Surrounding medium

Measuring the gross heating value (mass) is done in the laboratory using the ASTM D 240 procedure by combustion of the fuel sample under an oxygen atmosphere, in a bomb calorimeter surrounded by water. The thermal effects are calculated from the rise in temperature of the surrounding medium and the thermal characteristics of the apparatus. 

This treatment may be extended to spheres core-shell structure. If the core density is p 0 to fp the shell density is p2 in the range o density of the surrounding medium is Pq, th of the structure factor becomes... 

In the reaction field method, the space surrounding a dipolar molecule is divided into two regions (i) a cavity, within which electrostatic interactions are sunnned explicitly, and (ii) a surrounding medium, which is assumed to act like a smooth continuum, and is assigned a dielectric constant e. Ideally, this quantity will be... 

A fourth correction term may also be required, depending upon the medium that surrounds the sphere of simulation boxes. If the surrounding medium has an infinite relative permittivity (e.g. if it is a conductor) then no correction term is required. However, if the surrounding medium is a vacuum (with a relative permittivity of 1) then the following energy must be added ... 

The signal is reflected from the product surface because there is an abmpt impedance change in the sensor at the air—product interface. Because the electromagnetic field extends outside the two sensor conductors, the sensor impedance depends on the dielectric constant of the surrounding medium. In... 

Stressing by the Surrounding Medium. Size reduction is effected by shearing forces or pressure waves (Fig. 3f). The amount of energy that can be transferred is very limited and this method is used mainly to break agglomerates. 

By shear ac tion of the surrounding medium (Fig. 20-20/ colloid mill)... 

Heuristic Fxplanation As we can see from Fig. 22-31, the DEP response of real (as opposed to perfect insulator) particles with frequency can be rather complicated. We use a simple illustration to account for such a response. The force is proportional to the difference between the dielectric permittivities of the particle and the surrounding medium. Since a part of the polarization in real systems is thermally activated, there is a delayed response which shows as a phase lag between D, the dielectric displacement, and E, the electric-field intensity. To take this into account we may replace the simple (absolute) dielectric constant by the complex (absolute) dielectric... 

Aquatic organisms, such as fish and invertebrates, can excrete compounds via passive diffusion across membranes into the surrounding medium and so have a much reduced need for specialised pathways for steroid excretion. It may be that this lack of selective pressure, together with prey-predator co-evolution, has resulted in restricted biotransformation ability within these animals and their associated predators. The resultant limitations in metabolic and excretory competence makes it more likely that they will bioacciimiilate EDs, and hence they may be at greater risk of adverse effects following exposure to such chemicals. 

Free circulation of the coolant from the machine to the surrounding medium 0 Free convection No external power source is essential. Fleat dissipation is achieved through natural convection like a surface cooled motor... 

Inlet pipe-circulation The coolant flows to the machine through inlet pipes from a source other than the surrounding medium and then freely discharges to the surrounding medium (as in the use of separately driven blowers) 1 Self-circulation Movement of the coolant is normally through a fan mounted on the rotor shaft, like a normal fan cooled motor (Figures I.l8(a)-(d) and 1.19(a) and (b)... 

T Outlet pipe circulation The coolant is drawn from the surrounding medium but is discharged remotely through the pipes 2 ... 

Inlet and outlet pipe circulation The coolant Hows from a source other than the surrounding medium through the inlet pipes and is discharged remotely through the outlet pipes 3 ... 

Frame surface cooled (using the surrounding medium) The primary coolant is circulated in a closed circuit and dissipates heat to the secondary ccxilant. which is the surrounding medium in contact with the outside surface of the machine. The surface may be smooth or ribbed, to improve on heat transfer efficiency (as, in a TEFC or tube venulated motor (Figures 1.19 and 1.20) 4 ... 

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