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Bright Kwakye-Awuah, Baah Sefa-Ntiri, Elizabeth Von-Kiti, Isaac Nkrumah and Craig Williams
Ground water samples from residential homes in three Regions of Ghana: Central, Greater Accra and Ashanti, were analyzed for iron and manganese contamination. The samples were exposed to characterized zeolite Y by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron mic...
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Martina Ba?istová, Jirina Vontorová, Simona Zlá, Monika Kawuloková, Petr Lichý and Tomá? Dvorský
Quality quartz sand is globally utilized in construction due to its availability and economic factors, especially in the production of composite cements. Despite its positive properties, quartz sand also has several disadvantages. The dilation of quartz ...
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Saleh Ahmed, Katerina Lepkova, Xiao Sun, William D. A. Rickard and Thunyaluk Pojtanabuntoeng
Phenolic-epoxy coatings, which are designed to protect substrates from thermal damage, are widely applied in many fields. There remains an inadequate understanding of how such coatings change during their service life after exposure to various temperatur...
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Zhen Xu, Lianjiang Xu, Junfeng Sun, Meihong Liu, Taohong Liao and Xiangping Hu
Flexible support cylindrical gas film seals (CGFSs) adapt well to rotor whirling and have a good gas lubrication effect during thermal deformation. However, when a CGFS operates under the ?three high? (high interface slip speed, high-pressure differentia...
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Lingxiao Dong, Xiaole Huang, Jiyun Ren, Lei Deng and Yaodong Da
The coupled combustion of biomass and organic solid wastes including oil sludge has attracted much attention. Although the optimal mixing ratio of different coal types and biomass has been extensively studied, little attention has been paid to oil sludge...
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Selale Öncü Glaue, Tolga Akcan and Sebnem Tavman
Utilizing chemical and physicochemical techniques, the mucilage part of okra was extracted with the use of ultrasound, and the polysaccharide extract?s structural and thermal characteristics were assessed. Analysis of the extraction yield revealed that t...
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Wentao Song, Cuibo Yang, Weicheng Cui, Changhui Song, Ping Yang, Jin Hong, Yi Lei, Qimeng Liu and Zhenhua Wang
Underwater wet-mateable connectors have been widely used to reduce the cost and the time of installation, maintenance and reconfiguration in many fields, such as the oil and gas (O&G) industry, offshore renewable energy (ORE), and undersea observator...
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Lala Gahramanli, Mustafa Muradov, Goncha Eyvazova, Mahammad Baghir Baghirov, Sevinj Mammadyarova, Gunel Aliyeva, Elman Hajiyev, Faig Mammadov and Stefano Bellucci
The present research involves producing graphene oxide (GO) using the Hummers method, generating a composite using GO and PVA, and analyzing these composites? structural and optical characteristics. PVA and GO were used in varied percentages to deal with...
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Simone Panico, Marco Larcher, Alexandra Troi, Cristina Baglivo and Paolo Maria Congedo
Thermal modeling of building components plays a crucial role in designing energy efficiency measures, assessing living comfort, and preventing building damages. The accuracy of the modeling process strongly depends on the reliability of the physical mode...
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Martijn Beljaars, Arjen J. Kamphuis, Hero J. Heeres, Antonius A. Broekhuis and Francesco Picchioni
A (partially) bio-based short-chain polyester is prepared through interfacial polycondensation of furan-functionalized diphenolic acid with terephthalic chloride. The furan groups along the backbone of the obtained polyester are able to form a covalent n...
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