膨润土与碱反应的初步研究

将经焙烧与不经焙烧的膨润土与氢氧化钠反应，考察了反应时间和氢氧化钠浓度对膨润土中硅铝浸出的影响. 测定了不同焙烧温度和焙烧时间条件下膨润土与碳酸钠固相反应生成物中可溶性硅铝的含量，并通过热重分析实验对此固相反应进行了研究. 结果表明：接近碳酸钠熔点时固相反应最剧烈，膨润土中63.85%的SiO2和96.78%的Al2O3可被浸出转变为水溶性物质.     

图尔古松水电站泄洪深孔弧形闸门设计及融冰措施

图尔古松水电站位于东哈萨克斯坦州济良诺夫斯克西北30 km处,其深孔弧形闸门除承受高水头的静水压力、地震动水压力,还需考虑泥沙淤积以及温度变化的影响。弧形闸门是电站泄洪、排砂的主要控制设备,根据其受力与止水特点及环境特性,弧门设计采用主横框架结构,直支臂支撑,顶止水为P型和转铰止水双重水封,设计为温度-51~40℃,除考虑材料热胀冷缩的影响,还设计了有效的融冰措施,可满足挡水、运行和检修要求。     

Vinyl chloride formation from the thermal degradation of poly(vinyl chloride)

The volatile products from the thermal degradation of poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) resins and compounds are shown to contain trace amounts of vinyl chloride. Data presented show the effect of temperature and resin type on the amount of vinyl chloride formed. At the maximum temperatures involved in PVC processing which may reach 210°C, vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) evolution amounts to less than 1 ppm (resin basis). A technique employing a thermogravimetric balance and charcoal adsorption of volatiles is described for studying thermal degradation of PVC. The volatiles are analyzed for vinyl chloride by gas chromatography. Peak identity was confirmed by mass spectrometry.     

Flaking and extrusion as mechanical treatments for enzyme-assisted aqueous extraction of oil from soybeans

Flaking and extruding dehulled soybeans were evaluated as a means of enhancing oil extraction efficiency during enzyme-assisted aqueous processing of soybeans. Cellulase, protease, and their combination were evaluated for effectiveness in achieving high oil extraction recovery from extruded flakes. Aqueous extraction of extruded full-fat soy flakes gave 68% recovery of the total available oil without using enzymes. A 0.5% wt/wt protease treatment after flaking and extruding dehulled soybeans increased oil extraction recovery to 88% of the total available oil. Flaking and extruding enhanced protease hydrolysis of proteins freeing more oil. Treating extruded flakes with cellulase, however, did not enhance oil extraction either alone or in combination with protease. Discrepancies in oil extraction recoveries were encountered when merely considering crude free fat because some oil became bound to denatured protein during extrusion and/or sample drying. Bound fat was unavailable for determination by using the hexane extraction method, but was accounted for by using the acid hydrolysis method for total oil determination. Oil extraction recovery from extruded soybean flakes was affected by oil determination methods, which was not the case for unextruded full-fat soy flour.     

Towards an Environmentally Acceptable Heterogeneous Catalytic Method of Producing Adipic Acid by the Oxidation of Hydrocarbons in Air

A survey is given of the catalytic methods potentially available for the production of adipic acid by the oxidation of readily available hydrocarbon precursors under environmentally benign conditions. Encouraging results are reported using H₂O₂ as oxidant and microporous FeAlPO-5 as catalyst at moderate temperatures.     

The Shot Heard Around the World Wide Web: Who Heard What Where About Osama bin Laden's Death

This study investigated what sources were relied on to find out about Osama bin Laden's death and whether perceptions of credibility and political party affiliation influenced these media choices. The most striking difference in media reliance for bin Laden news was that whatever sources Tea Partiers relied on and thought credible were those that Democrats did not rely on or see as credible. Despite the clamor about how quickly news flows through social network sites and Twitter, only about 5% of respondents first heard about bin Laden through these sources and a slightly larger percentage spread the news via these tools. Moreover, social network sites and Twitter were the least relied on about the aftermath of bin Laden's death.     

Self-repair ability of evolved self-assembling systems in cellular automata

Self-repairing systems are those that are able to reconfigure themselves following disruptions to bring them back into a defined normal state. In this paper we explore the self-repair ability of some cellular automata-like systems, which differ from classical cellular automata by the introduction of a local diffusion process inspired by chemical signalling processes in biological development. The update rules in these systems are evolved using genetic programming to self-assemble towards a target pattern. In particular, we demonstrate that once the update rules have been evolved for self-assembly, many of those update rules also provide a self-repair ability without any additional evolutionary process aimed specifically at self-repair.     

Multi-Wavelength vs. Binary Code Pattern Unwrapping in Fringe Projection Method

Phase extraction, phase unwrapping and phase to height conversion are consecutive steps within the fringe projection method for reconstruction of 3D objects. The procedure of determining discontinuities on the wrapped phase, resolving them and achieving the unwrapped phase is called phase unwrapping. A software system was developed that provides the ability to create many kinds of patterns with a verity of desirable properties suitable for different demands in fringe projection systems. In our previous work, an experimental study was reported based on a multi-wavelength unwrapping approach. In the following work, we implemented a new method called binary code pattern unwrapping that is based on time analysis. A comparison of the two unwrapping approaches in terms of resolution, quality, noise, depth accuracy, and computational cost is provided.     

Reaction of YBa2Cu3O7-δ Powder with NOx Gas in an Aerosol Reactor

Thermodynamic calculations predict, and experiments verify, that YBa₂Cu₃O₇-₈ (123) powder is unstable in the presence of NO_x-containing aerosol reactor exhaust gases at temperatures below about 600°C. Powders collected above the stability temperature are single-phase 123, while powders collected at lower temperature contain Ba(NO₃)₂ formed by reaction of the powder with NO_x, after exit from the hot zone.     

国产软硬件环境下图像组织浏览构件设计

针对在国产软硬件环境下,应用系统读取、浏览大量图像数据的速度慢问题,设计了图像组织浏览构件。通过改进图像组织方式,将基础影像和目标对象图像分开组织管理,并对目标对象图像的属性和分层、分类进行探讨,实现图像信息的快速展现。对图像组织浏览构件进行了插件化设计与实现,利用QT跨平台开发工具,实现了应用集成框架,并通过实现统一集成接口,进行各业务插件的集成。