Natural convection of a non-Newtonian ferrofluid in a porous elliptical enclosure in the presence of a non-uniform magnetic field

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - In the present study, laminar natural convection of a non-Newtonian ferrofluid inside an elliptical porous cavity was numerically simulated in the...     

Performance analysis and development of a refrigeration cycle through various environmentally friendly refrigerants

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - In this study, a refrigeration cycle was simulated with different refrigerants in a petrochemical plant in Iran. Using Aspen HYSYS Software, necessary...     

Numerical analysis of the internal flow and the mixing chamber length effects on the liquid film thickness exiting from the effervescent atomizer

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - Two-phase flow was simulated within the effervescent atomizer by the volume of fluid interface tracing model. Different gas-to-liquid mass ratios...     

LBM simulation of MHD nanofluid heat transfer in a square cavity with a cooled porous obstacle: effects of various temperature boundary conditions

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - Nanofluid natural convection inside a cavity with a porous square obstacle in the presence of magnetic field is simulated by lattice Boltzmann method....     

Using artificial neural network to optimize the flow and natural heat transfer of a magnetic nanofluid in a square enclosure with a fin on its vertical wall: a lattice Boltzmann simulation

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - The heat transfer of a nanofluid in a square enclosure is numerically simulated using FORTRAN software in this paper, by considering the radiation...     

Comparative analysis of continuous cooling transformation behaviour in CGHAZ of API X-80 and X-65 line pipe steels

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - Continuous cooling transformation diagrams were obtained for a simulated coarse-grain heat-affected zone of API X-80 and X-65 steels using Gleeble-3800...     

Heat capacity and thermal diffusivity of heavy oil saturated rock materials at high temperatures

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - In this paper, a typical combined cycle power generation unit in Iran is simulated by a mathematical method in order to perform sensitivity analysis on...     

Increase lattice Boltzmann method ability to simulate slip flow regimes with dispersed CNTs nanoadditives inside

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - In this study, the mixed convection of flow in a microchannel containing nanofluid is simulated by the Lattice Boltzmann Method. The...     

The numerical simulation and sensitivity analysis of a non-Newtonian fluid flow inside a square chamber exposed to a magnetic field using the FDLBM approach

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - This paper simulated the free convective heat transfer (CHT) and generation of entropy (GOE) of a non-Newtonian fluid (NNF) in a square chamber using...     

Computational modeling of porous medium inside a channel with homogeneous nanofluid

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - In the present study, the flow field and heat transfer have been simulated numerically inside a channel. The channel is under the constant heat flux....     

Analysis of activation energy and entropy generation in mixed convective peristaltic transport of Sutterby nanofluid

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - Peristalsis of nanofluid is significant in cancer treatment, ulcer treatment and industrial equipment. This study simulated the MHD peristaltic...     

Chemical structure and gas products of different rank coals during pyrolysis

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - In this study, three coal samples (long flame coal/LFC, coking coal/CC, and anthracite/AC) from the same coal seam in Huaibei coalfield were simulated...     

Characterization of the precipitates formed during the denitration of simulated HRLW

The denitration of several chemical compositions of simulated HRLW (highly radioactive liquid waste) was performed using formic acid as reducing agent. Precipitates formed during the denitration of simulated HRLW were analyzed using X-ray diffraction and⁵⁷Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy. Goethite and amorphous fraction were the principal phases in these precipitates. It was found that the chemical composition of simulated HRLW and the experimental conditions of denitration have more influence on the crystallinity and the particle size than on the phase composition of the precipitates. Thermal treatment of denitrated precipitates caused the solid state transformation of goethite+amorphous fraction into hematite. The values of hyperfine magnetic field (HMF) of hematite were decreased, thus indicating the substitution of Fe³⁺ ions with other metal cations.     

Thermal expansion and impurity effects on lattice thermal conductivity of solid argon

Thermal expansion and impurity effects on the lattice thermal conductivity of solid argon have been investigated with equilibrium molecular dynamics simulation. Thermal conductivity is simulated over the temperature range of 20-80 K. Thermal expansion effects, which strongly reduce thermal conductivity, are incorporated into the simulations using experimentally measured lattice constants of solid argon at different temperatures. It is found that the experimentally measured deviations from a T(-1) high-temperature dependence in thermal conductivity can be quantitatively attributed to thermal expansion effects. Phonon scattering on defects also contributes to the deviations. Comparison of simulation results on argon lattices with vacancy and impurity defects to those predicted from the theoretical models of Klemens and Ashegi et al. demonstrates that phonon scattering on impurities due to lattice strain is stronger than that due to differences in mass between the defect and the surrounding matrix. In addition, the results indicate the utility of molecular dynamics simulation for determining parameters in theoretical impurity scattering models under a wide range of conditions. It is also confirmed from the simulation results that thermal conductivity is not sensitive to the impurity concentration at high temperatures.     

