Particle-liquid mass transfer in a co-current three-phase fluidized bed of glass beads, water and air was studied with two measurement techniques. Both techniques measured the weight loss of a few particles coated with benzoic acid in a bed of inert glass beads. The effects of liquid and gas velocities, gas distribution and surface active agents on particle-liquid mass transfer in a three-phase fluidized bed were thus determined. In the absence of surface active agents in the liquid, particle-liquid mass transfer rates in a three-phase fluidized bed were up to 30% higher than in the corresponding liquid fluidized bed. When surface active agents were added to the liquid, the particle-liquid mass transfer rate was increased by up to about 100% in the three-phase fluidized bed, relative to the liquid fluidized bed. The particle-liquid mass transfer coefficient was found to be inversely proportional to the liquid hold-up in the three-phase fluidized bed. 相似文献
A dilatometric technique was used to determine the total evaporation time of individual drops of furan, isopentane and cyclopentane as they rose in water. The values of total evaporation time were predicted reasonably well for each system by a different equation than was used to correlate the evaporative data for the initial 10% of the evaporative process as reported in Part I of this study. The total evaporation time data were also compared with the correlations given by Klipstein (1), by Sideman and Taitel (2) and with the correlation which was found by the authors to best fit the total evaporative data for the three systems. In agreement with Klipstein (1), the correlation for the overall heat transfer coefficient was found to be one of the form, qA = Cd12.0δt. The rate of rise of an evaporating drop for the conditions used in this study was found to be nearly equal to the instantaneous terminal velocity. 相似文献
The present work intends to investigate dynamic behaviour of draft gear using finite element method. The longitudinal force that the draft gear absorbs usually leads to the failure of its components, especially, the load bearing draft pads. Dynamic behaviour of an individual draft pad and a draft gear is determined and characterized with exciting frequencies and corresponding mode shapes. The effect of compressive prestress load on the dynamic behaviour of an individual draft pad is also determined as the draft pads in assembled state are under constant axial compressive force in the draft gear. The vibration characteristics of individual draft pad are compared with draft pads that are part of draft gear. The modal analysis gives us a basis for subjecting a draft pad to higher frequency loading for determining its fatigue behaviour.
High speed friction grinding has been used to grind plant and food substances in water but never been explored for grinding of thermoplastics like polylactic acid (PLA), low and high density polyethylene and polypropylene. Such grinding was investigated in this work and was made possible by using 0.5% guar gum solution instead of just water because increasing the viscosity of water reduced their settling and the speed of passing through the grinder. Tensile, flexural, and impact strengths of the plastics were studied and higher grinding efficiency of PLA could be explained by its low elongation-at-break compared to low density polyethylene, high density polyethylene, and polypropylene. The microplastics (2000–45 μm) were studied for mass and particle size distributions and by scanning electron microscopy, 13C CP/MAS NMR, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, and thermogravimetric analysis. In addition, viscosity of guar gum and contact angles was measured. This new technology can produce finely ground microplastics (710–45 μm) for a variety of applications. 相似文献
The purpose of this study is to analyze and compare the mechanical properties and microstructure details at the interface
of high-velocity oxyfuel (HVOF)-sprayed NiCr-coated boiler tube steels, namely ASTM-SA-210 grade A1, ASTM-SA213-T-11, and
ASTM-SA213-T-22. Coatings were developed by two different techniques, and in these techniques liquefied petroleum gas was
used as the fuel gas. First, the coatings were characterized by metallographic, scanning electron microscopy/energy-dispersive
x-ray analysis, x-ray diffraction, surface roughness, and microhardness, and then were subjected to erosion testing. An attempt
has been made to describe the transformations taking place during thermal spraying. It is concluded that the HVOF wire spraying
process offers a technically viable and cost-effective alternative to HVOF powder spraying process for applications in an
energy generation power plant with a point view of life enhancement and to minimize the tube failures because it gives a coating
having better resistance to erosion. 相似文献
We propose an optical scheme for quantum key distribution in which bits are encoded in relative phases of four bipartite weak coherent states${|\alpha, \alpha\rangle, |-\alpha, -\alpha\rangle, |-\alpha, \alpha\rangle}$ and ${|\alpha, -\alpha \rangle}$, with respect to a strong reference pulse. We discuss security of the scheme against eavesdropping strategies like, photon number splitting, photon beam splitting and intercept-resend attacks. It is found that present scheme is more sensitive against these eavesdropping strategies than the two-dimensional non-orthogonal state based protocol and BB84 protocol. Our scheme is very simple, requires only passive optical elements like beam splitters, phase shifters and photon detectors, hence is at the reach of presently available technology. 相似文献
Number of software applications demands various levels of security at the time of scheduling in Computational Grid. Grid may offer these securities but may result in the performance degradation due to overhead in offering the desired security. Scheduling performance in a Grid is affected by the heterogeneities of security and computational power of resources. Customized Genetic Algorithms have been effectively used for solving complex optimization problems (NP Hard) and various heuristics have been suggested for solving Multi-objective optimization problems. In this paper a security driven, elitist non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm, Optimal Security with Optimal Overhead Scheduling (OSO2S), based on NSGA-II, is proposed. The model considers dual objectives of minimizing the security overhead and maximizing the total security achieved. Simulation results exhibit that the proposed algorithm delivers improved makespan and lesser security overhead in comparison to other such algorithms viz. MinMin, MaxMin, SPMinMin, SPMaxMin and SDSG. 相似文献
In this paper, an Adaptive Hierarchical Ant Colony Optimization (AHACO) has been proposed to resolve the traditional machine
loading problem in Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS). Machine loading is one of the most important issues that is interlinked
with the efficiency and utilization of FMS. The machine loading problem is formulated in order to minimize the system unbalance
and maximize the throughput, considering the job sequencing, optional machines and technological constraints. The performance
of proposed AHACO has been tested over a number of benchmark problems taken from the literature. Computational results indicate
that the proposed algorithm is more effective and produces promising results as compared to the existing solution methodologies
in the literature. The evaluation and comparison of system efficiency and system utilization justifies the supremacy of the
algorithm. Further, results obtained from the proposed algorithm have been compared with well known random search algorithm
viz. genetic algorithm, simulated annealing, artificial Immune system, simple ant colony optimization, tabu search etc. In
addition, the algorithm has been tested over a randomly generated problem set of varying complexities; the results validate
the robustness and scalability of the algorithm utilizing the concepts of ‘heuristic gap’ and ANOVA analysis. 相似文献