A new constant pressure pendant-drop penetration surface balance has been developed combining a pendant-drop surface balance, a rapid-subphase-exchange technique, and a fuzzy logic control algorithm. Beside the determination of insoluble monolayer compression-expansion isotherms, it allows performance of noninvasive kinetic studies of the adsorption of surfactants added to the new subphase onto...

The cement industry is the major source of cement dust which contains heavy metals like nickel, cobalt, lead, chromium, arsenic and hazardous substances like dioxins and furans. Exposure to these substances can cause health problems to human, animals and vegetation. A continuous pilot scale quartz sand filter was constructed and uses to study the effect of important design parameters (temperatu...

Water-assisted injection molding (WAIM) provides a new way to produce hollow plastics parts and reduce production costs. The melt flow behavior when applying high pressure water has an important effect on the water penetration length and residual wall thickness of molded parts. So the purpose of this study was to visualize the flow patterns of melt and to characterize the water penetration beha...

PURPOSE Convective transport of macromolecules from the peritoneal cavity into tumor is determined by its hydraulic permeability and the pressure gradient. Previous studies showed that establishing a pressure gradient into the tumor failed to result in significant penetration. This study addresses the hypothesis that the extracellular matrix is the major resistance to the penetration of an i.p....

Laboratory studies have demonstrated degradation of electrostatically-enhanced (electret) respirator filter performance after exposure to excessive levels of ionizing radiation, immersion in solvents, and when exposed intermittently to specific aerosols. This study was conducted to determine if such degradation has practical significance in the workplace. N95, R or P95 and P100 filters from two...

1. The highest surface pressure of phosphatidylcholine monolayers allowing penetration of delipidated serum albumin decreased in the order dibehenoyl>distearoyl>dipalmitoyl=dimyristoyl. This pressure was not related to the area occupied or to the space available between the phospholipid molecules at the interface. 2. Penetration of albumin into yeast phosphatidylcholine monolayers was increased...

for a determination of soil characteristics one should have access to instruments that can measure these characteristics, including: soil penetration resistance with high accuracy. one of the accurate instruments commonly employed in soil penetration determinations is cone penetrometer. this apparatus, by measuring soil cone index at different soil depths can provide useful about information ab...

introduction: the purpose of this study was to compare first accessory gutta-percha penetration after the use of nickel-titanium (ni-ti) or stainless-steel spreaders in curved resin blocks. materials and methods: forty resin blocks with 30º and 45º curvatures (20 blocks for each) were prepared and #30 master cones were placed in canals. in part one, under 20 newton pressure, ni-ti or stainless-...

In the tetragonal heavy fermion system CeCoIn(5) the unconventional superconducting state is probed by means of muon spin rotation. The pressure dependence (0-1 GPa) of the basal-plane magnetic penetration depth (λ(a)), the penetration depth anisotropy (γ = λ(c)/λ(a)) and the temperature dependence of 1/λ(i)(2) (i = a, c) were studied in single crystals. A strong decrease of λ(a) with pressure ...