Cape Verde is an archipelago of ten islands located in the Atlantic Ocean, 750 km west of the Senegal coast. The country is largely dependent on cereals, importing around 70-90% of its needs, with maize being the most important with 60-70% of all cereals imported. The storage system comprises both bulk and bag storage. Two port terminal elevators in two distinct islands guarantee the receiving ...

The methane storage behavior in nanoporous material is significantly different from that of a bulk phase, and has a fundamental role in methane extraction from shale and its storage for vehicular applications. Here we show that the behavior and mechanisms of the methane storage are mainly dominated by the ratio of the interaction between methane molecules and nanopores walls to the methane inte...

UK Biobank required a cryogenic facility to store, in vapour phase, a minimum of 5 000 000 1.2 ml capacity micro-tubes held in racks of 96 tubes below -180 degrees C for a 20 year period. The archive would be housed in a 900 m(2) industrial unit remote from the main laboratory area that would be generally unmanned and would require a complete cryogenic infrastructure. A commercial supplier was ...

The ever-increasing demand for high data storage capacity has spurred research on development of innovative technologies and new storage materials. Conventional GByte optical discs (DVDs and Bluray) can be transformed into ultrahigh capacity storage media by encoding multi-level and multiplexed information within the three dimensional volume of a recording medium. However, in most cases the rec...

As computers become more capable, researchers of all types are finding it necessary to store massive quantities of data generated by simulations or experiments and to retrieve them at high rate for analysis or visualization. As a consequence, strong needs have arisen for storage systems tuned for particular needs; significant improvements in storage speed and access control; optimized wide-area...

a r t i c l e i n f o Understanding the interactions of hydrogen atoms with the surface and the subsurface regions of Pd is critical to the development of advanced energy technologies for hydrogen storage, hydrogen separations, and catalytic conversion processes. While many of the physical and chemical characteristics of the H 2 –Pd system are known, the kinetics and thermodynamics of H atom ab...

saffron is an important spice values for its color, aroma and flavor in the food industry. a significant proportion of saffron compound is lost during processing and storage because of its volatility and sensitivity to oxidation. thepresent research microencapsulated saffron color compounds (crocin) by freeze drying. the freeze-dried aqueous saffron effective compound extract was first prepared...

Water quality is an important determinant for the structural integrity of alloy cladded fuels and assemblies during long-term wet storage. Detailed characterization of a water filled storage basin for spent nuclear reactor fuel was performed following the formation and proliferation of an amorphous white flocculent. White precipitant was sampled throughout the storage basin for chemical and spe...

I summarize recent experimental results on B to charmonium decays. Decays of B meson to final states that include charmonium states play an important role in the study of CP violation at B-factories. The decay modes BCP → J/ψKS, ψ(2S)KS, χc1KS, ηcKS, J/ψKL and J/ψK (K → KSπ ) have been used for sin2φ1 measurements [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. These two-body decay modes are dominated by the color suppre...