Improve Efficiency of Photovoltaic/Thermal Systems using Porous Materials: An Experimental Study by H. Farzan

“…The acquired results revealed that using steel wool reduces the PV temperature by 9.9 oC and increases the outlet temperature by 4.41 oC at the air flow rate of 0.17 kg/s. …”
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Analysis of Thermal Stimulation to Enhance Shale Gas Recovery through a Novel Conceptual Model by Liang Xue, Cheng Dai, Lei Wang, Xiaoxia Chen

“…To investigate the effect of thermal stimulation on shale gas recovery, a novel conceptual model coupling shale gas flow and temperature is proposed. The adsorption process is nonisothermal, and adsorption capacity changes with temperature. …”
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Study on Shear Characteristics of Interface between Frozen Soil and Pile during Thawing Process in Permafrost Area by Ying Zhao, Xuesong Mao, Qian Wu, Wanjun Huang, Yueyue Wang

“…This model can describe well the stress-displacement variation law of interface with different rising frozen temperature and water content.…”
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Simplified Analysis of Thermal Cracks in Low-Heat Portland Cement Concrete by Longlong Liu, Shangchuan Zhao, Jianda Xin, Zhenhong Wang

“…This article introduces some experimental data from the compression test, the tension test, and the temperature stress test machine (TSTM) test for low-heat Portland (LHP) cement concrete with different fly ash (FA) content. …”
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Design and Prototype of an Indoor Air Quality Monitoring System: A Case Study of Maternity Ward at Kabale Regional Referral Hospital. by Muhwezi, Methodius

“…The system uses an Arduino Uno with a DHT11 temperature and humidity sensor and an MQ135 air quality sensor. …”
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Research on Sulfate Attack Mechanism of Cement Concrete Based on Chemical Thermodynamics by Peng Liu, Ying Chen, Zhiwu Yu, Lingkun Chen, Yongfeng Zheng

“…Based on principles of chemical thermodynamics, the relationship between temperature and the Gibbs free energy of erosion products generated during the sulfate attack on cement concrete was deduced. …”
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Stability Analysis of Host Claystone under T-M Coupling of HLW Disposal Repository in China: Experiments and Numerical Simulation by Haian Liang, Tan Tang, Longpeng Zhang, Xiaodong Liu, Shuai Liu, Ting Yang, Xinjun Cheng, Juan Zhang

“…In order to obtain the characteristics and the failure modes of rock samples at different temperatures, the T-M coupling experiments in the temperature range of 100°C are conducted. …”
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Experimental and Simulation Study on Breaking Rock under Coupled Static Loading and Ultrasonic Vibration by Yan Zhao, Congshan Zhang, Zengzeng Zhang, Ke Gao, Dajun Zhao, Zihang Sun, Xiaoshu Lv, Yu Zhou, Guobing Zhai

“…The thermal infrared temperature characteristic test showed that the rock-breaking process under ultrasonic load and static load has three stages: stage I, elastic deformation and the temperature rises linearly; stage II, the development of microcrack and the temperature is further increased uniformly, and stage III, macrobreaking and rock chips falling off, and the temperature fluctuates sharply. …”
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Experimental Study on Mechanical Property and Pore Distribution of Limestone Specimens after Heat Treatment under Different Heating Conditions by Yujie Feng, Haijian Su, Qian Yin, Liyuan Yu, Yingchao Wang

“…The thermal effect of rocks not only depends on the temperature level but also may be influenced by the factors including heating environment, heating rate, and cooling method. …”
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Heat Transfer Management of Thermal and Electronics Systems using Convective-Radiative Porous Fins with Thermal Contact Resistance and Diabatic Tip by Joy Nneka Ojuro, Gbeminiyi Musibau Sobamowo, Antonio Marcos de Oliveira Siqueira

“…The parametric explorations reveal that the adimensional local temperature in the conductive-radiative fin increases when the conductive-convective, conductive-radiative and magnetic field parameters increase. …”
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Is it Possible to Produce Carrier-Free Fruit and Vegetable Powders by Spray Drying? by Alicja Barańska, Aleksandra Jedlińska, Katarzyna Samborska

