Ways of Increasing Specific Energy Intensity of Tritium-based beta-Voltaic Nuclear Batteries

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 223-231
Author(s):  
L.A. Tsvetkov ◽  
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A.A. Pustovalov ◽  
G.A. Badun ◽  
V.A. Bunyaev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Intensity ◽  
Organic Molecules ◽  
Carbon Nanomaterials ◽  
Volume Concentration ◽  
Maximum Energy ◽  
Beta Emitter ◽  
Unit Energy ◽  
Urgent Task ◽  
Output Characteristics ◽  
Nuclear Batteries

Creating a beta-voltaic semiconductor battery based on long-lived radionuclide is an urgent task. However, today the technology of creating such energy sources and their output characteristics are far from perfect. This article analyzes ways to maximize energy intensity on the surface of the semiconductor carrier. Various methods of creating the maximum possible volume concentration of radioactive beta-emitter atoms based on the use of tritium are considered. A variety of variants using "associated" tritium are considered for application on the surface of the semiconductor carrier: metal tritids, intermetalides. One option may be the use of tritium-labeled organic molecules and polymers, as well as tritium, which is part of carbon nanomaterials — fullerenes, nanotubes, nanodiamonds, graphene and graphene oxide. The properties of intermet-allides hydrides (LaNi5, LaNi5T6) are considered. The dependence of the unit energy intensity of the battery's working body on the thickness of the emitter's film has been analyzed. As a result of the studies, the analysis of ways to achieve maximum energy intensity on the surface of the semiconductor carrier was analyzed. Various methods of creating the maximum possible volume concentration of radioactive beta-emitter atoms based on the use of tritium are considered. The dependence of the unit energy intensity of the battery's working body on the thickness of the emitter's film has been analyzed.

METHODS OF IMPROVING ACCURACY OF MEASURING OUTPUT CHARACTERISTICS OF TENSOMETRIC ELEMENTS AND TESTMODULES

2018 ◽  
pp. 10-19
Author(s):  
S. A. Adarchin ◽  
A. V. Mazin
Keyword(s):  
Pressure Sensors ◽  
Control Object ◽  
Complete Information ◽  
Substrate Material ◽  
Automated Control ◽  
Urgent Task ◽  
Technical Specifications ◽  
Output Characteristics ◽  
Improving Accuracy ◽  
Microprocessor Technology

Over the past few years, thanks to the success of microprocessor technology, there has been a significant leap in the development and application of automated control systems. In such systems, information obtained from a set of sensors installed on the control object and giving complete information about it is used to form the control action. Improving the accuracy of measurement of their characteristics becomes an urgent task. This paper is considered to study of the processes of degradation of microelectromechanical structures of integral measuring tensometric elements, for example, pressure sensors, expressed in the obtaining of the output characteristics of the sensor for the regulations set forth in the technical specifications. The technique allowing to measure the parameters of the output signal of the strain cell with the help of a special installation is developed. The results of the experiments determined that when using material with a small modulus of elasticity can be used for the planting element, any substrate material of test module. The developed technique can be used in the production and design of the strain gauge, and the sensor as a whole.

scholarly journals Modeling the work of a steam-water injector in a heat supply system

2020 ◽  
Vol 157 ◽  
pp. 06037
Author(s):  
Dmitry Kitaev ◽  
Egor Aralov ◽  
Dmitry Bugaevsky ◽  
Artem Makarov
Keyword(s):  
Thermodynamic Parameters ◽  
Heat Supply ◽  
Heat Supply System ◽  
Steam Pressure ◽  
Maximum Energy ◽  
Working Pressure ◽  
Urgent Task ◽  
Injection Coefficient ◽  
Saving Effect ◽  
Heating Networks

One of the energy-efficient technologies is the use of injectors in heat supply systems. Steam-water injectors are very sensitive to changes in the thermodynamic parameters of water and steam. The operating range of such devices is limited to boiling liquids. The search for ranges of thermodynamic parameters that ensure the operation of the injector in real conditions of functioning of heating networks is an urgent task. The maximum energy-saving effect can be achieved by replacing devices that reduce steam pressure by injectors in which there will be a simultaneous decrease in steam pressure, heat transfer between steam and return network water to achieve the necessary thermodynamic parameters of the mixed flow. The article presents the results of modeling the operation of a steam-water injector with a cylindrical mixing chamber, taking into account the actual values of temperatures and pressures in the heating network. With constant parameters of hot steam, the possible ranges of the injector for the temperatures and pressures necessary for the implementation of temperature schedules for regulating heating networks are determined. The procedure for identifying input parameters that ensure the implementation of temperature schedules of heating networks has been carried out. Equations are obtained that allow one to determine the temperature of the water leaving the injector from the injection coefficient for the found working pressure ranges of the injected water.

