scholarly journals Solar Coatings Based on Ag Infrared Reflector with High Stability at Medium and High Temperature

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (18) ◽  
pp. 5910
Author(s):  
Salvatore Esposito ◽  
Antonio D’Angelo ◽  
Claudia Diletto ◽  
Antonio Guglielmo ◽  
Michela Lanchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
High Stability ◽  
Operating Temperature ◽  
Deposition Process ◽  
Thermal Conversion ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Unbalanced Magnetron ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Years Of Service ◽  
Deposition Processes

The manufacturing of thermally stable solar coatings with high photo-thermal performance represents a key factor for the further deployment of the CSP technology. Since 2005, ENEA has been developing solar coatings suitable for medium and high temperature applications based on the technology of double nitride cermet, by employing silver and tungsten as infrared reflectors, respectively. Thanks to the high infrared reflectance of silver, the corresponding coatings have better optical performance than those with tungsten; however, the high diffusivity of silver compromises its use at high temperature. In order to improve the structural and chemical stability at medium and high temperature of coatings based on silver, this infrared reflector was placed between compact and uniform layers of metal and cermet manufactured by using high-energy and fast deposition processes. In particular, an Unbalanced Magnetron cathode was adopted to promote an ion-assisted deposition process that improved uniformity and compactness of the metal and cermet films. The new coating shows no photo-thermal parameters degradation after 25 years of service at the operating temperature of 400 °C, while its photo-thermal conversion efficiency decreases by only 1.5% after 25 years of service at an operating temperature of 514 °C.

Generating Innovative Solid Polymer Electrolyte Based on Melanin and Without Binder for High Energy Li Batteries

2021 ◽  
Vol 105 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-34
Author(s):  
Elena Shembel ◽  
Yuliya Polishchuk ◽  
Volodymyr Kyrychenko ◽  
Volodymyr Redko ◽  
Boris A Blyuss ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Polymer Electrolyte ◽  
Chemical Stability ◽  
Solid Polymer Electrolyte ◽  
Operating Temperature ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Solid Polymer ◽  
Special Design ◽  
Li Batteries ◽  
Wide Operating

The goal of this investigation is connected with wishes to use the melanin for formulating the solid polymer electrolyte without the binder for Li batteries. Nature and properties of solid polymer electrolyte of the Li batteries is an important factor for ensuring the properties of Li batteries. For successful optimization the properties of Li batteries the following list includes the important requirements for the polymer electrolyte: high conductivity in wide operating temperature, chemical stability and no ignition at under high temperature - even more than 1000C, low impedance of interface between electrode and solid polymer electrolyte, special design of system - the solid polymer electrolyte in porous structure of electrode. For developing the solid polymer electrolyte without the binder we fulfill this goal includes the melanin in the solid polymer electrolyte.

High-Temperature Polyimide Dielectric Materials for Energy Storage: Theory, Design, Preparation and Properties

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xue-Jie Liu ◽  
Ming-Sheng Zheng ◽  
George Chen ◽  
Zhi-Min Dang ◽  
Jun-Wei Zha
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Energy Storage ◽  
Energy Density ◽  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Operating Temperature ◽  
Dielectric Materials ◽  
High Energy ◽  
High Energy Density ◽  
Temperature Resistance ◽  
Storage Theory

The high operating temperature of dielectric capacitors applied in electric vehicles, aerospace and underground exploration require dielectric materials with high temperature resistance and high energy density. Polyimide (PI) turns out...

scholarly journals PSIII-5 Effects of ingredient composition of oral drenches in small piglets post-farrowing on average daily gain and pre-wean mortality

2020 ◽  
Vol 98 (Supplement_3) ◽  
pp. 238-238
Author(s):  
Olivia Harrison ◽  
Samantha Tauer ◽  
Brent Frederick
Keyword(s):  
Birth Weight ◽  
Average Daily Gain ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Experimental Unit ◽  
Swine Industry ◽  
Bioactive Proteins ◽  
Randomized Design ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Daily Gain

