超疏水表面液滴的振动特性及其与液滴体积的关系

超疏水表面液滴的振动特性与接触线的移动、液滴体积、基底振幅等因素密切相关.本文在基底振幅较小且恒定的条件下,研究了超疏水表面液滴的共振振幅、模式区间、共振频率等振动特性及其与液滴体积(20—500μL)的关系.此外,将基于一般性疏水表面建立的Noblin共振频率计算模型应用于超疏水表面,并提出“虚驻点”的概念,借此对模型进行了误差分析和修正.研究表明:1)共振时,液滴高度变化率即比振幅随体积增大而增大,随阶数增大而减小;2)各模式区间的起止频率首尾相接,其范围随体积增大而减小;3)液滴体积越大,共振频率越小,随着阶数增大,共振频率f与体积V的关系趋于f-V^–0.4,不同于一般性疏水表面上的f-V^–0.5;4)直接应用Noblin模型计算共振频率会产生较大误差,主要原因在于液滴表面波波段数量统计存在较大偏差,而修正后的模型可以准确计算超疏水表面大体积液滴的共振频率.     

Oxy-coal combustion in a 30 kWth pressurized fluidized bed: Effect of combustion pressure on combustion performance,pollutant emissions and desulfurization

Oxy-coal combustion with pressurized fluidized beds has recently emerged as a promising carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology for coal-fired power plants. Although a large number of energy efficiency analyses have shown that an increase in combustion pressure can further increase the net plant efficiency, there are few experimental studies of pressurized oxy-coal combustion conducted on fluidized bed combustors/boilers with continuous coal feeding. In this study, oxy-coal combustion experiments with lignite and anthracite were conducted with a 30 kW_th pressurized fluidized bed combustor within the pressure range of 0.1 MPa to 0.4 MPa. The investigation focused on the elucidation of the impacts of combustion pressure on the combustion performance, pollutant emissions and desulfurization of oxy-coal combustion in fluidized beds. The results showed that an increase in pressure increased the combustion efficiency and combustion rate of coal particles, and the promoting effect of pressure increase was more significant for the high rank coal with smaller particle size and the high O₂ concentration atmosphere. For both coals, NO_x emissions decreased with pressure but N₂O emissions increased with pressure and accounted for a considerable part of the nitrogen oxide pollutants under high pressure oxy-coal combustion conditions. The pressure had insignificant impact on the SO₂ emissions of oxy-coal combustion but an increase in pressure enhanced the direct desulfurization of limestone.     

LES study of diesel flame/wall interaction and mixing mechanisms at different wall distances

In this paper, the flame-wall interaction of reacting diesel spray under engine like conditions is investigated using large eddy simulations. The aim of this study is to understand the influence of the distance between the wall and the spray nozzle on the air entrainment rate, which is a key variable in formation/oxidation process of soot. Three experimental cases are investigated, a free jet case and two wall impingement cases with a distance from nozzle to wall of 30 mm and 50 mm, which are considered as characteristic wall impingement distances for light- and heavy-duty bores in diesel engines, respectively. The optical soot measurements imply a positive influence of wall on the rate of soot oxidation. Numerical simulations are employed to elucidate importance of different mechanisms for the air entrainment, i.e., air entrainment prior to flame lift-off position, enhanced mixing due to the wall impingement and enhanced mixing by the entrainment wave. The results show that oxidation process after the end of injection is driven by a different mixing mechanism depending on the distance to the wall. The 30 mm case resulted in a “mixing boost”, where the dominant mixing mechanism is the wall impingement vortex mixing, which gives rise to the fastest soot decay among the cases. The mixing in the 50 mm case is governed by a late wall impingement vortex mixing, giving rise to a low, but a constant air entrainment rate, i.e., a “mixing plateau”. The free jet case resulted in mixing governed by the entrainment wave mechanism. Both wall impingement cases have faster soot oxidation rate compared with the free jet case, but due to a different underlying mixing process. LES is shown to be able to replicate the line-of-sight measurements of natural OH* chemiluminescence and distribution of soot region from the optical soot diagnostics.     

