Dynamic formation of a hot field reversed configuration with improved confinement by supersonic merging of two colliding high-β compact toroids.

A hot stable field-reversed configuration (FRC) has been produced in the C-2 experiment by colliding and merging two high-β plasmoids preformed by the dynamic version of field-reversed θ-pinch technology. The merging process exhibits the highest poloidal flux amplification obtained in a magnetic confinement system (over tenfold increase). Most of the kinetic energy is converted into thermal energy with total temperature (T{i}+T{e}) exceeding 0.

Degradation of 2,4,5-trichlorophenol and 2,3,5,6-tetrachlorophenol by combining pulse electric discharge with bioremediation.

Degradation of 2,4,5-trichlorophenol (2,4,5-TCP) and 2,3,5,6-tetrachlorophenol (TeCP) was studied using a two-stage approach that utilized efficient pulse electric discharge (PED) followed by biological degradation with a consortium from acclimated return activated sludge. The chlorinated phenols were treated in the PED reactor as an aerosol at a voltage of 55-60 kV, a frequency of 385 Hz, a current of 50-60, and with a 200-ns pulse. As determined by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry (GC/MS), the first stage converted 500 ppm 2,4,5-TCP to 163 ppm 2,4,5-TCP and dimethyldecene, dichloronaphthalenol, octyl acetate, and silyl esters.

Degradation of perchloroethylene and dichlorophenol by pulsed-electric discharge and bioremediation.

Pulsed electric discharge (PED) and bioremediation were combined to create a novel two-stage system which dechlorinates the halogenated pollutants, 2,4-dichlorophenol and perchloroethylene, with repetitive (0.1-1 kHz), short pulse ( approximately 100 ns), low voltage (40-80 kV) discharges and then mineralizes the less chlorinated products with aerobic bacteria. A 6.

[Why is the eye round?].

By an unsophisticated experiment, published data on the anatomy of the eye, wave theory of light, and the laws of geometrical optics the author tries to prove that a spherical concave screen is the optimal variant of a screen on which spherical wave front is projected, formed by a single lens. The shape of the wave front and of the concave screen are in complete agreement. Such optical imperfections as the field curvature, distortion, coma (partially), and astigmatism of the oblique light beams are compensated for.

[The Pau phenomenon and complex movements of hyaloid in aphakic eyes].

The author analyzed complex movements of the hyaloid at the height of the ciliary muscle contraction in 121 aphakic eyes. He came to a conclusion that hyaloid dislocation is an active process realized by the ciliary muscle in the course of its contraction. Hyaloid and the vascular coating, on the one hand, and the ciliary muscle, on the other, were shown to be antagonists.