Liner services network design and fleet deployment with empty container repositioning

Transportation demand of shipping container fluctuates due to the seasonality of international trade, thus, every 3–6 months, the liner company has to alter its current liner shipping service network, redeploy ships and design cargo routes with the objective of minimizing the total cost. To solve the problem, the paper presents a mixed integer linear program model. The proposed model incorporates several relevant constraints, such as weekly frequency, the transshipment of cargo between two or more service routes, and transport time. Extensive numerical experiments based on realistic date of Asia–Europe–Oceania shipping operations show that the proposed model can solve real-case problems efficiently by CPLEX. The results demonstrate that the model can reduce ship’s capacity consumption and raise ships’ capacity utilization.     

Non-pinched, minimum energy distillation designs

Non-pinched, minimum energy solutions are important class of distillation designs that offer the potential advantage of a better trade-off between capital investment and operating costs. In this paper, two important tasks associated with non-pinched distillation designs are studied. Thus the novel contributions of this work to the literature are

(1) A comprehensive methodology for finding non-pinched minimum energy designs.

(2) Understanding of the reasons for the existence of non-pinched distillation designs.

It is shown that the recent shortest stripping line distance approach of Lucia et al. [Lucia, A., Amale, A. and Taylor, R., 2007, Distillation pinch points and more. Comput Chem Eng, available on-line] is capable of systematically and reliably finding non-pinched, minimum energy distillation designs. In addition, we provide an understanding of the reasons behind the existence of non-pinched designs, which include trajectories that follow unstable branches of a pinch point curve in azeotropic systems, the inherent looping structure of trajectories in hydrocarbon separations, and the presence of ancillary constraints in multi-unit processes like extraction/distillation. Several distillation examples are studied and many numerical results and geometric illustrations are presented that show the shortest stripping line distance methodology is indeed a powerful and systematic tool for computing non-pinched, minimum energy designs and that support the underlying reason we provide for the existence of non-pinched designs.     

不锈钢管子—管板的激光焊接

试验研究了不锈钢的深溶焊接。研究了聚焦光束回转的光具。在工件不动的情况下,焊接管子—管板连接环缝。焊缝质量满足压力容器的要求,焊接效率大大提高。     

Case Study of an Aerosol Explosion and a Method to Determine Explosion Temperatures

A failure analysis case study is presented for a two-piece aerosol containing tetrafluoroethane, commonly referred to as Refrigerant 134a. A gentleman was preparing to recharge the air conditioning system of an automobile when the bottom exploded off the aerosol container, propelling the body of the aerosol container like a rocket, which hit the man in the eye and blinded him in that eye. The aerosol was never connected to the air conditioner, therefore backpressure from the air conditioner (AC) compressor was ruled out as a cause for the explosion. The objective of the study was to determine why the aerosol exploded. Several recently developed test methods were used, including two types of heat-to-burst tests and a puncture chamber to measure the pressure-versus-temperature behavior of aerosols. More common test methods were also used, such as water bath pressure tests, hydro pressure burst tests, pneumatic pressure burst tests, hardness measurements, weight measurements, metallography, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy-dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), and an accident scenario recreation. A semi-empirical correlation between the hardness and weights of the container bottoms was used to determine the explosion temperature and/or pressure. This semi-empirical correlation agrees in principle with an analysis of the explosion pressures using finite-element analysis (FEA). The root cause for the explosion was determined to be a lack of strength of the bottom of the two-piece aerosol coupled with heating the aerosol to temperatures significantly above room temperature.     

水溶液辐射分解产物对金属材料腐蚀的影响

实验研究了水辐射分解作用对高放废物深地质处置容器材料的影响。在高放废物深地质处置库附近的地下水,受辐射线作用后分解出氧、氢和氧化产物(例如H_2O_2等),于是在高放废物容器周围形成一个氧化场,导致高放废物中的某些重要放射性核素(例如U,Np和Tc)易溶于水,并向远域迁移。本实验中的含FeSO_4(0.13 mol/L)水溶液在吸收剂量为0、20、60、180、500kGy的射线作用下,其氧化还原电位(Eh)值由+357mV增至+414 mV;在不同吸收剂量的射线作用下,金属Cu、金属Al、0.357 mv金属Fe和不锈钢(后者是我国拟采用的高放废物包装容器材料),在水溶液中的氧化侵蚀强度,分别比在无辐射情况下的大0.2-6.1倍。     

焦化生产中含硫容器自燃氧化倾向性分析

分析了炼焦化工生产过程中硫的分布和存在形态、硫铁化合物自燃的影响因素,提出了防止储罐、管道等设备自燃事故的安全控制方法.     

罐车内壁元素硫的来源机理

分析了罐车装运喷气燃料中元素硫的来源途径,探讨了罐车内壁元素硫的来源机理。理论分析和实验研究结果表明,罐车内壁元素硫主要来源于硫腐蚀,罐车内存在金属硫化物、水分、氧气等条件时可促进元素硫的生成;沉积于罐壁腐蚀内层的元素硫难以清洗除去,却可慢慢溶解于油品中而致使喷气燃料银片腐蚀不合格。采用汞滴法可快速有效地测定罐车残油中的元素硫含量,检测不合格的罐车不用于装运喷气燃料,可有效地解决喷气燃料银片腐蚀不合格的生产问题。