In this study, the reactivity of tert-butyl ethyl ether (ETBE) is scanned at elevated temperature by a heat flux calorimeter C80. It was found that ETBE is unstable at the range of 60-80 °C, and a further signifi...
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In this study, the reactivity of tert-butyl ethyl ether (ETBE) is scanned at elevated temperature by a heat flux calorimeter C80. It was found that ETBE is unstable at the range of 60-80 °C, and a further significant runaway reaction occurs at above 150 °C. The initial reaction was examined at 65 °C by a thermal activity monitor (TAM), showing the more the volume concentration of oxygen, the more the heat of reaction. This implies that oxidation is responsible for the heat release at this temperature range. Furthermore, the thermal behavior of ETBE is studied by an Automatic Pressure Tracking Calorimeter (APTAC) under different oxygen environments. The effect of the amount of oxygen on the degree of oxidation was discussed. And the pressure rise at different temperature range was observed, in order to clarify the mechanism on how the initial reaction of ETBE can transit to the further significant consequence of a runaway occurrence.
Packing is widely used in post-combustion CO2 capture. This paper is focused on the measurement of three fundamental packing characteristics: effective gas-liquid contact area (ae), gas phase and liquid phase film mas...
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Packing is widely used in post-combustion CO2 capture. This paper is focused on the measurement of three fundamental packing characteristics: effective gas-liquid contact area (ae), gas phase and liquid phase film mass transfer coefficient (kG) and (kL). Results show that contact area initially increases with liquid flow rate before it asymptotes to a value nearly equivalent to the nominal surface area. Initial attempts at constructing new mechanistic models have shown that existing kG and kL models can be improved. Both gas and liquid phase film mass transfer coefficients can be described as a power function of superficial gas or liquid velocity.
In this communication, we demonstrate the proof of concept that carbon nanocapsules (CNCs) can be used as an effective fluorescent sensing platform for nucleic acid detection with selectivity down to single-base misma...
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Safe deployment of web interfaces for remote instrumentation requires that the laboratory system be protected from harmful manipulation by end users or attacks from malicious software over the internet. Industrial con...
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In this work, the chemical oxidative synthesis of polypyrrole was monitored through on-line conductivimetry. A group of reactions was carried out at two different temperatures (5 °C and 20 °C) with varying c...
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In this work, the chemical oxidative synthesis of polypyrrole was monitored through on-line conductivimetry. A group of reactions was carried out at two different temperatures (5 °C and 20 °C) with varying concentrations of pyrrole and oxidant agent (FeCl 3 ) to investigate the effect on conversion and conductivity. The relation of electrical conductivity with conversion was not straightforward. To overcome this, a neural network was proposed to predict conversion based on on-line conductivity measurements. In this way, the neural networks entry variables were: electrical conductivity, reaction temperature, initial oxidant and pyrrole concentrations. As optimization algorithms Levenberg-Marquardt and Descent Gradient with momentum term were evaluated. Results obtained by the neural networks based on on-line conductivity measurements showed a good agreement with off-line conversion data.
Energy efficiency will play an important role in improving the heavy industry's environmental and economic performance. In this work, an innovative scheduling coordination method to coordinate two consecutive prod...
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Energy efficiency will play an important role in improving the heavy industry's environmental and economic performance. In this work, an innovative scheduling coordination method to coordinate two consecutive production sections in an integrated steel plant - melt shop and hot rolling mill - is discussed. Between the two sections a slab yard acts as a buffer for intermediate products – slabs. Planning and scheduling of the two sections are currently solved independently by two industrial optimization solutions, observing complex production rules and different objectives. The proposed coordination method reuses the existing optimization modules and minimizes the storage time in the slab yard. Furthermore, the coordinated schedule enables some slabs from the melt shop to be charged directly into the reheating furnace of the hot rolling mill without losing considerable thermal energy (hot charging). The challenges and the approaches to coordinate two industrial schedulers incorporating several optimization steps, for instance mixed integer linear programming (MILP) and heuristics are presented. The coordination approach is validated by testing it with real production data from a real life steel plant and the potential to save energy and reduce production time is demonstrated.
This paper deals with a mortality-weighted synthetic evaluation (MWSE) method for evaluating urban air risk. Sulphur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxide (NOx), and particulate matter (PMl0) were used as pollution in...
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This paper deals with a mortality-weighted synthetic evaluation (MWSE) method for evaluating urban air risk. Sulphur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxide (NOx), and particulate matter (PMl0) were used as pollution indices. The urban area of Hangzhou, China is divided into 756 grid cells, with a resolution of 1 km× 1 km, and is evaluated using the MWSE and the air quality index (AQI), a widely-used method to evaluate ambient air quality and air risk. In an evaluation of one day in April 2004, the surface areas categorized as levels Ⅰ and Ⅲ, as defined by the integrated air risk evaluation, were 27.3% and 3.3% lower, respectively, than grades Ⅰ and Ⅲ defined by the AQI evaluation. Meanwhile, the areas classified as level Ⅱ or above level Ⅲ by the integrated air risk evaluation were 55.1% and 101. 1% higher, respectively, than grade Ⅱ or above grade Ⅲ when using the AQI evaluation. From this comparison, we find that the MWSE method is more sensitive than the AQI method. The AQI method uses a single index to assess integrated air quality and is therefore unable to evaluate integrated air risks due to multiple pollutants. The MWSE method overcomes this problem, providing improved accuracy in air risk assessment.
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