油页岩热解飞灰颗粒流化夹带特性

在一套准φ80mm×4090mm有机玻璃冷模试验装置中,以油页岩热解飞灰为试验物料,使用在线压力采集系统,测定了流化床轴向平均颗粒密度分布,根据稀相空间平均颗粒密度获得了输送分离高度(TDH)和气体饱和夹带量(εp∞),并与FCC催化剂颗粒的流化夹带特性进行了对比。试验结果表明,对于密度相近的两种物料,尽管油页岩热解飞灰的平均粒径小于FCC催化剂,但同一表观气速下流化床内各截面平均颗粒密度均低于FCC催化剂。表观气速较低时(u=0.22m/s),两种物料的TDH和气体饱和夹带量基本相等;随着气速的提高,FCC催化剂的TDH和气体饱和夹带量逐渐高于油页岩热解飞灰;当表观气速大于0.88m/s时,油页岩热解飞灰的TDH逐渐接近于FCC催化剂。对试验结果进行关联分析后,建立了油页岩热解飞灰TDH和气体饱和夹带量的经验模型,计算值与试验值吻合较好。     

电极材料对微生物燃料电池处理老龄垃圾渗滤液性能的影响

以碳毡和碳布为电极材料,老龄垃圾渗滤液为阳极底物构建生物阴极型微生物燃料电池(MFC),考察碳毡和碳布分别作为阴极和阳极材料时对MFC明在阳极材料相同时,碳毡阴极MFC料相同时,碳布阳极MFC输出电压和功率密度最大(分别为294 mV、95.31 mW/m~3)、化学需氧量和氨氮去除率最大(分别为58.78%、74.38%);阳极、阴极均为碳布的MFC内阻最小(308Ω),阳极、阴极均为碳毡的MFC内阻最大(347Ω)。     

生物质活性炭的制备及其在阳极中的性能

以竹子为原料制备生物质活性炭,使用HNO3溶液浸渍实现活性炭表面改性和降低灰分,在流化床电极直接碳燃料电池阳极半电池中考察活性炭的极化性能。结果表明:活化温度为1173K、活化时间为2h、碱炭比为1时,活性炭比表面积为1264m2/g,电阻率为1569μΩ.m;HNO3溶液浸渍后,活性炭表面含氧官能团的种类和含量明显增加,灰分也有较大程度降低,最佳HNO3浸渍浓度为2mol/L;自制活性炭在半电池中的极化性能明显优于石墨和活性炭纤维。     

HT-PEM燃料电池组合流场的性能模拟

为了研究流场结构对HT-PEM燃料电池性能的影响,运用多物理场直接耦合分析软件(COMSOL Multiphysics),对由两种流道组合而成的4种流场(两种单一流场与两种混合流场)的HT-PEM燃料电池进行了数值模拟。在相同的操作条件下,得到了4种组合流场的极化曲线、阴极氧气浓度变化及阴极流道中心压力变化情况。对模拟结果进行分析和比较得出:阴极氧气浓度和阴极流道中心压力均沿着气体流动方向逐渐降低,其变化主要发生在流道的拐角处及渐变处;综合考虑输出电流密度、气体传质及气体在电极各处分配的均匀性等因素,蛇形渐变流场的整体性能最好,阳极普通蛇形流场/阴极蛇形渐变流场组成的混合流场其次,普通蛇形流场再次,阳极蛇形渐变流场/阴极普通蛇形流场组成的混合流场最差。模拟结果对HT-PEM燃料电池结构的优化和设计具有重要的指导意义。     

PEMFC电极孔隙率的优化研究

对质子交换膜燃料电池单体建立了三维稳态电化学模型,考察了气体扩散层孔隙率对电池性能的影响,验证了扩散层孔隙率及层厚的变化反映从气体通道到扩散层和催化剂层的反应气体扩散量,进而影响电化学反应的活跃程度;以膜与阴极催化剂层界面处获得的最大电压为目标函数,采用鲍威尔搜索法对气体扩散层孔隙率进行数值优化,得到了扩散层孔隙率和层厚的最优值。通过优化前后氧气浓度和电流密度的对比显示,这些参数可以显著改善电极的传质性能,使燃料电池获得最佳性能。     

