Effect of RE addition on solidification process and high-temperature strength of Al-12%Si-4%Cu-1.6%Mn heat-resistant alloy

The effect of RE addition on solidification process and high-temperature strength of Al-12%Si-4%Cu-1.6%Mn(in wt.%)heat-resistant alloy was investigated by microstructure observation and tensile test.A great number of fine needle-like RE-rich phases are observed in the alloys with RE addition. Solutionizing treatment does not change their morphologies and sizes, indicating that they have good thermal stability. The addition of RE totally alters the solidification process of eutectic CruAl2 phase, from network-like phase in the form of segregation at the final eutectic grain boundaries to discretely blocky phase growing on the hair-filamentous RE-rich needles. In the alloys with Ce addition, blocky CuAl2, particulate Al15Mn3Si2 and needle-like RE-rich needle phases grow together, but they did not occur in the alloy with only La addition. The addition of RE does not considerably improve the strength of the alloy at high temperatures. The formation of RE-rich phases also does not significantly alter the originating and propagating of micro-cracks in the alloy during tensile test.

Macroscopic Structural Analysis on a 10 kW Class Lab-Scale Process Heat Exchanger Prototype under a High-Temperature Gas Loop Condition

A PHE (Process Heat Exchanger) is a key component in transferring high-temperature heat generated from a VHTR (Very High Temperature Reactor) to a chemical reaction for the massive production of hydrogen. Last year, a 10 kW class lab-scale PHE prototype made of Hastelloy-X was manufactured at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI), and a performance test of the PHE prototype is currently underway in a small-scale nitrogen gas loop at KAERI. The PHE prototype is composed of two kinds of flow plates: grooves 1.0 mm in diameter machined into the flow plate for the primary coolant, and waved channels bent into the flow plate for the secondary coolant. Inside the 10 kW class lab-scale PHE prototype, twenty flow plates for the primary and secondary coolants are stacked in turn. In this study, to understand the macroscopic structural behavior of the PHE prototype under the steady-state operating condition of the gas loop, high-temperature structural analyses on the 10 kW class lab-scale PHE prototype were performed for two extreme cases: in the event of contacting the flow plates together, and when not contacting them. The analysis results for the extreme cases were also compared.

Conversion of ferric oxide to magnetite by hydrothermal reduction in Bayer digestion process

Digesting aluminum-bearing minerals and converting ferric oxide to magnetite simultaneously in Bayer digestion process is crucially important to deal with high-iron diasporic bauxite economically for alumina production.The reaction behaviors of hydrothermal reduction of ferric oxide in alkali solution were studied by both thermodynamic calculation and experimental investigation.The thermodynamic calculation indicates that Fe3O4 can be formed by the conversion of Fe2O3 at proper redox potentials in alkaline solution.The experimental results show that the formation ratio of Fe3O4 either through the reaction of Fe and Fe2O3 or through the reaction of Fe and H2O in alkaline aqueous solution increases remarkably with raising the temperature and alkali concentration,suggesting that Fe（OH）3- and Fe（OH）4- form by dissolving Fe and Fe2O3,respectively,in alkaline aqueous solution and further react to form Fe3O4.Moreover,aluminate ions have little influence on the hydrothermal reduction of Fe2O3 in alkaline aqueous solution,and converting iron minerals to magnetite can be realized in the Bayer digestion process of diasporic bauxite.

Strengthening iron enrichment and dephosphorization of high-phosphorus oolitic hematite using high-temperature pretreatment

The efficient development and utilization of high-phosphorus oolitic hematite is of great strategic significance for the sustainable supply of iron-ore resources in China.In this paper,the mechanism of high-temperature pretreatment for enhancing the effect of iron enrichment and dephosphorization in the magnetization roasting–leaching process was studied by X-ray diffraction(XRD),vibration sample magnetometer(VSM),scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive spectrometry(SEM–EDS).Compared with the process without high-temperature pretreatment,the iron grade of the magnetic separation concentrate after high-temperature pretreatment had increased by 0.98%,iron recovery rate had increased by 1.33%,and the phosphorus content in the leached residue had decreased by 0.12%.High-temperature pretreatment resulted in the dehydration and decomposition of hydroxyapatite,the dehydration of limonite and the thermal decomposition of siderite,which can produce pores and cracks and weaken the compactness of the ore,improve the magnetization characteristics of roasted ore,and strengthen the iron enrichment and dephosphorization during the magnetization roasting and leaching process.

CONTROL TECHNIQUES FOR DIGESTION IN BAYER PROCESS

The control techniques for indirect heating digestion in Bayer process of alumina production were researched and developed. They include controlling chemical composition of slurry to be digested and controlling digestion status and energy consumption. Very good performances and technical and technical and economical figures for digestion process have been obtained by carefully applying these comprehensive control techniques in Pingguo alumina refinery.

