国内外己内酰胺生产现状及市场分析

世界上最大的5家己内酰胺生产商是德国BASF公司,生产能力为55.5万T/a;荷兰DSM公司,生产能力为42.0万t/a;美国Allied-Signal公司,生产能力为32.7万t/a;日本宇部兴产公司,生产能力为26.8万t/a;日本东丽公司,生产能力为17.0万t/a。这5家公司的已内酰胺生产能力合计为174万t/a,约占世界总产量的50％。中国目前有4套己内酰胺生产装置,岳阳巴陵鹰山石化厂,2000年生产能力为7万t/a;南京东方公司,生产能力为6万t/a;石家庄化纤公司,生产能力为5万t/a;浙江巨化公司锦纶厂,生产能力为0.45万t/a,全国合计年生产能力为18.45万t/a。国外己内酰胺的主要消费领域为纤维、工程塑料和食品包装膜;国内已内酰胺的主要消费领域为帘子布、民用丝、工程塑料,所占比例分别为70％、28％、2％。国内己内酰胺需求一直大于国内产量,但由于技术力量薄弱、资金有限及下游产品结构不合理等原因制约了己内酰胺的应用,目前国内的已内酰胺主要应用在中低档产品中,高档产品所需己内酰胺仍要依靠进口。     

Filamentary extrusion of microcellular polymers using a rapid decompressive element

An extrusion process for manufacturing microcellular plastics is presented. In the past, microcellular structures have been produced in batch processes by using a thermodynamic instability of a polymer/gas system. In order to utilize such a thermodynamic instability in a continuous extrusion process, a large amount of gas must be dissolved quickly in a molten plastic flowing in the machine, and a rapid drop in the gas solubility must be induced in the flowing polymer/gas solution. Since the solubility of a gas in a polymer is a sensitive function of pressure, a thermodynamic instability for producing a microcellular structure can be induced by rapidly lowering the pressure. This paper presents a means for continuously forming the polymer/gas solution at an industrial processing rate and a means of nucleating microcells in the polymer/gas solution using a nozzle. Finally, a process model for controlling the cell morphology is presented by identifying the key parameters that control microcellular foaming in a continuous process. The experimental results agree with theoretical analyses, confirming the fact that the processing pressure strongly affects the microcellular foaming process through its effects on the amount of gas dissolved in the polymer and the magnitude of the pressure drop in the nucleation device.     

Motion of a shaped-charge jet in a porous medium

The problem of the motion of a shaped-charge jet in a porous medium is equivalent to the problem of a blunt cylinder in a hypersonic flow whose velocity at infinity is equal to the jet velocity in the porous medium. The flow pattern of the medium is the same as in the case of propagation of a blast wave generated by a point explosion of a cylindrical charge. The approximate theory of a strong explosion is used to obtain the basic relations for the shock wave and the expanding cavity in the hypersonic flow of a porous medium around the blunt cylinder. A comparison with experiments on the motion of a copper shaped-charge jet in porous aluminum is performed. Translated fromFizika Goreniya i Vzryva, Vol. 35, No. 6, pp. 119–124, November–December 1999.     

Aging and loss of flocculation activity of aqueous polyacrylamide solutions

There is a rapid and a slow stage in the decrease of reduced specific viscosity versus time (aging) for a solution of a high intrinsic viscosity polyacrylamide in water. The rapid stage is irreversible and has a fairly high temperature coefficient. Results of the latter type are usually associated with a weak-link scission mechanism, but they can also be reconciled with a disaggregation mechanism. A disaggregation mechanism is also indicated for the rapid stage by an increase in the first-order rate contant with a decrease in the polymer concentration or an increase in the shear rate and by the absence of the rapid stage during the aging of the same sample in formamide. Chemical changes in the polymer are suspected as being responsible for the RSV change during the slow stage in the aging of the high intrinsic viscosity polyacrylamide and also in the aging of a polyacrylamide of low intrinsic viscosity. The aging of the polyacrylamide of high intrinsic viscosity is paralleled by a decrease in the ability of the polymer to increase the subsidence of kaolin suspensions. This decrease in the flocculation activity is attributed to a weakening of the interparticle bridging by a change from a strong adsorption of the bridging polymer to two particles to a strong adsorption of the bridging polymer to one particle but weak adsorption of the bridging polymer to the other particle.     

