An irreversible cycle model of a Braysson heat engine operating between two heat reservoirs is used to investigate the performance of the cycle affected by the finite-rate heat transfer between the working fluid and the heat reservoirs, heat leak loss between the heat reservoirs and irreversibility inside the cycle. The specific power output is maximized with respect to the cycle temperatures a...

We investigated whether substrate availability influences the type of energy metabolism in procyclic Trypanosoma brucei. We show that absence of glycolytic substrates (glucose and glycerol) does not induce a shift from a fermentative metabolism to complete oxidation of substrates. We also show that glucose (and even glycolysis) is not essential for normal functioning and proliferation of pleomo...

A few years ago Westinghouse innovations in PWR technology resulted a proposal for new type of integral fuel burnable absorbers containing Gadolinium. Preliminary designs loading patterns NPP Krško were made 18 month cycles with standard VANTAGE+ Integral Fuel Burnable Absorbers (IFBA) enriched Boron, as well newly proposed Gadolinium based absorbers. In this paper we investigate the possibilit...