Comparison of Uniform and Non-uniform Pressure Approaches Used to Analyze an Adsorption Process in a Closed Type Adsorbent Bed

Heat and mass transfer in an annular adsorbent bed filled with silica gel particles is numerically analyzed by uniform and non-uniform pressure approaches. The study is performed for silica gel–water pair, particle radius from 0.025 to 1 mm and two bed radii of 10 and 40 mm. For uniform pressure approach, the energy equation for the bed and the mass transfer equation for the particle are solved. For non-uniform pressure approach, the continuity and Darcy equations due to the motion of water vapor in the bed are added, and four coupled partial differential equations are solved. The changes of the adsorbate concentration, pressure, and temperature in the bed throughout the adsorption process for both approaches are obtained and compared. The obtained results showed that the particle size plays an important role on the validity of uniform pressure approach. Due to the interparticle mass transfer resistance, there is a considerable difference between the results of the uniform pressure and non-uniform pressure approaches for the beds with small size of particles such as $r_\mathrm{{p}} =$ 0.025 mm.     

Quasinormal modes of BTZ black hole and Hawking‐like radiation in graphene

The Bañados‐Teitelboim‐Zanelli (BTZ) black hole model corresponds to a solution of (2+1)‐dimensional Einstein gravity with negative cosmological constant, and by a conformal rescaling its metric can be mapped onto the hyperbolic pseudosphere surface (Beltrami trumpet) with negative curvature. Beltrami trumpet shaped graphene sheets have been predicted to emit Hawking radiation that is experimentally detectable by a scanning tunnelling microscope. Here, for the first time we present an analytical algorithm that allows variational solutions to the Dirac Hamiltonian of graphene pseudoparticles in BTZ black hole gravitational field by using an approach based on the formalism of pseudo‐Hermitian Hamiltonians within a discrete‐basis‐set method. We show that our model not only reproduces the exact results for the real part of quasinormal mode frequencies of (2+1)‐dimensional spinless BTZ black hole, but also provides analytical results for the real part of quasinormal modes of spinning BTZ black hole, and also offers some predictions for the observable effects with a view to gravity‐like phenomena in a curved graphene sheet.

     

Radiostability of Allantoin by Using Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy

The radiosterilization potential and dosimetric feature of allantoin were investigated through the molecular degradations produced after ultraviolet and gamma irradiation using electron spin resonance, infrared, and ultraviolet spectroscopies and thermal measurement techniques (differential thermal analysis and the glass transition temperature). Although ultraviolet-irradiated allantoin presents no electron spin resonance signal, gamma irradiation exhibited an electron spin resonance signal of triplet appearance. Room temperature and high-temperature line intensity and spectrum area data and their variations with applied microwave power, storage time, annealing time, annealing temperature, and applied radiation dose were analyzed by assuming the production of two different types of radicals having different spectroscopic and decay characteristics. Based on its relatively stable nature toward gamma and ultraviolet radiations, it was concluded that allantoin itself and the products containing it can be sterilized by gamma and/or ultraviolet radiations without creating a great loss in its beneficial effects in the allowed radiosterilization dose limits.     

食品中三聚氰胺的光谱检测与分析技术研究进展

三聚氰胺是豆、乳类制品中的非法食品添加剂,曾作为蛋白质的廉价代替物被非法添加进奶粉等食品中,造成了严重的社会危害,极大地威胁人民生命财产安全。目前光谱技术已成为识别和定量检测非法食品添加剂的有效手段,为质量监管部门提供了可靠的研究方法和鉴定依据。光谱检测技术的时效性、无损性和准确性提高了食品中三聚氰胺的检测效率,促进了精准化、自动化食品质量检测的发展。近年来有大量研究围绕着三聚氰胺的光谱检测新技术,如开发新型增强底物或传感器,降低三聚氰胺的检测限,提高检测精度;开发更加便携的自动化光谱快检设备,降低检测成本,提高检测效率。这些光谱技术各具优势,但很难形成标准化、统一化的检测规范,使得各种光谱检测技术仅仅停留在试验阶段,无法应用于实战。另一方面,随着人工智能与模式识别技术的发展,光谱数据分析方法在近年来也有着长足的进步,各种光谱预处理和数据建模方法被不断提出,大大提高了光谱检测技术的灵敏性和稳定性。综述了近十年光谱技术（拉曼光谱、近红外光谱、荧光光谱、光谱成像等）在三聚氰胺检测中的应用现状,总结了不同仪器检测限、定量范围和样品前处理方法;分析了各种光谱预处理和光谱数据建模方法在不同光谱数据中的适用性,归纳出这些方法的优劣与适配的仪器,并对其应用前景和研究趋势进行了展望。     

The concrete columns as a sensible thermal energy storage medium and a heater

This study investigated storage possibility of sensible thermal energy in the concrete columns of multi-storey buildings and the heating performance of the indoors with the stored energy. In the suggested system, the dry air heated in an energy center will be circulated in stainless steel pipes through columns. The sensible thermal energy would firstly be stored by means of forced convection in column medium. Then, the stored thermal energy will transfer by natural convection and radiation from the column surfaces to indoor spaces. The transient thermal calculations are realized for a flat of the 11-storey building in Kayseri city of Turkey. The thermal energy requirement of the flat is nearby 5.3 kW as an average of a winter season. The simplified transient calculations were carried out over a concrete hollow cylindrical column having outer radius of 0.31 m and inner radius of 0.05 m corresponding an averaged column section in the sample flat. The flow temperature was selected between T = 350 and 500 K, which are considerably lower than the temperature of 573 K assumed as a limit for thermal strength of the concrete in the literature. The flow velocity ranges were selected between V = 1.0 and 5.0 m/s. The initial temperature was assumed as 293 K. After the first energy charging process of 23 h, for T = 350 K and V = 1.0 m/s, the total heat flux from the column surfaces into indoors are nearby 5.5 kW. The first charging time required to reach the energy requirement of 5.3 kW is decreased by increasing the flow velocity and temperature. Also for 5.0 m/s–350 K and 5.0 m/s–450 K, this time can decrease to 10 and 4.5 h, respectively. In addition, with 4.0 m/s–360 K or 2.0 m/s–400 K, after the energy charging of 8 h, the energy requirement of 5.3 kW can be provided by the energy discharging of 16 h and the energy charging of 8 h during 7 days. The results are very attractive in terms of the building heating systems of the future.     

Solution of soliton equations in terms of neutral fermion particles

In this paper we exploit the algebraic structure of the soliton equations and find solutions in terms of neutral free fermion particles. We show how pfaffians arise naturally in the fermionic approach to soliton equations. We write the τ-function for neutral free fermions in terms of pfaffians. Examples of how to get soliton, rational and dromion solutions from τ-functions for the various soliton equations are given.     

MR susceptibility artifact due to occupational cause: an unusual case

Susceptibility artefact is one of the magnetic resonance artefacts. It may occur due to ferromagnetic foreign bodies.We present an unusual artefact due to occupational reason.