生物质热反应机理与活化能确定方法Ⅰ.干燥段研究

干燥段是生物质热解的第一个过程.采用热分析仪研究了杉木木屑干燥段质量和热量的变化,推导了非等温干燥动力学模型,探讨了热质传输机理.结果表明,随着温度的升高,木屑含湿量迅速下降,80℃左右出现一个明显的失重峰;非等温干燥动力学Page模型能很好地模拟木屑干燥过程,木屑干燥活化能为12.6 kJ/mol;水分传输与热量传递...     

氧气的体积分数对N2O热分解的影响

N2O是大气中不可忽视的污染物.目前,世界上所排放的N2O主要有三个来源:一是硝酸工业等化工生产;二是流化床锅炉等煤燃烧设备;三是汽车发动机.由于N2O会导致温室效应和破坏臭氧层,而近年来大气层中N2O的氧气体积分数逐年上升,N2O排放的控制技术受到越来越多的关注[1～4].……     

A study of a transportable thermal neutron radiography unit based on a compact RFI linac

A transportable thermal neutron radiography system, incorporating a compact proton accelerator as neutron source has been simulated using the MCNP4B code. The neutron source will be produced via the ⁷Li(p,n)⁷Be reactions by a 2.5?MeV, 10?mA proton beam into a thick lithium target. Variable values for the collimator ratio were calculated. Thermal neutron radiography parameters are comparable to the research nuclear reactors. Sapphire filter was treated in order to improve the results. Simple and advanced neutron shielding materials considered which was further enhanced with layers of bismuth. The system was compatible with the European Union Directive on ??Restriction of Hazardous Substances?? (RoHS) 2002/95/EC, hence excluding the use of cadmium and lead.     

A Study of Oxidative Degradation of Plastics by GC and GC-MS

Abstract

The behaviour of plastics, namely, polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, polyamide and some copolymers, was studied in a combustion chamber in which the conditions of large-scale fires were simulated. Volatile combustion products were frozen-out or analyzed directly on two columns, one packed with Porapak Q and the other capillary column coated with squalane or CP Sil 5 CB. Carbonyl compounds were determined as the 2,4-dinitro-phenyl hydrazones on an OV-101 stationary phase. Thermal conductivity and flame ionization detectors were used. The decomposition products were identified either on the basis of retention data (retention indices) or by combined capillary GC-MS. The data obtained are used for the cataloguing of plastics from the point of view of their product toxicity during fires.     

Refuse derived fuels pyrolysis

Refuse derived fuels (RDF) characterization and pyrolysis behaviour, carried out by means of thermogravimetric analysis, infrared and mass spectroscopy, are presented. Thermal degradation of RDF takes place through three main mass loss stages; the analyses of evolved gas allow us to discriminate the contributions of the different fractions (paper, LDPE, wood, rubber, etc.) to the global decomposition. Furthermore thermogravimetry (TG) was used for the determination of kinetic parameters, using the differential method. In order to set up the conditions of production of a good quality pyrolysis gas, the operating conditions of RDF in a pyrolysis reactor have been simulated. Data show that the volatile fraction grows with the temperature, together with the relative conversion, and that light volatile fraction (hydrogen, ethyne, etc.) gets richer, at the expense of superior homologous hydrocarbons.     

pH-dependent x-ray absorption spectra of aqueous boron oxides

Near edge x-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectra at the boron K-edge were measured for aqueous boric acid, borate, and polyborate ions, using liquid microjet technology, and compared with simulated spectra calculated from first principles density functional theory in the excited electron and core hole (XCH) approximation. Thermal motion in both hydrated and isolated molecules was incorporated into the calculations by sampling trajectories from quantum mechanics∕molecular mechanics simulations at the experimental temperature. The boron oxide molecules exhibit little spectral change upon hydration, relative to mineral samples. Simulations reveal that water is arranged nearly isotropically around boric acid and sodium borate, but the calculations also indicate that the boron K-edge NEXAFS spectra are insensitive to hydrogen bonding, molecular environment, or salt interactions.