Sentences with phrase «at higher operating temperatures»

These devices can also function at higher operating temperatures and in high radiation environments such as space.

This «floating» arrangement improves the stability of the brake discs, particularly when exposed to extreme loads and at high operating temperatures.

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Dilbit can carry a higher risk of corrosion, but only if the pipeline is operating «at a higher temperature,» Kuprewicz, president of Accufacts Inc., wrote in an email exchange.

Product impact is also reduced even when operating at high speeds and product movement is maintained despite challenging wet environments and cold temperatures that are typical for frozen food manufacturers.

High - temperature thermophilic anaerobic digestion technologies, typically operating at 55 deg C, are part of a combination of processes that digest waste water's organic content to produce green energy (methane) while achieving outstanding waste water effluent qualities.

STATE OF THE ART LAUNDRY SYSTEM: Wonderwear's 7 stage washing process uses only natural cleaning agents and our commercial washers operate at much higher temperatures than home washers.

Our commercial washers operate at much higher temperatures than home washers and essentially sterilize the diapers while eliminating all bacteria.

Be sure your air conditioning filters are clean, close off unused rooms in your home, operate appliances in the early morning or evening when temperatures are lower, and keep your thermostat at 78 degrees or higher.

Moreover, they can operate at higher temperatures and be scaled down to smaller sizes.

It is also able to operate at temperatures as high as 300 degrees Celsius, which means it would make mobile devices much more durable and less likely to become a fire hazard due to abuse.

«The detailed understanding of this virus isolated from a boiling acid hot spring in Yellowstone provides a potentially new virus - based nano - container that can operate at high temperature and acidic conditions which is of interest to biotech companies,» Young said.

Operating at high pressure and temperature, such reactors are not truly novel, having propelled the first commercial nuclear ships, such as the nuclear - powered cargo ship named Savannah, in past decades.

He notes that the technology still has a ways to go to reduce efficiency losses that come from operating a battery at high temperatures.

Because of the centralized design such a structure can operate at much higher temperatures — up to 1,000 degrees F (535 degrees C)-- and use molten salts directly as the fluid transferring heat in the power plant.

Using information from stations operated by certified observers for which complete weeks of data were available the researchers calculated the difference between the highest temperature recorded during the day and the lowest recorded at night, the so - called diurnal temperature range (DTR).

Unlike superconducting metal alloys, which must remain within a few degrees of absolute zero in order to display their resistance - free electron flow, high - Tc superconductors can operate at temperatures around 77 kelvins.

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Wachsman and his research colleagues have also published details in Science on a potential path toward SOFCs that operate at temperatures as low as 350 degrees C with a new design that features high - conductivity electrolytes and a specially nanostructured electrode.

Since the operating temperature for fusion is in the hundreds of millions degrees Celsius, hotter than any known material can withstand, engineers found they could contain a plasma — a neutral electrically conductive, high - energy state of matter — at these temperatures using magnetic fields.

Specific high - resolution instruments are based on terahertz quantum - cascade lasers, but operate only at cryogenic temperatures.

Physicists of the Paul Drude Institute (PDI) in Berlin, Germany, have now developed a terahertz quantum - cascade laser, which operates at significantly higher temperatures than previously achieved.

The physicists at the PDI achieved the high operating temperatures by developing a semiconductor heterostructure, which requires only a very low driving power.

«Although we've already been able to do this with metal - based metamaterials, you need to operate at high temperature for the whole thing to work.

The relative non-conductivity and brittleness of such barriers, however, means the battery must be operated at high temperature and are prone to failure when the barrier cracks.

According to astronomer Daniela Calzetti of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, NICMOS is between 30 % and 40 % more sensitive than it used to be — thanks to a new coolant, it operates at a somewhat higher temperature, increasing the efficiency of the detectors.

The ability to operate turbine blades at higher temperatures improves efficiency and reduces energy costs.

Some of these reactors would operate at higher temperatures, providing energy services that existing reactors can not.

