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Selected AbstractsSpatially distributed observations in constraining inundation modelling uncertaintiesHYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES, Issue 16 2005Micha Werner Abstract The performance of two modelling approaches for predicting floodplain inundation is tested using observed flood extent and 26 distributed floodplain level observations for the 1997 flood event in the town of Usti nad Orlici in the Czech Republic. Although the one-dimensional hydrodynamic model and the integrated one- and two-dimensional model are shown to perform comparably against the flood extent data, the latter shows better performance against the distributed level observations. Comparable performance in predicting the extent of inundation is found to be primarily as a result of the urban reach considered, with flood extent constrained by road and railway embankments. Uncertainty in the elevation model used in both approaches is shown to have little effect on the reliability in predicting flood extent, with a greater impact on the ability in predicting the distributed level observations. These results show that reliability of flood inundation modelling in urban reaches, where flood risk assessment is of more interest than in more rural reaches, can be improved greatly if distributed observations of levels in the floodplain are used in constraining model uncertainties. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] High-Mobility C60 Field-Effect Transistors Fabricated on Molecular- Wetting Controlled Substrates,ADVANCED MATERIALS, Issue 13 2006K. Itaka An atomically flat pentacene monomolecular layer remarkably improved the crystallinity of C60 films, thus enhancing the field-effect mobilities in C60 transistors (FETs) (see figure). They showed a four to five times better performance over devices with C60 films grown without a pentacene buffer. Molecular-wetting-controlled substrates can thus offer a general solution to the fabrication of high-performance crystalline organic devices. [source] Efficiencies of NaOH production methods in a Kraft pulp millINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENERGY RESEARCH, Issue 15 2009Tobias Richards Abstract There are several processes in a Kraft pulp mill where there is a need for sodium hydroxide, e.g. in the digester and the bleaching plant. The objective of this study is to perform a preliminary evaluation, intended to select the best alternative for producing sodium hydroxide on a Kraft pulp mill site. The first step of the evaluation consists of screening available processes for producing sodium hydroxide needed in the mill. The first step of the evaluation shows that the two best options for increasing the production of sodium hydroxide for internal use in a mill are the conventional lime cycle process or direct causticization with titanates. The second step of the evaluation compares the lime cycle and the titanate process using first and second law analyses to determine the energy requirement and the exergy efficiencies of both processes. Such analyses show a higher energy requirement and a lower exergy efficiency in the titanate process than in the lime cycle process without any heat integration. However, the titanate process shows better performance in terms of energy requirement and exergy efficiency than the lime cycle, if heat is integrated into both processes. The titanate process requires, in the best case, only 80% of the energy required for a fully heat-integrated lime cycle process. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Performance of wide-pore monolithic silica column in protein separationJOURNAL OF SEPARATION SCIENCE, JSS, Issue 15-16 2009Hironobu Morisaka Abstract A monolithic wide-pore silica column was newly prepared for protein separation. The wide distribution of the pore sizes of monolithic columns was evaluated by mercury porosimetry. This column, as well as the conventional monolithic column, shows high permeability in the chromatographic separation of low-molecular-sized substances. In higher-molecular-sized protein separation, the wide-pore monolithic silica column shows better performance than that of the conventional monolithic column. Under optimized conditions, five different proteins , ribonuclease A, albumin, aldolase, catalase, and ferritin , were baseline-separated within 3 min, which is faster than that using the particle-packed columns. In addition, the monolithic wide-pore silica column could also be prepared in fused silica capillary (600 mm long, 0.2 mm i.d.) for highly efficient protein separation. The peak capacity of the wide-pore monolithic silica capillary column is estimated to be approximately 300 in the case of protein separation, which is a characteristic performance. [source] | ||||||||||