Comparative study of luminescence and chemiluminescence in hydrodynamic cavitating flows and quantitative determination of hydroxyl radicals production

Luminescence and chemiluminescence have been experimentally investigated in hydrodynamic cavitating flows. By using dedicated microdevices inserted inside a light tight box, photons counting has been made possible. Luminescence has been investigated with deionized water as the working fluid; chemiluminescence has resulted from cavitating alkaline luminol solutions, and has been correlated to hydroxyl radicals formation. For the first time, luminescent and chemiluminescent phenomena have been considered together on the same devices submitted to similar cavitating flow regimes. Degassed solutions enhance the luminescence and also the hydroxyl radical yield. Due to the small sizes of the channels, the lifetimes of the collapsing bubbles correspond to pseudo frequencies matching the range of optimal frequencies used in sonochemistry. New perspectives for the study of hydrodynamic cavitation as an advanced oxidation process are suggested.     

Quantifying OH radical generation in hydrodynamic cavitation via coumarin dosimetry: Influence of operating parameters and cavitation devices

Hydrodynamic cavitation (HC) has been extensively investigated for effluent treatment applications. Performance of HC devices or processes is often reported in terms of degradation of organic pollutants rather than quantification of hydroxyl (OH) radicals. In this study, generation of OH radicals in vortex based cavitation device using coumarin dosimetry was quantified. Coumarin was used as the chemical probe with an initial concentration of 100 µM (15 ppm). Generation of OH radicals was quantified by analysing generated single hydroxylated products. The influence of operating parameters such as pH and type of acid used to adjust pH, dissolved oxygen, and inlet and outlet pressures was investigated. Acidic pH was found to be more conducive for generating OH radicals and therefore subsequent experiments were performed at pH of 3. Sulphuric acid was found to be more than three times effective than hydrochloric acid in generating OH radicals. Effect of initial levels of dissolved oxygen was found to influence OH radical generation. Performance of vortex based cavitation device was then compared with other commonly used cavitation devices based on orifice and venturi. The vortex based cavitation device was found to outperform the orifice and venturi based devices in terms of initial per-pass factor. Influence of device scale (nominal flow rate through the device) on performance was then evaluated. The results presented for these devices unambiguously quantifies their cavitational performance. The presented results will be useful for evaluating computational models and stimulate further development of predictive computational models in this challenging area.     

Application of persulfate with hydrodynamic cavitation and ferrous in the decomposition of pentachlorophenol

Hydrodynamic cavitation (HC) and Fe(II) are advanced oxidation processes, in which pentachlorophenol (PCP) is treated by the redox method of activating persulfate (PS). The kinetics and mechanism of the HC and Fe(II) activation of PS were examined in aqueous solution using an electron spin resonance (ESR) spin trapping technique and radical trapping with pure compounds. The optimum ratio of Fe(II)/PS was 1:2, and the hydroxyl radical (HO) and sulfate radical (SO₄⁻) generation rate were 5.56 mM h⁻¹ and 8.62 μM h⁻¹, respectively. The generation rate and R_ct of HO and SO₄⁻ at pH 3 and 50 °C in the Fe(II)/PS/HC system are 7584.6 μM h⁻¹, 0.013 and 24.02 μM h⁻¹, 3.95, respectively. The number of radicals was reduced as the pH increased, and it increased with increasing temperature. The PCP reaction rate constants was 4.39 × 10⁻² min⁻¹ at pH 3 and 50 °C. The activation energy was 10.68 kJ mol⁻¹. In addition, the mechanism of PCP treatment in the Fe(II)/PS/HC system was a redox reaction, and the HO⁻/SO₄⁻ contribution was 81.1 and 18.9%, respectively. In this study, we first examined PCP oxidation through HO and SO₄⁻ quantification using only the Fe(II)/PS/HC process. Furthermore, the results provide the foundation for activation of PS by HC and Fe(II), but also provide a data basis for similar organic treatments other than PCP.     

Measure of irreversibility and entropy production in open quantum systems

A new concept of a measure of irreversibility for quantum dynamics in open systems is introduced as a suitably regularized substitute for the common notion of entropy production, which, unfortunately, yields infinite values for so many irreversible processes of physical relevance.     

Measurement of the beam asymmetry Σ in πeta; production off the proton with the CBELSA/TAPS experiment?