Using such a thick membrane requires a high operating temperature, at least 900 °C, to overcome the resistance offered by the thick electrolyte, he says.

The greater material costs that such high - temperature operation entails encouraged Topsoe to use a thick anode instead, allowing it to scale down the electrolyte thickness and consequently reduce its resistance, allowing the cell to operate effectively at 750 °C, says Holm - Larsen.

They eschew expensive platinum catalysts by operating at high temperature, and because they can use a variety of small - chain hydrocarbon fuels, they can use today's fuel, not tomorrow's.

The way electrons leak between the two copper oxides spontaneously creates a superconducting layer somewhere within the stack, able to operate at the relatively high temperature of 32 kelvin -LRB--241 °C)-- most superconductors work at even lower temperatures.

The team worked with Sandia's Materials Science and Engineering Center on a multilayer solid lubricant capable of operating at high temperatures.

This work shows that this class of phototransistors may be the way to go for high sensitivity, low - cost, infrared image sensors operating at room temperature addressing the huge infrared market that is currently thirsty for cheap technologies.»

The efficiency of a traditional rooftop solar panel tends to break down by the time temperatures have reached 100 degrees Celsius, but larger - scale parabolics would be able to operate at much higher temperatures and retain the heat by using the cesium - coated semiconductors, Melosh said.

Currently, materials which exhibit these properties are often toxic and operate at very high temperatures — higher than that produced by car engines.

Another advantage of towers is that they can operate at high temperatures.

By coating semiconductors with the metal cesium, parabolic solar dishes operating at high temperatures can retain heat from unused sunlight and avoid inefficiencies that occur after solar energy reaches a given cell, said Nick Melosh, an assistant engineering professor at Stanford.

The salt mixture, made up of sodium and potassium nitrates, can operate at the high temperatures generated in a solar tower's receiver.

Such favorable plasmas could possibly be achieved by future advanced spherical tokamaks operating at high temperature.

The lower operating temperature allows better integration with renewable or waste heat for producing hydrogen economically at large - scale and mitigates the high degradation rate and limited lifespan issues.

Water electrolysis cells operated at elevated temperatures (200 ° -600 °C) can overcome the kinetic challenges of low temperature electrolysis and the degradation challenge of high temperature electrolysis.

Although today's high - temperature superconductors operate at much warmer temperatures than conventional superconductors do, they still work only when chilled to minus 135 degrees Celsius or below.

Water splitting systems often require materials to operate at demanding conditions, including high temperatures and corrosive environments.

«When we find the right kind of material that can operate at a higher temperature, we can immediately apply this idea to those materials.

Academics at Loughborough University hope to boost early detection rates of cancer in developing countries with their portable lab - in - a-briefcase that can operate even at high temperatures....

Francis, along with Jim Holmes, chief technology officer, has been working at perfecting the design procedures, tools, characterization, and modeling approaches necessary to create the high - temperature, high - voltage electronics capable of operating at temperatures beyond 600 degrees Fahrenheit (315 degrees Celsius).

A ceramic - based mechanical pump able to operate at record temperatures of more than 1,400 degrees Celsius (1,673 Kelvin) can transfer high temperature liquids such as molten tin, enabling a...

The High Temperature Fluid Loop was designed in conjunction with the AZTRAK system to supply heated fluid to the collector inlet, at steady - state fluid temperatures up to 375 °C, to evaluate the thermal performance of a parabolic concentrator at system operating temperatures.

The empirical procedure presented here should also work for other epochs (e.g., pre-SM4), though the parameters may have to be recomputed for the time when ACS was operated at a higher temperature than the current -81 Â °C.

She received her bachelor's degree in chemical engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder and did her Ph.D. work at Colorado School of Mines focusing on in - depth experimental and modeling studies on high temperature pyrolysis of hydrocarbons and the effects of temperature and fuel structure on conversion, hydrogen production, reactivity, and deposit formation under solid oxide fuel cell operating conditions.