The effects of additive ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) on crystallization process were investigated by the induction time of MgSO 4-NaOH system. Nucleation and growth rates, growth mechanism and particle size ...The effects of additive ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) on crystallization process were investigated by the induction time of MgSO 4-NaOH system. Nucleation and growth rates, growth mechanism and particle size distribution of magnesium hydroxide precipitation were involved with. The induction time in unseeded and seeded precipitation of magnesium hydroxide with and without additive EDTA was measured. The conductivity method was used to determine the induction period. Theoretical relations of the induction time and supersaturation ratio for different growth mechanisms and a combined analysis on the induction time were applied to determine nucleation and growth rates. The growth mechanism of magnesium hydroxide precipitation was disclosed by analyzing the experimental data with and without additive. The analysis on induction time indicated that additive EDTA had a significant influence on both nucleation and growth of magnesium hydroxide precipitation. The mechanism underlying the effect of EDTA on crystal growth was 2-dimension nucleation-mediated growth model.展开更多
Additive manufacturing (AM) permits the fabrication of functionally optimized components with high geometrical complexity. The opportunity of using porous infill as an integrated part of the manufactur- ing process ...Additive manufacturing (AM) permits the fabrication of functionally optimized components with high geometrical complexity. The opportunity of using porous infill as an integrated part of the manufactur- ing process is an example of a unique AM feature. Automated design methods are still incapable of fully exploiting this design freedom. In this work, we show how the so-called coating approach to topology optimization provides a means for designing infill-based components that possess a strongly improved buckling load and, as a result, improved structural stability. The suggested approach thereby addresses an important inadequacy of the standard minimum compliance topology optimization approach, in which buckling is rarely accounted for; rather, a satisfactory buckling load is usually assured through a post-processing step that may lead to sub-optimal components. The present work compares the stan- dard and coating approaches to topology optimization for the MBB beam benchmark case. The opti- mized structures are additively manufactured using a filamentary technique. This experimental study validates the numerical model used in the coating approach. Depending on the properties of the infill material, the buckling load may be more than four times higher than that of solid structures optimized under the same conditions.展开更多
The purpose of this study is to make a review and or definition of AM (additive manufacturing), and an evaluation of its use in furniture production within a few projects to provide industry-specific awareness. AM c...The purpose of this study is to make a review and or definition of AM (additive manufacturing), and an evaluation of its use in furniture production within a few projects to provide industry-specific awareness. AM can be considered as one of the latest innovative processes, as a state-of-the-art development, in manufacturing industries. AM is expressed as the future of the products and localization of the manufacturing processes in some studies. Innovation is a key factor both for firms and consumer products or service output. And, in today's competitive environment, it compels all the partners for R & D activities to provide technological development. But, all the partners come to a parting of the ways of disruptive or sustainable innovation. It can be said that furniture manufacturing by AM method is relatively new. Non-industrial use of the AM in furniture production can be stated as one of the latest innovative development. Thereby, this study reviews how AM is used to produce furniture within applied projects, which materials and methods are used for production and suggests its future impact.展开更多
Due to the biological risks of using the conventional lubricants,the vegetable oils have been considered nowadays.Besides,to improve the tribological properties of the vegetable oils in various applications like metal...Due to the biological risks of using the conventional lubricants,the vegetable oils have been considered nowadays.Besides,to improve the tribological properties of the vegetable oils in various applications like metal forming processes,nanoparticles have been used as additives.This research evaluated the lubrication performance of the Al2O3 and TiO2 nanoparticles dispersed in rapeseed oil during the parallel tubular channel angular pressing (PTCAP) process.The experimental PTCAP tests have been fulfilled under three lubrication conditions and the comparison between the PTCAP processed tubes has been performed in terms of the maximum forming force,surface roughness,and microhardness.The experimental results indicate that adding the mentioned nanoparticles has caused at least a 50% reduction in the maximum deformation load.Moreover,a remarkable decrement in the surface roughness of the formed tubes has been obtained.展开更多
