López Jiménez, Petra Amparo; Pérez Sánchez, Modesto(2022-08-02)
El consumo energético de la sociedad a nivel mundial se ha incrementado hasta en un 600% en el último siglo. Este aumento ha sido el resultado directo del crecimiento de la población desde la revolución industrial, en la ...
Fuertes-Miquel, Vicente S.; Coronado-Hernández, Oscar E.; Mora-Melia, Daniel; Iglesias Rey, Pedro Luís(Taylor & Francis, 2019-04-21)
[EN] Filling and emptying processes are common maneuvers while operating, controlling and managing water pipeline systems. Currently, these operations are executed following recommendations from technical manuals and pipe ...
Padilla Sáez, Miguel(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-01-12)
The task of this thesis is to study the role of the tank configuration in the hydraulic system and how it and its components help the fluid to obtain good working conditions. One of the major breakdowns encountered in a ...
[EN] Armor erosion due to wave attack has been studied intensively since it is considered the main failure mode of mound breakwaters. Cube-armored mound breakwaters in depth-limited breaking wave conditions are common in ...
Herrera Gamboa, María Piedad; Molines, Jorge; Medina, Josep R.(Elsevier, 2016)
[EN] When mound breakwaters are placed on steep sea bottoms in combination with very shallow waters, the design of the toe berm becomes a relevant issue. Toe berms built close to the water surface on a steep sea bottom ...
Herrera Gamboa, María Piedad; GÓMEZ-MARTÍN, M. ESTHER; Medina, Josep R.(Elsevier, 2017)
[EN] Armor layers of mound breakwaters are usually designed with empirical formulas based on small-scale tests in non-breaking wave conditions. However, most rubble mound breakwaters are constructed in the depth-induced ...
[EN] Mound breakwaters with significant overtopping rates in depth-limited conditions are common in practice due to social concern about the visual impact of coastal structures and sea level rise due to climatic change. ...
Soriano Olivares, Javier; Arregui de la Cruz, Francisco; Espert Alemany, Vicent B.; García-Serra García, Jorge(Taylor & Francis, 2014-12-20)
This paper consists of an experimental and numerical study into transient behaviour in a residential building. The analysed effects occur by centrifugal pumps when they start with a direct supply (fixed-speed pumps are ...
Payá Herrero, Jorge; Freni, A.; Corberán Salvador, José Miguel; Compañ Moreno, Vicente(ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE MONTREAL, C P 6079, SUCC CENTRE-VILLE, MONTREAL, CANADA, PQ, H3C 3A7, 2012)
[EN] In this paper, the hydriding kinetics of a LaNi5 alloy have been measured with a thermo-gravimetric system. The rate controlling
steps have been analyzed. In the ¿+ß phase, a first order Johnson-Mehl-Avrami model ...
Lima Santos, Leonardo Bacelar; Miranda, Tiago Nogueira Sá; Décia Fratari, Jéssika Caroline; Baldo Bacelar, Roberta; Medina, Camila Beltrão; de Carvalho, Solon Venâncio(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-01-01)
[EN] The physical object of watershed is so important for hydrological monitoring as their concept is for education
in natural disasters. The open library HydroC promotes the delineation of watersheds from relatively
simple ...
Morell, P.; Fiszman Dal Santo, Susana; Varela Tomasco, Paula Alejandra; Hernando Hernando, Mª Isabel(Elsevier, 2014-12)
Satiety expectations can be closely related to the structural changes that take place in the mouth. An
important role of hydrocolloids is to impart viscosity, which has a key effect on the feelings of richness,
mouthcoating ...
[EN] Mobile robotics has allowed remote exploration of terrestrial,
aerial and aquatic environments; environments that present
conditions where human could not bear; e.g., extreme
temperatures, extremely low or high-pressure ...
Muñoz-Cobo González, José Luís; Herranz Puebla, Luis Enrique; Escrivá Castells, Facundo Alberto(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012-12)
In this work we study the hydrodynamics of characteristic gas jets resulting from guillotine breaks of steam generator tube rupture sequences (SGTR) in pressurized nuclear power reactors. As an initial step towards describing ...
Alcañiz Brull, Néstor(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2023-09-15)
[ES] El trabajo consiste en el diseño de dos hydrofoils diferentes. Estos hydrofoils irían unidos a la parte de bajo de una tabla de surf con la finalidad de practicar deportes como el kitefoil o el wingfoil. Cada uno de ...
Palumbo, Fabrizio; Andreu Ros, María Inmaculada; Brunetti, M.; Schmallegger, Max; Gescheidt, Georg; Neshchadin, Dmytro; Miranda Alonso, Miguel Ángel(American Chemical Society, 2019-12-06)
[EN] Cholesterol (Ch) is an integral part of cell membrane, where it is prone to oxidation. In humans, oxidation of Ch is commonly linked to various pathologies like Alzheimer's disease, atherosclerosis, and even cancer, ...
Otero Arean, C.; Turnes Palomino, G.; Llop Carayol, M. R.; Pulido Junquera, Maria Angeles; Rubes, M.; Bludsky, O.; Nachtigall, P.(Elsevier, 2009-07-28)
[EN] Adsorption of H(2) on the zeolite Ca-A was investigated by a combination of variable temperature IR spectroscopy and calculations at the periodic DFT level. Calculations showed that adsorption complexes can be formed ...
Giner-Sanz, Juan José; Ortega Navarro, Emma María; Pérez-Herranz, Valentín(Elsevier, 2014)
[EN] Open circuit losses encompass a set of phenomena that reduce PEM fuel cell (PEMFC) efficiency,
especially at low current densities. Properly modelling these losses is crucial for
obtaining PEMFC models that reproduce ...
Gómez Delicado, Carmen(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2022-10-20)
[ES] En un contexto en el que la decarbonización del sistema energético es tan importante, el hidrógeno podría jugar un papel clave. Se espera que el hidrógeno se convierta en uno de los vectores energéticos más importantes ...
Escolástico Rozalén, Sonia; Solis Díaz, Cecilia; Serra Alfaro, José Manuel(Elsevier, 2012-05-28)
[EN] This work presents the preparation and characterization of the hydrogen permeation of a mixed protonic-electronic conducting membrane based on the doped system La6WO12, in this instance, (La5/6Nd1/6)(5.5)WO12-delta. ...