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Experimental and theoretical study of surface cooling using a single microjet
PublicationPrzedstawiono wyniki badań eksperymentalnych intensyfikacji wymiany ciepła przy pomocy pojedynczych strug wody i powietrza.Uzyskana na podstawie wyników korelacja, opisująca współczynnik przejmowania ciepła, posłużyła do weryfikacji modelu opracowanego wcześniej przez Mikielewicza (2007).
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Heat transfer during pool boiling on smooth tube bundle
PublicationPrzedstawiono wyniki pomiarów współczynnika przejmowania ciepła dla pęku 19 gładkich rurek ze stali nierdzewnej ogrzewanych elektrycznie podczas wrzenia wody destylowanej, metanolu i R141b. Zaproponowano równanie korelacyjne do obliczania średniego współczynnika przejmowania ciepła.
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Thermal Barrier as a technique of indirect heating and cooling for residential buildings
PublicationW artykule zaprezentowano koncept pośredniego ogrzewania i chłodzenia budynków mieszkalnych promieniowaniem słonecznym zwany barierą termiczną. System składa się z polipropylenowych rurek umieszczonych w ścianach zewnętrznych, w których znajduje się płyn. Koncept jest zastosowany do stabilizacji i redukcji przepływu ciepła w kierunku prostopadłym do ścian. Wykonano obszerne obliczenia MES z zastosowaniem nowego systemu kontroli,...
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An Algorithm for Optimizing the Determination of Cycling Routes on the Example of the Gdansk Agglomeration
PublicationPhysical activity is an essential part of a healthy lifestyle. One of the manifestations of the change in a society type from consumer to information one is the understanding of the importance of ecology and a healthy lifestyle. This is evident, inter alia, in the inventiveness and involvement of the society in the start-up and solutions referred to as the Smart City. One example is the development of e-bike rental and local investments...
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A Bayesian regularization-backpropagation neural network model for peeling computations
PublicationA Bayesian regularization-backpropagation neural network (BRBPNN) model is employed to predict some aspects of the gecko spatula peeling, viz. the variation of the maximum normal and tangential pull-off forces and the resultant force angle at detachment with the peeling angle. K-fold cross validation is used to improve the effectiveness of the model. The input data is taken from finite element (FE) peeling results. The neural network...
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SAILING ROUTE PLANNING METHOD CONSIDERING VARIOUS USER CATEGORIES
PublicationThe article describes the methodology related to determining the multi-criteria routes for sailing ships. Details of sea area discretisation and discretisation of the description of the sailing vessel properties and manoeuvring principles are shown. User requirements were specified (for five different categories of users) and on this basis the criteria for selecting the most suitable shipping route were formulated. The presented...
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OPTIMISING RIG DESIGN FOR SAILING YACHTS WITH EVOLUTIONARY MULTIOBJECTIVE ALGORITHM
PublicationThe paper presents a framework for optimising a sailing yacht rig using Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms and for filtering obtained solutions by means of a Multi-criteria Decision Making method. A Bermuda sloop with discontinuous rig is taken under consideration as a model rig configuration. It has been decomposed into its elements and described by a set of control parameters to form a responsive model which can be used...
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Innovative Turbine Intake Air Cooling Systems and Their Rational Designing
PublicationThe improved methodology of the engine intake air cooling system designing based on the annual effect due to cooling was developed. It involves determining the optimal value of cooling capacity, providing the minimum system sizes at maximum rate of annual effect increment, and its rational value, providing a close to maximum annual effect without system oversizing at the second maximum rate of annual effect increment within the...
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Functionalized Peptide Fibrils as a Scaffold for Active Substances in Wound Healing
PublicationTechnological developments in the field of biologically active peptide applications in medicine have increased the need for new methods for peptide delivery. The disadvantage of peptides as drugs is their low biological stability. Recently, great attention has been paid to self-assembling peptides that can form fibrils. Such a formulation makes bioactive peptides more resistant to enzymatic degradation and druggable. Peptide fibrils...
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Sodium nitrite as a corrosion inhibitor of copper in simulated cooling water
PublicationThe corrosion inhibition behavior of sodium nitrite (NaNO2) towards pure copper (99.95%) in simulated cooling water (SCW) was investigated by means of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and dynamic electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (DEIS). NaNO2 interferes with metal dissolution and reduce the corrosion rate through the formation or maintenance of inhibitive film on the metal surface. Surface morphologies illustrated...
