Galli, M.; Rapisarda, M.(Sissa Medialab Srl, 2008)
Eight years after the last EGRET observations in gamma-ray, the GRID (30 MeV - 50 GeV) and SuperAGILE (18 - 60 keV) experiments on board the AGILE mission observed the Virgo sky from December 16, 2007 and January 6, 2008. ...
Commercial buildings or shopping malls are characterized by large thermal and electrical energy consumptions with high variability of energy demand. Therefore, there is a large interest to explore novel renewable energy ...
Rinaldi, A.(European Powder Metallurgy Association (EPMA), 2017)
Mechanical response and properties of WC-Co composites, at macro-scale, are influenced by their microstructural characteristics such as mean carbide grain size and binder mean free path. However, information at micro-scale ...
Hybrid vehicles are one of the most important choices to improve efficiency and reduce CO2 production of vehicles. Benefits in using hybrid powertrains are generally found in urban environment where lower average speeds, ...
Cherubini, N.; Dodaro, A.; Marzo, G.A.; Piccinelli, E.(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)
The increasing of terror menace in recent years led the international community to enhance the efforts to minimize threats to people in everyday life by developing devices, techniques, and procedures targeted to improve ...
Dongiovanni, D.N.(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)
The DEMOnstration Fusion power Plant (DEMO) will be a key step towards Fusion Power Plant technology. It represents the single step to a commercial fusion power plant, in charge of demonstrating the viability of relevant ...
Polidori, M.; Cervone, A.; Piazza, I.D.(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)
In the frame of the SESAME project, a benchmarking activity was proposed to validate the existing system thermal-hydraulics codes for Heavy Liquid Metal reactors. More specifically, blind simulations on three well-defined ...
Nitti, F.S.; Tarantino, M.(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)
Heat removal systems are of major importance for both present and future nuclear power plants as they belong to the set of systems devoted to ensure the integrity of the reactor core and to avoid core damage. The past ...
This paper presents a numerical study of the influence of piston shape and injector geometry on combustion and emissions characteristics of a direct-injection spark-ignition engine fueled by syngas (50% by volume of hydrogen, ...
Tarantino, M.(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)
In the framework of the ALFRED design (Advanced Lead Fast Reactor European Demonstrator) for DEMO-LFR, a new concept of steam generator (SG) has been proposed consisting in a double wall bayonet tube bundle which improves ...
Di Piazza, I.; Tarantino, M.; Polazzi, G.; Sermenghi, V.(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)
An experimental campaign was performed on a non-uniformly heated 19-pins wire-spaced fuel pin bundle simulator, cooled by Heavy Liquid Metal and installed in the NACIE-UP (NAtural CIrculation Experiment-UPgrade) facility ...
In this study, a new configuration where syngas produced by downdraft gasifier is feed directly in an externally fired air turbine is discussed. Attention was posed towards the critical component of this configuration: the ...
Cappelli, M.; Lopresto, V.; Cecchi, R.(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)
The aim of this work is to show a preliminary investigation on the propagation of electromagnetic fields generated by wireless technologies inside a nuclear facility or power plant. First, a survey of currently proposed ...
Di Piazza, I.; Tarantino, M.(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)
A detailed safety assessment of innovative Generation IV reactor designs with heavy-liquid metal coolants, such as lead and lead-bismuth eutectic (LBE), requires an evaluation of the maximum core temperature in several ...