Adsorption separation of condensate oil from produced water using ACTF prepared of oil palm leaves by batch and fixed bed techniques

A novel method is applied to produce amorphous carbon thin film (ACTF) from oil palm leaves. The novel prepared ACTF is in the form of thin films like graphene sheets having winding surface. ACTF was characterized by different methods of characterization: FTIR, BET, SEM, EDX, TEM, and Raman. ACTF employed as an adsorbent to separate emulsified condensate oil from synthetic produced water as a treatment process before reinjection in oil reservoirs. The adsorption performance of batch and fixed bed adsorption systems were investigated. Contact time, initial concentration of condensate oil ($C_o$ = 100–2500 mg/l) and temperature were studied by batch experiments. The obtained results indicated that the adsorption capacity and the removal efficiency increased with time up to 132.77 mg condensate/g adsorbent and 66.38% respectively, within 6 h equilibrium time at 308 K. The thermodynamic adsorption experiments conducted at 288, 308 and 318 K, referring exothermic nature of the adsorption process.The performance study of fixed bed adsorption described through the breakthrough curves concept with two parameters: column bed heights (5, 10 and 15 mm) and flow rate (2.2, 5 and 8.4 ml/min). Two models (Thomas and Yoon-Nelson models) were applied to expect different parameters of fixed bed as adsorption capacity and time need for 50% breakthrough. The results exhibited that 2.2 ml /min feed flowrate and 5 mm bed height at 1000 mg/l initial oil condensate concentration were the optimum conditions for the ACTF column. The experimental breakthrough curves showed acceptable fit with the calculated breakthrough profiles obtained by Thomas model.     

大型活塞式压缩机弹性隔振基础的设计及安装

大型活塞式压缩机基础转速较低,传统上采用固定大块体结构,不仅基础的体积和重量都很大,而且动力计算模型也比较复杂,设计参数具有不确定性。而弹簧隔振基础结构边界条件简单清晰,解除了设备、基础块与下部结构的刚性动态耦合,受力明确,构造简单,可靠性和准确度高;隔振效率高达80%以上,能大大降低设备本身和对下部结构的动力作用。文章结合胜利油田油气集输总厂一工程实例,从结构型式、隔振原理、物理参数、动力分析几方面介绍了弹性隔振基础的设计,并简要介绍了弹性隔振基础的安装要点。     

潜油电机碟形弹簧的动力学分析

为了降低潜油电泵机组的振动对止推轴承性能的影响,在潜油电机中节和下节的止推轴承静块底部安装了蝶形弹簧。用有限元方法进行模态分析,确定了蝶形弹簧的主振型和固有频率,然后进行瞬态动力学分析,求解蝶形弹簧在一定载荷下的应力和位移。依此设计的蝶形弹簧将进一步延长止推轴承的使用寿命。     

裂纹梁的弹塑性动态断裂

本文利用弹塑性线弹簧模型建立了一种裂纹梁的弹塑性动态断裂分析的新方法 ,它可以对线弹性变形阶段、弹塑性变形阶段、裂纹稳定扩展阶段和裂纹不稳定扩展阶段的裂纹梁动态断裂问题建立易于求解的常微分方程组 ,并对受均布动载作用的裂纹简支梁给出了数值结果     

Assessing sustainable forest biomass potential and bioenergy implications for the northern Lake States region,USA

Forestlands in the United States have tremendous potential for providing feedstocks necessary to meet emerging renewable energy standards. The Lake States region is one area recognized for its high potential of supplying forest-derived biomass; however, the long-term availability of roundwood harvests and associated residues from this region has not been fully explored. Better distribution and temporal availability estimates are needed to formulate emerging state policies regarding renewable energy development. We used a novel predictive methodology to quantify sustainable biomass availability and likely harvest levels over a 100-year period in the Lake States region. USDA Forest Inventory and Analysis estimates of timberland were combined with published growth and yield models, and historic harvest data using the Forest Age Class Change Simulator (FACCS) to generate availability estimates. Monte-Carlo simulation was used to develop probability distributions of biomass harvests and to incorporate the uncertainty of future harvest levels. Our results indicate that 11.27–15.71 Mt y⁻¹ dry roundwood could be sustainably harvested from the Lake States. Assuming 65% collection rate, 1.87–2.62 Mt y⁻¹ residue could be removed, which if substituted for coal would generate 2.12–2.99 GW h of electricity on equivalent energy basis while reducing GHG (CO₂e) emission by 1.91–2.69 Mt annually. In addition to promoting energy security and reducing GHG emissions, forest residues for energy may create additional revenues and employment opportunities in a region historically dependent on forest-based industries.     

