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Theoretical and experimental research of heat and mass transfer in adsorption process in dac systems
PublicationPrzedstawiono badania wymiany ciepła i masy w stałych adsorpcyjnych elementach wykonanych na bazie silikażelu. Zaprezentowano również informacje dotyczące osuszania w systemach klimatyzacyjnych. Na zkończenie pokazano wyniki numerycznej symulacji i skojarzonej wymiany ciepła i masy w chłodzonym osuszaczu.
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Heat Transfer of the Multicolor-Laser-Sources-Irradiated Nanoparticles in Reference to Thermal Processes
PublicationUnlike the standard materials, metallic nanoparticles offer enhancing the heat convertion rate which implies the maximum and average temperature boost significantly in the considered system. The work’s purpose is to examine heat transfer in the metallic nanoparticles which have been deposited on a glassy substrate, enabling the nanostructures thermoablation. Furthermore, the functionalized substrate is irradiated with multicolor-laser-sources,...
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Ball milling treatment of Mn3O4 regulates electron transfer pathway for peroxymonosulfate activation
PublicationHeterogeneous metal catalysts have attracted considerable interest in advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) for wastewater treatment by activating peroxymonosulfate (PMS). However, it remains challenging to the rational design of efficient reaction pathway for high-performance contaminants removal by regulating the inherent structure of metal oxides. Herein, a high-energy ball milling method was employed to modulate the electronic...
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Knowledge and technology transfer in the Center for Scientific and Technical Information of the Wrocław University of Technology
PublicationKnowledge and Technology Transfer between a university and economic operators affects innovation and growth of competitiveness, as well as the development of a knowledge-based society. In the structures of Wroclaw University of Technology, regarded as one of the best and the most innovative technical universities in Poland, a number of units responsible for a wide understanding cooperation with the economy have been established....
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A simplified energy dissipation based model of heat transfer for subcooled flow boiling
PublicationIn the paper a model is presented based on energetic considerations for subcooled flow boiling heat transfer. The model is the extension of authors own model developed earlier for saturated flow boiling and condensation. In the former version of the model we used the heat transfer coefficient for the liquid single-phase as a reference level, due to the lack of the appropriate model for heat transfer coefficient for the subcooled...
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Effect of the inclination angle of the condenser on the heat transfer coefficient value – experimental study
PublicationWhen considering problem of the condensation of the refrigerant in a flow inside channel, one needs to pay attention to the shape of its cross-section, the hydraulic diameter, the channel length as well as the orientation of the channel axis in space (horizontal, vertical, inclined). This paper presents an experimental study concerning the effect of the inclination angle of the condenser with a single coil pipe on the heat transfer...
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Quantum-state transfer in spin chains via isolated resonance of terminal spins
PublicationWe propose a quantum-state transfer protocol in a spin chain that requires only the control of the spins at the ends of the quantum wire. The protocol is to a large extent insensitive to inhomogeneity caused by local magnetic fields and perturbation of exchange couplings. Moreover, apart from the free evolution regime, it allows one to induce an adiabatic spin transfer, which provides the possibility of performing the transfer...
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Prediction of flow boiling heat transfer data for R134a, R600a and R290 in minichannels
PublicationIn the paper presented is the analysis of the results of calculations using a model to predict flow boiling of refrigerants such as R134a, R600a and R290. The latter two fluids were not used in development of model semiempirical correction. For that reason the model was verified with present experimental data. The experimental research was conducted for a full range of quality variation and a relatively wide range of mass velocity....
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Flow visualization and heat transfer investigations on the flat plate with streamwise pressure gradient
PublicationPaper presents experimental investigations results for film cooling on a flat plate. The main objective of the design is the streamwise pressure distribution on the flat plate as in the blade cascade. The transient and steady-state technique with liquid crystals for the surface temperature distribution with film cooling has been used in experiments in a low speed wind tunnel.
