Boosting kinetic separation of ethylene and ethane on microporous materials via crystal size control

The adsorptive separation of C_(2)H_(4)and C_(2)H_(6),as an alternative to distillation units consuming high energy,is a promising yet challenging research.The great similarity in the molecular size of C_(2)H_(4)and C_(2)H_(6)brings challenges to the regulation of adsorbents to realize efficient dynamic separation.Herein,we reported the enhancement of the kinetic separation of C_(2)H_(4)/C_(2)H_(6)by controlling the crystal size of ZnAtzPO_(4)(Atz=3-amino-1,2,4-triazole)to amplify the diffusion difference of C_(2)H_(4)and C_(2)H_(6).Through adjusting the synthesis temperature,reactant concentration,and ligands/metal ions molar ratio,ZnAtzPO4 crystals with different sizes were obtained.Both single-component kinetic adsorption tests and binary-component dynamic breakthrough experiments confirmed the enhancement of the dynamic separation of C_(2)H_(4)/C_(2)H_(6)with the increase in the crystal size of ZnAtzPO_(4).The separation selectivity of C_(2)H_(4)/C_(2)H_(6)increased from 1.3 to 98.5 with the increase in the crystal size of ZnAtzPO_(4).This work demonstrated the role of morphology and size control of adsorbent crystals in the improvement of the C_(2)H_(4)/C_(2)H_(6)kinetic separation performance.

Contract Mechanism of Water Environment Regulation for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Based on Optimal Control Theory

The small and scattered enterprise pattern in the county economy has formed numerous sporadic pollution sources, hindering the centralized treatment of the water environment, increasing the cost and difficulty of treatment. How enterprises can make reasonable decisions on their water environment behavior based on the external environment and their own factors is of great significance for scientifically and effectively designing water environment regulation mechanisms. Based on optimal control theory, this study investigates the design of contractual mechanisms for water environmental regulation for small and medium-sized enterprises. The enterprise is regarded as an independent economic entity that can adopt optimal control strategies to maximize its own interests. Based on the participation of multiple subjects including the government, enterprises, and the public, an optimal control strategy model for enterprises under contractual water environmental regulation is constructed using optimal control theory, and a method for calculating the amount of unit pollutant penalties is derived. The water pollutant treatment cost data of a paper company is selected to conduct empirical numerical analysis on the model. The results show that the increase in the probability of government regulation and public participation, as well as the decrease in local government protection for enterprises, can achieve the same regulatory effect while reducing the number of administrative penalties per unit. Finally, the implementation process of contractual water environmental regulation for small and medium-sized enterprises is designed.

Size control and its mechanism of SnAg nanoparticles

Sn3.5Ag （mass fraction, %） nanoparticles were synthesized by an improved chemical reduction method at room temperature. 1,10-phenanthroline and sodium borohydride were selected as the surfactant and reducing agent, respectively. It was found that no obvious oxidation of the synthesized nanoparticles was traced by X-ray diffraction. In addition, the results show that the density of primary particles decreases with decreasing the addition rate of the reducing agent. Moreover, the slight particle agglomeration and slow secondary particle growth can result in small-sized nanoparticles. Meanwhile, the effect of surfactant concentration on the particle size can effectively be controlled when the reducing agent is added into the precursor at an appropriate rate. In summary, the capping effect caused by the surfactant molecules coordinating with the nanoclusters will restrict the growth of the nanoparticles. The larger the mass ratio of the surfactant to the precursor is, the smaller the particle size is.

Grain Size Control of Semisolid A356 Alloy Manufactured by Electromagnetic Stirring

To investigate the possibility of substituting the mechanical stirring system with electromagnetic stirring (EMS) system for aluminum rheo die-casting, the EMS under the different stirring cooling conditions was carried out. It was found that in the early period of solidification, the dendrite breakages led to a fine primary phase. When dendrites grew coarsely, the effect of ripening on grain size overwhelmed that of dendrite breakage. It was also found that the high cooling rate favored large nucleation rate, and led to a fine primary phase. But high cooling rate also made the growth rate of the dendrite arm, which prevented the dendrite arm from being sheared off. Therefore there were a suitable stirring time and suitable cooling rate to obtain the best rheo die-casting structure. Qualified semisolid A356 aluminum alloy was successfully manufactured with short time EMS.

