The biomethane producing potential in China： A theoretical and practical estimation

Biomethane has been developed rapidly in many countries as a renewable energy which upgraded from biogas.China also began to pay attention to it even though we still at a initial stage, primarily, understanding the biomethane potential and development prospect, choosing appropriate biomass as the biomethane source is very important. In this work, the theoretical and practical biomethane producing potential from five main biomass resources in China were estimated with appropriate methods based on the data collected, and during calculation, two appropriate energy crops were assumed to be planted on marginal lands for biomethane production. Our estimation showed that the theoretical and practical biomethane potentials in China can reach to 888.78 and 316.30 billion m^3 per year, agricultural waste should be the preferential development biomass,and planting energy crops on marginal lands is the most promising way to enhance biomethane production in China. Finally, biomethane is compared with natural gas, and the result showed that 48.15% of the practical biomethane potential can meet the total Chinese natural gas consumption in 2013.

Microinterface intensification in hydrogenation and air oxidation processes

Hydrogenations and air oxidations usually have low apparent reaction rate,generally controlled by mass transfer rate,and widely exist in the modern chemical manufacturing process.The key to increase the mass transfer rate is the reduction of the liquid film resistance 1/kLa.In this work,the original concept of microinterface intensification for mass transfer and then for these reactions has been proposed.We derived the regulation model and set up the mathematical calculation method of micron-scale gas-liquid interface structure on mass transfer and reaction,designed the mechanical energy exchange device that can produce gas-liquid microinterface system on a large scale,and established the OMIS system which is able on line to measure the diameter and distribution of millions of microbubbles,interface area a and mass transfer film thicknessδM,as well as developed a series of microinterface intensified reactor systems(MIRs)for the applications of hydrogenation and air oxidation processes.It is believed that this research will provide an up-to-date development for the intensification of hydrogenation and air oxidation reactions.

Cyclic Shear Tests on Key Connection Joints of Modularized Constructions

Modularized construction is a new type of prefabricated building system with green environmental protection and excellent performance. There are few studies on the seismic performance of its key connection joint. This paper presents a new type of assembled connection joint for the high-rise modularized construction. Cyclic shear tests of full-scale joints were carried out, and the key indexes of their seismic performances including the hysteretic performance, ductility, and energy dissipation capacity were analyzed and obtained. The results show that the hysteresis loops of longitudinal and lateral cyclic shear tests were both plump in shapes. The ductility coefficients were 4.54 and 4.98, and the energy dissipation coefficients were 1.83 and 1.43, respectively. The test joint had good ductility and energy dissipation capacity. The positions of yield failure of specimens were mainly concentrated in the connection areas between the column and short beam or end-plate. The research can provide the technical reference for the seismic design and engineering application of related modularized constructions.

Progress in thermodynamic simulation and system optimization of pyrolysis and gasification of biomass

Due to the shortage of fossil energy,biomass has a potential to be a very promising alternative source.Unfortunately,a large part of biomass resources worldwide causes serious environmental pollution,low value-added utilization and energy waste due to unsustainable utilization of biomass.Simulation and optimization of the thermochemical utilization of biomass resources is a hot issue in the industry and academia,which can provide the relationship between the utilizations of biomass with sustainable objective and compositions of biomass,operational parameters,etc.This review focused on the theoretical research progress of sustainable utilization of biomass resources from three aspects:basic thermochemical data estimation,process simulation and system optimization of pyrolysis and gasification.And the application of artificial intelligence as a tool in the field of above three aspects was also introduced.Advantages and limitations of current methods,as well as future opportunities and challenges were also discussed.

Modeling of specific structure crystallization coupling with dissolution

In this paper,the research framework for specific structure crystallization modeling has been proposed in which four steps are required in order to investigate the rigorous crystallization modeling by thermodynamics.The first is the activity coefficient model of the solution,the second is Solid-Liquid equilibrium,the third and fourth are the dissolution and crystallization kinetics modeling,respectively.Our investigations show that the mechanisms of complex structure formation and microphase transition can be analyzed by combining the dissolution and crystallization kinetics modeling.Moreover,the formation mechanism of the porous KCl has been analyzed,which may provide a reference for the porous structure formation in the advanced material synthesis.