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Theoretical-Experimental Investigations into the Behaviour of Catalyst, Silica Gel and Activated Carbon in the GWTS System for Flamanville3 E
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The EPR Gaseous Waste Treatment System (GWTS) has as specific roles the management
of the hyrdrogen risk and the radiochemical gas discharges. In order to accomplish these
missions, the TEG system is composed of three main types of equipment:
- A recombiner filled with a catalyst which removes hydrogen and oxygen from the nitrogen
flushing gas stream which is used to sweep the biphasic gas tanks in order to avoid hazard
mixtures and ensure the safety conditions.
- Three delay beds filled with activated carbon used to retain for a set period of time
radioactive noble gases (krypton and xenon) in order to limit the discharges to the
environment.
- A gel drier filled with silica gel which reduces the humidity of the gas stream entering the
delay beds in order to guarantee the optimal performance of activated carbon.
This paper initially describes the functional operation of these items of equipment and the
theoretical assumptions taken into account in their design. The paper will go on to discuss
the qualification tests that have been carried out by EDF in collaboration with the University
of Pisa (DIMNP/CPTM). The tests were carried out on several samples of each material
(catalyst, silica gel, activated carbon) on a test rig in order to select the best performing
product in the EPR normal operating conditions.
In overall, the qualification tests performed for EPR GWTS equipments constitute a complete
matrix of parametrical tests which can be useful for different scientific and industrial
applications. In particular, these tests have also notably enabled EDF, as the designer and
future operator, to fully understand the physical behaviour of the materials in various
operating conditions (pressure, temperature, humidity, flow rate) so that system design and
operating procedures can be optimised
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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