Measurement of the noise generation at the trailing edge of porous airfoils

Owls are commonly known for their quiet flight, enabled by three adaptions of their wings and plumage: leading edge serrations, trailing edge fringes and a soft and elastic downy upper surface of the feathers. In order to gain a better understanding of the aeroacoustic effects of the third property that is equivalent to an increased permeability of the plumage to air, an experimental survey on a set of airfoils made of different porous materials was carried out. Several airfoils with the same shape and size but made of different porous materials characterized by their flow resistivities and one non-porous reference airfoil were subject to the flow in an aeroacoustic open jet wind tunnel. The flow speed has been varied between approximately 25 and 50 m/s. The geometric angle of attack ranged from −16° to 20° in 4°-steps. The results of the aeroacoustic measurements, made with a 56-microphone array positioned out of flow, and of the measurements of lift and drag are given and discussed.     

Extraction-spectrophotometric determination of sulphide and sulphite in waters based on formation of the bis(2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline) copper(I) ion

A spectrophotometric method is described for the determination of sulphide or sulphite. The bis(2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline)copper(II) ion is reduced at pH 10 by sulphide in the presence of formaldehyde and by sulphide and sulphite in its absence. The resulting copper(I) complex is extracted into chloroform and measured. With any convenient sample volume between 1 and 100 ml, the limits of detection are 0.1 mg for sulphide and 0.25 μg for sulphite. The method is unaffected by iron(II) and nitrite, in concentrations of 100 and 1000 mg l^-1, respectively.     

Application of fluorescence reactions in the ring oven segment technique

Summary The ring oven segment technique already described earlier has been applied to the determination of ng- tog-amounts of organic and inorganic substances using fluorescence reactions. The methods proposed here are based either on self-fluorescence or on appearance or disappearance of fluorescence following a chemical reaction.

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Anwendung von Fluoreszenzreaktionen in der Ringofen-Segmenttechnik

Zusammenfassung Die bereits früher beschriebene Ringofen-Segmenttechnik wurde auf die Bestimmung organischer und anorganischer Substanzen im ng- bisg-Bereich mit Hilfe von Fluoreszenzreaktionen angewendet. Die hier vorgeschlagenen Methoden beruhen entweder auf Eigenfluoreszenz oder aber auf der Bildung bzw. dem Verschwinden von Fluoreszenz nach einer chemischen Reaktion.