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Materials for Mediator-free Electron Transfer in the Enzymatic Electrodes of Biobatteries and Biofuel Cells
PublicationWe present functionalization of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) and their application in the enzymatic fuel cells construction. SWCNTs were covalently modified with different types of aromatic moieties. Free radical reaction was employed to create direct carbon-carbon bond between moiety and SWCNTs. In second approach functionalization takes place through amide bonding. Functionalized SWCNTs were characterized by spectroscopy...
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Heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics of the silicone-based plate heat exchanger
PublicationThe paper presents an experimental investigation of a silicone based heat exchanger, with passive heat transfer intensification by means of surface enhancement. The main objective of this paper was to experimentally investigate the performance of a heat exchanger module with the enhanced surface. Heat transfer in the test section has been examined and described with precise measurements of thermal and flow conditions. Reported...
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Application of surface active amino acid ionic liquids as phase-transfer catalyst
PublicationFive structurally related morpholinium derived ionic liquids containing N-acetyl-glycinate anion were synthesized and their thermal stability, surface properties and activity as phase transfer catalysts investigated. The thermal properties were studied by differential scanning calorimetry, while the adsorption at the air/water interface and micellization behavior was analyzed by surface tension measurements, conductometry and isothermal...
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Applicability of arrays of microjets heat transfer correlations to design compact heat exchangers
PublicationThe article presents experimental studies on a compact heat exchanger with heat transfer intensification by means of impinging microjets. The pursuit to provide high performance of heat exchangers is a response to the demand both in economics and in the universal tendency to miniaturization of industrial equipment. This paper presents the design and tests of a prototype, microjet heat exchanger. The modular design of the heat exchanger...
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Turbulence model evaluation for numerical modelling of turbulent flow and heat transfer of nanofluids
PublicationIn this work, Nusselt number and friction factor are calculated numerically for turbulent pipe flow (Reynolds number between 6000 and 12000) with constant heat flux boundary condition using nanofluids. The nanofluid is modelled with the single-phase approach and the simulation results are compared with experimental data. Ethylene glycol and water, 60:40 EG/W mass ratio, as base fluid and SiO2 nanoparticles are used as nanofluid...
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The influence of microjet array area ratio on heat transfer in the compact heat exchanger
PublicationThe paper describes the comprehensive study on the effect of microjet array geometrical parameters on the heat transfer enhancement in the modular heat exchanger. The conducted experimental study provides an experimental database on single phase submerged microjet heat transfer. The Wilson plot method was applied to determine the heat transfer coefficients in the laminar and transition flow regimes of a liquid-to-liquid heat exchanger....
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The effect of reduced pressure on carbon dioxide flow boiling heat transfer in minichannels
Publication. In the paper presented are the results of the study on the effect of reduced pressure on flow boiling heat transfer data in minichannels as well as conventional ones. That effect renders that most of heat transfer correlations fail to return appropriate results of predictions. Mostly they have been developed for the reduced pressures from the range 0.1-0.3. The special correction has been postulated to the in-house model of flow...
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An improved method for flow boiling heat transfer with account of the reduced pressure effect
PublicationIn the paper are presented the results using the authors own model to predict heat transfer coefficient during flow boiling. The model has been tested against a large selection of experimental data to investigate the sensitivity of the in-house developed model. In the work are presented the results of calculations obtained using the semi-empirical model on selected experimental flow boiling data of the refrigerants: R134a, R1234yf,...
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Heat transfer intensification by jet impingement – numerical analysis using RANS approach
PublicationJet impingement is a method of the heat transfer enhancement applied in the engineering systems. The idea is to generate fast-flow fluid jet which impinge on the heated (or cooled) surface, causing significantly higher heat transfer rate. Although some flat surface jet impingement cases are described in the literature, the validated data is still limited. The reason is coming from the fact, that these flows are hydrodynamically...
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Comparing Phylogenetic Trees by Matching Nodes Using the Transfer Distance Between Partitions
PublicationAbility to quantify dissimilarity of different phylogenetic trees describing the relationship between the same group of taxa is required in various types of phylogenetic studies. For example, such metrics are used to assess the quality of phylogeny construction methods, to define optimization criteria in supertree building algorithms, or to find horizontal gene transfer (HGT) events. Among the set of metrics described so far in...
