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Imunofan—RDKVYR Peptide—Stimulates Skin Cell Proliferation and Promotes Tissue Repair
PublicationRegeneration and wound healing are vital to tissue homeostasis and organism survival. One of the biggest challenges of today’s science and medicine is finding methods and factors to stimulate these processes in the human body. Effective solutions to promote regenerative responses will accelerate advances in tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, transplantology, and a number of other clinical specialties. In this study, we...
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Application of the expanded clay aggregate in form of granular materials for water treatment
PublicationThe paper aimed to evaluate the efficiency of Filtralite MonoMulti compared to the conventional dual-media filter beds comprising silica sand layer covered with anthracite coal. Filtralite media are composed of processed (expanded), highly porous clay products characterized by relatively rough grain surfaces. In order to compare these different media filters in a reliable way, the pilot filter columns operated in parallel, under...
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Simulation of ammonia combustion in dual-fuel compression-ignition engine
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Optimization Model to Manage Ship Fuel Consumption and Navigation Time
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Spectroscopic investigations into degradation of polymer membranes for fuel cells applications
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Metal Supported Solid Oxide Fuel Cells - Selected Aspects
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono wyniki badań nad tlenkowymi ogniwami paliwowymi zbudowanymi na stalowym interkonektorze.
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Solid oxide fuel cells with Ni-infiltrated perovskite anode
PublicationWytworzono próbki na bazie tytanianu strontu domieszkowanego niobem i przebadano wpływ nasączania niklem na właściwości tych materiałów.
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A semi-Markov model of fuel combustion process in a Diesel engine
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono czterostanowy model procesu spalania w przestrzeniach roboczych (cylindrach) silników o zapłonie samoczynnym w formie procesu semimarkowskiego, dyskretnego w stanach i ciągłego w czasie. Wartościami tego procesu są stany odpowiadające powszechnie akceptowanym rodzajom spalania w tego rodzaju silnikach a mianowicie takie stany procesu jak: spalanie pełne (całkowite i zupełne), spalanie niezupełne, spalanie...
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The influence of fuel type on heat balance of medium-speed engine
PublicationW artykule zaprezentowano analizę wpływu rodzaju zastosowanego paliwa na bilans cieplny silników średnioobrotowych stosowanych w energetyce stacjonarnej. Przedmiotem analizy są silniki ZS i ZI zasilane gazem ziemnym oraz silniki ZS zasilane olejem napędowym. Dodatkowo analizę uzupełniono o wyniki obliczeń wykonanych dla silników dwupaliwowych, tzn. silników, w których zapłon mieszanki paliwowo gazowej realizowany jest przez pilotażowy...
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Chapter 8 : Possibilities of operating fuel consumption estimation of vehicles
PublicationPrzedstawiona w pracy metoda umożliwia ocenę eksploatacyjnego zużycia paliwa pojazdu samochodowego dzięki porównaniu zarejestrowanego zużycia paliwa z referencyjnym dla tych samych warunków eksploatacji. Warunki te mogą wynikać zarówno z lokalnej specyfiki ruchu pojazdów jak również ze sposobu prowadzenia auta przez kierowcę. Zgodnie z przyjętą metodą warunki te mogą zostać w bardzo prosty sposób zarejestrowane w czasie codziennej...
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The possibilities of using of the engine multidimensional charakteristics in fuel consumption prediction
PublicationDokument przedstawia możliwości prognozowania zużycia paliwa z wykorzystaniem wielowymiarowej charakterystyki zużycia silnika. Zdefiniowane zostały charakterystyki wielowymiarowe silnika.
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Low-temperature processed anode for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
PublicationPrzygotowano i przebadano kompozytową anode Ni/YSZ, która została przygotowana z wykorzystaniem technologii net shape. Wyniki potwierdziły, że kompozyt może być wykorzystany jako potencjalna anoda w tlenkowych ogniwach paliwowych.
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Tyre/road noise reduction by a poroelastic road surface
PublicationLow noise road surfaces of existing types may in favourable cases and in new conditions provide up to 7 dB of noise reduction. For higher noise reductions, innovative solutions must be sought. Poroelastic road surfaces (PERS) may be such a solution, which currently is studied in the EU project PERSUADE. This paper presents results of trials with a PERS version prefabricated by one of the project partners. Tests were made in a laboratory...
