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Classical density functional theory (DFT) is employed to study the structural properties of a binary fluid mixture confined by a semipermeable membrane. The influences of volume fraction and size asymmetry on three characteristic densities and excess...

The dynamics of cellular aggregates is driven by the interplay of mechanochemical processes and cellular activity. Although deterministic models may capture mechanical features, local chemical fluctuations trigger random cell responses, which determi...

The settling velocity of a sediment particle is an important parameter needed for modelling the vertical flux in rivers, estuaries, deltas and the marine environment. It has been observed that a particle settles more slowly in the presence of other p...

The Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) is widely used in industry to recover low-grade heat. Recently, some research on the ORC has focused on micro power production with new low global warming potential (GWP) replacement working fluids. However, few experi...

With the advancement of the energy transition, the thermodynamic degradation under high-load conditions and economic bottlenecks of the sCO₂ Brayton cycle have become more prominent. CO₂ mixture working fluids can improve system efficiency and econom...

This work explores the possibility to adopt in organic Rankine cycle (ORC) plants mixtures of water (acting as solvent) plus an organic compound (acting as solute) as the working fluid. Initially an evaluation of the thermodynamic properties of the m...

In the present paper, we consider the employment of working-fluid mixtures in organic Rankine cycle (ORC) systems with respect to thermodynamic and heat-transfer performance, component sizing and capital costs. The selected working-fluid mixtures pro...

The present paper provides a numerical study that leads to the proper selection of a working fluid for use in low-temperature organic Rankine cycle (ORC) applications. This selection is not only based on the provision of best efficiency but also to c...

Soil–rock mixtures are commonly encountered in the construction of bored piles. Conventional bentonite support fluids have disadvantages, such as more significant environmental impacts, more complex mixing, bigger site footprint, weaker foundat...

We present a thermo-economic analysis of an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) for waste heat recovery. A case study for a heat source temperature of 150 °C and a subcritical, saturated cycle is performed. As working fluids R245fa, isobutane, isopentane, an...

The exergy, entropy, and entransy analysis for a dual-loop organic Rankine cycle (DORC) using a mixture of working fluids have been investigated in this study. A high-temperature (HT) loop was used to recover waste heat from internal combustion engin...

This study aims to provide a thermodynamic comparison between supercritical CO₂ cycles and ORC cycles utilizing flue gases as waste heat source. Moreover, the possibility of using CO₂ mixtures as working fluids in transcritical cycles to enhance the...

This study investigates the use of pure and hydrocarbons binary mixtures as potential alternatives working fluids in a usual biomass powered organic Rankine cycle (ORC). A typical biomass combined heat and power plant installed in Cremona (Italy) is...

Bulk kinematic properties of mixtures such as velocity are known to be the density weighed averages of the constituent velocities. No such paradigm exists for the heat flux of mixtures when the constituents have different temperatures. Using standard...

Mixture working fluids can reduce effectively energy loss at heat sources and heat sinks, and therefore enhance the organic Rankine cycle (ORC) performance. The entropy and entransy dissipation analyses of a basic ORC system to recover low-grade wast...

This paper studied the Rayleigh–Bénard convection in binary fluid mixtures with a strong Soret effect (separation ratio $\psi =-0.6$ ) in a rectangular container heated uniformly from below. We used a high-accuracy compact...

Agitation inside agricultural sprayer tanks can be studied while using an international standard procedure, based on obtaining internal samples of liquid. However, in practice, this test is not easy to perform. Herein, we propose the explicit study o...

Transparent and flexible vibrotactile actuators play an essential role in human–machine interaction applications by providing mechanical stimulations that can effectively convey haptic sensations. In the present study, we fabricated an electroa...

Thyroid hormones (TH) are essential for normal brain development, influencing neural cell differentiation, migration, and synaptogenesis. Multiple endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are found in the environment, raising concern for their potential...

The membrane gas separation process has gained significant attention using the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technique. This study considered the CFD method to find gas concentration profiles in a hollow fiber membrane (HFM) module to separate t...

In this work, an evaluation and quantification of the impact of using mixtures based on supercritical carbon dioxide “s-CO₂” (s-CO₂/COS, s-CO₂/H₂S, s-CO₂/NH₃, s-CO₂/SO₂) are made as a working fluid in simple and complex recompression Brayton s-CO₂ po...

This paper discusses and reviews the main real gas effects on the thermodynamic performance of closed Brayton cycles. Cycles with carbon dioxide as working fluids are taken as a reference and a comparison of the thermodynamic cycle efficiencies that...

A catheter is a device that is inserted into the venous system to infuse treatment with controlled doses per unit of time. The study of its interaction with blood flow cannot be easily analysed with common analytical methods or different visualizatio...

Centrifugal granulation technology using a spinning cup opens a potential way to recycle steel slag that is currently difficult to reuse. The objective of this research was to study the flow characteristics of a molten slag–metal mixture that w...

The thermal stability of siloxanes has significant influence on the selection of working fluid and the performance of organic Rankine cycle systems. In this study, a thermal decomposition experimental apparatus was designed to measure the thermal sta...

Organic Rankine cycles are often the best solution for the conversion of thermal energy. The many working fluids include silicon oils. One crucial issue that determines the choice of a working fluid is its thermochemical stability, as this sets a lim...

