气氧/甲烷同轴剪切喷注器燃烧特性数值模拟

对以气氧/甲烷为推进剂的同轴剪切喷注器进行了数值模拟,研究了喷注器设计参数对推进剂掺混燃烧、燃烧室壁面和喷注面板热载的影响。研究结果表明:氧喷注速度增大不利于推进剂的掺混燃烧,降低了燃烧效率,增大了燃烧室壁面和喷注面板的热载;动量比增大提高了推进剂的燃烧效率,缩短了燃烧距离,但增大了燃烧室壁面和喷注面板的热载;中心氧喷嘴管壁厚和氧喷嘴管的缩进,对燃烧效率有影响,但两者对燃烧室壁面和喷注面板热载影响不明显;对燃烧效率而言,特定情况下氧喷嘴缩进存在一最佳值。

溅板式层板喷注单元燃烧特性数值分析

为了获得喷注单元结构参数对喷注器燃烧特性的影响规律,利用数值分析方法对单喷嘴溅板式层板喷注单元气-气燃烧特性进行研究,考察燃烧室特征长度及出口层喷嘴宽度对气氧/甲烷流动及燃烧特性的影响。在求解气-气燃烧流场方面,采用带化学反应的湍流N-S方程进行描述,其中化学动力学反应模型采用简化的单步9组分模型。研究结果表明:燃烧室特征长度的增大有利于特征速度效率的增加;该条件下采用溅板式层板喷注单元所对应的燃烧室特征长度约为600 mm。对比分析发现,出口层喷嘴宽度取0.15 mm时,水组分摩尔分数与热力计算值差别最大;当其值取1.05 mm时,燃烧室头部区域截面温度上升最快,取0.45 mm时上升最慢。总的来说,出口层喷嘴宽度取0.75 mm时,燃烧长度最短,燃烧效率最大。

Advances of study on atmospheric methane oxidation (consumption) in forest soil

Next to CO2, methane (CH4) is the second important contributor to global warming in the atmosphere and global atmospheric CH4 budget depends on both CH4 sources and sinks. Unsaturated soil is known as a unique sink for atmospheric CH4 in terrestrial ecosystem. Many comparison studies proved that forest soil had the biggest capacity of oxidizing atmospheric CH4 in various unsaturated soils. However, up to now, there is not an overall review in the aspect of atmospheric CH4 oxidation (consumption) in forest soil. This paper analyzed advances of studies on the mechanism of atmospheric CH4 oxidation, and re-lated natural factors (Soil physical and chemical characters, temperature and moisture, ambient main greenhouse gases con-centrations, tree species, and forest fire) and anthropogenic factors (forest clear-cutting and thinning, fertilization, exogenous aluminum salts and atmospheric deposition, adding biocides, and switch of forest land use) in forest soils. It was believed that CH4 consumption rate by forest soil was limited by diffusion and sensitive to changes in water status and temperature of soil. CH4 oxidation was also particularly sensitive to soil C/N, Ambient CO2, CH4 and N2O concentrations, tree species and forest fire. In most cases, anthropogenic disturbances will decrease atmospheric CH4 oxidation, thus resulting in the elevating of atmos-pheric CH4. Finally, the author pointed out that our knowledge of atmospheric CH4 oxidation (consumption) in forest soil was insufficient. In order to evaluate the contribution of forest soils to atmospheric CH4 oxidation and the role of forest played in the process of global environmental change, and to forecast the trends of global warming exactly, more researchers need to studies further on CH4 oxidation in various forest soils of different areas.

Effect of decomposition of catalyst precursor on Ni/CeO_2 activity for CO methanation

CO methanation on Ni/CeO2 has recently received increasing attention.However,the low-temperature activity and carbon resistance of Ni/CeO2 still need to be improved.In this study,plasma decomposition of nickel nitrate was performed at ca.150℃ and atmospheric pressure.This was followed by hydrogen reduction at 500 ℃ in the absence of plasma,and a highly dispersed Ni/CeO2 catalyst was obtained with improved CO adsorption and enhanced metal-support interaction.The plasma-decomposed catalyst showed significantly improved low-temperature activity with high methane selectivity(up to 100%)and enhanced carbon resistance for CO methanation.For example,at 250 ℃,the plasma-decomposed catalyst showed a CO conversion of 96.8% with high methane selectivity(almost 100%),whereas the CO conversion was only 14.7% for a thermally decomposed catalyst.

