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Water, sustainability and

Performance mock-up for verification of the attachments, gaps, load transmission, functionality of the entire system, water sustainability and durability. [Pg.459]

The warming up of the mat is performed by the so-called steam shock effect [173,219]. A prerequisite for this is the high permeability of the particle or fiber mat. Higher moisture contents of the face layers and spraying of water sustain this effect. [Pg.1090]

The anode effectiveness is only as good as the anode connection and loss of insulation at this point by deep pitting of the HSI or penetration of the anode cable seal will bring about rapid failure. Hydrostatic pressure should be borne in mind when considering the seal required for any depth of water. The useful life of HSI anodes is usually considered at an end after a 33% reduction in diameter, but this depends upon the original diameter, the amount of pitting sustained and the mechanical stresses to be withstood. Thus doubling the cross-sectional area may more than double the effective life of the anode. [Pg.176]

Uses. Minols have historically been used in four types of ordnance, a) underwater (mines, torpedoes and depth charges) where the confinement of water offsets some of the loss of detonation velocity, b) blockbuster bombs in which a sustained and powerful impulse is more destructive than a high peak press, c) concrete fragmentation bombs where the high impulse will impart a satisfactory fragment velocity but will not pulverize the concrete they contact on impact, and d) in general purpose (GP) bombs... [Pg.157]

Many publications use an absolute measure that denotes water security, frequently referring to an index that identifies a threshold of 1,700 CM per capita per year of renewable water, based on estimates of water requirements in the household, agricultural, industrial, and energy sectors as well as the needs of the enviromnent. Countries whose renewable water supplies cannot sustain this figure experience water stress. When supply falls below 1,000 m per capita per year, a country is said to experience water scarcity, and below 500 m per capita per year, absolute scarcity. However, these terms are easy to misinterpret, because they do not take into account possibilities for trade in agricultural products, efficiency of water use in agriculture, and other variables, and thus obscure the primacy of economic demand rather than physical need in determining water use [3-5]. [Pg.163]

Water scarcity is a structural, persistent drought affecting resources and aquatic ecosystems, with implications in water quality and societal needs. Scarcity results in repeated drought episodes. While drought is a temporary (and often normally associated to climatic patterns) decrease in water resources, water scarcity occurs when water demand exceeds the water resources exploitable under sustainable conditions. [Pg.248]

At high temperatures (> 170 K), the water desorbs and so the autocatalytic reaction cannot be sustained and is an explanation for why the H2 + 02 reaction slows, the formation of OH species now being solely dependent on the H(a) + O(a) reaction, which is the slowest step in the above scheme. That the water + oxygen reaction was fast and facile was evident from the spectroscopic studies at both nickel and zinc surfaces, when the oxygen surface coverage was low and involving isolated oxygen adatoms. [Pg.89]

Knowledge Sharing, Consultation, and Research into Sustainable Climate Change Adaptations such as Water Conservation and Safer Structures, e.g., the Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure which studies ... [Pg.60]

The purpose of chemical processes is not to make chemicals the purpose is to make money. However, the profit must be made as part of a sustainable industrial activity. Chemical processes should be designed as part of a sustainable industrial activity that retains the capacity of ecosystems to support both industrial activity and life into the future. Sustainable industrial activity must meet the needs of the present without compromising the needs of future generations. For chemical process design, this means that processes should use raw materials as efficiently as is economic and practicable, both to prevent the production of waste that can be environmentally harmful and to preserve the reserves of raw materials as much as possible. Processes should use as little energy as economic and practicable, both to prevent the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels and to preserve reserves of fossil fuels. Water must also be consumed in sustainable quantities that do not cause deterioration in the quality of the water source and the long-term quantity of the reserves. Aqueous and atmospheric emissions must not be environmentally harmful, and solid waste to landfill must be avoided. [Pg.649]

Flow instabilities are undesirable in boiling, condensing, and other two-phase flow processes for several reasons. Sustained flow oscillations may cause forced mechanical vibration of components or system control problems. Flow oscillations affect the local heat transfer characteristics and may induce boiling crisis (see Sec. 5.4.8). Flow stability becomes of particular importance in water-cooled and watermoderated nuclear reactors and steam generators. It can disturb control systems, or cause mechanical damage. Thus, the designer of such equipment must be able to predict the threshold of flow instability in order to design around it or compensate for it. [Pg.486]


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