The research work in this dissertation focuses on turbulent air jet heat transfer for commercial cooking applications. As a part of this study, convective heat transfer coefficient and its interdependency with various key parameters is analyzed for single nozzle turbulent jet impingement. Air is used as the working fluid impinging on the flat surface. A thorough investigation of velocity and temperature distributions is performed by varying nozzle velocity and height over diameter ratio (H/D). Nusselt number and Turbulent Energy are presented for the impingement surface. It was found that for H/D ratios ranging between 6 and 8, nozzle velocities over 20 m/s provide a large percentage increase in heat transfer. Single nozzle jet impingement is followed by study of turbulent multi-jet impingement. Along with parameters mentioned above, spacing over diameter ratio (S/D) is varied. Convective heat transfer coefficient, average impingement surface temperature and heat transfer rate are calculated over the impingement surface. It was found that higher S/D ratios result in higher local heat transfer coefficient values near stagnation point. However, increased spacing between the neighboring jets results in reduced coverage of the impingement surface lowering the average heat transfer. Lower H/D ratios result in higher heat transfer coefficient peaks. The peaks for all three nozzles are more uniform for H/D ratios between 6 and 8. For a fixed nozzle velocity, heat transfer coefficient values are directly proportional to nozzle diameter. For a fixed H/D and S/D ratio, heat transfer rate and average impingement surface temperature increases as the nozzle velocity increases until it reaches a limiting value. Further increase in nozzle velocity causes drop in heat transfer rate due to ingress of large amounts of cold ambient air in the control volume. The final part of this dissertation focuses on case study of conveyor oven. Lessons learned from analysis of single and multi-jet impingement are implemented in the case study. A systematic approach is used to arrive to an optimal configuration of the oven. As compared to starting configuration, for optimized configuration the improvement in average heat transfer coefficient was 22.7%, improvement in average surface heat flux was 24.7% and improvement in leakage air mass flow rate was 59.1%.

<p>Large environmental, health, social and economical problems are connected with the use of</p><p>fossil fuels and, in a dominating part of the world, also the use of firewood. The goal for this</p><p>project was to develop and design an optimal solar oven system intended for food cooking</p><p>and water pasteurisation. Further the advantages and disadvantages, compared with other</p><p>energy resources were evaluated. Tests were carried out in Sweden as well as in Sri Lanka.</p><p>An extensive range of prototypes were tested and sifted out to a small number of designs that</p><p>were tested in Sri Lanka. A large number of evaluations and tests were carried out on many</p><p>different materials, among others tests were conducted according to the international standard</p><p>“Testing and Reporting Solar Cooker Performance ASAE S580 JAN03”.</p><p>The report shows a number of benefits compared to previous reports on the subject, for</p><p>example the development of indoor tests, the extensiveness and objectiveness of the tests, and</p><p>the fact that the report combines extensive practical test results with solid theoretical</p><p>background information.</p><p>The test resulted in two solar ovens with the same parabolic design but made out of different</p><p>materials. One oven is cheaper, simpler to produce and is considered for the target group poor</p><p>people in developing countries. This is made out of a corrugated cardboard that is covered</p><p>with aluminium foil. The second oven is more expensive but also more durable and is</p><p>intended for more wealthy people in the west that wants a good alternative to regular ways of</p><p>cooking food. It is made out of aluminium plate and mirrors.</p>

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2008. / "Graduate Program in Public Health." Includes bibliographical references.

Στην παρούσα εργασία θα προσπαθήσουμε να μελετήσουμε τη διαδικασία παραγωγής κεραμοποιίας μεγάλης κλίμακας. Η προσπάθεια αυτή ξεκινά με την ιστορική αναδρομή στην κεραμοποιία και την περιγραφή μιας σύγχρονης μονάδας κεραμοποιίας. Ακολούθως, εξετάζονται οι μέθοδοι με τις οποίες γίνεται η μεταφορά θερμότητας σε επιφάνειες και όγκους. Τέλος, καταλήγουμε στις εξισώσεις που διέπουν τη μεταφορά θερμότητας και στο τελευταίο κεφάλαιο προσπαθούμε να εφαρμόσουμε τις εξισώσεις αυτές σε μια πραγματική μονάδα παραγωγής κεραμοποιίας μεγάλης κλίμακας. / In this work we try to study the process of large-scale ceramic production. This effort begins with the historical background in ceramics and description of a modern ceramics . Next, we will consider the methods by which heat is transferred to surfaces and volumes. Finally , we come to the equations describing the heat transfer and in the last chapter we try to implement these equations in a real plant ceramics.

