One of the renewable sources of energy that has gotten attention and is developing is bio-energy. It is obtained from biomass, which is an organic material that has stored chemical energy.
But, is the harnessing and use of biofuels completely safe? Are there issues that should be of concern?
Posts giving insight into safety issues in the use of biofuels are welcome
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The Nanobiophysics laboratory (Prof. Chaieb) in collaboration with the DNA replication laboratory (Prof. Hamdan) at the division of life science and engineering at KAUST invites
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Hi All,
Most of the time in thermal fluid sciences we hear about some iso processes like isothermal, is-entropic, constant enthalpy etc. Physically
how do we achieve these processes while increasing/decreasing certain factors which effect these processes? Please give few examples?
Description
Stamping simulation, as are all the highly nonlinear mechanical
models, is ravenous in computational resources. Thus, when performing
shape or parameter optimization of a single or /a fortiori/ multiple
criteria related to the stamping process, one has to save as many as
possible computer evaluations of the solution fields, which prohibits a
naive use of classical zero-order algorithms beit deterministic or
probabilistic.
Description
The limited availability of mineral resources has led to the need for High Performance Material (Steel, Aluminium, Alloys,…).
These advanced materials are used to design lighter and stronger
structures, which result in a lower consumption of energy if one thinks
of the correlation between the weight and fuel consumption e.g. in the
automotive and aerospace industry.
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Hello everybody,
I am trying to model corrosion process of steel-reinforcement embedded in concrete with COMSOL 4.2 version.
So, please anybody has any suggestion how to do it..
Well, if there are any other software which can model corrosion in a more simple way, please suggest that also.
Thanks.
Michael, I agree with you.
Technologies are as good as the people who use
them. Regulators and organisational stakeholders have always been good at
reactive measures rather than proactive. Once systems start working, stake
holders take their feet off the pedal and are only re-awakened by the failure
events/accidents. In most of the world’s
accidents, human error (due to lack of knowledge/inexperience, shear
negligence, complacency, ego, etc) has been the primary cause.
In the nearest
future, wind power is likely to be a major contributor towards renewable energy
targets (Scottish Planning Policy). However turbine fire, blade snapping due to
lightening, ice pile-up on blades, noise issues, ecology impact, aviation,
shadows flickering are major showstoppers and setbacks to this renewable energy
option. Making wind safety entails a lot and they include the following
I can model uni-directional Composites in Abaqus/CAE but in bidirectional fibers I have problem with it! I'm not sure what can I do?