The stability of ionic liquid additive 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hydrogen sulfate ([BMIM]HSO4) during zinc electrowinning from acidic sulfate solution was investigated by cyclic voltammetry, electrochemical impeda...The stability of ionic liquid additive 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hydrogen sulfate ([BMIM]HSO4) during zinc electrowinning from acidic sulfate solution was investigated by cyclic voltammetry, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy. Compared with the traditional industrial additives, gelatine and gum arabic, [BMIM]HSO4 has more excellent chemical and thermal stabilities. The inhibition effects of gelatine and gum arabic on the zinc electrocrystallization are observed to markedly weaken due to their part degradation after 12 h longtime successive electrolysis and high temperature (90 ℃) treatments. In contrast, the activity of [BMIM]HSO4 is practically unaffected after 24 h longtime successive electrolysis and high temperature treatments. These results are corroborated with the corresponding morphological analysis of the cathodic deposits.展开更多
Monophasic mullite gel with composition 3Al2O3·2SiO2 was prepared by the sol-gel method using aluminium nitrate nonahydrate, aluminium-tri-isopropoxide, and tetraethylorthosili-cate as reagents. Gels with differe...Monophasic mullite gel with composition 3Al2O3·2SiO2 was prepared by the sol-gel method using aluminium nitrate nonahydrate, aluminium-tri-isopropoxide, and tetraethylorthosili-cate as reagents. Gels with different drying control chemical additives(DCCAs) and polyvinylpyrrolidone(PVP) as spinning assistant were dried at several temperatures. The influences of temperature, DCCAs and PVP in the drying process were investigated. N,N-dimethylformamide(DMF) was the optimum DCCA at 70℃ in the drying process. PVP decreased the solvent volatilization speed and prevented gel crack to a certain extent. FTIR results revealed that free water, ethanol, and isopropanol were completely removed by the drying procedure.展开更多
The usage of plastic-impregnated waste derived solid fuel in conventional combustor is hindered by many technical factors, especially its organic chlorine content. In this paper, experimental study of hydrothermal tre...The usage of plastic-impregnated waste derived solid fuel in conventional combustor is hindered by many technical factors, especially its organic chlorine content. In this paper, experimental study of hydrothermal treatment on mixed plastic waste using the mixture of polypropylene, polystyrene, polyethylene and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) has been performed to observe the dechlorination effect of hydrothermal treatment on the waste. The system was generally applying saturated steam at around 2.4 MPa in a stirring reactor for about 90 minutes. After undergoing the process, the organic chlorine in treated plastic waste was reduced to 1,700 ppm level while the inorganic chlorine content was increased, suggesting an organic chlorine conversion phenomenon to inorganic chlorine, accompanied with low pH due to dehydrochlorination process. Additional limestone (Ca(OH)2) in subsequent experiment showed that the similar phenomenon was occurred but with higher pH and lower chlorine content in the condensed water, suggesting the production of inorganic salt rather than hydrochloric acid. Laboratory scale experiment was also performed to confirm the dechlorination phenomena especially for PVC, and the result showed that the main parameter which affected the dechlorination phenomena was the amount of water in hydrothermal process rather than limestone addition. It is suggested that a combination ofhydrothermal process and alkali addition would produce a low-chlorine solid product from plastic waste, promoting its usage as alternative solid fuel.展开更多
Nakao's stochastic integrals for continuous additive functionals of zero energy are extended from the symmetric Dirichlet forms setting to the non-symmetric Dirichlet forms setting. ItS's formula in terms of the ext...Nakao's stochastic integrals for continuous additive functionals of zero energy are extended from the symmetric Dirichlet forms setting to the non-symmetric Dirichlet forms setting. ItS's formula in terms of the extended stochastic integrals is obtained.展开更多
Perovskite crystal film quality is critical for obtaining efficient perovskite solar cells. Anti-solvent processing was used for fast crystallization of perovskite precursor film, which can form dense perovskite film....Perovskite crystal film quality is critical for obtaining efficient perovskite solar cells. Anti-solvent processing was used for fast crystallization of perovskite precursor film, which can form dense perovskite film. However, the crystals from this method are usually small due to the fast crystal growth process, which could lead to grain boundary recombination. Here, element chloride is introduced to enhance the perovskite layer crystallinity via slowing down the perovskite crystallization process by simultaneous introduction of methylammounium chloride (MACI) and cesium chloride (CsCl) into precursor solution. As a result, we achieve high quality of pin-hole free perovskite film with large crystal size. A power conversion efficiency of 21.55% with free of hysteresis of the device is obtained, which is among the highest efficiency of planar structure perovskite solar cells.展开更多
