Industrial manufacturing approaches are associated with processing materials that consume a significant amount of thermal energy, termed as industrial process heat. sectors substantial energy for heating over wide range temperatures (up to 400 °C) from agriculture, HVAC power plants. However, the intensive application fossil fuels causes unfavorable environmental effects cannot be ignored. To a...

The determination of conditions necessary to adequately heat sterilize various media is a problem of considerable importance in the fermentation and food industries, or other such areas where a lack of sterile techniques preclude satisfactory performance. Until recently, however, practical ways to handle this problem were either wholly empirical ones, or theoretical ones which depended on some ...

Galaxea fascicularis, a stony coral belonging to family Oculinidae, is widely distributed in Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and large areas of the Indo-Pacific oceans. So far there is a lack of gene expression knowledge concerning this massive coral. In the present study, G. fascicularis was subjected to heat stress at 32.0 ± 0.5°C in the lab, we found that the density of symbiotic zooxanthellae dec...

Two novel hybrid combined cycle power systems that use solar heat and methanol, and integrate CO2 capture, are proposed and analyzed, one based on solar-driven methanol decomposition and the other on solar-driven methanol reforming. The high methanol conversion rates at relatively low temperatures offer the advantage of using the solar heat at only 200–300 C to drive the syngas production by en...

This publication discusses domain integration of various engineering disciplines as an effective methodology to design new, innovative products or to upgrade existing ones. A case study illustrates how this approach is applied to the design process of a high performance electronic product. Thanks to newly developed cooling technologies, fewer constraints are put on the location of heat dissipat...

Ethanol is largely used as a solvent in the synthesis of varnishes and perfumes. It is also used as a preservative for biological products, fuel, and gasoline additives. Anethanol-water mixture, normally obtained by fractional distillation</span...

Towards low-carbon energy systems, there are countries with ongoing plans for expanding their nuclear power capacity, and simultaneously advancing the role of variable renewable energy sources (RES), namely wind and solar energy. This crossroads of capital-intensive, baseload power production and uncontrollable, intermittent RES may entail new challenges in the optimal and economic operation of...

  Friction-stir welding process is a novel method of solid state welding, which produces heat due to friction between the pin, the shoulder and the workpiece. This heat causes a paste area. Shoulder pressure and pin spin cause edges integration and lead to welding. In this study, firstly, the feasibility of welding of steel sheet (EN10130) with a thickness of 1.5mm has been tested by 58 experim...