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Aug 22

Improving Fish passage on the Adur

Improving fish passage on the Adur by Rachel Paget Ouse and Adur River Trust Newsletter. Summer 2018. https://oart.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/OART-11-Summer-2018-E-Newsletter-1.pdf OART have installed a new fish pass at Haterell’s Bridge, removing a significant barrier to fish passage on the Western arm of the River Adur and facilitating increased, multi-species, fish movement through an additional 2.2km of river.

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Aug 21

Understanding the charge storage mechanism of conductive polymers as hybrid battery-capacitor materials in ionic liquids by in situ atomic force microscopy and electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance studies

research Article Theresa Schoetz, Mario Kurniawan,  Michael Stich,  Ralf Peipmann, Igor Efimov, Adriana Ispas, Andreas Bund,  Carlos Ponce de Leon and Mikito Uedad First published in Journal of Materials Chemistry A for Royal Society of Chemistry: 21st August 2018 DOI: 10.1039/c8ta06757k Safe and sustainable energy storage systems with the ability to perform efficiently during large …

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Jul 06

Potential of wireless power transfer for dynamic charging of electric vehicles

Luke Hutchinson, Dr Ben Waterson, Bani Anvari and Denis Naberezhnykh IET Intelligent Transport Systems 1751-956X Scopus rating (2019): CiteScore 3.8 SJR 0.627 SNIP 1.468 10.1049/iet-its.2018.5221 Abstract Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) offers a viable means of charging Electric Vehicles (EV)’s whilst in a dynamic state (DWPT), mitigating issues concerning vehicle range, the size of on-board energy storage and the …

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May 18

Endurance testing of the STAR additively manufactured resistojet

Matthew Robinson, Dr Angelo Grubisic, Dr Federico Romei and Christopher Ogunlesi Space Propulsion 2018 14/05/18 → 18/05/18 Seville, Spain Introduction The potential of an all-electric spacecraft is enhanced by the possibility of a single integrated propellant supply. A common propellant choice is xenon. This creates new performance demands for a high-temperature xenon resistojet, elevating the hot gas …

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May 18

High performance resistojet thruster: STAR Status Update

Dr Federico Romei, Dr Angelo Grubisic, Matthew Robinson and Dave Gibbon Space Propulsion 2018 14/05/18 → 18/05/18 Seville, Spain Abstract This paper presents the performance testing of the Super-high Temperature Additive Resistojet (STAR) prototype, the first additively manufactured resistojet thruster with a novel monolithic design of heat exchanger. In this paper, operation of the concept was demonstrated …

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May 18

Novel non-destructive inspection of the STAR additively manufactured resistojet

Christopher Ogunlesi, Dr Angelo Grubisic, Dr Federico Romei and Matthew Robinson Space Propulsion 2018 14/05/18 → 18/05/18 Seville, Spain Abstract Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) has used a low power hot gas system known as a resistojet since 2002, which uses either Butane or Xenon as propellant. This system has flown on 20 spacecraft including the European …

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May 15

Immediate impact of a hurricane on the structure of a tropical butterfly community: Impact of hurricane on butterflies

Dr Frances Mullany, Georgina Hollands and Dr Jake Snaddon Biotropica volume 50 First published 15.05.2018 10.1111/btp.12549 Abstract More intense and frequent hurricanes may lead to long-lasting effects to tropical ecosystems. Here we describe the immediate impact on the butterfly community of a lowland forest in Belize, following Hurricane Earl. Species richness and abundance increased post-hurricane, …

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