Micro-analysis of high-temperature oxidation-resistance of a new kind of heat-resistant grid plate in grate-kiln

To further improve the oxidation-resistance of materials and reduce the cost of grid plates in grate-kiln, a new kind of heat-resistant grid plate was developed. The microstructure of this grid plate with a life more than 18 months was studied by XRD, SEM and EDS techniques. The results show that high hardness, high intensity and good impact property make the new kind of heat-resistant grid plate and its oxide film have a higher resistance to deformation and abrasion at 900-1000℃ Besides, small grain size is beneficial to form a complete protective oxide film. The oxide film composed of SiO2 layer, Cr2O3 layer and Fe2O3 layer is rather thin and bonds closely with the backing. The forming of the chemical stable nickel-rich layer increases the density of Cr2O3 layer.

Thermodynamic analysis of Na−S−Fe−H_(2)O system for Bayer process

Thermodynamic diagrams of Na−S−Fe−H_(2)O system were constructed to analyze the behavior of sulfur and iron in the Bayer process.After digestion,iron mainly exists as Fe_(3)O_(4) and Fe_(2)O_(3) in red mud,and partial iron transfers into solution as Fe(OH)_(3)^(−),HFeO_(2)^(−),Fe(OH)_(4)^(−)and Fe(OH)_(4)^(2−).The dominant species of sulfur is S^(2−),followed by SO_(4)^(2−),and then SO_(3)^(2−)and S_(2)O_(3)^(2−).The thermodynamic analysis is consistent with the iron and sulfur species distribution in the solution obtained by experiments.When the temperature decreases,sulfur and iron can combine and precipitate.Controlling low potential and reducing temperature are beneficial to removing them from the solution.XRD patterns show that NaFeS_(2)·2H_(2)O,FeS and FeS_(2) widely appear in red mud and precipitates of pyrite and high-sulfur bauxite digestion solution.Thermodynamic analysis can be utilized to guide the simultaneous removal of sulfur and iron in the Bayer process.

A FTIR STUDY OF DISSOLUTION AND PRECIPITA-TION OF SILICA IN BAYER PROCESS

A quantitative Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) technique mas established by comparison with chemical analysis and quantitative X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis. By the quantitative FTIR analysis of bauxite during dissolution , the process of dissolution and precipitation of silica was found to occur in three stages. In the first stage, there was no precipitation of desilication product (DSP). All the silica dissolved from kaolinite went into the solution. In the second stage, the silica concentration in solution attained a maximum and then dropped very quickly. The precipitation of DSP was the main cause of the reduction of the silica concentration in solution. In the third stage, the concentration of DSP reached a constant level. The dissolution and precipitation process gradually attained an equilibrium. The mechanism of silica dissolution and DSP precipitation was discussed on the basis of the FTIR quantitative analysis of kaolinite and DSP in bauxite.

Enhanced conversion mechanism of Al-goethite in gibbsitic bauxite under reductive Bayer digestion process

The conversion mechanism of Al-goethite under the action of different additives(lime or reductant for typical or reductive Bayer digestion)was investigated by thermodynamic calculation,XRD,and SEM-EDS.The results show that the formation of Fe-substituted hydrocalumite is crucial to converting Al-goethite to hematite during Bayer digestion by adding lime.However,the conversion proceeds more easily under the action of reductant due to the rapid formation of magnetite.Additionally,Bayer liquor composition significantly affects the product composition and also the conversion rate of Al-goethite.Compared to typical Bayer digestion with Al-goethite containing gibbsitic bauxite as raw material,the red mud yield of reductive Bayer digestion decreases from 39.02%to 31.19%,and the grade of TFe in red mud increases from 41.66%to 53.80%.

应用字典学习算法改善Bayer格式图像彩色恢复效果

利用单片探测器获取彩色图像,插值算法的优劣对结果起着决定性的作用。为了改善恢复效果,该文设计了一种基于字典学习的非线性Bayer格式图像彩色插值算法。根据图像梯度的变化,首先,在上下左右方向利用局部方向插值方法(LDI)对Bayer格式图像进行合并计算,用高斯混合模型(GMM)分类法训练字典,运用主分量分析(PCA)方法提取训练结果中的主要分量为学习提供样本,通过学习,得到R,B通道缺失的G分量。然后,应用G分量,插值得到另外两种缺失分量R和B,从而得到彩色图像。选取McMaster图像集作为字典,分别用算法对标准图像和使用DALSA公司彩色CMOS探测器开发的相机实际拍摄的图像进行插值恢复,较其它几种算法,视觉上伪彩色最少,峰值信噪比最优。整体性能优于现有的很多其它插值算法。

基于邻近插值法还原BayerRGB的FPGA实现

图像传感器在采集每一个像素时仅采集它的R、G、B其中一种颜色分量的强度信息.在彩色数字图像系统中,需对传感器图像进行实时处理和颜色插值.邻近插值算法的时间复杂度和空间复杂度都较小,可以通过流处理实现,这使得它容易在FPGA上实现且节省硬件资源.在进行硬件实现之前首先通过MATLAB对邻近插值法的还原效果进行验证.硬件设计中使用移位寄存器连接FIFO的架构,并使用标准Verilog代码编写实现,最终用Modelsim仿真验证设计.

