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It is profitable to export fresh meat overseas, where it is often regarded as a premium commodity. Meeting this demand for fresh meat, however, necessitates long export times, during which uncontrolled temperature increases can affect the microbiolog...

The inherent residual swirl at the furnace outlet of tangentially fired boilers induces severe thermal deviations on high-temperature heating surfaces. To reveal the evolutionary patterns of thermal deviation during peak regulation operation, this st...

Local over-temperature is one of the main reasons for boiler tube failures (BTF). By accurately monitoring and controlling tube wall temperature, local over-temperature can be avoided. Based on the measured flue gas parameters and numerical simulatio...

It is confirmed that Fluorite-structured Entropy-Stabilized Oxides (F-ESO) can be obtained with multicomponent (5) equimolar systems based on cerium, zirconium, and other rare earth elements, selected according to the predictor already proposed by th...

The urban heat island (UHI) concept describes heat trapping that elevates urban temperatures relative to rural temperatures, at least in temperate/humid regions. In drylands, urban irrigation can instead produce an urban cool island (UCI) effect. How...

Climate risks and response policies have important impacts on a country’s macroeconomic development and financial stability. Based on the data from 2005 to 2020, this paper takes temperature deviation as the main representative variable of clim...

The roll-to-roll manufacturing system is extensively used for mass producing products made of plastic, paper, and fabric in several traditional industries. When flexible substrates, also known as webs, are heated and transported inside the dryer, an...

The effect of latent heat via phase transformation on the thermal behavior of a billet was investigated during the heating process. The latent heat of the billet strongly affected the temperature distribution of the billet during heating, although th...

Accurate pressure measurement is crucial for understanding ocean dynamics in marine research. However, pressure sensors based on strain measurement principles are significantly affected by temperature variations, impacting the accuracy of depth measu...

A ground-based microwave radiometer (MWR) can retrieve temperature and vapor density profiles with a temporal resolution at the minute level, which is significant for studying atmospheric thermodynamic stratification and its evolution. Improving MWR...

This paper describes the design, fabrication, and testing of two hollow prisms. One is a prism with a grating glued to its hypotenuse. This ensemble, prism + grating, is called a grism. It can be applied as an on-axis tunable spectrometer. The other...

This study evaluates the abilities of fifteen High-resolution Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 6 (CMIP6) models to simulate temperature and precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) for the years 1980–2014. The impacts of terrain c...

Currently, high-temperature risk assessments of crops at the regional scale are usually conducted by comparing the observed air temperature at ground stations or via the remote sensing inversion of canopy temperature (such as MODIS (moderate-resoluti...

In this paper, a fluidic capacitive inclination sensor is presented and compared to three types of silicon-based microelectromechanical system (MEMS) accelerometers. MEMS accelerometers are commonly used for tilt measurement. They can only be manufac...

Curing processes for carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer composites via microwave heating are promising alternatives to conventional thermal curing because this technology results in nonhomogeneous temperature distributions, which hinder its further deve...

A weather forecast is a result of applying science and technology to predict the conditions of the atmosphere in a selected location and time in the future. The main input is a collection of data (atmospheric, land, and ocean), and the resulting outp...

Rapid economic and social development has triggered competition for limited land space from different industries, accelerating the evolution of Beijing’s urban landscape types. The increase in impermeable surfaces and the decrease in ecological...

The southern waters off Java-Bali were recognized as spawning and potential fishing ground for tuna species. However, few studies have been conducted on this area. In this paper, the environmental preference of bigeye tuna was assessed based on catch...

To identify general patterns in the effect of climate-driven changes in the outbreak frequency of forest defoliating species, we examined 60 years of records (1950–2010) of outbreaks of five defoliating species. Data on Lymantria dispar, Lymantria mo...

Energy efficiency and ratio performance are two key parameters for the analysis of the performance of photovoltaic (PV) modules. The present paper focusses on the assessment of the efficiency of four different photovoltaic module technologies based o...

Serious economic damages in many regions of the world were caused by the changes in agroclimatic resources during the last 2–3 decades. The Balkan Peninsula is much affected by the temperatures rising, changes in the distribution of precipitati...

Blueberries are highly perishable and temperature sensitive. The main purpose of the study was to determine whether logistics processes in the beginning stages of the blueberry supply chain have an influence on the temperature profiles and quality of...

Existing stellar map simulators lack color temperature information, have complex system structures, and cannot independently control the color temperatures of stars. Therefore, this study developed an OLED-based semi-physical simulation method and a...

Currently there are a few fields of application using quartz crystal microbalances (QCM). Because of environmental conditions and insufficient resolution of the microbalance, chemical sensing of volatile organic compounds in an open system was as yet...

The particular process of LCA (Lithosphere-Coversphere-Atmosphere) coupling referring to local tectonic structures and coversphere conditions is very important for understanding seismic anomaly from GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems)....

