Eddy current measurements of electrical conductivity and magnetic permeability of porous metals

This paper presents a method, which simultaneously estimates the electrical conductivity and magnetic permeability of porous metals. Porous Cu and Fe manufactured by the lost carbonate sintering process have been tested. An air-cored solenoid coil was designed for the measurements of rod-shaped samples when inserted coaxially with the coil. It was theoretically found that the phase-frequency response of the normalised eddy current signal of the coil is virtually independent of the radius, electrical conductivity and magnetic permeability of the test samples. For non-magnetic, conductive porous Cu, the electrical conductivity was measured with a calibration curve of the coil relating the impedance change and the electrical conductivity of the sample. For magnetic porous Fe, the imaginary part of the signal at the lowest frequencies can be used to estimate the permeability. The measured conductivity values of the porous Cu are shown in the paper in comparison with that of bulk materials with known conductivity. The measured permeability values of the porous Fe are given and the sample-length effect on the measurements is also discussed.     

多孔TiO2陶瓷光催化剂降解糠醛废水

以钛酸四丁酯等为原料，采用简单工艺制得多孔TiO2陶瓷光催化剂；并研究了利用多孔TiO2陶瓷光催化降解糠醛废水。结果表明，在紫外灯下照射60min，糖醛废水的COD去除率可达59．8％，而通入空气有利于污染物的去除。     

氧化石墨烯/石蜡复合相变乳液的制备及对流传热特性

为提高石蜡相变乳液的传热性能，通过添加氧化石墨烯(GO)，制备了GO/石蜡复合相变乳液并对其相关性能进行了表征。搭建了流动阻力、对流换热试验台，对比研究了石蜡相变乳液及GO/石蜡复合相变乳液的流动阻力特性和对流换热特性，试验结果表明，由于GO的亲水性，复合相变乳液都表现出较好的稳定性。当GO的质量分数为0.01％、0.02％、0.03％时，复合相变乳液的热导率分别增加了20.01％、30.50％、35.18％。添加GO使乳液的流动阻力略有增加，直管段最大增加了6.70%，90°弯管处最大增加了13.20%；对流传热系数随着GO浓度的增加而增大，当GO浓度为0.03％时，对流传热系数最大提高了43.90％。     

The effective diffusivities in porous media with and without nonlinear reactions

The question of whether effective diffusivities in porous materials under reactive and nonreactive conditions are equal is addressed. Previous studies had considered the problem with first-order reactions. We study the issue with two nonlinear reactions—a second-order reaction and one governed by the Michaelis-Menten kinetics. Pore network and continuum models of porous media are utilized to estimate the effective diffusivities under reactive and nonreactive conditions. We show that the two effective diffusivities are significantly different. The difference is due to the heterogeneities of the porous material, and the fluctuations that they cause in the spatially varying local concentrations and diffusivities, and can be as large as a few orders of magnitude. Theoretical analysis of diffusion and reactions in porous media is also presented that supports the results of the simulations. In particular, it is shown that the results of pore network simulations cannot be fitted to the classical continuum equation of diffusion and reaction, and that a more complex continuum equation should be used for this purpose.     

开孔剂对多孔氧化铝支撑体的影响

研究了开孔剂对a-Al2O3多孔道氧化铝支撑体的影响,发现开孔剂的种类及质量分数对支撑体的性能有重要影响,选择合适的开孔剂种类及质量分数可使氧化铝支撑体的纯水通量提高2～3倍。     

多孔碳酸钙陶瓷--人造珊瑚的研究

天然珊瑚有三维贯通的多孔网络结构，它的主要成分碳酸钙(CaC03)在人体环境可降解。模拟珊瑚的组成与结构，研制新型的组织工程支架材料有着良好的应用前景。本文探索了多孔碳酸钙陶瓷的制备方法，并通过盐析法制备了一种多孔的碳酸钙陶瓷，有望获得高的孔隙率和孔连通性。     

APPLICATION OF THE CONSTANT MOLAR FLOW METHOD IN THE STUDY OF MASS TRANSFER OF GASES AND VAPORS IN BIDISPERSE STRUCTURED SOLIDS

In this paper, we provide exact analytical solutions for a new method of constant molar flow of pure gas into a reservoir containing solid adsorbents having a bidispersed structure, such as zeolite, activated carbon and alumina. Depending on the diffusion mechanism, two models are proposed under the isothermal conditions and linear isotherm. One is applicable to zeolite, and the other for alumina and activated carbon. The solutions of these two models are in the form of an infinite series, and its eigenvalues are determined from a transcendental equation. This transcendental equation is such that the eigenvalues are lumped into infinite but countable groups, and in each group there are infinite but countable eigenvalues. The dominant eigenvalues are generally the first ten to thirty eigenvalues (depending on the value of time at which the series is evaluated) in each group. The pressure response of the reservoir is a function of time as the result of the introduction of adsorbate into the reservoir, and as time is sufficiently large it asymptotes to a straight line, of which the slope is a function of the equilibrium parameters only and the intercept is found to be an explicit function of the equilibrium parameters as well as the diffusivities in the macropore and micropore.     

Dynamics of fluid circulation in coupled free and heterogeneous porous domains

Fluid flow in coupled free and porous domain, particularly when the porous medium is heterogeneous, is encountered in many hydro-environmental conditions, e.g., leakage from underground pipe, combined groundwater lake-subsurface interactions. One of the most difficult problems in the study of coupled flow behaviour has been the development of a universally applicable modelling scheme for combining the flow regimes. This is because the free/porous interfacial properties (e.g., shear-stress; velocity slip) that govern the coupled flow behaviour are difficult to determine experimentally under hydro-environmental conditions. On the other hand, the implications of various forms of heterogeneity in the porous media properties can be very different on the fluid-flow behaviour. Difficulties may also arise in direct coupling of the model equations that govern the fluid flow in the individual regions (e.g., Navier-Stokes for free-flow region and the Darcy's equation for the porous flow region). Consequently, models of coupled free and porous flow for hydro-environmental conditions are not very well developed at the moment. While there are some indications that fluids in coupled free and porous domains may circulate (i.e., development of flow cells), there is a lack of appropriate 3D analysis on how heterogeneities in porous media may affect such flow patterns. In this paper, we aim to analyse how porous media heterogeneity affects the dynamics of flow circulation in the porous side of a coupled free and porous domain. For this purpose, we analyse flow patterns in several model domains made up of two porous layers with differing permeabilities. The governing model equations are discretised and solved using the standard finite volume method on a staggered cell-centred mesh. The temporal discretisation is done using the explicit method. An in-house graphical user interface (GUI) has been created specifically to aid in the visualisation of otherwise complex flow patterns. The GUI contains many post-processing options and provides a comprehensive tool for the analysis of hydrodynamics and contaminant motion (not discussed in this paper) in coupled free and porous flow domains. This GUI is described in this paper briefly. The effects of altering the aspect ratio (i.e., multi-scale) of the domain on the coupled flow pattern have also been discussed.