Technical Papers and Presentations

This work investigates the design of porous ceramic reactors for continuous bioethanol production through simulations using COMSOL Multiphysics®. Porous ceramic structures will be seeded with the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and exposed to a continuous flow of glucose solution, from ... Read More

Macroscopic modeling of fluid flow and thermal diffusion, in a porous medium, requires the description of equivalent properties (permeability, conductivity and diffusivity). However, depending on the microstructure topology of the porous medium and the fluid flow regime at the ... Read More

Porous guided bone regeneration (GBR) meshes are used in dentistry as a mechanical barrier to separate and protect the area of bone loss, providing space for new bone growth. An appropriate pore size can play a role, as important as its space-maintaining properties. The characteristics ... Read More

In the field of industrial marking, continuous inkjet technology is based on high speed emission of ink drops. The printing quality is directly linked to the interactions of the droplets with their environment during flight time : electric field, aerodynamic perturbations, and droplet ... Read More

Nondestructive inspection (NDI) of damages (e.g., imperfect or degraded bonding lines) or the remaining strength of adhesively bonded lap joints is critical for the operational safety of aircrafts and vehicles. It remains a challenge to use the conventional NDI to quantitatively infer ... Read More

For reheating steel slabs in the steel industry fossil energy like natural gas or oil-based fuels is commonly used. Induction heating is one possible way on the transition towards a carbon free steel industry. To support the industries ambition to change from furnaces with fossil energy ... Read More

Micro-lenses with potential applications in optics on the surface of the various heavy-metal oxide glasses were created and studied experimentally [1-2]. Laser direct writing using continuous-wave laser emitting at 447 nm was successfully performed [2]. The aim of this study is to ... Read More

Microfluidics and Biosensors are two principal fields that paved the way for the inception of Lab-on-a-chip (LOC) which provides early and cost-effective disease detection, from monitoring to treatment. LOC is a device that uses very small amounts of fluid on a microchip to do certain ... Read More

The current general context for green production and decarbonation prompts considering alternative solutions to produce high added value byproducts from gas decomposition without producing CO2. Steam Reforming or Combustion processes, widely applied in Industry, need H2O or O2 to ... Read More

Baking is a central production step in the industrial production of edible wafers and waffles. The initially liquid batter is heated with a pair of metallic baking plates. Establishing a uniform and accurate temperature at the baking face (inner baking plate surface) is crucial for ... Read More