reliability

Thermocouples are widely used in industrial applications due to their robustness, low cost, reliability and ability to survive in harsh environments. However, these thermocouples are prone to failure in a highly acidic medium such as nuclear fuel reprocessing plants. This paper investigates the degradation phenomenon and its effect on measurement accuracy when a thermocouple with mechanical damage to the protective sheath is placed in a corrosive media.

Performance of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) based on IEEE 802.15.4 and Time Slotted Channel Hopping (TSCH) has been shown to be mostly predictable in typical real-world operating conditions. This is especially true for performance indicators like reliability, power consumption, and latency. This article provides and describes a database (i.e., a set of data acquired with real devices deployed in a real environment) about measurements on OpenMote B devices, implementing the 6TiSCH protocol, made in different experimental configurations.

The aircraft fuel distribution system has two primary functions: storing fuel and distributing fuel to the engines. These functions are provided in refuelling and consumption phases, respectively. During refuelling, the fuel is first loaded in the Central Reservation Tank and then distributed to the Front and Rear Tanks. In the consumption phase, the two engines receive an adequate level of fuel from the appropriate tanks. For instance, the Port Engine (PE) will receive fuel from Front Tank and the Starboard Engine (SE) will receive fuel from Rear Tank.