Environmental monitoring is required to understand the effects of various kinds of phenomena such as a flood, a typhoon, or a forest fire. To detect the environmental conditions in remote places, monitoring applications employ the sensor networks to...
Microrobots have a wide range of applications. The rigid–flexible composite stereoscopic technology based on ultraviolet laser cutting technology is primarily researched for the design and manufacture of microrobots and has been used to fabricate mic...
Quality inspection in the manufacturing of car air conditioning vents has traditionally relied on human operators, a process prone to subjectivity, inconsistency, and inefficiency due to factors like fatigue and human error. To overcome these limitat...
Brassica vegetables have demonstrated many health benefits over the years due to their composition of phenolic, flavonoid, and glucosinolate contents. However, these bioactive molecules can be easily depleted during gastronomic operations. Therefore,...
With the rapid development of China’s civil aviation, the flow of air traffic in terminal areas is also increasing. Short-term air traffic flow prediction is of great significance for the accurate implementation of air traffic flow management....
This study presents a new pneumatic air jet excitation nozzle, specifically designed for food processing applications. The device, which uses compressed air equipment and a precision solenoid valve, controls air discharge through a parametric air jet...
Here, we propose an adaptive and easy extendable approach for collecting large-scale sensor data streams and processing the stored data with standard dataset algorithms. The practice shows that the long-term sensor monitoring produces time-ordered lo...
Ammonium nitrogen (NH4+-N) removal and recovery from wastewater have been critical issues worldwide and key to achieving a sustainable nitrogen cycle and circular economy. In this study, we designed and constructed a pilot-scale air stripping system...
With the increasing amount of data collected by IoT devices, detecting complex events in real-time has become a challenging task. To overcome this challenge, we propose the utilisation of semantic web technologies to create ontologies that structure...
Human beings attempt to accurately predict the weather based on their knowledge of climate. The Norwegian Meteorological Institute is responsible for climate-related matters in Norway, and among its contributions is the numerical weather forecast, wh...
Timely and accurate interpretation of Notices to Air Missions (NOTAMs) is essential for effective aeronautical information management (AIM). Although NOTAMs follow a standardized format, their abbreviated textual content and heterogeneous operational...
As global airspace operations grow increasingly complex, the risk of near-mid-air collisions (NMACs) poses a persistent and critical challenge to aviation safety. Traditional collision-avoidance systems, while effective in many scenarios, are limited...
The air injection method serves as a liquefaction mitigation technique to improve the liquefaction resistance of the foundations by decreasing the degree of saturation. To investigate the desaturation effect of this technique in various soil strata o...
This research proposes a method for auto-monitoring the air cutting condition of a machining process, so the air cutting time can be further improved to enhance the machining efficiency. A two-way data communication module with a CNC controller was e...
Due to the rapid development of powder technology around the world, powder materials are being widely used in various fields, including metallurgy, the chemical industry, and petroleum. The turbo air classifier, as a powder production equipment, is o...
Cryogenic air separation processes are widely used for the large-scale production of nitrogen and oxygen. The most widely used design for this process involves two distillation columns operating at different pressures. This work focuses on the select...
A rolled plate of 7075 aluminum alloy was friction-stir-processed (FSP) with simultaneous cooling by an air stream cooled to −11 °C with a jet cooling nozzle. Two variants of air blowing were used: at an angle of 45° to the sample surfa...
Fin-and-tube heat exchangers have been extensively used in many fields, especially in heat, ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration systems. In the case of the operation of a fin-and-tube heat exchanger as an air cooler, frost formation is a...
Emptying processes are operations frequently required in hydraulic installations by water utilities. These processes can result in drops to sub-atmospheric pressure pulses, which may lead to pipeline collapse depending on soil characteristics and the...
Emptying pressure pipelines is a routine operation during pipeline maintenance. This study investigates the emptying characteristics of pressurized pipelines with air valves under unsteady flow conditions. A mathematical model for the emptying proces...
This paper investigates air–water interactions during a controlled filling process of an actual water pipeline using a two-dimensional Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) model. The main objectives are to understand the dynamic interaction of th...
To improve the drying efficiency, drying uniformity and germination rate after hot air drying of Cyperus esculentus seeds, this paper proposed a drying method that combines tempering and hot air drying. The drying curve of Cyperus esculentus was obta...
The current standard of residential buildings is based on well-insulated and airtight construction as an effective way to reduce primary energy consumption. On the other hand, this intensifies the issue of the indoor air quality. In this paper, the a...
In recent years, air pollution events have occurred frequently in China and have had serious impacts on people’s work and life. The research objective of the article is to find out the spatial effects of green process innovation, environmental...
Abrasive air jet machining is a burgeoning non-traditional machining technology particularly suitable for machining brittle non-metallic materials and metals with high hardness. It is very challenging to select the optimal process parameters to achie...
