Bridges are very important for establishing communication paths. For this reason, it is important to control scour around bridge piers. Several methods have been proposed for scour control. One of the most useful methods is the use of submerged vanes. In the other hand, laboratory circumstances force many considered effective factors to be skipped in the scour phenomenon. In this situation, the...

AIM The aim of this study was to compare the clinical outcome of submerged vs. non-submerged tapered implants placed into fresh extraction sockets. MATERIALS AND METHODS A prospective, controlled, multicenter, randomized, clinical trial has been performed in two centers in Rome and Torino (Italy). Thirty healthy patients were recruited according to the following inclusion criteria: need for a...

Continuous ethanol fermentation from cheap sugar cane molasses was studied. Two strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae were used, one of them flocculent, in order to evaluate the performance of fluidized tubular reactors, with and without support for yeast immobilisation (polyurethane foam and expanded clay argilate granules were tested). In this heterogeneous continuous system, with three phases,...

The exploitation of enzymes for biotransformation reactions for the production of new and safer drug intermediates has been the focus of much research. While a number of enzymes are commercially available, their use in an industrial setting is often limited to reactions that are cost-effective and they are rarely investigated further. However, the development of miniaturized flow reactor techno...

Keywords: Residence time distribution (RTD), moments of RTD, experimental estimation of RTD, RTD of ideal and nonideal flow models, axially dispersed plug flow model, tanks in series model, multiparameter model, dispersion coefficient, microfluid, macrofluid, earliness and lateness of mixing, conversion in nonideal flows.

The nitrogen removal from wastewater and landfill leachate has become a vital part of the overall treatment process because nitrogen compounds have the significant impact on the environment. Generally, biological nitrogen removal is used for nitrogen elimination from wastewater. In the last years, newly advanced anaerobic reactor systems such as up flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB), anaerobi...

Power ultrasonic reactors have gained a lot of interest in the food industry given the effects that can arise from sound induced cavitation. However, most of the new food processing developments have been based on empirical approaches. Thus, there is a need for mathematical models which help to understand, optimise and scale up ultrasonic reactors. In this work, a CFD model has been developed, ...

We present a new derivation of the momentum exchange algorithm first introduced by Ladd [12], to compute the flow force and torque on a submerged body. The starting point of our derivation is to consider the time derivative of the total momentum of a virtual fluid system that replaces the submerged body in the real problem. The new derivation gives, in turn, some correction terms to the origina...

Our insights into the basic characteristics of neuronal function were significantly advanced by combining the in vitro slice technique with the visualization of neurons and their processes. The visualization through water immersion objectives requires keeping slices submerged in recording chambers where delivering artificial cerebro-spinal fluid (aCSF) at flow rates of 2-3 ml/min results in a l...

The analysis of the propagation phase plays a fundamental role in the assessment and forecasting of risks related to the occurrence of submerged and coastal landslides. At present there are few numerical models able to simulate the propagation of such a type of events. This paper presents fully 3D models and approaches developed by the authors and suitable for the simulation of both completely ...