Electrostatic is generated through friction or contact between certain materials—a process that frequently occurs in industries such as manufacturing, logistics, electronics, chemicals, petroleum, and gas. In particular, in industries dealing w...
During natural gas field extraction, downhole compressors frequently encounter gas-liquid two-phase flow conditions, yet the internal flow characteristics and performance evolution mechanisms remain insufficiently understood. This paper investigates...
Plasma-conditioned liquids (PCL) are gaining increasing attention in the medical field, especially in oncology, and translation to the clinics is advancing on a good path. This emerging technology involving cold plasmas has great potential as a thera...
The profiling of bacterial fatty acids is a well-established technique in identifying and classifying bacteria. Cultivation conditions may affect the biosynthesis, thereby, changing the fatty acid profile in bacteria. The effect of the culture condit...
This paper presents an experimentally validated, dynamic model of a hybrid liquid desiccant system. For this purpose, we developed new components for the air-solution contactors, which are of the non-adiabatic falling-film type with horizontal tubes...
The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the applicability of a liquid desiccant and evaporative cooling-assisted 100% outdoor air system (LD-IDECOAS) in six typical cities in China. The six cities are located in different climatic zones in Chin...
The pisco industry generates significant environmental waste, particularly grape pomace, which is a rich source of phenolic compounds. Emerging extraction technologies offer promising alternatives for recovering these bioactive components. This study...
Several oncogenic viruses are associated with approximately 20% of human cancers. Experimental models are crucial for studying the pathogenicity and biological aspects of oncogenic viruses and their potential mechanisms in tumorigenesis. Current cell...
This work demystifies the role that packaging boundary conditions (both physically and electromagnetically) can play in a nematic liquid crystal (NLC)-based inverted microstrip (IMS) phase shifter device operating at the 60 GHz band (from 54 GHz to 6...
Orientational structures formed in nematic and cholesteric layers with tangential-conical boundary conditions have been investigated. LC cells with one substrate specifying the conical surface anchoring and another substrate specifying the tangential...
For commercial buildings, liquid desiccant air conditioners (LDACs) could provide up to 80% energy savings compared to high-efficiency vapor compression AC, but commonly utilized liquid desiccants are highly corrosive. This precludes the use of metal...
We articulate and apply the generalized Onsager principle to derive transport equations for active liquid crystals in a fixed domain as well as in a free surface domain adjacent to a passive fluid matrix. The Onsager principle ensures fundamental var...
The traditional calculation method for a transient process has high accuracy when the pipeline only contains liquid, but when the pipeline contains both gas and liquid the accuracy is greatly reduced. The coupling characteristics of gas–liquid interf...
Gas–liquid membrane contactor is a promising process intensification technology for offshore natural gas conditioning in which weight and footprint constraints impose severe limitations. Thanks to its potential for substituting conventional packed/tr...
Plants serve as reservoirs of bioactive compounds endowed by nature, rendering them promising subjects for investigating chemical diversity. Despite their potential, much remains untapped, whether in standardized extracts or isolated pure compounds....
Desiccant technology is found to be a good alternative to conventional cooling systems. It can provide better thermal comfort under hot and humid climatic conditions. The major component of a liquid desiccant cooling system is the desiccant dehumidif...
An efficient procedure has been researched for the solvent-free synthesis of bis(indolyl)methanes via a one-pot reaction of indoles and aldehydes or ketones promoted by PEG1000-based dicationic acidic ionic liquid (PEG1000-DAIL). The catalyst PEG1000...
Spatially varying alignment of liquid crystals is essential for research and applications. One widely used method is based on the photopatterning of thin layers of azo-dye molecules, such as Brilliant Yellow (BY), that serve as an aligning substrate...
Minimum Ignition Energy (MIE) is a critical parameter for assessing the combustion and explosion risks of liquid fuels under specific conditions. However, systematic testing methods for long-chain alkanes remain underdeveloped. In this study, an expe...
The aim of this study is to analyze the operating energy savings of a liquid desiccant and an indirect and direct evaporative cooling-assisted 100% outdoor air system (LD-IDECOAS) for marine applications. The LD-IDECOAS comprises a liquid desiccant (...
The property of vaporization phase transition in liquid oxygen face seals is a key factor affecting the stability of mechanical face seals in many fields, especially under cryogenic conditions. Here, a numerical model based on the saturated vapor pre...
Ultra-high-strength steels have been considered an essential material for aviation components owing to their excellent mechanical properties and superior fatigue resistance. When machining these steels, severe tool wear frequently results in poor sur...
Superhydrophobic surfaces with a low liquid–solid contact time have huge application prospects in anti-icing, corrosion-resistant, self-cleaning, etc. Significant attempts have been devoted to reducing the contact time through altering the hydr...
An innovative non-homogeneous dynamic model is presented for the recovery of temperature during the industrial laser welding process of Al-Si 5% alloy plates. It considers that, metallurgically, during welding, the alloy melts with the presence of so...
50 m3 of legacy liquid radioactive waste at the Saakadze site in Georgia was treated using a modular type facility with apparatuses encased in three metallic 200 L drums using as purification method the sorption/ion exchange technology. The main cont...
