Subsea minerals, such as seafloor massive sulfides, rare earth elements in deep-sea mud, are found deep sea within the exclusive economic zone of Japan. However, development subsea resources has not reached commercialization stage because many technical issues still need to be addressed. Then, efforts for solving these conducted Japan and other countries. Air-lift pumping systems one promising ...

This paper deals with a theoretical investigation of heat and mass transfer with thermal radiation analysis on hydromagnetic peristaltic Prandtl fluid model with porous medium through an asymmetric tapered vertical channel under the influence of gravity field. Analytical results are found for the velocity, pressure gradient, pressure rise, frictional force, temperature and concentration. The in...

An airborne dust particle is trapped in the hole of a plasmonic metal film with a patterned array of holes (mesh) by pumping air through the mesh. Both scatter-free infrared spectra and scanning electron images are obtained on the same individual airborne dust particle, showing the feasibility of multiple, nondestructive experiments on a single, subwavelength particle. Ultimately, this may help...

We report a compact light source that incorporates a semiconductor light-emitting diode, nanostructured distributed feedback (DFB) Bragg grating and spin-coated thin conjugated polymer film. With this hybrid structure, we transferred electrically generated 390 nm ultraviolet light to an organic polymer via optical pumping and out-couple green luminescence to air through a second-order DFB grati...

water hammer is one of the destructive hydrodynamic phenomena which is established in most pumping stations, transmission lines and hydroelectric power plants. this phenomenon gives rise to abnormal pressures, cavitation occurrence and finally pipe explosion and disturbance of the whole system. to control the maleffects of this event, different methods are devised. one of which is sometimes eno...

Pipelines are pressure vessels. Their enviable safety record compares weil with other transportation modes. Typical pipeline fatality rates are about 1% those of rail or air which are, in turn, about 1% of highway fatalities. Pipeline safety is first assured by rigorous inspection during pipe manufacture and line construction. All welds are inspected using radiography to detect voids and ultras...

Increasingly complex air path concepts are investigated to achieve a substantial reduction in fuel consumption while improving the vehicle dynamics. One promising technology is the two-stage turbocharging for gasoline engines, where a high pressure and a low pressure turbocharger are placed in series. For exploiting the high potential, a control concept has to be developed that allows for coord...

period during which the valve is either on or off and the rate of pumping. An air supply from a cylinder or air line at a pressure of a few kilograms per square centimetre is required. The device is very flexible, the rate of flow can be quickly adjusted by altering the timer settings or changing the syringe size or stroke and it will work for long periods without failure. It is not suitable fo...

[1] Most analytical and numerical models developed to analyze pumping test data focus on saturated flow below the water table. Traditionally the soil above the initial water table prior to pumping has been thought to have little influence on the test results and has usually been ignored. It is hypothesized that, if the unsaturated zone is capped by low-permeability soil, airflow in the unsatura...