The effect of increasing application rate of granular calcium ammonium nitrate on net nitrification in a laboratory study of grassland soils

Soil incubation studies were undertaken in controlled environment cabinets at 15°C to investigate the effect of increasing application rates of calcium ammonium nitrate (CAN) on net nitrification in two grassland soils. Granular CAN was applied to the surface of freshly collected, moist soil, at a rate equivalent to 0, 100, 200, 400, 800 and 1600µg NH ₄ ⁺ -N and NO ₃ ^- -N per gram of oven dry soil. In half the treatments finely ground CaCO₃ was incorporated into the moist soil to raise the starting pH. Changes in soil mineral N and pH were measured at weekly intervals up to six-weeks. The most probable number (MPN) technique was used to enumerate the NH ₄ ⁺ -N and NO ₂ ^- -N oxidizers at the beginning and end of the incubation.At low rates of CAN application there was considerable NH ₄ ⁺ -N oxidation to NO ₃ ^- -N during the incubation of both soils. Lime stimulated this N transformation. At high application rates (i.e. 800 and 1600 ppm) there was little change in NH ₄ ⁺ -N or NO ₃ ^- -N on either soil during the 6 week incubation, in the presence or absence of lime. The rate of NO ₃ ^- -N produced peaked at 5.6 and 3.8 mg NO ₃ ^- -N kg^–1 d^–1 on soil 1 and 2 respectively, in the presence of lime. Above a level of 400 ppm CAN (equivalent to 38 kg N ha^–1) the rate of NO ₃ ^- -N produced decreased. The higher rate of net nitrification in soil 1 compared with soil 2 was probably due to a higher number of nitrifying bacteria. Although high rates of CAN decreased the nitrifying activity of both soils there was little difference between treatments in the actual numbers of NH ₄ ⁺ -N and NO ₂ ^- -N oxidizers determined by the MPN technique.The results showed that the rate of granular CAN applied to the soil surface can influence the local activity of nitrifying bacteria and subsequent N transformations. At application rates of CAN generally used agriculturally for grass production, it is likely that net nitrification of the NH ₄ ⁺ -N in the fertilizer granule will be inhibited.     

Surface Areas of Nitrated Hydrotalcites

Hydrotalcites in the nitrate form were prepared using microwave irradiation in the hydrotreatment step. The surface area (BET) of nitrated hydrotalcites was evaluated. Solids were characterized by atomic absorption, X-ray diffraction and BET analysis. Thermal pretreatment temperature determined the surface area of the hydrotalcites.     

Oxidation of acrolein on a multicomponent oxide catalyst

Catalytic oxidation of acrolein to acrylic acid has been studied and the optimum composition of the multicomponent catalyst Mo _a V _b Cu _c Fe _d O _x has been found. The reaction kinetics has been measured.     

T406型脱氯剂的研制与工业应用

报导了型脱氯剂的研制、性能试验和工厂运行结果。与国内外常见同类脱氯剂的对比试验及工业应用表明, 由化工部西北化工研究院开发研制的这一新型脱氯剂具有抗压碎强度高, 净化度高, 氯容量高的特点, 可以在常温下用于气相和液相原料中氯化物的脱除。即使在低温（4℃）下, 净化后原料中氯降至左右的情况下抓容量仍高达18％以上。该脱氯剂还能同时脱除原料中的硫。T406型脱氯剂已工业应用于混合二甲苯和氢原料的脱氯, 使用效果良好。     

Determination of temporal information granules to improve forecasting in fuzzy time series

Partitioning the universe of discourse and determining intervals containing useful temporal information and coming with better interpretability are critical for forecasting in fuzzy time series. In the existing literature, researchers seldom consider the effect of time variable when they partition the universe of discourse. As a result, and there is a lack of interpretability of the resulting temporal intervals. In this paper, we take the temporal information into account to partition the universe of discourse into intervals with unequal length. As a result, the performance improves forecasting quality. First, time variable is involved in partitioning the universe through Gath–Geva clustering-based time series segmentation and obtain the prototypes of data, then determine suitable intervals according to the prototypes by means of information granules. An effective method of partitioning and determining intervals is proposed. We show that these intervals carry well-defined semantics. To verify the effectiveness of the approach, we apply the proposed method to forecast enrollment of students of Alabama University and the Taiwan Stock Exchange Capitalization Weighted Stock Index. The experimental results show that the partitioning with temporal information can greatly improve accuracy of forecasting. Furthermore, the proposed method is not sensitive to its parameters.     

含水混酸的酯化分离试验

基于中国石化扬子石化公司化工厂醋酸装置产生大量的含水甲酸、乙酸副产品,通过试验将含水混酸进行酯化、分离,得到符合工业品规格的甲酸乙酯、乙酸乙脂。试验确定酯化塔回流比为3∶1,乙醇分批次加入,乙醇实际投入量与理论量的比为1.2。酯化分离结果:甲酸乙酯的单程收率89.5%,纯度大于97%,乙酸乙酯的单程收率80.1%,纯度大于97%。     

Effect of mixing leaves with olives on organoleptic quality of oil obtained by centrifugation

Variable quantities of leaves were added to ripe olives prior to extraction to determine their effect on the quality of the resulting olive oil. The addition of 1–3% w/w leaves improved the organoleptic quality. An increase intrans-2-hexenal aldehyde content occurred, giving the pleasant flavor of “freshly cut grass.” This compound was produced by the enzymatic breakdown of 13-L-hydroperoxide of linolenic acid in leaf homogenates.     

SBS环保耐热型装饰胶粘剂的研制

采用SBS弹性体、增粘树脂、增强剂及按一定比例配合而成的混合溶剂,制备了一种价廉物美的新型环保型胶粘剂。讨论了混合溶剂的(δ+γ)值、星型SBS与线型SBS的质量比、增强剂对胶粘剂性能的影响。结果表明:不管在高温还是在常温下,加入了增强剂的试样的剪切强度都优于市场上出售的胶粘剂。     

A novel nucleation apparatus for regime separated granulation

A novel nucleation apparatus is presented for the production of narrow sized nuclei from various powder and binder liquid combinations. Mono-sized binder liquid droplets are produced by a specially designed mono-disperse droplet generator. The droplet generator is positioned above a conveyor belt, transporting a powder bed through the spray zone of the droplet generator. By nucleating powder on a conveyer belt, the nucleation mechanism is completely separated from all other granulation mechanisms due to the lack of relative motion between primary particles and/or formed nuclei. Nucleation tests were performed using chalcopyrite and limestone powders with water as the binder liquid. At all operating conditions, the formed nuclei were found to originate from multiplicities of drops that merged on the powder bed surface. Investigation of the dynamics of nuclei formation showed that powder-binder liquid combinations with fast penetration dynamics result in less variation in the number of droplets from which nuclei originate. Smaller and more narrowly distributed nuclei were also achieved by increasing powder speed through the spray zone.     

仿石瓷质砖包裹颗粒的制备新工艺

本文分析了当前流行的仿石瓷质砖包裹颗粒制造方法的弊端,并通过改进设备和采用新的工艺方法,研制出仿石效果更佳的产品,这样既提高了颗粒的包裹效率,又降低了生产成本。