Large environmental, health, social and economical problems are connected with the use of fossil fuels and, in a dominating part of the world, also the use of firewood. The goal for this project was to develop and design an optimal solar oven system intended for food cooking and water pasteurisation. Further the advantages and disadvantages, compared with other energy resources were evaluated. Tests were carried out in Sweden as well as in Sri Lanka. An extensive range of prototypes were tested and sifted out to a small number of designs that were tested in Sri Lanka. A large number of evaluations and tests were carried out on many different materials, among others tests were conducted according to the international standard “Testing and Reporting Solar Cooker Performance ASAE S580 JAN03”. The report shows a number of benefits compared to previous reports on the subject, for example the development of indoor tests, the extensiveness and objectiveness of the tests, and the fact that the report combines extensive practical test results with solid theoretical background information. The test resulted in two solar ovens with the same parabolic design but made out of different materials. One oven is cheaper, simpler to produce and is considered for the target group poor people in developing countries. This is made out of a corrugated cardboard that is covered with aluminium foil. The second oven is more expensive but also more durable and is intended for more wealthy people in the west that wants a good alternative to regular ways of cooking food. It is made out of aluminium plate and mirrors.

A presente pesquisa objetivou estudar a remoção dos poluentes presentes em uma água residuária de coqueria, através do processo biológico de nitritação/desnitritação operando um reator de lodo ativado em bateladas seqüenciais em duas etapas sucessivas. Durante a primeira, o reator foi alimentado com um efluente sintético composto por dois poluentes abundantes em despejos de coqueria: nitrogênio amoniacal (500 mg N/L) e fenol (1.000 mg C6H5OH/L). Na segunda, o reator foi alimentado com o despejo gerado na unidade de coqueria de uma indústria siderúrgica integrada. Ao longo da primeira etapa, ao final da fase aeróbia dos 28 ciclos de tratamento, foi possível alcançar eficiências de remoção de N-NH3 superiores a 90% com predominância do N-NO2 - na massa líquida do reator evidenciado pelas relações N-NO2 -/ (N-NO2 - + N-NO3 -) superiores a 86%. O principal mecanismo de inibição das bactérias oxidantes de nitrito (BON) foram concentrações de amônia livre no conteúdo do reator entre 3,2 e 19,5 mg NH3/L. As taxas específicas de nitritação variaram entre 0,03 e 0,11 kg N-NH3/ kg SSV.dia, para temperaturas no conteúdo do reator entre 15 e 34°C. Durante a fase anóxica, o fenol mostrou-se adequado como fonte de carbono para a biomassa desnitritante, desde que as taxas de aplicação volumétricas fossem inferiores a 0,02 kg fenol/m³.hora. Respeitando essa condição, foi possível alcançar: eficiências de remoção de fenol entre 45 e 56%; taxas específicas de remoção de fenol entre 0,03 e 0,09 kg C6H5OH / kg SSV.dia; taxas específicas de desnitritação entre 0,03 e 0,06 kg N-NO2 -/ kg SSV.dia e eficiências de remoção de (N-NO2 - + N-NO3 -) superiores a 95%. Ao longo da fase anóxica foram retiradas amostras do conteúdo do reator para a realização de análises de nitrofenóis (NF). Os resultados acusaram a presença de 2 nitrofenol e 4 nitrofenol em concentrações proporcionais à taxa de aplicação volumétrica do fenol na massa líquida do reator. A presença desses compostos em concentrações inferiores a 0,5 mg/L não causou impacto sobre a desnitritação biológica. As análises realizadas em amostras coletadas ao final da reação anóxica, não acusaram a presença de 2 e 4 NF, demonstrando que esses compostos podem ser biodegradados por uma biomassa bem adaptada ao fenol. A concepção do sistema para tratamento da água residuária de coqueria via nitritação/desnitritação envolveu a operação de dois reatores (principal e reator de polimento) operados em bateladas seqüenciais. As condições de operação do reator principal eram manipuladas para viabilizar o acúmulo de NNO2 - ao final da fase aeróbia e promover a desnitritação durante a fase anóxica, utilizando como fonte de carbono a própria matéria orgânica presente no despejo. Como o sobrenadante do reator principal apresentava concentrações elevadas de N-NO2 -, esse efluente era aplicado no reator de polimento, juntamente com etanol como fonte de carbono para redução do NNO2 -. Ao final da fase