Online service delivery undertaken between clients and service providers often incurs risks for both the client and the provider, especially when such an exchange takes place in the context of an electronic service market. For the client, the risk involves determining whether the requested service will be delivered on time and based on the previously agreed Service Level Agreement (SLA). Often risk to the client can be mitigated through the use of a penalty clause in an SLA. For the provider, the risk revolves around ensuring that the client will pay the advertised price and more importantly whether the provider will be able to deliver the advertised service to not incur the penalty identified in the SLA. This becomes more significant when the service providers outsource the actual enactment/execution to a data centre — a trend that has become dominant in recent years, with the emergence of infrastructure providers such as Amazon. In this work we investigate the notion of “risk” from a variety of different perspectives and demonstrate how risk to a service owner (who uses an external, third party data centre for service hosting) can be managed more effectively. A simulation based approach is used to validate our findings. 相似文献
Appropriate disposal of hyperaccumulator biomass is a problem inhibiting the widespread use of phytoremediation technology. In the present study, kinetic analysis of the pyrolysis process of Sedum plumbizincicola, the behaviour of heavy metals and bio-oil composition were studied. The kinetic analysis of the pyrolysis process shows that activation energy (E) changed from 150 to 186 kJ mol−1 and the frequency factor (A) changed from 1.34 × 1011 to 8.99 × 1015 s−1. At temperatures of 450–750 °C more than 66.3 % of zinc (Zn) remained in the char. More than 87.6 % of the cadmium (Cd) was found in the bio-oil. Pyrolysis at 650 °C led to the highest yield of alkanes with low-oxygen compounds found in the bio-oil. Pyrolysis at 650 °C can likely offer a valuable processing method for S. plumbizincicola and recovery of Zn from the char and recovery of Cd from the bio-oil will be attempted in future research.
Removing phosphate from water is important as it causes eutrophication, which in turn has a harmful effect on aquatic life, resulting in a reduction in biodiversity. On the other hand, recovery of phosphate from phosphorus containing wastewater is essential for developing an alternative source of phosphorus to overcome the global challenge of phosphorus scarcity. Phosphate removal from aqueous solutions was studied using an iron oxide impregnated strong base anion exchange resin, Purolite FerrIX A33E in batch and fixed-bed column experiments. Phosphate adsorption in the batch study satisfactorily fitted to the Langmuir isotherm with a maximum adsorption capacity of 48 mg P/g. In the column study, increase in inlet phosphate concentration (5–30 mg P/L), and filtration velocity (2.5–10 m/h) resulted in faster breakthrough times and increase in breakthrough adsorption capacities. Increase in bed height (3–19 cm) also increased adsorption capacity but the breakthrough time was slower. The breakthrough data were reasonably well described using the empirical models of Bohart–Adams, Thomas, and Yoon–Nelson, except for high bed heights. Phosphate adsorbed was effectively desorbed using 1 M NaOH and the adsorbent was regenerated after each of three adsorption/desorption cycles by maintaining the adsorption capacity at >90% of the original value. Greater than 99.5% of the desorbed P was recovered by precipitation using CaCl2. 相似文献
The effects of zinc oxide and/or polyethylene glycol (PEG) as electrolyte additives on the corrosion and electrochemical performances of pure aluminum in 4.0 M KOH solutions were investigated by means of hydrogen collection, polarization curve, galvanostatic discharge, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and energy dispersive analysis of X‐ray (EDAX). The addition of ZnO markedly inhibited the corrosion of aluminum in 4.0 M KOH solutions, resulting from the deposition of zinc with high hydrogen evolution overpotential in aluminum surfaces. The introduction of PEG in the alkaline zincate solution obviously improved the deposition of zinc by increase in the overpotential of zinc deposition, thus the corrosion rate of aluminum in the alkaline zincate solutions with PEG was further decreased. The enhancement effect of PEG on the inhibition of zinc oxide first increased and then decreased with increasing the content of PEG in the electrolyte. The electrolyte system with 0.2 M ZnO and 2.0 mM PEG presented the highest inhibition efficiency (98.8%) for the corrosion of aluminum. The results of galvanostatic discharge indicated that the aluminum anode shows excellent discharge performances in the 4.0 M KOH solution with 0.2 M ZnO and 2.0 mM PEG. 相似文献