Brush inserts

Mesh or spiral brush inserts were used by Megerlin et al. [182] to enhance turbulent heat transfer in short channels subjected to high heat flux. The largest recorded improvements in turbulent heat transfer coefficients were obtained—up to 8.5 times however, the pressure drop was up to 2800 times larger. In general, it appears that these displaced enhancement devices are useful in very few practical turbulent situations, for reasons of pressure drop, plugging or fouling, and structural considerations. 

Megerlin et al. [182] reported subcooled boiling data for tubes with mesh and brush inserts. Critical heat fluxes were increased by about 100 percent however, wall temperatures were very high on account of the onset of partial film boiling. 

F. E. Megerlin, R. W. Murphy, and A. E. Bergles, Augmentation of Heat Transfer in Tubes by Means of Mesh and Brush Inserts, /. Heat Transfer (96) 145-151,1974. 

Mechanical intrusion is the penetration of the matter to be dated by carbon of a different age from that of the sample itself if not taken into account, mechanical intrusion, too, leads to erroneous ages. The penetration of rootlets from growing plants into buried specimens, the infiltration of windblown organic matter, and the accidental insertion of fibers from brushes or other instruments used to clean a sample are examples of likely modern carbon intrusions into prospective samples, which lead to assigning to a sample later dates than the true ones old carbon intrusions, such as those caused by the penetration of carbonate minerals from groundwater, or of petrol or oil from excavating tools, on the other hand, are conducive to assigning earlier dates than the true ones. 

Figure 4.26 Schematic cross-section (left) of a multilayer coating used in the longterm protection of a mosaic. The mosaic was originally gilded therefore, a tiny gold foil is inserted into each tessera. Professor E. Bescher (right) brushing the mosaic with the sol-gel paint. (Photo courtesy of UCLA Daily Bruin). (Reproduced from ref. 23, with permission.)...

Cell monolayers grown on permeable culture inserts form confluent mono-layers with barrier properties and can be used for drug absorption experiments. The most well-known cell line for the in vitro determination of intestinal drug permeability is the human colon adenocarcinoma Caco-2 [20, 21], The utility of the Caco-2 cell line is due to its spontaneous differentiation to enterocytes under conventional cell culture conditions upon reaching confluency on a porous membrane to resemble the intestinal epithelium. This cell model displays small intestinal carriers, brush borders, villous cell model, tight junctions, and high resistance [22], Caco-2 cells express active transport systems, brush border enzymes, and phase I and II enzymes [22-24], Permeability models... 

Given the importance of particle size to rate capabilities in Li+ batteries, preparation of nanostructures of Li+ insertion material for possible use as electrodes in Li+ batteries seemed like an obvious extension of our work on nanomaterials. The fact that these nanostructures can be prepared as high-density ensembles that protrude from a surface like the bristles of a brush (Fig, 2A) seemed particularly useful for this proposed application because the substrate surface could then act as a current collector for the nanostructured battery electrode material. 

Fig. 23 a, b. a An amplitude micrograph of PMMA brushes adsorbed on mica from a dilute solution in chloroform measured by tapping mode SFM. b Three-dimensional SFM micrograph of single brush-molecules indicated by the arrow in (a). The axial modulations have been explained by phase segregation of the side chains into nodules (insert) [82]... 

Changing the pump fluid The interior section will be extracted from the pump and the contaminated pump fluid poured out. The interior section and the pump body are then cleaned with pure petroleum ether (naphtha). The interior section and pump body of mercury pumps should have been cleaned beforehand with a clean brush use a bottle brush for the nozzle bores. Ensure that all the nozzle orifices are properly cleaned. It is advantageous to evaporate all solvent residues in a drying kiln. Then the inside section is inserted once again and the fresh pump fluid is installed through the forevacuum port. It is necessary to ensure that the upper nozzle cover is not moistened with pump fluid Do not install too much pump fluid ... 

Polymer silicate nanocomposites offer unique possibilities as model systems to study confined polymers or polymer brushes. The main advantages of these systems are (a) the structure and dynamics of nanoconfined polymer chains can be conveniently probed by conventional analytical techniques (such as scattering, DSC, NMR, dielectric spectroscopy, melt rheology) (b) a wide range of different polymers can be inserted in the interlayer or end-grafted to the silicate... 

Early studies showed a correlation between the biological toxicities of Cry proteins and their abilities to bind to midgut brush border membrane vesicles (BBMV) of susceptible larvae [69-71]. Toxin binding to membrane is a two-stage process involving reversible and irreversible steps, with irreversible binding generally associated with membrane insertion [69,70,72,73]. 

Another well-defined synthetic membrane is a planar bilayer membrane. This structure can be formed across a 1-mm hole in a partition between two aqueous compartments by dipping a fine paintbmsh into a membrane-forming solution, such as phosphatidyl choline in decane. The tip of the brush is then stroked across a hole (1 mm in diameter) in a partition between two aqueous media. The lipid film across the hole thins spontaneously into a lipid bilayer. The electrical conduction properties of this macroscopic bilayer membrane are readily studied by inserting electrodes into each aqueous compartment (Figure 12.14). For example, its permeability to ions is determined by measuring the current across the membrane as a function of the applied voltage. 

The generalization of such problems by introducing easily peneuable layers within the tube or duct, i.e. layers with disUibuted force (1.7), is oriented to a number of applications and brings also a light to main mechanisms associated with such flows. The applications include the water purification by porous inserts into pipelines, flows in vibrators, in journals and bearings with fibrous insets or brushes, in heat exchangers,... 

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