Surface properties of surfactants derived from natural products. Part 1: Syntheses and structure/property relationships—Solubility and emulsification

Several novel and some previously known, mostly sugar-based, surfactants have been synthesized and some of their surface properties have been characterized and compared with those of commercial nonylphenol ethoxylates. The surfactant solubility in water, ethanol, and dodecane was studied. The properties of these compounds as emulsification agents in systems composed of the surfactant with water/isopropyl myristate, water/rapeseed oil, and water/dodecane are presented. The aqueous solubility of the surfactants follows the general trend expected from their hydrophilic-lipophilic balance according to Griffin (HLBG), but it is also clear that the nature of the headgroup and the structure of the nonpolar part affect the solubility in a manner not aptured in the standard HLBG concept. An ester or amine group as the connecting unit between the hydrophile and the hydrophobe produces a more water-soluble surfactant than the corresponding amide derivative. Some effective emulsifiers were found. For instance, the surfactants with a dehydroabietic nonpolar group appear to be promosing emulsifiers. Most sugar-based surfactants were able to form macroemulsions of up to around 2 wt/vol% of oil. The stability of many of these amulsions was very high, extending for months.     

Biocomposites Made from Short Abaca Fiber and Biodegradable Polyesters

Natural fiber‐reinforced biodegradable polyester composites were prepared from biodegradable polyesters and surface‐untreated or ‐treated abaca fibers (length ca. 5 mm) by melt mixing and subsequent injection molding. Poly(butylene succinate)(PBS), polyestercarbonate (PEC)/poly(lactic acid)(PLA) blend, and PLA were used as biodegradable polyesters. Esterifications using acetic anhydride and butyric anhydride, alkali treatment, and cyanoethylation were performed as surface treatments on the fiber. The flexural moduli of all the fiber‐reinforced composites increased with fiber content. The effect of the surface treatment on the flexural modulus of the fiber‐reinforced composites was not so pronounced. The flexural strength of PBS composites increased with fiber content, and esterification of the fiber by butyric anhydride gave the best result. For the PEC/PLA composites, flexural strength increased slightly with increased fiber content (0–20 wt.‐%) in the case of using untreated fiber, while it increased considerably in the case of using the fiber esterified by butyric anhydride. For the PLA composite, flexural strength did not increase with the fiber reinforcement. The result of soil‐burial tests showed that the composites using untreated fiber have a higher weight loss than both the neat resin and the composites made using acetylated fiber.

Flexural modulus of PBS composites as a function of fiber content.     

煤气化等离子体反应器内的温度

分析了煤热解和煤气化两种等离子体发生器，并且分析了一般的温度计算方法，即通过解由有效能量等于有关热容经验公式建立的关于温度的代数方程，最后在求得温度的方法的基础上，发现上述计算方法不能很好地应用于等离子体发生器中，因此应用局域平衡近似导出恒压过程的Saha方程，计算了不同温度下一些等离子体工作气体的电离度，将根据输入功率结合实验监测的电流数据得到的电离度入Saha方程，由解Saha方程得到了与实测温度一致的数值。     

响应面法优化管萼山豆根总生物碱提取工艺

采用微波控温辅助超声波的方法提取管萼山豆根茎中总生物碱,通过单因素法和响应面法优化了提取工艺,考察了管萼山豆根茎中总生物碱对1, 1-二苯基-2-三硝基苯肼自由基(DPPH·)、2, 2-联氮-二-3-乙基-苯并噻唑-6-磺酸自由基(ABTS·)和超氧阴离子自由基(O2?·)的清除作用。结果表明,模型优化并修正的最佳工艺条件为:提取时间37.8 min,微波加热温度64.5℃,超声功率575 W,乙醇体积分数95%,在该条件下总生物碱得率为0.5418%,高于不采用微波超声辅助的0.2436%、超声辅助的0.4538%、乙醇回流的0.3884%。管萼山豆根茎中总生物碱在DPPH·、ABTS·、邻苯三酚浓度分别为0.1、7.0、8.0 mmol/L条件下,其半数抑制质量浓度(IC50)分别为0.891、0.552和0.390 g/L。     

