Effects of mineral loading methods on carbon solution reaction of coal-derived carbon material

11 oxides (MgO, CaO, BaO, TiO2, V2O5, MnO2, Fe2O3, CuO, ZnO, PbO2 and B2O3), often found in coal-derived carbon materials, were loaded into the coal-derived carbon material by two methods such as adsorbing oxides through solution onto the surface of coke and adding oxides into the coal before carbonization. The effects of oxides on carbon solution reaction of carbon material were investigated and compared. The results show that the effect trends are similar but the effect of oxides by adsorbing is remarkably greater than that of the oxides by adding oxides as BaO, MgO, Fe2O3, CuO, ZnO, MnO2, PbO2 and B2O3. And the effect trends are similar. BaO, CaO and Fe2O3 are the greatest affecting oxides. The saturation point of addition content is 3% and that of adsorption is 1%.

Portable 4-Channel Electrochemical Noise Test System

A portable 4-channel electrochemical noise(EN) test system with high precision was developed.The modular instrument cRIO was used as its core and the signal conditioning module included zero resistance ammeter(ZRA),fly line,screening box and shielded wire.The EN data were acquired from two Q235 carbon steel specimens placed in 0.5 mol/L H2SO4 solution and 0.1 mol/L NaCl solution.The experimental result shows that this system can achieve an accuracy of 10 pA and 10 μV,and it can be applied to on-site multi-channel EN test.

Transformation Pathway of Carbonate Pedofeatures Based on Their Micromorhology and Carbon Isotope Data in the Northern Caucasus Region,Russia

Carbonate pedofeatures (CPs) in a chronosequence of paleosols buried under kurgans in the Northern Caucasus region of Russia in a period from the end of the 4th to the middle of the 5th centuries AD (It seams that there is no time left) were studied by using a set of morphological and isotopic methods. The CPs in chernozem-type soils of Russia are usually represented by crystallomorphic calcite whereas the non-segregated carbonates occurred at the same horizons-by collomorphic one. Those two morphotypes of calcite have the differences in elemental composition and isotopic composition of carbon and, hence, should have different origins-from true and colloidal solutions, respectively. The same differences including radiocarbon age have been revealed for pseudomycelium of the ABca horizon of the youngest paleosols as compared with the same CPs of other paleosols in the chronosequence studied. Our assumption is that it was succeeded in finding that the pseudomycelium right away after its precipitation from a colloidal solution migrated from the lower soil horizons to the surface horizons during the periods of climatic aridization. After a short time interval (not more than 25-50 years) collomorphic calcite in the pseudomicelium of the yongest paleosols mentioned above will likely become by "usual" acicular calcite.