Development of A New Lime Adding Technology in Two-Stream Digestion Process of Diasporic Bauxite

Indirect heating and intensified digestion technology can be applied to reduce greatly the energy consumption in Bayer process of diasporic bauxite. A great advantage of two-stream process is to avoid or reduce efficiently serious scaling problem of bauxite slurry on indirect heating surface, which certainly happens in the single stream process and brings about great troubles to the indirect heating. As a result of a great number of experiments and the theoretical analysis, a new lime adding technology for the two-stream digestion process is developed in this paper that lime is added into spent liquor stream instead of bauxite slurry, which is more suitable to the two-stream process of diasporic bauxite. The influences of the new lime addition technology on preheating and digestion process were discussed. It was deduced that the new technology can be used efficiently in the two-stream process of non-diasporic bauxite.

Influences of seed size and number on agglomeration in synthetic Bayer liquors

By means of Malvern laser particle size analyzer and scanning electron microscopy, the influences of seed size and number on agglomeration in Bayer process were investigated. Agglomeration is almost finished in 8h, seeds, below 5μm, especially below 2μm, gather together rapidly and almost disappear in 8h. In the same supersaturation of aluminate solution and seed size, the smaller the number of seed is, the bigger the degree of agglomeration is. With the same primary number of seed, the agglomeration of larger seed is superior to that of small seed, and the agglomeration does not happen among the coarse seeds. The agglomeration mainly happens among fine particles, and the combinations among the fine particles are unconsolidated.

Recovery of V_2O_5 from Bayer liquor by ion exchange

A new technology was developed to recover V2O5 from Bayer spent liquor by ion exchange.The experimental results show that in the conditions of 105℃ and 0.20-0.25 mass ratios between CaO in lime and Al2O3 in spent liquor, the precipitation rate of vanadium in Bayer liquor is more than 85%.The vanadium-bearing precipitation is leached by NaHCO3 solution.The leaching rate of vanadium can reach 85% in the conditions of 95℃, 40 g·L-1 of NaHCO3 concentration, and ventilating of CO2.The 201 × 7 type of resin has good adsorption effect on vanadium in the leaching solution.The adsorption rate is more than 94% with the flow rate of 0.09 mL·min-1·g-1 of leaching solution and the temperature of 40-50℃.By using 3 mol·L-1 of NaOH to desorb the saturated resin after adsorption at 40-50℃, a solution with more than 5 g·L-1 of V2O5 can be obtained.After roasting ammonium metavanadate that precipitates from the desorption solution when NH4Cl is added at the temperature of 500-550℃ for 2 h, V2O5 with more than 99% of purity is obtained.

Effects of temperature and initial molar ratio of Na_2O to Al_2O_3 on agglomeration of fine Al(OH)_3 seed in synthetic Bayer solution

Fine Al（OH）3 crystals were aggregated from supersaturated aluminate solution in the batch reaction tanks. By means of laser particle size analyzer and scanning electron microscopy, the influences of temperature and initial molar ratio of Na2O to Al2O3 （aK） on agglomeration of fine seed in Bayer process were investigated. The results show that agglomeration is almost finished in 8 h, and seeds with size less than 2 μm are easily aggregated together, and almost disappear in 8 h under the optimal process conditions. In the aluminate solution with the same moderate initial aK, when the reaction temperature reaches 75 ℃, the secondary nucleation does not occur, and the effect of agglomeration is better. And at the same reaction temperature, when the initial aK is 1.62, the initial supersaturation of aluminate solution is moderate, the binders on the surfaces of the seed are enough to maintain the agglomeration process, and the agglomeration degree is better. From SEM images, agglomeration mainly occurs in the fine particles, the combinations among the fine particles are loose and the new formed coarse crystal shapes are irregular.

