Investigation into the Pyrolysis of Medical Waste in a Fixed-Bed Reactor

Journal of Engineering Physics and Thermophysics - An experimental investigation has been conducted into the pyrolysis of typical medical waste components in a fixed-bed reactor with a view to...     

Boiling: Size Distribution of Bubbles as Demanded by the Principle of Maximum Information

The principle of maximum informational entropy is used to find the probability density function for the departure radius of a bubble in boiling on a solid surface. A general relation is derived, which leads to particular expressions.     

Provision for bearing capacity of permafrost soils in conditions of climate warming

Results are given from numerical calculations of the change in temperature conditions of the permafrost layer and its strength properties with possible warming of the air temperature by 2–4°C in the next 60 years. The effect of these changes on the bearing capacity of permafrost soils and the associated stability of structures erected in the permafrost zone is evaluated. Measures that provide for stability of these structures by using the natural cold of the North are discussed. It is taken into account that the natural temperature of the permafrost layer changes in a meridional direction from north to south, and that, in connection with this, the sensitivity of permafrost soil to a thermal action also changes.Moscow State Construction University. Production and Scientific Research Institute of Construction Engineering Surveys. Leningrad Zonal Scientific Research Institute of Standard and Experimental Design of Residential and Public Buildings. Translated from Osnovaniya, Fundamenty i Mekhanika Gruntov, No. 6, pp. 2–6, November–December, 1993.