Pumping with electroosmosis of the second kind in mesoporous skeletons

This paper presents the use of mesoporous silica skeletons as substrates for electroosmotic (EO) micropumps. Mesoporous silica skeletons have bimodal pore size distributions consisting of macropores and cation-permselective mesopores. These materials have the potential for high flow rate per power because the cation-permselective mesopores can generate an induced charge layer (ICL) and electroosmosis of the second kind (EO-2) under high applied electric fields. The diffuse charge layers induced by the electric field result in an EO-2 flow rate that increases quadratically with increasing electric field. In contrast, the flow rate of the more common electroosmosis of the first kind (EO-1) is linearly proportional to electric field. Here, we investigate the impact of finite pressure loads on the EO-2 flow rate with experiments and an engineering model to evaluate the potential of mesoporous skeletons for micropumping applications. Our results include analyses of maximum flow rate, maximum pressure, and flow rate with intermediate pressure loads. The results indicate the existence of a critical pressure load at which reverse pressure-driven flow significantly diminishes the EO-2 flow. We also investigate the scaling of flow rate per power with respect to substrate thickness and area, demonstrating significant increases in flow rate per power with thinner substrates and favorable scaling for miniaturization of EO-2 pumps.     

Thermal and cardiovascular strain imposed by motorcycle protective clothing under Australian summer conditions

Motorcycle protective clothing can be uncomfortably hot during summer, and this experiment was designed to evaluate the physiological significance of that burden. Twelve males participated in four, 90-min trials (cycling 30 W) across three environments (25, 30, 35 °C [all 40% relative humidity]). Clothing was modified between full and minimal injury protection. Both ensembles were tested at 25 °C, with only the more protective ensemble investigated at 30 and 35 °C. At 35 °C, auditory canal temperature rose at 0.02 °C min^?1 (SD 0.005), deviating from all other trials (p < 0.05). The thresholds for moderate (>38.5 °C) and profound hyperthermia (>40.0 °C) were predicted to occur within 105 min (SD 20.6) and 180 min (SD 33.0), respectively. Profound hyperthermia might eventuate in ~10 h at 30 °C, but should not occur at 25 °C. These outcomes demonstrate a need to enhance the heat dissipation capabilities of motorcycle clothing designed for summer use in hot climates, but without compromising impact protection.

Practitioner’s Summary:

Motorcycle protective clothing can be uncomfortably hot during summer. This experiment was designed to evaluate the physiological significance of this burden across climatic states. In the heat, moderate (>38.5 °C) and profound hyperthermia (>40.0 °C) were predicted to occur within 105 and 180 min, respectively.     

Strong stability of the mono-tubular heat exchanger equation with output feedback

We investigate asymptotic behavior of the C₀-semigroup T(t) associated with the mono-tubular heat exchanger equation with output feedback by a perturbation method. It is shown that T(t) is bounded if a constraint is satisfied by the parameters and the spatial distribution function. Further, applying the Arendt-Batty-Lyubich-Vu theorem, a criterion is established to judge strong stability of T(t).     

管壳式换热器传热强化技术进展

介绍了国内外传热强化技术研究的发展概况 ,简述了典型的强化传热元件开发、新型壳程结构设计及国内外推出的各种新型高效换热器的有关情况 ,指出了国内近期开发研究的发展方向。     

我国塑料热稳定剂生产现状与研究进展

介绍了国内塑料热稳定剂生产、市场和发展趋势。目前我国塑料热稳定剂无论是品种和产品质量等与国外先进水平仍有较大的差距，提出了我国热稳定剂的发展建议。     

硝铵装置降膜蒸发存在问题与改进措施

对我公司硝铵装置降膜蒸发工序存在的问题进行分析 ,并通过技术改进 ,使干燥洗涤液全部返回系统 ,造粒塔粘塔问题得到缓解 ,取得可观的经济效益和环保效益     

Physiological responses to simulated firefighter exercise protocols in varying environments

For decades, research to quantify the effects of firefighting activities and personal protective equipment on physiology and biomechanics has been conducted in a variety of testing environments. It is unknown if these different environments provide similar information and comparable responses. A novel Firefighting Activities Station, which simulates four common fireground tasks, is presented for use with an environmental chamber in a controlled laboratory setting. Nineteen firefighters completed three different exercise protocols following common research practices. Simulated firefighting activities conducted in an environmental chamber or live-fire structures elicited similar physiological responses (max heart rate: 190.1 vs 188.0 bpm, core temperature response: 0.047°C/min vs 0.043°C/min) and accelerometry counts. However, the response to a treadmill protocol commonly used in laboratory settings resulted in significantly lower heart rate (178.4 vs 188.0 bpm), core temperature response (0.037°C/min vs 0.043°C/min) and physical activity counts compared with firefighting activities in the burn building.

Practitioner Summary: We introduce a new approach for simulating realistic firefighting activities in a controlled laboratory environment for ergonomics assessment of fire service equipment and personnel. Physiological responses to this proposed protocol more closely replicate those from live-fire activities than a traditional treadmill protocol and are simple to replicate and standardise.     

High-accuracy quadrature methods for solving boundary integral equations of steady-state anisotropic heat conduction problems with Dirichlet conditions

This paper presents the mechanical quadrature methods (MQMs) for solving the boundary integral equations of steady-state anisotropic heat conduction equation on the smooth domains and polygons, respectively. The costless and high-accurate Sidi–Israeli quadrature formula are applied to deal with the integrals in which the kernels have a logarithmic singularity. Especially, the Sidi transformation is used for the polygon cases in order to obtain a rapid convergence by degrading the singularity at the corners on the boundary. The convergence and stability of the MQMs solution are proved based on Anselone's collective compact theory. In addition, asymptotic error expansion of the MQMs shows that the approximation order is of O(h³), where h is the partition size of the boundary. Finally, numerical examples are tested and results verify the theoretical analysis.     

Laguerre超群上的Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev不等式

利用Laguerre超群K上的广义次拉普拉斯算子L定义K上的Riesz位势,并证明它是Lp(1p+∞)有界和弱(1,1)有界的,即证明K上的Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev不等式.它为进一步分析K上的偏微分方程问题提供了一个有利的工具.