An Organic Solvent-Assisted Intercalation and Collection (OAIC) for Ti_(3)C_(2)T_(x) MXene with Controllable Sizes and Improved Yield

A good method of synthesizing Ti_(3)C_(2)T_(x)(MXene)is critical for ensuring its success in practical applications,e.g.,electromagnetic interference shielding,electrochemical energy storage,catalysis,sensors,and biomedicine.The main concerns focus on the moderation of the approach,yield,and product quality.Herein,a modified approach,organic solvent-assisted intercalation and collection,was developed to prepare Ti_(3)C_(2)T_(x) flakes.The new approach simultaneously solves all the concerns,featuring a low requirement for facility(centrifugation speed<4000 rpm in whole process),gram-level preparation with remarkable yield(46.3%),a good electrical conductivity(8672 S cm^(−1)),an outstanding capacitive performance(352 F g^(−1)),and easy control over the dimension of Ti_(3)C_(2)T_(x) flakes(0.47–4.60μm^(2)).This approach not only gives a superb example for the synthesis of other MXene materials in laboratory,but sheds new light for the future mass production of Ti_(3)C_(2)T_(x) MXene.

Preparation and UV property of size-controlled monodisperse nickel nanoparticles (<10 nm) by reductive method

Nickel nanoparticles （〈10 nm） were success fully synthesized using a reductive method of nickel chloride with sodium borohydride in the ethanol/poly vinylpyrrolidone （PVP） system. The effects of three fac tors, such as the concentration of the nickel ions, the time of reaction, and the amount of PVP （surfactant）, were discussed. The possible growth process of the particles and optimum reactive conditions was also investigated. The result of transmission electron microscopy （TEM） reveals that these nickel nanoparticles are spherical. The average diameter could be controlled as 25 nm under selected conditions. Highresolution TEM and energydispersive spectroscopy results indicates that the nickel nanoparticles are pure. The UVvisible light absorption spectrum shows that the peaks of nickel nanoparticles moves toward the short wavelength along with the decrease of sizes.

Micromagnetic studies of perpendicular recording FePt media with controllable grain size distributions

A 3-dimensional(3D)micromagnetic model combined with Fast Fourier Transform(FFT)method was built up to study the writability in the L1_(0)FePt perpendicular medium.The effects of controllable grain size distributions were studied by grain growth simulation.It is found that the cross-track-averaged magnetization changes little between the L1_(0)FePt medium with uniform or non-uniform grain size distribution.

Control of Crystal Size and Morphology of Calcium Carbonate Crystal Polymorphism

Calcium carbonate, the main component of lime, has been widely used in industry due to its stability and economy. Calcium carbonate has three types of crystalline polymorphism, calcite, aragonite and vaterite, each with different properties. Therefore, the control of crystal polymorphism is required for industrial applications. In addition, the control of crystal size and shape is similarly required for different applications. In this study, the effect of SrCO3 on the size control of fine aragonite-type calcium carbonate crystals by uniform urea precipitation and the effect of SrCO3 addition was investigated by adding solid strontium carbonate and dissolved strontium carbonate. The addition of solid strontium carbonate affected the crystal polymorphism and size of the calcium carbonate produced, depending on the properties of the solid particles and the amount of SrCO3 added. Experiments on the addition of dissolved SrCO3 showed that the supersaturation formation rate could be controlled to control the crystal polymorphism.

