Smoke or no Smoke? Questions of Perspective in North and South by Mary Debrabant

“…As coal and steam power transformed Britain’s physical and social landscape, the industrial fiction which emerged in the 1840s chronicles the upheavals taking place, regarding environmental conditions and personal relations. …”
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Relative Permeability of Porous Media with Nonuniform Pores by He Chen, Minghui Yang, Ke Chen, Chao Zhang

“…Experimental data of five wetting-nonwetting phase systems, including the water-air, water-steam, water-nitrogen, water-oil, and oil-gas systems, are selected to assess the performance of the proposed model. …”
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Influence of Binasal and Uninasal Inhalations of Essential Oil of Abies koreana Twigs on Electroencephalographic Activity of Human by Min Seo, Kandhasamy Sowndhararajan, Songmun Kim

“…To accomplish this study, the essential oil from the twigs of A. koreana (AEO) was isolated by steam distillation and the EEG readings were recorded using QEEG-8 system from 8 grounding electrodes according to the International 10-20 System. …”
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Evaluation of sorption properties of biochar produced by hydrothermal liquefaction of Phragmites australis by Natalia A. Muravieva, Yuliya V. Kulikova, Olga O. Babich

“…Sorbent yield during activation was 45 and 30% with chemical activation and 91% with steam-gas activation. The maximum sorption capacity for methylene blue of 18.4 mg/g was achieved due to chemisorption for the sample after carbon activation with peroxide in the presence of sulphuric acid. …”
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Essential Oils as Biocontrol Agents of Early and Late Blight Diseases of Tomato under Greenhouse Conditions by Lydia G. Mugao, Bernard M. Gichimu, Phyllis W. Muturi, Ezekiel K. Njoroge

“…The extraction of essential oils was done by dry steam distillation and then mixed with tween twenty before being topped up with sterile distilled water. …”
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Mint essential oil: A natural and effective agent for controlling house dust mites. by Haiming Cai, Xu Zhang, Zhibin Lin, Shanshan Li, Huiquan Lin, Yongwen Lin

“…In this study, ten varieties of mint plants were cultivated, and their essential oils were extracted through steam distillation. The toxicity of these mint essential oils and their main compounds on adult house dust mites was assessed using contact+fumigant mortality bioassays and vapour-phase mortality bioassays. …”
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Enhancing sustainability in LNG carriers through integrated alternative propulsion systems with Flettner rotor assistance by Nader R. Ammar, Ibrahim S. Seddiek

“…It investigates three propulsion configurations for LNG vessels: diesel engine (DE-FR), dual fuel diesel engine (DFE-FR), and combined gas and steam turbine engines (COGAS-FR). Results indicate that utilizing six Flettner rotors produces 1.254 MW, resulting in fuel savings of 3.49% to 4.49%, along with notable emission reductions. …”
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Improvement and exploration of a water conservation system in the Central Sterile Supply Department (节水型消毒供应中心给水系统改进与探索) by WANG Yuena (王岳娜), REN Guquan (任顾群), LIU Jianrong (刘建荣), XU Yuanle (许远乐), RENG Xiajuan (任娟霞), MA Huan (马欢)

“…The secondary purified water which conductivity ≤5μS/cm(25℃) was used for steam sterilization. The condensate water produced after the completion of pressure steam sterilization was cooled and recycled through a condenser and stored in a condensate storage tank, and then it was used for instrument cleaning, washing, rinsing and as raw water for secondary reverse osmosis after disinfection and sterilization procedure. …”
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Optimization and Performance Analysis of a Geothermal-Based Power Generation System Based on Flash-Binary and Dual-Pressure Evaporation Organic Rankine Cycles Using Zeotropic Mixtu... by Mojtaba Nedaei, Abolfazl Keykhah, Borzo Kamary, Ehsanolah Assareh

“…The exergy destruction distribution in the employed components is shown as the Grassmann diagram. The steam turbine has the highest exergy destruction of about 996 kW, and the first expansion valve with 714 kW of exergy destruction is the next one. …”
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Chemical Constituent and Antioxidant Activity of Clove (Syzygium aromaticum) Bud and Leaf Essential Oils from Bali by I Wayan Muderawan, Pande Putu Diah Suci Laksmi, I Wayan Mudianta, Ni Wayan Martiningsih

“…The essential oils were isolated from clove’s bud and leaf samples by steam distillation with the yield of 12.90 and 2.63%. …”
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Optimisation of Water-Use in Pulp and Paper Mills: A Streamlined Review of Scientific Journal Publications by Felicia Ocklind, Kristin Liback, Lova Lundqvist, Wilma Harge, G Venkatesh

