Composite intensive vehicle

NHTSA. Crash safety assurance strategies for future plastic and composite intensive vehicles. Cambridge National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 2010. 

We expect that the three companies will produce three different realizations of lightweight vehicle design. Two will be aluminum-intensive, that is, involving aluminum structure. However, all three manufacturers will use composites extensively where weight savings can be achieved consistent with reasonable cost potential. 

Sodium sulfadiazine and sulfafurazole diolamine in therapeutic doses (1 mg) added to 5% dextrose and 5% dextrose and saline solution have been found to be compatible, yet when added to commercial polyionic solutions (such as Abbott lonosol B, Baxter electrolyte No.2) both rapidly form heavy precipitates. pH and temperature are two vital parameters, but the pH effect is not simply a solubility-related phenomenon. Polyionic solutions of a lower initial pH (4.4-4.6) cause crystallisation of sulfafurazole at room temperature within 2.5 h, the pH values of the admixtures being 5.65 and 5.75 respectively. Other solutions with slightly higher initial pH levels (6.1-6.6) formed crystals only after preliminary cooling to 20°C at pH values from 4.25 to 4.90. If the temperature remains constant, the intensity of precipitation varies with the composition and initial pH of the solution used as a vehicle. 

Since the premix is a viscous composition, an intensive heavy duty mixer is required. The vehicle and then the pigment are added to the mixer. Sufficient vehicle to wet the entire pigment load must be used, and there must be enough vehicle so that the paste is fluid enough to charge the mill. The pigments must be thoroughly wet and free from lumps. 

On the other hand, there is a great demand for alternative fuel cells operating at moderate temperatures. In this context, intermediate temperature (400-800 °C) fuel cells are very attractive since they combine the advantages of both high- and low-temperature fuel cells such as fast electrode kinetics, fuel flexibility, and fewer degradation problems [7]. Furthermore, the tendency of lower temperatures makes conventional ceramic fuel cells (mainly solid oxide fuel cells SOFCs) a leading candidate for applications such as stationary power plants but also the possibility to replace internal combustion engines in vehicles [8]. Ceramic fuel cells based on ceria-carbonate salt composite electrolytes have been intensively studied for the past decade... 

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