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Preference-based evolutionary multi-objective optimization in ship weather routing
PublicationIn evolutionary multi-objective optimization (EMO) the aim is to find a set of Pareto-optimal solutions. Such approach may be applied to multiple real-life problems, including weather routing (WR) of ships. The route should be optimal in terms of passage time, fuel consumption and safety of crew and cargo while taking into account dynamically changing weather conditions. Additionally it must not violate any navigational constraints...
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Framework of an Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimisation Method for Planning a Safe Trajectory for a Marine Autonomous Surface Ship
PublicationThis paper represents the first stage of research into a multi-objective method of planning safe trajectories for marine autonomous surface ships (MASSs) involved in encounter situations. Our method applies an evolutionary multi-objective optimisation (EMO) approach to pursue three objectives: minimisation of the risk of collision, minimisation of fuel consumption due to collision avoidance manoeuvres, and minimisation of the extra...
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Numerical Study of the Impinging Jets Formed by an Injector with Different Nozzle Diameters
PublicationThe collision of two or more liquid jets may provide considerable atomisation and efficient mixing of injected substances at the same time. This phenomenon is used, among others, in rocket engines, where the fuel and oxidiser are introduced separately and almost immediately mixed through self-impingement. Depending on the injection and operating conditions, diverse configurations of impinging jets are used, such as doublets,...
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Pyrolysis of Waste Biomass: Technical and Process Achievements, and Future Development-A Review
PublicationPyrolysis has been applied in the human economy for many years, and it has become a significant alternative to the production of chemical compounds, including biofuels. The article fo-cuses mostly on recent achievements in the technical and processing aspects of pyrolysis. The aim of the review is to present the latest research on the process of waste biomass pyrolysis to fuel production. The paper describes the mechanisms of...
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RAPESEED PELLET - A BYPRODUCT OF BIODIESEL PRODUCTION - AS AN EXCELLENT RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE
PublicationVegetable oils are renewable feedstock currently being used for production of biofuels from sustainable biomass resources. The existing technology for producing diesel fuel from plant oils, such as rapeseed, soybean, canola and palm oil are largely centered on transesterification of oils with methanol to produce fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) or biodiesel. Rapeseed pellet - crushed seed residue from oil extraction is a byproduct...
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Modeling and optimization of chemical-treated torrefaction of wheat straw to improve energy density by response surface methodology
PublicationToday, torrefaction is important technique for extending the potential of biomass for improvement of energy density. The independent variables investigated for torrefaction study were temperature, retention time, acid concentration, and particle size. The experiment was designed by central composite design (CCD) method using design expert (version 11). The three dependent variables were higher heating value (HHV), energy enhancement...
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Deep Eutectic Solvents: Properties and Applications in CO2 Separation
PublicationNowadays, many researchers are focused on finding a solution to the problem of global warming. Carbon dioxide is considered to be responsible for the “greenhouse” effect. The largest global emission of industrial CO2 comes from fossil fuel combustion, which makes power plants the perfect point source targets for immediate CO2 emission reductions. A state-of-the-art method for capturing carbon dioxide is chemical absorption using...
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ChatGPT Application vis-a-vis Open Government Data (OGD): Capabilities, Public Values, Issues and a Research Agenda
PublicationAs a novel Artificial Intelligence (AI) application, ChatGPT holds pertinence not only for the academic, medicine, law, computing or other sectors, but also for the public sector-case in point being the Open Government Data (OGD) initiative. However, though there has been some limited (as this topic is quite new) research concerning the capabilities ChatGPT in these sectors, there has been no research about the capabilities it...
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The role of additives in improving the flammability and calorific value of leather shavings and the binding of chromium compounds in ash
PublicationLeather processing companies are struggling with the problem of increasing costs of post-production waste disposal. Therefore, the issue of thermal waste disposal at the plant and the use of generated heat in the production process is becoming more and more popular. Leather waste on its own does not allow for autothermal combustion despite the sufficient higher heating value (HHV). Therefore the Authors proposed to improve the...
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Technical and economic analysis of energy storage in the compressed air technology with low capacity for the production plant
PublicationCompressed air energy storage (CAES) system is a promising technology due to its numerous advantages, including relatively low maintenance cost, a long lifespan and high operational flexibility. This article explores the possibility of designing a CAES power plant as a source of electricity and heat for an existing industrial plant. The study involves the technical analysis of the power plant parameters and the economic analysis...
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Polish FDI in Central Asian Countries
PublicationSince gaining independence, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan gradually opened their markets to foreign investors. Before Poland’s accession to the European Union, the activities of Polish investors in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan were based on bilateral treaties concluded by Poland with those countries. Later, except Turkmenistan, they were governed by the partnership...
