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Tommy Ender, Vicky Shettigondahalli Ekanthalu, Haniyeh Jalalipour, Jan Sprafke and Michael Nelles
Hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) has developed considerably over the last 15 years and offers a viable alternative for the utilization of municipal and industrial organic waste such as sewage sludge. However, the technology has yet to establish itself as...
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Wei Deng, Dengfeng Liu, Fengnian Guo, Lianpeng Zhang, Lan Ma, Qiang Huang, Qiang Li, Guanghui Ming and Xianmeng Meng
Soil temperature directly affects the germination of seeds and the growth of crops. In order to accurately predict soil temperature, this study used RF and MLP to simulate shallow soil temperature, and then the shallow soil temperature with the best simu...
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Fatick Nath, Mohammed Omar Sahed Chowdhury and Md. Masudur Rhaman
The petroleum industry produces a large amount of wastewater, known as produced water (PW), during oil production and processing. This PW contains hazardous organic and inorganic components that can harm the environment. Conventional treatment methods ha...
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Xiaoli Zhang, Linglong Zhu, Mengyun Ren, Chao Xiang, Xiumei Tang, Youlin Xia, Dulin Song and Fuzhen Li
Cultivated peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is one of the most important oilseed crops worldwide. Pod-related traits, including pod length (PL), pod width (PW), ratio of PL to PW (PL/W) and 100-pod weight (100-PW), are crucial factors for pod yield and are k...
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Cosmin Spîrchez, Aurel Lunguleasa, Carmen-Mihaela Popescu, Anamaria Avram and Constantin Stefan Ionescu
In a context where there is an increasing need for thermal treatments of wooden products, the current research contributes a description of the torrefaction treatment of two of the composite wood materials available on the international market. The prese...
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Marta M. Moreno, Sara González-Mora, Jaime Villena and Carmen Moreno
Organic hydromulches (liquid spray-on mulches) have been used traditionally in land rehabilitation, mainly to mitigate post-fire runoff and erosion. However, in recent years, a new application of these materials as an eco-friendly alternative to the wide...
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Chia-Man Chang, Ching-Wen Wang, Meng-Yuan Huang, Chung-I Chen, Kuan-Hung Lin and Chih-Pei Shen
In our previous work, we observed that Oncidesa Gower Ramsey ?Honey Angel? (HA) plants became stunned on hot summer afternoons, and the seasonal trend in solar radiation affected its production schedule by limiting flower yield and quality. The objective...
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Yifan Jiang, Karen C. Bustillo and Thomas M. Devine
Aqueous zinc ions lower the corrosion rate of Alloy 600, which helps lower the radiation dose rate in pressurized water reactors (PWRs). The influence of zinc on the electrochemical behavior of Alloy 600 in PWR primary water (PW) at 320 °C was investigat...
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Kai Qin, Renjun Yan, Wei Shen and Siyuan Gui
This paper studies the compressive failure behavior of pw-GFRP (plain-woven glass fiber reinforced polymer) sandwich composite L-joints for ships. Six L-joint specimens were subjected to ultimate compressive tests, which show that damage and stiffness de...
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Ke Yang, Peter R. Hoskins, George A. Corner, Chunming Xia and Zhihong Huang
Wall shear stress (WSS) plays an important role in the formation, growth, and rupture of atherosclerotic plaques in arteries. This study measured WSS in diseased carotid artery phantoms with degrees of stenosis varying from 0 to 60% with both steady and ...
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