Aging of control and service air compressors and dryers used in nuclear power plants

Gadgeteering for Pain Relief: The 2021 John W. Severinghaus Lecture on Translational Science

“…As Joseph Campbell states, "Just as the people who you met by chance became effective agents in the structuring of your life, so you have been an agent in the structuring of other lives." 2 This was also true in my work at Anesthesiology, where I taught and learned from people at different stages of journeys within and outside our specialty. Perhaps the greatest honor I have received in my work life was to give the Rovenstine lecture in 2015, 33 and the audience and I learned so much more by including Anesthesiology Associate Editor Carol Cassella in the creation and performance of that lecture.…”

“…To Campbell, following one's bliss meant participating fully in life in what he called "a wonderful opera, but painful." 2 To me it's evident that John Severinghaus was following and experiencing his bliss. As I ended the lecture with a photo of John Severinghaus and his wry smile, I could almost hear him repeating the words of Campbell: "If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the you're living.…”

“…I say follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be." 2 Like each of us, John Severinghaus had many doors opened for him, just as he opened many for others. He would-as I do-want each of us to go out and open doors for others.…”

“…prelude This structure of the lecture was based on lessons from Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth, a 1988 Public Broadcasting Service documentary series in which Bill Moyers interviewed Joseph Campbell, an author and scholar of myths across time and cultures. 2 Filmed at George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch, where Campbell had helped Lucas in creating the first Star Wars film, it's a fascinating conversation and well worth seeing. Campbell kept returning to what he termed the hero's journey, a series of events that are remarkably similar in the life stories of the Buddha or Shirley Chisholm or Ulysses or Jean Valjean or Jesus, and in books and films for children and adults today.…”

Modeling the Scale-Up of Contact Drying Processes

“…The conventional way of designing such a process consists of three steps. First, preliminary experiments are performed at a laboratory scale to see how the product behaves.…”