COMPUTER SIMULATION OF HYDRODEMETALLATION IN FIXED-BED REACTORS

An isothermal model for hydrodemetallation (HDM) of crude oils in catalytic fixed-bed reactors is proposed. This model involves a consecutive reaction mechanism, which is capable of accounting for particle deposit profiles with interior maxima. Consistent with the fact that HDM catalysts are conglomerates formed by precipitation, the porous catalyst itself is modeled as randomly overlapping spheres of equal size. The metal is deposited as growing metal sulfide crystallites on the inner surface of the catalyst. These crystallites originate from a certain number of randomly scattered nuclei and increase in size as the deposition proceeds. The random sphere model for the catalyst and the deposit provides the changes in the catalyst pore structure—local porosity and surface area.

The mass transport within the domain of the particle is due to restricted liquid diffusion, since the diameter of the metal bearing compound (porphyrin) and the intermediate are comparable to the pore size. The diffusion restrictions taken into account are the enhanced drag imposed on a molecule by adjacent pore walls and steric partitioning.

Since the deposition process is much slower than diffusion and reaction, the pseudo-steady-state assumption can be justified. The equations of conservation for mass are solved by orthogonal collocation on finite elements. Based on this solution technique a computer simulation program of HDM is designed that allows two modes of operation: constant temperature and constant conversion. The simulation program “SIMULA” is highly flexible with regard to reaction kinetics, catalyst structure, reactor design, and operating conditions. In comparison to a base case with uniform activity, the effect of intraparticle (radial) and bed (axial) activity profiles on the conversion rate is discussed. For the case investigated, a radial distribution of activity higher at the center of the particle than at the edge can increase catalyst life by 25%, but axial distribution was less successful.     

荧光染料用于涤纶织物染色的荧光性能研究

在实验条件下，染色织物的荧光反射率随荧光染料的浓度增加而增加，超过一定浓度后，有下降趋势；在pH=5左右，荧光反射率最高；荧光增白剂会提高染色织物的荧光反射率，在荧光黄2GFL中，当荧光增白剂的浓度由0.1％增加到5％时，荧光反射率由8．43增加至18．59，而对非荧光染料只有增艳的作用，不产生荧光。荧光染料染色织物的荧光反射率随着加入非荧光染料量的增加而减弱。     

Propylene epoxidation in a microreactor with electric heating

Gas phase propylene epoxidation on gold catalysts has attracted wide attention from industry and academia due to its high selectivity. However, it suffers from low propylene conversion and rapid catalyst deactivation. Experiments showed that propylene conversion could be increased by raising H₂, O₂, or C₃H₆ concentration in the feed, but the feed compositions were within the explosion limit. It was also shown that the activity of the used catalyst could be fully recovered, but the regeneration temperature was 280 °C, much higher than that for reaction. Therefore a microchannel reactor was devised to suppress explosion and was constructed with Fecralloy, to raise the temperature rapidly for catalyst regeneration by electric heating. In two minutes the temperature of the reactor could be raised from 50 to 300 °C. Catalysts were coated on the alloy belt by dip coating, and the performance of the reactor was evaluated under different operating conditions. Results showed that in the microreactor the overall reaction rate was controlled mainly by the intrinsic reaction rate, and also influenced by film diffusion to a certain extent. The deactivated catalyst was regenerated in the microchannel reactor and the activity was fully recovered.     

Relationship of threshold diameter and Darcean permeability in unconsolidated porous structures

Experiment was conducted on the threshold pressure for atmospheric air through unconsolidated narrow size distributed mini sphere and sand particles at low flow rates. The threshold diameter calculated from measured threshold pressure showed that it does not follow the traditional similarity theory. This is consistent with our experiment on accurate permeability measurement, and can be explained as a result of gas slip flow within such micro pore structure. Our current work tend to find the method to predict the permeability-threshold pressure relationship for unconsolidated porous structures.     

西门子S7系列PLC在自控系统中的应用

阐述了S7—400H应用特点使用中存在的问题、解决方案。     

Reaction kinetics study of asymmetric polymer-polymer interface

In this study, the reaction kinetics of asymmetric polymer-polymer interface was experimentally and theoretically studied. A new rheological method correlating the change of rheological property of reactive system with the conversion of the in situ formed copolymers was applied to study the reaction kinetics of PBT/epoxy reactive system. Then, the new method was proved to be useful by comparing its results with that obtained from the conventional endgroup determination method. Moreover, the conversion of PBT/epoxy reactive system from rheological method could be well fitted by the numerical analysis, from which the kinetic constant and the diffusion constant of epoxy in PBT could be determined simultaneously.     

EVAPORATION FROM POROUS MEDIA: A CAPILLARY MODEL OF A PENETRATING FRONT

A capillary tube model was solved to investigate the influence of mass transfer coefficient, temperature, and front depth on the evaporation rate during the penetrating-front period of water-filled porous media dried in hot air. The results show that increasing the flow rate of the drying air is not so efficient as increasing the sample temperature. Due to attenuating diffusion rate, the rate of liquid front migration decreases with time. The calculations explain the falling rate period behavior of sandstone heated at 121°C. Trends depicted by the model may be useful for the design of heating conditions for drying processes.     

纳米SiO_2粒子在环氧树脂中的分散工艺研究

研究了纳米SiO2在环氧树脂中的均匀分散工艺,探讨了超声波振荡和超声波分散时间对纳米SiO2/EP复合材料力学性能的影响,确定了最佳分散工艺。SEM表明,采用高剪切与超声波复合分散工艺比高剪切工艺的分散效果好;测试了复合材料的力学性能,进一步证明纳米SiO2具有增韧增强作用。     

气体控制参数对气体辅助成型产品翘曲的影响

从气体辅助注射成型工艺的角度探讨了气体的延迟时间和第一段压力这两个关键的参数对槽的影响进而对产品翘曲变形的影响，结果表明：虽然通过使用气体辅助注射成型技术能改善产品变形，但并不能完全消除变形；造成产品变形的原因和机理十分复杂，只有进行从设计到工艺的全方位考察才能有效的控制变形，气体手指效应也是造成产品变形的一个重要因素，工艺上可以通过调整延迟时间和气体压力来减小产品的变形量。     

Effects of soaking soybeans in dilute acids on biologically active components

Soaking soybeans in dilute acids affected activities of lipoxygenase, trypsin inhibitor and urease. Effects of soaking time, acid concentration and soaking temperature were investigated. Lipoxygenase activity was completely eliminated by soaking in 0.3 M HC1 at either 23°C or 40°C for 8 hr. Less than 50% trypsin inhibitor remained and urease was inactivated to an acceptable level (0.04 ΔpH).