三江盆地二维地震资料处理方法研究与应用

三江盆地二位地震资料处理存在着较多的难题。如:静校正复杂;在逐步压制各类干扰的同时,难于保护低频有效信息和波组特征;波场复杂,准确拾取叠加速度比较困难。利用各种新技术新方法提高该地区地震资料的精度,是该地区地震资料处理的目标。通过综合应用各种静校正、地表一致性处理、噪声衰减、偏移等技术和方法,解决了该地区资料处理的难题,提高了地震资料的精度。实际地震资料处理的结果表明,以上处理技术和方法对该区复杂的资料处理效果明显。     

泡沫夹层结构的模压共固化成型工艺及参数选定

在分析夹层结构的基础上,概述了常用芯材包括铝蜂窝、NOMEX蜂窝和聚甲基丙烯酰亚胺泡沫塑料的性能和特点,介绍了刚性泡沫夹层结构常用的成型工艺,详细阐述了刚性泡沫夹层结构的模压共固化成型工艺及相关参数的选定。     

Bench-scale processing of amaranth seed for oil

Amaranth seed (Amaranthus hypochondriacus cv. K432) was processed to obtain oil, reported to be a promising source of squalene. The amaranth seed was ground using a stone mill, then separated into oil-rich embryonic tissue (or “bran”) and starchy perisperm. Amaranth bran was much more stable than rice bran when free fatty acid (FFA) content and peroxide value were monitored. Milling at a gap of 0.755 mm did not result in excessive damage to the starch in the perisperm fraction and yielded a bran fraction that contained more than three-fourths of the oil and a starchy fraction consisting of more than two-thirds of the seed weight. The bran particles were too fine for effective bench-scale extraction of the oil. Consequently the bran was extruded into collects prior to extraction. Two extrusion settings were evaluated regarding the rate of moisture injection, while the bran feed rates were constant. There was no significant difference in appearance or size between the two dried collets. Collets were extracted with hexane using an Armfield Extraction/Desolventizing Unit (Model FT 29, Armfield, Ltd., Hampshire, England). Oil recovery averaged 97.7 and 80.0%, respectively. Oil was extracted at high yield from the bran when the bran was extruded into collets. Oil can be obtained as a coproduct of amaranth starch by milling and separating the fractions of amaranth seed. Milling, extrusion, and extraction did not decrease significantly the squalene content in amaranth oil, but increased FFA content and peroxide value and changed tocopherol content of the oil.     

An efficient parallel-network packet pattern-matching approach using GPUs

In the past few years, the increase in interest usage has been substantial. The high network bandwidth speed and the large amount of threats pose challenges to current network intrusion detection systems, which manage high amounts of network traffic and perform complicated packet processing. Pattern matching is a computationally intensive process included in network intrusion detection systems. In this paper, we present an efficient graphics processing unit (GPU)-based network packet pattern-matching algorithm by leveraging the computational power of GPUs to accelerate pattern-matching operations and subsequently increase the overall processing throughput. According to the experimental results, the proposed algorithm achieved a maximal traffic processing throughput of over 2 Gbit/s. The results demonstrate that the proposed GPU-based algorithm can effectively enhance the performance of network intrusion detection systems.     

Processing of Topological BIM Queries using Boundary Representation Based Methods

Building Information Models (BIM) are comprehensive digital representations of buildings, which provide a large set of information originating from the different disciplines involved in the design, construction and operation processes. Moreover, accessing the data needed for a specific downstream application scenario is a challenging task in large-scale BIM projects. Several researchers recently proposed using formal query languages for specifying the desired information in a concise, well-defined manner. One of the main limitations of the languages introduced so far, however, is the inadequate treatment of geometric information. This is a significant drawback, as buildings are inherently spatial objects and qualitative spatial relationships accordingly play an important role in the analysis and verification of building models. In addition, the filters needed in specific data exchange scenarios for selecting the information required can be built by spatial objects and their relations. The lack of spatial functionality in BIM query languages is filled by the Query Language for Building Information Models (QL4BIM) which provides metric, directional and topological operators for defining filter expressions with qualitative spatial semantics. This paper focuses on the topological operators provided by the language. In particular, it presents a new implementation method based on the boundary representation of the operands which outperforms the previously presented octree-based approaches. The paper discusses the developed algorithms in detail and presents extensive performance tests.     

低蛋白天然胶乳的研究现状

简述了低蛋白天然胶乳的发展、制备方法、热降解性能和应用，并对低蛋白胶乳中蛋白质含量的检测方法和低蛋白硫化胶乳胶膜的力学性能作了简要的阐述。