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The role of the compressor isentropic efficiency on non-intrusive refrigerant side characterization of transcritical CO2 heat pump water heaters
Characterizing the refrigerant side of heat pump water heaters (HPWHs) can be intrusive
and expensive. On the other hand, direct external measurement techniques can be unfeasible,
particularly in commercial HPWHs for residential applications. Non-intrusive in-situ
characterization methods have already been successfully implemented in subcritical heat
pumps, providing the refrigerant mass flowrate and the equipment energy performance, by
using contact temperature sensors and electric power meters. Subcritical suction and discharge
specific enthalpies necessary to apply the method can be obtained from the measured temperatures
and their corresponding saturation pressures. Nevertheless, this approach does not
apply to the transcritical CO2 HPWHs. In the supercritical region, temperature and pressure are
independent variables, and an iterative process regarding the compressor isentropic efficiency
has to be considered. However, when isentropic efficiency data is not available, an additional
procedure is required, using a validated gas cooler model to verify the physical reliability of the
numerical solutions.The present study was developed in the scope of the Smart Green Homes Project [POCI-01-
0247-FEDER- 007678], a co-promotion between Bosch Termotecnologia S.A. and the University
of Aveiro. It is financed by Portugal 2020 under the Competitiveness and Internationalization
OP, and by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). This work was funded by
the grant SFRH/BD/148378/2019 and the projects UIDB/00481/2020 and UIDP/00481/2020
– FCT-Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia; and CENTRO-01- 0145-FEDER-022083 – Centro2020,
under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, through the ERDF
Experimental violation of a spin-1 Bell inequality using maximally-entangled four-photon states
We demonstrate the first experimental violation of a spin-1 Bell inequality.
The spin-1 inequality is a calculation based on the Clauser, Horne, Shimony and
Holt formalism. For entangled spin-1 particles the maximum quantum mechanical
prediction is 2.552 as opposed to a maximum of 2, predicted using local hidden
variables. We obtained an experimental value of 2.27 using the
four-photon state generated by pulsed, type-II, stimulated parametric
down-conversion. This is a violation of the spin-1 Bell inequality by more than
13 standard deviations.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, Revtex4. Problem with figures resolve
Reguladores de crescimento na cultura do algodoeiro.
Existe certo antagonismo entre o crescimento (aumento da matéria seca) e o desenvolvimento (mudança de fase fenológica) do algodoeiro (Beltrão & Azevedo, 1993). Fatores do meio que promovem excessivo crescimento vegetativo, como, por exemplo, adequada disponibilidade de nutrientes e de água e condições climáticas favoráveis, implicam em efeitos negativos sobre a produção final. Em tais condições, o uso de regulador de crescimento torna-se indispensável (Kerby, 1982; Reddy et al., 1992), pois possibilita o controle do crescimento vegetativo, através da manipulação da arquitetura das plantas, sendo, atualmente, uma importante estratégia agronômica para o incremento da produtividade de algodão (Hodges et al., 1991)bitstream/item/24412/1/COT2006121.pdfDocumento on-line
Experimental Polarization State Tomography using Optimal Polarimeters
We report on the experimental implementation of a polarimeter based on a
scheme known to be optimal for obtaining the polarization vector of ensembles
of spin-1/2 quantum systems, and the alignment procedure for this polarimeter
is discussed. We also show how to use this polarimeter to estimate the
polarization state for identically prepared ensembles of single photons and
photon pairs and extend the method to obtain the density matrix for generic
multi-photon states. State reconstruction and performance of the polarimeter is
illustrated by actual measurements on identically prepared ensembles of single
photons and polarization entangled photon pairs
Experimental noise-resistant Bell-inequality violations for polarization-entangled photons
We experimentally demonstrate that violations of Bell's inequalities for
two-photon polarization-entangled states with colored noise are extremely
robust, whereas this is not the case for states with white noise. Controlling
the amount of noise by using the timing compensation scheme introduced by Kim
et al. [Phys. Rev. A 67, 010301(R) (2003)], we have observed violations even
for states with very high noise, in excellent agrement with the predictions of
Cabello et al. [Phys. Rev. A 72, 052112 (2005)].Comment: REVTeX4, 5 pages, 4 figure
A remarkable new butterfly species from western Amazonia (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae)
A distinctive new species of butterfly in the subtribe Euptychiina (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae), which is widespread throughout the upper Amazon in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, is here described. The species is provisionally placed in the genus Magneuptychia Forster, 1964, although this is likely to change as the higher level taxonomy of Euptychiina is resolved and the genus is reviewed in detail.Authorisation has been given for this article to be loaded into the NHM repository (email A. Quevedo, Executive Director of ProAves, 17.1.2017). The attached file is the published version
Measurement of miniband parameters of a doped superlattice by photoluminescence in high magnetic fields
We have studied a 50/50\AA superlattice of GaAs/AlGaAs
composition, modulation-doped with Si, to produce
cm electrons per superlattice period. The modulation-doping was tailored
to avoid the formation of Tamm states, and photoluminescence due to interband
transitions from extended superlattice states was detected. By studying the
effects of a quantizing magnetic field on the superlattice photoluminescence,
the miniband energy width, the reduced effective mass of the electron-hole
pair, and the band gap renormalization could be deduced.Comment: minor typing errors (minus sign in eq. (5)
Espécies vegetais de cobertura do solo para o sistema de semeadura direta do algodoeiro.
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Impedance measurements and simulations on the TCT and TDI LHC collimators
The LHC collimation system is a critical element for
the safe operation of the LHC machine and it is subject
to continuous performance monitoring, hardware upgrade
and optimization. In this work we will address the impact
on impedance of the upgrades performed on the injection
protection target dump (TDI), where the absorber material
has been changed to mitigate the device heating observed
in machine operation, and on selected secondary (TCS) and
tertiary (TCT) collimators, where beam position monitors
(BPM) have been embedded for faster jaw alignment. Con-
cerning the TDI, we will present the RF measurements per-
formed before and after the upgrade, comparing the result
to heating and tune shift beam measurements. For the TCTs,
we will study how the higher order modes (HOM) intro-
duced by the BPM addition have been cured by means of
ferrite placement in the device. The impedance mitigation
campaign has been supported by RF measurements whose
results are in good agreement with GdfidL and CST simula-
tions. The presence of undamped low frequency modes is
proved not to be detrimental to the safe LHC operation
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