A parameter sensitivity study for a Soft Yoke Mooring System (SYMS): Developing a design tool

Floating production units require to be permanently moored offshore. For shallow water field developments, typical designs include soft yoke mooring systems which is a single point mooring technology. Produced fluid is transported via a geostatic tower along the transfer hoses to the production unit. Single point mooring systems will weathervane...

Polder system Can Tho City: Impact of the urban polder on Can Tho City

Vietnam is one of the five countries that is severely affected by the consequences of climate change. The extreme weather conditions and the increase of the sea level results in floods in the Mekong Delta, located in the South of Vietnam. Can Tho city, found in the heart of the Mekong Delta, is one of the cities that copes with water related...

Accessing individual 75-micron diameter nozzles of a desktop inkjet printer to dispense picoliter droplets on demand

Desktop inkjet printers are ubiquitous and relatively inexpensive among the variety of available printers. These inkjet printers use an array of micro fluidic pumps, nozzles based on piezoelectric actuation, to dispense individual picoliter volume ink droplets at high speed. In this paper, we show that individual pumps in desktop printers can be...