Synthesis and Properties of the Composite Sorbents on the Basis of Alumosilicates Separated from the Clay-Salt slimes

The composite sorbent, including an active inorganic component （alumosilicates derived from clay-salt slimes） in the quantity of more than 80 mas.% and the polymer binder （polyacrylamide） was obtained. The influences of various factors on its sorption and mechanical properties were studied. It is established that the content of polyacrylamide in the composite sorbent should be in the range of 10-15 mas.%. It is shown that quasi-equilibrium of ^137Cs in the system ＂sorbent-solution＂ is reached within 80 rain. The distribution coefficient （Kd） is 2.4× 10^4 cm^3/g. The obtained data of kinetic parameters （diffusion coefficient and sorption during half-time） show that the received sorbent can be referred to sorbents with high rate of ^137Cs sorption.

Bionic Leaf Simulating the Thermal Effect of Natural Leaf Transpiration

We proposed a kind of bionic leaf to simulate the thermal effect of leaf transpiration. The bionic leaf was firstly designed to be composed of a green coating, a water holding layer, a Composite Adsorbent （CS） layer and an adsorption-desorption rate controlling layer. A thermophysical model was established for the bionic leaf, and the dynamic simulation results reveal that the water holding layer is not necessary; a CS of high thermal conductivity should be selected as the CS layer; the adsorp- tion-desorption rate controlling layer could be removed due to the low adsorption-desorption rate of the CS; and when CaC12 mass fraction of the CS reaches 40%; the bionic leaf could simulate the dynamic thermal behavior of the natural leaf. Based on the simulation results, we prepared bionic leaves with different CaC12 content. The thermographies of the bionic leaf and the natural leaf were shot using the Infrared Thermal Imager. The measured average radiative temperature difference between the bionic and natural leaves is less than 1.0 ℃.

Multi-stage ammonia production for sorption selective catalytic reduction of NO_(x)

Sorption selective catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides(NO_(x))(sorption-SCR)has ever been proposed for replacing commercial urea selective catalytic reduction of NO_(x)(urea-SCR),while only the single-stage sorption cycle is hitherto adopted for sorption-SCR.Herein,various multi-stage ammonia production cycles is built to solve the problem of relative high starting temperature with ammonia transfer(AT)unit and help detect the remaining ammonia in ammonia storage and delivery system(ASDS)with ammonia warning(AW)unit.Except for the singlestage ammonia production cycle with MnCl2,other sorption-SCR strategies all present overwhelming advantages over urea-SCR considering the much higher NO_(x) conversion driven by the heat source lower than 100℃ and better matching characteristics with low-temperature catalysts.Furthermore,the required mass of sorbent for each type of sorption-SCR is less than half of the mass of AdBlue for urea-SCR.Therefore,the multifunctional multi-stage sorption-SCR can realize compact and renewable ammonia storage and delivery with low thermal energy consumption and high NO_(x) conversion,which brings a bright potential for efficient commercial de-NO_(x) technology.