Seasonal and Regional Clean Drinking Water Map for Kazakhstan

The scarcity of drinking water is becoming a more urgent problem in the world each day. This problem is even more crucial for Kazakhstan due to its geographic location since the major sources of drinking water today are underground water and lakes, which will be close to their limits in the future, if they remain to be the primary origins of fresh water [1]. However, the progress in technologies of water harvesting enables us today to harvest drinking water from the use of renewable and unintegrated sources of water. The main aim of this work is to determine the most economically viable technologies for obtaining drinking water in Kazakhstan, on a regional and seasonal basis and with minimal environmental impact

Development of a millimeter-scale magnetic carrier to deliver a suspension of magnetic nanoparticles at a target location

The use of magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) or magnetic materials, in general, is an attractive solution for various reasons mainly in the biomedical field—still, targeted delivery of them in situ results in reduced efficiency. This work proposes 3 different capsule designs that can be magnetically dragged to the site of interest with a controllable release. Each model included decoupled localization/locomotion and release magnetic mechanisms. Numerical and analytical analyses were used to critically test the designs with a consequent experimental validation of the optimal model. Results suggest the potential of the model's use in further development

Seasonal and Regional Clean Drinking Water Map for Kazakhstan

The scarcity of drinking water is becoming a more urgent problem in the world each day. This problem is even more crucial for Kazakhstan due to its geographic location since the major sources of drinking water today are underground water and lakes, which will be close to their limits in the future, if they remain to be the primary origins of fresh water [1]. However, the progress in technologies of water harvesting enables us today to harvest drinking water from the use of renewable and unintegrated sources of water. The main aim of this work is to determine the most economically viable technologies for obtaining drinking water in Kazakhstan, on a regional and seasonal basis and with minimal environmental impact

Mechanical - thermal modelling and design of high-performance engineering structures

As the humanity continues and further accelerates the progress of technologies and structures of various fields, the integration of high-performance engineering structures has been an essential part in state-of-the-art engineering spheres. This work proposes the ways to design, examine, model and test such a structure: buckling-resistant pipes and structural members for nuclear reactors made from refractory alloys by means of powder metallurgy. Due to the complexity of the proposed system, the work was divided into corresponding work packages (see Appendices A - D), each presenting a detailed report and procedure with intermediate findings. The first two reports examine how the melting point of refractory metals is affected by the complex stress states; the third one studies a centrifugal sintering process; and the fourth work-package investigates the effect of the geometry on buckling. For each part, one student was assigned