Sentences with phrase «lower operating 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.

«Our new approach can lower the operating temperature of solar cells passively, improving energy conversion efficiency significantly and increasing the life expectancy of solar cells,» said Linxiao Zhu, a physicist at Stanford and lead author on the Optica paper.

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.

Other well - heeled investors are sniffing around a different but related technology: cold fusion, which requires a much lower operating temperature.

It allows for one second product contact time on the heating surface at low operating temperatures of approximately 40 °C -50 °C.

But McEwen and Ha found that they could use much lower operating temperatures and an inexpensive nickel catalyst in the presence of an electrical field to orient methane and water in a way that makes them easier to break apart.

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

«The lower operating temperatures during cold start are due to increasing fuel efficiency in advanced combustion engines, which leaves less energy in the tailpipe exhaust,» said Abhaya Datye, a distinguished professor at UNM's Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and study co-author.

Electrical shorts are not uncommon during the process of ramping up the LHC, but because the machine is already cooled down to its very low operating temperature, fixing the problem is now more difficult.

Graphene's range of superlative properties and small size causes the transfer of heat through the material to slow leading to the desired lower operating temperatures.

However, at the low operating temperature, the problem is that the efficiency drop by the cathode is especially dramatic than the one due to the anode and / or electrolyte.

The lifetime of catalysts that convert automotive exhaust pollutants can be increased by lowering their operating temperature, which helps to prevent deactivation caused by the active metal atoms agglomerating into larger, less active particles.

The lower operating temperatures during cold start are due to increasing fuel efficiency in advanced combustion engines, which leaves less energy in the tailpipe exhaust, said Datye, a study co-author.

Cooling jets beneath the pistons that spray oil on the pistons to help lower operating temperatures.

The Ford transmission team made several specific modifications to the 6F35 - Mid to optimize its performance for Fusion, including using unique final drive ratios for the 2.5 - liter and 3.0 - liter, developing an improved converter lock - up for lower operating temperatures and efficiency, recalibrating the converter clutch to accommodate a fuel - saving aggressive deceleration fuel shut - off system as well as other tweaks to diminish parasitic losses.

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Since then, the company has received funding from the Department of Defense and angel investors to continue its work developing a unique low temperature sterilizer for field - based operating theaters in combat support hospitals and remote settings.

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.

In addition, EPT operates at lower temperatures, therefore using significantly less energy than regular spray drying and causing less damage to the food's flavour and nutritional composition.

In the meantime, as the operating temperature is quite low, the water will not evaporate that quickly.

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.

Since this whirling BEC superfluid is operating at a quantum scale, where tiny distances and low temperatures reign, the physical characteristics of its rotation are not those seen in the classical world.

Finally, we love that it can operate at low temperatures to save you money and energy.

It'll operate in temperatures as low as 14F, can withstand crushing up to 220 lbs, and can be dropped from a height of seven feet.

The whole detector system operates at a frosty 0.25 Kelvin, just 0.45 degrees Fahrenheit above the lowest temperature achievable, absolute zero.

This can be severely limiting when it comes to operating batteries in space, where temperatures can dip to -157 degrees Celsius, or even in parts of Canada and Russia, where temperatures can be lower than -50 degrees Celsius.

The improvements could allow the rectennas — which convert electromagnetic fields at optical frequencies directly to electrical current — to operate low - power devices such as temperature sensors.

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).

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.

UD's one - step technology integrates the pretreatment step and the hydrolysis of cellulose and hemicellulose in one pot and operates at considerably low temperature (85 °C) and short reaction time (one hour), which makes the method energy efficient.

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

Pavel Hejzlar of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology invented a ring - shaped configuration for the fuel that boosts the power output of the plant by 50 percent by enabling it to operate more efficiently and at much lower temperatures.

Those from Ceres Power in Crawley, UK, operate below 600 °C, because they use an electrolyte that works at lower temperatures than those used by Bloom and Topsoe.

Davis and his colleagues designed this instrument to operate at temperatures as low as 0.25 degree above zero.

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.

If we also want to use exhaust gas treatment systems continuously at low temperatures and in other adverse conditions, they need to be understood in technical detail, designed correctly and operated under optimal conditions.

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.»

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.

Resume: Single electron transistors (SETs) operating at room temperature (RT) are promising candidates for low power electronics needed for Internet of Things.

Given the technique's reliance on low - cost materials and an ability to operate at room temperature in water, the researchers believe the approach could be scaled up for industrially relevant applications.

Conventional technologies to remove these radioactive gases operate at extremely low, energy - intensive temperatures.

The CEA - Leti and Inac results showed that these effects can be implemented in CMOS transistors operated at low temperature.

There are several different dark matter detector experiments underway, and most of them are cryogenic detectors that operate underground at extremely low temperatures.

The solvents can operate at much lower temperatures than those solvents considered for carbon - capture to date, making them less energy intensive and more cost effective.

The 32 T superconducting system is made from two primary sections, an outsert section delivering 15 Tesla in a 250 mm wide bore magnet developed by Oxford Instruments Nanoscience (OINS) using advanced Low Temperature Superconductor (LTS) materials operating at 4.2 Kelvin and an insert section delivering 17 Tesla in 34 mm cold bore developed by our colleagues at NHMFL using advanced High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) materials manufactured by Superpower Inc..

Most current terahertz generators use large, complex optical systems operating at very low temperatures to produce terahertz frequencies.

Research from Washington University has also found that people who restrict their calorie intake have lower core temperatures — an indication that their bodies can operate as efficiently as possible.

Your average sauna at the gym operates at a very high temperature, averaging at around160 to 200 degrees and with a low humidity factor.

In part, this is because a near infrared sauna operates at a lower temperature than an FIR sauna.

Especially in autumn and winter, they rarely operate in the desired temperature window, and performance in the rain tends to be poorer than standard brakes, as low initial bite is typically followed by sudden and extreme deceleration.

Behind the nine - spoke, centre - lock alloy wheels (which are equipped with McLaren specific Pirelli Trofeo Rs) is a set of the latest carbon - ceramic brakes, with discs that reach their peak operating performance at a temperature 150 - degrees lower than McLaren's normal ceramics.