Impact of the rise of solo living and an ageing population on residential energy consumption in South Korea

2021 ◽  
pp. 0958305X2110023
Author(s):  
Seong-Hoon Cho ◽  
Moonwon Soh ◽  
Kihyun Park ◽  
Hyun Jae Kim
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Energy Intensity ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Behavioral Differences ◽  
Residential Energy ◽  
Residential Energy Consumption ◽  
Unit Energy ◽  
Single Person ◽  
Elderly Households

Demographic changes have a profound impact on residential energy consumption. The number of single-person households is rapidly increasing around the world and the percentages of elderly individuals in the populations of almost all countries are expanding. The objective of our research was to analyze how single-person households and elderly households impact residential energy intensity, defined as annual residential energy consumption per capita per unit of finished area of the household’s house, and how those impacts interact with each other using South Korea as a case study. Our findings suggest that the rise of solo living and an ageing population have overlapping effects on energy consumption and threaten future improvements in residential energy intensity. Specifically, an increase of single-person households results in a decline in energy intensity regardless of whether the household is elderly or non-elderly and the effect of an increase in elderly households on energy intensity depends on whether the household is single- or multiple-person. Given the similar average size of finished area for single-person households, the difference in per unit energy consumption between elderly versus non-elderly households likely comes from behavioral differences such as a greater use of energy-intensive appliances by non-elderly households than elderly households. However, for multiple-person households, the effect of such behavioral differences seems to be dominated by the effect of a house’s shared amenities. The common space and energy-consuming amenities of a house are shared by more individuals in non-elderly households, leading to more intensive energy consumption by non-elderly multiple-person households than by elderly multiple-person households.

Optimal Solar Field Design of Stationary Collectors

2004 ◽  
Vol 126 (3) ◽  
pp. 898-905 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Weinstock ◽  
Joseph Appelbaum
Keyword(s):  
Incident Energy ◽  
Optimization Problems ◽  
Maximum Energy ◽  
Optimization Techniques ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Energy Minimum ◽  
Unit Energy ◽  
Solar Field ◽  
Field Area

The optimal design of stationary photovoltaic and thermal collectors in a solar field, taking into account shading and masking effects, may be based on several criteria: maximum incident energy on collector plane from a given field, minimum field area for given incident energy, minimum cost per unit energy, minimum plant cost, maximum energy per unit collector area or other objectives. These design problems may be formulated as optimization problems with objective functions and sets of constraints (equality and inequality) for which mathematical optimization techniques may be applied. This article deals with obtaining the field design parameters (optimal number of rows, distance between collector rows, collector height and collector inclination angle) that produce maximum annual energy from a given field. A second problem is determination of the minimum field area (length and width) and field design parameters that produce a given required annual energy. The third problem is determination of the optimal field design parameters for obtaining maximum energy per unit collector area from a given field. The results of these optimal designs are compared to a recommended approach of the Israeli Institute of Standards (IIS) in which the solar field design result in negligible shading. An increase in energy of about 20% for a fixed field area and a decrease in field area of about 15% for a given annual incident energy, respectively, may be obtained using the approach formulated in the present article compared to the IIS approach.

High Resolution Replication of Organoclay Surfaces

1982 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 576-577
Author(s):  
W. W. Barker ◽  
W. E. Rigsby ◽  
V. J. Hurst ◽  
W. J. Humphreys
Keyword(s):  
Clay Mineral ◽  
Organic Molecule ◽  
Organic Molecules ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
Xrd Pattern ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Silicate Layers ◽  
Mineral Identification

Experimental clay mineral-organic molecule complexes long have been known and some of them have been extensively studied by X-ray diffraction methods. The organic molecules are adsorbed onto the surfaces of the clay minerals, or intercalated between the silicate layers. Natural organo-clays also are widely recognized but generally have not been well characterized. Widely used techniques for clay mineral identification involve treatment of the sample with H2 O2 or other oxidant to destroy any associated organics. This generally simplifies and intensifies the XRD pattern of the clay residue, but helps little with the characterization of the original organoclay. Adequate techniques for the direct observation of synthetic and naturally occurring organoclays are yet to be developed.

Direct phase determination in electron crystallography: small organic molecules

1992 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 1166-1167
Author(s):  
Douglas L. Dorset
Keyword(s):  
Organic Molecules ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Temperature Structure ◽  
3D Analysis ◽  
Intensity Data ◽  
Electron Crystallography ◽  
Phase Determination ◽  
Measured Intensity ◽  
3D Data

The quantitative use of electron diffraction intensity data for the determination of crystal structures represents the pioneering achievement in the electron crystallography of organic molecules, an effort largely begun by B. K. Vainshtein and his co-workers. However, despite numerous representative structure analyses yielding results consistent with X-ray determination, this entire effort was viewed with considerable mistrust by many crystallographers. This was no doubt due to the rather high crystallographic R-factors reported for some structures and, more importantly, the failure to convince many skeptics that the measured intensity data were adequate for ab initio structure determinations.We have recently demonstrated the utility of these data sets for structure analyses by direct phase determination based on the probabilistic estimate of three- and four-phase structure invariant sums. Examples include the structure of diketopiperazine using Vainshtein's 3D data, a similar 3D analysis of the room temperature structure of thiourea, and a zonal determination of the urea structure, the latter also based on data collected by the Moscow group.

