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Figure 12-25 provides a rapid method of determining the pond-area requirements for a given coohng duty. Di and Do are the approaches to equilibrium for the entering and leaving water, °F V Js trie wind velocity, mFh product PQ represents the area of the pond surface, ft /(gal-min) of flowto thepond. The P factor assumes a pond with uniform flow, without turbulence, and with the water warmer than the air. 

As regards marine ivory, for whatever reason, there is concrete evidence that the Arctic ice cap is getting smaller and the surrounding waters warmer. This is having a detrimental effect on the local ecology... 

Properties Grayish-white, fibrous powder aqueous suspensions neutral to litmus. Swells in water to a viscous colloidal solution. Insoluble in alcohol, ether, chloroform, and in water warmer than 50.5C soluble in glacial acetic acid unaffected by oils and greases stable up to approximately 300C stable to light. Combustible. 

Another example is dissolved oxygen (DO). The amount of DO water can hold at saturation is affected by both temperature and salinity. The warmer and/or saline the water, the lower the saturation DO level. Oxygen saturation is also affected by atmospheric pressure. The saturation oxygen level decreases as elevation increases. 

Temperatures of hydrothermal reservoirs vary widely, from aquifers that are only slightly warmer than the ambient surface temperature to those that are 300°C and hotter. The lower temperature resources are much more common. The value of a resource for thermal appHcations increases directiy with its temperature, and in regions having hotter water more extensive use of geothermal resources has been implemented. Resources in remote areas often go unused unless hot enough to be employed in generating electricity. 

The oceans are subdivided into surface (100—1000-m) ocean and deep ocean. The zone separating the warmer, surface water from the lower, cooler layer (oceanic thermocline) is characterized by a density gradient that prevents mixing. 

Because water of depths below about 2 m does not absorb much solar radiation direcdy, the radiation is absorbed and converted to heat primarily in the basin floor, which thus should have high radiative absorptance in the solar radiation spectmm. It is also noteworthy that if the stUl is designed to have low heat losses to the ambient, and if the ambient temperature drops, distillation will continue for some time even in the absence of solar energy input, because the saline water may remain warmer than the condensing glass surface and thus continue evaporating. 

Because the system likely is nonisothermal, the analysis of a closed-desiccant system requites knowledge of the temperature of the desiccant as well as the dew point (ice point) or water concentration (partial pressure) specification. Indeed, the whole system may undergo periodic temperature transients that may compHcate the analysis. Eor example, in dual-pane windows the desiccant temperature is approximately the average of the indoor and outdoor temperatures after a night of cooling. However, after a day in the sun, the desiccant temperature becomes much warmer than the outdoor temperature. When the sun sets, the outdoor pane cools quickly while the desiccant is still quite warm. The appropriate desiccant for such an appHcation must have sufficient water capacity and produce satisfactory dew points at the highest temperatures experienced by the desiccant. 

Nickel plating solutions may contain excess iron and unknown organic contaminants. Iron is removed by peroxide oxidation, precipitation at a pH of about 5, then filtered out. The more complex, less water-soluble organic contaminants along with some trace metals are removed with activated carbon treatments in separate treatment tanks. About 5 g/L of plating-grade activated carbon is mixed in the plating solution for at least 1—2 hours, usually at warmer temperatures. 

A number of current coupled ocean-atmosphere climate models predict that the overturning of the North Atlantic may decrease somewhat under a future warmer climate.While this is not a feature that coupled models deal with well, its direct impact on the ocean s sequestration of carbon would be to cause a significant decline in the carbon that is stored in the deep water. This is a positive feedback, as oceanic carbon uptake would decline. Flowever, the expansion of area populated by the productive cool water plankton, and the associated decline... 

Aeration of the hypolimnion (lower, colder layer of water in a stratified lake) without disruption of stratification has been used in deep lakes. This has the advantage of not increasing the temperature of the hypolimnion and prevents the advection of nutrient-rich water into the epilimnion (upper, warmer layer of water in a stratified lake). Oxygen injection is preferred in order to prevent the build up of nitrogen super-saturation which is toxic to fish. "... 

In incompressible fluids, such as water, the vertical structure of temperature very simply reveals the stability of the fluid. When the lower layer is warmer and thus less dense than the upper layer, the fluid is unstable and convective currents will cause it to overturn. When the lower layer is cooler than the upper layer, the fluid is stable and vertical exchange is minimal. However, because air is compressible, the determination of stability is somewhat more complicated. The temperature and density of the atmosphere normally decrease with elevation density is also affected by moisture in the air. 

Just as heating in the daytime occurs more quickly over land than over water, at night radiational cooling occurs more quickly over land. The pressure pattern tends to be the reverse of that in the daytime. The warmer air tends to rise over the water, which is replaced by the land breeze from land to water, with the reverse flow (water to land) completing the circular flow at altitudes somewhat aloft. Frequently at night, the temperature differences between between land and water are smaller than those during the daytime, and therefore the land breeze has a lower speed. 

Figure 1. A wide range of pressures can be achieved by using various combinations of ejectors and condensers. The same steam consumption is used for each design here. Note Curves are based on 85°F condensing water. If warmer water is used, curves shift to the left—cooler water, shift right.

Every thermal model has as its ground, the ambient air temperature, unless the heat removing medium is water or a refrigerant, in whieh ease the ambient temperature of that medium is used. This must be the ease, sinee the power pro-dueing deviee ean be no eooler than the eoolest media around it and sinee heat flows from the warmer to the eooler body. 

Chiller A heat exchanger in which heat is removed from the warmer water or air. 

The transfer of heat within a fluid as the result of mixing of the warmer and cooler portions of the fluid is convection. For example, air in contact with the hot plates of a radiator in a room rises and cold air is drawn off the floor of the room. The room is heated by convection. It is the mixing of the warmer and cooler portions of the fluid that conducts the heat from the radiator on one side of a room to the other side. Another example is a bucket of water placed over a flame. The water at the bottom of the bucket becomes heated and less dense than before due to thermal expansion. It rises through the colder upper portion of the bucket transferring its heat by mixing as it rises. 

A hot-water heating system forces water into pipes, or arrangements of pipes called registers that warm from contact with warm water. Air in the room warms from contact with the pipes. Usually, the pipes are on the floor of a room so that warmer, less dense air around the pipes rises somewhat like a helium-filled balloon rises in air. The warmer air cools as it mixes with cooler air near the ceiling and falls as its density increases. This process is called convection and the moving air is referred to as convection current. The process of convection described here is pipe-to-air and usually does a better job of heating evenly than in an air-to-air convection system—the circulation of air by fans as in a forced-air heating system. 

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