当前实用和未来发展Pt-非Pt氧还原电催化剂研究进展

燃料电池阴极侧氧还原反应由于其迟缓的动力学,使得贵金属铂成为最为高效的电催化剂,成本高昂,限制燃料电池规模化应用。开发低成本、高性能、可实用氧还原电催化剂尤为重要。基于课题组多年在实用化燃料电池氧还原电催化剂的研究情况,综述面向当前实用和未来发展的铂-非铂电催化剂的研究进展。重点介绍实用化高载量、高活性、高结构稳定性铂基电催化剂合成策略以及在燃料电池膜电极中的性能高效表达,同时阐述非铂碳基催化剂理性设计、可控制备。此外,对该研究方向的发展进行展望,以期加速燃料电池关键材料国产化。     

直接甲醇燃料电池所用催化剂和膜电极工艺研究进展

直接甲醇燃料电池由于其高效的能量转化效率、清洁环保、体积小、重量轻、可低温快速启动等优点,在未来将得到广泛应用.介绍了直接甲醇燃料电池工作原理及核心部件的相关研究进展,包括阳极催化剂、阴极催化剂和膜电极工艺.阐述了电极催化剂的工作原理,并按负载的活性金属组分的不同,对电极催化剂进行分类总结.阳极贵金属基催化剂中,Pt分别与Ru、Co、Fe、Ni的合金催化剂表现出比纯Pt催化剂更优越的性能.阴极贵金属基催化剂中,Pt-Fe体系催化效果较好.研究分析表明,贵金属基合金纳米结构均匀分散与载体上,产生更高的电化学活性表面积和更低的电荷转移电阻,催化剂稳定性与催化活性较大提高.非贵金属基催化剂则是以氧化物及过渡金属为代表取代Pt,展现较好性能,但还存在催化效率不足的问题.膜电极工艺流程较为成熟固定,活化工艺及质子交换膜有待深入研究.     

Cu-Ni/γ-Al2O3催化剂上二甲醚水蒸气重整制氢工艺条件的研究

采用沉积沉淀法制备了Cu-Ni/γ-Al2O3催化剂,在连续流动的固定床反应器内,进行了二甲醚水蒸气重整制氢反应的研究,考察了还原温度、反应温度、系统压力、气体空速以及催化剂的粒径大小等工艺条件对Cu-Ni/γ-Al2O3催化剂上二甲醚水蒸气重整制氢反应性能的影响。实验结果表明,较优的工艺条件为:催化剂还原温度为400℃,粒径为0.45～0.90mm,反应温度为350℃,常压,气体进料空速为3240mL.(gcat.h)-1。     

非铂燃料电池催化剂研究进展

燃料电池是利用氢能的理想途径,但燃料电池对于铂催化剂的依赖限制了其发展。该文综述了近年来非铂燃料电池催化剂的研究进展。对于质子交换膜燃料电池,因为阳极需铂量低,相关研究主要集中在阴极催化剂上。对于碱性膜燃料电池,一些非贵金属催化剂在阴极展现出较高的活性,但阳极侧动力学缓慢,因此非铂催化剂的研究在两极均有开展。最后,对非铂燃料电池催化剂当前的研究重点和未来的发展方向进行总结和展望,旨在为非铂燃料电池催化剂的研究和长远发展提供指导和参考。     

四流道蛇形结构质子交换膜燃料电池温度分布数值模拟

为研究温度对质子交换膜燃料电池性能的影响,运用多物理场直接耦合分析软件COMSOL Multiphysics,对不同电池温度的四流道蛇形流场质子交换膜燃料电池进行了数值模拟。模拟得到了不同电池温度下垂直膜电极平面以及电池中心处从阳极流道到膜,再到到阴极流道的温度变化情况;还得到了电池温度为353K时,电池入口处、中心处和出口处从阳极流道到阴极流道相应位置点的温差变化。对模拟结果进行分析和比较后发现:电池内部温度的升高与电池本身的原始温度存在线性变化关系;电池入口处、中心处和出口处的温度变化趋势存在差异,且电池入口处温升最大,中心处次之,出口处温升最小;随着电池温度的升高,电池因内部反应所产生的热量减少。模拟结果对质子交换膜燃料电池的性能优化有重要意义。     