Magnesium–air (Mg–Air) batteries are emerging as a sustainable and high-energy-density solution to address the increasing global energy demands, utilizing abundant and environmentally friendly materials. This review paper examines their f...
A meticulous thermo-hygrometric control is essential for various industrial production processes, particularly those involving the painting phases of body-in-white, in which the air temperature and relative humidity in production boots must be limite...
The monitoring and forecasting of particulate matter (e.g.,
Pythium species are saprophytic or facultative plant pathogens that cause a variety of diseases. Usually, chemical anti-fungal seed dressing is applied in the conventional pre-harvest for seed protection. Nevertheless, recent legislative rules have c...
During the start-up process, air foil thrust bearings (AFTBs) come into contact and are prone to localized overheating and even failure. Frequent starts and stops are the major sources of wear. In this study, a transient mixed lubrication model consi...
In hydraulic engineering, some researchers have developed different mathematical and numerical tools for a better understanding of the physical interaction between water flow in pipes with trapped air during emptying processes, where they have made c...
Fish are marketed as a food and consumed worldwide. During the production of food, contamination by microorganisms is possible through the air, soil, water, surfaces, food handlers, etc. The air does not have a natural microbial composition, but it i...
Screening of absorbents is essential for improving the removal rate of carbon disulfide (CS2) waste air by absorption. In this work, the UNIFAC model in Aspen Plus was utilized to calculate the excess Gibbs function and absorption potential of the bi...
Wind machines based on the air disturbance method are progressively employed to mitigate frost damage within the agricultural machinery frost protection. These devices are utilized during radiative frost nights to disrupt near-surface thermal inversi...
The pipe systems of hydropower plants are complex and feature special pipe types and various devices. When the Method of Characteristics (MOC) is used, interpolation or wave velocity adjustment is required, which may introduce calculation errors. The...
The importance of mitigating energy intensity in the building sector is widely recognized by most stakeholders, and different strategies are proposed for minimizing fossil fuel dependency. This paper presents a complex study assessing the possibility...
Restrike frequently occurs during the positive leader development of long-air-gap discharges. At present, however, its detailed physical process and mechanism remain unclear. To investigate the physical mechanism of restrike, experiments were conduct...
Air-dried pork coppa is highly favored for its unique organoleptic and flavor characteristics. However, the traditional long processing cycle and uncontrollable environmental conditions lead to unstable product quality. Staphylococcus mediates the re...
The pressure for saving water by closing the water loops in mineral processing is increasing continuously. The drivers for higher recirculating rates include water scarcity in dry areas, environmental legislation that is becoming stricter in most cou...
The process drawing of ventilation and air conditioning systems in subway stations is an important component of HVAC design deliverables because it describes monitoring requirements, control logic, and operating modes. However, the large number of mo...
Accurate prediction of air-conditioning energy consumption in buildings is of great help in reducing building energy consumption. Nowadays, most research efforts on predictive models are based on large samples, while short-term prediction with one-mo...
Uniform deposition of nanoparticle suspensions over large-area substrates remains challenging because coating formation is strongly influenced by suspension properties and spraying conditions. Therefore, this study employed computational fluid dynami...
Oxygen production from air belongs to energy-intense processes and, as a result, possibilities for its decrease are a frequent topic of optimization studies, often performed with simulation software such as Aspen Plus or Aspen HYSYS. To obtain verita...
It is a great challenge to develop low-cost and dopant-free polymer hole-transporting materials (HTM) for PSCs, especially for efficient air-processed inverted (p-i-n) planar PSCs. A new homopolymer HTM, poly(2,7-(9,9-bis(N,N-di-p-methoxylphenyl amin...
The representations of cloud processing of gases and aerosols in some of the current state-of-the-art regional air quality models in North America and Europe are reviewed. Key processes reviewed include aerosol activation (or nucleation scavenging of...
Transducers for ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation of materials in harsh environments are needed to manage safe operations in a number of industrial applications including power generation, propulsion, and material and chemical processing. Bismuth...
This research was carried out to determinate the effect of the atmosphere processing conditions (air and argon) and two specific thermal treatments, on the properties of specimens made from the nickel-based alloy Hastelloy C-22 by plasma transferred...
For the first time, a steady state computational simulation for the production of biodiesel from meat processing dissolved air flotation sludge via an integrated process of in-situ hydrolysis and esterification technologies has been investigated. Imp...
Accurate air quality forecasting requires the effective integration of heterogeneous data sources that vary in spatial coverage, temporal resolution, and sensing reliability. This paper presents a unified spatio-temporal data processing framework des...
All-solid-state batteries (ASSBs) that employ solid-state electrolytes (SSEs) have the potential to replace more conventional batteries that employ liquid electrolytes due to their inherent safety, compatibility with lithium metal and reputable ionic...
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