Magnesium calcite(Mg-calcite)mesocrystal is widespread in the biominerals with specific functions.Until now,it remains challenging to obtain Mg-calcite mesocrystals without organic additives and the formation mechanis...Magnesium calcite(Mg-calcite)mesocrystal is widespread in the biominerals with specific functions.Until now,it remains challenging to obtain Mg-calcite mesocrystals without organic additives and the formation mechanism of Mg-calcite mesocrystals in the ocean is not clear yet.We report here the synthesis of corn-like Mg-calcite mesocrystals from pure amorphous calcium carbonate(ACC)via a facile method only by using Ca^(2+)and Mg^(2+).The obtained Mg-calcite is composed of many nanocubes with common crystallographic orientation,which shows very good single crystal feature.In the crystallizing procedure,the ACC nanospheres rapidly agglomerate into Mg-calcite corn-like mesocrystal by oriented attachment(OA)in a certain direction,which belongs to the non-classical nucleation.By this method,the molar ratio of Ca^(2+)and Mg^(2+)plays a vital role in the whole crystallization procedure,which may shed a new light on disclosing the mechanism behind for the effect of seawater in the formation of biological Mg-calcite in nature.展开更多
To determinate car capacity at bus stops with mixed traffic, a new theoretical approach was developed on the basis of additive-conflict-flows procedure. The procedure was extended from homogeneous traffic flow to mixe...To determinate car capacity at bus stops with mixed traffic, a new theoretical approach was developed on the basis of additive-conflict-flows procedure. The procedure was extended from homogeneous traffic flow to mixed traffic flow. The conflicts among cars, buses and bicycles near the stop can be described by the extended procedure. The procedure can be understood more easily than the theory of gap acceptance. Car capacity near the stop is the function of both bus stream and bicycle stream. The proposed model can also analyze the cases of pedestrian effects and limited priority of bicyclists. Numerical results show that the car capacity decreases with the increasing flow rates of other streams. In addition, pedestrian effects and bicyclist's limited priority have negative effects on car capacity near bus stops with mixed traffic flow.展开更多
文摘The effects of additive ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) on crystallization process were investigated by the induction time of MgSO 4-NaOH system. Nucleation and growth rates, growth mechanism and particle size distribution of magnesium hydroxide precipitation were involved with. The induction time in unseeded and seeded precipitation of magnesium hydroxide with and without additive EDTA was measured. The conductivity method was used to determine the induction period. Theoretical relations of the induction time and supersaturation ratio for different growth mechanisms and a combined analysis on the induction time were applied to determine nucleation and growth rates. The growth mechanism of magnesium hydroxide precipitation was disclosed by analyzing the experimental data with and without additive. The analysis on induction time indicated that additive EDTA had a significant influence on both nucleation and growth of magnesium hydroxide precipitation. The mechanism underlying the effect of EDTA on crystal growth was 2-dimension nucleation-mediated growth model.
文摘Additive manufacturing (AM) permits the fabrication of functionally optimized components with high geometrical complexity. The opportunity of using porous infill as an integrated part of the manufactur- ing process is an example of a unique AM feature. Automated design methods are still incapable of fully exploiting this design freedom. In this work, we show how the so-called coating approach to topology optimization provides a means for designing infill-based components that possess a strongly improved buckling load and, as a result, improved structural stability. The suggested approach thereby addresses an important inadequacy of the standard minimum compliance topology optimization approach, in which buckling is rarely accounted for; rather, a satisfactory buckling load is usually assured through a post-processing step that may lead to sub-optimal components. The present work compares the stan- dard and coating approaches to topology optimization for the MBB beam benchmark case. The opti- mized structures are additively manufactured using a filamentary technique. This experimental study validates the numerical model used in the coating approach. Depending on the properties of the infill material, the buckling load may be more than four times higher than that of solid structures optimized under the same conditions.
