Atmospheric thermodynamics

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    Gases, solids, and liquids are the three states that a substance can exist as. A gas does not maintain shape and volume. Gases expand to fit and fill the container. While a liquid maintains volume, but not shape and fits the shape of the container it is placed in. Solids can maintain both volume and shape. When a gas exerts force on the walls of a container, this is known as its pressure. Pressure varies based on temperature and volume. Many gas laws were used within this experiment, such as…

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    How Does Temperature (thermal kinetic energy) Affect the Phases of Matter? Observation Can matter be in anything that elements can mix to something different? Why does matter have to have more than 2 elements? What things do not have matter? Why does matter have to have more of, weight, volume or density? Why is there such things called matter? Why is the earth made of matter? How much does matter influence the earth and what it does to help? What is matter? How does…

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    The 'Wingate Cycle Ergometer Test' is an anaerobic test that is performed on a cycle ergometer. Eg. Monark. (Vandewalle et al. 1987). The aim of our test is to measure Peak Power Output(PPO), Relative Peak Power Output(RPP), Fatigue Index(FI) and Anaerobic Capacity(AC) throughout the Wingate Anaerobic Test. For both our participants we will compare our findings and provide an explanation for the similarities/differences we encounter between the two. Peak Power Output is the highest power output…

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    By utilizing heat transfer from the hot combustion gases we can determine temperature distribution in the nozzle. If the temperature distribution and heat flux which are time dependent are given on the surface of wall we can find internal temperature distribution. This problem can be classified as direct heat problem. However many heat transfer problems which occur in practical take transient measurements at more than one location to find heat flux and temperature distribution on the wall. This…

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    1. Redox Catalyst Catalyst is defined as a substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without changing its chemical composition and affecting the standard Gibbs free energy, by lowering the activation energy of a chemical reaction. It does so by providing an alternative reaction pathway. In redox reaction, the key chemical event is the net movement of electrons from one reactant to the other. The oxidation state of atoms are changed. Transition metal is used as redox catalyst due…

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    T is the adiabatic reaction temperature of the pyro-oxidation zone. (Barman, Ghosh, and De) also considered the formation of tar and methane reforming reaction in the pyro-Oxidation zone. The adiabatic reaction temperature is found out by considering heat balance in the zone. Enthalpy of reactants + Heat loss=Enthalpy of products = The heat loss from the oxidation zone was found to be around 10% by Chern(cite). TO is the temperature of biomass fed to the gasifier and Ta is the…

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    Thermal comfort is maybe the most important and easily defined parameter of indoor environmental quality. It is largely responsible for the occupants discomfort and well being and users require a thermally comfortable environment in order to identify that a building is performing well. Thermal comfort studies declare that thermal sensation responses to a given motivation and depends upon the occupants state of thermal adaptation which correlated also on geographic location and climate, time of…

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    3.6 Sorption isotherms The experimental adsorption equilibrium data were analyzed using Langmuir, Freundlich, Temkin and D-R isotherms. The sorption data was analyzed using linear form of all the isotherm equations Models having high correlation coefficient (R2 ) values are considered best fit to represent the sorption data. The Freundlich isotherm holds for multilayer non-ideal adsorption on heterogeneous surface and is represented by the following empirical equation: qe = KF Ce 1/n Where,…

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    5. SUMMARY We have derived Laplace's equation for steady-state water flow in two dimensions and have explained how the equation is solved by three Relaxation Methods: Jacobi, Gauss Siedel and Successive Over-Relaxation on a discrete 20 10 grids. The numerical method was illustrated by a Matlab programming code. 6. References [1] John D. Anderson, JR (1995). Computational Fluid Dynamics: The Basics with Applications .McGraw Hill, Inc. [2] Anderson, J.D. (1995). Computational Fluid Dynamics.…

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    1) There is a gradual rise in the concentration of the products (NO and Cl2) and a gradually reflecting decrease in the concentration of the reactants (2NOCl). Le Chatalier 's Principle states that if a system at equilibrium is applied with stress, then the system will react to compromise that stress. In terms of temperature, Le Chatalier 's Principle states that if heat is added to the system, the chemical system will react by shifting the reaction to the side that will consume the heat. In…

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