Solid oxide fuel cells for ships: System integration concepts with reforming and thermal cycles

For decades, ships have been propelled by diesel engines. However, there are increasing concerns about their environmental impact. Fuel cells can provide an alternative to convert fuels directly into electricity, with high efficiencies and without hazardous emissions.<br/>Solid oxide fuel cells have a ceramic membrane, which functions at high...

Computational Design of High Temperature Alloys

The development in computational simulation techniques has brought significant progress in the realization of computational alloy design. The advantages are most significant when developing novel materials of which the research &amp; development cycles are particularly time and energy (and hence cost) consuming, such as high-temperature alloys....

Aggregation Phenomena in Atomic Layer Deposition: Bridging Macro and Nano

Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is a gas-phase thin film technology that boasts atomic-level control over the amount of material being deposited. A great deal of research effort has been devoted to the exploitation of ALD precision for the synthesis of nanostructures other than thin films such as supported nanoparticles (NPs). ALD is not only...

Oxidation phenomena in advanced high strength steels: Modelling and experiment

Galvanized advanced high strength steels (AHSS) will be the most competitive structural material for automotive applications in the next decade. Oxidation of AHSS during the recrystalization annealing process in a continuous galvanizing line to a large extent influences the quality of zinc coating on the final galvanized steel product. For...

Tempering of martensitic steel for fasteners: Effects of micro-alloying on microstructure and mechanical property evolution

The research presented in this thesis aims to deepen our understanding of the effect of micro-alloying on the microstructure and mechanical property evolution during tempering of martensitic steel for fasteners. The ongoing trend of engine down-sizing has led to the need for stronger and more temperature resistant fasteners than currently...

Computational design of heat resistant steels with evolving and time-independent strengthening factors

Alloy design by the traditional trial and error approach is known to be a time consuming and a highly cost procedure, especially for the design of heat resistant steel where the feedback time is intrinsically long. The significant developments in computational simulation techniques in the last decades have made a theory-guided computational...

Cyclic Partial Phase Transformations In Low Alloyed Steels: Modeling and Experiments

Mechanical properties of low alloyed steels are directly determined by their microstructures. Thanks to versatility in their microstructures, the mechanical properties of low alloyed steels are much more adjustable than other materials. In the industry, one of the most effective ways to obtain the microstructure for the targeted mechanical...

Crystallization Kinetics in Polymorphic Organic Compounds

Polymorphism is frequently encountered in many pharmaceutical, chemical, and food products. Polymorphs have the same chemical composition but different crystal structures, and therefore differ in their physicochemical properties such as stability, solubility, and bioavailability. These property differences can influence the product performance....

A compartmental analysis of the kinetics of iron uptake by two Antarctic diatoms

Hydrogenases from the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus

Hydrogenase is an electron-transfer protein and catalyses the simplest chemical redox reaction, the reversible two-electron oxidation of molecular hydrogen in aerobic and anaerobic microorganisms. A kinetic study of the hydrogen oxidation reaction by Fe-hydrogenase from Desulfovibrio vulgaris (Hildenborough) reveals a biphasic activation...

Self-sustained high-temperature reactions: Initiation, propagation and synthesis

Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis (SHS), also called combustion synthesis is an exothermic and self-sustained reaction between the constituents, which has assumed significance for the production of ceramics and ceramic-metallic materials (cermets), because it is a very rapid processing technique without the need of complex furnaces....