The bioreduction of solid TNT by a Pseudomonas fluorescens strain was investigated in a stirred tank reactor. Experiments in which TNT beads were the only solids present indicated that the biodegradation mechanism is dissolution followed by degradation in bulk solution. Dissolution may limit the overall rate, in which case degradation can be enhanced through increased agitation. Since soil slur...

in this paper a mathematical simulation of a simplified internal combustion engine is presented. to contribute engine kinematics and its geometry, simple relations are derived for constrained motions. the equation of motion for the piston forms a singular boundary value problem. the uniqueness of the solution was studied in the banach space. for solving governing equations an iterative numerica...

This work intends to capitalize waste transformer oil (WTO) as a renewable source of fuel in a diesel engine, given the cost of fuel being used is reduced when using waste products. Previously, despite its higher viscosity, WTO is used as such or in blends with diesel in a diesel engine. However, in the current study, efforts are taken to chemically treat WTO so as to bring down its viscosity a...

During an 8-month period all intravascular catheters were removed by sterile technique upon completion of use and submitted to the hospital microbiology laboratory. All catheters were routinely cultured by the semiquantitative culture technique, with greater than or equal to 15 colonies being defined as a positive result. Of the 687 Teflon catheters cultured, 6.9% were positive by culture, comp...

In a wet clutch system, a piston is used to compress the friction disks to close the clutch. The position and the velocity of the piston are the key effectors for achieving a good engagement performance. In a real setup, it is impossible to measure these variables. In this paper, we use transmission torque and slip to approximate the piston velocity and position information. By using this infor...

Temporal fluctuations of the atmospheric piston are critical for interferometers as they determine their sensitivity. We characterize an instrumental setup, termed the piston scope, that aims at measuring the atmospheric time constant, tau(0), through the image motion in the focal plane of a Fizeau interferometer. High-resolution piston scope measurements have been obtained at the observatory o...

Interring gas dynamic analysis of piston in a diesel engine considering the thermal effect. Understanding the interaction between ring dynamics and gas transport in ring pack systems is crucial and needs to be imperatively studied. The present work features detailed interring gas dynamics of piston ring pack behavior in internal combustion engines. The model is developed for a ring pack with fo...

We study a dynamical system consisting of a massive piston in a cubical container of large size L filled with an ideal gas. The piston has mass M ∼ L2 and undergoes elastic collisions with N ∼ L3 non-interacting gas particles of mass m = 1. We find that, under suitable initial conditions, there is, in the limit L → ∞, a scaling regime with time and space scaled by L, in which the motion of the ...

Abstract. A detailed analysis of the adiabatic-piston problem reveals peculiar dynamical features that challenge the general belief that isolated systems necessarily reach a static equilibrium state. In particular, the fact that the piston behaves like a perpetuum mobile, i.e., it never stops but keeps wandering, undergoing sizable oscillations, around the position corresponding to maximum entr...

We are developing a technique to measure segment misalignment of large telescopes based on wavefront estimation using phase-diverse (inand out-of-focus) images. We report the current results of an experiment to measure piston errors on the Keck II primary segmented mirror, through atmospheric turbulence, using phase-diverse phase retrieval. The segment piston errorss are separated from the rand...