The electrochemistry of VS2 in molten NaAlCl4 has been investigated in relation to its usefulness as a reversible positive electrode for sodium batteries operating in the moderate temperature range of 160–200°C. VS2 reacted with NaAlCl4 during early stages of cell cycling, and became VS2Cl showing a reversible capacity of 2.8 electrons/vanadium. The electrochemistry of mixtures of VCl3 and S in molten NaAlCl4 showed similarities to that of VS2Cl. The VSxCly cathodes obtained via the two different routes exhibited excellent rechargeability as evidenced by the long-term cycling behavior of cells of the configuration, Na(l)/β″-Al2O3/NaAlCl4(l), cathode material. When NbS2Cl2 was used as the cathode material it underwent a structural change in the first cycle to form what appeared to be NbS2Cl2, the Nb analog of VSxCly. The structurally modified niobium sulfur chloride cathode exhibited excellent rechargeability. 相似文献
Commercial processing of cottonseed requires hexane to extract and recover edible oil. Gossypol and aflatoxin are not removed
from extracted meals. A bench-top extraction process with 95% (vol/vol) aqueous ethanol (EtOH) solvent has been developed
that extracts all three of the above materials with a much less volatile solvent. In this process, cottonseed is pretreated
and extracted with ambient 95% EtOH to remove gossypol and then extracted with hot 95% EtOH to extract oil and aflatoxin.
Membranes and adsorption columns are used to purify the various extract streams, so that they can be recycled directly. A
representative extracted meal contained a total gossypol content of 0.47% (a 70% reduction) and 3 ppb aflatoxin (a 95% reduction).
Residual oil content was approximately 2%. Although the process is technically feasible, it is presently not economical unless
a mill has a continual, serious aflatoxin contamination problem. However, if a plant cannot meet the hexane emission standards
under the Clean Air Act of 1990, this process could provide a safer solvent that may expand the use and increase the value
of cottonseed meal as a feed for nonruminants.
Presented in part at the AOCS annual meeting, Toronto, Canada, May 1992. 相似文献
Cocoa butter-like fat was prepared from completely hydrogenated cottonseed and olive oils by enzymatic interesterification.
The optimum reaction time to produce the major-component of cocoa butter, 1(3)-palmitoyl-3(1)-stearoyl-2-monoolein (POS),
was 4 hr. The cocoa butter-like fat was isolated from the reaction mixture by two filtration steps. The yield of cocoa butter-like
fat was 19%, based on the weight of the original oils. Chromatographic analysis of the product by reversephase high-performance
liquid chromatography (HPLC) has shown it contains triglyceride components similar to those of cocoa butter, but that it has
slightly more diglycerides. The melting point of this product, as measured by a differential scanning calorimeter, is 39°C,
which compares well to the 36°C melting point of natural cocoa butter.
Presented in part at the AOCS meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1989. 相似文献
The crystal state binding of sodium ditbionite to deoxyhemoglobinis reported. Dithionite has been used extensively to deoxygenatehemoglobin and myoglobin and there has been considerable interestamong users of dithionite about its effect on protein structureand binding site(s). We have determined that dithionite bindsto deoxygenated hemoglobin crystals at the interface of twomolecules in the crystal lattice. Specific residues involvedin hydrogen bonds or salt interactions with dithionite includeHisll6 and Hisll7 of the ft subunit and Lysl6 of the ß2subunit of the adjacent hemoglobin molecule. No binding wasobserved at the symmetry related Hisll6 and 117 ß1 residues.We have shown that dithionite does not affect the native hemoglobinstructure or the binding of several allosteric inhibitors tohemoglobin and can be used to mount T state crystals in theair 相似文献
The impedance rise that results from the accelerated aging of high-power lithium-ion cells containing LiNi0.8Co0.15Al0.05O2-based positive and graphite-based negative electrodes is dominated by contributions from the positive electrode. Data from various diagnostic experiments have indicated that a general degradation of the ionic pathway, apparently caused by surface film formation on the oxide particles, produces the positive electrode interface rise. One mechanistic hypothesis postulates that these surface films are components of the negative electrode solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) layer that migrate through the electrolyte and separator and subsequently coat the positive electrode. This hypothesis is examined in this article by subjecting cells with LiNi0.8Co0.15Al0.05O2-based positive and Li4/3Ti5/3O4-based negative electrodes to accelerated aging. The impedance rise in these cells was observed to be almost entirely from the positive electrode. Because reduction products are not expected on the 1.55 V Li4/3Ti5/3O4 electrode, the positive electrode impedance cannot be attributed to the migration of SEI-type fragments from the negative electrode. It follows then that the impedance rise results from mechanisms that are “intrinsic” to the positive electrode. 相似文献
