用无形孔模型研究影响煤粉燃烧的因素

用一种新的孔隙结构模型──无形孔模型来研究影响煤粉燃烧的因素。对该模型进行数值计算，跟踪燃尽过程中温度、氧浓度、燃烧速率等随时间的变化，得到有关曲线。定量探讨整个煤粒内部的燃烧过程。研究挥发分析出和燃烧对煤粉燃烧过程的影响。研究孔隙率、比表面积、粒径等因素对煤粉着火、燃尽的影响。结果表明孔隙率对燃尽的影响较大，而比表面对着火的影响较大。     

Effect of supercritical carbon dioxide on polystyrene extrusion

A study on the extrusion of polystyrene was carried out using supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO₂) as foaming agent. scCO₂ modifies the rheological properties of the material in the barrel of the extruder and acts as a blowing agent during the relaxation at the passage through the die. For experiments, a single-screw extruder was modified to be able to inject scCO₂ within the extruded material. The effect of operating parameters on material porosity was studied. Samples were characterized by using water-pycnometry, mercury-porosimetry and scanning electron microscopy. Polystyrene with expansion rate about 15–25% was manufactured. A rapid cooling just downstream the die is important to solidify the structure. The die temperature allows the control of the porosity structure. CO₂ concentration shows no significant influence.     

Extrusion of poly(ether imide) foams using pressurized CO2: Effects of imposition of supercritical conditions and nanosilica modifiers

Foams of an engineering plastic, poly(ether imide), were extruded using a single screw extruder employing pressurized CO₂ as the blowing agent. The porosity, pore size distributions, and the density of the foams were especially affected by the pressure drop, the pressure loss rate, and temperature at the die. Significant increases in porosity and pore size and corresponding decreases in density were observed when the pressure imposed on CO₂ became greater than the critical pressure values of CO₂ (i.e., the temperature was always greater than the critical temperature of the CO₂ in the extruder and the die). The viscoelastic material functions of the extruded foams depended especially on the density of the foam, with the elastic modulus increasing with density. The incorporation of nanosilica particles in the 0.08–0.6% by weight range increased only the density of the foam and did not provide any benefits in controlling of the nucleation rate and the pore size distribution, presumably due to their poor dispersibility and agglomerated state in the single screw extruder. POLYM. ENG. SCI., 54:2064–2074, 2014. © 2013 Society of Plastics Engineers     

FACTORS AFFECTING THE RESISTANCE OF SILICA REFRACTORIES TO ABRASION1

The resistance to abrasion is tested by grinding a groove in the surface of the refractory by means of a carborundum wheel with suitable mounting. Other methods used in the tests are discussed. Factors affecting resistance of silica brick to abrasion are porosity and degree of burn. Porosity is affected by grind, quality of ganister, per cent lime and workmanship. Data are given showing a rough relation between length of groove, porosity and burn.     

Formation of porosity and change in binder pitch properties during thermal treatment of green carbon materials

The formation of porosity during heat treatment of an extruded mixture of coke particles and a binder pitch was investigated using image analysis of polished cross-sections of shaped samples. The porosity due to pitch devolatilisation takes place during a rather narrow interval of temperature when the sample is heated at 12 K/hour. Only a small fraction of pores is formed when the shaped sample is submitted to an intermediate isothermal step which allows the departure of volatile compounds from the binder. Physico-chemical changes occurring in the pitch during pyrolysis were followed by measuring glass transition temperature in relationship with weight loss. The results indicate that in sufficiently slow heating conditions, low molecular compounds essentially diffuse through the fluid pitch and evaporate at the external surface of the sample during pyrolysis. As a result, no marked porosity is formed during baking. In contrast, a high heating rate allows low molecular mass compounds to accumulate inside the sample and the formation of a significant porosity is due to the evaporation inside the shaped sample of accumulated low molecular mass compounds.     

