12 research outputs found
AlteraçÔes na estrutura anatĂŽmica da madeira de cavacos de eucalyptus grandis em trĂȘs condiçÔes de desfibramento para a confecção de painĂ©is MDF
Performance Comparison of HTPB-Based Solid Fuels Containing Nano-Sized Energetic Powder in a Cylindrical Hybrid Rocket Motor
Directional Adhesion of Monodomain Liquid Crystalline Elastomers
Pressure-sensitive
adhesives (PSAs) are widely employed in consumer
goods, health care, and commercial industry. Anisotropic adhesion
of PSAs is often desirable to enable high force capacity coupled with
facile release and has typically been realized through the introduction
of complex surface and/or bulk microstructures while also maintaining
high surface conformability. Although effective, microstructure fabrication
can add cost and complexity to adhesive fabrication. Here, we explore
aligned liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) as directional adhesives.
Aligned LCEs exhibit direction-dependent stiffness, dissipation, and
nonlinear deformation under load. By varying the cross-link content,
we study how the bulk mechanical properties of LCEs correlate to their
peel strength and peel anisotropy. We demonstrate up to a 9-fold difference
in peel force measured when the LCE is peeled parallel vs perpendicular
to the alignment axis. Opportunities to spatially localize adhesion
are presented in a monolithic LCE patterned with different director
orientations
APPLICATIONS OF OXYGEN FOR NO x CONTROL AND CO 2 CAPTURE IN COAL-FIRED POWER PLANTS by
ing com bus tion mod i fi ca tion ap proaches ap pli ca ble to pul ver-ized coal fired boil ers are pre sented: âOx y gen-En riched Com bus tionâ (OEC) for NOx con trol and âOxy-Com bus tion â (PC-OC) for CO2 cap ture. Ox y gen-en riched air rather than air is used as an ox i dizer in the OEC tech-nol ogy. Un like flue gas treat ment tech nol o gies, OEC di rectly im pacts the NOx for ma tion pro cess by sig nif i cantly re duc ing the con ver sion of coal bound ni tro gen to NOx. Pi lot-scale and full-scale tests have shown 20 to 30 % NOx re duc tion from an op ti mized staged-air base line. In ad di tion to the over all cost com pet i tive ness and the re duced cap i tal re quire ments, other sig nif i cant ad van tages of the O2-en riched tech nol ogy vs. ex ist ing low NOx tech nol o gies are pre sented. The PC-OC tech nol ogy is shown as a cost-ef fec tive tech nol ogy for CO2 cap-ture from ex ist ing or new coal-fired power plants. Pure ox y gen di luted in re cy cled flue gases is used as an ox i dizer. The pro cess has been suc cess fully dem on strated and ex ten sively char ac ter ized at pi lot-scale level (1.5 MWt). The tests have shown sub stan tial ben e fits of the PC-OC tech nol ogy, in terms of NOx re duc tion (60-70 % from air-base line), over all plant ef fi ciency, etc. The cost ef fec tive ness of this cap ture tech nol ogy com pared to com pet i tive amine scrub bing tech nol ogy was in ves ti gated. The cost of CO2 avoided was around 48/ton on a ret ro fit PC-OC case, which is about 25 to 40 % cheaper than the amine scrub bing sys tem. Those num bers were cal cu lated for sub-crit i cal units and in clude the cost of CO2 com pres sion up to 80 bar
Directional Adhesion of Monodomain Liquid Crystalline Elastomers
Pressure-sensitive
adhesives (PSAs) are widely employed in consumer
goods, health care, and commercial industry. Anisotropic adhesion
of PSAs is often desirable to enable high force capacity coupled with
facile release and has typically been realized through the introduction
of complex surface and/or bulk microstructures while also maintaining
high surface conformability. Although effective, microstructure fabrication
can add cost and complexity to adhesive fabrication. Here, we explore
aligned liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) as directional adhesives.
Aligned LCEs exhibit direction-dependent stiffness, dissipation, and
nonlinear deformation under load. By varying the cross-link content,
we study how the bulk mechanical properties of LCEs correlate to their
peel strength and peel anisotropy. We demonstrate up to a 9-fold difference
in peel force measured when the LCE is peeled parallel vs perpendicular
to the alignment axis. Opportunities to spatially localize adhesion
are presented in a monolithic LCE patterned with different director
orientations
Directional Adhesion of Monodomain Liquid Crystalline Elastomers
Pressure-sensitive
adhesives (PSAs) are widely employed in consumer
goods, health care, and commercial industry. Anisotropic adhesion
of PSAs is often desirable to enable high force capacity coupled with
facile release and has typically been realized through the introduction
of complex surface and/or bulk microstructures while also maintaining
high surface conformability. Although effective, microstructure fabrication
can add cost and complexity to adhesive fabrication. Here, we explore
aligned liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) as directional adhesives.
Aligned LCEs exhibit direction-dependent stiffness, dissipation, and
nonlinear deformation under load. By varying the cross-link content,
we study how the bulk mechanical properties of LCEs correlate to their
peel strength and peel anisotropy. We demonstrate up to a 9-fold difference
in peel force measured when the LCE is peeled parallel vs perpendicular
to the alignment axis. Opportunities to spatially localize adhesion
are presented in a monolithic LCE patterned with different director
orientations