Ignition characteristics and combustion performances of a LO_2/GCH_4 small thrust rocket engine

A 500 N model engine filled with LO2/GCH4 was designed and manufactured.A series of ignition attempts were performed in it by both head spark plug and body spark plug.Results show that the engine can be ignited but the combustion cannot be sustained when head spark plug applied as the plug tip was set in the gaseous low-velocity zone with thin spray.This is mainly because flame from this zone cannot supply enough ignition energy for the whole chamber.However,reliable ignition and stable combustion can be achieved by body spark plug.As the O/F ratio increases from 2.61 to 3.49,chamber pressure increases from 0.474 to 0.925 MPa and combustion efficiency increases from 57.8%to 95.1%.This is determined by the injector configuration,which cannot produce the sufficiently breakup of the liquid oxygen on the low flow rate case.

Thermodynamic Study on the Catalytic Partial Oxidation of Methane to Syngas

the catalytic partial oxidation of methane to syngas (CO + H_2)has been simulated thermodynamically with the advanced processsimulator PRO/II. The influences of temperature, pressure, CH_4/O_2ratio and steam addition in feed gas on the conversion of CH_4selectively to syngas and eat duty required were investigated, andtheir effects on carbon formation were also discussed. The simulationresults were in good agreement with the literature data taken from aspouted bed reactor.

Effects of Nitrogen Fertilizer,Soil Moisture and Temperature on Methane Oxidation in Paddy Soil

Effects of nitrogen fertilizer,soil moisture and temperature on methane oxidation in paddy soil were investigated under laboratory conditions. Addition of 0.05 g N kg-1 soil as NH4Cl strongly inhibited methane oxidation and addition of the same rate of KCl also inhibited the oxidation but with more slight effect,suggesting that the inhibitory effect was partly caused by increase in osmotic potential in microorganism cell.Not only NH but also NO greatly affected methane oxidation.Urea did not affect methane oxidation in paddy soil in the first two days of incubation,but strong inhibitory effect was observed afterwards.Methane was oxidized in the treated soil with an optimum moisture of 280 g kg-1, and air-drying inhibited methane oxidation entirely.The optimum temperature of methane oxidation was about 30℃in paddy soil,while no methane oxidation was observed at 5℃or 50℃

Prediction on adsorption ratio of carbon dioxide to methane on coals with multiple linear regression

The multiple linear regression equations for adsorption ratio of CO2/CH4 and its coal quality indexes were built with SPSS software on basis of existing coal quality data and its adsorption amount of CO2 and OH4. The regression equations built were tested with data collected from some s, and the influences of coal quality indexes on adsorption ratio of CO2/CH4 were studied with investigation of regression equations. The study results show that the regression equation for adsorption ratio of CO2/CH4 and volatile matter, ash and moisture in coal can be obtained with multiple linear regression analysis, that the influence of same coal quality index with the degree of metamorphosis or influence of coal quality indexes for same coal rank on adsorption ratio is not consistent.

Operational Model for Evaluating the Permeation of Mixed Gas Through Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Membrane

An operational model is developed to evaluate and predict the permeation performance of mixed gas through poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) membranes by combining the ideal gas permeation model with the ex-perimental analysis of the mixed gas transport character. This model is tested using the binary and ternary mixed gas with various compositions through the PDMS membranes, and the predicted data of the permeation flux and the compositions of the permeated gas are in good agreement with the experimental ones, which indicates that the op-erational model is applicable for the evaluation of the permeation performance of mixed gas through PDMS mem-branes.

