In Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs), a mass transfer impact might be larger than expected because it not only effects the mass transfer losses (substrate flux [1, 2] and removal of waste [2]), but also effects the activation losses (mediator [3-5]) and the ohmic losses (proton transfer [6]). However, the convection/diffusion of the reactant transport from the bulk (reactant transport), which can be ...

This paper contains novel model using feedback neural networks for a work piece temperature prediction. The heat and mass transfer in a porous metal workpiece which is heated by a fire gun is studied. The heat flux distribution is determined by thermocouple connected on the workpiece at definite distances. The gun work piece distance were also change and the temperature distribution and heat fl...

The objective of this paper is to analyze the effect of radiative heat and mass transfer on unsteady natural convection couette flow of a viscous incompressible fluid in the slip flow regime in presence of variable suction and radiative heat source. The governing equations of the flow field are solved employing perturbation technique and the expressions for the velocity, temperature, concentrat...

Reverse Osmosis (RO) is an efficient process for the removal of ionic and organic pollutants from wastewater. However, flux decline and rejection deterioration due to concentration polarization and membrane fouling hinders the application of RO technology. Rotating RO takes advantage of high shear and the Taylor vortex instability to reduce the flux decline related to concentration polarization...

In order to examine the laminar convective heat transfer of nanofluid, experiments carried out using silver-oil nanofluid in a concentric annulus with outer constant heat flux as boundary condition. Silver-oil nanofluid prepared by Electrical Explosion of Wire technique and observed no nanoparticles agglomeration during nanofluid preparation process and carried out experiments. The average size...

The flux of Ca(2+) from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to mitochondria regulates mitochondria metabolism. Within tumor tissue, mitochondria metabolism is frequently repressed, leading to chemotherapy resistance and increased growth of the tumor mass. Therefore, altered ER-mitochondria Ca(2+) flux could be a cancer hallmark, but only a few regulatory proteins of this mechanism are currently know...

X-ray luminosity function derived from observations of X-ray sources in galactic bulges can be explained by prinicipal evolutionary relations for mass accretion rate onto the compact object. The observed mean distribution of individual X-ray luminosities of galactic LMXB is satisfactorily described by a symmetric quasi-Lorentzian curve. The flux variance for bright sources is found to be propor...

In the study of multi-component mass transfer it is common to use the film model, in which all the resistance to mass transfer towards a catalytic surface is assumed to be localized in a diffusion layer in front of the surface. At the surface one furthermore assumes that the temperature and chemical potentials are continuous, while the coupling of a possible heat flux to the mass fluxes is assu...

The intensity of tropical cyclones is sensitive to the rates at which enthalpy and momentum are transferred between sea and air in the high-wind core of the storm. Present models of the wind dependence of these transfer rates suggest that the effective drag coefficient is more than twice the effective enthalpy transfer coefficient at wind speeds above 25 m s21. Using this ratio in numerical mod...