Recycling von marinen Sekundärrohstoffen

As a waste product, oyster shells pose a major environmental pollution problem and the reuse of the material is becoming increasingly important. Since the comminution process in the recycling of secondary raw materials defines the properties of the material, oyster shells were grinded using a planetary ball mill and an impact mill and the fractions obtained were analyzed in terms of size and shape and compared with each other. A comminuted material from the impact mill was used for a series of wetting experiments, which helped to demonstrate the surface free energy of the material.     

Topology optimization for crashworthiness of thin-walled structures under axial impact using hybrid cellular automata

Although topology optimization is well established in most engineering fields, it is still in its infancy concerning highly non-linear structural applications like vehicular crashworthiness. One of the approaches recently proposed and based on Hybrid Cellular Automata is modified here such that it can be applied for the first time to thin-walled structures. Classical methods based on voxel techniques, i.e., on solid three-dimensional volume elements, cannot derive structures made from thin metal sheets where the main energy absorption mode is related to plastic buckling, folding and failure. Because the main components of car structures are made from such thin-walled beams and panels, a special approach using SFE CONCEPT was developed, which is presented in this paper.     

Wann sind Lieferaufträge profitabel?

The paper aims to optimize the final part of a firm’s value chain with regard to attended last-mile deliveries. It is assumed that to be profitable, e-commerce businesses need to maximize the overall value of fulfilled orders (rather than their number), while also limiting costs of delivery. To do so, it is essential to decide which delivery requests to accept and which time windows to offer to which consumers. This is especially relevant for attended deliveries, as delivery fees usually cannot fully compensate costs of delivery given tight delivery time windows. The literature review shows that existing order acceptance techniques often ignore either the order value or the expected costs of delivery. The paper presents an iterative solution approach: after calculating an approximate transport capacity based on forecasted are accepted or rejected expected delivery requests and a cost-minimizing routing, actual delivery requests aiming to maximize the overall value of orders given the computed transport capacity. With the final set of accepted requests, the routing solution is updated to minimize costs of delivery. The presented solution approach combines well-known methods from revenue management and time-dependent vehicle routing. In a computational study for a German metropolitan area, the potential and the limits of value-based demand fulfillment as well as its sensitivity regarding forecast accuracy and demand composition are investigated.     

Formation of Mixed Bond‐Angle Linkages in Zinc Boromolybdate Glasses

The short and medium range structure of glassy MoO₃–ZnO–B₂O₃ has been studied by neutron diffraction and reverse Monte Carlo simulation. The partial atomic pair correlation functions and coordination numbers are presented that are not yet reported for this system. We have established that the first neighbor distances do not depend on concentration within limit of error, the actual values are r_B‐O = 1.38 Å, r_Mo‐O = 1.72 Å, and r_Zn‐O = 1.97 Å. It is found that ZnO takes part in the glassy structure as network former, as ZnO₄ tetrahedral are linked both to MoO₄ and to BO₃ and BO₄ groups. It is revealed that BO₄/BO₃ increases with increasing B₂O₃ content. We have found that only small amount of boroxol ring is present, BO₃ and BO₄ groups are organized into superstructure units, and a small part is in isolated BO₃ triangles. The BO₃ and BO₄ units are linked to MoO₄ or ZnO₄ forming mixed ^[4]Mo‐O‐^[3]B, ^[4]Mo‐O‐^[4]B, ^[4]Mo‐O‐^[4]Zn, ^[3]B‐O‐^[4]Zn, ^[4]B‐O‐^[4]Zn bond linkages.     

Ex vivo and in vivo Evaluation of [18F]PR04.MZ in Rodents: A Selective Dopamine Transporter Imaging Agent

N‐4‐Fluorobut‐2‐yn‐1‐yl‐2β‐carbomethoxy‐3β‐phenyltropane (PR04.MZ) has been developed as dopamine transporter (DAT) ligand for molecular imaging. It contains a terminally fluorinated, conformationally constrained nitrogen substituent that is well suited for the introduction of fluorine‐18. The present report describes the pharmacological characterisation of [¹⁸F]PR04.MZ. The ligand shows an IC₅₀ value of 2 nM against human DAT, whereas the IC₅₀ value against human serotonin transporter and human noradrenalin transporter are lower (110 nM and 22 nM , respectively). Furthermore, its ex vivo organ distribution, its binding profile in the rat brain and reversibility of binding were examined. A μPET study illuminates a fast kinetic profile and specific binding to rat DAT.