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Porous structures in aspects of transpirating cooling of oxycombustion chamber walls
PublicationA wet oxycombustion chamber, which must be effectively cooled due to high temperature evolved during the oxy-combustion process, by using the phenomena of Reynolds thermal transpiration and Navier slip velocity. Closures needed to execute mass flow rate in a microchannel, which should be treated as a single porous structure in the walls of the combustion chamber, have been obtained by applying a local 3D approach. The Navier-Stokes...
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Flow Boiling in Minigap in the Reversed Two-Phase Thermosiphon Loop
PublicationThe paper presents the results of experimental investigations of a model of a heat exchanger featuring a minigap, which is perceived as an evaporator for an inverted thermosiphon. The system works with a single component test fluid. The tested evaporator generates pumping power in the test loop in a way similar to the mammoth pump. The tests regarded a module of the heat exchanger, consisting of a hot leg and a cold leg with the...
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Sealing tax collection in Poland and the EU in the years 2008–2018
PublicationThe purpose of this study is to present issues related to sealing tax collection system in Poland and European Union countries as well as OECD members in 2008–2018. The article is divided into four parts, which include: introduction, origin of the problem, implemented solutions and conclusions. It presents the results of the conducted analysis including studies of the literature and empirical data (mainly from OECD, GUS—Polish...
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Pool boiling of water-Cu nanofluid on porous coated tube
PublicationPrzedstawiono wyniki pomiarów współczynnika przejmowania ciepła podczas wrzenia nanocieczy woda-Cu na poziomej rurce pokrytej aluminiową powłoka porowatą o grubości 0.15 mm i porowatości ok. 40%. Koncentracja nanocząstek wynosiła 0.01%, 0.1% oraz 1%. Badania wykonano dla trzech wartości ciśnienia wrzenia: 200 kPa, 100 kPa oraz 10 kPa.
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Hyaluronic acid/tannic acid films for wound healing application
PublicationIn this study, thin films based on hyaluronic acid (HA) with tannic acid (TA) were investigated in three different weight ratios (80HA/20TA, 50HA/50TA, 20HA/80TA) for their application as materials for wound healing. Surface free energy, as well as their roughness, mechanical properties, water vapor permeability rate, and antioxidant activity were determined. Moreover, their compatibility with blood and osteoblast cells was investigated....
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Application of 3D- printed hydrogels in wound healing and regenerative medicine
PublicationHydrogels are three-dimensional polymer networks with hydrophilic properties. The modifiable properties of hydrogels and the structure resembling living tissue allow their versatile application. Therefore, increasing attention is focused on the use of hydrogels as bioinks for three-dimensional (3D) printing in tissue engineering. Bioprinting involves the fabrication of complex structures from several types of materials, cells,...
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Beeswax And Palmitic Acid Utilization With Heat Pipes For Electronics Cooling
PublicationThis paper presents an experimental study of heat pipes supported by phase change materials (PCMs) coated at their adiabatic sections in application for electronics cooling. The PCMs investigated in this research were palmitic acid and beeswax, the latter being considered as a more cost-effective alternative. The study focused on three powers: 20W, 25W, and 30W. The experimental results revealed that the incorporation of palmitic...
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CHEMOTHERAPY-MEDIATED COMPLICATIONS OF WOUND HEALING. AN UNDERSTUDIED SIDE EFFECT
PublicationSignificance: Chemotherapy is a primary method to treat cancer, but while cytotoxic drugs are designed to target rapidly dividing cancer cells, they can also affect other cell types, including dermal cells and macrophages involved in wound healing, which often leads to the development of chronic wounds. The situation becomes even more severe when chemotherapy is combined with surgical tumor excision. Recent advances: Despite its...
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Desiccant cooling system with direct fired biogas reactivitation heater.
PublicationPraca przedstawia możliwości wykorzystania w chłodnictwie i klimatyzacji gazu pochodzącego z biomasy. Spalanie gazu może zapewnić ciepło do zasilania zarówno absorpcyjnych urządzeń chłodniczych, jak i adsorpcyjnych urządzeń klimatyzacyjnych. Przedstawiono bieżące trendy występujące w konstrukcjach adsorpcyjnych urządzeń klimatyzacyjnych.
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Horizontal flow boiling of refrigerants inside porous coated tube.
PublicationPrzedstawiono wyniki badań przejmowania ciepła i spadku ciśnienia podczas wrzenia czynników chłodniczych R22, R134a i R407C w poziomej rurce z wewnętrzną powłoką porowatą.