国内外乙二醇现状及发展前景

2005年,全球乙二醇的总生产能力为1779.2万t,总消费量为1605.5万t。预计到2010年总生产能力将达到约2821.0万t,总消费量将达到约2130.0万t。目前我国乙二醇的总生产能力为169.8万t,2005年产量为110.1万t,消费量为508.8万t,预计到2010年我国乙二醇的总生产能力将达到约400.0万t,消费量将达到约710.0万t。针对存在的问题,提出了我国乙二醇今后的发展建议。     

国内外苯酚的供需现状及发展前景

目前,全球苯酚的总生产能力约为926万ta/,2004年总消费量为774.5万t,预计到2009年总消费量将达到约945.2万t。2005年我国苯酚的总生产能力约为54.0万ta/,产量为44.3万t,消费量约为73.3万t。预计到2007年和2010年我国苯酚的总生产能力将分别达到约85万ta/和110万ta/,消费量将分别达到约85.0万t和96.0万t。针对目前存在的问题,提出了我国苯酚今后的发展建议。     

Effect of the Intensification of Mechanical Processing on the Conversion of the Mineral Matter of Coal Fuel

The influence of intense preliminary mechanical processing in a disintegrator on the conversion of the mineral matter of Kuznetsk black coal was determined. With the use of X-ray spectral fluorescence analysis and a method of coal sample separation based on density, a significant redistribution of the mineral components with the use of an energy-intensive mill (disintegrator) was found in comparison with standard mills utilized in heat-power engineering in terms of both particle-size fractions and density. Crushing in the disintegrator leads to a more uniform distribution of mineral substances over the fractions. A small fraction becomes enriched in mineral elements such as calcium- and iron-containing minerals bound to the organic matter. The separation based on density showed that crushing in the disintegrator leads to a significant decrease in the concentration of iron-containing minerals and a decrease in the portion of organic components in the heavy fraction, as compared with crushing in a ball–tube mill.     

Numerical Investigations of Fluid Flow and Lateral Fluid Dispersion in Bounded Granular Beds in a Cylindrical Coordinates System

Results are presented from a numerical study examining the flow of a viscous, incompressible fluid through a random packing of non‐overlapping spheres at moderate Reynolds numbers, spanning a wide range of flow conditions for porous media. By using a laminar model including inertial terms and assuming rough walls, numerical solutions of the Navier‐Stokes equations in three‐dimensional porous packed beds resulted in dimensionless pressure drops in excellent agreement with those reported in a previous study. This observation suggests that no transition to turbulence could occur in the range of the Reynolds number studied. For flows in the Forchheimer regime, numerical results are presented of the lateral dispersivity of solute continuously injected into a three‐dimensional bounded granular bed at moderate Peclet numbers. In addition to numerical calculations, to describe the concentration profile of solute, an approximate solution for the mass transport equation in a bounded granular bed in a cylindrical coordinates system is proposed. Lateral fluid dispersion coefficients are then calculated by fitting the concentration profiles obtained from numerical and analytical methods. Comparing the present numerical results with data available in the literature, no evidence has been found to support the speculations by others for a transition from laminar to turbulent regimes in porous media at a critical Reynolds number.     

Micromechanics of the growth of a craze fibril in glassy polymers

The primary objective of this work is to model the growth and eventual failure of a craze fibril in a glassy polymer, starting from a primitive fibril. Experimental investigations have shown that properties like the entanglement density of a polymer play a pivotal role in determining whether macroscopic failure of a polymer occurs through crazing or shear yielding. Failure is seen to be related to the formation of a soft ‘active zone’ at the craze-bulk interface, through disentanglement. The present work aims at explaining some of the experimental findings about fibril growth and failure in glassy polymers on the basis of a continuum model of a craze with a constitutive model that accounts for yield, network hardening and disentanglement. The results show that this approach is capable of providing explanations for experimentally observed facts such as the propensity to crazing in polymers with low entanglement density and the linearity between the stretch in a fibril and the maximum stretch of a molecular strand in the fibril.     

Chromatic adaptation in a 2D photograph demonstrated by a D‐up viewer

It is said that we cannot have color constancy in a photograph. The concept of recognized visual space of illumination (RVSI) asserts that chromatic adaptation occurs when one perceives the illumination that is filling a space and not the objects in the space. It predicts then that if one perceives a 3D scene in a photograph, then color constancy will occur in the photograph. In this work, a dimension‐up (D‐up) viewer was developed to perceive a 3D scene on a 2D photograph, and the effect of chromatic adaptation was measured by the color appearance of a gray patch placed at the center of the photograph. Subjects saw the patch as a vivid color when they saw a photograph that had been taken under colored illumination, which is a normal experience in a real space observation. When the color appearance was measured by the elementary color naming method, the amount of chromaticness of the patch in percentage and the apparent hue were very similar to those observed in the 2‐room technique, thus confirming the prediction by the RVSI theory.     