EM of rapidly solidified permanent magnets

1992 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 198-199
Author(s):  
Raja K. Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Melt Spinning ◽  
Permanent Magnets ◽  
Dark Field Image ◽  
Dark Field ◽  
Maximum Energy ◽  
Quench Rate ◽  
Maximum Energy Product ◽  
Energy Product ◽  
Annular Dark Field ◽  
Rapidly Solidified

The discovery of a new class of permanent magnets based on Nd2Fe14B phase in the last decade has led to intense research and development efforts aimed at commercial exploitation of the new alloy. The material can be prepared either by rapid solidification or by powder metallurgy techniques and the resulting microstructures are very different. This paper details the microstructure of Nd-Fe-B magnets produced by melt-spinning.In melt spinning, quench rate can be varied easily by changing the rate of rotation of the quench wheel. There is an optimum quench rate when the material shows maximum magnetic hardening. For faster or slower quench rates, both coercivity and maximum energy product of the material fall off. These results can be directly related to the changes in the microstructure of the melt-spun ribbon as a function of quench rate. Figure 1 shows the microstructure of (a) an overquenched and (b) an optimally quenched ribbon. In Fig. 1(a), the material is nearly amorphous, with small nuclei of Nd2Fe14B grains visible and in Fig. 1(b) the microstructure consists of equiaxed Nd2Fe14B grains surrounded by a thin noncrystalline Nd-rich phase. Fig. 1(c) shows an annular dark field image of the intergranular phase. Nd enrichment in this phase is shown in the EDX spectra in Fig. 2.

Parallel Detection of Electron Energy Loss Spectra in Direct Mode

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-83
Author(s):  
Eckhard Quandt ◽  
Stephan laBarré ◽  
Andreas Hartmann ◽  
Heinz Niedrig
Keyword(s):  
Energy Loss ◽  
Electron Energy ◽  
Energy Resolution ◽  
Large Angle ◽  
Maximum Energy ◽  
Semiconductor Detectors ◽  
Parallel Detection ◽  
Photodiode Arrays ◽  
Electron Energy Loss ◽  
Electron Energy Loss Spectra

Due to the development of semiconductor detectors with high spatial resolution -- e.g. charge coupled devices (CCDs) or photodiode arrays (PDAs) -- the parallel detection of electron energy loss spectra (EELS) has become an important alternative to serial registration. Using parallel detection for recording of energy spectroscopic large angle convergent beam patterns (LACBPs) special selected scattering vectors and small detection apertures lead to very low intensities. Therefore the very sensitive direct irradiation of a cooled linear PDA instead of the common combination of scintillator, fibre optic, and semiconductor has been investigated. In order to obtain a sufficient energy resolution the spectra are optionally magnified by a quadrupole-lens system.The detector used is a Hamamatsu S2304-512Q linear PDA with 512 diodes and removed quartz-glas window. The sensor size is 13 μm ∗ 2.5 mm with an element spacing of 25 μm. Along with the dispersion of 3.5 μm/eV at 40 keV the maximum energy resolution is limited to about 7 eV, so that a magnification system should be attached for experiments requiring a better resolution.

Spectral and Topographic Microstructure of Brain Alpha Activity During Drowsiness at Sleep Onset and REM Sleep

2000 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 151-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Luis Cantero ◽  
Mercedes Atienza
Keyword(s):  
Rem Sleep ◽  
Spectral Component ◽  
Sleep Onset ◽  
Quantitative Information ◽  
Maximum Energy ◽  
Alpha Activity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Classification Algorithms ◽  
Microstructural Properties ◽  
Brain States

Abstract High-resolution frequency methods were used to describe the spectral and topographic microstructure of human spontaneous alpha activity in the drowsiness (DR) period at sleep onset and during REM sleep. Electroencephalographic (EEG), electrooculographic (EOG), and electromyographic (EMG) measurements were obtained during sleep in 10 healthy volunteer subjects. Spectral microstructure of alpha activity during DR showed a significant maximum power with respect to REM-alpha bursts for the components in the 9.7-10.9 Hz range, whereas REM-alpha bursts reached their maximum statistical differentiation from the sleep onset alpha activity at the components between 7.8 and 8.6 Hz. Furthermore, the maximum energy over occipital regions appeared in a different spectral component in each brain activation state, namely, 10.1 Hz in drowsiness and 8.6 Hz in REM sleep. These results provide quantitative information for differentiating the drowsiness alpha activity and REM-alpha by studying their microstructural properties. On the other hand, these data suggest that the spectral microstructure of alpha activity during sleep onset and REM sleep could be a useful index to implement in automatic classification algorithms in order to improve the differentiation between the two brain states.

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