The resources dedicated by ENEA to Cold Fusion research in the last two years have been strongly reduced. Nevertheless, fruitful activity has been performed following two main lines. The first line attains to the effort for reaching high values of D/Pd ratio in Pd in order to obtain the best conditions for cold fusion phenomena, in particular power excess production in electrolytic cells. The o...

This paper proposes a combined energy-based model with an empirical physics of failure model for degradation analysis and prognosis of electrolytic capacitors in DC-DC power converters. Electrolytic capacitors and MOSFET’s have higher failure rates than other components in DC-DC converter systems. For example, in avionics systems where the power supply drives a GPS unit, ripple currents can cau...

We consider the interactions between two uncharged planar macroscopic surfaces, immersed in an electrolyte solution, which are induced by interfacial selectivity. These forces are taken into account by introducing a depletion free-energy density functional, in addition to the usual mean-field Poisson-Boltzmann functional. The minimization of the total free-energy functional yields the density p...

Standards of low electrolytic conductivity were developed to satisfy the demands of the U.S. Navy and American industry for the measurement of high quality water. The criteria for the selection of appropriate solvent and solutes, based on the principles of equivalent conductivity and Onsager's limiting law, are described. Dilute solutions of potassium chloride and benzoic acid in 30 % n-propano...

new diorganotin(iv) complexes of the type ph2snl2, bu2snl2 and me2snl2 of the ligands 2-thioacetic-5-phenyl-1,3,4-oxadiazole (hl1) and benzamidophenylalanine (hl2). have been synthesized and characterized by physico-chemical techniques such as (elemental analysis, and electrolytic conductance) and spectral uv-visible, ir and 1h, 13c and 119sn nmr). monomer structures for the complexes, bidentat...

Title of Document: RELIABILITY EVALUATION OF LIQUID AND POLYMER ALUMINUM ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS 45BAnshul Shrivastava, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), 2014 Directed By: Professor Michael Pecht, Department of Mechanical Engineering Liquid aluminum electrolytic capacitors are known for their reliability problems. They are considered as the weakest link in the power electronics system. The liquid e...

A very rapid electrolytic analysis termed 'electrolytic chromatography', using a column electrode with glassy carbon grains, has been developed. The column electrode has been used not only for coulometric detection, but also for separation of metals, elimination of interfering elements, unification of oxidation state, and concentration of an element. Some analytical applications of electrolytic...

I t has been recognised that a major factor which affects the current efficiency in the commercial electrolytic cells for magnesium is the wettability of the cathode surface with respect to magnesium and the ability of the metal deposited to grow into a considerable size on cathode surface before getting released from it. Factors affecting these and studies to improve the wettability have alrea...

porous silicon (ps) samples have been prepared by electrochemical anodization of p-type silicon wafer by varying hf concentrations in the electrolytic solution. the structural, surface morphological, optical and surface composition analysis of the prepared samples were done by x-ray diffraction (xrd), scanning electron microscopy (sem), photoluminescence (pl) and fourier transform infrared (fti...

plasma electrolytic oxidation (peo) is the new, environmentally and cost-effective method for coating the metals. this method vastly has been studied for coating aluminum, titanium and magnesium and their alloys and recently for steel. in present study, ck45 steel samples were coated by peo method in order to improve corrosion resistance. during this process specimens were immerged in carbonate...