This paper considers the problem of thermal convection of a calcium chloride solution in a vertical borehole. A non-uniform temperature distribution with a given vertical gradient is set at the walls of the borehole. The non-stationary temperature di...

In this study, the effect of temperature on the velocity and trajectory of a hot sphere falling in a water block was experimentally investigated. The sphere, 12 mm in diameter, was thrown through the water inside an enclosure at the ambient temperatu...

Laser-induced thermal crack propagation (LITP) is a high-quality and efficient processing method that has been widely used in fields such as glass cutting. However, the problem of trajectory deviation often arises in actual cutting operations, especi...

To enhance the peak-shaving capability of a boiler, a mathematical model of hydrodynamic and wall temperature characteristics for the water-cooled wall of a 1000 MW boiler was established. Utilizing the component pressure method, the mass flow distri...

The thermal behavior of a rod during the hot shape rolling process was investigated using the off-line hot rolling simulator and numerical simulation. Additionally, it was compared with a plate during the flat rolling process to understand the therma...

In this study, we analyze the accuracy of the stellar occultation technique to detect the oxygen number density and temperature in near space. Based on the validation of the algorithm related to stellar occultation using a single wavelength of 762 nm...

Aviation soot constitutes a significant threat to human well-being, underscoring the critical importance of accurate measurements. The condensation particle counter (CPC) is the primary instrument for quantifying aviation soot, with detection efficie...

A systematic study of the effect of composition on the thermo-physical properties of the binary mixtures of 1-methyl-3-pentyl imidazolium hexafluorophosphate [MPI][PF₆] with poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) [M_w = 400] is presented. The excess molar volume...

This paper aims to study the measurement accuracy of Rayleigh scattering lidar (light detection and ranging) based on a ship platform and analyze the influence of the laser beam uncertainty on the temperature inversion results. Taking the ship platfo...

The Worldwide harmonized Light duty Test Procedure saw its light first as the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Global Technical Regulation in 2017. However, it remains unclear how much the deviation is between the actual and test fuel ec...

In this study, the viscosity behavior of two mixtures of Ethaline (1 ChCl:2 ethylene glycol) with either methanol or ethanol were investigated over the temperature range of 283.15–333.15 K at atmospheric pressure. The measured viscosities of neat Eth...

Microgrid (MG) is a novel concept for a future distribution power system that enables renewable energy sources (RES). The intermittent RES, such as wind turbines and photovoltaic generators, can be connected to the MG via a power electronics inverter...

Early detection of cable trench fires by locating the fire source in a timely manner can reduce the risk of fire. However, existing fire warning methods have low accuracy, long calculation times and difficulty coping with sudden fire situations. We e...

A typical head–disk interface of hard drives can feature pressures exceeding 50 atmospheres, where the non-ideal gas effects can play an important role. One possible consequence is a change in the rate of water evaporation from the disk. This r...

This article aims to investigate the accuracy and dimensional stability of bonded metal and CFRP (Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic) adherends. The motivation behind this study was to assess the suitability of CFRP for optical devices through the evalu...

This study investigates the airflow and thermal management of a compact electric energy storage system by using computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulation. A porous medium model for predicting the flow resistance performance of the battery modules...

This study examines the impact of injection parameters on the weld line strength of the polyamide 6 and 30% fiberglass (PA6 + 30% FG) composite samples. The effects of filling time, packing time, packing pressure, melt temperature, and mold temperatu...

The t-J model remains an indispensable construct in high-temperature superconductivity research, bridging the gap between charge dynamics and spin interactions within antiferromagnetic matrices. This study employs the multiple Davydov Ansatz method w...

This paper evaluates a physics-based analytical model in the prediction of machining temperature of AISI 1045 steel and AISI 4340 steel. The prediction model was developed based on the Johnson-Cook constitutive model (J-C model) and mechanics of the...

The FY-3E/HIRAS-II (Hyperspectral Infrared Atmospheric Sounder-II), as an infrared hyperspectral instrument onboard the world’s first early morning polar-orbiting satellite, plays a major role in improving the accuracy and timeliness of global...

To address the stability issues of energy and information transmission in wireless power and information transfer system operating over a wide temperature range, this paper establishes a mathematical model of the resonant frequency of an electromagne...

Knowing the thermodynamic and transport properties of liquid systems is very important in engineering for the development of theoretical models and for the design of new technologies. Models that allow accurate predictions of thermodynamic and transp...

The film superposition prediction model is a crucial tool in the preliminary design of the turbine outer ring, enabling the rapid estimation of adiabatic wall temperatures and significantly reducing computational costs. This study established the rel...

As one of the highest and most ecologically vulnerable regions in the world, the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP) presents significant challenges for the application of existing ecosystem service value (ESV) assessment models due to its extreme clim...

For the correction problem of day-ahead plan deviation caused by energy prediction deviation in day-ahead scheduling stage of photovoltaic greenhouses, an exergy analysis method is used to propose the deviation model of heat required for photovoltaic...