This paper presents a model-based cell-health-conscious thermal energy management method. An Arrhenius equation-based mathematical model is firstly identified to quantify the effect of temperature on the cell lifetime of a Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) battery pack. The cell aging datasets collected under multiple ambient temperatures are applied to extract the Arrhenius equation parameters. The ...

We report recent efforts to understand a broad range of experiments on confined water and protein hydration water, many initiated by a collaboration between workers at the University of Messina and MIT-the editors of this special issue. Preliminary calculations are not inconsistent with one tentative interpretation of these experiments as resulting from the system passing from the high-temperat...

The pyruvate and NADH concentrations and the buffer pH which gave maximal activity with LDH isoenzymes derived from human heart and liver tissue were established for the temperatures 25°C, 30°C, 35°C, 37°C, 40°C, 45°C, and 50°C. The velocities of the LDH isoenzymes using these maximal assay conditions were used to obtain Arrhenius plots, i.e. log initial velocity against inverse absolute temper...

Rate constants for dissociative electron attachment to Cl 2 have been measured from 300 to 1100 K in a high-temperature flowing-afterglow Langmuir-probe apparatus. R-matrix calculations have been carried out which compare well with the present measurements with possible deviation at the highest temperatures. The attachment rate constants do not show Arrhenius behavior. The temperature dependenc...

Sucrose thermal degradation is an important reaction in the food industry. When in concentrated and neutral solutions, pure sucrose presents a lag phase in the reaction. This work aimed at: (i) modelling sucrose thermal degradation autocatalytic behaviour and (ii) studying the concentration and temperature effects on kinetic parameters. Isothermal experiments were conducted at temperatures rang...

When a strong, though non-Arrhenius temperature dependence of electrical resistivity is observed, one usually concludes that the underlying mechanism is variable-range hopping. Unexpectedly, such observations are also made for many semiconductor systems at elevated temperatures, where a variable-range hopping mechanism seems unlikely. A satisfactory explanation for this observation is still lac...

A study of the cure kinetics a one-part water-scavenging silicone elastomer was carried out under conditions controlled humidity and temperature using rectangular bars subjected to oscillatory torsional shear. Characteristic times were obtained from Hsich model fits storage modulus evolution. modified Arrhenius-style is proposed that accounts for both dependence proportionality between rate con...

The dataset used to generate IUPAC benchmark Arrhenius parameters for propagation rate coefficients in radical polymerization is extended and reanalyzed, taking into account systematic interlaboratory variation.