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Development of a low-cost, electricity-generating Rankine cycle, alcohol-fuelled cooking stove for rural communities
This article describes a novel design and construction of a helical tube flash boiler that uses a 2kW nominal methylated spirit burner to heat an approximately 2.5m long coil of copper pipe fed by a nominal 8 bar electrically operated solenoid water pump. The final embodiment is for superheated steam to be converted to electricity and the waste exit heat from the generator used either for cooking or for ethanol pro duction for low-income families in developing countries. The performance of the flash boiler has been evaluated experimentally based on the well-known “Direct-Method”; by carefully measuring both the flow of the fuel and the steam. It found that the pressure inside the pipe can reach up to 7.4 bar and the temperature of the steam released by the flashing process can reach 255°C utilising a low-cost water pump. The research results prese nted in this paper demonstrate that flash boiler stove has a great potential for generating high-temperature steam for developing a low-cost cooking stove
A note on leapfrogging vortex rings
In this paper we provide examples, by numerical simulation using the Navier-Stokes equations for axisymmetric laminar flow, of the 'leapfrogging' motion of two, initially identical, vortex rings which share a common axis of symmetry. We show that the number of clear passes that each ring makes through the other increases with Reynolds number, and that as long as the configuration remains stable the two rings ultimately merge to form a single vortex ring
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Suspension Design, Modeling, and Testing of a Thermo-Acoustic-Driven Linear Alternator
The Score-Stove™ generates electricity from a wood-burning cooking stove using a thermo-acoustic engine (TAE) that converts heat to sound through a linear alternator (LA). This paper introduces a prototype hemitoroidal suspension that was refined into a segmented trapezoidal shape that gave a higher cyclic life for the LA and includes a critical evaluation that compares a theoretical analysis with experimental results. The results show an improvement from the 40% efficiency of a standard loudspeaker used in reverse as an LA to 70–80% efficiency with the new suspension and a double Halbach array magnetic topology
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The Influence of Heat Input Ratio on Electrical Power Output of a Dual-Core Travelling-Wave Thermoacoustic Engine
This paper presents an analytical and experimental investigation of an electricity generator that employs a two-stage looped tube travellin -wave thermoacoustic prime-mover to deliver acoustic power from heat energy, a loudspeaker to extract electricity from sound energy and a tuning stub to compensate the changes in the acoustic field within the engine to enable close to travelling wave operation at the loudspeaker. Furthermore, the paper explains how to enhance the output power utilizing different heat input ratios through the engine cores. A well-known thermoacoustic design tool called Delta EC is used to simulate the wave propagation through the different parts of the system. The electrical power predicted from the low-cost prototype was 24.4 W acoustic power which confirms the potential for developing low-cost thermoacoustic electricity generator for heat recov ery from low-grade heat sources. The electrical power can be increased to 31.3 W using different heating power percentages through the two units. The verified experimental data shows good agreement with DeltaEC results
Multilayered printed circuit boards inspected by X-ray laminography
Technique produces high resolution cross-sectional radiographs with close interplane spacing for inspecting multilayer boards to be used in providing circuitry routing and module structural support
A Comparing Method of Two Team Behaviours in the Simulation Coach Competition
Proceeding of: Third International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence, MDAI 2006, Tarragona, Spain, April 3-5, 2006.The main goal of agent modelling is to extract and represent the knowledge about the behaviour of other agents. Nowadays, modelling an agent in multi-agent systems is increasingly becoming more complex and significant. Also, robotic soccer domain is an interesting environment where agent modelling can be used. In this paper, we present an approach to classify and compare the behaviour of a multi-agent system using a coach in the soccer simulation domain of the RoboCup.Publicad
Rubidium spacecraft atomic timing system Final report
Rubidium 87 atomic time and frequency reference system for manned space fligh
Oesophageal pleural fistula presenting with Parvimonas micra infection causing cervical and brain abscesses.
Parvimonas micra (P. micra) infections causing spinal cord compression are extremely rare. We report an occult oesophageal pleural fistula presenting with spinal epidural and brain abscesses resulting in severe neurological deficits caused by P. micra. Molecular detection proved to be instrumental in identifying the causative pathogen. Essential management with decompression, drainage, antibiotics and fistula repair lead to a good outcome
Inclusive Practice: researching the relationships between dyslexia, personality, and art students’ drawing ability.
This paper addresses the conference theme of inclusivity
from two standpoints. Firstly, involving collaboration
between researchers from fields including psychology,
educational study support and studio drawing practice,
which has revealed insights into students’ learning
difficulties in drawing, which are not easily accessible
through mono-disciplinary research practice. Secondly it
involves a proposal outlining a strategy for the teaching
of drawing which attempts to include students of varying
abilities in drawing, and to empower their practice
equally. The paper demonstrates the effectiveness of
an inclusive, cross-disciplinary approach to exploring
the relations between personality factors, perceptual
problems, visual memory and drawing skills in art
students who report difficulties producing accurate drawn
representations of their observational experiences. Results
indicate that whilst in general drawing ability seems not
to relate to dyslexia, higher drawing ability does appear
related to the personality measure of conscientiousness,
and also both to sex (in the biological sense, males
drawing better than females) and to gender (those who
perceive themselves as more masculine drawing better,
whether they are male or female). Poor drawers are less
good at accurately copying angles and proportions, and
their visual memory is less good. These findings inform a
proposed inclusive group teaching strategy for drawing
which attempts to address these weaknesses without hindering the progress of the more able student
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