Effect of water vapour on particulate matter emission during oxyfuel combustion of char and in situ volatiles generated from rapid pyrolysis of chromated-copper-arsenate-treated wood

This paper reports the effect of water vapour on particulate matter (PM) during the separate combustion of in situ volatiles and char generated from chromated-copper-arsenate-treated (CCAT) wood at 1300 °C. Combustion of in situ volatiles produces only PM with aerodynamic diameter?<1?µm (i.e., PM₁), dominantly PM with aerodynamic diameter?<0.1?µm (i.e., PM_0.1). Water vapour could significantly enhance the nucleation, coagulation and condensation of fine particles and reduce the capture of Na and K by the alumina reactor tube via reduced formation of alkali aluminates, leading to increases in both yield and modal diameter of PM_0.1. Water vapour could also enhance char fragmentation hence increase the yield of PM with aerodynamic diameter between 1 and 10?µm (i.e., PM_1–10) during char combustion. For trace elements, during in situ volatiles combustion, volatile elements (As, Cr, Ni, Cu and Pb) are only presented in PM₁ and water vapour alters the particle size distributions (PSDs) but has little effect on the yields of these trace elements. During char combustion, As, Cr, Cu and Ni are present in both PM₁ and PM_1–10 while the non-volatile Mn and Ti are only present in PM_1–10. Increasing water vapour content increases the yields of As, Cr, Cu, Ni, Mn and Ti in PM_1-10 due to enhanced char fragmentation. During char combustion, water vapour also originates less oxidising conditions locally for enhancing As release, promotes the generation of gaseous chromium oxyhydroxides and inhabits the production of NiCl₂ (g), leading to increased yields of As and Cr and decreased yield of Ni in PM_0.1.     

Realization of Tip Tilting By 8-Step Line Tilting

By direct calculation of rotation matrices of SO（3）, we show how certain specific sequence of eight consecutive rotations of digital angles can yield a tilting of a facet mirror. We also design a detailed program specifically to tilt an array of mirrors from planar orientation to the required focusing orientation. We describe how to use the 8-step to realize the focusing of the mirror array. We have found, in our designed program, an important feature of row-sharing during the rotations for the columns and similarly the column-sharing during the rotations for the row. This feature can save a lot of operating time during the actual realization of the mechanical movements.     

Digitalized Mirror Array and Its Application in Large Telescope： Principle and Case Studies

In this article, we report the principle and conceptual design of a fundamentally different technology in fabricating high precision aberration free optical devices. The tip-tilt of facet in a mirror array is produced by digitally controlled line-tilts of rows and columns. It has not only provided a cost-effective designing methodology in optical physics but also led to a much finer precision of 1 mili arc sec or less. As examples of the application of the proposed digitalised optics, two case studies have been given： a 10 m Schmidt telescope （off-axis） and an 8 m Cassegrain telescope （on-axis）.     

Sensitive and selective detection of nitric oxide using an H-NOX domain

Tt Y140F, a mutant of the H-NOX (Heme-Nitric Oxide or OXygen binding domain) protein from Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis, is presented as a novel genetically encoded NO sensor. Tt Y140F is easily purified and obtained in high yields from standard E. coli expression systems. It is extremely stable as both the ferrous unligated and ferrous-nitrosyl complexes in air over a range of temperatures (up to 70 degrees C) without oxidizing, denaturing, or binding O2. NO binding is quantitative and can be followed using simple absorbance spectroscopy. In theory, NO concentrations between 300 nM and 30 muM can be accurately and easily detected.     

