The Effects of Mainstream and Sidestream Environmental Tobacco Smoke Composition for Enhanced Condensational Droplet Growth by Water Vapor Xiaochen Tang a c , Zhongqing Zheng b c , Heejung S. Jung b c & Akua Asa-Awuku a c a Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Riverside, California, USA b Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, ...

Successful application of a TBM in a project requires investigating both the ground conditions and the machine and backup system design features. Prediction of the machine performance is very important as it has a big effect on the duration of the project and the costs. In this respect, both penetration rate and advance rate must be estimated. Utilization factor, which depends on the type of op...

(1 State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, 4 China; E-mail: [email protected], author for correspondence) 5 (2 Hydro-environmental Research Centre, School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF24 3AA, UK; Email: 6 [email protected]) 7 (3 State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan...

Assessing the sensitivity of water networks to noisy mass loads using Monte Carlo simulation Raymond R. Tan a,∗, Dominic C.Y. Foo b,1, Zainuddin A. Manan c a Chemical Engineering Department, De La Salle University-Manila, 2401 Taft Avenue, 1004 Manila, Philippines b Chemical Engineering Pilot Plant, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia c Department of Chemical Engineerin...

A consistent reference system for height determination at the national scale supports economic activity and is an essential component of the basic infrastructure that enables good governance of our natural resources. Accessed by stakeholders in the field of surveying, engineering, mapping and earth sciences, the height reference system maintains compatibility among all types of geo-referenced i...

a Institute for Infrastructure and Environment, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3JL, UK b College of Water Conservancy and Civil Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100083, China c Laboratoire de technologie écologique, Institut d'ingénierie de l'environnement, Faculté de l'environnement naturel, architectural et construit, Station No. 2, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de...

Gelatin is considered as a partially degraded product of collagen and it is a biodegradable polymer which can be used to produce scaffolds for tissue engineering. Three-dimensional, porous gelatin scaffolds were fabricated by thermally induced phase separation and freeze-drying method. Their porous structure and pore size were characterized by scanning electron microscopy. Scaffolds with differ...

1. CUNY Environmental CrossRoads Initiative, Department of Civil Engineering, The City College of New York, City University of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA. 2. World Water and Climate Foundation, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 4A2, Canada. 3. Research Organization of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan. 4. Institute of Water Management, Hydrology and...

In this paper we describe the background, the concept and the current status of an international postgraduate course on the subject of integrated urban water systems. The course aims to overcome the typical fragmentation of the engineering curricula in that field. Hence, the objective is to give a comprehensive overview on the total urban water and pollutant cycle, thus hoping to provide the st...

Keywords: Artificial intensification of melting; blackening of snow and ice; constructions from snow and ice; engineering-glaciology problems; freezing of water onto ice; utilization of icebergs Contents 1. Introduction 2. Engineering-glaciology problems 2.1. Mechanical principle of the effect 2.2. Thermal physical principle of the effects 3. Artificial intensification of melting of mountain gl...