In photoproduction experiments, a large number of final states yielding various resonance contributions are accessible. To extract resonance parameters via partial-wave analysis not only the measurement of differential cross-sections is necessary, but also the determination of polarization observables. At the electron accelerator ELSA (Bonn) the coherent bremsstrahlung method was used to generate a linearly polarized photon beam. Using the CBELSA/TAPS detector setup, the beam asymmetry Σ in the reaction γp → pπ⁰η was determined as a function of various masses and angles for photon energies between 970MeV and 1650MeV.     

A class of collision processes with memory and application to simple chemical reactions in a solvent

We apply the general formalism of a class of non-Markovian processes which we have studied elsewhere to three simple models of chemical reactions: dissociation, isomerization, and diffusion in a double-well potential. Our method leads to explicitly solvable models and numerical computations. The results are in agreement with numerical simulation and stochastic dynamics studies of other authors.     

K<Superscript>+</Superscript> production in proton-nucleus reactions and the role of momentum-dependent potentials

The production of K⁺-mesons in proton-nucleus collisions from 1.0 to 2.5GeV is analyzed with respect to one-step nucleon-nucleon ( NN → NYK ⁺) and two-step Δ-nucleon ( ΔN → K ⁺ YN) or pion-nucleon ( πN → K ⁺ Y) production channels on the basis of a coupled-channel transport approach (CBUU) including the kaon final-state interactions. The influence of momentum-dependent potentials for the nucleon, hyperon and kaon in the final state are studied as well as the importance of K⁺ elastic rescattering in the target nucleus. The transport calculations are compared to the experimental K⁺ spectra taken at LBL Berkeley, SATURNE, CELSIUS, GSI and COSY-Jülich. It is found that the momentum-dependent baryon potentials affect the excitation function of the K⁺ cross-section; at low bombarding energies of ∼ 1.0GeV the attractive baryon potentials in the final state lead to a relative enhancement of the kaon yield, whereas the net repulsive potential at bombarding energies ∼ 2GeV causes a decrease of the K⁺ cross-section. Furthermore, it is pointed out that especially the K⁺ spectra at low momenta (or kinetic energy T _K) allow to determine the in-medium K⁺ potential almost model independently due to a relative shift of the K⁺ spectra in kinetic energy that arises from the acceleration of the kaons when propagating out of the nuclear medium to free space, i.e. converting the potential energy to the kinetic energy of the free kaon. Received: 28 January 2002 / Accepted: 3 June 2002 / Published online: 19 November 2002 RID="a" ID="a"e-mail: Wolfgang.Cassing@theo.physik.uni-giessen.de Communicated by P. Schuck     

A polarization relation and the measurement of the longitudinal response in pseudoscalar meson electroproduction off the nucleon

For pseudoscalar meson electroproduction off the nucleon in parallel kinematics a relation between three polarization observables is derived. It is shown that, without Rosenbluth separation, a measurement of the longitudinal strength can be achieved through three different ways. They are discussed with preliminary MAMI data for the reaction in the energy range of the resonance. Received: 30 March 2000 / Accepted: 8 May 2000     

Registration of hydrogen-like leptonic bound states ( e-μ+) and ( e+μ-) in reactions of high-energy scattering of polarized electrons and positrons by nuclei with Z ～ 100 and analysis of CPT invariance

The cross-sections for the reactions of muonium (anti-muonium) production in the high-energy electron (positron) scattering by nuclei e ^-(e ⁺) + Z↦Z + M ⁰(ˉM) + μ^-(μ⁺) are calculated in dependence on energy and polarization of the initial electron (positron) and polarization of the final μ^-(μ⁺)-meson. Since this is a coherent phenomenon the cross-sections are proportional to Z². For Z ∼ 100, due to the factor Z², the cross-sections are large enough to be measured at the energies available for the HERA Collider at DESY. The results are discussed in connection with a test of CPT invariance. Received: 24 September 2002 / Accepted: 12 March 2003 / Published online: 27 May 2003     

Proton polarization in the p(e,e′p)π0 reaction and the measurement of quadrupole components in the N to Δ transition

The recoil proton polarization in the π⁰ production off the proton with longitudinally polarized electron beam has been studied as a means to measure quadrupole components in the N to Δ transition. On top of the Δ resonance a high sensitivity to a possible Coulomb quadrupole excitation is found in parallel kinematics. The ratio of S ₁₊/M ₁₊ multipole amplitudes can be determined from the ratio of the two in-scattering-plane recoil proton polarization components. Avoiding the absolute measurement of the polarizations, such a ratio allows small experimental uncertainties. Furthermore, the electron helicity independent proton polarization component enables the characterization of resonant and non-resonant pieces. Received: 3 November 1997