Ash-forming elements in four Scandinavian wood species. Part 1: Summer harvest

Woody biomass in Finland and Sweden comprises mainly four wood species: spruce, pine, birch and aspen. To study the ash, which may cause problems for the combustion device, one tree of each species were cut down and prepared for comparisons with fuel samples. Well-defined samples of wood, bark and foliage were analyzed on 11 ash-forming elements: Si, Al, Fe, Ca, Mg, Mn, Na, K, P, S and Cl. The ash content in the wood tissues (0.2–0.7%) was low compared to the ash content in the bark tissues (1.9–6.4%) and the foliage (2.4–7.7%). The woods’ content of ash-forming elements was consequently low; the highest contents were of Ca (410–1340 ppm) and K (200–1310), followed by Mg (70–290), Mn (15–240) and P (0–350). Present in the wood was also Si (50–190), S (50–200) and Cl (30–110). The bark tissues showed much higher element contents; Ca (4800–19,100 ppm) and K (1600–6400) were the dominating elements, followed by Mg (210–2400), P (210–1200), Mn (110–1100) and S (310–750), but the Cl contents (40–330) were only moderately higher in the bark than in the wood. The young foliage (shoots and deciduous leaves) had the highest K (7100–25,000 ppm), P (1600–5300) and S (1100–2600) contents of all tissues, while the shoots of spruce had the highest Cl contents (820–1360) and its needles the highest Si content (5000–11,300). This paper presented a new approach in fuel characterization: the method excludes the presence of impurities, and focus on different categories of plant tissues. This made it possible to discuss the contents of ash element in a wide spectrum of fuel-types, which are of large importance for the energy production in Finland and Sweden.     

Contents in Volume 23,2014

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NEXT GENERATION ENGINEERED MATERIALS FOR ULTRA SUPERCRITICAL STEAM TURBINES

正1 ABSTRACT To reduce the effect of global warming on our climate,the levels of CO2emissions should be reduced.One way to do this is to increase the efficiency of electricity production from fossil fuels.This will in turn reduce the amount of CO2emissions for a given power output.Using US practice for efficiency calculations,then a move from a typical US plant running at 37%efficiency to a 760℃/38.5 MPa(1 400/5 580 psi)plant running at 48%efficiency would reduce CO2emissions by 170kg/MW.hr or 25%.     

Performance assessment of some ice TES systems

In this paper, a performance assessment of four main types of ice storage techniques for space cooling purposes, namely ice slurry systems, ice-on-coil systems (both internal and external melt), and encapsulated ice systems is conducted. A detailed analysis, coupled with a case study based on the literature data, follows. The ice making techniques are compared on the basis of energy and exergy performance criteria including charging, discharging and storage efficiencies, which make up the ice storage and retrieval process. Losses due to heat leakage and irreversibilities from entropy generation are included. A vapor-compression refrigeration cycle with R134a as the working fluid provides the cooling load, while the analysis is performed in both a full storage and partial storage process, with comparisons between these two. In the case of full storage, the energy efficiencies associated with the charging and discharging processes are well over 98% in all cases, while the exergy efficiencies ranged from 46% to 76% for the charging cycle and 18% to 24% for the discharging cycle. For the partial storage systems, all energy and exergy efficiencies were slightly less than that for full storage, due to the increasing effect wall heat leakage has on the decreased storage volume and load. The results show that energy analyses alone do not provide much useful insight into system behavior, since the vast majority of losses in all processes are a result of entropy generation which results from system irreversibilities.     

