Summary of Existing Models of the Ni-P Coating Electroless Deposition Process: MODELS OF THE NI-P COATING ELECTROLESS DEPOSITION PROCESS (2013)
Journal Article
Stankiewicz, A., Szczygieł, I., & Szczygieł, B. (2013). Summary of Existing Models of the Ni-P Coating Electroless Deposition Process: MODELS OF THE NI-P COATING ELECTROLESS DEPOSITION PROCESS. International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, 45(11), 755-762. https://doi.org/10.1002/kin.20810

Electroless nickel-phosphorous plating is a technique often employed in preparation of protective, decorative, and functional coatings. Several feasible mechanisms are discussed in the literature. The influence of process parameters on metal coating... Read More about Summary of Existing Models of the Ni-P Coating Electroless Deposition Process: MODELS OF THE NI-P COATING ELECTROLESS DEPOSITION PROCESS.

Fabrication and characterisation of planar and tubular solid oxide fuel cell anodes (2013)
Thesis
Zhang, Y. Fabrication and characterisation of planar and tubular solid oxide fuel cell anodes. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6071

Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) are energy conversion devices that convert the chemical energy of a fuel directly into electricity and useful heat, where the latter is recovered at the device’s high working temperature. SOFCs have become important in... Read More about Fabrication and characterisation of planar and tubular solid oxide fuel cell anodes.

Diagnosis of induction machines under non-stationary conditions: Concepts and tools (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Riera-Guasp, M., Pons-Llinares, J., Climente-Alarcon, V., Vedreno-Santos, F., Pineda-Sanchez, M., Antonino-Daviu, J., Puche-Panadero, R., Perez-Cruz, J., & Roger-Folch, J. (2013, March). Diagnosis of induction machines under non-stationary conditions: Concepts and tools. Presented at 2013 IEEE Workshop on Electrical Machines Design, Control and Diagnosis (WEMDCD)

This paper is focused on fault diagnostic
methodologies suited for induction machines which are
subjected to fluctuating loads and speeds during their normal
duty cycle. In these cases, the load and speed fluctuate
continuously, near their rated... Read More about Diagnosis of induction machines under non-stationary conditions: Concepts and tools.

Lattice summations for spread out particles: Applications to neutral and charged systems (2013)
Journal Article
Heyes, D. M., & Brańka, A. C. (2013). Lattice summations for spread out particles: Applications to neutral and charged systems. Journal of Chemical Physics, 138(3), Article 034504. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4775367

This work is concerned with the lattice energy of periodic assemblies of mass and charge distributions of the form, exp (−αp 2), where α is an adjustable positive variable and p − is the vector from the lattice site or average position. The energy... Read More about Lattice summations for spread out particles: Applications to neutral and charged systems.

Impedance spectroscopy studies of electroless Ni-P matrix, Ni-W-P, Ni-P-ZrO 2 , and Ni-W-P-ZrO 2 coatings exposed to 3.5% NaCl solution : Impedance spectroscopy studies (2012)
Journal Article
Stankiewicz, A., Masalski, J., & Szczygieł, B. (2013). Impedance spectroscopy studies of electroless Ni-P matrix, Ni-W-P, Ni-P-ZrO 2 , and Ni-W-P-ZrO 2 coatings exposed to 3.5% NaCl solution : Impedance spectroscopy studies. Materials and corrosion : with International Corrosion abstracts = Werkstoffe und Korrosion : Organ der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Korrosion und der Dechema-Beratungsstelle für Werkstoff-Fragen, 64(10), 908-913. https://doi.org/10.1002/maco.201206856

Ni–P matrix, ternary Ni–W–P and Ni–P–ZrO2 coatings, and quaternary Ni–W–P–ZrO2 coatings were deposited using electroless method from a glycine bath. Their corrosion resistance was evaluated by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) for various... Read More about Impedance spectroscopy studies of electroless Ni-P matrix, Ni-W-P, Ni-P-ZrO 2 , and Ni-W-P-ZrO 2 coatings exposed to 3.5% NaCl solution : Impedance spectroscopy studies.

Diagnosis of eccentricity in induction machines working under fluctuating load conditions, through the instantaneous frequency (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vedreno-Santos, F., Riera-Guasp, M., Henao, H., Pineda-Sanchez, M., & Antonino-Daviu, J. A. (2012, October). Diagnosis of eccentricity in induction machines working under fluctuating load conditions, through the instantaneous frequency. Presented at IECON 2012 - 38th Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

This paper introduces a methodology for diagnosing
mixed eccentricity fault in squirrel cage induction machines
which work under variable load conditions in generator or motor
mode; the method is based on the extraction of the instantaneous
frequ... Read More about Diagnosis of eccentricity in induction machines working under fluctuating load conditions, through the instantaneous frequency.

