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Applied Sciences, Volume 9, Issue 15

August-1 2019 - 261 articles

Cover Story: In this study, a parabolic dish concentrator was investigated as a heat source for an organic Rankine cycle for power generation. Different types of cavity receivers were considered as solar working fluid, including hemispherical, cubical, and cylindrical with different nanofluids such as Al2O3/oil, CuO/oil, and SiO2/oil. The numerical model was validated using experimental data. Results show that compared to pure oil, the thermal efficiency of the cavity receivers increased slightly with the application of nanofluids. Furthermore, results showed that the cubical cavity receiver using oil/Al2O3 nanofluid was the most efficient choice for application as the investigated solar ORC’s heat source. View this paper.
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Articles (261)

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,493 Views
14 Pages

6 August 2019

Steelmaking industries produce a large amount of solid wastes that need to be adequately managed in order to ensure environmental sustainability and reduce the impact of their disposal on earth pollution. Electric arc furnace (EAF) slags are those wa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,066 Views
11 Pages

An Improved Method for Estimating Renal Dimensions; Implications for Management of Kidney Disease

  • Kristen Chao,
  • Kimberly Liao,
  • Maheen Khan,
  • Christopher Shi,
  • Jingsong Li,
  • Itzhak D. Goldberg and
  • Prakash Narayan

6 August 2019

Changes in renal dimensions, including total kidney volume, not only inform ongoing renal disease but also disease progression. Determination of renal dimensions can inform drug efficacy, is important for matching recipients with potential donors, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,501 Views
13 Pages

Temporal Label Walk for Community Detection and Tracking in Temporal Network

  • Zheliang Liu,
  • Hongxia Wang,
  • Lizhi Cheng,
  • Wei Peng and
  • Xiang Li

6 August 2019

The problem of temporal community detection is discussed in this paper. Main existing methods are either structure-based or incremental analysis. The difficulty of the former is to select a suitable time window. The latter needs to know the initial s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,002 Views
26 Pages

6 August 2019

In the current design method of the eccentrically braced frame structure, the energy dissipation link and the frame beam are both designed as a whole. It is difficult to accurately assess the degree of damage through this method, and it is also hard...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
6,233 Views
24 Pages

Microbial Induced Carbonate Precipitation Using a Native Inland Bacterium for Beach Sand Stabilization in Nearshore Areas

  • Pahala Ge Nishadi Nayanthara,
  • Anjula Buddhika Nayomi Dassanayake,
  • Kazunori Nakashima and
  • Satoru Kawasaki

6 August 2019

Microbial Induced Carbonate Precipitation (MICP) via urea hydrolysis is an emerging sustainable technology that provides solutions for numerous environmental and engineering problems in a vast range of disciplines. Attention has now been given to the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,026 Views
11 Pages

A Bench Evaluation Test for Refrigeration Oils in a Refrigeration System Using a Screw Compressor

  • Weifeng Wu,
  • Zhao Zhang,
  • Xiaolin Wang,
  • Liangwei Yang and
  • Quanke Feng

6 August 2019

Refrigeration oil has a large effect on the performance of refrigeration systems. However, the physical and chemical indexes of fresh refrigeration oils often fail to reflect the actual operating characteristics, especially with respect to the degrad...

  • Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,014 Views
18 Pages

6 August 2019

The entanglement phenomenon plays a central role in quantum optics and in basic aspects of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. We review the dissipative quantum model of brain and the role of the entanglement in the brain-mind activity correl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,440 Views
17 Pages

6 August 2019

In this paper, both experimental tests and numerical simulations of Polyvinyl Butyral (PVB) laminated glass pane under low-speed impact were carried out. In order to accurately predict the responses of annealed glass under low-speed impact, a constit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,278 Views
21 Pages

6 August 2019

Shale and fractured cores often exhibit dual-continuum medium characteristics in pulse decay testing. Dual-continuum medium models can be composed of different flow paths, interporosity flow patterns, and matrix shapes. Various dual-continuum medium...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,151 Views
14 Pages

6 August 2019

The objective of the study was to evaluate the usefulness of novel nonwoven textile filter technology for greywater treatment. This technology had already been used on a lab scale for septic tank effluent treatment; however, this study is the first t...

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