Transport phenomena in porous media: A review

This paper, a review of the state of the art of the drying process in wet porous media, presents an overview of thermodynamic relations in heat treatment of synthetic fiber fabrics. Heat and mass transfer in wet porous media are coupled in a very complicated way. The structure of the solid matrix varies widely in shape. There is, in general, a distribution of void sizes, and the structures may be locally irregular. Energy transport in such a medium occurs by conduction in all of the phases. Mass transport occurs within voids of the medium. In an unsaturated state, these voids are partially filled with a liquid, whereas the rest of the voids contain some gas. It is a common misapprehension that nonhygroscopic fibers (i.e., those with intrinsically low moisture content) will automatically produce a hydrophobic fabric. The main significance of the fine geometry of a textile structure in contributing to resistance to water penetration can be stated in a different manner. Published in Russian in Teoreticheskie Osnovy Khimicheskoi Tekhnologii, 2006, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 17–30. This article was submitted by the author in English.     

Measurement of short-term changes in heart rate and in plasma concentrations of cortisol and catecholamine in a small marsupial

Using a chronically placed jugular catheter and a silver electrode, it was possible to monitor short-term changes in the plasma concentration of cortisol and catecholamine in the marsupial sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps) and to monitor both heart and respiration rates. Males judged to be low in the social hierarchy of a particular group were exposed to the whole-body odor of a dominant male from the same social group, a foreign dominant male, or a castrate male. While there was no evidence of a change in any of the physiological parameters when a male was exposed to either a castrate male or a female, a rapid increase occurred in heart rate and plasma concentrations of cortisol, glucose and catecholamine when the donor was a dominant male from the same or a different social group.     

NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF THE TRANSPORT OF VORTEX RINGS IN AN INITIALLY STRATIFIED FLUID

A numerical study of the formation and transport of vortex rings in a cylindrical tank initially occupied by a thermally stratified fluid is presented. A control-volume based finite-difference technique (Patankar's SIMPLER method) is used. The formation of a vortex ring was simulated by injecting a quantity of a fluid through a tube centrally located near the free surface. Initially, the fluid in the tank was stably thermally stratified, with a low density in the upper half and higher density in the lower half. Buoyancy effects were considered. Modelling aspects are discussed and the formation and transport of a vortex ring in the stratified fluid as well as the resulting mixing characteristics are presented.     

Daily variations of the biosynthesis and composition of fatty acids in rats fed on complete and fat-free diets

This report describes the daily changes in fatty acid composition and fatty acid desaturation in rats feeding on a complete diet and a fat-free diet successively. Rats on a complete diet showed a good homeostasis in the percentage of fatty acid in plasma, with a possible palmitic acid rhythm, but the fat-free diet initiated an essential fatty acid-deficient pattern in a few hours. The light-dark period in animals feeding on a complete diet motivates a feeding rhythm that causes changes in linoleic and arachidonic acids in the whole liver and microsomes that are related to Δ6 and Δ5 desaturase activities. The patterns of Δ6 and Δ5 desaturase changes were different. Linoleic acid intake during the dark periods (complete diet feeding) caused a decrease of Δ6 desaturase activity and the activation of Δ5 desaturation that led to an increase of arachidonic acid biosynthesis. The feeding of a fat-free diet eliminated the rhythm observed in linoleic and arachidonic acid composition in the liver and changed the desaturase rhythms. The Δ9 desaturase activity in the liver also showed a daily rhythm in the complete-diet period that disappeared with the change to a fat-free diet, while the activity increased markedly. A negative correlation existed between the percentage of linoleic acid in the liver and the Δ9 desaturase activity. However, no correlation was found between Δ9 desaturase activity and the percentage of 16∶1 and 18∶1 in the complete-diet period.     

Thermal conductivity of polymer filled with carbon materials: Effect of conductive particle chains on thermal conductivity

Thermal and electric conductivities of polyethylene and poly(vinyl chloride) filled with carbon materials over a wide range are measured in order to study the effect of formed conductive particle chains on thermal conductivities of the composites. With increase of content of carbon particles, the amount of formed conductive chains exponentially increases and the conductive chains tend largely to increase thermal conductivity of a composite. Some models proposed to predict thermal conductivity of a composite in a two-phase system could not be applied to the system with high volume content of particles. In this study, a new thermal conduction model is proposed to correctly predict thermal conductivity of a composite which contains various amounts of particles ranging from a small content, to the region in which conductive chains largely effect a thermal conductivity of a composite. Thermal conductivity of a polymer filled with high volume content of particles largely decreased with a rise in temperature. This phenomenon can be referred to as a PTC phenomenon in thermal resistance.     