Nanostructured MnO_2 synthesized via methane gas reduction of manganese ore and hydrothermal precipitation methods

A three-stage methane gas （CH4） reduction of manganese ore, dissolution, and precipitation from solution procedure was conducted to synthesize MnO2 nanorods. Methane gas reduction was carried out at 850, 875, 900, 925, and 950℃ for 120 min. Precipitation of the a-MnO2 nanorods was performed in the temperature range of 25-90℃with a constant reaction time of 90 min. The morphology and particle size of the products were determined from scanning electron microscope （SEM） images and X-ray diffraction （XRD） patterns. The BET and BJH of the products were found out by the surface area analyzer. Reduction results indicated that MnO-rich phase is significantly formed at 950℃ as MnO2 phase disappears. Precipitation results also showed an average diameter size of - 50 nm for the embedding a-MnO2 nanorods with BET surface area of 174 m^2/g.

Catalytic Partial Oxidation of Methane with Air to Syngas in a Pilot-Plant-Scale Spouted Bed Reactor

On the basis of hydrodynamic and scaling-up studies, a pilot-plant-scale thermal spouted bed reactor (50 mm in ID and 1500 mm in height) was designed and fabricated by scaling-down cold simulators. It was tested for making syngas via catalytic partial oxidation (CPO) of methane by air. The effects of various operating conditions such as operating pressure and temperature, feed composition, and gas flowrate etc. on the CPO process were investigated. CH4 conversion of 92.2% and selectivity of 92.3% and 83.3% to CO and H2, respectively, were achieved at the pressure of 2.1 MPa. It was found that when the spouted bed reactor was operated within the stable spouting flow regime, the temperature profiles along the bed axis were much more uniform than those operated within the fixed-bed regime. The CH4 conversion and syngas selectivity were found to be close to thermodynamic equilibrium limits. The results of the present investigation showed that spouted bed could be considered as a potential type of chemical reactor for the CPO process of methane.

Permeation Characteristics of Light Hydrocarbons Through Poly（amide-6-β-ethylene oxide） Multilayer Composite Membranes

In this paper, poly(amide-6-β-ethylene oxide) (PEBA1657) copolymer was used to prepare multilayer polyetherimide (PEI)/polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)/PEBA1657/PDMS composite membranes by dip-coating method. Permeation behaviors of ethylene, ethane, propylene, propane, n-butane, methane and nitrogen through the multilayer composite membranes were investigated over a range of operating temperature and pressure. The permeances of light hydrocarbons through PEI/PDMS/PEBA1657/PDMS composite membranes increase with their increasing condensability, and the olefins are more permeable than their corresponding paraffins. For light hydrocarbons, the gas permeances increase significantly as temperature increasing. When the transmembrane pressure difference increases, the gas permeance increases moderately due to plasticization effect, while their apparent activation energies for permeation decrease.

Ceramic Supported PDMS and PEGDA Composite Membranes for CO2 Separation

Composite membranes have attracted increasing attentions owing to their potential applications for CO2 separation. In this work, ceramic supported polydimethylsiloxane （PDMS） and poly （ethylene glycol） diacrylate （PEGDA） composite membranes were prepared. The microstructure and physicochemical properties of the compos- ite membranes were characterized. Preparation conditions were systematically optimized. The gas separation performance of the as-prepared membranes was studied by pure gas and binary gas permeation measurement of CO〉 N2 and H〉 Experiments showed that PDMS, as silicone rubber, exhibited larger permeance and lower separation factors. Conversely, PEGDA composite membrane presented smaller gas permeance but higher ideal selectivity for CO2/N2. Compared to the performance of those membranes using polymeric supports or freestanding membranes, the two kinds of ceramic supported composite membranes exhibited higher gas permeance and acceptable selectivity. Therefore, the ceramic supported composite membrane can be expected as a candidate for CO2 separation from light gases.