aeróbia dos ciclos de tratamento conduzidos no reator principal alcançaram-se: relações NO2 -/ (N-NO2 - + N-NO3 -) superiores a 88%; eficiências de remoções de nitrogênio total superiores a 60%; remoções de N-NH3 superiores a 90%, para valores de pH na massa líquida do reator entre 7,8 e 8,5 e, temperatura entre 23 e 31°C. Tal qual ocorrido durante a primeira etapa da investigação, o principal mecanismo de inibição da atividade das bactérias oxidantes de nitrito foi a toxicidade conferida pelas concentrações de amônia livre (3,7 a 15,7 mg NH3/L) no conteúdo do reator. Durante a fase anóxica, as eficiências de remoção de (N-NO2 - foram limitadas pela disponibilidade de matéria orgânica biodegradável no despejo da coqueria, razões DBO/DQOafluente superiores a 80% resultaram em remoções de N-NO2 - próximas de 100%. Quanto ao reator de polimento, pode-se afirmar que o etanol teve um efeito positivo sobre a remoção de matéria orgânica da água residuária da coqueria, considerando a configuração (dois lodos) utilizada. / The present research aimed to study the coke-oven wastewater treatment over nitritation/denitritation in an activated sludge sequencing batch reactor in two successive phases. During the first one, the reactor was fed with a synthetic effluent composed by two abundant pollutants present in coke-oven wastewaters: total ammonia nitrogen (500 mg TAN.l-1) and phenol (1,000 mg C6H5OH.l-1). During the second phase, the reactor was fed with the wastewater produced in an integrated steel industrys coke-plant. The results of the first phase (28 cycles) showed that was possible to achieve TAN removal efficiencies higher than 90% with NO2 --N predominance in the reactor content, evidenced by the rates NO2 --N/ (NO2 --N + NO3 --N) higher than 86%. The main mechanism of the nitrite oxidizer bacteria (NOB) inhibition was free ammonia concentrations between 3.2 and 19.5 mg NH3.l-1. The specific nitritation rates varied between 0.03 and 0.11 kg TAN. kg VSS-1.d-1, for temperatures between 15 and 34oC. Phenol showed to be suitable as carbon source for denitrifying biomass, once the volumetric application rates were lower than 0.02 kg phenol.m-3.h-1. Obeying this condition, it was possible to achieve: phenol removal efficiencies between 45 and 56%; specific phenol removal rates between 0.03 and 0.09 kg C6H5OH. kg VSS-1.d-1; specific denitritation rates between 0.03 and 0.06 kg NO2 --N . kg VSS-1.d-1 and removal efficiencies of (NO2 --N + NO3 --N) higher than 95%. During the anoxic phase, samples were collected from the reactor content for nitrophenols analyses. The results showed the presence of 2- nitrophenol (2-NP) and 4-nitrophenol (4-NP) in concentrations proportional to phenol volumetric application rate in the reactor liquid mass. The presence of those compounds in concentrations lower than 0.5 mg/L does not cause impact over the biological denitritation. The analyses accomplished in samples collected at the end of the anoxic reaction do not show the presence of 2 and 4-NP, demonstrating that these compounds can be biodegraded by a well-adapted biomass. The arrangement of the system for the treatment of coke-oven wastewater (Phase 02) over nitritation/denitritation involved the operation of two sequencing batch reactors (the main reactor and the polishing one). The operational conditions of the main reactor were manipulated to make feasible the NO2 --N accumulation at the end of the aerobic stage and promote the denitritation using the own organic matter present in the cokeoven wastewater as carbon source. As the supernatant of the main reactor presented high nitrite concentrations, this effluent was conducted to a biological denitrifying polishing reactor with ethanol as carbon source. At the end of the aerobic stage of the treatment cycles conducted in the main reactor, it was achieved: NO2 --N/ (NO2 --N + NO3 --N) higher than 88%; total nitrogen removal efficiencies higher than 60%; ammonia nitrogen removal higher than 90%. As occurred during the first phase of the investigation, the main NOB activity inhibition was the toxicity of the free ammonia concentrations (3.7 to 15.7 mg NH3.l-1) in the reactor content. At the end of anoxic stage, the NO2 --N removal efficiencies were limited by the availability of the biodegradable organic matter in the coke-oven wastewater but BOD/CODinfluent higher than 80% resulted in NO2 --N removals next to 100%. Regarding to the polishing reactor, it can be stated that the ethanol had a positive effect over the organic matter removal of the coke-oven wastewater.

