Effect of aeration on fast gas pressure tests

Given the problem of the long time required for testing gas pressure, we propose a fast-test method in which we used a technique of fast borehole sealing and air replenishing. Based on the characteristics of gas emission from boreholes to be tested, we built a theoretical model for calculating parameters during the process of increasing natural pressure and aeration. Using this model, we investigated the effect of different aeration conditions on velocity of pressure tests. The result shows that: 1) aerating air into boreholes can speed up gas pressure tests and 2) the more similar the pressure of the aerated air to the original gas pressure, the smaller the gas volume absorbed by coal and the shorter the time needed in pressure test. A case study in the Lu’an mining area shows that the time needed for gas pressure test is only 4 h using our method of aeration and 29 h under conditions of increasing natural pressure, saving time by 86.2%. This case study also indicates that, by using the aeration method, only one hour is needed for gas pressure to reach a stable state, which breaks the record of the shortest time needed for gas pressure tests in China.

3D numerical simulation of high pressure squeezing process with revised Drucker-Prager/Cap model

In order to investigate the sand mold strength after the aeration sand filling-high pressure squeeze moldingprocess,a tree-dimentional(3D)numerical simulation was introduced.The commercial finite element method(FEM)software ABAQUScombined with a revised Drucker-Prager/Cap model was used to simulate the squeeze compaction process.Additionally,the sand bulk density after the aeration sand filling process was tested by a specially designed experiment,which divided the whole sand bulk in the molding chamber into5x9regions and it was used as the input to simulate the squeeze process.During the simulation process,the uniform modeling simulation and the patition modeling simulation methods were used a d the3D numercal simulation results were compared with correlative benchmark testings.From the3D numerica simulation results,it can be concluded that the uniform sand bulk density distribution can obtain a high quality sandmold and the revised Drncker-Pager/Cap model is suitable for handling the situation with the complex paaern.The3D numerical simulation results can predict well the sand mold strength distribution and can be used as guidelines for the production practice.

Escherichia coli inactivation by pressurized CO_2 treatment methods at room temperature: Critical issues

This study aims to increase the inactivation efficiency of CO_2 against Escherichia coli under mild conditions to facilitate the application of pressurized CO_2 technology in water disinfection. Based on an aerating-cycling apparatus, three different treatment methods（continuous aeration, continuous reflux, and simultaneous aeration and reflux） were compared for the same temperature, pressure（0.3–0.7 MPa）, initial concentration, and exposure time（25 min）. The simultaneous aeration and reflux treatment（combined method） was shown to be the best method under optimum conditions, which were determined to be 0.7 MPa, room temperature, and an exposure time of 10 min. This treatment achieved 5.1-log reduction after 25 min of treatment at the pressure of 0.3 MPa and 5.73-log reduction after 10 min at 0.7 MPa. Log reductions of 4.4 and 5.0 occurred at the end of continuous aeration and continuous reflux treatments at 0.7 MPa, respectively.Scanning electron microscopy（SEM） images suggested that cells were ruptured after the simultaneous aeration and reflux treatment and the continuous reflux treatment. The increase of the solubilization rate of CO_2 due to intense hydraulic conditions led to a rapid inactivation effect. It was found that the reduction of intracellular p H caused by CO_2 led to a more lethal bactericidal effect.