Free-Radical Conjugated Oxidation of Natural Methane by Hydrogen Peroxide

There has been carried out the process of noncatalytic oxidation of natural methane in the presence of hydrogen peroxide at the temperatures 840-880 ℃ what permitted to obtain hydrogen with high yield of hydrogen （74%） with inconsiderable quantity of CO （0.4%） in converted gas. As observed in the experiment, a variation of H2O2 concentration in the aqueous solution and other basic parameters of the process may induce the synthesis of gas with given H2：CO ratio for its further application in methanol or ammonia synthesis. In the latter process low CO concentration is required. Compared with the common high-temperature conversion of natural gas and further carbon oxide conversion on a catalyst, the current process promotes process simplification： the reaction is implemented at relatively low temperature （860-900 ℃ instead of 1400-1600 ℃for existing non-catalytic processes of methane conversion） and an additional unit for catalytic conversion of carbon oxide is excluded （in NH3 production）. The mechanism of chemical conjugation in the CH4-H2O2-H2O system was elucidated and the inducing effect of H2O2 decomposition on the desired （secondary） reaction was quantitavely estimated. An adequate kinetic model was formulated on the basis of the proposed free-radical scheme.

High Efficiency Landfill Gas Fired Power Plant Process with ORC

Helsinki Environmental Services Authority HSY ,Ammaissuo waste management centre consists of two landfill sites. The old land filling area was established in 1987 and closed in 2007. The landfilling at the new landfill section started in November 2007. Until spring 2014 the main treatment method for source separated MSW （municipal solid＇waste） collected from Helsinki Metropolitan area households was landfilling. Approximately 250,000 tonnes of MSW was landfilled annually. From April 2014 on all of the MWS has been utilized in heat and electricity production at new Waste to Energy plant owned and operated by energy company Vantaa Energy Ltd. The landscaping of the landfills is currently ongoing. The construction of the landfill gas collection system was started in 1994 and from 1996 on landfill gas from old landfill area was recovered and burned in torches to reduce the greenhouse gas effect caused by methane in landfill gas. In the end of year （2004） new landfill gas utilisation system was taken in use Gas was used as a fuel in HOB （heat only boiler） to generate district heating for nearby community as well as commercial and industrial sites. The capacity of the system was 7,000 Nm3/h that corresponded to app. 30 MW of heat. Since district heat was mainly needed only during the cold season of the year only about half of the landfill gas produced by the landfill was able to utilize and rest of the gas was still flared leading to relatively low utilization rate of the gas. The construction work of the new 15 MW ＋ 1.2 MW electricity power plant started in spring 2009. The power plant consists of four gas engines and generators and organic rankine cycle process utilizing thermal oil for heat transfer from exhaust gas and steam turbine with hexamethyldisiloxane （silicone oil） as a medium agent. The ORC （Organic Rankine Cycle）-process was commissioned in August 2011 and the operational experiences have been very good. Based on current knowledge the HSY power plant is the biggest landfill gas fired power plant in Europe and probably even in the whole world. Also the combined engine and ORC-process is unique for landfill gas power plants. The third phase of the biogas utilization took place in summer 2015 when the anaerobic digestion biowaste treatment plant was introduced. At the moment the product gas from digestion plant is utilized at landfill gas power plant. In the future gas will be used as a fuel for new power plant process consisting two gas engines and ORC process. Commissioning of the new power plant will take place in October 2016. This paper presents detailed description of the landfill gas utilization system of HSY waste treatment centre and information on operational experiences of landfill gas fired power plant process.

Influences of Metals and Acids on the Photo Reduction of CO2 under Catalysis of TiO2

Conversion of green house CO2 into fuel gas in the presence of reducing agent sources that are Fe and Zn powder, as well as hydrogen ions supplier such as nitric and acetic acids by photo catalytic reduction with water vapor on TiO2 has been studied. The photo reduction was carried out by batch technique, using a UV lamp with a wave length of 290-400 nm, as a photon source. The gasses produced from the photo reduction were determined by gas chromatography. The research results indicate that the photo reduction of CO2 has successfully produced methane as a dominant product. The presence of the metals in addition to be able to improve the methane yield, it is also able to induce ethylene formation. Meanwhile the acids can considerably enhance the methane yield without formation of ethylene. Furthermore, the enhancement is observed to be controlled by mass of the metals, and the acid concentrations. It is also found that Zn and HNO3 show stronger effect in the increasing CO2 photo reduction.

