Humidification dehumidification desalination (HDH) is a promising technology for small-scale water production applications. There are several embodiments of this technology which have been investigated by researchers around the world. However, from a previous literature review [1], we have found no study which carried out a detailed thermodynamic analysis in order to improve and/or optimize the...

Sugar cane production in Brazil is one of the most competitive segments of the national economy, producing sugar and ethanol for internal and external markets. Sugar production is done basically in several steps: juice extraction, juice clarification and evaporation, syrup treatment and sugar boiling, crystallization, centrifugation and drying. Much heat exchange equipment is used in this proce...

We try to evaluate the possibility of maintaining the corrosion-resistance of a structural material under the operational temperature and flow velocity of the optimized HYPER (HYbrid Power Extraction Reactor)[1] cooling system. It was attempted to consider the control of the oxygen concentration in the range of 350~650°C. Currently, we are performing static corrosion tests with the oxygen conte...

Kusaka correctly points out that his Eqs. ~1! @Eq. ~39! in Ref. 1# and ~2! @Eq. ~43! in Ref. 2# are equivalent. Hence, the statement in Ref. 2 that Nishioka and Kusaka ‘‘arrived at a different expression for the work of embryo formation’’ is incorrect. Our misunderstanding stemmed from a failure to properly translate the notation of Ref. 1 into our own language. At the outset, however, we point...

We examine 800-year time series of internally generated variability in both a coupled ocean-atmosphere model where water vapor anomalies are not allowed to interact with longwave radiation and one where they are. The ENSO-like phenomenon in the experiment without water vapor feedback is drastically suppressed both in amplitude and geographic extent relative to the experiment with water vapor fe...

This study examines the interannual variability of winter upper-troposphere water vapor over the Northern Hemisphere using the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Water Vapor Project, the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project data, and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting reanalysis. The El Niño–Southern Oscillation related tropical sea surface temperat...

An alternative, low cost method for analyzing mercury in soil, sediment and gold mining residues was developed, optimized and applied to 30 real samples. It is semiquantitative, performed using an acid extraction pretreatment step, followed by mercury reduction and collection in a detecting paper containing cuprous iodide. A complex is formed with characteristic color whose intensity is proport...

Light oil (isooctane) removal using soil vapor extraction (SVE) enhanced bioremediation (BR) was investigated by four steps, including: (i) amendment of substrates in batches (ii) continuous induction of contaminants for 15 days (iii) in situ acclimation for 100 days (iv) biodegradation assisted with SVE venting for 120 h at 20 m·h Results showed that the total removal efficiency was up to 90% ...

Scientific publications written in natural language still play a central role as our knowledge source. However, due to the flood of publications, the literature survey process has become a highly time-consuming and tangled process, especially for novices of the discipline. Therefore, tools supporting the literature-survey process may help the individual scientist to explore new useful domains. ...

A very simple and sensitive method for the simultaneous analysis of naphthalene and p-dichlorobenzene in human whole blood and urine by headspace capillary gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) is presented. The advantages of the method were that as much as 1 mL of headspace vapor could be injected into a GC port in the splitless mode, and that the addition of deuterated naphthalene and ...