Effect of heat treatment on the microstructure and properties of CVD SiC fiber

In this study, the effect of heat treatment on the room temperature strength of W-core Si C fiber produced by chemical vapor deposition（CVD） was investigated. Thermal exposure in the temperature range of 900–1000？C decreases the strength of the Si C fiber. Fracture morphology analysis indicates that failure initiations predominantly take place at the W-core/Si C interface. A reaction layer that formed at the W-core/Si C interface during thermal exposure degraded the fiber strength and an empirical linear relationship of strength vs thickness of the reaction layer can be obtained. The kinetics of the growth of the W-core/Si C reaction layer were determined.

Analysis of energy consumption for lump coal degradation in melting gasifier

The volume hypothesis,a theory about the energy scale of comminution,was adopted to analyze the degradation behavior of lump coal under different heating time.The breakage energy of chars was determined by a compression test,and the results show that the ultimate strength of chars decreased at the early stage during the heating process,resulting in a decrease of the char breakage energy.At the late stage during the heating process,the char breakage energy increased with the increase of heating time.The power consumption coefficients CKof different chars were determined by a drum experiment,and then the char degradation behavior under different power consumptions was predicted.In addition,agasification experiment was conducted to determine the gasification activation energy（with CO_2）of lump coal heated for different time.The results show that the gasification activation energy increased greatly at the early stage during the heating process,which showed opposite change to the breakage energy of chars.Furthermore,the internal temperature and heat changes of the bonded coal briquette were calculated by using an unsteady heat conduction equation.The large difference between the surface and the center temperatures of coal and the large amount of heat absorption at the early stage during the heating process may have a negative effect on the breakage energy of chars.

Numerical modeling of thermal loading of diamond crystal in X-ray FEL oscillators

Due to high reflectivity and high resolution of X-ray pulses, diamond is one of the most popular Bragg crystals serving as the reflecting mirror and mono-chromator in the next generation of free electron lasers（FELs）.The energy deposition of X-rays will result in thermal heating, and thus lattice expansion of the diamond crystal,which may degrade the performance of X-ray FELs. In this paper, the thermal loading effect of diamond crystal for X-ray FEL oscillators has been systematically studied by combined simulation with Geant4 and ANSYS, and its dependence on the environmental temperature, crystal size, X-ray pulse repetition rate and pulse energy are presented. Our results show that taking the thermal loading effects into account, X-ray FEL oscillators are still robust and promising with an optimized design.