Thesis(M.Sc.(Agriculture Horticulture)) -- University of Limpopo, 2019 / Innovative methods of preserving the quality of traditionally processed green leafy vegetables are underway in Africa. Improvement of processing and preservation methods of leafy vegetables is another way of overcoming perishability restrictions and guaranteeing continued quality food supply in rural areas. The objectives of this study were: to determine the effect of time-based oven-drying on (1) mineral composition, (2) proximate composition and (3) microbial profiling of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata). Separate experiments were conducted for raw and cooked cowpea leaves with four treatments, viz 0 (sun dried), 24, 48 and 72 hours of oven-drying, arranged in a randomised complete block design with 5 replications. In raw cowpea leaves, relative to control (sun-drying), oven-drying period 48hrs, significantly decreased Potassium (K), Manganese (Mn), and Sodium (Na) content in raw cowpea leaves by 6, 9 and 13%, respectively. Similarly, oven-drying period 72hrs significantly decreased Ca, Fe, Mg, Zn, P and S by 5, 11, 16, 18 and 57%, respectively. In cooked cowpea leaves, relative to control (sun-drying), oven-drying period 24hrs significantly increased Na by 18%. Similarly 48hrs oven-drying periods increased Fe and K by 6 and 8%, respectively. Similarly, oven-drying period 72hrs significantly increased Ca, Mg and Mn by 8, 8 and 3%, respectively. In contrast, oven-drying period 72hrs significantly reduced Zn, P and S by 16, 10 and 39%, respectively. Relative to control (sun-drying), oven-drying period 24hrs significantly increased fat by 46% in raw cowpea leaves, however oven-drying period 72hrs significantly decreased protein, moisture, ash, fibre and carbohydrate by 10, 29, 18, 0.5, and 7% respectively. In contrast, relative to control (sun-drying), 72hrs increased energy by 3%. In cooked cowpea leaves, relative to control (sun-drying), oven-drying period 24hrs significantly increased energy by 1%. In contrast, relative to control (sun-drying) 72hrs oven-drying period decreased energy by 1%. Similarly, ovendrying 72hrs significantly decreased protein, moisture, ash, fat, fibre and carbohydrate by 8, 14, 13, 19, 0.4 and 10% respectively. Relative to control (sun-drying), oven-drying periods 24hrs significantly increased Staphylococcus spp. in raw cowpea leaves by 6%, respectively. Relative to control (sun-drying) 72hrs oven-drying period significantly decreased Shigella spp. by 92%, respectively. In cooked leaves, relative to control (sundrying), 72hrs drying periods decreased both Shigella spp. and Staphylococcus spp. by 99 and 21%, respectively. Total coliforms unit of Salmonella spp, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas spp, and Bacillus cereus were absent and/or at an undetectable level according to the Tempo Biomerieux system results. In conclusion, cooked leaves retained most essential mineral elements as compared to raw when subjected to 72hrs of oven-drying as there was an improvement in the concentration of Ca, Fe, K, Mg, Mn and Na. However, in both raw and cooked cowpea leaves proximate composition was negatively affected as there was a decrease in protein content. Oven-drying period of 24 hours can be used to minimize the loss of protein. Cooked cowpea leaves subjected to 72hrs of oven-drying had least total coliforms for both Shigella spp and Staphylococcus spp, therefore have potential to serve as an alternative to sun-drying to reduce microorganism causing spoilage in leafy vegetables. Drying raw cowpea leaves under oven-drying periods less than 72 hours should be avoided as it reduces the mineral concentration and increase microbial count of microorganisms responsible for spoilage. / National Research Foundation

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The objective and motivation for this project is to design a low-power, low-noise oven-control circuit to optimize the stability of a MEMS oscillator. MEMS oscillators can be fabricated using conventional semiconductor manufacturing methods and can often be assembled in packages smaller than those of traditional crystal oscillators. However, one of their largest disadvantages currently is their high temperature coefficient of frequency (TCF), causing MEMS oscillators to be especially sensitive to temperature changes. Hence, this project focuses on designing a printed circuit board that will allow the user to manually tune a current passing through a resonator wire-bonded to the board to elevate the resonator temperature. This will ensure that the device's resonance frequency stays largely constant and that the oscillator provides a very stable signal.

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