We report the performance of a kinetically enhanced copper-vapor laser of active dimensions 32-mm inner diameter by 1-m long as a function of the plasma tube thermal insulation. By reducing the insulation to levels much lower than typically used for conventional copper-vapor lasers, the input power for maximum steady-state output increased from 5.9 to 7.4 kW, whereas the laser wall-plug efficie...

Active carbon (surface area, 1250 m/g) was used to study vapor breakthrough behavior of sulphur mustard (2, 2’dichlorodiethyl sulphide). Effect of length of carbon bed on vapor breakthrough time has been examined. Rate constant (k v ) is found to increase while kinetic saturation capacity (W e ) is invariable with increase in airflow rate. Both k v and W e decrease with the increase of temperat...

We investigate the growth mechanism and temperature dependent Raman spectroscopy of chemical vapor deposited large area monolayer of MoS2, MoSe2, WS2 and WSe2 nanosheets up to 70 μm in lateral size. Further, our temperature dependent Raman spectroscopy investigation shows that softening of Raman modes as temperature increases from 80 K to 593 K is due to the negative temperature coefficient and...

The modal split model is one of the steps of the classical four-step travel demand planning. Predictive, descriptive, and prescriptive modal split models are essential to make a balance between travel demand and supply. To calibrate these models, it is necessary to detect and employ influential independent variables that are related to characteristics of travel modes, individual and family attr...

When only single bypasses and utility duties are used as manipulations, optimal operation of heat exchanger networks (HENs) can be categorized as an active constraint control problem. This work suggests a simple split-range control scheme to implement the optimal operation. The control structure can be found by solving an integer-linear programming (ILP) problem with two objective functions pro...

Approximately 40,000 energetic charged particles were recorded in a pair of plastic detector chips suspended in the vapor over an active electrolysis cell. Particle track locations and orientations were revealed by examining the etch pits produced by chemical etching. Analysis of track orientations indicates that the shower originated in a compact source in the vapor between the chips. The tota...

background: the objective of this work was developing a simple and stable time-based on-line setup for assessing the potential of mercury (hg) vapor adsorption of the commercial sorbents used in air sampling and control operation followed by cold vapor atomic absorption spectrometry (cvaas). methods: a special designed separation chamber was used where reduction of the injected hg (ii) solution...

Split-protein methods-where a protein is split into two inactive fragments that must re-assemble to form an active protein-can be used to regulate the activity of a given protein and reduce the size of gene transcription units. Here, we show that a Staphylococcus aureus Cas9 (SaCas9) can be split, and that split-SaCas9 expressed from Agrobacterium can induce targeted mutagenesis in Nicotiana be...

We analyze the interplay of nonlinearity and dispersion in a dispersion-decreasing photonic bandgap Bragg fiber as a new platform for generating parabolic pulses. A suitably designed linearly tapered, low-index-contrast, solid-core Bragg fiber – amenable to fabrication by conventional modified chemical vapor deposition technology – is shown to yield stable parabolic pulses. The fiber design was...

It’s considered that pool boiling heat transfer is closely related to the intermittent behavior of vapor mass and the consumption of macro-layer on the heated surface. Many experiments have been carried out to support the macrolayer evaporation model, however, little has been done in the numerical simulation of boiling heat transfer. This paper reports a method to simulate heat transfer near th...