Abstract Number of pigs born alive has been a key factor of the increasing efficiency of the U.S. swine industry. However, with increased pigs in the uterus, birth weight has been negatively impacted, with more small or at-risk pigs being born per litter. In order to overcome these changes, a study testing three commercial oral drenches against a control to determine which would increase average daily gain and decrease preweaning mortality. In a completely randomized design, 877 one-day-old suckling pigs from a high-health farm were selected for the experiment if they appeared to be in the bottom 20% of bodyweight compared to their contemporaries. Selected pigs were given one of four drenching treatments: 1) none (control), 2) bioactive proteins (BP), 3) high energy sugars (HES), and 4) immunoglobulins (IgY). Pigs were weighed on d 1 and d 19 of age (weaning), with mortality tracked during the suckling period. Data were analyzed using SAS v 9.4 (Cary, NC), with pig as the experimental unit and an accepted alpha of 0.05. Treatment had no detected effect on birth weight, weaning weight, ADG, or mortality (P = 0.79, 0.96, 0.86, 0.38 respectively). Likewise, statistical contrasts were used to determine there was no detected impact (P > 0.10) of drench, regardless of type, compared to the control in any measured response criteria. Interesting, pigs drenched with BP or IgY had numerically lower preweaning mortality (11.2 and 11.5% respectively), than those administered the control or HES (15.4 and 15.2%, respectively). In conclusion, this experiment showed no significant difference in the performance between piglets given no product vs. those drenched with bioactive proteins, high energy sugars, or immunoglobulins. However, additional research is warranted with greater replication or disease stressors to better understand if oral drenches may improve preweaning performance or mortality in different situations.

scholarly journals Occurrence of drug target residues within decantation tank sediments: a good clue to assess their historical excretion?

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Thiebault ◽  
Laëtitia Fougère ◽  
Anaëlle Simonneau ◽  
Emilie Destandau ◽  
Claude Le Milbeau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Target ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Deposition Process ◽  
Drug Consumption ◽  
Organic Layers ◽  
Sewer Systems ◽  
Physico Chemical ◽  
Deep Underground ◽  
Deposition Processes

AbstractThis study investigated the potential of sediments accumulated in sewer systems to record human activities through the occurrence of drug target residues (DTR). The installation studied is 17 m deep underground decantation tank that traps the coarse fractions of a unitary sewer system (northern part of Orléans, France), collecting both stormwater and wastewater. The sediments deposited in this tank could constitute a nonesuch opportunity to study the historical evolution of illicit and licit drug consumption in the catchment, however, the deposition processes and the record of DTRs remain largely unknown at present. Five cores were acquired from 2015 to 2017. One hundred fifty-two sediment samples were extracted using a mixture of ultra-pure water:methanol (1:1) prior to analysis of the extracts by high-pressure liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry. Several classical sedimentological analyses such as total organic carbon, facies description and granulometry were also performed on these samples, in order to understand the most important factors (e.g., physico-chemical properties of the DTRs, solid type, assumed load in wastewater) impacting their deposition.The key role of the speciation of DTRs was highlighted by the higher contents in neutral and anionic DTRs in organic layers, whereas only cationic DTRs were found in mineral layers. The considerable modifications in the sediments’ properties, generated by distinct origins (i.e., stormwater or wastewater), are therefore the most important drivers that must be taken into account when back-calculating the historical patterns of drug consumption from their DTR concentrations in decantation tank sediments. Further research remains necessary to fully understand the deposition process, but this study provides new clues explaining these temporal evolutions.

Formation of Luminescing High-Temperature Ceramics upon Exposure to Powerful High-Energy Electron Flux

2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (9) ◽  
pp. 1615-1621
Author(s):  
V. M. Lisitsyn ◽  
L. A. Lisitsyna ◽  
M. G. Golkovskii ◽  
D. A. Musakhanov ◽  
A. V. Ermolaev
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Electron Flux ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Energy Electron ◽  
High Energy Electron

scholarly journals Low-Roughness-Surface Additive Manufacturing of Metal-Wire Feeding with Small Power

Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (15) ◽  
pp. 4265
Author(s):  
Bobo Li ◽  
Bowen Wang ◽  
Greg Zhu ◽  
Lijuan Zhang ◽  
Bingheng Lu
Keyword(s):  
Additive Manufacturing ◽  
High Surface ◽  
Deposition Process ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Width Ratio ◽  
Thin Wall ◽  
Small Power ◽  
High Surface Quality ◽  
Wall Structures ◽  
Wire Feed

Aiming at handling the contradiction between power constraint of on-orbit manufacturing and the high energy input requirement of metal additive manufacturing (AM), this paper presents an AM process based on small-power metal fine wire feed, which produces thin-wall structures of height-to-width ratio up to 40 with core-forming power only about 50 W. In this process, thermal resistance was introduced to optimize the gradient parameters which greatly reduces the step effect of the typical AM process, succeeded in the surface roughness (Ra) less than 5 μm, comparable with that obtained by selective laser melting (SLM). After a 10 min electrolyte-plasma process, the roughness of the fabricated specimen was further reduced to 0.4 μm, without defects such as pores and cracks observed. The ultimate tensile strength of the specimens measured about 500 MPa, the relative density was 99.37, and the Vickers hardness was homogeneous. The results show that the proposed laser-Joule wire feed-direct metal deposition process (LJWF-DMD) is a very attractive solution for metal AM of high surface quality parts, particularly suitable for rapid prototyping for on-orbit AM in space.

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