New proposals for the equation of state of four- and five-dimensional hard-hypersphere mixtures in terms of the equation of state of the corresponding monocomponent hard-hypersphere fluid are introduced. Such proposals (which are constructed in such...

Ocean thermal energy is a huge renewable and clean energy. For different applications of the Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) system, new objective functions are proposed and optimal CO₂-based binary zeotropic mixtures for each objective functi...

I consider a proton–neutron fluid mixture placed in an ultra-strong external static magnetic field and derive the spin-independent, small-amplitude disturbances in infinitely extended systems. As a theoretical framework I adopt a hydrodynamical...

Microorganisms often swim within heterogeneous fluid media composed of multiple materials with very different properties. The swimming speed is greatly affected by the composition and rheology of the fluidic environment. In addition, biological locom...

In this work, the performance of selected ionic liquid-water mixtures was investigated for an acetone cooling application in a process plant using a double pipe heat exchanger. Cooling media such as river water and ionic liquid-water mixtures were co...

As obtained geofluids from enhanced geothermal systems usually have lower temperatures and contain chemicals and impurities, a novel power cycle (NPC) with a unit capacity of several hundred kilowatts has been configured and developed in this study,...

Compact nuclear reactor systems usually use helium–xenon (He-Xe) mixtures as coolants. Tight-lattice rod-bundled channels, serving as primary core configurations in compact nuclear reactor designs, exhibit quasi-triangular cross-sections where...

Debris-flow modeling is a great challenge due to its complex physical mechanism that remains poorly understood. The present research incorporates the effect of rheological features of the non-Newtonian fluid into the complete quasi-single-phase mixtu...

In this study, a reaction mechanism is presented that is optimized for the simulation of the dual fuel combustion process using n-heptane and a mixture of methane/propane as surrogate fuels for diesel and natural gas, respectively. By comparing the m...

This work quantifies the impact of using sCO₂-mixtures (s-CO₂/He, s-CO₂/Kr, s-CO₂/H₂S, s-CO₂/CH₄, s-CO₂/C₂H₆, s-CO₂/C₃H₈, s-CO₂/C₄H₈, s-CO₂/C₄H₁₀, s-CO₂/C₅H₁₀, s-CO₂/C₅H₁₂ and s-CO₂/C₆H₆) as the working fluid in the supercritical CO₂ recompression Br...

As much as two-phase mixture models resolve more physics than single-phase homogeneous models, their inconsistent heat transfer predictions have limited their use in modelling nanofluid cooled minichannel heat sinks. This work investigates, addresses...

Powders and their mixtures are elemental for many industries (e.g., food, pharmaceutical, mining, agricultural, and chemical). The properties of the manufactured products are often directly linked to the particle properties (e.g., particle size and s...

The thermodynamic analysis of an increasing-pressure endothermic power cycle (IPEPC) integrated with closed-loop geothermal energy extraction (CLGEE) in a geothermal well at a depth from 2 km to 5 km has been carried out in this study. Using CLGEE ca...

Hybridization of CSP plants with alternative energy sources (fuels) represents a means to improve flexibility of operation, power dispatchability and utilization factor of the plant. New generation CSP plants make use of molten salts as Heat Transfer...

Several studies have aimed to convert diesel engines to dual- or tri-fuel engines to improve their fuel economy and reduce the emissions from diesel engine, however, most of these studies do not consider enhancing the homogeneity of fuel mixtures ins...

With the development of the oil industry and the increasingly complex drilling environment, the performance of drilling fluids has to be constantly improved. In order to solve the problem of bentonite dispersion and hydration in a saline medium, a dr...

The present paper provides a general overview of the state of the art of steam generating heat pumps (SGHPs) technology employed in the industrial field. Recommended best practices and optimization procedures for overall performance improvement of co...

Significant improvements in the wettability and dissolution rate of celecoxib (CEL), a poorly soluble selective cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitor, have been shown by Huyn et al., 2019 by combining the binary pharmaceutical compositions including CEL...

Plant press slag (PPS) containing abundant cellulose and starch is a byproduct in the deep processing of fruits, cereals, and tuberous crops products. PPS can be modified by using caustic soda and chloroacetic acid to obtain an inexpensive and enviro...

This paper discusses the thermodynamic characteristics of the closed Brayton cycles in which the compression is placed near the critical point of the working fluid. Under these conditions, the specific volumes of the fluid during the compression are...

Kinetic theory is used to propose and solve boundary value problems for fully developed, steady, dense gravity-driven flows of mixtures composed of identical inelastic spheres and water over both inclined erodible beds and rigid, bumpy bases confined...

An equation of state (EOS) of CH₄-N₂ fluid mixtures in terms of Helmholtz free energy has been developed by using four mixing parameters, which can reproduce the pressure-volume-temperature-composition (PVTx) and vapor-liquid equilibrium (VLE) proper...

Direct-methanol fuel cell (DMFC) systems are comparatively simple, sometimes just requiring a fuel cartridge and a fuel cell stack with appropriate control devices. The key challenge in these systems is the accurate determination and control of the f...

With the development of coal mining, the use of elbows has diversified the forms of underground backfill pipelines, which has inevitably complicated the transportation characteristics of filling slurry in the pipeline, thus affecting the entire backf...