Long-term performance study of united solar PV modules in hot and humid climate of Florida

Author(s):  
Neelkanth G. Dhere ◽  
Ashwani Kaul ◽  
Shirish A. Pethe
2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunsheng Wang ◽  
Lan Duan ◽  
Musai Zhai ◽  
Yuxiao Zhang ◽  
Shichao Wang

To ensure structural sustainability, it is necessary to conduct steel bridge long-term performance study, including bridge design, evaluation, maintenance, and reinforcement technology. The research on steel bridge long-term performance is introduced in four aspects: (1) fatigue performance experimental study for full-scale orthotropic steel bridge decks in laboratory to study its fatigue failure mechanism, in order to improve fatigue design methodology and find rational reinforcement and maintenance method; (2) conducting steel bridge out-of-plane distortion-induced fatigue performance study, and developing cold reinforcement method; (3) performance study for base material and typical joint under long-term vehicle and environmental effect in aging steel bridges, and safety assessment and maintenance of existing steel bridge; (4) temperature gradient monitoring for steel box girder model to build the temperature design mode. Meantime, in-situ tests and monitoring are conducted for steel bridge long-term performance detection, assessment, and maintenance. The study results in this article build the research framework of steel bridge long-term performance preliminarily, which is the basis for steel bridge sustainable design, maintenance, and cold reinforcement methodology system.


2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-78
Author(s):  
Rehana Sultana ◽  
Krishna Sarker ◽  
Sakina Sultana

A single blind study was conducted to prepare and evaluate paracetamol effervescent tablets. Potency, content uniformity, diameter, thickness and crushing strength of the prepared tablets were used as the bench mark parameters for quality assessment. Our results showed that all parameters met official values except for friability. The performance of the tablets in terms of duration of effervescence was investigated under high stresses of humidity as well as at low and high temperatures. The duration of the investigational period lasted for 3 days and results showed an increase in effervescence time in each case. In this study, the normal effervescence time at 111.00±14.22 seconds was changed to 286.13±55.18 seconds, 140.38±21.59 seconds and 158.63±26.14 seconds under high humidity, at refrigeration (representing cool temperature) and at high temperature, respectively. Here, a long term performance study was also conducted under normal storage conditions spanning a period of 60 days. Duration of effervescence on day 1 was 212.54±0.34 seconds, but at the end of 60 days the duration increased to 634.23±0.65 seconds. In the present study the changes in organoleptic properties were also evaluated. Results showed that the properties remained the same over a period of 60 days while the potency of the drug reduced from 99% to 95%. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bpj.v17i1.22320 Bangladesh Pharmaceutical Journal 17(1): 75-78, 2014


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