“…One case study, for example, showed that the demand for steam can be decreased by about 4 GJ per ton of output, by recovering the waste heat in the water streams. …”
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Investigation of boiler energy consumption in the gas refinery units using RSM ANN and Aspen HYSYS by Erfan Gholamzadeh, Ahad Ghaemi, Abolfazl Shokri, Bahman Heydari

“…It is estimated that burning 26,000 m³ of fuel with an air supply of 23 m³/h at 25.5 °C will result in a steam flow of 525.5 tons per day at 10.5 barg and 256.5 °C. …”
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Evaluation of sound environment in the Manufacturing and Marketing Company of glucose, starch and other corn byproducts. Cienfuegos, Cuba by Tamara Montenegro Calderón, Gloria Marilé Ávalos Ávalos, Alicia María Gómez Villarejo

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> in the steam generator, compressor boiler, grinding and generation areas, corn reception and cleaning, animal feed factory, dryers and centrifugal equipment noise levels exceed 90 db (a) of exposition.…”
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The potential for sustainable biomass in the Romanian energy sector. Value chain analysis for potential black pellets investments by Birgen Cansu, Matei Marius, Sannan Sigurd, Stamule Tănase

“…The black pellets value chain also involves biomass pretreatment and steam explosion processes, which require electricity for feasibility. …”
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Effect of volume concentration and sonication time on the performance of a hybrid solar collector based hydrogen production system with hybrid nanofluid: An experimental investigat... by Hariharan Ramesh, S. Senthil Raja, R. Gangadevi, M. Baskaran, R. Marimuthu

“…While several approaches such as steam methane reforming, coal gasification, electrochemical methods, and thermochemical methods may be used for hydrogen generation, there has been a growing interest among scientists in solar energy-based hydrogen production over the last years. …”
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Thermodynamic and Thermoeconomic Analysis of a Multigeneration System Based on Solar Energy Using Nanofluid for Power, Fresh Water, Hydrogen, Heating and Cooling Production by A. Hussein Obaid Ajam, I. Mirzaee, S. Jafarmadar, M. Abbasalizadeh

“…The subsystems of this multigeneration system are a steam Rankine cycle for power production, an organic Rankine cycle for power production, a double-effect absorption refrigeration system for cooling production, a domestic water heater for hot water production, a PEM electrolyzer for hydrogen production and a RO desalination unit for freshwater production. …”
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Diffusion Behaviors of Hydrogen Isotopes in Incoloy 800H: A First-Principles Study by Hongyu Chen, Hong Li, Chuan Li, Jianzhu Cao, Chao Fang

“…Incoloy 800H is one of the main stainless steel materials used in steam generators with High Temperature Reactor Pebble-bed Modules (HTR-PM). …”
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Preliminary Evaluation of a Nuclear Scenario Involving Innovative Gas Cooled Reactors by Barbara Vezzoni, Nicola Cerullo, Giuseppe Forasassi, Emil Fridman, Guglielmo Lomonaco, Vincenzo Romanello, Eugene Shwageraus

“…In this framework, innovative gas-cooled reactors (both thermal and fast) seem to be very attractive from the electricity production point of view and for the potential industrial use along the high temperature processes (e.g., H2 production by steam reforming or I-S process). This work focuses on a preliminary (and conservative) evaluation of possible advantages that a symbiotic cycle (EPR-PBMR-GCFR) could entail, with special regard to the reduction of the HLW inventory and the optimization of the exploitation of the fuel resources. …”
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Correlation and Path Coefficient Analysis in Yield and Yield-Related Components of Black Cumin (Nigella Sativa L.) Accessions, at Jimma, Southwest Ethiopia by Zigyalew Gashaw, Wosene Gebreselassie, Girma Hailemichael

“…The result of the analysis showed that seed yield ha−1 had positive and highly significant correlation with number of effective capsules (0.88), secondary branches (0.73), plant height (0.72), total branches (0.71), steam thickness (0.58), primary branches (0.52), tertiary branches (0.52), harvesting index (0.47), and biological yield (0.43). …”
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The Effect of Beneng Taro (Xanthosoma undipes K.Koch) Flour Substitution on Physical and Sensory Characteristics of Muffins by Winda Nurtiana, Rina Rismaya, Eko Yuliastuti Endah Sulistyawati, Athiefah Fauziyyah, Dini Nur Hakiki, Mohamad Rajih Radiansyah, Alfi Rahmawan

“…People of Pandeglang only use it in form of fried and steamed. The weakness of beneng taro is the oxalate content is very high, to reduce it, people of Pandeglang soak it in 1% salt solution for 1 hour. …”
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