Transfer table is an essential stage between roughing and finishing rolling stands in a hot-strip rolling mill. High temperature and long time that strip is exposed to air at this stage cause a considerable heat loss that accounts for uneven temperature distribution, non-uniform surfaces, reduced product quality and increased production costs. Using thermal shields on the transfer table is cons...

Table 1. Average colony size of the six quality control strains: Anaerobic chambers and anaerobic jars are used to provide ancomparison of four methods for cultivating anaerobic bacteria. aerobic conditions required to cultivate anaerobic bacteria. All operations and manipulations of cultures can be carried out inside Setup: incubation the anaerobic chamber, thus avoiding any exposure to oxygen...

Organometallics are increasingly gaining attention as tools in chemical biology owing to their distinguished physicochemical properties, reactivities, and three-dimensional structures. Along these lines, the exceptional ability of organometallic compounds to catalyze a wide variety of chemical transformations has not yet been sufficiently exploited for chemical biology, but could yield bioactiv...

INTRODUCTION The air contamination levels during orthopedic surgeries were evaluated. METHODS The air of operating rooms (ORs) was examined through exposure to microbiological plates placed near the surgical table for an hour. RESULTS values above that recommended (369 CFU/m³) for conventional ORs and ORs with ultraclean air were determined. Contamination was predominantly by Staphylococcus...

in this paper, a modeling tool for risk assessment analysis of the movement of hydrocarbon contaminants in the vadose zone and mass flux of contamination release into the groundwater table was developed. also, advection-diffusion-reaction equations in combination with a three-phase equilibrium state between trapped air, soil humidity, and solid particles of unsaturated soil matrix were numerica...

Table olives are the most important fermented vegetables because of their worldwide economic importance. The three main techniques for table olive production used in Italy concern 82% green olives, 16% black olives and 2% processed at the cherry ripened stage (UNAPROL, 2008). There are three main trade preparations of table olives: Spanish-style olives, Californian-style olives and naturally bl...

This paper describes the investigation for the feasibility of inspection of steel-rocasin rubber specimen used in rocket motor for detection of debond by using air-coupled ultrasonic. A pair of high performance air-coupled transducers was used to generate and receive the high intensity ultrasonic pulses. Probes were placed at the opposite side of the specimen during inspection. It was shown tha...

BACKGROUND Air-borne bacteria in the operating room (OR) may contaminate the surgical wound, either by direct sedimentation from the air or indirectly, by contaminated sterile instruments. Reduced air contamination can be achieved with an efficient ventilation system. The current study assesses the additive effect of a mobile laminar airflow (MLAF) unit on the microbiological air quality in an ...

Much progress has been made over four decades in developing, testing, and evaluating the performance of mathematical models for predicting pollutant concentrations from smoking in indoor settings. Although largely overlooked by the regulatory community, these models provide regulators and risk assessors with practical tools for quantitatively estimating the exposure level that people receive in...

AIMS To evaluate the microbiological efficacy of a down-draught necropsy table ventilation system (which surrounds the cadaver with a "curtain" of air under continuous extraction) during post mortem procedures. METHODS Air sampling was carried out both in the presence and absence of staff and cadaver and during a full post mortem procedure, with functioning and non-functioning table air extra...