Preparation of graphene oxides with different sheet sizes by temperature control

The sheet size of a graphene oxide （GO） can greatly influence its electrical, optical, mechanical, electrochemical and catalytic property. It is a key challenge to how to control the sheet size during its preparation in different application fields. According to our previous theoretical calculations of the effect of temperature on the oxidation process of graphene, we use Hummers method to prepare GOs with different sheet sizes by simply controlling the temperature condition in the process of the oxidation reaction of potassium permanganate （KMnO4） with graphene and the dilution process with deionized water. The results detected by transmission electron microscopy （TEM） and atomic force microscopy （AFM） show that the average sizes of GO sheets prepared at different temperatures are about 1 μm and 7 μm respectively. The ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy （UV-vis） shows that lower temperature can lead to smaller oxidation degrees of GO and less oxygen functional groups on the surface. In addition, we prepare GO membranes to test their mechanical strengths by ultrasonic waves, and we find that the strengths of the GO membranes prepared under low temperatures are considerably higher than those prepared under high temperatures, showing the high mechanical strengths of larger GO sheets. Our experimental results testify our previous theoretical calculations. Compared with the traditional centrifugal separation and chemical cutting method, the preparation process of GO by temperature control is simple and low-cost and also enables large-size synthesis. These findings develop a new method to control GO sheet sizes for large-scale potential applications.

Fuzzy Mathematics for Raw Silk Size Control

With photographing and experiments, this paper divides the cocoon layers into three categories according to their colors, establishes three-color membership function based on fuzzy mathematics, constructs fuzzy sets which satisfy the range of size control by using the ordinary set and attached frequency of threecolor cocoons combination, then achieves the ordinary sets of range of size control by choosing λ-cut. Under these ordinary sets, each end does duality relative level, then sets up relative matrix and overall sequence and finds the membership function to judge whether the size control is mormal.

Optimized Runge-Kutta Methods with Automatic Step Size Control for Compressible Computational Fluid Dynamics

We develop error-control based time integration algorithms for compressible fluid dynam-ics(CFD)applications and show that they are efficient and robust in both the accuracy-limited and stability-limited regime.Focusing on discontinuous spectral element semidis-cretizations,we design new controllers for existing methods and for some new embedded Runge-Kutta pairs.We demonstrate the importance of choosing adequate controller parameters and provide a means to obtain these in practice.We compare a wide range of error-control-based methods,along with the common approach in which step size con-trol is based on the Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy(CFL)number.The optimized methods give improved performance and naturally adopt a step size close to the maximum stable CFL number at loose tolerances,while additionally providing control of the temporal error at tighter tolerances.The numerical examples include challenging industrial CFD applications.

Size Distributions of Aerosol Sulfates and Nitrates in Beijing during the 2008 Olympic Games： Impacts of Pollution Control Measures and Regional Transport

For the 2008 Olympic Games, drastic control measures were implemented on industrial and urban emissions of sulfur dioxide （SO2）, nitrogen oxides （NOx） and other pollutants to address the issues of poor air quality in Beijing. To investigate the effects of SO2 and NOx reductions on the particulate sulfate and nitrate concentrations as well as their size distributions, size-segregated aerosol samples were collected using micro-orifice uniform deposit impactors （MOUDIs） at urban and downwind rural sites in Beijing before and after full-scale controls. During the sampling period, the mass concentrations of fine particles （PMI.s） at the urban and rural sites were 94.0 and 85.9 p.g m-3, respectively. More than 90% of the sulfates and 60% of nitrates formed as fine particles. Benefiting from the advantageous meteorological conditions and the source controls, sulfates were observed in rather low concentrations and primarily in condensation mode during the Olympics. The effects of the control measures were separately analyzed for the northerly and the southerly air-mass-dominated days to account for any bias. After the control measures were implemented, PM, sulfates, and nitrates were significantly reduced when the northerly air masses prevailed, with a higher percentage of reduction in larger particles. The droplet mode particles, which dominated the sulfates and nitrates before the controls were implemented, were remarkably reduced in mass concentration after the control measures were implemented. Nevertheless, when the polluted southerly air masses prevailed, the local source control measures in Beijing did not effectively reduce the ambient sulfate concentration due to the enormous regional contribution from the North China Plain.

OPTIMUM DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF THE SIZE CONTROL SYSTEM OF AUTOMATIC REELING MACHINE

This paper sets up a mathematical model of size variation to derive theobjective function, and constructs the constrained conditions In accordance withtheories of the raw silk production process and probability. On the above basis,the optimal feasible solutions to the parameters of different types of size controlsystem are searched out.

