Extraction optimization and adsorption isotherm kinetics of polyphenols from blossoms of Citrus aurantium L. var. amara Engl

ABSTRACT

Crude extracts were extracted from blossoms of Citrus aurantium L. var. amara Engl. with 50% ethanol (CAVAP-E), 50% methanol (CAVAP-M), and hot water (CAVAP-W). CAVAP-W had the highest polyphenol yield of 3.7%. The optimum values of liquid/solid ratio, ultrasonic time, and ultrasonic power were 34.06 mL/g, 1 h, and 81.04 W, respectively. The adsorption characteristics of polyphenols were investigated using different macroporous resins. AB-8 and HP-20 resins offered higher adsorption and desorption capacities. Langmuir equation was more suitable to predict the adsorption of polyphenols. The pseudo second-order model was satisfactory to describe the kinetic data of polyphenols onto AB-8 and HP-20.     

甲基氯硅烷精馏流程的模拟与优化

采用Aspen plus软件对工业七塔精馏过程进行全流程建模与模拟，优化工艺参数，研究了新的精馏节能工艺。对一甲塔等7个精馏塔采用双因素水平的灵敏度分析，考察了塔釜采出率、回流比、进料位置和塔顶压力对产品浓度和热负荷的影响，确定一甲塔最优的工艺参数：塔釜摩尔采出率为0.92，摩尔回流比为130，塔顶压力为0.18 MPa，总理论板数为400，在210块理论板位置进料。在此基础上，针对高能耗的脱高塔/脱低塔，模拟研究了双效精馏新工艺，新工艺可节省39.70%的年总成本；针对一甲塔模拟研究了热泵精馏新工艺，新工艺可降低41.42%的年总成本。     

Arabic sign language intelligent translator

ABSTRACT

Arabic sign language (ArSL) is method of communication between deaf communities in Arab countries; therefore, the development of systemsthat can recognize the gestures provides a means for the Deaf to easily integrate into society. In this research we implemented a computational structurefor an intelligent interpreter that automatically recognizes the isolated dynamic gestures. The proposed system recognizes and translates gesturesperformed with one or both hands. It comprises five subsystems, building dataset, video processing, feature extraction, mapping between ArSL and Arabictext, and text generation. To apply the system, 100-signs of ArSL was used, which was applied on 1500 video files. It's were divided into five classes:alphabet, numbers, "prepositions, pronouns and question words", Arabic life expressions, and "nouns and verbs". The evaluation indicated that thesystem automatically recognizes and translates isolated dynamic ArSL gestures by highly accurate manner. The results showed that the system accuracy is 95.8%.     

Food recognition using neural network classifier and multiple hypotheses image segmentation

ABSTRACT

This paper proposes the multiple-hypotheses image segmentation and feed-forward neural network classifier for food recognition to improve the performance. Initially, the food or meal image is given as input. Then, the segmentation is applied to identify the regions, where a particular food item is located using salient region detection, multi-scale segmentation, and fast rejection. Then, the features of every food item are extracted by the global feature and local feature extraction. After the features are obtained, the classification is performed for each segmented region using a feed-forward neural network model. Finally, the calorie value is computed with the aid of (i) food volume and (ii) calorie and nutrition measure based on mass value. The experimental results and performance evaluation are validated. The outcome of the proposed method attains 0.947 for Macro Average Accuracy (MAA) and 0.959 for Standard Accuracy (SA), which provides better classification performance.     

Ionic liquids for coal dissolution,extraction and liquefaction

Coal is the most abundant fossil fuel. Direct combustion of low- and medium-rank coals causes alarming environmental impacts. Therefore, it is crucial for coal to undergo pretreatments before its efficient utilization [such as coal to liquid (CTL) processes]. Conventional pretreatment methods suffer from several limitations including the use of volatile organic solvents, environmental hazards, strong reaction conditions (e.g. high temperature and pressure), consumption of large quantities of nonrecoverable chemicals (e.g. bases used in aqueous alkaline digestion), or being only effective for specific coals. On the other hand, coal pretreatment by nonvolatile ionic liquids (ILs) could lead to partial coal dissolution/swelling and structure disruption, which is a critical step before coal liquefaction, hydrogenation, pyrolysis or the inhibition of oxidation/combustion. In addition, ILs are suitable solvents for extracting sulfur compounds from coal, asphaltenes from Direct Coal Liquefaction Residues (DCLR) and phenolic compounds from coal tar. This review will discuss these aspects of coal pretreatments by ILs, and identify how ILs could lead to a cleaner and more efficient utilization of coal resources. © 2020 Society of Chemical Industry     

邻甲酚-间二甲苯-乙二醇液液平衡数据的测定与关联

乙二醇可从含芳烃组分油品中选择性萃取酚类，为支撑焦化含酚油中的酚类化合物萃取分离新工艺开发，针对其组分特点，在现有相平衡数据基础上选定代表物，利用液液平衡釜法测出常压下303.15、313.15和323.15 K时邻甲酚-间二甲苯-乙二醇体系液液相平衡数据，并利用Othmer-Tobias方程、Hand方程、Bachman方程分别进行实验数据可靠性检验，其线性相关系数的平方均大于0.99。同时分别用NRTL和UNIQUAC活度系数模型对实验数据进行关联，回归得到不同温度下的模型参数，模型计算值与实验数据对比后发现其均方根偏差小于1.8%，说明NRTL和UNIQUAC模型均可较好地描述该三元体系相平衡行为。     

Prism coupling method to evaluate the light extraction efficiency of outcoupling substrates

One of the key challenges in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) for lighting applications is efficient light extraction from the planar, multi-layered OLED stack. Several different light extraction approaches are being explored currently by researchers, however characterizing light extraction films after fabricating OLEDs is not a viable approach when the outcoupling films have large surface roughness and is time consuming as well. Here we apply prism coupling method (PCM), a simple and elegant tool, to characterize outcoupling films. We show the effectiveness of PCM in estimating light extraction efficiency of outcoupling films. PCM can expedite selection and optimization of various light extraction approaches without the need to build OLEDs. The experimental results are corroborated by the optical simulations done using ray tracing method taking into account Mie scattering from wavelength sized spherical inclusions in an outcoupling film.     

油田含油污泥处理技术研究进展

含油污泥处理是目前油田亟待解决的问题之一。介绍了国内外含油污泥处理技术的研究进展，主要处理技术有溶剂萃取处理技术、焚烧处理技术、热解处理技术、生物处理技术、调剖处理技术等，并介绍了国内部分油田的含油污泥处理工艺。