We have studied the ignition of liquid fuel and certain solid fuels by the photoignition of single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). Our investigation includes the effect of solid additives such as aluminum nano-particles and solid oxidizers such as ammonium perchlorate (AP) on the photoignition characteristics. We have shown that by mixing CNT with other nanoparticles and powdered material, the ...

Trajectory optimisation has shown good potential to reduce environmental impact in aviation. However, a recurring problem is the loss in airspace capacity that fuel optimal procedures pose, usually overcome with speed, altitude or heading advisories that lead to more costly trajectories. This paper aims at the quantification in terms of fuel and time consumption of implementing suboptimal traje...

LLE Review, Volume 113 16 Introduction In the inertial confinement fusion (ICF) approach to fusion, a spherical shell filled with a deuterium–tritium (DT) mixture is compressed to reach a temperature of 10 to 12 keV in the lower-density central core region (hot spot) to initiate a burn wave through the higher-density colder main fuel surrounding the core.1–3 The main fuel areal density (tR) at ...

The research about the calculation of burn-up model hexagonal assembly in SCWR reactor using thorium as fuel materials has been done. This uses thorium-232 and uranium-233 materials. Calculations were performed ASMBURN code SRAC program, by determining enrichment, cell radius, analyzing atomic density after burn up, increasing up level, change linear heat. results obtained show value efficient ...

As wildfires becomes an increasingly important issue affecting our nation’s landscapes, fire managers must quickly assess possible adverse fire effects to efficiently allocate resources for rehabilitation or remediation. While burn severity maps derived from satellite imagery can provide a landscape view of relative fire impacts, fire effects simulation models can also provide spatial fire seve...

A bamboo cannon is a homemade reusable firecracker with kerosene oil used as the fuel. A 13-yearold boy suffered burn on face, upper and lower limbs with a TBSA of 25% caused by the blast of a bamboo cannon. Ten percent of the area of both lower limbs required grafting, and the rest healed spontaneously. The burn is in fact a flame burn with kerosene oil from the blasted bamboo acting as the ac...