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Nucleate pool boiling modelling and experimental investigation : chapter 7
PublicationOmówiono wpływ powłoki porowatej nanoszonej na całą powierzchnię rurki lub jej fragment na osiągany współczynnik przejmowania ciepła, krytyczne gęstości strumienia ciepła, a także obwodowy rozkład temperatury przy wrzeniu pęcherzykowym na zewnętrznej powierzchni poziomej rurki.Przedstawiono wyniki badań częstotliwości odrywania się pęcherzyków oraz pól prędkości wokół wzrastającyh i unoszących się pęcherzyków przy wrzeniu z pojedynczych...
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Improved correlation for modelling of boiling processes in small diameter tubes.
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono rozważania na temat wrzenia w przepływie dwufazowym w kanałach o małej średnicy. Modyfikacji uległa korelacja zapostulowana wcześniej przez Mikielewicz i inni, poprzez wprowadzenie efektów związanych z napięciem powierzchniowym, także liczba konwekcyjna została poprawiona. Zastosowanie korelacji jest bardzo proste z uwagi na jej analityczną postać, co jest jej podstawową zaletą. Porównanie z danymi eksperymentalnymi...
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Traffic Type Influence on QoS Network Performance of Streaming Traffic Class
PublicationFeasibility study on QoS routing proved that the traffic type influence the network performance. The performance is defined here as a number of packets serviced by the network. In the paper additional element - buffers lengths used in service system was verified in terms of dependencies with routing performance. We present results obtained by simulation for many simulation scenarios. Analysis was done for two different network...
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Homoclinic orbits for a class of singular second order Hamiltonian systems in R3
PublicationW niniejszym artykule rozważamy autonomiczny układ Hamiltonowski w 3-wymiarowej przestrzeni euklidesowej, z potencjałem osiągającym maksimum globalne właściwe równe zero w początku układu współrzędnych i mającym za zbiór punktów osobliwych prostą, która nie przechodzi przez początek układu. Przy założeniu, że potencjał spełnia pewien warunek zwartości w nieskończoności i warunek Gordona w otoczeniu prostej punktów osobliwych, stosując...
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Deep Features Class Activation Map for Thermal Face Detection and Tracking
PublicationRecently, capabilities of many computer vision tasks have significantly improved due to advances in Convolutional Neural Networks. In our research, we demonstrate that it can be also used for face detection from low resolution thermal images, acquired with a portable camera. The physical size of the camera used in our research allows for embedding it in a wearable device or indoor remote monitoring solution for elderly and disabled...
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Homoclinic orbits for a class of singular second order Hamiltonian systems in ℝ3
PublicationWe consider a conservative second order Hamiltonian system \ddot{q}+ ∇V(q)=0 in R3 with a potential V having a global maximum at the origin and a line l ∩ {0} = ∅ as a set of singular points. Under a certain compactness condition on V at infinity and a strong force condition at singular points we study, by the use of variational methods and geometrical arguments, the existence of homoclinic solutions of the system.
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Sweet grass protection against oxidative stress formation in the rat brain
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An approximative scheme of finding almost homoclinic solutions for a class of Newtonian systems
PublicationW niniejszej pracy badamy istnienie rozwiązań prawie homoklinicznych (ang. almost homoclinic solutions) dla pewnej klasy układów Newtona. Rozwiązanie prawie homokliniczne otrzymujemy jako granicę ciągu rozwiązań okresowych dla pewnego ciągu równań różniczkowych.
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LONG-TERM RISK CLASS MIGRATIONS OF NON-BANKRUPT AND BANKRUPT ENTERPRISES
PublicationThis paper investigates how the process of going bankrupt can be recognized much earlier by enterprises than by traditional forecasting models. The presented studies focus on the assessment of credit risk classes and on determination of the differences in risk class migrations between non-bankrupt enterprises and future insolvent firms. For this purpose, the author has developed a model of a Kohonen artificial neural network to...
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Analysis and design improvement of high class roads’ arched sections in Poland
PublicationAlthough Polish road network standards, in particular higher classes of roads are improving dynamically the number of fatalities on the network is still higher that EU’s average. Ensuring road safety and high maintaining standards is a complex issue and one that poses a major challenge for all road authorities. Road accidents at high speed roads characterize specially serious material and social consequences, thus research into...
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New class of quaternary ammonium salts, derivatives of methyl D-glucopyranosides.
PublicationReakcja zasad azotowych z 6-O-p-tozylo-alfa-D-glukopiranozydem metylu lub 6-O-tozylo-beta-D-glukopiranozydem metylu (prowadzona w skali mikro) dając odpowiednie sole amoniowe. Jako zasady azotowe użyto pirydyny, 2-metylopirydyny i trimetyloaminy. Produkty zostały przebadane przy użyciu spektroskopii 1H, 13C NMR, spektroskopii mas oraz analizy elementarnej a budowa jednego z nich została dodatkowo potwierdzona za pomocą rentgenowskiej...
