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Electrical and Chemical Sensing Properties of a Printed Indium-Tin-Oxide Film for the Detection of Hazardous and Noxious Substances
The feasibility of useing a flexible, printed indium-tin-oxide (ITO) sensor to detect hazardous and noxious substances was investigated. The resistivities of this printed ITO (P-ITO) film and that of a commerc...
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Characteristics analysis of the developed surface modification technologies to improve the anti-corrosion performances for offshore equipments
In this study, we carried out the characteristics analysis and experiment research of the developed technologies based on surface modifications to enhance the anti-corrosion performance of offshore equipments....
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Reliability evaluation of conceptual design for the dehydration package
In this study, reliability evaluation in conceptual design stage is performed to develop the dehydration package of offshore plant equipment. Dehydration package is commonly used in the gas treatment system bu...
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The effect of surface area on pool boiling heat transfer coefficient and CHF of Al2O3/water nanofluids
In this study, pool-boiling experiments are carried out to find out the influence of nanoparticles on boiling heat transfer coefficient and CHF. Each surface of the heater is visualized with FE-SEM and AFM aft...
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Model for predicting the critical size of aggregates in nanofluids
Stable suspension of the nanoparticles in the base fluids is inevitable to have the nanofluids be operated properly. Here we report the theoretical model to find the critical size of aggregates in nanofluids f...
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Effect of ionic additive on pool boiling critical heat flux of titania/water nanofluids
TiO2/water nanofluids were prepared and tested to investigate the effects of an ionic additive (i.e., nitric acid in this study) on the critical heat flux (CHF) behavior in pool boiling. Experimental results show...
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CO2 absorption characteristics of nanoparticle suspensions in methanol
Recently there have been growing concerns that anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions cause the global warming problem. Therefore, the cutting-edge technologies for the reduction, separation and collection ...
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Effect of surface charge state on the thermal conductivity of nanofluids
Thermal conductivity enhancement of nanofluids is very attractive to thermal and heat transfer engineering, however its mechanism is not clear yet. In this study, it is proposed that the surface charge state o...
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Fluid flow and heat transfer in microchannels with rectangular cross section
Forced convective heat transfer coefficients and friction factors for flow of water in microchannels with a rectangular cross section were measured. An integrated microsystem consisting of five microchannels o...
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Fabrication and testing of bubble powered micropumps using embedded microheater
A bubble-powered micropump which consists of a pair of nozzle-diffuser flow controller and a pum** chamber was fabricated and tested in this study. The two-parallel micro line heaters were fabricated to be e...
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Proteinaceous bubble and nanoparticle flows in microchannels
Proteinaceous bubbles of 185 nm average diameter were synthesized by a sonochemical treatment of bovine serum albumin (BSA) in an aqueous solution and the nanoparticles (TiO2) solution was made by ultrasonic irra...