The polymer dispersed liquid crystals (PDLCs) with conical boundary conditions are considered. PDLC films with different values of the relative chirality parameter N0 of chiral nematic droplets ranging from 0 to 1.32 are studied experimentally and th...
This study investigated spectral laser-induced fluorescence signals of dyes in fuels for automotive and aerospace applications under low temperatures and cryogenic conditions down to 183 K. For this purpose, a fluorescence chamber was developed based...
This research deals with gas hydrates formation and dissociation within a marine quartz-based porous sediment and in batch conditions. Hydrates were formed with small-chain hydrocarbons included in natural gas mixtures: methane and also ethane and pr...
Liquid whole egg (LWE) products have many advantages such as convenient transportation, easy production and are safe. However, LWE has a short shelf life and high thermal sensitivity, so suitable heating treatment is the key to the production of LWE...
Desiccant enhanced evaporative cooling system is a sustainable air-conditioning (A/C) system which deals the latent load and sensible load separately by a dehumidifier and an evaporative cooler. A LDD-RIEC system consists of a liquid desiccant dehumi...
Thermal runaway (TR) of lithium-ion batteries has always been a topic of concern, and the safety of batteries is closely related to the operating temperature. An overheated battery can significantly impact the surrounding batteries, increasing the ri...
Ultrasonic testing (UT) has been widely used for the Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) of pipes due to its many favorable characteristics. However, one of the main challenges in the general use of UT for real-world pipelines is the sensitivity of this...
The rapid development of data centers (DCs) has led to a marked increase in energy consumption in recent years, which poses a direct challenge to global efforts aimed at reducing carbon emissions. In regions with hot and humid climates, the energy de...
We introduce a new method of choosing parameters for margin trading protocols in the Constant Product Model and apply it to our new DeFi Margin Trading protocol Primex, which can work with different DEXs and DeFi platforms. The main advantages of Pri...
Silicon carbide is a covalently bonded engineering material and structural ceramic with excellent mechanical properties, high resistance to oxidation, corrosion, and wear, and tunable thermal conductivity. The exceptional thermal conductivity of sili...
The purity of the three capsid proteins that make up recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) is considered a critical quality attribute of gene therapy products. As such, there is a clear need to develop separation methods capable of rapidly charac...
Ionic liquids (ILs) as designer solvents have been applied in biomass pretreatment to increase cellulose accessibility and therefore improve the enzymatic hydrolysis. We investigated the characterization of the micromorphology and the topochemistry o...
Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica L.) is an herbaceous plant that grows all over the world and is widely used as an edible and medicinal plant. Overall research results reveal that the chemical content and antioxidant activity of aerial parts and roots...
The process of ultrasonic atomization involves a series of dynamic/topological deformations of free surface, though not always, of a bulk liquid (initially) below the air. This study focuses on such dynamic interfacial alterations realized by changin...
With the development of material science and increasing awareness of ecological environmental protection, liquid biodegradable mulch films (LBDMs) have garnered significant public interest. In this research, new LBDMs were developed using hydrophobic...
An ultrasonic technique, invariant to temperature changes, for a density measurement of different liquids under in situ extreme conditions is presented. The influence of geometry and material parameters of the measurement system (transducer, waveguid...
Liquid–liquid membrane contactors (LLMCs) were studied as a sustainable technology for ammonia recovery from wastewater. Ammonia can be valorized by LLMCs as a potential nutrient and produce liquid fertilizers. Thus, this work aims for the stud...
Persistent infection with high-risk HPV leads to cervical cancers and other anogenital cancers and head and neck carcinomas in both men and women. There is no effective drug fortreating HPV infection and HPV-associated carcinomas, largely due to a la...
This study aimed to investigate the influence of flash-boiling conditions on liquid propane sprays formed by a multi-hole injector at various injection pressures. The focus was on spray structures, which were analysed qualitatively and quantitatively...
We consider the influence of vapor content in the mixed flow leaving a liquid-vapor ejector on the energy efficiency of a vacuum unit. As shown by numerical studies of liquid-vapor ejectors, this issue is important as vapor overproduction, which acco...
Elliptical diesel nozzles affect the fuel–air mixing process, and thus combustion and exhaust emissions. Experiments were conducted to study biodiesel spray liquid-phase behaviors for elliptical and circular nozzles through the Mie-scattering m...
The dynamic regulation of the physical states of chromatin in the cell nucleus is crucial for maintaining cellular homeostasis. Chromatin can exist in solid- or liquid-like forms depending on the surrounding ions, binding proteins, post-translational...
This paper presents the results of analyses of the impact of heat transfer conditions on the hydrodynamics of downward co-current annular flow in vertical tubes of very viscous liquid and gas. The research was conducted within the range of gas veloci...
Now days, air conditioning systems are a must for almost every commercial and residential building to achieve comfortable indoor conditions. The increasing energy demand, and increasing oil prices and pollution levels raise the need for alternative a...
Vapor-liquid separation during condensation enables the enhancement of heat transfer coefficient and reduction in pressure drop simultaneously. The vapor-liquid separator is vital to the performance of such a liquid-separation condenser (LSC). It sho...
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