UNIVERSITÉ SAINT-JOSEPH Faculté d’ingénierie E.S.I.B. Cursus Génie Electrique et Mécanique Semestre 2 Dedicated Heat Recovery Chiller Mai 2011 Responsable: Mr. Said CHEHAB Binȏme: Bassam RASHED Elie HAJJ MOUSSA Introduction Over the past few years‚ Air Conditioning witnessed immense new changes that are changing the way we see ACs from an addition to necessary. The new trend in construction is green. Greener buildings greener technologies‚ everything tends to lower the carbon foot
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The topic I have chosen to look at in this essay is to "discuss the principal ways in which heat is gained by and lost from the body‚ and explain the various mechanisms involved in regulation of body temperature. Briefly indicate how excessive cold and heat affect the body". The body gains and loses heat through the external environment by radiation‚ conduction‚ convection and evaporation of water. These are all physical mechanisms known to the human body. (Vander‚ Sherman & Luciano 1998). Radiation
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To what extent does heat exposure affect an athlete? Heat exposure is a factor that is essential to be considered by athletes to maximise performance level. Researchers have investigated that excessive heat exposure or exercise hyperthermia has detrimental effects on exercise physiology. Little is understood regarding the effects of hyperthermia and how heat exposure affects the body. Localised heat studies using water immersion to increase muscle temperature have been conducted to investigate the
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cheese. Lactic acid bacteria(LAB)‚ a bacteria that can be found in the production of cheese‚ its stress gene was investigated in the experiment by using various biochemical and genetic techniques to identify and extract. The characterisation of the strain illustrates how identification of strains differ using different methods‚ such as gram stain and 16s rRNA screening. After the characterisation‚ the stress gene isolation assist the further understanding of the gene on LAB be giving different stress
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Solutions to Problems (Übungen) to Lecture-1 of Lecture Series “Heat Transfer – 1” Institut für Energieverfahrenstechnik und Brennstofftechnik‚ TU Clausthal‚ SS 2005 1.1 A heat rate of 5 kW is conducted through a cross section area of 20 m2 and thickness of 3 cm. If the inner (hot) surface temperature is 600ºC and the thermal conductivity of the material is 0.5 W/mK‚ what is the outer surface temperature? Solution: Tout = 585 °C 1.2 The heat flux through a wood slab 50 mm thick‚ whose inner and outer
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latent heat of fusion for water Specific latent heat is the amount of heat energy that is needed to change the state of one kilogram of a specific substance‚ whether it’s boiling or melting‚ without increasing or decreasing the temperature of the substance. Specific latent heat of fusion is the amount of heat energy that is needed to change a specific substance from solid to liquid. The specific latent heat of fusion for water is 334 KJ/ KG. Each substance has its own specific latent heat of fusion
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Classis heat stroke usually affects sedentary elderly individuals‚ chronically ill persons‚ and young persons. Exertional heat stroke occurs more often in younger‚ healthy individuals who actively in strenuous physical activities . Classic heat stroke caused by exposure to particularly hot environment for a long periods of time. Exertional heat stroke caused by an intense activity in a hot environment. The symptoms of heat stroke include high body temperature‚ mental changes‚ for instance confusion
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of the specialized underlying structures of these life-forms. In order for us to appreciate these special adaptation‚ we first need to know how a typical plant or an animal cell organelle behaves in different water and solute concentrations. In this lab‚ we will determine the effects of hypertonic‚ isotonic and hypotonic solutions on plant and animal cells. In general when an animals cell’s placed in hypertonic solution it shrivels; a plant cell on the other hand undergoes plasmolysis. When an animal
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multiple aspects such as meteorological‚ sociological‚ political‚ ethnographic‚ political‚ and journalistic aspects to explain the Heat Wave of 1995 in Chicago. My preliminary diagnoses of the cause of the high death rate would be that the heat wave worsened the health of Chicagoans who were already diagnosed with serious health conditions. The author poses a question that the heat wave may have affected the individuals who were already stricken with a disease. These individuals include African Americans
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The Plant Cell‚ Vol. 17‚ 1829–1838‚ June 2005‚ www.plantcell.org ª 2005 American Society of Plant Biologists Dual Role for Tomato Heat Shock Protein 21: Protecting Photosystem II from Oxidative Stress and Promoting Color Changes during Fruit Maturation Inbal Neta-Sharir‚a Tal Isaacson‚b Susan Lurie‚c and David Weissa‚1 a Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture‚ Faculty of Agricultural‚ Food‚ and Environmental Quality Sciences‚ Hebrew University of Jerusalem‚ Rehovot
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