垃圾气化分析及其对中国实现碳中和与无废城市建设的贡献

气化是实现化学利用碳资源(尤其是煤)生产化学品和燃料的关键工艺.目前,全球拥有超过272套气化装置,主要应用于煤化工,尤其在中国.由于在一个化工厂通过技术集成达到工业规模的集中生产可实现减少二氧化碳排放并促进碳密集型行业的循环经济,如废物管理、化学和交通行业,因此,近年来全球对垃圾气化的兴趣日益浓厚,尤其是那些在煤气化...     

Al-Mn-Ce quasicrystalline composites: Phase formation and mechanical properties

Aluminium-based composites with quasicrystalline particles as reinforcements were synthesized via the powder metallurgy processing route. In order to obtain bulk samples with a nanoscale microstructure most equivalent to that resulting from rapid solidification, powders of Al-Mn-Ce alloys were prepared by pulverization of melt-spun ribbons using a planetary ball mill. Significant differences in the phase formation upon quenching, composite microstructure and thermal stability of the microstructure were found for different alloy compositions. Severe grain growth during the subsequent consolidation by hot extrusion caused the formation of a micrometre-scale composite instead of the nanoscale phase mixture initially existing after rapid solidification. After hot extrusion, the specimens were deformed by compression at a constant compression rate at room temperature. With an ultimate strength of up to 975 MPa and a ductility of more than 4% the material yields excellent properties compared with conventionally produced aluminium-based alloys.     

Magnetomechanical training of single crystalline Ni-Mn-Ga alloy

A 5M Ni-Mn-Ga single crystal was investigated, supplied by Adaptamat Ltd, Finland. Especially low temperature magnetic actuation as well as cyclic tensile-compression tests revealed promising properties, which provide useful insights for training concepts in polycrystalline materials. Successive compressions lead to a significant reduction of the twinning stress by a factor of two.     

Simulations of Co‐GISAXS during kinetic roughening of growth surfaces

The recent development of surface growth studies using X‐ray photon correlation spectroscopy in a grazing‐incidence small‐angle X‐ray scattering (Co‐GISAXS) geometry enables the investigation of dynamical processes during kinetic roughening in greater detail than was previously possible. In order to investigate the Co‐GISAXS behavior expected from existing growth models, calculations and (2+1)‐dimension simulations of linear Kuramoto–Sivashinsky and non‐linear Kardar–Parisi–Zhang surface growth equations are presented which analyze the temporal correlation functions of the height–height structure factor. Calculations of the GISAXS intensity auto‐correlation functions are also performed within the Born/distorted‐wave Born approximation for comparison with the scaling behavior of the height–height structure factor and its correlation functions.     

Interaction of food packaging material and selected food components under high pressure

Abstract

Interactions between ethanolic solutions of p-cymene and acetophenone and different polymer packaging materials. were studied at 500 MPa and 25° C. p-Cymene solution, filled into low-density polyethylene bags, lost 30% of its aroma concentration after 24 h at 500 MPa compared to a 60% loss at atmospheric pressure. The decrease was strongest within the first 15 min. Using LDPE/HDPE/LDPE bags, losses were 20% and 30%, resp. Applying the “bag in the bag” method, p-cymene concentrations measured inside and outside the inner bag has shown sorption by the pressurized film to be one third of that by the non-pressurized. In PET/AI/LDPE bags impermeable to p-cymene, sorption was confined to the inner LDPE layer and caused higher loss in the non-pressurized sample. Acetophenone has not been found to interact with the polymer during pressure treatment, while at atmospheric pressure sorption loss in aroma concentration was nearly 70% after 60 h.