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  • Cash flow at risk of offshore wind plants 
    Vaienti, Claudio; Ioannou, Anastasia; Brennan, Feargal (IEEE, 2017-08-18)
    Offshore wind power plants might be seen as high risk investments. Their risk depends on technical and financial elements. When some corporations decide to invest in a plant, they decide to take all above-mentioned risks. ...
  • CASS•E: Cranfield astrobiological stratospheric sampling experiment 
    Naicker, L.; Grama, V. V.; Juanes-Vallejo, Clara M.; Katramados, Ioannis; Rato, Carla Cristina Pereira Salgueiro Catarino; Rix, Catherine S.; Sanchez, E.; Cullen, David C. (2010-12-31)
    CASS•E is a life detectionexperimentthat aims to be capable of collecting microorganisms in Earth's Stratosphere. Theexperiment will be launched on astratosphericballoon in collaboration with Eurolaunch through the ...
  • The Castalia mission to Main Belt Coment 133P/Elst-Pizarro 
    Snodgrass, Colin; Jones, G. H.; Boehnhardt, H.; Gibbings, Alison; Homeister, M.; Andre, N.; Beck, P.; Bentley, M. S.; Bertini, I.; Bowles, Neil E.; Capria, M. T.; Carr, C.; Ceriotti, M.; Coates, A. J.; Della Corte, V.; Donaldson Hanna, Kerri L.; Fitzsimmons, A.; Gutiérrez, P. J.; Hainaut, O. R.; Herique, A.; Hilchenbach, M.; Hsieh, H. H.; Jehin, E.; Karatekin, O.; Kofman, W.; Lara, L. M.; Laudan, K.; Licandro, J.; Lowry, S. C.; Marzari, F.; Masters, A.; Meech, K. J.; Moreno, F.; Morse, A.; Orosei, R.; Pack, A.; Plettemeier, D.; Prialnik, D.; Rotundi, A.; Rubin, M.; Sánchez, Joan-Pau; Sheridan, S.; Trieloff, M.; Winterboer, A. (Elsevier, 2017-09-19)
    We describe Castalia, a proposed mission to rendezvous with a Main Belt Comet (MBC), 133P/Elst-Pizarro. MBCs are a recently discovered population of apparently icy bodies within the main asteroid belt between Mars and ...
  • CASTAway: An asteroid main belt tour and survey 
    Bowles, Neil E.; Snodgrass, Colin; Gibbings, Alison; Sanchez, Joan-Pau; Arnold, Jessica A.; Eccleston, Paul; Andert, Tom; Probst, A.; Naletto, Giampiero; Vandaele, A. C.; de Leon, J.; Nathues, A.; Thomas, Ian R.; Thomas, Nicholas; Jorda, Laurent; Da Deppo, Vania; Haack, H.; Green, Simon F.; Carry, Benoit; Donaldson Hanna, Kerri L.; Leif Jorgensen, J.; Kereszturi, Akos; DeMeo, F. E.; Patel, Manish R.; Davies, John K.; Clarke, Fraser; Kinch, K.; Guilbert-Lepoutre, A.; Agarwal, J.; Rivkin, Andy S.; Pravec, Petr; Fornasier, Sonia; Granvik, Mikael; Jones, Rhian H.; Murdoch, Naomi; Joy, Katherine H.; Pascale, Enzo; Tecza, Matthias; Barnes, Jenny M.; Licandro, J.; Greenhagen, Benjamin T.; Calcutt, Simon B.; Marriner, C. M.; Warren, Tristram; Tosh, Ian (Elsevier, 2017-11-01)
    CASTAway is a mission concept to explore our Solar System’s main asteroid belt. Asteroids and comets provide a window into the formation and evolution of our Solar System and the composition of these objects can be inferred ...
  • Catalytic effects on the nonisothermal oxidation of solid fuels by oxygen: an experimental study 
    Nyombi, Antony; Williams, Mike; Wessling, Roland (American Chemical Society, 2019-09-24)
    The role played by catalysts in solid fuel reactivity toward oxygen as a viable method for reducing toxic combustion emissions was studied. Catalyst (1 wt % Pd–Sn/alumina) treated and untreated solid fuels were analyzed ...
  • Catalytic molecularly imprinted polymer membranes: Development of the biomimetic sensor for phenols detection 
    Sergeyeva, T. A.; Slinchenko, O. A.; Gorbach, L. A.; Matyushov, V. F.; Brovko, O. O.; Piletsky, Sergey A.; Sergeeva, L. M.; Elska, G. V. (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam., 2010-02-05)
    Portable biomimetic sensor devices for the express control of phenols content in water were developed. The synthetic binding sites mimicking active site of the enzyme tyrosinase were formed in the structure of free-standing ...
  • The catalytic oxidation of biomass to new materials focusing on starch, cellulose and lignin 
    Collinson, S. R.; Thielemans, W. (Elsevier, 2010-08)
    Biomass is a renewable class of materials of growing interest amongst researchers aiming to achieve global sustainability. This review focuses on the homogeneous catalysis of the oxidation of biomass, in particular starch, ...