Aerodynamic performance effects of leading-edge geometry in gas-turbine blades

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the advantages of the direct surface-curvature distribution blade-design method, originally proposed by Korakianitis, for the leading-edge design of turbine blades, and by extension for other types of airfoil shapes. The leading edge shape is critical in the blade design process, and it is quite difficult to completely control with inverse, semi-inverse or other direct-design methods. The blade-design method is briefly reviewed, and then the effort is concentrated on smoothly blending the leading edge shape (circle or ellipse, etc.) with the main part of the blade surface, in a manner that avoids leading-edge flow-disturbance and flow-separation regions. Specifically in the leading edge region we return to the second-order (parabolic) construction line coupled with a revised smoothing equation between the leading-edge shape and the main part of the blade. The Hodson–Dominy blade has been used as an example to show the ability of this blade-design method to remove leading-edge separation bubbles in gas turbine blades and other airfoil shapes that have very sharp changes in curvature near the leading edge. An additional gas turbine blade example has been used to illustrate the ability of this method to design leading edge shapes that avoid leading-edge separation bubbles at off-design conditions. This gas turbine blade example has inlet flow angle 0°, outlet flow angle −64.3°, and tangential lift coefficient 1.045, in a region of parameters where the leading edge shape is critical for the overall blade performance. Computed results at incidences of −10°,   −5°,   +5°,   +10° are used to illustrate the complete removal of leading edge flow-disturbance regions, thus minimizing the possibility of leading-edge separation bubbles, while concurrently minimizing the stagnation pressure drop from inlet to outlet. These results using two difficult example cases of leading edge geometries illustrate the superiority and utility of this blade-design method when compared with other direct or inverse blade-design methods.     

Effect of co-cultivation of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii with Azotobacter chroococcum on hydrogen production

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cc124 and Azotobacter chroococcum bacteria were co-cultured with a series of volume ratios and under a variety of light densities to determine the optimal culture conditions and to investigate the mechanism by which co-cultivation improves H₂ yield. The results demonstrated that the optimal culture conditions for the highest H₂ production of the combined system were a 1:40 vol ratio of bacterial cultures to algal cultures under 200 μE m^?2 s^?1. Under these conditions, the maximal H₂ yield was 255 μmol mg^?1 Chl, which was approximately 15.9-fold of the control. The reasons for the improvement in H₂ yield included decreased O₂ content, enhanced algal growth, and increased H₂ase activity and starch content of the combined system.     

Natural-gas fueled spark-ignition (SI) and compression-ignition (CI) engine performance and emissions

Natural gas is a fossil fuel that has been used and investigated extensively for use in spark-ignition (SI) and compression-ignition (CI) engines. Compared with conventional gasoline engines, SI engines using natural gas can run at higher compression ratios, thus producing higher thermal efficiencies but also increased nitrogen oxide (NO_x) emissions, while producing lower emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂), unburned hydrocarbons (HC) and carbon monoxide (CO). These engines also produce relatively less power than gasoline-fueled engines because of the convergence of one or more of three factors: a reduction in volumetric efficiency due to natural-gas injection in the intake manifold; the lower stoichiometric fuel/air ratio of natural gas compared to gasoline; and the lower equivalence ratio at which these engines may be run in order to reduce NO_x emissions. High NO_x emissions, especially at high loads, reduce with exhaust gas recirculation (EGR). However, EGR rates above a maximum value result in misfire and erratic engine operation. Hydrogen gas addition increases this EGR threshold significantly. In addition, hydrogen increases the flame speed of the natural gas-hydrogen mixture. Power levels can be increased with supercharging or turbocharging and intercooling. Natural gas is used to power CI engines via the dual-fuel mode, where a high-cetane fuel is injected along with the natural gas in order to provide a source of ignition for the charge. Thermal efficiency levels compared with normal diesel-fueled CI-engine operation are generally maintained with dual-fuel operation, and smoke levels are reduced significantly. At the same time, lower NO_x and CO₂ emissions, as well as higher HC and CO emissions compared with normal CI-engine operation at low and intermediate loads are recorded. These trends are caused by the low charge temperature and increased ignition delay, resulting in low combustion temperatures. Another factor is insufficient penetration and distribution of the pilot fuel in the charge, resulting in a lack of ignition centers. EGR admission at low and intermediate loads increases combustion temperatures, lowering unburned HC and CO emissions. Larger pilot fuel quantities at these load levels and hydrogen gas addition can also help increase combustion efficiency. Power output is lower at certain conditions than diesel-fueled engines, for reasons similar to those affecting power output of SI engines. In both cases the power output can be maintained with direct injection. Overall, natural gas can be used in both engine types; however further refinement and optimization of engines and fuel-injection systems is needed.     

