Enhanced Hardness of Transparent HAp Ceramic by Microstructure Refinement

Transparent hydroxyapatite(HAp) ceramics with the grain size ranging 86-1 300 nm were successfully synthesized by spark plasma sintering(SPS) at 925-1 200 ℃. All the sample achieved final density higher than 99.7%. The phase stability was identified by X-ray diffraction(XRD) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy(FTIR). The experimental results indicate that there is no decomposition or dehydroxylation during the SPS processes. The influences of microstructure refinement on the hardness were investigated using HallPetch(H-P) relationship, and the hardness of transparent HAp ceramic increases with the decrease of grain size. It is demonstrated that the grain boundaries and defects play important roles on the hardness.     

Evaluation of Morphology—Stable Critical Size of KNbO3 Crystals

Skeletal form of KnbO3 crystals growing in Li2B4O7 solvent was in-situ observed at 900℃ and it was found that shallow depression started to develop on the surface of KnbO3 crystals when the crystal size exceeded several micron,typically 7 micron.Based on the quantitative criterion derived by Chernov,the estimated critical size of KNbO3 crystals was 1 micron,which was consistent with the experimental measurement.The kinetic coefficients,Kcorner and Kcr,in the criterion were experimentally obtained in the diffusive-convective and diffusive-advective flow states respectively.     

The Effects of Filtered Channel Quality Feedback on Throughput of Proportional Fair Algorithm

1　IntroductionSchedulingalgorithmsarewidelystudiedforwirelesspacketdatasystems,whichgenerallyhavetwobasiccategories,oneisoptimizedforsystemthroughputandfairness[1～ 2 ] ,andtheotherisforthequalityofservice[3～6] .Forsystemswherepack etdataaretimedivisionmultiplexedacrossusersonthedownlink ,orfromBaseStation (BS)tomultipleMobileStations(MS) ,theBSusesschedulingalgo rithmstodecidewhichuseristransmittedto .ItisindicatedinRefs.[7,8]thatschedulingonlyoneus eratatimeisoptimalfromthepointofviewo…     

NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF 2D PERIODIC UNSTEADY CAVITATING FLOWS

1. INTRODUCTION Cavitation is a natural phenomenon especially existing in liquids. A cavitating flow generally involves a large number of vapor structures such as bubbles or vortices which are convecting downstream. When they reach high pressure zones, th…     

Preliminary Design of In-Pile High Temperature High Pressure Test Loop

Preliminary design of in-pile high temperature high pressure （HTHP） test loop is one of application items at China Advanced Research Reactor （CARR）. The design content is to confirm design parameter, the system flow, standard equipments and layout of equipments according to permitting construction space, specific request of pipeline and equipment for test loop. The files about regulation and general outline are compiled and relative tests are presented.     

Fabrication and performance evaluation of novel transparent ceramics RE:Tb3Ga5O12(RE=Pr,Tm,Dy)toward magneto-optical application

Transparent ceramics are at the heart of modern magneto-optical materials providing promising opportunities for Faraday isolators.1.0 at%RE:Tb3Ga5O12(rare earth(RE)=Pr,Tm,Dy)transparent ceramics were successfully prepared by air sintering and sequential HIP technique using the coprecipitated powders as the raw material.All the powders have shown to be a pure cubic terbium gallium garnet(TGG)phase and exhibit good dispersion.Additionally,a change could not be observed in particle shape with the different doped ions.After the two-step sintering,all the obtained ceramics have good optical quality,and the in-line transmittances at 1070 nm are higher than 80%.Moreover,no secondary phase can be detected from the microstructures.However,the pores which remain entrapped in the ceramics can be noted.The Verdet constant of ceramic samples is optimized by RE doping,and the Verdet constant at 632.8 nm is about?143 rad·T^?1·m^?1,which is about 5%higher than that of TGG ceramics.Finally,the thermo-optical properties of 1.0 at%RE:TGG transparent ceramics are compared.The annealed TGG ceramic showed the best thermo-optical properties,and the thermally induced depolarization of 1.0 at%Ce:TGG and 1.0 at%Tm:TGG was inferior to that of annealed TGG ceramic.     

Energy and economic analysis of a hydrogen and ammonia co-generation system based on double chemical looping

In this work, a model of hydrogen production by double chemical looping is introduced. The efficiency benefit obtained was investigated. The chemical looping hydrogen generation unit is connected in series to the downstream of a chemical looping gasification unit as an additional system for 100 MW·h coal gasification, with the function of supplementary combustion to produce hydrogen. Using Aspen Plus software for process simulation, the production of H_2 and N_2 in the series system is higher than that in the independent Chemical looping gasification and Chemical looping hydrogen generation systems, and the production of hydrogen is approximately 25.63% and 12.90% higher, respectively; The study found that when the gasification temperature is 900 °C, steam-carbon ratio is 0.84 and oxygen-carbon ratio is 1.5,the hydrogen production rate of the system was the maximum. At the same time, through heat exchange between logistics, high-pressure steam at 8.010×10~4 kg·h~(-1) and medium-pressure steam at 1.101×10~4 kg·h~(-1) are generated, and utility consumption is reduced by 61.58%, with utility costs decreasing by 48.69%. An economic estimation study found that the production cost of ammonia is 108.66 USD·(t NH_3)~(-1). Finally, cost of equipment is the main factors influencing ammonia production cost were proposed by sensitivity analysis.