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Stephen Tangwe, Michael Simon, Edson L. Meyer, Sampson Mwampheli, Golden makaka
In South Africa, there is an ongoing constraint on the electricity supply at the national grid to meet the demand. Eskom is implementing various measures such as the Integrated Demand Management and the promotion and encouragement of the use of energy ef...
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Tingbo Zhou, Zhengke Zhang, Yongqiang Tian, Zhongxiang Xi, Xiaomu Dou, Weidong Liu, Guobiao Zhang and Chao Gao
Aimed at addressing the difficult problems existing in extremely low speed calibration facilities for hot-wire anemometers, where calibration accuracy is often insufficient and vulnerable to the contamination from temperature and humidity discrepancies b...
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Abdullahi A. Ibrahim, Muhammad Khan, Chukwuma Nnaji and Amanda S. Koh
Heat-related illness is a growing concern for workers in temperate climates as rising temperatures and heatwaves put them at risk of exertional heat stroke. Monitoring biometrics that predict heat stroke, such as core temperature, is increasingly importa...
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Wanwan Wang and Mengmeng Zhao
Personal cooling garments were reported effective in improving thermal comfort in hot environments. In this study, three liquid?air hybrid cooling garments and one control garment were designed and made: aluminum-tube fan cooling (AAL), silicone-tube fan...
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Edoardo Bocci, Emiliano Prosperi and Maurizio Bocci
Hot recycling of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) into new hot-mix asphalt (HMA) is a complex process that must be precisely calibrated in the asphalt plants. In particular, temperature is a key parameter that, if inadequately set, can affect the final m...
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Victor V. Kuzenov, Sergei V. Ryzhkov and Aleksey Yu. Varaksin
A mathematical model is formulated, and a numerical study of magneto-plasma compressor (MPC) discharges in gases for a wide range of changes in the main electrical parameters and the characteristics of the surrounding gas environment is carried out. The ...
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Huanchun Huang, Shuying Zhang, Shangao Xiong and Chunxiang Shi
The emotional health of urban residents has been seriously threatened by frequent and normalized heat waves. This study constructed the VI-level assessment standard for emotional health risk using data from satellite images, meteorological sites, questio...
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Edward Rokicki, Radoslaw Przysowa, Jerzy Kotkowski and Pawel Majewski
Magnetic sensors are widely used in aeroengines and their health management systems, but they are rarely installed in the engine hot section due to the loss of magnetic properties by permanent magnets with increasing temperature. The paper presents and v...
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Pawel Flaszynski, Michal Piotrowicz and Tommaso Bacci
Investigations of combustors and turbines separately have been carried out for years by research institutes and aircraft engine companies, but there are still many questions about the interaction effect. In this paper, a prediction of a turbine stator?s ...
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Hidemi Takahashi, Mitsuru Kurita, Hidetoshi Iijima and Seigo Koga
This study proposes a unique approach to convert a voltage signal obtained from a hot-wire anemometry to flow velocity data by making a slight modification to existing temperature-correction methods. The approach was a simplified calibration method for t...
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Gyujin Park and Changhee Lee
A numerical study is conducted on the thermal performance of a large-area hot plate specifically designed as a heating and cooling tool for thermal nanoimprint lithography processes. The hot plate has the dimensions 240 mm × 240 mm × 20 mm, in which a se...
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Marek Pólrolniczak, Arkadiusz M. Tomczyk and Leszek Kolendowicz
The aim of the study was to characterise the occurrence of hot days and heat waves in Poznan in the 1966?2015 period, as well as to describe the thermal conditions in the city during selected heat waves between 2008 and 2015. The basis of the study was t...
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Thaleia Mavrakou, Anastasios Polydoros, Constantinos Cartalis and Mat Santamouris
Mitigation plans to counteract overheating in urban areas need to be based on a thorough knowledge of the state of the thermal environment, most importantly on the presence of areas which consistently demonstrate higher or lower urban land surface temper...
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Thaleia Mavrakou, Anastasios Polydoros, Constantinos Cartalis and Mat Santamouris
Mitigation plans to counteract overheating in urban areas need to be based on a thorough knowledge of the state of the thermal environment, most importantly on the presence of areas which consistently demonstrate higher or lower urban land surface temper...
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Jungeun Kim, Kyoung Jun Song, Ki Jeong Hong and Young Sun Ro
Climate change can have serious impacts on human health, resulting in increased healthcare utilization. Many studies on the relationship between mortality and temperature exist, but few studies focus on heat related outbreaks. Our objective was to verify...
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Jungeun Kim, Kyoung Jun Song, Ki Jeong Hong and Young Sun Ro
Climate change can have serious impacts on human health, resulting in increased healthcare utilization. Many studies on the relationship between mortality and temperature exist, but few studies focus on heat related outbreaks. Our objective was to verify...
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Muhammad Ali Abro and Dong Bok Lee
The 9Cr-1Mo steel (ASTM P91) was hot-dip aluminized, and its microstructural changes during oxidation were studied. Before oxidation, the coating consisted of (Al-rich topcoat containing a small amount of Al5Fe2 and Al13Fe4)/(Al13Fe4-rich, Al13Fe4-contai...
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Nataly Ce and Shiladitya Paul
This paper reports the effect of boiling synthetic seawater on the performance of damaged Thermally Sprayed Aluminum (TSA) on carbon steel. Small defects (4% of the sample?s geometric surface area) were drilled, exposing the steel, and the performance of...
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Yassine Charabi,Sultan Al-Yahyai
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This paper evaluates the use of ensemble numerical weather prediction (NWP) models for dynamical downscaling of temperature over a complex, hot region. This approach delivers information about the uncertainty of the NWP models and provides probabilistic ...
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