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Approach Manoeuvre During Emergency Ship-to-Ship Transfer Operation with Oil Spill
PublicationOne of the major activities during Ship to Ship (STS) transfer operation at sea is to safe approach the Ship to be Lightered (SBL) which moves on a constant heading with slow speed or drifting. In the paper described the manoeuvring problem for approaching during emergency STS transfer operation with oil spill. The approach manoeuvre is considered as a sequence of navigation manoeuvres in specific navigational environment with...
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Excited-state proton transfer and geminate recombination in the molecular cage of β-cyclodextrin
PublicationExcited-state proton transfer and geminate recombination in aqueous heptakis(2,6-di-O-methyl)-β-cyclodextrin have been compared with those in water by monitoring the photoinduced prototropic tautomerization of 6-hydroxyquinoline, which occurs via forming anionic intermediate. Enol deprotonation decelerates by 18 times whereas its reverse process accelerates slightly with encapsulation. The imine protonation of the intermediate...
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Heat transfer enhancement, flow visualization and friction characteristics in rib-roughened channels
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono wyniki badań eksperymentalnych związanych z intensyfikacją wymiany ciepła w kanałach wyposażonych w żebra, które poprawiają warunki przejmowania ciepła od ścianki do przepływającego medium. W badaniach wykorzystano system PIV oraz termografię ciekłokrystaliczną.
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Experimental Investigation of Free Convection Heat Transfer from Horizontal Cylinder to Nanofluids
PublicationThe results of free convection heat transfer investigation from a horizontal, uniformly heated tube immersed in a nanofluid are presented. Experiments were performed with five base fluids, i.e., ethylene glycol (EG), distilled water (W) and the mixtures of EG and water with the ratios of 60/40, 50/50, 40/60 by volume, so the Rayleigh (Ra) number range was 3 104 Ra 1.3 106 and the Prandtl (Pr) number varied from 4.4 to 176....
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Bridge of Knowledge: an Internet platform for R2R and R2B transfer of knowledge and promotion of cooperation
PublicationCurrently, the European Commission puts emphasis on supporting collaboration between universities and business. There are many possible ways to create a strong relationship between both these parties. Positive results of such cooperation lead to increased competitiveness of the global market and, in consequence, bring significant growth of innovation. The cooperation between research-to-research (R2R) and research-to-business (R2B)...
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Optimal Rotating Receiver Angles Estimation for Multicoil Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer
PublicationThis study proposed an approach to dynamic wireless charging that uses a rotating receiver coil. Our simulation study focused on the verification of a novel way of increasing the coupling coefficient and power transfer stability by following the flux of the transmitting coils. To obtain the highest possible coupling by means of the FEM analysis, we studied the optimization of the trajectory of the angular velocity of the rotating...
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Increasing the conductivity of V2O5-TeO2 glass by crystallization: structure and charge transfer studies
PublicationIn the present paper, V 2 O 5 -TeO 2 glass was prepared by the melt-quenching technique. Crystallization of glass with a vanadium content higher than 35%mol results in an increase in electrical conductivity by a few orders of magnitude and a decrease in activation energy from ~0.40 to ~0.12 eV. In this work, a critical review of existing charge transfer models was presented on the example of V 2 O 5 -TeO 2 glass and glass–ceramics....
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Impact of Temperature and Nanoparticle Concentration on Turbulent Forced Convective Heat Transfer of Nanofluids
PublicationTheoretical analysis of the influence of nanoparticles and temperature on the average Nusselt (Nu) number and the average heat transfer coefficient (HTC) during the turbulent flow of nanofluid in a horizontal, round tube was carried out. The Nu number is a function of the Reynolds (Re) number and the Prandtl (Pr) number, which in turn are functions of the thermophysical properties of the liquid and the flow conditions. On the other...
