Current microbial methodologies to determine fish quality are laborious and have long time required to obtain results. The impediometric technique as a rapid sensitive method was used to determine the correlation between impedance detection times (IDTs) and conventional reference psychrophilic and mesophilic plate counts of fish in order to develop models for predicting the microbial quality an...

This paper presents sizing, energy management strategy, and cost analysis for a configuration consisting of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, fuel cell (FC) storage system, and reverse osmosis (RO) desalination technology for combined power and fresh water production. In this system, PV is the main power supply source; fuel cell is a storage system accompanied by Hydrogen production and storage d...

A new cloud microphysical parameterization is described. Features of this new scheme include: the use of generalized gamma distributions as the basis function for all hydrometeor species; the use of a heat budget equation for hydrometeor classes, allowing heat storage and mixed phase hydrometears; partitioning hydrometeors into seven classes (including separate graupel and hail categories) ; th...

Fillet portions of freshly landed Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua, were either directly stored in ice or frozen for a briefperiod, thawed, and then stored in ice to determine and compare subsequent shelf lives so a retailer handling both products could be cognizant of the comparative per­ ishability of both product treatments. The frozen-thawed portions were found to have as long or a slightly longe...

An understanding of radiative transfer in sea ice is critical to understanding the heat and mass balance of the Arctic. Radiative transfer affects such processes as surface melting, ice-albedo feedback, solar heating of the upper ocean, and internal heat storage within the ice. Large temporal changes in the physical state of the ice cover cause large changes in its radiative properties, particu...

To improve the primary frequency response in future low-inertia hybrid power system a fuzzylogic based frequency controller (FFC) for wind farms augmented with energy storage systems(wind-storage system) and intelligent PV farms for the frequency stabilization is proposed inthis paper. Using system frequency deviations the proposed controller provides bidirectionalreal p...

The global cryosphere encompasses snow and ice in all its forms in the natural environment, including glaciers and ice sheets, sea ice, lake and river ice, permafrost, seasonal snow, and ice crystals in the atmosphere. Cryospheric models are mathematical and numerical descriptions of these components of the Earth system, designed to simulate snow and ice processes and feedbacks in the context o...