天然气水合物和天然气脱水新工艺探讨

探讨了天然气水合物的发展过程、形成条件以及对天然气输送管道的腐蚀堵塞作用,对我国天然气脱水创新技术———膜法脱水、汽提脱水的原理与工艺过程进行了全面论述。考察了气体处理量及操作压力等对我国1.2×105m3/d天然气膜法脱水的工业试验装置的脱水过程的影响。     

Dehydration of water/1-1-dimethylhydrazine mixtures by zeolite membranes

In this research, dehydration of water/1-1-dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) mixtures by zeolite NaA and hydroxy sodalite membranes has been investigated. Support of these membranes has been tubular mullites that have been made by extruding a mixture of about 67–75% kaolin clay and 33–25% distilled water using an extruder. Zeolite NaA and hydroxy sodalite membranes have been coated on the external surface of the porous supports by the hydrothermal synthesis.

UDMH/water mixtures have been separated at ambient temperature and pressure by pervaporation (PV) using these zeolite membranes. These membranes showed very high selectivity of water for all UDMH mixtures. For the UDMH/water mixtures, separation factor as high as 10 000 has been obtained for UDMH feed concentration of 2%. Total mass fluxes of 1.05–0.2 kg/(m² h) have been also obtained.     

Cryobank of plant genetic resources in Russian Academy of Sciences

Cryopreservation is the most reliable method for long-term storage of plant genetic resources. A review of cell injury by ice crystals and dehydration during a freeze–thaw cycle is given. For successful regeneration of plants and cultures after cryopreservation of their cells, the development of reliable cryopreservation procedure is required including preliminary cultivation, treatment by cryoprotectors, freezing by different methods, thawing and recultivation. Up to now 27 cell lines successfully resumed their growth after storage in liquid nitrogen and preserved their specific features and biosynthetic potential. Besides, shoot tips of 40 cultivars of potato, rose, strawberry and raspberry regenerated plants both in vitro and in vivo after cryopreservation. The longest storage duration was 25 years. Now in liquid nitrogen we continuously store 24 cell strains of rare medicinal plants, shoot tips of seven cultivars of strawberry and raspberry and seeds of 250 endangered plant species collected over all Russian territory.     

立方相ZrW1.7Mo0.3O8的制备及其负热膨胀特性研究

以硝酸氧锆、钼酸铵和钨酸铵为原料,采用水合前驱物分解法合成了负热膨胀粉体立方相ZrW_(1.7)Mo_(0.3)O_8。分别采用差热-热重分析(TG-DSC)、X射线粉末衍射、扫描电镜(SEM)等分析测试手段,研究了前驱体的晶化过程、产物的结晶度和形貌。结果表明,采用该方法能合成出纯净的立方ZrW_(1.7)Mo_(0.3)O_8粉体,其负热膨胀系数为-6.16×10~(-6)K~(-1)。     

Zeolite filled polyimide membranes for dehydration of isopropanol through pervaporation process

Six mixed matrix membranes (MMMs) were prepared using zeolites of 4A and ZSM-5 incorporated in polyimide of Matrimid 5218. Effects of filler type on membrane morphology and pervaporation performance of MMMs were investigated using isopropanol dehydration. In addition, effects of operating temperature (30, 40, 50, and 60 °C), feed water concentration (10, 20, 30, and 40 wt.%) and permeate side pressure (0 and 15 torr) on pervaporation performance were studied. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analysis showed there were good adhesion between the fillers and the polymer matrix. Zeolite 4A has a better contact with the polymer phase and thereby nearly no void is formed in the MMM structure. Pervaporation were performed based on L16 array of Taguchi method for design of experiments. The results showed that the best separation condition is achieved at temperature, feed water concentration, and permeate pressure of 30 °C, 10 wt.% water and 0 torr, respectively. Selectivities of zeolites 4A and ZSM-5 filled MMMs were calculated as 8991 and 3904 compared with 1276 measured for the neat Matrimid 5218 membrane. Permeation rates of the zeolite 4A and ZSM-5 filled MMMs and the neat polymeric membrane were found to be 0.018, 0.016, and 0.013 kg/m² h, respectively.     

