This week’s Top 5 engineering technology articles span all walks of life and potentially death on this planet and others.
- CFD Modelling Of Peat Combustion In A Standard Duoflex Burner
- Speedy Ion Conduction In Solid Electrolytes Clears Road For Advanced Energy Devices
- A BB-8-Style Rover Could Help Us Explore Rough Martian Terrain
- A Biotech Company Has Been Given Permission To Try To Resurrect The Clinically Dead
- Hopefully You’ll Never Need to Use Polycom’s High-Tech Prison Phone
CFD Modelling Of Peat Combustion In A Standard Duoflex Burner
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It’s easy to think of engineering technology being present in a smartphone, an automobile, or a reusable rocket. Most people, however, probably don’t think of cement when considering advanced technology. This is exactly what has been done in terms of the burner functionality on a rotary kiln.
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By using CFD modeling they can use varied amounts of fuel or different fuels altogether when burning peat in a kiln. By modeling different fuels, they were able to come up with sustained operations that worked better than traditional methods.
Speedy Ion Conduction In Solid Electrolytes Clears Road For Advanced Energy Devices
Phys.org
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Battery technology has evolved over the years. When batteries first became available as a portable source of power, whole new worlds opened up in terms of technology. Then, when rechargeable battery technology became commercially available, there was another leap forward.
Rechargeable car batteries have also been making advancements over the past decade or so. And now, ion conduction in solid electrolytes is helping batteries leap forward again. A team at the Oak Ridge National Lab has found a previously undetected feature that they believe will help faster ion transport. By increasing the conductivity of a solid electrolyte, it puts us well on the path to having high-power and high-energy batteries.
So, the next generation of Tesla models combined with a viable battery from this discovery could easily put us well down the path toward the green initiatives that will ultimately benefit the entire planet.
A BB-8-Style Rover Could Help Us Explore Rough Martian Terrain
Popular Science
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Watching the latest Star Wars movie introduced the world to BB-8, the latest droid of the franchise. What appears to be a soccer ball with a head rolls smoothly over sand dunes, stones, within a spaceship, and in a wooded area. It is this movie magic mobility that has researchers feel could be applied in a real life, real world exploration of Mars.
Engineers at North Carolina State University have been working on a spherical rover for a while. The difference is that their robot pulls back into a sphere when the terrain does not allow for wheeled operation.
By having an adaptable prototype, the research team is hoping to combat the vast and varied Martian terrain so that they are able to learn about all of the different features of our neighboring planet. And if their prototype turns out to have a similar look to a droid in a galaxy far, far away, so be it.
A Biotech Company Has Been Given Permission To Try To Resurrect The Clinically Dead
Science Alert
There are times when science advances the human way of life in such a way that you can’t even imagine the time period before the advancement. And now, a company may find a way to cross the last boundary. The highly definitive boundary between life and death.
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A biotech company called Bioquark is attempting to reanimate the central nervous systems of clinically dead patients. If they can spark reanimation in the upper area of the spinal cord, it may be able to stimulate the brain stem for necessary functions like breathing and the beating of a patient’s heart.
Within the trial, there will be four methods of treatment on the clinical patients. And if one or more of those methods prove to be successful perhaps the final frontier of death may not be so final after all.
Hopefully You’ll Never Need to Use Polycom’s High-Tech Prison Phone
Wired
Most people don’t go twenty-four hours without using a little invention called a phone. And, though frequently cranky about using the device, most people find that they wouldn’t be able to get along with one.
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There is one phone that I don’t know that I’d want to use anytime in the near future. And that’s the new phone developed for prisons. But in terms of engineering technology, it shows how two items in the same vein for the same function can be vastly different in what they need to perform properly.
A durable handset, a smash-proof screen, a steel housing that can’t be pried open, screws that won’t react to a makeshift screwdriver, and several other prison centric features make this phone viable for the purpose it serves on a day to day basis.
So, that’s all for me this week. Keep your eyes open and ready for new technology within engineering to appear.
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