Analysis of the Effect of Subgroup Size on the X-Bar Control Chart Using Forensic Science Laboratory Sample Influx Data

This paper analyzes the effect of subgroup size on the x-bar chart characteristics using sample influx (SIF) into forensic science laboratory (FSL). The characteristics studied include changes in out-or-control points (OCP), upper control limit UCLx, and zonal demarcations. Multi-rules were used to identify the number of out-of-control-points, Nocp as violations using five control chart rules applied separately. A sensitivity analysis on the Nocp was applied for subgroup size, k, and number of sigma above the mean value to determine the upper control limit, UCLx. A computer code was implemented using a FORTRAN code to create x-bar control-charts and capture OCP and other control-chart characteristics with increasing k from 2 to 25. For each value of k, a complete series of average values, Q(p), of specific length, Nsg, was created from which statistical analysis was conducted and compared to the original SIF data, S(t). The variation of number of out-of-control points or violations, Nocp, for different control-charts rules with increasing k was determined to follow a decaying exponential function, Nocp = Ae–α, for which, the goodness of fit was established, and the R2 value approached unity for Rule #4 and #5 only. The goodness of fit was established to be the new criteria for rational subgroup-size range, for Rules #5 and #4 only, which involve a count of 6 consecutive points decreasing and 8 consecutive points above the selected control limit (σ/3 above the grand mean), respectively. Using this criterion, the rational subgroup range was established to be 4 ≤ k ≤ 20 for the two x-bar control chart rules.

A new size and shape controlling method for producing calcium alginate beads with immobilized proteins

A method for producing size- and shape-con-trolled calcium alginate beads with immobilized proteins was developed. Unlike previous cal-cium alginate bead production methods, pro-tein-immobilized alginate beads with uniform shape and sizes less then 20 micrometers in diameter could successfully be produced by using sonic vibration. BSA and FITC-conjugated anti-BSA antibodies were used to confirm pro-tein immobilization in the alginate beads. Pro-tein diffusion from the beads could be reduced to less than 10% by cross-linking the proteins to the alginate with 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylamino-propyl)carbodiimide (EDC) and N-hydroxysul-fosuccinimide (NHSS). The calcium alginate beads could also be arranged freely on a slide glass by using a femtosecond laser.

一种混合多策略改进的麻雀搜索算法

针对麻雀搜索算法SSA求解目标函数最优解时具有过早收敛、在多峰条件下易陷入局部最优和在高维情况下求解精度不足等问题,提出了一种混合多策略改进的麻雀搜索算法MISSA。考虑到算法初始解的质量很大程度上会影响整个算法的收敛速度与精度,引入精英反向学习策略,扩大算法的搜索区域,提升初始种群的质量和多样性;对步长进行分阶段控制,以提高算法的求解精度;通过在跟随者的位置中加入Circle映射参数与余弦因子,提高算法的遍历性与搜索能力;采用自适应选择机制在麻雀个体位置更新中加入Lévy飞行,增强算法寻优和跳出局部最优的能力。将改进后的算法与麻雀搜索算法及其他算法在13个测试函数上进行对比,并进行Friedman检验。实验结果表明,改进后的麻雀搜索算法能够有效提高寻优精度与收敛速度,并在高维问题中也具备较高的稳定性。