文摘The purpose of this study is to make a review and or definition of AM (additive manufacturing), and an evaluation of its use in furniture production within a few projects to provide industry-specific awareness. AM can be considered as one of the latest innovative processes, as a state-of-the-art development, in manufacturing industries. AM is expressed as the future of the products and localization of the manufacturing processes in some studies. Innovation is a key factor both for firms and consumer products or service output. And, in today's competitive environment, it compels all the partners for R & D activities to provide technological development. But, all the partners come to a parting of the ways of disruptive or sustainable innovation. It can be said that furniture manufacturing by AM method is relatively new. Non-industrial use of the AM in furniture production can be stated as one of the latest innovative development. Thereby, this study reviews how AM is used to produce furniture within applied projects, which materials and methods are used for production and suggests its future impact.
文摘Due to the biological risks of using the conventional lubricants,the vegetable oils have been considered nowadays.Besides,to improve the tribological properties of the vegetable oils in various applications like metal forming processes,nanoparticles have been used as additives.This research evaluated the lubrication performance of the Al2O3 and TiO2 nanoparticles dispersed in rapeseed oil during the parallel tubular channel angular pressing (PTCAP) process.The experimental PTCAP tests have been fulfilled under three lubrication conditions and the comparison between the PTCAP processed tubes has been performed in terms of the maximum forming force,surface roughness,and microhardness.The experimental results indicate that adding the mentioned nanoparticles has caused at least a 50% reduction in the maximum deformation load.Moreover,a remarkable decrement in the surface roughness of the formed tubes has been obtained.
基金Project(2011FA009) supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Yunnan Province,ChinaProject(2011FZ020) supported by the Application Foundation Research of Yunnan Province,China
文摘The stability of ionic liquid additive 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hydrogen sulfate ([BMIM]HSO4) during zinc electrowinning from acidic sulfate solution was investigated by cyclic voltammetry, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy. Compared with the traditional industrial additives, gelatine and gum arabic, [BMIM]HSO4 has more excellent chemical and thermal stabilities. The inhibition effects of gelatine and gum arabic on the zinc electrocrystallization are observed to markedly weaken due to their part degradation after 12 h longtime successive electrolysis and high temperature (90 ℃) treatments. In contrast, the activity of [BMIM]HSO4 is practically unaffected after 24 h longtime successive electrolysis and high temperature treatments. These results are corroborated with the corresponding morphological analysis of the cathodic deposits.
文摘Monophasic mullite gel with composition 3Al2O3·2SiO2 was prepared by the sol-gel method using aluminium nitrate nonahydrate, aluminium-tri-isopropoxide, and tetraethylorthosili-cate as reagents. Gels with different drying control chemical additives(DCCAs) and polyvinylpyrrolidone(PVP) as spinning assistant were dried at several temperatures. The influences of temperature, DCCAs and PVP in the drying process were investigated. N,N-dimethylformamide(DMF) was the optimum DCCA at 70℃ in the drying process. PVP decreased the solvent volatilization speed and prevented gel crack to a certain extent. FTIR results revealed that free water, ethanol, and isopropanol were completely removed by the drying procedure.
