Cumene Hydroperoxide (CHP) has been used in the production of Dicumyl Hydroperoxide (DCPO) and phenol. In Taiwan, several severe fire or explosion incidents have occurred due to its thermal instability or reactivity. In this research, the exothermic decomposition of CHP in Cumene was characterized by isothermal microcalorimeter, TAM (thermal activity monitor), because isothermal testing offers ...

Lodgepole pine dwarf mistletoe (DM), Arceuthobium americanum, is a parasitic flowering plant and forest pathogen in North America. Seed dispersal in DM occurs by explosive discharge. Notably, slight warming of ripe DM fruit in the laboratory can trigger explosions. Previously, we showed that alternative oxidase, a protein involved in endogenous heat production (thermogenesis) in plants, is pres...

The four thermodynamic potentials, the internal energy u 1⁄4 uð ij; sÞ, the Helmholtz free energy f 1⁄4 f ð ij; T Þ, the Gibbs energy g 1⁄4 gðrij; T Þ and the enthalpy h 1⁄4 hðrij; sÞ are derived, independently of each other, by using the Duhamel–Neumann extension of Hooke’s law and an assumed linear dependence of the specific heat on temperature. A systematic procedure is then presented to exp...

The goal of this research is developing a unified numerical method for simulating continuum and transitional flow. To achieve our ultimate goal, first, hyperbolic-relaxation equations are introduced, then a new discretization method is developed. The method is based on Huynh’s upwind moment scheme, with implicit treatment of the source term. Our previous linear method is generalized to 1-D nonl...

We investigate the effect of adding nonpolar solutes at atmospheric pressure on water's temperature of maximum density, isothermal compressibility, and isobaric heat capacity, using a statistical mechanical model of water solutions [H. S. Ashbaugh, T. M. Truskett, and P. G. Debenedetti, J. Chem. Phys. 116, 2907 (2002)]. We find that the temperature of maximum density increases with solute hydro...

A frozen phase transition model is developed to investigate the heat and mass transfer of a single water droplet during the vacuum freezing process. The model is based on the diffusion-controlled evaporation mechanism and phase transition characteristics. The droplet vacuum freezing process can be divided into three stages according to the droplet states and the time order. It includes the evap...

There is a large interest in using high power lasers for surface alloying or cladding on aluminium alloys, in order to enhance hardness and to improve wear resistance. A partly quasicrystalline surface layer (QC) (Al-Cu-Fe coating) has been obtained by laser cladding on Al-base materials. In addition to crystalline phases (Al5Fe2 and AlisFe4t -with dissolved copper), a quasicrystalline Al-Cu-Fe...

A kinetic equation is derived for the singlet distribution function for a heavy impurity in a lattice o f lighter atoms in a temperature gradient. In the one dimensional case the equation can be solved to find formal expressions for the jump probability and hence the heat o f transport, q*, for a single vacancy jump o f the impurity. <7* is the sum of the enthalpy of activation, a term involvin...

This paper aims to perform the second law analysis of thermodynamics on the laminar film condensation of pure saturated vapor flowing in the direction of gravity on an ellipsoid with variable wall temperature. The analysis provides us understanding how the geometric parameterellipticity and non-isothermal wall temperature variation amplitude “A.” affect entropy generation during film-wise conde...