新型连续流系统中Anammox颗粒粒径控制策略研究

以具有自主专利的新型大/小双室自回流连续流反应器为平台,探究基于粒径回流的Anammox颗粒污泥粒径调控策略及调控机制.粒径回流策略通过改变内循环的位置,将不同粒径的污泥引入高基质浓度和高机械剪切区域进行粒径调控.结果表明,粒径回流策略能够提高Anammox颗粒粒径,并将其控制在合适的范围内.这一策略还增强了系统的污泥浓度、颗粒沉降性能和脱氮性能.其中大颗粒回流策略综合提升效果最佳,维持颗粒粒径在0.5~1.6mm范围内,中值粒径为948μm,污泥体积指数(SVI)为35.6mL/g,总无机氮(TIN)去除率为88.59%.胞外聚合物(EPS)分析和分层实验表明,紧密结合EPS(TB-EPS)中的蛋白质(PN)在粒径调控中起着关键作用,高浓度的外层污泥PN主导了颗粒的沉降性能,而内层紧实污泥的TB-EPS中的PN则增强了颗粒的结构强度.高通量测序结果表明,粒径循环策略能够大幅提高系统内厌氧氨氧化菌(AnAOB)Candidatus Kuenenia的丰度,在大颗粒回流时达到60.24%的峰值,并且AnAOB主要分布在颗粒污泥内层.

Cu-ZnO-ZrO_(2)催化剂孔结构调控CO_(2)加氢制甲醇性能研究

采用胶质晶体模板法制备了不同孔径Cu-ZnO-ZrO_(2)(CZZ)催化剂,并对其CO_(2)加氢制甲醇性能进行了研究。结果表明,通过改变催化剂孔径可以实现ZnO粒径大小的调控,较小的粒径表现出更卓越的催化性能。其中,在孔径为55 nm的(CZZ-55)样品上,ZnO粒径为14.5 nm,CO_(2)转化率为14.83%,甲醇选择性为78.8%,甲醇产率可达345.8 g/(kg·h)。原位漫反射傅里叶变换红外光谱结果表明,在CZZ催化剂上CO_(2)加氢制甲醇遵循甲酸盐路径,ZnO-ZrO_(2)界面是CO_(2)吸附和活化的活性位点,而三维有序大孔结构有助于形成更分散的ZnO-ZrO_(2)活性位,提高了CO_(2)转化率。并且孔径大小对中间体的转化具有一定影响,孔径越小,甲酸盐更容易转化为甲醇。此外,三维有序的大孔结构为产物(水汽和甲醇)快速扩散提供了“高速通道”,有效抑制CO_(2)加氢的副产物水汽对活性位的毒化作用,较大程度提高了催化剂的稳定性,在600 h内无明显失活。

气压及水压对超声雾化喷雾粒径的影响研究

为了研究气压和水压对超声雾化喷雾粒径参数的影响;设计了实验平台,选用了阴离子型表面活性剂快渗T配置成浓度为0.07%的溶液进行实验;分析在不同气压和水压的组合之下超声雾化喷雾粒径参数的变化情况。实验结果表明:粒径参数D10、D50、D90、VAD、SMD、NAD随着气压的增加而减小,减小幅度受到水压影响;同时,以上粒径参数也随着水压的增加而增大,增大幅度也会受到气压影响,气压对雾滴粒径变化的影响程度大于水压;当压力改变时,粒径参数D10和NAD的变化趋势呈现高度一致,D50、VAD、SMD粒径增加量呈现高度一致,总体上D90变化幅度最大,D10变化幅度最小。

基于sigmoid-sinh分段函数的变步长FxLMS算法

为改善滤波-x最小均方(filtered-x least mean square,FxLMS)算法在噪声主动控制时无法兼顾收敛速度和稳态误差的问题,提出了基于sigmoid-sinh分段函数的FxLMS(SSFxLMS)算法,并引入蚁狮算法对SFxLMS(sigmoid filtered-x least mean square)、ShFxLMS(sinh filtered-x least mean square)、SSFxLMS算法的参数进行优化。分别采用高斯白噪声和实测簇绒地毯织机噪声为输入信号,采用FxLMS、SFxLMS、ShFxLMS、SSFxLMS算法进行噪声主动控制仿真,对比分析这4种算法的性能。结果表明:与其他3种算法相比,采用SSFxLMS算法对高斯白噪声和簇绒地毯织机噪声进行控制时,误差信号的平均绝对值更小,平均降噪量与收敛速度也有大幅度提升。由此可知,SSFxLMS算法有效改善了FxLMS算法无法兼顾收敛速度和稳态误差的问题,研究结果为噪声主动控制算法设计提供了一定的参考。