Integrated Techniques of Underground CO_2 Storage and Flooding Put into Commercial Application in the Jilin Oilfield, China

Global warming touches everybody＇s nerve, and direct reason for sharp increasing of CO2 in the atmosphere results mainly from the use of fossil fuel in power generation and other industries. How can humans return this ＂devil＂ to underground, and keep a peaceful environment for human？ Scientists from all over the world have been exploring them.

The Project “Development and Commercial Application of Technology for Ultra-deep HDS of Diesel(RTS)” Passed SINOPEC's Appraisal

On December 9, 2014 the scientific research project ＂Developmentand commercial application of technology forultra-deep HDS of diesel （RTS）＂ jointly performed bythe SINOPEC Research Institute of Petroleum Processing（RIPP）, the Yanshan Petrochemical Branch Company（YPBC）, the Maoming Petrochemical Branch Companyand the Guangzhou Petrochemical Branch Company haspassed in Beijing the technical appraisal organized by theScience and Technology Division of the Sinopec Corp.

Sources,production and commercial applications of fungal chitosan:A review

Chitosan is a type of biopolymer that can be obtained from animal/marine sources,and it can also be extracted or produced from agriculture waste products like mushroom or different fungal sources after the chitin deacetylation.Depending on the size of mushroom farm,the amount of waste ranges between 5%and 20%of the production volume.The cell wall of the filamentous fungi,a good source of chitin,offers an easy way to extract chitin.The physicochemical character-istics such as molecular weight and degree of deacetylation of fungal chitosan can be controlled compared to chitosan obtained from crustacean sources.Fungal sourced chitosan can be used in food,pharmaceutical or biomedical applications for different applications,for example,as an antimicrobial agent,coating material,water purification or bio-pesticide.This review mainly fo-cused on the extraction of chitin from mushroom or different fungal sources and also showed some applications of commercial chitosan products.

Key bottlenecks and distinct contradictions in fast commercialization of perovskite solar cells

Despite significant improvements in photo-electricity conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells(PSCs)over the past several years,this emerging photovoltaic technology is still years away from large-scale commercial application.In this review,important research progresses on PSCs’‘golden triangle’parameters of efficiency,stability,and cost in literatures were objectively analyzed.We focused on their key bottlenecks and distinct contradictions hindering their fast commercialization.We also proposed the most urgent directions requiring intensive research and development input in the coming years to speed up the commercialization process of PSCs.

Guest editorial of "Application of high strength steels in lightweight commercial vehicles"

New and increasingly sharp laws for the reduction of emissions from commercial vehicles entered into force in the European Union since 1993 with the aim of substan-tially reducing pollutants and emissions from trucks and buses. Thereby the maximum levels for the emission of particulate matter （basically soot particles） as well as oxides of nitrogen （NOx） have been subsequently lowered. To comply with these demands, commercial vehicle producers had to introduce new emission reducing technologies of which exhaust-gas recirculation （EGR）,

A research into the application of the production capacity of passenger and light commercial vehicles in China

1. An overall judgment on the situation 2006 saw the rapid growth of passenger vehicles, with the production capacity putting into use rose from less than 70 percent to around 80 percent. That with light commercial vehicles was similar too. The situation in 2005 and 2006 showed that there are no evidential overdone production capacity.

Recent development in the application of bulk metallic glasses

Over the past decades,considerable efforts have been made in the commercial application of bulk metallic glasses(BMGs).Despite great challenges faced by the industrial players,significant progress has been achieved,and millions of commercial products for various kinds of applications have been shipped around the world.Here in this paper,we shall present the alloys suitable for the actual products in the application and discuss the merits of the processing technique of BMGs over the existing processing techniques and materials.Most importantly we demonstrate the typical examples of products over the past few years.Finally,future directions of the industrialization of BMGs are also discussed.

Recent advances in membrane bioreactor technology for wastewater treatment in China

Since the introduction of the membrane bioreactor(MBR)in China in the early 1990s,remarkable progress has been achieved on the research and application of this technology.China has now become one of the most active fields in the world in this regard.This review outlines the development of MBR-based processes in China and their performance of treating municipal and industrial wastewaters.Since membrane fouling is a critical operational problem with MBR processes,this paper also proposes updated understanding of fouling mechanisms and strategies of fouling control,which are mainly compiled from publications of Chinese researchers.As for the commercial application of MBR in the country,the latest statistics of large-scale MBR plants(>10000 m^(3)·d^(–1))are provided,and the growth trend of total treatment capacity as well as its driving force is analyzed.

Low-Cost and High-Performance Polymer Solar Cells with Efficiency Insensitive to Active-Layer Thickness

The power conversion efficiency(PCE)of polymer solar cells(PSCs)has recently increased quickly,propelling PSCs closer to large-scale commercialization.However,several critical issues,such as the cost of materials and the sensitivity of the PCE to active-layer thickness,must be addressed before industrial application can be realized on a large scale.Here,we fabricated a high-performance ternary PSC based on a low-cost polymer donor PTQ10 and an A-DA’D-A-type small molecule acceptor(SMA)2,2'-((2Z,2'Z)-((12,13-bis(2-butyloctyl)-3,9-bis(4-(2-ethylhexyl)thiophen-2-yl)-12,13-dihydro-[1,2,5]thiadiazolo[3,4-e]thieno[2'',3'':4',5']thieno[2',3':4,5]pyrrolo[3,2-g]thieno[2',3':4,5]thieno[3,2-b]indole-2,10-diyl)bis(methaneylylidene))bis(5,6-difluoro-3-oxo-2,3-dihydro-1H-indene-2,1-diylidene))dimalononitrile(m-TEH)with a newA-DA’D-A-type SMA 2,2'-((2Z,2'Z)-((12,13-bis(2-butyloctyl)-3,9-bis(3-(2-ethylhexyl)phenyl)-12,13-dihydro-[1,2,5]thiadiazolo[3,4-e]thieno[2'',3'':4',5']thieno[2',3':4,5]pyrrolo[3,2-g]thieno[2',3':4,5]thieno[3,2-b]indole-2,10-diyl)bis(methaneylylidene))bis(5,6-difluoro-3-oxo-2,3-dihydro-1H-indene-2,1-diylidene))dimalononitrile(m-PEH)(with phenyl outer side chains)as the third component.Benefitting from the good compatibility and the unique alignment of the energy levels between PTQ10 and the two SMAs,the ternary system showed favorable phase separation and dominant face-on orientation,exhibiting suitable film morphology and enhanced charge transport.Therefore,the optimized ternary PSCs based on PTQ10∶m-TEH∶m-PEH(1.0∶0.9∶0.3,w/w/w)demonstrated an outstanding PCE of 19.34%,which is one of the highest PCEs reported for the single junction PSCs to date.More importantly,the ternary PSCs demonstrated superior tolerance to the active-layer thickness and showed a high PCE of 18.02% with a high fill factor(FF)of 76.56% for the devices with the active-layer thickness even reaching 300 nm.These results indicate that the ternary devices based on PTQ10∶m-TEH∶m-PEH are highly promising for future large-area fabrication and commercial application of PSCs.