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Draft-Tuhe (DT) Crystallizer This ciystaUizer may be employed in systems in which fines destruction is not needed or wanted. In such cases the baffle is omitted, and the internal circulator is sized to have the minimum nucleating influence on the suspension. 

Satisfactory performance is obtained with tubes having helical ribs on the inside surface, which generate a swirling flow. The resulting centrifugal action forces the water droplets toward the inner tube surface and prevents the formation of a steam film. The internally rifled tube maintains nucleate boiling at much higher steam temperature and pressure and with much lower mass velocities than those needed in smooth tubes. In modern practice, the most important criterion in drum boilers is the prevention of conditions that lead to DNB. 

Modtilus Measurements Another SCC test technique is the use of changes of modulus as a measure of the damping capacity of a metal. It is known that a sample of a given test material containing cracks will have a lower effec tive modulus than does a sample of identical material free of cracks. The technique provides a rapid and reliable evaluation of the susceptibility of a sample material to SCC in a specific environment. The so-called internal friction test concept can also be used to detect and probe nucleation and progress of cracking and the mechanisms controlling it. 

Evidence suggests that there is a threshold tensile stress at which void nucleation occurs and spall fracture initiates. Materials subject to transient internal tensions can support tensile stresses significantly in excess of this threshold level, however. Such behavior is a consequence of kinetics and inertia associated with the nucleation and growth of voids during spall. A fairly large body of experimental and theoretical literature on spall phenomena exists and many aspects of the effect are reasonably well understood. Review articles on spall (Curran et al., 1977 Davision and Graham, 1979 Curran, 1982 Meyer and Aimone, 1983 Novikov, 1981) provide access to most of the literature on the subject. 

On one hand, inherent flaws or perturbations in a fracturing body, which are the sites of internal fracture nucleation, have been recognized as important in determining characteristic fracture spacing and, consequently, the nominal fragment size in a fracture event. Theoretical work based on a physical description of these material imperfections has been actively pursued (Curran et al., 1977 Grady and Kipp, 1980). 

The importance of inherent flaws as sites of weakness for the nucleation of internal fracture seems almost intuitive. There is no need to dwell on theories of the strength of solids to recognize that material tensile strengths are orders of magnitude below theoretical limits. The Griffith theory of fracture in brittle material (Griflfith, 1920) is now a well-accepted part of linear-elastic fracture mechanics, and these concepts are readily extended to other material response laws. 

In other cases, the inherent flaws or perturbations responsible for fracture are less easily recognized. The internal spalling of glass or the cavitation of a rapidly expanding liquid are examples although even here, some form of imperfection such as impurities, dislocations, or thermal fluctuations are expected to play an important role in nucleating the fracture process. 

If a plastic article has been machined then it is likely that crazes will form at the surface. In moulded components, internal nucleation is common due to the presence of localised residual stresses. 

Donnet, M., Jongen, N., Lemaitre, J., Bowen, P. and Hofmann, H., 1999. Better control of nucleation and phase purity using a new segmented flow tubular reactor Model system Precipitation of calcium oxalate. In 14th International Symposium on Industrial Crystallization. Cambridge, U.K., September 12-16, Institution of Chemical Engineers, CD ROM, pp. 1-13. 

X-ray difl raaion (structure grain size preferred orientation stress) Scanning laser microscopy Optical microscopy Oocnl thickness topography nucleation general morphology internal oxidation) l.R. spectroscopy (specialised analysis and applications)... 

Fig. 6. Two reaction models which result in obedience to the power law [eqn. (2), n = 2 ] at low a, or the Avrami—Erofe ev equation [eqn. (6), n = 2 ] over a more extensive range of a. In (a), there is growth of semi-circular nuclei in a thin plate of reactant in (b), there is cylindrical growth of linear internal nuclei. In both examples, rapid nucleation (0 = 0) is followed by two-dimensional growth (X = 2).

Katto Y, Yokoya S, Teraoka K (1966) Experimental study of nucleate boihng in case of making interference-plate approach to the heating surface. In Proceedings of 3rd International Heat Transfer Conference, 1966, vol 3, pp 219-227... 

Shuai J, Kulenovic R, DroU M (2003) Heat transfer and pressure drop for flow boiling of water in narrow vertical rectangular channels. In Proceedings for 1st International Conference on Micro-channels, Rochester, New York, 24-25 April 2003, ICMM 2003-1084 Staniszewski BE (1959) Nucleate boihng bubble growth and departure MIT DSR Project N7-7673, Technical Report N16... 

The histopathological features of muscle samples from patients with myotonic dystrophy are not particularly distinctive. Early changes appear to be a selective atrophy of type 1 fibers, and hypertrophy of type 2 fibers, but the biochemical and/or physiological basis of these possibly related phenomena is not known. The incidence of degenerating fibers increases with age, although the presence of internally nucleated muscle fibers in early stages of the disease suggests that the muscle retains... 

Internal bubble growth occurs because flaws at an elastomer-substrate interface act as nucleation sites where gas which is coming out of solution in the mbber can collect, following a reduction in pressure. If there are flaw sites, based on energy considerations, gas will take the easiest option— which is to collect at an already preexisting bubble and cause it to grow. 

When only a low rate of vaporisation is required a vertical cylindrical vessel with a heating jacket or coils should be considered. The boiling coefficients for internal submerged coils can be estimated using the equations for nucleate pool boiling. 

The addition of carbide stabilizers to steel reduces the tendency toward internal Assuring. Elements such as chromium, molybdenum, tungsten, vanadium, titanium, and niobium reduce the number of nucleation sites by forming more stable alloy carbides which resist breakdown by hydrogen and, therefore, decrease the propensity to form methane.9 The solid-line curves in Figure 1 reflect the increased resistance to internal attack when molybdenum and chromium are present. 

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