Continuous liquid-phase valorization of bio-ethanol towards bio-butanol over metal modified alumina

Commercial mixed-phase aluminum oxide was used as a heterogeneous catalyst support, providing slightly basic properties which are well-suited for the condensation of bio-ethanol to C₄ hydrocarbons, such as 1-butanol. Different metals (Cu, Ni and Co), at various metal loadings were deposited on the support. Consequently, the catalytic reactions were carried out in a continuous laboratory-scale fixed bed reactor operated at 240 °C and 70 bar. The catalysts were characterized by means of XRD, TEM, FT-IR, XPS and ICP-OES. Different metals were found to give entirely different product distributions. With the best catalysts, the selectivities towards 1-butanol close to 70% were reached, while the ethanol conversion typically varied between 10 and 30% – strongly depending on the metal applied. It was observed that low loading of copper and high loading of nickel were responsible for the formation of 1-butanol, whereas cobalt and high loading of copper resulted in the production of ethyl acetate. The reaction was found to be extremely sensitive to catalyst preparation conditions and procedures such as metal loading, calcination/reduction temperature and, thereby, to the formation of corresponding crystallite structure.     

调温器主副阀弹簧力的选择匹配

以某四缸发动机调温器为研究对象,通过选择不同弹簧力的调温器以及不同形状的调温器座来进行CAE分析和试验。通过这些CAE分析及试验得出结论是,当水泵的性能确定以及冷却系统中的零部件性能确定后,调温器的主副弹簧力的选择与系统压力及调温器座的形状有主要关系。     

Fractional Order Digital Differentiator Design Based on Power Function and Least squares

In this article, we propose the use of power function and least squares method for designing of a fractional order digital differentiator. The input signal is transformed into a power function by using Taylor series expansion, and its fractional derivative is computed using the Grunwald–Letnikov (G–L) definition. Next, the fractional order digital differentiator is modelled as a finite impulse response (FIR) system that yields fractional order derivative of the G–L type for a power function. The FIR system coefficients are obtained by using the least squares method. Two examples are used to demonstrate that the fractional derivative of the digital signals is computed by using the proposed technique. The results of the third and fourth examples reveal that the proposed technique gives superior performance in comparison with the existing techniques.     

伺服阀用液压放大式GMA的设计及建模

针对超磁致伸缩致动器输出位移有限,无法直接驱动伺服阀阀芯运动的问题,设计了一种基于柔性活塞的新型液压式微位移放大机构:由超磁致伸缩(GMM)棒驱动大活塞变形,并通过密闭容腔内的油液在小活塞端将GMM棒的输出位移放大。建立了超磁致伸缩致动器及其液压式微位移放大机构的耦合模型,采用弹性小挠度理论,有限元法和液压弹簧刚度理论对放大机构进行了分析和优化,并制作了样机。仿真和实验表明,所设计的液压式微位移放大机构可将GMM棒位移放大3.2倍,所建立的耦合模型较准确,误差在10%以内。     

A Complexing Agent to Enable a Wide-Temperature Range Bromine-Based Flow Battery for Stationary Energy Storage

Bromine-based flow batteries (Br-FBs) are considered one of the most promising energy storage systems due to their features of high energy density and low cost. However, they generally suffer from uncontrolled diffusion of corrosive bromine particularly at high temperatures. That is because the interaction between polybromide anions and the commonly used complexing agent (N–methyl–N–ethyl–pyrrolidinium bromide [MEP]) decreases with increasing temperatures, which causes serious self-discharge and capacity fade. Herein, a novel bromine complexing agent, 1–ethyl–2–methyl–pyridinium bromide (BCA), is introduced in Br-FBs to solve the above problems. It is proven that BCA can combine with polybromide anions very well even at a high temperature of 60 °C. Moreover, the BCA contributes to decreasing the electrochemical polarization of Br⁻/Br₂ couple, which in turn improves their power density. As a result, a zinc–bromine flow battery with BCA as the complexing agent can achieve a high energy efficiency of 84% at 40 mA cm⁻², even at high temperature of 60 °C and it can stably run for more than 400 cycles without obvious performance decay. This paper provides an effective complexing agent to enable a wide temperature range Br-FB.