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Glass transition temperatures of polyurethane-urea elastomers based on N, N′-ethylenethiourea and N, N′-ethyleneurea as chain extenders
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Metric entropy and digital image correlation in deformation dynamics analysis of fibre glass reinforced composite under uniaxial tension
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Third order nonlinear optical effects of ZnO–ZrO2–B2O3 glass ceramics embedded with ZnZrO3 perovskite crystal phases
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Investigations on the influence CuO doping on elastic properties of Li2SO4–MgO–P2O5 glass system by means of acoustic wave propagation
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Influence of NiO doping on elastic properties of Li2SO4-MgO-P2O5 glass system-Investigation by means of acoustic wave propagation
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Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management
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Beijing Da Xue Xue Bao
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JOURNAL OF UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING
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New piling technologies in Poland and general designing principles
PublicationPrzedstawiono stosowane w kraju technologie wykonawstwa pali oraz podstawowe zasady obliczeń. Podano podstawowe błędy w projektowaniu i wykonawstwie pali.
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Interaction of Acoustic and Thermal Modes in the Vibrationally Relaxing Gases. Acoustic Cooling
PublicationThe dynamic equation which governs an excess temperature associated with the thermal mode in vibrationally relaxing gas is derived. The nonlinear transfer of acoustic energy to the energy of the thermal mode in a relaxing gas causes slow variation of temperature with time. The nal dynamic equation is instantaneous. All types of sound, including aperiodic, may be considered as an acoustic source of corresponding heating or cooling....
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Comparison of single microjet cooling with water, ethanol and HFE7100 as test fluids
PublicationThe paper presents the investigation of a single microjet cooling forming an thin liquid film on the impingement surface of specially designed rig. The basis of microjet technology is to produce laminar jets, which when impinging the surface have a very high kinetic energy at the stagnation point. Applied technology of jet production can result with the size of jets ranging from 20 to 500μm in breadth and 20 to 100μm in width....
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Flow boiling intensification in minichannels by means of mechanical flow turbulising inserts
PublicationThe work presents the results of experimental investigation on heat transfer in minichannels. Refrigerant R123 was used as a test fluid. Single vertical silver tubes of 380 mm length and 2.3 mm diameter were examined with two variants of turbulising inserts. A wide range of parameters was considered, namely mass flux G=534-3011 kg/(m2s), heat flux qw=28.5-68.4 kW/m2, saturation temperature Tsat=23-86 stC and the full range of vapour...
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Pool boiling of nanofluids on rough and porous coated tubes: experimental and correlation
PublicationThe paper deals with pool boiling of water-Al2O3 and water- Cu nanofluids on rough and porous coated horizontal tubes. Commercially available stainless steel tubes having 10 mm outside diameter and 0.6 mm wall thickness were used to fabricate the test heater. The tube surface was roughed with emery paper 360 or polished with abrasive compound. Aluminium porous coatings of 0.15 mm thick with porosity of about 40% were produced by...
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Active Dynamic Thermography imaging of wound healing processes in cardio surgery
PublicationThe surgery is a branch of medicine, that is integrally connected to wounds. Despite using sterile tools and compliance with aseptic rolls, some of the surgery wounds become infected. In clinical practice there is a lack of cheap, objective methods and tools for quantitative definition and estimation of the surgery wound healing progress. This paper presents preliminary results of Active Dynamic Thermography (ADT) parametric imaging...
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Developing a cycling subsystem as part of a sustainable mobility strategy: the case of Gdansk
PublicationModal share is an important component in developing sustainable transport within a city. In recent years, many cities have set modal share targets for balanced and sustainable transport modes: 30% of public transport and 30% of non-motorized (cycling and walking) modes. Gdansk strategic documents have set similar goals with some actions already taken towards those goals. The cycle network is increasing popular. Gdansk’s cycling...
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Nitrogen Cycling Dynamics: Investigating Volatilization and its Interplay with N2 Fixation
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Experimental study of heat transfer intensification in surface cooling using microjets
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono badania eksperymentalne intensyfikacji wymiany ciepła podczas chłodzenia powierzchni mikrostrugami. Wyniki badań porównano z własnym modelem teoretycznym zjawiska.
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Metrological analysis of surface quality aspects in minimum quantity cooling lubrication
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The influence of the cooling conditions on the cutting tool wear and the chip formation mechanism
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