Microwave-promoted conversion of concentrated fructose into 5-hydroxymethylfurfural in ionic liquids in the absence of catalysts

Under microwave irradiation, concentrated fructose (33-92 wt%) in ionic liquids afforded 5-hydroxymethylfurfural in ca. 97-57% yields without addition of catalysts, within 3 min. In-situ¹³C NMR and ¹H NMR spectra suggest that the transformation of fructose in ionic liquid is a highly selective reaction that proceeds predominantly via the cyclic fructofuransyl intermediate. This method is expected to be valuable in facilitating cost-effective conversion of carbohydrates into biofuels and platform chemicals.     

加压过滤机处理原生煤泥在官地矿选煤厂的应用

介绍了官地矿选煤厂使用压滤机回收煤泥工艺及环节上、能力上存在的问题；介绍了加压过滤机的结构、工作原理、特点及压滤机回收煤泥应用实践和取得的经济和社会效益。     

Development of probiotic fruit juice powders by spray-drying: A review

The use of spray-drying for the production of powdered fruit juices has been a common practice in recent years since it is a simple, economic, and advantageous technique. The current knowledge on the different spray-drying parameters, allowing the best conditions to obtain high-quality powders, is presented in this review. The incorporation of probiotic cultures into fruit juices can enhance the functional characteristics of fruit juices. The selection of these probiotics and their benefits to consumers’ health are briefly discussed. As maintaining the viability of probiotics is extremely important in the development of a probiotic functional product, the factors that influence and improve survival, in all pre- and post-spray-drying steps, are also detailed. Finally, a few studies on probiotic fruit juices obtained by spray-drying are cited. Industries should bet on their development and commercialization, since despite being challenging to develop, these are very innovative and attractive products meeting modern consumer demands.     

Drying of Inorganic Particulate Compounds

ABSTRACT

Inorganic particulates are usually dried in a fixed bed, fluidized bed, or spray dryers. These compounds are easy to dry, once their physical structure, with high porosity, allows moisture content removal with low resistances. For fluidized bed of alumina particle evaluations, a laboratory-scale drying unit was built. The drying experiments were carried out with alumina particles with different diameters to evaluate temperature and air flow rate effects on drying kinetics and bed height. In another case, the dehydration of a mixture of rare-earth chlorides in a fluidized bed was studied, aiming at the production of anhydrous rare-earth chlorides, used to obtain mischmetal by electrolytic and metallothermic processes. The spray drying experiments were carried out in a pilot plant. Spray drying is a technique largely applied in industrial processes to dry solutions or suspensions, converting their solid parts into a dried powder. A set of rare-earth drying experiments was carried out, aiming at the development of techniques to obtain a powder that could satisfy international morphological requirements. The results allowed evaluating the effects of air flow rate, feed concentration, atomizer model, rotation velocity, and atomization pressure on powder density and particle size distribution.     

Microwave-Convective and Microwave-Vacuum Drying of Cranberries: A Comparative Study

Abstract

Two drying methods of cranberries (microwave-vacuum and microwave-convective) are reviewed, and their advantages and disadvantages regarding the quality of dried product and the process performance are presented. Mechanically and osmotically pretreated berries were subjected to drying and quality evaluation. Quality parameters are color (in Hunter L*a*b* coordinates), textural characteristics (toughness and Young's modulus), and organoleptic properties (color, texture, taste, and overall appearance). Special emphasis was given to the energy performance of the process, monitoring of the real-time temperature profile, and the total microwave power-on time. Two microwave power densities are assessed, as well as different microwave power-on/power-off cycling periods. In almost all observed parameters, microwave-vacuum drying exhibited enhanced characteristics when compared to microwave-convective drying. Drying performance results (defined as mass of evaporated water per unit of supplied energy) showed that microwave-vacuum drying is more energy-efficient than microwave-convective. Tasting panel results exhibited slight preference in all parameters for microwave-convective dried samples.