Electric machines diagnosis techniques via transient current analysis (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pons-Llinares, J., Climente-Alarcon, V., Vedreno-Santos, F., Antonino-Daviu, J., & Riera-Guasp, M. (2012, October). Electric machines diagnosis techniques via transient current analysis. Presented at IECON 2012 - 38th Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

Induction motor condition monitoring has primarily
relied on the analysis of currents during steady-state operation
through the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). Nonetheless, this
conventional approach has many constraints, most of them
related to th... Read More about Electric machines diagnosis techniques via transient current analysis.

Diagnosis of faults in induction generators under fluctuating load conditions through the instantaneous frequency of the fault components (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vedreno-Santos, F., Riera-Guasp, M., Henao, H., & Pineda-Sanchez, M. (2012, September). Diagnosis of faults in induction generators under fluctuating load conditions through the instantaneous frequency of the fault components. Presented at 2012 XXth International Conference on Electrical Machines

This paper introduces a methodology for
improving the reliability of diagnosis of different types of
faults in wound rotor induction generators which works under
variable load conditions; the method is based on the extraction
of the Instantaneous... Read More about Diagnosis of faults in induction generators under fluctuating load conditions through the instantaneous frequency of the fault components.

Vibration transient detection of broken bars by PSH sidebands (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Climente-Alarcon, V., Antonino-Daviu, J., Vedreno-Santos, F., & Puche-Panadero, R. (2012, September). Vibration transient detection of broken bars by PSH sidebands. Presented at 2012 XXth International Conference on Electrical Machines

Abstract:
In recent years, the study of transients of induction motors for diagnosis purposes has gained strength in order to overcome some inherent problems of the classical diagnosis of such machines, which uses Fourier analysis of steady-state qu... Read More about Vibration transient detection of broken bars by PSH sidebands.

Diagnosis of rotor asymmetries in wound rotor induction generators operating under varying load conditions via the Wigner-Ville Distribution (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Climente-Alarcon, V., Riera-Guasp, M., Antonino-Daviu, J., Roger-Folch, J., & Vedreno-Santos, F. (2012, June). Diagnosis of rotor asymmetries in wound rotor induction generators operating under varying load conditions via the Wigner-Ville Distribution. Presented at International Symposium on Power Electronics Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion

Fault diagnosis in wind generators is drawing
increasing attention among the scientific community and
maintenance companies, due to the crucial contribution of
this renewable power source in the electric power
generation map. These machines usual... Read More about Diagnosis of rotor asymmetries in wound rotor induction generators operating under varying load conditions via the Wigner-Ville Distribution.

On the Influence of Surfactant Incorporation during Electroless Nickel Plating (2012)
Journal Article
Nwosu, N., Davidson, A., Hindle, C., & Barker, M. (2012). On the Influence of Surfactant Incorporation during Electroless Nickel Plating. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 51(16), 5635-5644. https://doi.org/10.1021/ie202625n

The effects of surfactants on the dynamics and characteristics of plain and composite electroless nickel plating (ENP) are highlighted and discussed herein. An outline of the rudiments of surfactants and some underlying selection criteria is presente... Read More about On the Influence of Surfactant Incorporation during Electroless Nickel Plating.

Pressure dependence of confined liquid behavior subjected to boundary-driven shear (2012)
Journal Article
Heyes, D. M., Smith, E. R., Dini, D., Spikes, H. A., & Zaki, T. A. (2012). Pressure dependence of confined liquid behavior subjected to boundary-driven shear. Journal of Chemical Physics, 136(13), Article 134705. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3698601

Non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations of boundary-driven sheared Lennard-Jones liquids at variable pressure up to 5 GPa (for argon) reveal a rich out-of-equilibrium phase behavior with a strong degree of shear localization. At the lowest app... Read More about Pressure dependence of confined liquid behavior subjected to boundary-driven shear.

Electroless deposition of Ni–P–nano-ZrO2 composite coatings in the presence of various types of surfactants (2012)
Journal Article
Zielińska, K., Stankiewicz, A., & Szczygieł, I. (2012). Electroless deposition of Ni–P–nano-ZrO2 composite coatings in the presence of various types of surfactants. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 377(1), 362-367. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2012.03.049

Ni–P–nano-ZrO2 coatings were produced using the electroless deposition technique. To prevent agglomeration of zirconia nanoparticles in the plating bath, various surfactant additives (anionic, cationic, and nonionic) were used. The most stable bath w... Read More about Electroless deposition of Ni–P–nano-ZrO2 composite coatings in the presence of various types of surfactants.