Controls on the Karaha–Telaga Bodas geothermal reservoir,Indonesia

Karaha–Telaga Bodas is a partially vapor-dominated, fracture-controlled geothermal system located adjacent to Galunggung Volcano in western Java, Indonesia. The geothermal system consists of: (1) a caprock, ranging from several hundred to 1600 m in thickness, and characterized by a steep, conductive temperature gradient and low permeability; (2) an underlying vapor-dominated zone that extends below sea level; and (3) a deep liquid-dominated zone with measured temperatures up to 353 °C. Heat is provided by a tabular granodiorite stock encountered at about 3 km depth. A structural analysis of the geothermal system shows that the effective base of the reservoir is controlled either by the boundary between brittle and ductile deformational regimes or by the closure and collapse of fractures within volcanic rocks located above the brittle/ductile transition. The base of the caprock is determined by the distribution of initially low-permeability lithologies above the reservoir; the extent of pervasive clay alteration that has significantly reduced primary rock permeabilities; the distribution of secondary minerals deposited by descending waters; and, locally, by a downward change from a strike-slip to an extensional stress regime. Fluid-producing zones are controlled by both matrix and fracture permeabilities. High matrix permeabilities are associated with lacustrine, pyroclastic, and epiclastic deposits. Productive fractures are those showing the greatest tendency to slip and dilate under the present-day stress conditions. Although the reservoir appears to be in pressure communication across its length, fluid, and gas chemistries vary laterally, suggesting the presence of isolated convection cells.     

Hydrogen production by steam-gasification of carbonaceous materials using concentrated solar energy – V. Reactor modeling,optimization, and scale-up

A chemical reactor for the steam-gasification of carbonaceous particles (e.g. coal, coke) is considered for using concentrated solar radiation as the energy source of high-temperature process heat. A two-phase reactor model that couples radiative, convective, and conductive heat transfer to the chemical kinetics is applied to optimize the reactor geometrical configuration and operational parameters (feedstock's initial particle size, feeding rates, and solar power input) for maximum reaction extent and solar-to-chemical energy conversion efficiency of a 5 kW prototype reactor and its scale-up to 300 kW. For the 300 kW reactor, complete reaction extent is predicted for an initial feedstock particle size up to 35 μm at residence times of less than 10 s and peak temperatures of 1818 K, yielding high-quality syngas with a calorific content that has been solar-upgraded by 19% over that of the petcoke gasified.     

Assessment methods of material ageing using Sdobyrev''s creep rupture model

The physical aspects of the activation energy, in higher and high temperatures, of the metal creep process were examined. The research results of creep-rupture in a uniaxial stress state and the criterion of creep-rupture in biaxial stress states, at two temperatures, are then presented. For these studies creep-rupture, taking case iron as an example the energy and pseudoenergy activation was determined. For complex stress states the criterion of creep-rupture was taken to be Sdobyrev's, i.e. σ_red = σ₁ β + (1 − β)σ_i, where: σ₁-maximal principal stress, σ_i-stress intensity, β-material constant (at variable temperature β = β(T)). The methods of assessment of the material ageing grade are given in percentages of ageing of new material in the following mechanical properties: 1) creep strength in uniaxial stress state, 2) activation energy in uniaxial stress state, 3) criterion creep strength in complex stress states, 4) activation pseudoenergy in complex stress states. The methods 1) and 3) are the relatively simplest because they result from experimental investigations only at nominal temperature of the structure work, however, for methods 2) and 4) it is necessary to perform the experimental investigations at least at two temperatures.