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I would like to create in-house air purifiers that use Samsung's Virus Zero technology. In this way, the air in hospital environments could be sanitized easily, quickly and safely. In addition,...
22 March 2020 6,029 3 View
As part of a university project to convert CO2 to gasoline, I need to model a Fischer Tropsch reactor that is optimised for producing C5 to C11 paraffins. How would I go about modelling this in...
06 March 2020 7,047 10 View
In the first lecture of heat transfer course, generally it is told that with Thermodynamics, it is not possible to get the heat transfer rate of a process. But in steady flow energy equation (time...
03 March 2020 1,263 6 View
I functionalized my silicon substrate with the silane by immersion, but would like to remove it as it seems to have grown non-uniformly and in bulk. What are suggestions for how to do this?
03 March 2020 4,301 3 View
The substrate consists of regions of patterned Au on Si. This was cleaned with piranha solution, rinsed in DI water, then blow dried with N2. The solvent was 200 proof (anhydrous) ethanol, and...
03 March 2020 369 1 View
During high temperature processes generating SO2-rich gases thermal or fuel-bound NOx is produced. Although the BAT document of ESA/Fertilizers Europe mentions NOx emissions above 200 mg/Nm³...
22 February 2020 717 3 View
I am planning a new set of AD experiments (agricultural waste as a substrate), and if I run a duplicate of my trials, I will have a total of 6 reactors (this seems a lot of work since I have to...
19 February 2020 6,980 5 View
Has anyone done any work about membrane distillation? If yes please tell me about the membrane that you used and the design of the equipment and it's measurements. Please tell us the factors that...
10 February 2020 3,074 3 View
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English: Consider a shockwave front due to an explosion, interacting with a structure. How the "kinetic energy" of the shockwave front could be calculated? Could the following equation be...
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The HC gas upstream T,P is known and downstream P is know. A cooling effect is likely to occur since moving from a high pressure to low pressure across the control valve. One of the things I am...
02 February 2020 4,310 3 View
Hello, I am looking for a sensitive analytical method to detect traces of TritonX114. Thank you for your suggestions
31 January 2020 3,245 5 View
I have a project to find mRNA related biomarkers from serum/plasma. As you know, relatively long sequence makes it vulnerable to degradation from enzyme. I tried to find a better way from...
30 January 2020 2,795 3 View
We are trying to activate complement protein in plasma from human sample (collected in sodium heparin anticoagulant) using cobra venom factor (CVF). Since, EDTA/Heparin block the complement...
28 January 2020 376 7 View
Hi ! I'd like to implement numerically Smoluchowski aggregation equation (the population balance equation) for the aggregation-fragmentation for diffusing particles, but for a not so high number...
28 January 2020 7,745 1 View
What are the latest developments taking place in the field of plastic pyrolysis? Any new breakthroughs that can improve the process? Any new areas that everyone should explore so as to do...
26 January 2020 7,176 5 View
Can anyone suggest good journal papers dealing with CFD of plastic pyrolysis using ANSYS or any other software?
26 January 2020 2,988 3 View
I am modeling a humidication device in AspenPlus to control the relative humidity of a room. The device (please see the attached diagram for clarification) is intended to operate by introducing or...
23 January 2020 8,524 5 View
Which among these would be effective water disinfection method? What are the possible disadvantages of UV water disinfection? Can the technology of Cu-Ag disinfection come up in future? What are...
01 January 2020 9,326 4 View
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What happens when HF and SiO2 react? Will other toxic / hazardous substances be created as a side product? Thanks!!
01 January 2020 7,144 4 View
Hi I need to (manully) predict the saturation vapour pressure of PAHs (various compounds between benzene to coronene) as a fuction of temperature. I will be very thankful if anyone can suggest a...
30 December 2019 1,876 4 View