Porosity–Strength Correlations in Ceramic Raschig Ring: Effects of Sintering Temperature and Water Content

The relationship between compressive strength and porosity of extruded ceramic Raschig ring has been investigated. First, the experiments have been carried out at different soaking temperatures to obtain optimum condition, reaching minimum total porosity and maximum strength. Second, in order to compare the effect of powder moisture on strength, the specimens were extruded with different water content. The dried specimens were sintered at optimum temperature according to first step result. In conclusion the maximum strength was achieved when the ceramic packings were shaped by 20–25 wt% water content and sintered at 1200°C.     

Elastic Properties of Model Porous Ceramics

The finite-element method (FEM) is used to study the influence of porosity and pore shape on the elastic properties of model porous ceramics. Young's modulus of each model is practically independent of the solid Poisson's ratio. At a sufficiently high porosity, Poisson's ratio of the porous models converges to a fixed value independent of the solid Poisson's ratio. Young's modulus of the models is in good agreement with experimental data. We provide simple formulas that can be used to predict the elastic properties of ceramics and allow the accurate interpretation of empirical property–porosity relations in terms of pore shape and structure.     

Noncatalytic coal char gasification

A simple particle model is used to interpret differential thermogravimetric data taken on the gasification of coal/char with CO₂, H₂ and H₂O. The model takes into account the major physical factors which influence the gasification rate, viz., the changing magnitudes of surface area, porosity, activation energy and effective diffusivity during gasification. Specific reaction rate constants based on surface area and activation energies are extracted from the data. Practical criteria for regimes of reaction rate and diffusion control and for particle isothermality are developed. For isothermal particles at low classical Thiele moduli, the data can be correlated with only one parameter, which has a simple physical interpretation.     

An investigation of the porosity of carbons prepared by constant rate activation in air

Nutshell carbon was activated in air/N₂ mixtures using controlled rate (CR) methods and the porosity characteristics compared with carbons activated conventionally in CO₂ at 800 °C to the same degree of burn off. The advantages of CR activation in air include the use of lower temperatures and the avoidance of thermal runaway. It was also possible to prepare activated carbons with significant microporosity, showing that excessive external burn off was prevented. In the CR experiments, the rate of evolution of CO₂ was controlled and constrained at a set level, either by altering the furnace temperature or the concentration of air in the activating gas. Although the highest micropore volumes (0.4 cm³ g⁻¹) were obtained at 40% burn off with the conventional method, at 20% burn off, the CR method using air concentration to control CO₂ evolution yielded carbons with similar micropore volumes (0.2 cm³ g⁻¹) to those activated conventionally.     

Simple shear plastic deformation behavior of polycarbonate plate due to the equal channel angular extrusion process. I: Finite element methods modeling

Simple shear plastic deformation behavior of polycarbonate (PC) plates due to the novel equal channel angular extrusion (ECAE) process is modeled using a commercial finite element methods (FEM) package. The true stress and true strain contour plots as well as the strain rate variation across the PC plate during the ECAE process are analyzed. The FEM results correlate well with the experimental findings. The present study indicates that the novel ECAE process is effective in producing a high degree of simple shear plastic deformation across the extruded polycarbonate plate. The high degree of plastic deformation due to ECAE induces a high level of nearly uniform molecular orientation across the extruded PC plate. As a result, significantly improved physical and mechanical properties in PC are expected. The simple shear plastic deformation behavior of PC plate, as a function of extrusion rate and temperature, is investigated. The significance of the ECAE process for fabricating polymer parts is also discussed.     

