This work is about supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) for the removal of hazardous hydrocarbons in wastewater, otherwise treated by incineration. It has been found that the addition of alcohol improves the hydrocarbon conversion; shifting the reaction towards final benign products. The compound under investigation is N, N Dimethylformamide (DMF) undergoing SCWO in the presence of isopropyl al...

India has chalked out a nuclear power program based on its domestic resource position of uranium and thorium. The first stage started with setting up the Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWR) based on natural uranium and pressure tube technology. In the second phase, the fissile material base will be multiplied in Fast Breeder Reactors using the plutonium obtained from the PHWRs. Considering ...

In this paper a detailed model of a VVER1000 reactor pressure vessel (RPV) with the extension of simplified primary loops is presented (Loop model). The primary loop components like steam generators and pumps are modelled by the outer shapes and additional source terms for energy and momentum exchange. The RPV model part is tested without primary loops and compared with former results obtained ...

Background and objective: Tetracyclines are the second most used group of antibiotics in the world. This type of antibiotic has a weak attraction in the body and enters wastewater through urine and feces. This study investigated the effectiveness of tetracycline removal from wastewater by air-cathode microbial fuel cells. Materials and methods: The current study was bench-scale experimental re...

This paper presents a new approach to the use interactive evolutional computing (IEC) for the automatic core design of a boiling water reactor (BWR). In particular, the approach combines the characteristics of both heuristic search and interactive operation. A heuristic search is performed by a population of chromosomes (or agents) in a search space and an interactive operation is performed by ...