Radiation variables

Labed S., Lorenzo E., The impact of solar radiation variability and data discrepancies on the design of PV systems. Renewable Energy 2004 29 1007-1022. 

In the case of an assembly of dipoles coupled to radiation and described by the hamiltonian (1.9), we must diagonalize a matrix of the type (1.24) which may be written with explicitly separated matter variables B, Bf and radiation variables... 

Bigu J, Grenier NK, Dave TP, et al. 1984. Study of radon gas concentration surface radon flux and other radiation variables from uranium mine tailings areas. Uranium 1 257-277. 

P.J. Neale, J.J. Cullen, R.F. Davis (1998). Inhibition of marine photosynthesis by ultraviolet radiation Variable sensitivity of phytoplankton in the Weddell-Scotia Sea during the austral spring. Limnol. Oceanogr., 43,433-448. 

Seat covers are required to be resistant to a number of aspects—abrasion, light and UV radiation, variable temperatures, and humidity—and also to be able to withstand frequent usage while remaining... 

In petrochemical plants, fans are most commonly used ia air-cooled heat exchangers that can be described as overgrown automobile radiators (see HeaT-EXCHANGEtechnology). Process fluid ia the finned tubes is cooled usually by two fans, either forced draft (fans below the bundle) or iaduced draft (fans above the bundles). Normally, one fan is a fixed pitch and one is variable pitch to control the process outlet temperature within a closely controlled set poiat. A temperature iadicating controller (TIC) measures the outlet fluid temperature and controls the variable pitch fan to maintain the set poiat temperature to within a few degrees. 

Thickness. The traditional definition of thermal conductivity as an intrinsic property of a material where conduction is the only mode of heat transmission is not appHcable to low density materials. Although radiation between parallel surfaces is independent of distance, the measurement of X where radiation is significant requires the introduction of an additional variable, thickness. The thickness effect is observed in materials of low density at ambient temperatures and in materials of higher density at elevated temperatures. It depends on the radiation permeance of the materials, which in turn is influenced by the absorption coefficient and the density. For a cellular plastic material having a density on the order of 10 kg/m, the difference between a 25 and 100 mm thick specimen ranges from 12—15%. This reduces to less than 4% for a density of 48 kg/m. References 23—27 discuss the issue of thickness in more detail. 

The mechanical seal on the radiator water pump of your car has to work under severe conditions. This seal must resist the pressures and temperatures, corresponding to the velocities of the motor, and the variable operating times. This seal is not a precision seal (it has stamped parts rather than machined components) and the pump is a portable pump. The pump doesn t use a direct coupling but a v-belt pulley with radial loading. The seal must resist many vibrations commencing with the v-belt slapping and whipping. 

The discrete line sources described above for XPS are perfectly adequate for most applications, but some types of analysis require that the source be tunable (i.e. that the exciting energy be variable). The reason is to enable the photoionization cross-section of the core levels of a particular element or group of elements to be varied, which is particularly useful when dealing with multielement semiconductors. Tunable radiation can be obtained from a synchrotron. 

The temperature dependence of the thermal conductivity of CBCF has been examined by several workers [10,13,14]. Typically, models for the thermal conductivity behavior include a density term and two temperaUrre (7) terms, i.e., a T term representing conduction within the fibers, and a term to account for the radiation contribution due to conduction. The thermal conductivity of CBCF (measured perpendicular to the fibers) over the temperature range 600 to 2200 K for four samples is shown in Fig. 6 [14]. The specimen to specimen variability in the insulation, and typical experimental scatter observed in the thermal conductivity data is evident in Fig. 6. The thermal conductivity of CBCF increases with temperature due to the contribution from radiation and thermally induced improvements in fiber structure and conductivity above 1873 K. 

Systems analyses are like formulas, they have little usefulness until the variables are assigned probabilistic numbers from nuclear or chemical data bases. These data concern the probability of failing vessels, pipes, valves, instruments and controls. The primary difference between chemical and nuclear data is that the former may operate in a more chemically active environment, while the later operate in radiation. This chapter addresses both, but most of the data were gathered for nuclear systems. It covers 1) failure rate databases, 2) incident databases, 3) how to prepare failure rates from incidents, and 4) human factors for nuclear and chemical analyses. 

A role is also played by the temperature and frequency dependence of the photocurrent, the variable surface sensitivity at various parts of the cathode and the vector effect of polarized radiation [40]. All the detectors discussed below are electronic components whose electrical properties vary on irradiation. The effects depend on external (photocells, photomultipliers) or internal photo effects (photoelements, photodiodes). 

The amount of solar radiation that reaches any point on the ground is extremely variable. As it passes through the atmosphere, 25 to 50 percent of the incident energy is lost due to reflection, scattering nr absorption. Even on a cloud-free day about 30 percent is lost, and only 70 percent of 1,367 W/nf, or 960 W/m, is available at the earth s surface. One must also take into account the earth s rotation and the resultant day-night (diurnal) cycle. If the sun shines 50 percent of the time (twelve hours per day, every day) on a one square meter surface, that surface receives no more than (960 W/m ) X (12 hours/day) X (365 days/year) =... 

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