An Experimental Investigation into the Feed Rate Capacity of Rotary Valve and Blow Tank Feeders

Industry widely uses rotary valves and blow tanks for the pneumatic conveying of products, each having their pros and cons depending on the specific application. This article shows the differing results obtained when low-velocity conveying a product through a common pipeline using both a drop-through rotary valve and a bottom-discharge blow tank feeder. A number of issues arise in the rotary valve system, the main one being rotary valve air leakage. A blow tank system, on the other hand, does not leak, as it is an enclosed system. The experimental results show dramatic differences in product throughput. Further exploration leads to a novel modification being made to the rotary valve system in an attempt to increase its capacity. The result of this modification shows a slight increase in output tonnage, but still significantly less than that obtained from the blow tank.     

Working memory in mild Alzheimer's disease and early Parkinson's disease.

Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) impair working memory (WM). It is unclear, however, whether the deficits seen early in the course of these diseases are similar. To address this issue, the authors compared the performance of 22 patients with mild AD, 20 patients with early PD and without dementia, and 112 control participants on tests of inhibition, short-term memory, and 2 commonly administered tests of WM. The results suggest that although mild AD and early PD both impair WM, the deficits may be related to the interruption of different processes that contribute to WM performance. Early PD disrupted inhibitory processes, whereas mild AD did not. The WM deficits seen in patients with AD may be secondary to deficits in other cognitive capacities, including semantic memory. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

涂料的发展和市场新动态（Ⅰ）

介绍了近年来国内外涂料生产和市场的一些情况,特别对国外企业在中国投资设厂的分布和产能做了重点论述,介绍了近年来国内外研发的一些新产品。     

Phase Behavior and Mechanical Properties of Siloxane-Urethane Copolymer

Two series of siloxane-urethane copolymers were prepared from polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) with a molecular weight of 1000 or 1800 which was used as a soft segment, 4,4′-diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI) and 1,4-butanediol (1,4-BD). Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) demonstrated that the position (T_gs) and breadth (ΔB) of soft-segment glass transition of copolymers remained constant as the hard-segment content increased. Heat capacities at soft-segment glass transition of the copolymer (ΔCp) were 0.195∼0.411 J/g^○C and heat capacities of pure PDMS (ΔCp₀) were 0.571∼0.647 J/g^○C, leading to the various ΔCp/ΔCp₀ ratios. The ΔCp/ΔCp₀ ratios decreased as the increasing of hard-segment content, showing poor phase separation. The FTIR spectrum confirmed the occurrence of hydrogen bonding in ether end-group of pure PDMS. The ether group of the soft segment led to interfacial mixing between soft and hard segments. The tan δ of the soft segment determined by dynamic mechanical testing (DMA) also identified the mixing of soft and hard segments. The mechanical properties of the copolymer were directly related to either the soft and hard segment contents or the chain lengths of soft and hard segments. The hard segment that reinforced the soft segment and interfacial thickness between soft and hard segment dominated the mechanical properties.     

铑含量对Pt-Rh-Pd/Al2O3催化剂的氧化还原性能的影响

应用微反应装置研究了铑含量对Pt-Rh-Pd/Al2O3催化剂的催化活性以及吸附性能的影响.结果表明Rh含量在0%～0.015%之间时,催化剂对CO的活性曲线呈波浪形,对NO的活性曲线为增函数;当Rh含量超过0.015%时,增加Rh的量对CO和NO的转化率几乎无影响.在无助的情况下,用Al2O3为载体制作的Pt-Rh-Pd/Al2O3催化剂,其Pt、Rh、Pd之间的最佳比例为15320.Rh含量的增加有利于氧化性气体的吸附,不利于还原性气体的吸附.     

Development of a Failure Model for the Adhesively Bonded Tubular Single Lap Joint

The accurate calculation of the stresses and torque capacities of adhesively bonded joints is not possible without understanding the failure phenomena of the adhesive joints and the nonlinear behavior of the adhesive.

In this paper, an adhesive failure model of the adhesively bonded tubular single lap joint with steel-steel adherends was proposed to predict the torque capacity accurately.

The model incorporated the nonlinear behavior of the adhesive and the different failure modes in which the adhesive failure mode changed from bulk shear failure, via transient failure, to interfacial failure between the adhesive and the adherend, according to the magnitudes of the residual thermally-induced stresses from fabrication.     

煤泥水浓缩系统技术改造

霍州煤电集团辛置洗煤厂,于2002年经过重介技术改造,各项指标均达到规定要求,但随着重介生产能力的逐渐提高,煤泥水系统、澄清工艺已无法满足重介分选时要求的清水作业.因此,经过分析工艺要求和生产现状,提出改造方案,改进了煤泥水系统工艺流程.改造后,满足了重介分选清水作业的要求,入洗能力显著提高.     

稻麦轮作条件下施用氮肥对土壤供氮能力的影响

应用淹水密闭培养法评价了不同施肥处理对土壤供氮能力的影响。研究发现经过6年的轮作施肥,增施氮肥能够提高土壤的供氮能力及可矿化氮在土壤全氮中的比例。在淹水培养中,高施肥量土壤的氮矿化过程符合对数函数方程,而低施肥量和不施肥土壤符合直线方程。酸解氮和热氯化钾提取氮与土壤可矿化氮的相关性好于全氮、有机质和碱解氮,是良好的土壤供氮能力指标。     

Why not Artificial Consciousness or Thought?

The purpose of this article is to show why consciousness and thought are not manifested in digital computers. Analyzing the rationale for claiming that the formal manipulation of physical symbols in Turing machines would emulate human thought, the article attempts to show why this proved false. This is because the reinterpretation of designation and meaning to accommodate physical symbol manipulation eliminated their crucial functions in human discourse. Words have denotations and intensional meanings because the brain transforms the physical stimuli received from the microworld into a qualitative, macroscopic representation for consciousness. Lacking this capacity as programmed machines, computers have no representations for their symbols to designate and mean. Unlike human beings in which consciousness and thought, with their inherent content, have emerged because of their organic natures, serial processing computers or parallel distributed processing systems, as programmed electrical machines, lack these causal capacities.     

拉压状态下预紧力齿连接接头承载力和剪应力分布规律研究

复合材料预紧力齿连接是一种新型连接方式,具有较高的连接效率。本文对预紧力齿连接平板单齿试件进行拉伸与压缩试验,研究对比两种荷载状态下的承载力和剪应力分布规律,采用数字散斑和有限元接触建模两种方法分析齿剪切面的剪应力分布。通过研究发现,相同参数的单齿试件在拉伸与压缩荷载下的承载力相差不大,但两种荷载下齿剪切面的剪应力分布规律却不同。该结论可以用于预紧力齿连接接头的设计计算中。