Fuel oil plays one of the most important roles as thermal energy source in domestic application. Due to its common use, a careful monitoring of the grade and the deviation of the quality is required. Recently it has been observed that the presence of polar fatty acid derivatives is leading to problems in the fuel injection systems and consequently can cause a damage of the engine. A fast and reliably working procedure is presented, which allows the group determination of these polar compounds, namely glycerides, soaps and fatty acids. A sample preparation succeeded, which accomplishes the extraction, the clean up and the derivatization in one single reaction vessel. Derivatives were methylated with acetyl chloride and methanol and quantified with gas chromatography mass spectrometry. The complexity of fuel oil requires a careful elaboration of the clean up and the extraction procedure. Owing to the novelty of this procedure an accurate investigation and optimization of influential parameters were performed. Optimum conditions for the solid phase extraction with polar sorbents were provided for all target compounds. Additionally, the necessity of the clean up is shown with the relation between investigated analytes and matrix effects. Finally, method performance was verified with an accurate validation and analyses of spiked samples. 相似文献
Natural gas is normally transported through a vast network of pipelines. A pipeline network is generally established either
to transmit gas at high pressure from coastal supplies to regional demand points (transmission network) or to distribute gas
to consumers at low pressure from the regional demand points (distribution network). In this study, the distribution network
is considered. The distribution network differs from the transmission one in a number of ways. Pipes involved in a distribution
network are often much smaller and the network is simpler, having no valves, compressors or nozzles. In this paper, we propose
the problem of minimizing the cost of pipelines incurred by driving the gas in a distribute non-linear network under steady-state
assumptions. In particular, the decision variables include the length of the pipes’ diameter, pressure drops at each node
of the network, and mass flow rate at each pipeline leg. We establish a mathematical optimization model of this problem, and
then present a global approach, which is based on the GOP primal-relaxed dual decomposition method presented by Visweswaran
and Floudas (Global optimization in engineering design. Kluwer book series in nonconvex optimization and its applications.
Kluwer, Netherlands, 1996), to the optimization model. Finally, results from application of the approach to data from gas company are presented. 相似文献
During sintering of the silica-based ceramic core of turbine blades, a phenomenon called “nonuniform sintering” occurs that negatively affects the thermal and mechanical properties of the core. Standard samples of silica-based core were prepared by an injection molding method and sintered with alumina backfilling powder with different sodium contents. The effect of sodium content on the nonuniform sintering of silica-based cores and the thermal and mechanical properties was evaluated. Results show that the sintering level and the content of α-cristobalite in the surface layer are significantly higher than that of the sample interior. A considerable number of microcracks are found in the surface layer due to the β to α-phase transition of cristobalite. As the sodium content in the alumina powder decreases, the level of the nonuniform sintering and the amount of crystallized cristobalite in the surface layer decrease, which is beneficial to the thermal expansion and flexural strength at ambient temperature. The flexural strength and thermal deformation at high temperature are improved by reducing the surface cracks, but deteriorated with the decrease of the cristobalite crystallization when the surface cracks are macroscopically invisible.