Influence of porosity on the mechanical properties of microporous β-TCP bioceramics by usual and instrumented Vickers microindentation

Beta-tricalcium phosphate [Ca₃(PO₄)₂, β-TCP] is a bioresorbable material showing an excellent biocompatibility. However, sintering of β-TCP is difficult and the material presents poor mechanical strength and a low resistance to crack-growth propagation. In this study, influence of the porosity on the hardness and the elastic modulus is studied by means of usual and instrumented microindentation tests. Nevertheless, indentation diagonals measurement by optical observations is not accurate due to the crack formation around the residual indent. That is why instrumented indentation test which allows deducing the hardness and the bulk modulus from the load-depth curve analysis is used as an alternative method. The corresponding hardness number can be calculated by using the maximum indentation depth (Martens Hardness) or the contact depth determined by Oliver and Pharr's method (Contact Hardness). But in order to give representative values when comparing classical and instrumented hardness measurements, Martens hardness is preferred because its value can be directly related to the value of the Vickers hardness number by simple geometrical considerations.In this work, bioceramics were produced by conventional sintering of β-TCP powders synthesized by aqueous precipitation. Different process conditions were chosen to obtain microporous ceramics with a porosity rate between 0 and 14% in volume. As main results, the elastic modulus is found decreasing between 166 GPa and 108 GPa and the hardness number from 4.4 GPa to 2.2 GPa when increasing the porosity rate. A model connecting mechanical properties to porosity rate and grain arrangement is validated for the elastic modulus whereas deviation is observed for the hardness number. However, we propose an original approach where the relative variation of the two mechanical properties can be expressed with a unique relation as a function of the porosity volume fraction.     

Creep, Strength, Expansion, and Elastic Moduli of Sintered BeO As a Function of Grain Size, Porosity, and Grain Orientation

Physical properties are presented for extruded and sintered BeO from 25° to 1400° C as a function of porosity (0 to 15%), grain size (5 to 100μ), and grain orientation (random to 80% preferred). The elastic constants and linear thermal expansion are sensitive to the degree of preferred grain orientation. Measurements on polycrystalline specimens permitted calculation of the anisotropy in single crystals of BeO for these properties. Modulus of rupture data are treated in terms of the Knudsen equation, and compressive creep data have been used to estimate the diffusion coefficient controlling strain rate at 1200°C.     

The correlation between porosity characteristics and the crystallographic texture in extruded stabilized aluminium titanate for diesel particulate filter applications

Porous ceramic diesel particulate filters (DPFs) are extruded products that possess macroscopic anisotropic mechanical and thermal properties. This anisotropy is caused by both morphological features (mostly the orientation of porosity) and crystallographic texture. We systematically studied those two aspects in two aluminum titanate ceramic materials of different porosity using mercury porosimetry, gas adsorption, electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and X-ray refraction radiography. We found that a lower porosity content implies a larger isotropy of both the crystal texture and the porosity orientation. We also found that, analogous to cordierite, crystallites do align with their axis of negative thermal expansion along the extrusion direction. However, unlike what found for cordierite, the aluminium titanate crystallite form is such that a more pronounced (0 0 2) texture along the extrusion direction implies porosity aligned perpendicular to it.     

新型液排渣燃烧器内燃烧特性的数值模拟

通过数值模拟的方式,研究了新型液排渣燃烧器在不同过量空气系数下的速度、温度以及组分浓度的分布情况.结果表明,在较小的过量空气系数(α=0.7,0.8)时,煤的燃尽情况较差;α≥1.0时,煤粉燃烧更完全,但却不利于氮氧化物的控制.采用分级燃烧的方式,控制燃烧器内为欠氧燃烧(取α=0.9)以降低局部氧浓度,既能达到液态排渣要求,又可抑制NOx的生成,并在高温烟气进入炉膛降温之后再补充燃尽风,使得可燃成分在炉膛内再次燃烧,提高燃尽率.通过模拟与实验相结合的方式,对燃烧器进行三种不同负荷下的热态实验研究,该燃烧器负荷适应性好,模拟结果与实验结果相吻合.     

