Study of gas generation in real L/ILW containers

To obtain reliable estimates of the quantities and rates of the gas production in L/ILW a series of measurements was carried in the last 7 years in Hungary. The typical gas production rates were 0.05–0.2 STP litre gas/day for CO₂ and CH₄ generation, and less for H₂. No explosive gas mixture was indicated in the L/ILW drums during the investigated storage period. Compositions of headspace gases in closed L/ILW vaults were in agreement with gas generation processes observed in L/ILW drums. The stable carbon isotope measurements show that the main source of the CO₂ gas is the degradation of organic matter and indicates microbial degradation processes as the main sources of CH₄. Typical tritium activity concentrations were <10 Bq/l gas in the drums and <1,000 Bq/l gas in the vaults. Typical ¹⁴C activity values of the headspace gases were <2.0 Bq/l gas in the drums and <1,000 Bq/l gas in the vaults.     

New chiral catalysts: synthesis and fragmentation pattern of C9-o-silanized cinchonidines

Summary We synthesized C9-O-silyl ethers of cinchonidine and dihydrocinchonidine (1-8), seven of which have not been known before. The structures of the compounds were verified by ESI-ion-trap MS and ¹H-NMR. Fragmentation of silyl ethers containing Si-phenyl bonds was studied for the first time. The compounds obtained will be utilized as chiral catalysts of certain asymmetric syntheses.</o:p>     

Finite and symmetric thermomechanical waves in materials with internal state variables

The paper is devoted to the study of wave propagation through materials with internal state variables under two main assumptions: finite speed of propagation and symmetry of acceleration waves. Additional constitutive assumptions are also used: heat flux does not depend on the temperature gradient and the time-derivatives of internal state variables are linear functions of the temperature gradient. Under all these hypotheses, in the neighborhood of a strong equilibrium state, one finds four real and symmetric possible acceleration waves, at least two of them being coupled waves, and heat flux results an internal state variable. All these results are obtained in the general three-dimensional case. As an illustration, the isotropic linear theory is considered, where both acceleration and shock waves are treated.     

The first case of competitive heterogeneously catalyzed enantioselective hydrogenation of ketones

In competitive racemic hydrogenation of methyl benzoylformate (MBF) + ethyl pyruvate (EP) binary mixture over Pt/Al(2)O(3): k(MBF) > k(EP), but in competitive enantioselective hydrogenation k(MBF) < k(EP); the phenomenon verified for the first time is dependent on the adsorption strength of the surface complexes of various compositions (MBF-Pt, EP-Pt, MBF-CD-Pt, EP-CD-Pt, CD = cinchonidine).     

Calibration and convex programming: two approaches to one problem

Calibration is a common technique of data processing in survey sampling. Although convex programming would be an obvious tool for this purpose, usually other methods are used in the practice of statistical institutes. A comparison of those methods and convex programming is reported on in this paper.     

The vaporization of a metallic target by a microsecond pulsed TE-CO2 laser radiation

The analysis of some new experimental data has proved that the evaporation of a stainless steel target in vacuum under the action of powerful TE-CO₂ microsecond pulsed laser radiation is initiated on the initial spike or not at all. The minimum “tail” duration to get evaporation was deduced as a function of the temporal pulse shape characteristics and the metal thermophysical properties. The vaporisation process was accompanied by nonequilibrium heating of vapour clouds leading to the target surface shielding. Two self-regulated evolutions were recognised which were attributed to the intense vaporisation and the target evaporation by the UV plasma emitted radiation, respectively.     

Studies in the field of polyethylene—V. Correlations between compressibility,crystallinity and molecular weight of high pressure natural polyethylenes

The P-V-T relations of high pressure polyethylene free of additives have been studied in a modified universal testing machine. These polymers show a rapid compression at the melting point of the crystalline phase.     

Lase action on resonant molecular flows through capillaries

New experimental results are reported pointing to the possibility of a laser control of the resonant gases transit through capillaries in the Knudsen and intermediate regimes.     

Riemann and Goursat step data problems for extensible strings

Riemann and Goursat step data problems for extensible nonlinear elastic strings are solved in the class of regulated functions. In the first paragraph, the solution to the simplest initial and boundary value problem, i.e., Goursat problem in strains, is constructed. This solution points out four vector-valued functions of a vector variable, which are the tools used in solving the Goursat problem in velocity and the Riemann problem.     

Dimensionality and disorder in TTT-I1.6

DC conductivity and thermoelectric power measurements are presented on the organic charge transfer salt TTT-I_1.6. It is argued that the metallic low temperature behaviour srises from the joint influence of a finite interchain bandwidth and weak disorder.