"prevent achieving" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a situation where something or someone is actively stopping or hindering the accomplishment of a goal or task. Example: The ongoing conflict in the region is preventing achieving peace in the area.
In warm and moderate climates, the large internal heat sources usually found in school buildings prevent achieving thermal comfort without active cooling in summer, but are not sufficient to eliminate the need for heating in winter.
Imperfect and incomplete understanding of reaction kinetics compounded with uncontrollable variations not only prevent achieving an optimal operation of batch and semi-batch reactors, but also give rise to potential risks of violating product end-use properties, ecological or safety constraints.
In multi-objective models, existing constraints frequently prevent achieving a solution in which all the objective functions are optimal (Ghane and Tarokh 2012).
Any surface imperfections will prevent achieving critical mass.
Because of those risks, hatchery programs are not a substitute for addressing other limiting factors that prevent achieving viability.
Contact through immigrants and international travel with countries with high TB incidence increasingly determines TB trends in the Netherlands and will prevent achieving TB elimination under current conditions.
This constraint limits system designers in selecting components and prevents achieving higher levels of reliability.
Charge extraction measurements combined with intensity-modulated photovoltage spectroscopy illustrate that a lower electron lifetime for the DSSCs with the [Co(2,2′-bipyridyl)3]2+/3+ redox couple prevents achieving the thermodynamically attainable photovoltage, thus limiting solar cell efficiency.
The presence of these effects makes data analysis difficult and prevents achieving good reliability for a test.
"Fifteen years after tuna farming started in the Mediterranean, it's still impossible to know the biomass of tuna originally caged in every farm, which prevents achieving traceability in this fishery," said Dr Tudela.
Also, the amorphous structure of DEG allows the charge transport even at ambient conditions, while the high crystallinity of the PEO prevents achieving high level of ionic conductivity [5].
