New Engineered Particles from Spray Dryers: Research Needs in Spray Drying

This article reviews developments in the simulations of spray dryer behavior, including the challenges in modeling the complex flow patterns inside the equipment, which are often highly transient and three-dimensional in nature. There appears to be considerable scope for using CFD simulations for investigating methods to reduce the rates of wall deposition and of thermal degradation for particles by modifying the air flow patterns in the chamber through small changes in the air inlet geometry. Challenges include building particle drying kinetics and reaction processes, as well as agglomeration behavior, into these simulations. The numerical simulations should be valuable supplements to pilot-scale testing, enabling more extensive and accurate optimization to be carried out than hitherto possible. New understanding of reaction processes and materials science, in combination with recent knowledge of the application of CFD to these problems, may enable new engineered powder products to be developed from the one-step spray-drying process.     

Rapid analysis of polymer homologues and additives with SFE/SFC-MS coupling

A rapid and easy analysis method for polymers is presented. The method involves sample preparation by SFE, separation of the extracted compounds by SFC and simultaneous quantitative detection by FID, as well as identification of unknowns by MS. The applications illustrate how structural research work and routine polymer analysis can be done with this time saving method.     

PROGRESS IN THE MODELLING OF AIR FLOW PATTERNS IN TIMBER KILNS

Progress in modelling air flow patterns in timber kilns using Computational Fluid Dynamics is reviewed in this work. These simulations are intended to predict the distribution of the flow in the fillet spaces between boards in a hydraulic model of a timber kiln. Here, the flow regime between the boards is transitional between laminar and turbulent flow, with Reynolds numbers of the order of 5000. Running the simulation as a transient calculation has shown few problems with convergence issues, reaching a mass residual of 0.2% of the total inflow after 40-100 iterations per time step for time steps of 0.01 s. Grid sensitivity studies have shown that non-uniform grids are necessary because of the sudden changes in flow cross section, and the flow simulations are insensitive to grid refinement for non-uniform grids with more than 300,000 cells. The best agreement between the experimentally-measured flow distributions between fillet spaces and those predicted by the simulation have been achieved for (effective) bulk viscosities between the laminar viscosity for water and ten times that value. This change in viscosity is not very large (less than an order of magnitude), given that effective turbulent viscosities are typically several orders of magnitude greater than laminar ones. This result is consistent with the transitional flows here.     

Flow patterns in gas-assisted injection molding process in a channel

The flow field of a long bubble steadily expelling a viscous fluid confined by two closely located parallel plates is examined. In order to investigate the influence of bubble size on the flow field, a theoretical bubble profile is used to replace the complicated procedure for computing simultaneously the interface between the gas surface and fluid flows. The present study showed the two typical flow patterns and also a third flow pattern of the stagnation point moving in the region of the bubble tip front during transformation of the two typical flow patterns. The vorticity patterns are also drawn for various bubble profiles and are examined for their effect on the flow. The velocity field is also presented from two different viewpoints and the phenomena is examined. The stagnation point located on the center line between the bubble tip to the upstream is only found in the small range of in a channel, where λ is ratio of the bubble width to the distance between two parallel plates.     

Starting solutions for some unsteady unidirectional flows of a second grade fluid

Exact solutions corresponding to the motions of a second grade fluid, due to the cosine and sine oscillations of an infinite flat plate as well as those induced by an oscillating pressure gradient are determined by means of the Fourier sine transforms. These solutions, presented as sum of the steady-state and transient solutions, satisfy both the governing equations and all associate initial and boundary conditions. In the special case when α₁ → 0, they reduce to those for a Navier-Stokes fluid.     

Rare earth elements in CO_2-fluid inclusions in mantle Iherzolite

Trace elements including REE (Rare Earth Elements) in fluid inclusions in Iherzolite, olivine, orthopyroxene, and clinopyroxene have been determined by heating-decrepitation and ICP-MS (Element Type Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry) method. Normalized CO2 fluid/chondrite data show that mantle fluids are rich in REEs, especially LREEs (Light Rare Earth Elements), several times or dozen times higher than mantle rocks and mantle minerals. There are close relationships among the REE data of olivine, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene and 1herzolite. Compared to the data of chemical dissolution method, it is believed that REE data obtained from heating-decrepitation and ICP-MS technique are contributed by CO2 fluid inclusions. About 60% (mass fraction) of tiny inclusions are observed not to be decrepitated above 1000℃, so REE data obtained are only contributed by decrepitated inclusions. Mantle fluids rich in LREE play an important role in mantle metasomatism, partial melting and mineralization.     

Perturbation Analysis of Multiclass Stochastic Fluid Models

We use a stochastic fluid model (SFM) to capture the operation of finite-capacity queueing systems with multiple customer classes. We derive gradient estimators for class-dependent loss and workload related performance metrics with respect to any one of several threshold parameters used for buffer control. These estimators are shown to be unbiased and directly observable from a sample path without any knowledge of underlying stochastic characteristics of the traffic processes. This renders them computable in on-line environments and easily implementable in settings such as communication networks.     

汽油在线优化调合系统实践

为了保证汽油调合辛烷值的准确性,在减少辛烷值浪费的同时应避免因辛烷值低于标准值而造成质量事故。参考国内外汽油在线优化调合的各种技术方案,设计了一种适合中国国情的汽油在线优化调合控制系统。经中石化天津和洛阳炼油厂应用证明,系统很好地解决了调合过程中的辛烷值控制及优化问题,取得了较好的经济效益。     

一种新型的机液集成变速器

提出了一种新型的机液集成变速器,介绍了其结构、工作原理和结构特点,总参数选择及系统设计方法,可指导新产品的研究开发,满足众多领域对低转速、大扭矩、高效率、低能耗变速器的需要.     

卫星通信地球站UPS的选型指南

本文针对卫星地球站配备UPS的需要,比较了不同种类UPS的性能特点,提出了推荐选择标准在线式UPS的理由,并给出了具体选择UPS的二十个要点,可以作为UPS的选型指南。