文摘The usage of plastic-impregnated waste derived solid fuel in conventional combustor is hindered by many technical factors, especially its organic chlorine content. In this paper, experimental study of hydrothermal treatment on mixed plastic waste using the mixture of polypropylene, polystyrene, polyethylene and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) has been performed to observe the dechlorination effect of hydrothermal treatment on the waste. The system was generally applying saturated steam at around 2.4 MPa in a stirring reactor for about 90 minutes. After undergoing the process, the organic chlorine in treated plastic waste was reduced to 1,700 ppm level while the inorganic chlorine content was increased, suggesting an organic chlorine conversion phenomenon to inorganic chlorine, accompanied with low pH due to dehydrochlorination process. Additional limestone (Ca(OH)2) in subsequent experiment showed that the similar phenomenon was occurred but with higher pH and lower chlorine content in the condensed water, suggesting the production of inorganic salt rather than hydrochloric acid. Laboratory scale experiment was also performed to confirm the dechlorination phenomena especially for PVC, and the result showed that the main parameter which affected the dechlorination phenomena was the amount of water in hydrothermal process rather than limestone addition. It is suggested that a combination ofhydrothermal process and alkali addition would produce a low-chlorine solid product from plastic waste, promoting its usage as alternative solid fuel.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.10961012)Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Grant No. 311945-2008)
文摘Nakao's stochastic integrals for continuous additive functionals of zero energy are extended from the symmetric Dirichlet forms setting to the non-symmetric Dirichlet forms setting. ItS's formula in terms of the extended stochastic integrals is obtained.
基金supported by National 1000 Young Talents AwardsNational Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFB0700700)+1 种基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(61634001,61574133)supported by Hanergy Group
文摘Perovskite crystal film quality is critical for obtaining efficient perovskite solar cells. Anti-solvent processing was used for fast crystallization of perovskite precursor film, which can form dense perovskite film. However, the crystals from this method are usually small due to the fast crystal growth process, which could lead to grain boundary recombination. Here, element chloride is introduced to enhance the perovskite layer crystallinity via slowing down the perovskite crystallization process by simultaneous introduction of methylammounium chloride (MACI) and cesium chloride (CsCl) into precursor solution. As a result, we achieve high quality of pin-hole free perovskite film with large crystal size. A power conversion efficiency of 21.55% with free of hysteresis of the device is obtained, which is among the highest efficiency of planar structure perovskite solar cells.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21701162,21761132008 and 51702312)Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation(1808085MB27)+2 种基金the Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21521001)the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences,CAS(QYZDJ-SSW-SLH036)the Users with Excellence and Scientific Research Grant of Hefei Science Center of CAS(2015HSC-UE007)。
文摘Magnesium calcite(Mg-calcite)mesocrystal is widespread in the biominerals with specific functions.Until now,it remains challenging to obtain Mg-calcite mesocrystals without organic additives and the formation mechanism of Mg-calcite mesocrystals in the ocean is not clear yet.We report here the synthesis of corn-like Mg-calcite mesocrystals from pure amorphous calcium carbonate(ACC)via a facile method only by using Ca^(2+)and Mg^(2+).The obtained Mg-calcite is composed of many nanocubes with common crystallographic orientation,which shows very good single crystal feature.In the crystallizing procedure,the ACC nanospheres rapidly agglomerate into Mg-calcite corn-like mesocrystal by oriented attachment(OA)in a certain direction,which belongs to the non-classical nucleation.By this method,the molar ratio of Ca^(2+)and Mg^(2+)plays a vital role in the whole crystallization procedure,which may shed a new light on disclosing the mechanism behind for the effect of seawater in the formation of biological Mg-calcite in nature.
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2006CB705503)National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 70901005, 70631001, 71071016)Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (Grant No. 20090009120015)
文摘To determinate car capacity at bus stops with mixed traffic, a new theoretical approach was developed on the basis of additive-conflict-flows procedure. The procedure was extended from homogeneous traffic flow to mixed traffic flow. The conflicts among cars, buses and bicycles near the stop can be described by the extended procedure. The procedure can be understood more easily than the theory of gap acceptance. Car capacity near the stop is the function of both bus stream and bicycle stream. The proposed model can also analyze the cases of pedestrian effects and limited priority of bicyclists. Numerical results show that the car capacity decreases with the increasing flow rates of other streams. In addition, pedestrian effects and bicyclist's limited priority have negative effects on car capacity near bus stops with mixed traffic flow.