Thermal switching

In the case of LNT, different proposals have been advanced to explain the mechanisms governing the NO, release. Recent papers suggested that the NO release is provoked by the heat generated upon the reducing switch (thermal release) [40], by the decrease of the gas-phase oxygen concentration that destabilizes the stored nitrates [41], by spillover and reduction of N02 onto reduced Pt sites or by the establishment of a net reducing environment, which decreases the equilibrium stability of nitrates [12,42,43],... 

Cooling tower blowdown can be reduced by improving the energy efficiency of processes, thus reducing the thermal load on cooling towers. Alternatively, cooling water systems can be switched to air coolers, which eliminates the problem altogether. 

A final study that must be mentioned is a study by Haitmann et al. [249] on the ultrafast spechoscopy of the Na3p2 cluster. They derived an expression for the calculation of a pump-probe signal using a Wigner-type density mahix approach, which requires a time-dependent ensemble to be calculated after the initial excitation. This ensemble was obtained using fewest switches surface hopping, with trajectories inibally sampled from the thermalized vibronic Wigner function vertically excited onto the upper surface. 

From the colorless state it can be switched with light of short wavelength (A = 380 nm) via an electrocycHc ring opening and cis/trans rotation of one half of the molecule into a state with violet/purple color. The reverse reaction is effected by visible light (A = 580 nm). Since the system is metastable, one of the two reaction directions is matched by a rival thermal reaction, the thermoreversion. This progresses, however, in the case of benzospiropyran, at room temperature by a factor of 10 slower than the light-induced reaction. 

Thermal Dispersion. Thermal dispersion level switches are used on appHcations where multiple shifts inhquid characteristics are present. The unit is responsive only to a change in the thermal conductivity of the Hquid and ignores shifts in specific gravity, dielectric, density, temperature, and pressure. Units are used for alarm signal however, pump control maybe obtained using two units with a latching relay. 

Thermal capacity to perform the required switching duties and sustain the fault conditions, at least up to the cut-off time of the short-circuit protective device, say, the HRC fuses. 

In fact, the same contactor or switch can perform different duties at different thermal ratings and have corresponding electrical lives. 

For a switching device having no protection (e.g. an Isolator). The required test cuirenl may be applied for the necessary duration (I or 3 seconds) and the dynamic and thermal strengths should be verified. 

The purpose of the deceleration mode is to decelerate the unloaded system inertia to near zero rpm in a specified time period. As the e-stop relay switches to the deceleration mode, the brake coil is excited from the battery source at a lower, constant value voltage, which will produce sufficient torque to achieve the rated brake continuous thermal load. The system will then decelerate under a constant torque load. 

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