Ongoing primary reliance on conventional fossil fuel resources such as coal and natural gas (NG) for energy generation may be the most economical method but also the most damaging to the environment. Energy management...
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The paper presents an investigation of mass transfer in gas-liquid annular flow in a microreactor. The microreactor had a meandered shape with a square cross-section of the channel (292×292 μm, hydraulic diamete...
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The paper presents an investigation of mass transfer in gas-liquid annular flow in a microreactor. The microreactor had a meandered shape with a square cross-section of the channel (292×292 μm, hydraulic diameter 292 μm) and 250 mm in length. The rate of CO2 absorption from the CO2/N2 mixture in NaOH (0.1 M, 0.2 M, 0.7 M, 1.0 M and 1.5 M) water solutions was measured. Two velocities of gas flow and two velocities of liquid flow were used. In two cases a fully developed annular flow at the beginning of the channel was observed, whilst in two cases annular flow was formed only in about 2/3 of the microchannel length. Based on the measurements of CO2 absorption rate, the values of volumetric liquid - side mass transfer coefficients with the chemical reaction were determined. Then physical values of coefficients were found. Obtained results were discussed and their values were compared with the values predicted by literature correlations.
Activated carbon was prepared from oil palm empty fruit bunch (OPEFB) by pyrolysis at 873.15 K in a furnace and chemical activation using 0.01 M HCl. Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, Scanning Electron Microsco...
Activated carbon was prepared from oil palm empty fruit bunch (OPEFB) by pyrolysis at 873.15 K in a furnace and chemical activation using 0.01 M HCl. Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy and BET (Brunauer, Emmett and Teller) surface area analyses were taken into account to investigate the chemical functional group, to characterise the surface morphology and to determine total surface area the OPEFB AC, respectively. Experiments in batch mode were conducted to investigate Cu(II) adsorption capacity by the OPEFB AC whereas the system consisted of 1 g the OPEFB AC in 100 mL Cu(II) aqueous solution with initial concentration in the range of 10-70 mg/L, magnetic stirring at 75 rpm, room temperature of 300.15 K (± 2 K), at 1 atm and neutral pH over contact time in the range of 0-150 min. As the result, Cu(II) adsorption capacity increased exponentially over contact time and initial concentration. The Cu(II) adsorption kinetics followed the pseudo second order kinetics with the correlation coefficients (R 2), kinetics rate constant and equilibrium adsorption capacity being 0.98, 4.81 mg/g and 0.15/min, respectively for initial Cu(II) concentration being 58.71 mg/L. In addition, Cu(II) adsorption isotherm followed the Langmuir equation with the R2 value, the mono-layer and over-all adsorption capacity being 0.99, 5.92 mg/g and 0.17 L/mg, respectively.
Chemometrics is a set of mathematical and statistical methods that are used to detect food fraud, predict microbial growth, and optimize design of experiments, while extracting useful information from large and comple...
Chemometrics is a set of mathematical and statistical methods that are used to detect food fraud, predict microbial growth, and optimize design of experiments, while extracting useful information from large and complex datasets. Complex datasets quite often have numerous sources of variations, with one or more dependent variables assessed against the two or more dependent variables, hence the need to employ some type of multivariate statistics. It is critical to decrease the chances of type I error, by comparing (calculating) all the effects of independent variables in a single multivariate test. The most common types of multivariate tests include multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), various forms of factor analysis (such as principal component analysis, PCA), and mathematical modeling. Bioactive compounds of plant origin possess desirable health benefits and hence are interesting for functional meat processing. The extraction and processing of bioactive compounds mostly revolve around the central problems of thermal (in)stability and environmental issues that are relevant for industry. Here, multivariate statistics can offer the best mathematical solutions for optimal industrial production or can devise various indexes that are able to follow changes of the entire chemical footprint during the extraction of target compounds. For instance, multivariate statistics is useful to determine optimal extraction parameters for antioxidants, while simultaneously evaluating the effects and interactions of extraction parameters.
Water is a strategic material. Recycling is an important component of balancing its use. Deep-bed filtration is an inexpensive purification method and seems to be very effective in spreading water recovery. Good filte...
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Water is a strategic material. Recycling is an important component of balancing its use. Deep-bed filtration is an inexpensive purification method and seems to be very effective in spreading water recovery. Good filter designs, such as the fibrous filter, have high separation efficiency, low resistance for the up-flowing fluid and high retention capacity. However, one of the substantial problems of this process is the biofouling of the filter. Biofouling causes clogging and greatly reduces the life of the filter. Therefore, the melt-blown technique was used for the formation of novel antibacterial fibrous filters. Such filters are made of polypropylene composites with zinc oxide and silver nanoparticles on the fiber surface. These components act as inhibitors of bacterial growth in the filter and were tested in laboratory and full scale experiments. Antibacterial/bacteriostatic tests were performed on Petri dishes with E. coli and B. subtilis. Full scale experiments were performed on natural river water, which contained abiotic particles and mutualistic bacteria. The filter performance at industrial scale conditions was measured using a particle counter, a flow cytometer and a confocal microscope. The results of the experiments indicate a significant improvement of the composite filter performance compared to the regular fibrous filter. The differences were mostly due to a reduction in the biofouling effect.
Deep bed filtration is an effective method of submicron and micron particle removal from the fluid stream. There is an extensive body of literature regarding particle deposition in filters, often using the classical c...
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Deep bed filtration is an effective method of submicron and micron particle removal from the fluid stream. There is an extensive body of literature regarding particle deposition in filters, often using the classical continuum approach. However, the approach is not convenient for studying the influence of particle deposition on filter performance (filtration efficiency, pressure drop) when nonsteady state boundary conditions have to be introduced. For the purposes of this work the lattice-Boltzmann model describes fluid dynamics, while the solid particle motion is modeled by the Brownian dynamics. For aggregates the effect of their structure on displacement is taken into account. The possibility of particles rebound from the surface of collector or reentrainment of deposits to fluid stream is calculated by energy balanced oscillatory model derived from adhesion theory. The results show the evolution of filtration efficiency and pressure drop of filters with different internal structure described by the size of pores. The size of resuspended aggregates and volume distribution of deposits in filter were also analyzed. The model enables prediction of dynamic filter behavior. It can be a very useful tool for designing filter structures which optimize maximum lifetime with the acceptable values of filtration efficiency and pressure drop.
A mathematical model has been known to be an important tool for designing and improving chemicalprocesses. The aim of this work is to develop an electrochemical model of low-temperature solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) w...
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In this work, two approaches of SOFC operation fuelled by biogas are considered: one where the endothermic steam reforming and electrochemical reaction are operated in different units (external reforming SOFC) and ano...
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