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EPFL2012

Effective interfacial area for mass transfer in the liquid-liquid slug flow capillary microreactors

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Liquid-liquid biphasic reactions play an important role in the chemical and pharmaceutical Industries The liquid-liquid slug flow capillary microreactor offers considerable potential benefits over the conventional liquid-liquid contactors Though the hydrod ...

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Elsevier Ltd2009

Development of the control assembly pattern and dynamic analysis of the generation IV large gas-cooled fast reactor (GFR)

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During the past ten years, different independent factors, such as the rapidly increasing worldwide demand in energy, societal concerns about greenhouse gas emissions, and the high and volatile prices for fossil fuels, have contributed to the renewed intere ...

EPFL2009

Internal gelation at PSI. The past and the future

Manuel Alexandre Pouchon

The Paul Scherrer Institute used to be very active in fuel fabrication R and D using the internal gelation process, which is a promising production method for spherical nuclear fuel. Such fuel kernels can be directly packed in a cylindrical cladding (a sph ...

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Development and application of an advanced fuel model for the safety analysis of the generation IV gas-cooled fast reactor

Petr Petkevich

Until about the year 2030, current-day nuclear power plants (NPPs) will be replaced by so-called Gen-III or Gen-III+ units, which are mainly based on light water reactor technology. The principal new features are increased safety and improved economical ef ...

EPFL2008

A modular bio-inspired architecture for movement generation for the infant-like robot iCub

Auke Ijspeert, Ludovic Righetti, Sarah Dégallier Rochat

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Bootstrap current compensation with electron-cyclotron waves in 3D reactor-size configurations

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