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Modelling study of flow boiling heat transfer of perspective fluids for refrigeration technology
PublicationThere is a gap of knowledge on flow boiling at high saturation temperatures and higher values of reduced pressure. Thus far, the in-house developed semi-empirical model for flow boiling and flow condensation showed a satisfactory accuracy for calculations for various refrigeration fluids for a wide scope of reduced pressures. This study presents results of calculations of heat transfer coefficient of perspective refrigeration fluids,...
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Correlation between crystal and transport properties in LnBa0.5Sr0.5Co1.5Fe0.5O5+δ (Ln - selected lanthanides, Y)
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Mercury in suspended matter of the Gulf of Gdańsk: Origin, distribution and transport at the land–sea interface
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Bedload transport and temporal variation of non-uniform sediment in a seepage-affected alluvial channel
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Kontrola i ochrona przed hałasem emitowanym przez transport kolejowy - narzędzia prawne
PublicationOmówienie aktów prawnych obowiązujących w Unii Europejskiej w zakresie ograniczania emisji hałasu od środków transportu oraz ich implementacja do prawa polskiego. Programy ochrony środowiska, środki finansowo-prawne, kary za emisję.
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Method to determine the critical concentration Rayleigh number in isothermal passive membrane transport processes
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Mercury in suspended matter of the Gulf of Gdańsk: Origin, distribution and transport at the land–sea interface
PublicationThe coastal regions of inland seas are particularly vulnerable to Hg pollution. An important carrier of toxic Hg in the marine environment is suspended matter originating from multiple sources. The present study was conducted in the Gulf...
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Transport nośników ładunku przez heterozłącze organicznych materiałów o różnych stałych dielektrycznych
PublicationKomunikat przedstawia teoretyczny model przepływu prądu elektrycznego przez heterozłącze dwóch izolatorów o różnych stałych dielektrycznych. Rozpatrywany jest wpływ oddziaływań zwierciadlanych na położenie poziomów energetycznych w izolatorach oraz na wysokość bariery potencjału pojawiającej się na ich złączu. Na tej podstawie określony został wpływ sił zwierciadlanych na transport nośników ładunku przez taki układ. Analiza wyników...
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Quality assessment criteria in the process of collective communication of passengers in selected urban transport organizations
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The use of a simulation model to analyze the impact of heavy transport generated by the port to the city traffic.
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Controlled Random Search Applied to Parameters Estimation of the Longitudinal Solutes Transport Model for Rivers
PublicationNumerical computations are presented for the longitudinal transport of passive, conservative solutes in an actual river with the inclusion of geometrical complexities of river channels. A special emphasis is put on the method of the identification of model parameters which is based on a specially designed optimisation procedure using random control search algorithm. Two different situations are considered namely a linear version...
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Facilitated water transport in composite reduced graphene oxide pervaporation membranes for ethanol upgrading
PublicationHigh purity ethanol is one of the most sought-after renewable energy sources. However, standard production methods yield ethanol of insufficient quality. Membrane processes such as pervaporation are recognized as a viable method for upgrading ethanol. Their performance and selectivity depend solely on membrane employed. Hydrophilic polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) membranes are used industrially for this purpose, but there is a trade-off...
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Transport properties of microemulsions with ionic liquid apolar domains as a function of ionic liquid content
PublicationThe specific conductivity, dynamic viscosity and apparent diffusion coefficient of each of four aqueous ionic liquid microemulsions (IL-MEs) were measured as a function of ionic liquid (IL) content. The investigated systems were composed of water, hydrophobic ILs (1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate or bis(trifluoromethanesulphonyl)imide) and the nonionic surfactant Triton X-100 or its mixture with cosurfactant (butanol)....
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Evaluation of Vehicle Routing Problem Algorithms for Transport Logistics Using Dedicated GIS System
PublicationThe development and research related to optimization of fleet management is of high interest among many industrial and scientific entities related to logistics and transport. Optimal distribution of transportation resources leads to significant cost reduction. In this context, scientific research related to so called Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) which relies on determining the shortest transport routes for a strictly limited number...
