mechanical stress and maximum superconducting current have been calculated for a superconductor subjected to uniform plastic deformation. The training effect due to strain hardening o f the material is discussed. These results are compared with an analogous case when the normal transition is caused by the thermo-magnetomechanical instability. The quenching current is shown to depend on the hist...

The paper presents an approach of the Bond Graph modelling applied to thermo-chemical processes. The proposed work focused on combustion process kinetics with respect to reactant and reactor input data. The model provides information on the time variation of the heat of reaction, reaction products concentration, and reactants concentration / accumulation, based on global mass and energy balance...

the study comparatively assessed the impacts of farm activities on the abundance and diversity of soil arthropods and soil physico-chemical parameters of the practical year training programme (pytp) farmlands, university of ibadan, south western nigeria. soil arthropods were collected from september, 2010 to february, 2011 in five sampling sites of pytp farmlands using berlese tullgren extracti...

In this study, thermal performance across straight convecting- radiating fin with temperature dependent thermal conductivity is considered. The variation of parameters (VPM) is adopted to analyze the nonlinear higher order differential equations arising due to thermal conductivity and heat transfer coefficient on temperature distribution. Pertinent parameters such as thermo geometric and radiat...

Chemical and other species reaction theories involving thermodynamical equilibrium states characterized by a temperature parameter invariably utilize statistical mechanical equilibrium density distributions. Here, a definition of heat-work transformation termed thermo mechanical coherence is first made, and it is conjectured that most molecular bonds have the above heat-work transformation prop...

Modern marine vessels use electrically driven rudders; cruise liners, gas carriers, tankers are equipped with Azipod systems manufactured by the Swedish-Swiss company ABB. Gondola-type propellers make it possible to break ice when vessel is moving astern, therefore such used for work on Northern Sea Route, in particular, working Yamal LNG project. The 22MW propulsion system rotates 360° and ena...

Plasma pyrolysis integrates thermo-chemical properties of plasma using pyrolysis process for safe disposal of solid wastes. It is an environment friendly technology to generate valuable byproducts by converting municipal solid waste, biomedical waste and hazardous wastes at 800-1000°C. Plasma Pyrolysis of plastic wastes generates pyrolysis gas, which can be utilized for energy recovery via diff...

In the present study, two bench-scale anaerobic/ anoxic/ oxic submerged membrane bioreactors were used to study the effect of thermochemical sludge disintegration system on the excess sludge production. Among the two membrane bioreactors, one was named experimental membrane bioreactor and another one was named as control membrane bioreactor, where a part of the mixed liquor was treated with the...

This paper summarizes the current efforts at VKI and collaborating institutions in understanding nonequilibrium phenomena in hypersonic flows. Research activities related to “Detailed gas chemistry models,” “Kinetic theory,” and “Rarefied gas effects” are described. Keywords— Atmospheric entry flows, Thermo-chemical nonequilibrium flows, Computational Fluid Dynamics.