SH wave propagation in a piezoelectric/piezomagnetic plate with an imperfect magnetoelectroelastic interface

In this paper, we investigate the SH wave propagation in a layered piezoelectric (PE) and piezomagnetic (PM) plate with an imperfect magnetoelectroelastic interface. A linear magnetoelectroelastic spring model is used to describe the weakness of the imperfect interface. On the basis of this model, dispersion curves and mode shapes of the SH waves are computed. In particular, a PZT-5A/CoFe₂O₄ composite plate is considered in the numerical examples to calculate the dispersion curves and the mode shapes for different combinations of the magnetic, electrical and elastic spring constants. The effects of the layer thickness ratio and the electric-magnetic boundary conditions on the dispersion curves are discussed in details. Our results show that for a general weak bonding case, the high modes of the dispersion curves are not monotonous in the range of small wave numbers. With the layer thickness ratio increasing, the wave velocities of the SH waves increase. The electric boundary conditions mainly determine the dispersion curves of the SH waves in the case of a small layer thickness ratio, i.e. a large thickness of the PE layer. The present results have relevant applications in the nondestructive testing and evaluation of the layered PE/PM plate-like wave devices.     

A Normal Criterion Concerning Omitted Holomorphic Function

In this paper, we continue to discuss the normality concerning omitted holomorphic function and get the following result. Let F be a family of meromorphic functions on a domain D, k ≥ 4 be a positive integer, and let a(z) and b(z) be two holomorphic functions on D, where a(z) 0 and f(z) ≠ ∞ whenever a(z)=0. If for any f ∈ F, f'(z) -a(z)f^k(z) ≠ b(z), then F is normal on D.     

Production, Characterization, and Application of an Organic Solvent-Tolerant Lipase Present in Active Inclusion Bodies

An organic solvent-tolerant lipase from Serratia marcescens ECU1010 (rSML) was overproduced in Escherichia coli in an insoluble form. High concentrations of both biomass (50 g cell wet weight/L culture broth) and inclusion bodies (10.5 g/L) were obtained by applying a high-cell-density cultivation procedure. Activity assays indicated that the enzymatic activity of rSML reached 600 U/L. After treatment with isopropyl ether for 12 h, the maximum lipase activity reached 6,000 U/L. Scanning electron microscopy and Fourier transform infrared microspectroscopy revealed the activation mechanism of rSML in the presence of organic solvents. rSML was stable in broad ranges of temperatures and pH values, as well as in a series of organic solvents. Besides, rSML showed the best enantioselectivity for the kinetic resolution of (±)-trans-3-(4-methoxyphenyl)glycidic acid methyl ester. These features render the S. marcescens ECU1010 lipase attractive for biotechnological applications in the field of organic synthesis and pharmaceutical industry.     

Electrochemical performance of a nonaqueous rechargeable lithium-air battery

Nonaqueous rechargeable lithium-air battery has so high specific capacity and specific energy that it is being widely researched by academia, corporation, and different research institutes. When used in dried air and absorbing oxygen form the air, this battery is called lithium-air battery, and its specific capacity based on cathode active material (oxygen) is infinite. However, its cycle performance is very limited as reported by the state-of-the-art researches. This cycle problem is mainly caused by instability of electrolyte. Based on electroanalysis of materials’ electrochemical property, a stable electrolyte solvent (sulfolane) and a lithium salt LiBF₄ are selected as electrolytes in this work. Coupled with other eligible battery materials and careful assembly, the lithium-air battery exhibits favorable cycle performance. Above all, this lithium-air system is evaluated objectively in this paper.     

Quantification of complanatoside A in rat plasma using LC‐MS/MS and its application to a pharmacokinetic study

Complanatoside A is a flavonol glycoside isolated from Astragalus complanatus, and currently it is used as a quality control index for A. complanatus in the 2010 edition of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia. For the first time, a simple and sensitive LC‐MS/MS method was developed for the determination of complanatoside A in rat plasma over the range of 2.3–575 ng/mL. Complanatoside A was extracted from plasma by a protein precipitation procedure, separated by LC and detected by MS/MS in positive electrospray ionization mode. The method was validated for selectivity, carryover, sensitivity, linearity, extraction recovery, matrix effect, accuracy, precision and stability studies. The lower limit of quantification was established at 2.3 ng/mL. Intra‐ and inter‐day precisions (LLOQ, low‐QC, med‐QC and high‐QC) were <7.9%, and accuracies were between 94.0 and 105.1%. Matrix effect was acceptable (97.9–103.0%) and extraction recovery was reproducible (88.5–94.4%). Complanatoside A was stable in the investigated conditions. The method was applied to the pharmacokinetics of complanatoside A in rats. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.