As carbon dioxide emissions arising from fossil energy consumption and fuels are gradually increased, it is important for the low-carbon operation of ships to recover diesel engine waste heat. A newly developed dual-loop organic Rankine cycle (ORC) system heat a marine main (M/E) was designed in this paper. The exhaust gas (EG) recovered by high-temperature (HT) loop. jacket cooling water (JCW)...

To improve the treatments for low back pain, new designs of total disk replacement have been proposed. The question is how well these designs can act as a functional replacement of the intervertebral disk. Four finite element models were made, for four different design concepts, to determine how well they can mimic the physiological intervertebral disk mechanical function. The four designs were...

The homologous venom allergen Ag 5s from the yellow jacket (Vespula vulgaris) and paper wasp (Polistes annularis) have 59% sequence identity of their respective 204 and 205 amino acid residues, and they have low degrees of antigenic cross-reactivity in insect allergic patients and in animal models. Hybrids containing different segments of these two vespid Ag 5s were expressed in yeast. Circular...

The fate is described of 11 patients who had a stored pulmonary valve homograft mounted on a frame or in a Dacron jacket used for mitral valve replacement. Mitral regurgitation due to holes in the attenuated cusps occurred in nine by one year, requiring re-operation or causing death. Only one patient remains well with moderate mitral regurgitation after two years. Since January 1967, 118 patien...

Abstract Rehabilitation, upgrading, or strengthening of structural members, especially columns, has become the target many researchers because columns are most important members in a building and failure causes direct collapse building. This study aims to get an assessment best pattern steel-framed jacket used for axially loaded concrete by numerically studying behavior column different cases s...

This paper presents the propagation of dual-band diamond dipole antenna on three various jackets. The jackets are purely fleece fabric with Shieldit patches top it. network analyzers flexible lossless coaxial cable used to measure communication antennas. experiment involves a man ideal body mass index (BMI) wearing by placing antennas It is observed that best on-body engineered jacket. 10 dB im...

Most of oil and gas offshore platforms are located in the seismic regains. So, Seismic vulnerability evaluation of the offshore platforms is one of the most important and vital issues in the structural systems. In this study, jacket type offshore platforms are studied by incorporating the pushover analyses and nonlinear time history analyses, in such a way that, first some push over analyses ar...

The chemical effects of acoustic cavitation are obtained in sono-reactors built-up from a vessel and an ultrasonic source. In this paper, simulations of an existing sono-reactor are carried out, using a linear acoustics model, accounting for the vibrations of the solid walls. The available frequency range of the generator (19-21 kHz) is systematically scanned. Global quantities are plotted as a...