Fetal in situ cardiovascular and bronchial morphologies were studied in rats with tetralogy of Fallot and absent pulmonary valve to clarify the prenatal pathology of this complex. There were 42 fetal rats with this complex among 300 fetuses treated with N,N'-bis-(dichloroacetyl)-1,8-octamethylenediamine (bis-diamine) (200 mg) on the 10th day of pregnancy. After undergoing rapid whole-body freez...

In advanced energy process technologies, like the advanced pressurized circulating fluidized bed (CFB) process conceptualized by Foster Wheeler Corp., there exists a need to transport and control the flow of solids from a high pressure vessel to a low pressure vessel. Solids transport has long been done in the refinery industry and in the CFB combustor industry, but always from a low pressure v...

In this paper, a procedure for quantifying valve stiction in control loops based on ant colony optimization has been proposed. Pneumatic control valves are widely used in the process industry. The control valve contains non-linearities such as stiction, backlash, and deadband that in turn cause oscillations in the process output. Stiction is one of the long-standing problems and it is the most ...

Background and Purpose: Candida endocarditis is an infrequent disease with a high mortality rate, which commonly occurs in immunosuppressed patients with cardiac valve replacement. We reported a 70-year-old woman diagnosed with Candida prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE). This study also involved a review of all published cases of Candida PVE from 1970. Case report: Herein, we reported a 70-ye...

Overflow loss is one of the main reasons for inefficiency hydraulic system. Aiming at overflow in system, an energy recovery system based on a motor and generator proposed. Further, pressure monitoring control strategy variable speed electric adopted, which can differential between inlet outlet proportional relief valve as small value, achieve purpose by reducing valve. Through establishing sim...

Gas fuel control valves play important roles in the of gas flow high-precision turbines. To clarify influence coupling between structure and fluid system, a thermal fluid–solid mechanism is presented based on numerical investigations carried out using dynamic mesh technique. Valve core deformation can affect outlet accuracy. At 2% valve opening, temperature contributes 93% to deformation. The e...

This paper proposes a control approach that can provide significant energy savings for the control of pneumatic servo systems. The control methodology is formulated by decoupling the standard four-way spool valve used for pneumatic servo control into two threeway valves, then using the resulting two control degrees of freedom to simultaneously satisfy a performance constraint (which for this pa...

transcatheter aortic valve implantation (tavi) is a new therapeutic option for patients with severe aortic stenosis with unacceptable surgical risk for conventional aortic valve surgery. a bicuspid aortic valve (bav) is the most common congenital cardiac disorder (1% of the population) and currently is considered exclusion criteria for tavi, because it predicts an increased risk of adverse aort...

T. J. Trella, U.S. Department of Transportation, Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142 and A theoretical model was developed of the nonlinear dynamic response of a reciprocating air compressor discharge valve system considering unsteady flow. It constitutes an extension of previous modeling procedures where the flow was considered in a quasi steady manner. The most simpl...