  • Catchment and climatic influences on spatio-temporal variations in suspended sediment transport dynamics in rivers 
    Shin, Jae hun; Grabowski, Robert C.; Holman, Ian P. (IWA Publishing, 2023-08-04)
    Suspended sediment concentration (SSC) is an important attribute for water resources management. However, the interactions between climate and catchment characteristics that control the temporal variability of SSC in rivers ...
  • Catchment-scale challenges for water resources management: assessing ‘reasonable’ peak needs for irrigated agriculture in a humid climate 
    Knox, Jerry W.; Weatherhead, E. Keith (MDPI, 2024-02-27)
    Rising demands and competition for water resources within all sectors are placing increasing pressure on the environment. Almost all direct abstractions in England require a licence (permit) from the regulatory authority, ...
  • Categorisation of visualisation methods to support the design of Human-Computer Interaction systems 
    Li, Katie; Tiwari, Ashutosh; Alcock, Jeffrey R.; Bermell-Garcia, Pablo (Elsevier, 2016-02-02)
    During the design of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) systems, the creation of visual artefacts forms an important part of design. On one hand producing a visual artefact has a number of advantages: it helps designers to ...
  • Cathodic and Anodic Material Diffusion in Polymer/Semiconductor-Nanocrystal Composite Devices 
    Gallardo, Diego E.; Bertoni, Cristina; Dunn, Steve; Gaponik, Nikolai; Eychmüller, Alexander (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2007-01-01)
    In the present day, the information technologies and telecommunications sector continually increase their demand for low cost, low power consumption, high performance electroluminescent devices for display applications. ...
  • Caught in the Crossfire 
    Harrington, John (2004-05-24)
    The new ‘Open Access’ model of scholarly communication exploits both the internet and new publishing technologies to free up research literature to the benefit of authors, readers, students, libraries, funding bodies, and ...
  • Causes of scatter in high rate fracture testing of polymers 
    Agnelli, S.; Horsfall, Ian (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam., 2013-12-31)
    A method based on the measurement of failure time is being developed by the European Structural Integrity Society to determine high rate fracture toughness of polymers. The test method appears reasonably straightforward ...
  • Cavitation induced starvation for piston-ring/liner tribological conjunction. 
    Chong, William Woei Fong; Teodorescu, M.; Vaughan, Nicholas D. (Elsevier, 2011-04)
    The study investigates the mechanism of ring-liner lubrication in the vicinity of the top and bottom dead centres of an internal combustion engine. Predicting lubricant transient behaviour is critical when the inlet reversal ...
  • Cavitation of superplastic alloys: a study using a hot microhardness technique 
    Sohal, Gurnam Singh (Cranfield University, 1980-01)
    This thesis is concerned with the study of cavitation behaviour of two-phase superplastic alloys, using mainly a hot microhardness technique. Cavitation is a serious problem in copper and iron base alloys, it drastically ...
  • Cavitation performance of pumped hydrocarbons 
    Lisle-Taylor, S. C. (Cranfield UniversityCranfield University. School of Mechanical Engineering., 1997)
  • CCDeW: Climate Change and Demand for Water. 
    Downing, T. E.; Butterfield, R. E.; Edmonds, B.; Knox, Jerry W.; Moss, S.; Piper, B. S.; Weatherhead, E. K. (2003-02-01)
    The Climate Change and Demand for Water Revisited project (CCDeW) revisits and updates the benchmark study by Herrington (1996) and takes advantage of new data sets, regional coverage of demand projections and new ...
  • CCGT performance simulation and diagnostics for operations optimisation and risk management 
    Mucino, Marco (Cranfield University, 2007-10)
    This thesis presents a techno-economic performance simulation and diagnostics computational system for the operations optimisation and risk management of a CCGT power station. The project objective was to provide a ...
  • CCQM-K90, formaldehyde in nitrogen, 2 μmol mol− 1 Final report 
    Viallon, Joële; Flores, Edgar; Idrees, Faraz; Moussay, Philippe; Wielgosz, Robert Ian; Kim, D.; Kim, Y. D.; Lee, S.; Persijn, S.; Konopelko, L. A.; Kustikov, Y. A.; Malginov, A. V.; Chubchenko, I. K.; Klimov, A. Y.; Efremova, O. V.; Zhou, Z.; Possolo, A.; Shimosaka, T.; Brewer, P.; Macé, T.; Ferracci, Valerio; Brown, Richard J. C.; Aoki, Aoki (IOP, 2017-09-26)
    The CCQM-K90 comparison is designed to evaluate the level of comparability of national metrology institutes (NMI) or designated institutes (DI) measurement capabilities for formaldehyde in nitrogen at a nominal mole fraction ...
  • Celebrating 35 Years of "Focus" 
    Wilding, Richard D. (The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, 2017-06-30)