End-of-life tires are an increasingly important environmental burden. Since retreading is only partly possible, safe and economic methods of disposal need to be developed. Pyrolysis of ELTs, and subsequent upgrading/application of the produced energy carriers, is considered a valuable treatment method. In order to design the process, numerous opera...
Heating and cooling are responsible for over 50% of the world’s final energy consumption, and over 40% of global CO2 emissions. With an increasingly decarbonised electricity grid, the electrification of heating offers one potential alternative to the incumbent, heavily fossil-fuel dominated heating system. However, the high penetration of renewable...
Published in Biochimica et biophysica acta. Bioenergetics
The mitochondrion is often referred as the cellular powerhouse because the organelle oxidizes organic acids and NADH derived from nutriments, converting around 40% of the Gibbs free energy change of these reactions into ATP, the major energy currency of cell metabolism. Mitochondria are thus microscopic furnaces that inevitably release heat as a by...
Direct microwave heating of 3Y-ZrO 2 is studied at frequency of 2.45 GHz. Different conditions of input power, sample position and size are tested. For the first time, the experimentally known instability of microwave sintering is explained coupling the effective medium approximation and finite-element method. We show how the material dielectric pe...
The microwave sintering homogeneity of large and complex shape specimens is analyzed. A new approach enabling the fabrication of complex shapes ceramics via 3D printing and microwave sintering is presented. The use of a dental microwave cavity is shown to enable a substantial level of densification of complex shape components while restricting the ...
Published in Food chemistry
Clear acidic protein beverages have a niche market. Acidification of skim milk powder (SMP) dispersions to pH 3.0 using citric acid (CA) lowers turbidity but the dispersion remains translucent. The present study aimed at comparing physicochemical properties of 5% w/v SMP dispersions acidified to pH 3.0 using chelating gluconic acid (GA) and CA and ...
Published in SN Applied Sciences
This work investigates probable changes during repeated heating and cooling cycles on some index and engineering properties of some lateritic soils. Bulk soil samples were taken within Ilorin metropolis. These samples were oven dried for 24 h at 110 oC and cooled naturally to room temperature. This procedure was repeated four times. The effect of c...
Published in Journal of thermal biology
The effects of pharmacological stimulation of skin ion channels TRPA1, TRPM8, TRPV1 on the immune response are presented. These effects are compared with the effects of different types of temperature exposures - skin cooling, deep cooling, and deep heating. This analysis allows us to clear the differences in the influence on the immune response of ...
Published in Journal of Virological Methods
Pandemic SARS-CoV-2 infection has rapidly developed into a socioeconomic and humanitarian catastrophe. Basic principles to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission are social distancing, face masks, contact tracing and early detection of SARS-CoV-2. To meet these requirements, virtually unlimited test capacities delivering results in a rapid and reliable ma...
Published in International Journal of Biometeorology
There is substantial epidemiological evidence on the associations between cold weather and adverse health effects. Meteorological alarm systems are being developed globally, and generalized protective advice is given to the public based on outdoor exposure parameters. It is not clear how these shared outdoor exposure parameters relate to the indivi...