基于FPGA的实时Bayer解马赛克算法与实现

Bayer阵列被广泛地应用于CMOS/CCD(complementary metal oxide semiconductor/charge-coupled device)等前端传感器中,用以对彩色图像进行压缩编码。通过解马赛克算法将Bayer阵列还原为红、绿、蓝彩色阵列,算法性能影响着成像有效分辨率和纹理细节。随着半导体工艺的发展和目标识别等新型应用需求的提出,图像设备向着高分辨率、低延迟的方向发展,原有的解马塞克算法遇到性能瓶颈。提出了一种基于FPGA(field programmable gate array)的实时解马赛克算法,能够准确地提取图像局部梯度方向并以引导实现色彩的插值复原,整体算法仅需7行数据延迟。算法设计充分考虑FPGA的硬件特点,设计了行缓存、梯度算子、梯度方向插值等模块,降低硬件开销。实验表明,本文算法在实现微米级延迟的同时,保持了对图像纹理细节区域的复原效果,在柯达数据集上的平均峰值信噪比达到38.26 dB。

Alkaline digestion behavior and alumina extraction from sodium aluminosilicate generated in pyrometallurgical process

In pyrometallurgical process, Al-and Si-bearing minerals in iron and aluminum ores are easily transformed into sodium aluminosilicates in the presence of Na_2O constituents, which alters the leaching behaviors of Al_2O_3 and SiO_2. It was confirmed that sodium aluminosilicates with different phase compositions synthesized at various roasting conditions were effectively digested in the alkaline digestion process. Under the optimum conditions at temperature of 100–120°C, liquid-to-solid ratio(L/S) of 10:2 mL/g, caustic ratio of 4, and Na_2O concentration of 240 g/L, the actual and relative digestion ratio of Al_2O_3 from the synthesized sodium aluminosilicates reached maximums of about 65% and 95%, respectively, while SiO_2 was barely leached out. To validate the superior digestion property of sodium aluminosilicate generated via an actual process, the Bayer digestion of an Al_2O_3-rich material derived from reductive roasting of bauxite and comprising Na_(1.75) Al_(1.75) Si_(0.25)O_4 was conducted; the relative digestion ratio of Al_2O_3 attained 90% at 200°C.

Effects of Different Processing Methods on the Qualityof Squid Chips

Taking squid as raw material, the effects of frying temperature and frying time on the quality of squid chips were studied under the conditions of normal pressure frying and high-temperature hot-air frying respectively. And the best processing technology of squid chips was determined. The results showed that crispy squid chips can be obtained by frying the squid after vacuum freeze-drying, and the best processing technology of squid chips is to treat the material by hot air drying at 160℃ for 4 min after pretreatment, seasoning, protease treatment, pre-freezing and freeze-drying. The squid chips made by this technology have a flavor of frying, tightly-shrunken surface tissue, a little browning, less hardness, crispness and no greasy taste.

A multifunctional shear apparatus for rocks subjected to true triaxial stress and high temperature in real-time

Deep engineering disasters,such as rockbursts and collapses,are more related to the shear slip of rock joints.A novel multifunctional device was developed to study the shear failure mechanism in rocks.Using this device,the complete shearedeformation process and long-term shear creep tests could be performed on rocks under constant normal stiffness(CNS)or constant normal loading(CNL)conditions in real-time at high temperature and true-triaxial stress.During the research and development process,five key technologies were successfully broken through:(1)the ability to perform true-triaxial compressioneshear loading tests on rock samples with high stiffness;(2)a shear box with ultra-low friction throughout the entire stress space of the rock sample during loading;(3)a control system capable of maintaining high stress for a long time and responding rapidly to the brittle fracture of a rock sample as well;(4)a refined ability to measure the volumetric deformation of rock samples subjected to true triaxial shearing;and(5)a heating system capable of maintaining uniform heating of the rock sample over a long time.By developing these technologies,loading under high true triaxial stress conditions was realized.The apparatus has a maximum normal stiffness of 1000 GPa/m and a maximum operating temperature of 300C.The differences in the surface temperature of the sample are constant to within5C.Five types of true triaxial shear tests were conducted on homogeneous sandstone to verify that the apparatus has good performance and reliability.The results show that temperature,lateral stress,normal stress and time influence the shear deformation,failure mode and strength of the sandstone.The novel apparatus can be reliably used to conduct true-triaxial shear tests on rocks subjected to high temperatures and stress.

无机阴离子对低温拜耳法中脱硅产物析出的影响

利用XRD、FT-IR、SEM和PSD等手段系统研究无机阴离子对低温拜耳法过程中脱硅产物(DSPs)的组成、结构以及微观形貌的影响。当溶液中存在氯化物、硫酸盐和碳酸盐时,形成氯化物型方钠石、碳酸盐型方钠石和黝方石,部分铝酸盐离子被阴离子杂质取代。硫酸盐与DSPs的结合能力强于铝酸盐、氯化物和碳酸盐。随着阴离子浓度的增加,DSPs的粒径增大,且DSPs的团聚程度和圆形片层结构的厚度均有所增加。此外,阴离子杂质会促进沸石骨架的溶解和方钠石中四元环的形成,从而促进沸石向方钠石转化。