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Thermal Biomass Conversion: A Review
PublicationIn this paper, the most important methods of thermal conversion of biomass, such as: hydrothermal carbonization (180–250 °C), torrefaction (200–300 °C), slow pyrolysis (carbonization) (300–450 °C), fast pyrolysis (500–800 °C), gasification (800–1000 °C), supercritical steam gasification, high temperature steam gasification (>1000 °C) and combustion, were gathered, compared and ranked according to increasing temperature. A comprehensive...
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Thermal efficiency investigations on the self-ignition test engine fed with marine low sulfur diesel fuels
PublicationWithin the article an issues of implementing the new kinds of marine diesel fuels into ships’ operation was described taking into ac-count restrictions on the permissible sulphur content introduced by the International Maritime Organization. This is a new situation for ship owners and fuel producers, which forces the necessity to carry out laboratory research tests on especially adapted engine stands. How to elaborate the method...
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Compact High Efficiency and Zero-Emission Gas-Fired Power Plant with Oxy-Combustion and Carbon Capture
PublicationReduction of greenhouse gases emissions is a key challenge for the power generation industry, requiring the implementation of new designs and methods of electricity generation. This article presents a design solution for a novel thermodynamic cycle with two new devices—namely, a wet combustion chamber and a spray-ejector condenser. In the proposed cycle, high temperature occurs in the combustion chamber because of fuel combustion...
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Exhaust gas temperature measurements in diagnostics of turbocharged marine internal combustion engines. Part I. Standard measurements.
PublicationThe article discusses the problem of diagnostic informativeness of exhaust gas temperature measurements in turbocharged marine internal combustion engines. Theoretical principles of the process of exhaust gas flow in turbocharger inlet channels are analysed in its dynamic and energetic aspects. Diagnostic parameters are defined which enable to formulate general evaluation of technical condition of the engine based on standard...
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Simulations of Shear Zones and Cracks in Engineering Materials Using eXtended Finite Element Method
PublicationNumerical simulations of cracks and shear zones in quasi-brittle materials are presented. Extended Finite Element Method is used to describe both cracks and shear zones. In a description of tensile cracks, a Rankine criterion is assumed. A discrete Mohr-Coulomb law is adopted for simulations of shear zones. Results of simple numerical tests: unixial tension, bending and biaxial compression are demonstrated.
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Influence of Thermal Decomposition of Wood and Wood-Based Materials on the State of the Atmospheric Air. Emissions of Toxic Compounds and Greenhouse Gases
PublicationThis paper presents the energy characteristics of wood and wood-based materials in the form of commercially available pellets, furniture board (MDF) and OSB. Toxicometric indices were determined for gaseous destructs arising from thermal decomposition and combustion of the materials studied. The paper proves that combustion conditions are crucial in terms of toxic destructive emissions. It has been shown that the combustion of...
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Moleculars Materials in Optoelectronics and Photovoltaic Devices
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Materials for potentiometric electrochemical gas sensors
PublicationPublikacja przeglądowa na temat zasady działania oraz rodzajów czujników elektrochemicznych gazów.
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Tools for finishing processes on hard materials
PublicationPrzedstawiono narzędzia i wyniki obróbki materiałów w stanie twardym. Analizowano proces docierania elementów ceramicznych mikroziarnami diamentowymi, nagniatanie stali w stanie twardym (60 HRC) kulkami z Si3N4 i przecinanie ściernicowe stali ŁH15 (62 HRC).
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Difficulties with evaluating resistance of materials to cavitation.
PublicationW pracy dokonano analizy wyników Międzynarodowego Testu Erozji Kawitacyjnej (ICET), któremu koordynował Instytut Maszyn Przepływowych Polskiej Akademii Nauk (IMP PAN) w Gdańsku. Kluczowe parametry wpływające na zmianę przebiegu krzywych erozji uzyskanych na stanowiskach badawczych zostały wskazane. Wykazano konieczność przeprowadzenia badań w zakresie oceny wpływu efektu skali. Zaprezentowano wyniki uzyskane na stanowiskach magnetostrykcyjnych...
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A study of modern materials for arc spraying
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Building materials in context for sustainable development
PublicationInterpretacja pojęcia ''budownictwo zrównoważone''. Zadania, cele i przykłady interpretacji realizacji budownictwa w kontekście zasad zrównoważonego rozwoju. Wskaźniki zrównoważenia stosowane w budownictwie.
