The development of a reliable and accurate method to predict thermal breakthrough time is a significant open problem in geothermal reservoir engineering. Such a method would enable more informed decisions to be made regarding reservoir management. Methods developed at present include analytical models and solute tracers, both of which have limitations. The use of particles as temperaturesensiti...

The acoustical parameters of some synthesized azomethines have been studied from ultrasonic velocity and density measurement at different concentration in methanol and dimethyl formamide at 303.15 K. The apparent adiabatic molar compressibilities and apparent molar volume were also evaluated. The results provide useful information about solute-solute and solute-solvent interactions and are of s...

In this paper, we perform two-dimensional simulations of cross-flow forward osmosis (FO) membrane modules in the presence of draw and feed channel spacers. For this purpose, the equations corresponding to the conservation of mass, momentum, and convection-diffusion for the mass fraction of solute are solved using a commercial finite volume flow solver. We consider six configurations of channel ...

The proximity criterion of Mehrotra and Beveridge, that divides the region around a solute into the Voronoi polyhedra defined by the solute atoms, has been modified to use the radical planes based on the solute atom Van der Waals spheres, as suggested by Gellatly and Finney, or on the interaction strength of the atom with the solvent. A comparison of these proximity criteria is given using the ...

In this study, we make use of a nonstationary stochastic theory in studying solute flux through spatially nonstationary flows in porous media. The nonstationarity of flow stems from various sources, such as multi-scale, nonstationary medium features and complex hydraulic boundary conditions. These flow nonstationarities are beyond the applicable range of the ‘classical’ stochastic theory for st...

Uptake of alkane (C5-C9) and alcohol (C4-C7) solutes by both strong acid cation exchange resins and strong base anion exchange resins in aqueous medium has been studied. The amount of solute taken up by resins is directly proportional to the solute concentration equilibrium with resins. Hydrophobic interaction between the solute and the resin matrix appears to play an important role in the upta...

Using the emulsion method, we measured the homogeneous nucleation temperature depression, DeltaT(f,hom), and equilibrium melting points depression, DeltaT(m), of various aqueous solutions and then calculated lambda for each solute using the linear relationship DeltaT(f,hom) = lambdaDeltaT(m). We defined lambda as the solute-specific supercooling capacity and examined its correlation with some k...

Vibronic coupling within the excited electronic manifold of the solute all-trans-β-carotene through the vibrational motions of the solvent cyclohexane is shown to manifest as the "molecular near-field effect," in which the solvent hyper-Raman bands are subject to marked intensity enhancements under the presence of all-trans-β-carotene. The resonance hyper-Raman excitation profiles of the enhanc...