“…As a consequence of decreased drying air humidity, inlet/outlet air temperature was lowered to 80/55°C. In order to validate this new approach, the conventional spray drying was conducted as well at 180/80°C inlet/outlet air temperature. …”
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Modelling the Transition from Shear-Driven Turbulence to Convective Turbulence in a Vertical Heated Pipe by Shijun Chu, Elena Marensi, Ashley P. Willis

“…Such changes in the flow lead to substantial changes in its heat transfer properties and thereby significant changes in the axial temperature gradient. We therefore introduce a model that features a time-dependent background axial temperature gradient, and consider two temperature boundary conditions—fixed temperature difference and fixed boundary heat flux. …”
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Investigation of the Suitability of the DTV Method for the Online SoH Estimation of NMC Lithium-Ion Cells in Battery Management Systems by Jan Neunzling, Philipp Hainke, Hanno Winter, David Henriques, Matthias Fleckenstein, Torsten Markus

“…Investigating the temperature behavior of lithium-ion battery cells has become an important part of today’s research and development. …”
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Discovery of new topological insulators and semimetals using deep generative models by Tao Hong, Taikang Chen, Dalong Jin, Yu Zhu, Heng Gao, Kun Zhao, Tongyi Zhang, Wei Ren, Guixin Cao

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Comparative Analysis of Thermomechanical Properties and Thermal Damage Constitutive Models of Three Soft Sedimentary Rocks by Wenhua Zha, Weixing Shao, Suqin Yao, Qiang Chen, Denghong Chen

“…The results show that (i) in the test temperature range, the stress-strain curves of the three types of soft rocks at different temperatures are roughly divided into four stages: compaction, elasticity, yield, and failure. …”
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Interfacial microstructure evolution behavior during plastic deformation bonding of GH4065A superalloy by SU Lidong, MENG Qingqi, NING Yongquan, HUANG Shuo, ZHANG Wenyun, ZHANG Beijiang

“…To clarify the evolution of the interfacial microstructure of GH4065A superalloy during plastic deformation bonding， the GH4065A superalloy is bonded under temperatures of 1050-1110 ℃ with the pressure of 20-40 MPa and a time range of 20-35 min. …”
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Modeling and robust control of a parallel robotic mechanism driven by linear actuators based on shape memory alloys by Alejandro Guarneros-Sandoval, Mariana Ballesteros, Rita Q. Fuentes-Aguilar, Isaac Chairez

“…The controller estimates the SMA temperature to move the actuators, and the average electrical power is computed to drive the temperature to the reference value. …”
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Short and long-range magnetic ordering and emergent topological transition in (Mn1−xNix)2P2S6 by Nasaru Khan, Deepu Kumar, Shantanu Semwal, Yuliia Shemerliuk, Bernd Büchner, Koushik Pal, Saicharan Aswartham, Pradeep Kumar

“…The famous Mermin-Wagner theorem states that spontaneous spin symmetry cannot be broken at finite temperature in low dimensional magnetic systems which forbids the possibility of a transition to a long-range ordered state in a two-dimensional magnetic system at finite temperature. …”
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Simulation of Material and Heat Balance of 150 t AOD Melting 430 Stainless Steel under Different Charge Conditions by Lu　Xiaohui, Kang　Congpeng, Chen　Hongzhi, Xu　Yongbin

“…By adding scrap steel as coolant to control the furnace temperature and meet the tapping temperature requirements， under this condition， the consumption of scrap steel per ton of steel was 169.1 kg， and the proportion of scrap steel added was 15.1%. …”
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Investigation of the Use of the Thermo-Biological Method in the Return Sludge Line on the Biokinetics of the Activated Sludge Process and the Amount of Excess Sludge Produced by Naeim Banisaeid, Afshin Takdastan, Mahboobeh Cheraghi, Ali Afrous, Reaz Jalilzadeh Yengejeh

“…In this research, the effects of temperature changes in the anoxic tank and return line were investigated to increase the biological removal of sludge, reduce the excess biological sludge; also, the effects of temperature changes on the biokinetics parameters in the activated sludge system were analyzed. …”
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