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Scale effects in cavitation erosion of materials
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono wpływ wielkości objętości erodowanego materiału na przebieg krzywych erozyjnych. Przedstawiono również niektóre wyniki Międzynarodowego Testu Kawitacyjnego.
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Toxic components of food packaging materials
PublicationW rozdziale scharakteryzowano materiały wykorzystywane do produkcji opakowań do żywności i stosowane składniki dodatkowe, polepszające ich użytkowe właściwości oraz przeanalizowano możliwość migracji niektórych substancji toksycznych z tych opakowań do produktów żywnościowych.
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Future Directions in Quantum Materials Synthesis
PublicationThe following sections are included: Introduction The Current State of the Art The Frontiers Exploring the Frontiers Conclusion
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Comparison of antimicrobial activity of selected, commercially available wound dressing materials
PublicationOBJECTIVE: The aim of our study was to examine the antimicrobial potential of eight selected, commercially available wound dressings containing different antimicrobial agents: silver, chlorhexidine acetate, povidone-iodine, and manuka honey. METHOD: The materials were tested against four reference strains of bacteria: Staphylococcus aureus (PCM 2051), Staphylococcus epidermidis (PCM 2118), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (ATCC 27853),...
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Improved cytotoxicity and preserved level of cell death induced in colon cancer cells by doxorubicin after its conjugation with iron-oxide magnetic nanoparticles
PublicationA promising strategy for overcoming the problem of limited efficacy in antitumor drug delivery and in drug release is the use of a nanoparticle-conjugated drug. Doxorubicin (Dox) anticancer chemotherapeutics has been widely studied in this respect, because of severe cardiotoxic side effects. Here, we investigated the cytotoxic effects, the uptake process, the changes in cell cycle progression and the cell death processes in the...
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Selection of material for X-ray tomography analysis and DEM simulations: comparison between granular materials of biological and non-biological origins
PublicationPhysical properties and X-ray tomography images of five different granular materials: glass bead, glass grit, short grain white rice, sorghum and clay granules (Seramis) are investigated to select the most promising materials for numerical simulations and time-lapse X-ray tomography imaging. The examined materials represent granular materials of non-biological origin (glass bead, glass grit and Seramis) and granular plant materials...
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Materials Selection and Design Options Analysis for a Centrifugal Fan Impeller in a Horizontal Conveyor Dryer
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Advances in Hard–to–Cut Materials: Manufacturing, Properties, Process Mechanics and Evaluation of Surface Integrity
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A 95-Year-Old Concrete Arch Bridge: From Materials Characterization to Structural Analysis
PublicationThe structural analysis of a 95-year-old concrete arch bridge located in Jagodnik (Poland) is performed in this paper, in order to check its behavior under today’s traffic loads. The mechanical properties of both the concrete and the reinforcement are investigated by testing cores and bar stubs extracted from the bridge. Structural analysis confirms that the bridge meets today’s load requirements in terms of bearing capacity, serviceability...
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Imunofan - RDKVYR peptide - stimulates skin cell proliferation and promotes tissue repair
PublicationRegeneration and wound healing are vital to tissue homeostasis and organism survival. One of the biggest challenges of today's science and medicine is finding methods and factors to stimulate these processes in the human body. Effective solutions to promote regenerative responses will accelerate advances in tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, transplantology, and a number of other clinical...
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Selection of Materials Used in Viscous Clutch With ER Fluid Working in Special Conditions
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Novel temperature operated electrooptical materials based on K2ZnCl4: PVA polymer nanocomposites
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Fe-modified Mn2CuO4 spinel oxides: coatings based on abundant elements for solid oxide cell interconnects
PublicationThe current state of the art steel interconnect coating materials are based on critical raw material - Co-oxide spinels. Replacing Co-oxide spinels with alternative, abundant materials can reduce the dependence on the critical raw materials. Cobalt-free coatings with the general formula Mn2-xCuFexO4, where x = 0, 0.1, 0.3, were electrophoretically deposited on a ferritic stainless-steel support and evaluated. Prior to deposition,...
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Surface effects of network materials based on strain gradient homogenized media
PublicationThe asymptotic homogenization of periodic network materials modeled as beam networks is pursued in this contribution, accounting for surface effects arising from the presence of a thin coating on the surface of the structural beam elements of the network. Cauchy and second gradient effective continua are considered and enhanced by the consideration of surface effects. The asymptotic homogenization technique is here extended to...