzzy logic Cramer's rules, image processing techniques. results indicated that the implementation of bar plate...

A reliable battery thermal management system (BTMS) not only can effectively decrease the maximum temperature but also maintain uniformity of lithium-ion (Li-ion) after grouping. Nevertheless, considering deficiency a single heat dissipation method, there exist challenges in efficient structure design, especially at high discharge rates. In this work, composite module with phase change material...

The use of organic residues as soil additives is increasing, but, depending on their composition and application methods, these organic amendments can stimulate the emissions of CO(2) and N(2)O. The objective of this study was to quantify the effects of management practices in irrigated sweet corn (Zea mays L.) on CO(2) and N(2)O emissions and to relate emissions to environmental factors. In a ...

The 'kernel method' has attracted great attention with the development of support vector machine (SVM) and has been studied in a general way. In this paper, this 'method' is extended to the well-known fuzzy c-means (FCM) and possibilistic c-means (PCM) algorithms. It is realized by substitution of a kernel-induced distance metric for the original Euclidean distance, and the corresponding algori...

Phase change material (PCM) used in buildings can reduce the building energy consumption and indoor temperature fluctuation. A composite PCM has been fabricated by the binary eutectic mixture of tetradecanol (TD) and lauric acid (LA) absorbed into the expanded perlite (EP) using vacuum impregnation method, and its thermal conductivity was promoted by aluminium powder (AP) additive. Besides, the...

The efficient use of nutrients is important in development and aging. In this study, we asked if the protein repair methyltransferase has a related or additional role in energy metabolism and stress response in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Worms lacking the pcm-1 gene encoding this enzyme exhibit reduced longevity as SDS-isolated dauer larvae and as arrested L1 larvae under starvation s...

The performance of phase change material (PCM) integrated building envelope in terms of peak load reduction, peak load time delay and thermal demand improvement was investigated for a prototype detached single family house in a hot climate location. Five market available PCM layers, which can be easily inserted into traditional wall construction, were selected and coupled into different walls a...

In C. elegans, genome-wide screens have identified just five essential centriole-duplication factors: SPD-2, ZYG-1, SAS-5, SAS-6, and SAS-4 [1-8]. These proteins are widely believed to comprise a conserved core duplication module [3, 9-14]. In worm embryos, SPD-2 is the most upstream component of this module, and it is also essential for pericentriolar material (PCM) recruitment to the centriol...

It is found that sub-pixel classifiers for classification of multi-spectral remote sensing data yield a higher accuracy. With this objective, a study has been carried out, where fuzzy set theory based sub-pixel classifiers have been compared with statistical based sub-pixel classifier for classification of multi-spectral remote sensing data.Although, a number of Fuzzy set theory based classifie...