The behavior of a swarm of particles moving in a viscous fluid

A significant bulk flow is thought to occur if a part of the body of a suspension, which has a different density from the density of the remainder of the suspension, is large enough in space however slight the difference may be. As a typical case, the slow motion of a swarm of particles in a viscous fluid was studied both theoretically and experimentally. Under a certain condition, the suspended particles formed a drop of suspension, in which the suspended particles and fluid moved as one body in the same way. The falling velocity of a spherical swarm of particles, which was called a drop of suspension, was measured and compared with a new theoretical prediction presented in this paper.It may be also noted that the theoretical model may be applicable to the flow due to density difference by means of replacement of the continuous mass by the damped mass which is regarded as consisting of particles.     

Serum Lipoprotein(a) Levels are Greater in Female than Male Patients with Type-2 Diabetes

Women with diabetes are faced with a higher risk of dyslipidemia and cardiovascular disorders than men with diabetes. We aimed to study the role of gender and menopausal status in serum Lp(a) levels in patients with type 2 diabetes. We quantified serum Lp(a) levels in a group of 477 patients with type 2 diabetes (men, premenopausal and postmenopausal women with diabetes), as well as in 105 controls. We stratified the patients into two groups of low Lp(a) levels (Lp(a) <35 mg/dl) and elevated Lp(a) levels (Lp(a) >35 mg/dl). Patients with diabetes had higher serum Lp(a) levels than the controls. Serum Lp(a) levels was significantly higher in women with diabetes than men with diabetes. Lp(a) levels did not differ between male and females in the control group. Premenopausal and postmenopausal women with diabetes did not differ significantly in serum Lp(a) levels. The odds ratio of having a serum Lp(a) level higher than 35 was 5.85 in premenopausal women with diabetes, 5.08 in postmenopausal women with diabetes, 2.41 in men with diabetes and 1.9 in the women in the control group compared to the men in the control group, after adjustment for age and BMI. This observational study clearly indicated that serum Lp(a) levels were significantly higher in women and men with diabetes. The increase in women was independent of menopause. The level of serum Lp(a) had no correlation with lipid parameters in men or women.     

Structure of AB block copolymers with a polypeptide block: Effect of the chain conformation

The structure of AB copolymers with a polypeptide block has been studied by X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy, infrared spectroscopy, and circular dichroism. Copolymers with a polyvinyl block (polybutadiene or polystyrene) and a hydrophobic polypeptide block (polybenzyl-L-glutamate or polycarbobenzoxy-L-lysine) exhibit a lamellar structure in the dry state and in solution in dioxane or in different chlorinated solvents. This lamellar structure consists of plane, parallel, equidistant sheets. Each sheet results from the superposition of two layers: one formed by the polyvinyl chains in amore or less random coil conformation, the other formed by the polypeptide chains in an α-helix conformation, arranged in a hexagonal array and generally folded. Copolymers with a polyvinyl block and a hydrophilic polypeptide block (poly-Llysine or poly-L-glutamic acid) exhibit a larnellar structure in water solution and in the dry state. The difference between this lamellar structure and the preceding one consists in the conformation of the polypeptide chains: an intramolecular mixture of coiled chains, α-helices, and β chains. Copolymers with a polysaccharide block and a hydrophobic polypeptide block exhibit in DMSO solution and in the dry state a lamellar structure similar to that of copolymers with a polyvinyl block and a hydrophobic polypeptide block.     

Creep of oksalon fibres in aqueous sulfuric acid solutions

Conclusions Oksalon yarns do not display an accumulation of plastic deformations in sulfuric acid solutions in stretching in a creep regime, up to a concentration of about 80% by wt.The equilibrium reversible deformation which is reached under conditions of constant tension has a maximum at a sulfuric acid content in the solution of about 70%, and a minimum at 72–73%.The characteristic changes in deformation properties of yarns as a function of the sulfuric acid content of the stretching medium are explained by structural changes which occur in the polyoxadiazole.Stretching Oksalon yarns in a 75% sulfuric acid solution leads to a 25–30% rise in the strength of washed and dried yarnsTranslated from Khimicheskie Volokna, No. 6, pp. 34–36, November–December, 1984.