New antenna designs for wideband harmonic suppression using adaptive surface meshing and genetic algorithms (2011)
Journal Article
Zhou, D., Abd-Alhameed, R., See, C. . H., Bin-Melha, M., Zainal-Abdin, Z., & Excell, P. (2011). New antenna designs for wideband harmonic suppression using adaptive surface meshing and genetic algorithms. IET microwaves, antennas & propagation, 5(9), 1054-1061. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-map.2010.0218

A novel design strategy for microstrip harmonic-suppression antennas is presented. The computational method is based on an integral equation solver using adaptive surface meshing driven by a genetic algorithm (GA). Three examples are illustrated, all... Read More about New antenna designs for wideband harmonic suppression using adaptive surface meshing and genetic algorithms.

Evaluating an emergent behaviour algorithm in JCSP for energy conservation in lighting systems. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kosek, A., Syed, A., & Kerridge, J. (2011, June). Evaluating an emergent behaviour algorithm in JCSP for energy conservation in lighting systems. Presented at 33rd Communicating Process Architecture (CPA) conference

Since the invention of the light bulb, artificial light is accompanying people all around the world every day and night. As the light bulb itself evolved a lot through years, light control systems are still switch-based and require users to make most... Read More about Evaluating an emergent behaviour algorithm in JCSP for energy conservation in lighting systems..

Evaluation of the amplitudes of high-order fault related components in double bar faults (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Riera-Guasp, M., Pons-Llinares, J., Vedreno-Santos, F., Antonino-Daviu, J., & Fernandez Cabanas, M. (2011, September). Evaluation of the amplitudes of high-order fault related components in double bar faults. Presented at 8th IEEE Symposium on Diagnostics for Electrical Machines, Power Electronics & Drives

This paper addresses the problem of diagnosing
cage motors with double bar breakages involving nonconsecutive
rotor bars. As it is stated in previous works, the
conventional diagnosis approaches fail when diagnosing this
fault for certain relativ... Read More about Evaluation of the amplitudes of high-order fault related components in double bar faults.

State assignment for sequential circuits using multi-objective genetic algorithm (2011)
Journal Article
Al-Jassani, B. A., Urquhart, N. B., & Almaini, A. E. A. (2011). State assignment for sequential circuits using multi-objective genetic algorithm. IET Computers and Digital Techniques, 5, 296-305. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-cdt.2010.0045

In this study, a new approach using a multi-objective genetic algorithm (MOGA) is proposed to determine the optimal state assignment with less area and power dissipations for completely and incompletely specified sequential circuits. The goal is to f... Read More about State assignment for sequential circuits using multi-objective genetic algorithm.

Fringing effects in re-entrant and Inverted re-entrant turnstile waveguide junctions using cylindrical resonators. (2011)
Journal Article
Helszajn, J., & Sharp, J. (2011). Fringing effects in re-entrant and Inverted re-entrant turnstile waveguide junctions using cylindrical resonators. IET microwaves, antennas & propagation, 5, 1109-1115. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-map.2010.0393

One waveguide network is a 5-port turnstile junction consisting of three H-plane waveguides with a circular quarter wave long resonator on its axis, open circuited at one end and short circuited at the other. It is readily converted to a turnstile 3-... Read More about Fringing effects in re-entrant and Inverted re-entrant turnstile waveguide junctions using cylindrical resonators..

Thermosyphon Heated Thermal Store, the Influences of Valve Opening on flow, an Experimental Analysis. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macbeth, J., Smith, H., Currie, J., & Finlayson, N. (2010, June). Thermosyphon Heated Thermal Store, the Influences of Valve Opening on flow, an Experimental Analysis. Presented at Renewable Energy Research Conference 2010

This paper outlines initial findings from the design of a Thermal Energy Storage
(TES) system whose principal objective is to promote stratification when charged by an
intermittent electrical supply. This concept will offer an efficient solution to... Read More about Thermosyphon Heated Thermal Store, the Influences of Valve Opening on flow, an Experimental Analysis..

Thermodynamic stability of soft-core Lennard-Jones fluids and their mixtures (2010)
Journal Article
Heyes, D. M. (2010). Thermodynamic stability of soft-core Lennard-Jones fluids and their mixtures. Journal of Chemical Physics, 132(6), 64504. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3319510

Thermodynamic stability of model single component and binary mixture fluids is considered with the Fisher–Ruelle (FR) stability criteria, which apply in the thermodynamic limit, and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation for finite periodic systems. Two... Read More about Thermodynamic stability of soft-core Lennard-Jones fluids and their mixtures.