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Transport properties of aqueous ionic liquid microemulsions: influence of the anion type and presence of the cosurfactant
PublicationTransport properties, viz. specific conductivity, dynamic viscosity and apparent diffusion coefficients, were measured as a function of water content in aqueous ionic liquid microemulsions containing 1-butyl-3- methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate, [BMIM][PF6] and bis(trifluoromethanesulphonyl)imide, [BMIM][Tf2N], stabilized by the nonionic surfactant TX-100, or its mixture with a cosurfactant, i.e. butanol. The investigation covered...
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Estimating the Average Speed of Public Transport Vehicles Based on Traffic Control System Data
PublicationIntelligent Transport Systems are a valuable source of traffic information, covering both private and public vehicles. The main problem, however, is that very few studies are conducted to determine the speed of buses, trams and trolleys in urban networks in relation to traffic conditions. The paper investigates how ITS systems data could be used to model the speed of Public Transport vehicles. This is now possible thanks to the...
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Rapid multi-objective design optimization of miniaturized impedance transformer by Pareto front exploration
PublicationFast multi-objective optimization of compact impedance transformer is discussed. A set of alternative designs representing possible trade-offs between conflicting design criteria, i.e., electrical performance (here, wideband matching) and the structure size, is obtained through Pareto front exploration by means of surrogate-assisted methods.
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Macro models of casualties in road transport. Modelowanie strat osobowych w transporcie drogowym.
PublicationW referacie przedstawiono propozycję makro modelu strat osobowych ponoszonych w wypadkach drogowych. Zaproponowano modele liczby ofiar śmiertelnych wypadków drogowych zbudowanych na bazie danych z kilkudziesięciu krajów całego świata. Przedstawione koncepcje budowy modeli mogą posłużyć do opracowania modeli czynnikowych opisujących strategiczne ryzyko społeczne na sieci dróg wybranych krajów z całego świata. jedną z koncepcji...
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Adaptive Method of Raster Images Compression and Examples of Its Applications in the Transport Telematic Systems
PublicationThe paper presents a concept and exemplary application of an adaptive method of compression of raster images which may be applied, i.a. in ITS systems. The described method allows to improve the efficiency of systems belonging to ITS category, which require transmission of large volumes of image data through telecommunications networks. The concept of the adaptive method of compression of raster images described in the paper uses...
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System transferu i komercjalizacji wiedzy w polsce - siły motoryczne i bariery
PublicationOkreślono siły motoryczne i bariery transferu technologii i komercjalizacji wyników badań w Polsce. Wypracowano listę cech odddziaływujących na system transferu technologii, które uporządkowano w cztery grupy, jako strukturalne, systemowe, świadomościowo-kulturowe oraz kompetencyjne. Opracowanie jest punktem wyjścia do rekomendacji zmian w polskim systemie transferu technologii i komercjalizacji wiedzy.
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Operation of trolleybus transport in Portugal. Revitalization of trolleybus network in Coimbra and development plans in Amadora
PublicationW artykule opisano sytuację komunikacji trolejbusowej w Portugalii.
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The spatial planning of industrial areas in an urbanized area for cargo, in the development of inland waterway transport
PublicationSpatial planning, taking into account the configuration of the surface, i.e. its shape (relief) and the presence and mutual location of objects and points of characteristic water ports, is a derivative of several natural, economic, market, technical, social and political factors. It depends on the destination port, the planned structure of trade in cargo, the forecasted traffic of ships, passageways, the technology of reloading...
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Perspectives of Transport Systems Development in the Light of Radio Communication Systems Evolution Towards 5G
PublicationIn the paper conditions of development and implementation of transport systems with reference to the development of radio communication networks towards 5G are presented. First, general properties of next generation systems are mentioned and their architecture. Moreover, planned characteristics of B4G and 5G systems are depicted which can significantly contribute to the promotion and development of transport systems. In particular...