IGCC (Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle) technology is being developed to enable electricity to be generated at high efficiency and low emissions. Continuous improvement is essential to make IGCC reliable and costeffective. As environmental concerns over carbon emissions escalate, development of a practical carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology has become an important issue. Combinin...

Renal and splanchnic sympathetic nerve discharge (SND) responses to heating are significantly reduced in senescent compared with young Fischer-344 (F344) rats (Kenney MJ and Fels RJ. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 283: R513-R520, 2002). However, the functional significance of this finding is not known. We tested the hypothesis that blood flow distribution profiles to heating are altered...

Thermodenuding particles can provide insights into aerosol composition and may be a way to create particles in laboratory chambers that better mimic the atmosphere. The relative volatility of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) was investigated by evaporating organics from the particles using a thermodenuder (TD) at temperatures between ∼ 60 and 100 C. Volatility was influenced by the parent hydroc...

The objective of this research is to determine the thermal inactivation kinetics of Listeria monocytogenes in chicken breast meat under both isothermal and dynamic conditions. A four-strain cocktail of L. monocytogenes was inoculated to chicken breast meat. Isothermal studies were performed by submerging samples under hot water maintained at constant temperatures ranging from 54 to 66 C. The D ...

In this work, a model of gasification process that enables all, material and energy balance, calculation of gas composition, gas heating value and reactor temperature is presented. The model parameters were estimated by laboratory experiments. A fraction of MSW generally separated from inorganic materials and biodegradable components, so called Refuse-derived fuel (RDF), was studied by material...