A Method to Obtain Gas-PDMS Membrane Interaction Parameters for UNIQUAC Model

The recovery or capture of one or more components from gas mixture by membrane separation has become a research focus in recent years.This study investigates the gas-membrane solution equilibrium,for which Henry's law is not applicable if the gas phase is a mixture.This problem can be solved by using UNIQUAC model to calculate the activity coefficient of gas dissolved in the membrane.A method was proposed in this study to obtain the gas-membrane interaction parameter for UNIQUAC model.By the experiments of gas permeation through polydimethylsiloxane PDMS membrane,the solubility coefficients of some gases(N2,CO2,CH4) were measured.Through non-linear fitting UNIQUAC model to the experimental results from this study and in literature(H2,O2,C3H8),the gas-membrane interaction parameters for these gases were obtained.Based on these parameters,the activity coefficients of the dissolved gas were calculated by UNIQUAC model,and their values agree well with the experimental data.These results confirm the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method,which makes it possible to better predict gas-membrane solution equilibrium.

Methane-rich fluid inclusions and their hosting volcanic reservoir rocks of the Songliao Basin, NE China

Methane-rich fluids were recognized to be hosted in the reservoir volcanic rocks as primary inclusions. Samples were collected from core-drillings of volcanic gas reservoirs with reversed δ13C of alkane in the Xujiaweizi depression of the Songliao Basin. The volcanic rocks are rhyolite dominant being enriched in the more incompatible elements like Cs, Rb, Ba, Th, U and Th with relative high LREE, depleted HREE and negative anomalies of Ti and Nb, suggesting a melt involving both in mantle source and crustal assimilation. Primary fluids hosted in the volcanic rocks should have the same provenance with the magma. The authors concluded that the enclosed CH4 in the volcanics are mantle/magma-derived alkane and the reversed δ13C of alkane in the corresponding gas reservoirs is partly resulted from mixture between biogenic and abiogenic gases.

CO2 Storage Mechanism in Coal and its Effect on Methane Production in Enhanced Coalbed Methane Recovery

In this study, we provided more theoretical method for estimation of dissolution amount and applied this method to enhanced coalbed methane recovery （ECBMR） simulator. Dissolution amount was measured by method of differential heat of adsorption. Akabira coal, a Japanese bituminous coal, was used for the experiment. The results showed that CO2 was stored in coal by both adsorption and dissolution. Using this result the methane production was calculated by ECBMR-simulator, enhanced coalbed methane recovery simulator, the University of Tokyo （ECOMERS-UT）. Total stored CO2 was separated into adsorption component and dissolution component. Only the former component contributes to the competitive adsorption. Coalbed methane （CBM） production simulation considering the dissolution showed later and smaller peak production and prolonged methane production before the breakthrough than the conventional competitive adsorption.

Laminar Diffusion Flames of Methane in a Co-annular Jet of Oxygen-Enriched Air

Oxygen rich combustion is a mean to increase the energy efficiency and to contribute to CO2 capture. Influence of oxygen enriched air on the stability of methane flames from non premixed laminar jets has been investigated experimentally. The burner consists of two coaxial jets： methane flowing out of the inner, oxidizer from the outer. The flame behavior is studied according to the proportion of oxygen in the oxidizer jet, the oxidizer and the methane jets velocities. The flame is either anchored to the burner, lifted, stationary or not or blown-out. The addition of oxygen produces a decrease of the lift height, a reduction of the length of the reaction zone and an increase in the soot emission. These results have been reported into diagrams of stability where the flame configurations are connected to the competition between the dynamic effect of the injection velocity and the chemical effect of oxygen addition.