Sentences with phrase «higher operating temperatures»

The review concludes, «Drawbacks continue to be the usual for small and thin form factors: Loud fan noise, less features, and higher operating temperatures.»

PA fuel cells, which use an immobilized liquid form of phosphoric acid as its electrolyte, have higher operating temperatures of around 200 degrees C.

The ceramic brake discs perform reliably at even higher operating temperatures thanks to their greater hardness, all combined with an impressive weight reduction of around 40 percent.

In addition, clutch piston material upgrades can withstand higher operating temperatures.

Is it possible that the higher operating temperatures from driving the car at high rpms and being driven at highway speed, somewhat cleaned out the cats and brought them back within the specifications of the ECU?

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

«We are currently working on achieving even higher operating temperatures,» says Wienold.

Older SOFC designs use the electrolyte layer as a structural support, but the thicker component has a higher electrical resistance, which entails higher operating temperatures to avoid power losses, Wachsman explains.

In many cases, higher operating temperatures lead to more efficient performance.

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

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.

Cells with an oxide ion - conducting electrolyte require a high operating temperature which will cause the synthetic fuels to split.

In the affected vehicles, the Intelligent Power Module (IPM) inside the inverter module (a component of the hybrid system) contains transistors that may become damaged from high operating temperatures.

The downside is that the thinner filament burns out faster, and the higher operating temperature shortens the life even more.

That's because while the main problem with manual transmissions is fluid contamination that can occur over time, automatic transmission fluid breaks down with normal use (due to automatic transmission's higher operating temperature) and contamination.

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

«With its signature high performance engine, our C6.R Corvettes, which are based on the production Corvette ZR1, require a lubricant that can withstand extremely high operating temperatures and provide engine durability.

Carbon brakes have occasionally been applied to road cars, by the French Venturi sports car manufacturer in the mid 1990s for example, but need to reach a very high operating temperature before becoming truly effective and so are not well suited to road use.

One fix (besides scaling everything up) is simply to use a condensate with a slightly higher boiling point and put up with the slightly higher operating temperature.

The higher operating temperature leads to higher overall conversion efficiencies, thus reducing the cost of electricity.

There may be some increased costs due to the higher operating temperature with more expensive materials and fabrication techniques.

Cells with an oxide ion - conducting electrolyte require a high operating temperature which will cause the synthetic fuels to split.

In particular, Mr Baker's engineering expert had noticed a discolouration of the surface of the brake disc, suggesting that it had been subject to high operating temperatures and that the brakes were not operating in an evenly balanced way.

Not exact matches

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.

The DACS - G checkweigher with integrated metal detector rejects out - of - spec packages and is able to operate reliably in the low temperatures and high humidity of the production hall.

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.

The pod operates as expected with high temperatures and brews a carafe of coffee when filled.

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

In superheating, water is heated well beyond its boiling point — in this case from 1,000 to 1,300 degrees Celsius — producing high - temperature steam to run turbines and also to operate solar reactors to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen.

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.

«Not only are they physically hard materials, they also conduct heat well which means that they can cope with high levels of power and operate in hotter temperatures.

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.

The resulting mix provides a lower operating temperature — about 300 degrees less than that of pure calcium — while still keeping the high - voltage advantage of the calcium.

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.

At operating temperatures above 176 degrees Fahrenheit, the current best commercial polymers start to lose efficiency, but hexagonal - boron - nitride - coated PEI can operate at high efficiency at over 392 degrees Fahrenheit.

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.

Cons: Low operating temperature means not very space - efficient, high water requirements.

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.

«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.

Right now, even these «high - temperature» copper - oxide materials operate as superconductors only when cooled to below -100 degrees Celsius.