UV curing-assisted 3D plotting of ceramic feedstock containing thermo-regulated phase-separable,photocurable vehicle for dual-scale porosity structure

We propose a novel approach for manufacturing dual-scale porosity alumina structures by UV curing-assisted 3D plotting of a specially formulated alumina feedstock using a thermo-regulated phase separable, photocurable camphene/triethylene glycol dimethacrylate (TEGDMA) vehicle. In particular, 3D plotting process was conducted at - 5 °C, and thus an alumina suspension prepared using liquid camphene/TEGDMA at room temperature could undergo phase separation, resulting in camphene crystals surrounded by walls comprised of liquid photopolymer enclosing alumina particles. To enhance the shape retention ability of extruded filaments, polystyrene (PS) polymer was used as the tackifier. The phase-separated feedrod could be extruded favorably through a nozzle and rapidly photopolymerized by UV light during the 3D plotting process. Three-dimensionally interconnected macropores were tightly constructed, which were separated by microporous alumina filaments, where micropores were created by the removal of camphene crystals via freeze-dying. The macroporosity of porous alumina ceramics was controlled by adjusting the distance between deposited filaments, while their microporosity was kept constant, leading to tightly tailored overall porosity and mechanical properties.     

Gas permeability and mechanical properties of porous alumina ceramics with unidirectionally aligned pores

Porous alumina ceramics having unidirectionally aligned cylindrical pores were prepared by extrusion method and compared with porous ceramics having randomly distributed pores prepared by conventional method, and their gas permeability and mechanical properties were investigated. SEM micrographs of the porous alumina ceramics prepared by the extrusion method using nylon fibers as the pore former showed excellent orientation of cylindrical pores. The bending strength and Weibull modulus of the extruded porous alumina ceramics with 39% porosity were 156 MPa and 17, respectively. These mechanical properties of extruded samples were higher than those of the conventional porous alumina ceramics. The strength decreased from 156 to 106 MPa with increasing pore size from 8.5 to 38 μm. The gas permeability of the extrusion samples is higher than that of the conventional samples and increased with increasing of porosity and pore size.     

Properties and processing characteristics of open-celled foams produced by leaching NaCl from high density polyethylene

The properties and processing characteristics of open-celled foams produced by leaching small NaCl particles from high density polyethylene has been investigated. In a random dispersion of salt particles in the polymer matrix a minimum volume loading of 40 percent was required to produce an open-celled foam. The time required to remove this quantity of salt with 50°C water was 100 min. The maximum porosity of the foam is limited to the maximum packing fraction of the salt. For randomly dispersed isotropic particles the maximum packing fraction is approximately 0.64. Because the composite rapidly loses melt strength as the filler content nears the maximum packing fraction, the practical upper limit of extruded foam porosity is approximately 0.60.     

The influence of sample dimension on the critical oxygen index of thin polypropylene films

This investigation examines the influence of sample dimensions on the Critical Oxygen Index, as determined on a Stanton Redcoft Hot Flammability Test Apparatus instrument. The materials used were polypropylene films in a range of thicknesses from 40 μm up to 300 μm and polymethylmethacrylate of 1600 μm thickness. Both the Critical Oxygen Index and the rate of spared of burn in the samples were determined. It is concluded that, for polypropylene, the sample dimensions were important in determining the Critical Oxygen Index and the rate of spread of burn and, further, that the ratio of the volume of material burned in unit time to the volume flow of oxygen in the same time remains constant, the value of the constant being 2.5 × 10 ^?4. For polymethlmethacrylate, in confirmation of the work of Fenimore and Jones, the sample dimensions were unimportant when investigating the Critical Oxygen Index, although the rate of burn by volume showed a significant increase with sample width. The volume ratio showed a corresponding increase.     

Gas release during clay firing and evolution of ceramic properties

Gas release, crystalline structure and ceramic properties were analysed during firing of clay raw materials and extruded bricks. Carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and methane emissions were measured during the firing cycle. Ammonia and sulphur dioxide were not observed within the detection limits. The evolution of crystalline phases, open porosity, volumetric shrinkage, rupture tension and apparent density were correlated to the amount of gases produced at different temperatures, ranging from 300 to 1200 °C. These results can be applied for optimising the production process.