The finite element method was used in this study to investigate cutoff walls and downstream filters to control seepage, the exit hydraulic gradient, and uplift forces for dams. Experimental data was used for validating the numerical modelling. The effective parameters are the length of filter and its distance downstream from the dam, the depth of the cutoff walls, the upstream dam head, and the thickness of alluvial foundation. The results show that by increasing filter length, the exit hydraulic gradient, uplift force, and seepage are reduced. The optimum relative length of the filter is L/H?=?0.028 which results in a decrease of about 65% in the exit hydraulic gradient, a 35% decrease in seepage and 10% reduction in the uplift force at the upstream foundation and a 60% decrease in the uplift force at the downstream foundation. Increase of cutoff wall depth reduces the exit hydraulic gradient, uplift force, and seepage. Using two cutoff walls both upstream and downstream of the dam decreases seepage, hydraulic gradient, and uplift force 132%, 450% and 11% respectively. However, using an upstream cutoff and downstream filter decreases seepage, hydraulic gradient, and uplift force by 180%, 490%, and 119% respectively. Thus, based on this study, recommendations for suitable combinations of upstream cutoff and downstream filter are provided.
In order to examine the effects of the fluid type as the electrolyte solvent on the efficiency of electrokinetic energy conversion, a comparative numerical study among three different fluid types of a transient electrokinetic flow through a single circular finite length microchannel has been conducted. The system was initially at an equilibrium non-flow state, and a step change in flow was applied and the calculation proceeding until steady state was achieved. The analysis was based on non-dimensional transport governing equations that were scaled using Debye length as the characteristic length scale and diffusion time as characteristic time scale. The fluid types considered were shear thinning, Newtonian, and shear thickening, and a power law modeled them with the scaled flow behavior index having values of 0.2, 1.0, and 1.8. In order to isolate the electrokinetic effects of the different relationships between the shear strain rate and shear stress, the flow consistency index was adjusted so that in all the cases the flow rate and total pressure drop matched that of water at 25 °C. All other fluid and interfacial properties were the same for all cases. The key observational difference between the various fluid types was that their different axial velocity profile acted on essential the same free charge density profiles. Consequently, the convection current density (i.e., the radial distribution of charge being advected along the channel) was strongly affected by the fluid type. Integration of this quantity to calculate the convection current showed that for the particular fluid properties chosen the shear thinning fluid was 20 % higher than the Newtonian fluid, while the shear thickening fluid was only 4 % lower than the Newtonian fluid. Combined with the effects, these different currents have on the streaming potential, the shear thinning fluid was 50 % more effective in converting flow work to electrical work than the Newtonian fluid, while the shear thickening fluid was only 16 % lower than the Newtonian fluid. 相似文献
Feasible clinical application of any automated segmenting methodology demands more than just accuracy. Amendment to the automated delineation is necessary when the algorithm fails, however, integrated solution to such a scenario is largely absent in literature. Hence in this survey we devised an architecture that does both the automated and interactive lung field localizations using a single segmenting engine—random walker algorithm—so that intuitive amendment is only necessary when the automated generated delineation is unsatisfactory. The algorithm proceeds by first extracting 18 intensity profiles running horizontally, each of them equally spacing apart, and in each intensity profile three extreme points denoting the two lungs and the esophagus are determined through profile matching. This done, the algorithm removes profiles that do not intersect with the lung, and the rest of the extreme points are plugged into random walker algorithm to perform segmentation. The achieved accuracy in localization by the above was 0.8875 in terms of overlap measure (the maximum value for this parameter is 1) over 341 images. In the case where unsatisfactory delineation prompts amendment necessary, the user can interactively segment the lung by just a shift on some of the previous-determined points to the desired locations, and random walker algorithm is run again with the amended input. By such a fusion, the benefits of both the automated and interactive segmentation are shared in a single architecture. 相似文献