The 400 million tons of waste plastic are disposed of around the world. A study reported by SINTEF estimates that the Norwegian fishing fleet dumps around 380 tons of plastic material in the ocean each year. This waste is increasing at an alarming rate, threatening aquatic life, polluting the environment, and causing serious diseases. Since this waste includes hydrocarbons and is a massive source ...

The sense of cold develops due to the increase in heat loss from a human body. Excessive cold can be a health hazard, since excessive heat loss from the body may result in hypothermia/frostbite. Decreased body temperature due to heat loss also affects the physical, manual and perceptive performance of individuals. Therefore, protective measures are taken through clothing that controls and regulates ...

Studies report that writing skills of many beginner students in Norwegian higher education institutions are not adequately developed, showing a lack of critical thinking and referencing technique and a poor requisite language ability (Lødding and Aamodt 2015, Wollcheid et al. 2020). Literature also shows that a traditional lecture setting does not help students to enhance their learning autonomy ...

Composite materials are becoming more popular in technological applications due to the significant weight savings and strength these materials offer compared to metallic materials. In many of these practical situations, the structures suffer from drop impact loads. Materials and structures significantly change their behavior when submitted to impact loading conditions as compared to quasi-static ...

Refrigerated seawater (RSW) cooling using CO2 based refrigeration is a relatively new technology that shows promising performance in cold climates. For being a refrigerant CO2 has a low global warming potential (GWP) and is therefore recognized as an environmentally friendly alternative if the unit is competitive on energy efficiency. However, RSW systems with CO2 have a significant reduction in ...

Process models using simplified heat exchanger (HE) models are often analyzed using methods based on derivatives or optimization procedures, where even small numerical errors can cause algorithms to fail. This article explores the use of numerical approximations for calculating pinch temperature and UA-value, including novel high-order polynomial methods using equidistant and Chebyshev grids. The ...

Polar mesospheric summer echoes (PMSE) are radar echoes that are observed in the mesosphere during the arctic summer months in the polar regions. By studying PMSE, researchers can gain insights into physical and chemical processes that occur in the upper atmosphere—specifically, in the 80 to 90 km altitude range. In this paper, we employ fully convolutional networks such as UNET and UNET++ for ...

The study presented in this paper concerns the ventilation system inside tunnels. The ventilation system is responsible for the removal of exhaust gases produced by vehicles and for providing a clear view throughout the tunnels in routine operations and in the event of fire. The ventilation system has several stages, which are equipped with one or more fans and can be activated together or separately. ...

Windtech technology is based on a novel patented technique of measuring cold exposure (UK Patent Office Application Number: 1914757.8, titled: Measuring cold exposure, dated: 11th October 2019). In this technology, the cold is measured via the response of an electrical heater exposed to environmental elements such as ambient temperature, wind, humidity, and irradiance. In this technology, the heater ...