A study was carried out into the use of preformation process to prepare biochar for replacing coke breeze in iron ore sintering. Two types of preformation process, thermo-compression process (TCP) and normal temperature process (NTP), were adopted. Results show that preformation contributed to improving the density of both raw biomass and biochar. Recommended preformation parameters for TCP wer...

We often come across sentences in our daily life containing many nouns which act as a compound noun. The interpretation of these noun compounds may be a very trivial task for us but it is of great value to one who is trying to understand the semantic meaning of any sentence. For a machine to understand the meaning of such compound nouns it should be able to understand the relation between the n...

Mesoscale models using a non-local K-scheme for parameterixation of boundary-layer processes require an estimate of the planetary boundary layer (PBL) height z, at all times. In this paper, two-dimensional sea-breeze experiments are carried out to evaluate three different formulations for the advective contribution in the zi prognostic equation of Deardorff (1974). Poor representation of the th...

Fresh Breeze is a highly parallel architecture currently under development, which strives to provide high performance scientific computing with simple programmability. The architecture provides for multithreaded determinate execution with a write-once shared memory system. In particular, Fresh Breeze data structures must be constructed from directed acyclic graphs of immutable fixed-size chunks...

The sensitivity of sea breeze structure to sea surface temperature (SST) and coastal orography is investigated in convection-permitting Met Office Unified Model simulations of a case study along the south coast of England. Changes in SST of 1 K are shown to significantly modify the structure of the sea breeze immediately offshore. On the day of the case study, the sea breeze was partially block...

Two-dimensional numerical simulations of sea breeze development over a large sandbar on the North Sea coast of Germany are reported. The numerical model used in these experiments contains a detailed treatment of soil moisture, which allows evaluation of the effects of differential surface characteristics on the airflow pattern. Results of the simulations indicate that the contrast between the m...

The sea breeze/land breeze circulation system in the Los Angeles area results in transport of pollutants seaward at night followed by return of aged material inland the next day. This characteristic wind reversal pattern both increases the retention time available for the oxidation of S02 to for m sulfates and causes individual air parcels to make multiple passes over large coastal emissions so...

The sea breeze/land breeze circulation system in the Los Angeles a r ea results in transport of pollutants seaward at nigh t followed by return of aged material inland the next day . This characteristic wind reversal pattern both increases the r etention time available for the oxidation of S02 to form sulfates and causes individual a ir parcels to make mul tiple passes over large coas tal emiss...