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IAEA looks at nuclear techniques for crop resilience
The International Atomic Energy Agency has launched a five-year coordinated research project (CRP) to strengthen plant health preparedness using nuclear and related technologies.
Wheat blast, potato late blight, potato bacterial wilt, and cassava witches broom disease can spread quickly across large areas of land, leading to severe yield losses in key crops for food security. Global trade and climate change have increased the likelihood of rapid, transboundary spread.
Yin-Pang Ma, Nien-Mien Chung, Bau-Shei Pei, Wei-Keng Lin, Yih-Yun Hsu
Nuclear Technology | Volume 94 | Number 1 | April 1991 | Pages 124-133
Technical Paper | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT91-A16228
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The void fraction is one of the most important quantities in experimental studies of two-phase flow. Two simple and economical techniques to determine this quantity are developed and discussed. The improved impedance method, in which a high-frequency processing circuit is developed to measure and amplify the voltage changes between the electrodes, is the first method. The differential pressure (D/P) method, in which a commercial differential pressure transmitter is used to determine the static pressure of two-phase flow, is the second method. Experiments including tests in vertical and horizontal pipes for the impedance method and a vertical pipe test for the D/P method have been performed. Furthermore, theoretical models of these two techniques are developed. The test results show that most of the measured void fractions are within a 20% error band compared with the actual void fraction.