An optical biosensor for dichlovos using stacked sol-gel films containing acetylcholinesterase and a lipophilic chromoionophore

An optical biosensor consisting of a chromoionophore (ETH5294) (CM) doped sol-gel film interfaced with another sol-gel film immobilized with acetylcholinesterase (AChE) was employed to detect the insecticide dichlorvos. The main advantage of this optical biosensor is the use of a sol-gel layer with immobilized CM that possesses lipophilic property. The highly lipophilic nature of the CM and its compatibility with the sol-gel matrix has prevented leaching, which is frequently a problem in optical sensor construction based on pH indicator dyes. The immobilization of the indicator and enzyme was simple and need no chemical modification. The CM layer is pH sensitive and detects the pH changes of the acetylcholine chloride (AChCl) substrate when hydrolyzed by AChE layer deposited above. In the absence of the AChE layer, the pH response of the CM layer is linear from pH 6 to 8 (R² = 0.98, n = 3) and it showed no leaching of the lipophilic chromoionophore. When the AChE layer is deposited on top, the optical biosensor responds to AChCl with a linear dynamic range of 40-90 mM AChCl (R² = 0.984, n = 6). The response time of the biosensor is 12 min. Based on the optimum incubation time of 15 min, a linear calibration curve of dichlorvos against the percentage inhibition of AChE was obtained from 0.5 to 7 mg/L of dichlorvos (17-85% inhibition, R² = 0.991, n = 9). The detection limit for dichlorvos was 0.5 mg/L. The results of the analysis of 1.7-6.0 mg/L of dichlorvos using this optical biosensor agreed well with a gas chromatography-mass spectrometry detection method.     

Multifunctional carbon-coated magnetic sensing graphene oxide-cyclodextrin nanohybrid for potential cancer theranosis

Journal of Nanoparticle Research - Over the last years, an environmentally friendly and economically efficient way of nanoparticle production has been found in the biosynthesis of metal...     

Assessment of the kinetic-frictional model for dense granular flow

This paper aims to quantitatively assess the application of kinetic-frictional model to simulate the motion of dry granular materials in dense condition, in particular, the annular shearing in Couette configuration. The weight of frictional stress was varied to study the contribution of the frictional stress in dense granular flows. The results show that the pure kinetic-theory-based computational fluid dynamics （CFD） model （without frictional stress） over-predicts the dominant solids motion of dense granular flow while adding frictional stress [Schaeffer, D. G. （1987）. Instability in the evolution equations describing incompressible granular flow. Journal of Differential Equations, 66（1）, 19-50] with the solids pressure of [Lun, C. NTK., Savage, S. B., Jeffrey, D. J., ＆ Chepurniy, N. （1984）. Kinetic theories for granular flow： Inelastic particles in Couette flow and slightly inelastic particles in a general flow field. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 140, 223-256] in the CFD model improves the simulation to better conform available experimental results. The results also suggest that frictional stress transmission plays an important role in dense granular flow and should not be neglected in granular flow simulations. Compatible simulation results to the experimental data are seen by increasing the weight of frictional stress to a factor of 1.25-1.5. These improved simulation results suggest the current constitutive relations （kinetic-frictional model） need to be improved in order to better reflect the real dense granular flow.     

Fluctuation-dissipation theorem and intrinsic stochasticity of climate

Summary In climate dynamics the effect of internally generated fluctuations is usually described by augmenting the balance equations through the addition ofrandom forces. In this paper the properties of these forces are investigated. Afluctuation-dissipation theorem relating their covariance matrix to the phenomenological coefficients such as eddy diffusivity is proposed. The theorem is subsequently used to identify the statistical properties of the climatic variables themselves, and thus to characterize climatic variability from the standpoint of the statistical theory of irreversible processes. Applications to a simple thermal convection problem and to a zonally averaged energy-balance model are presented; the possibility of experimental verification is discussed.

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Riassunto Nella dinamica del clima si descrive solitamente l'effetto delle fluttuazioni generate internamente aumentando le equazioni del bilancio con l'aggiunta di forze casuali. In questo lavoro si studiano le proprietà di queste forze. Si propone un teorema di fluttuazione-dissipazione che correla la matrice di covarianza ai coefficienti fenomenologici come la diffusività turbolenta. Il teorema è usato successivamente per identificare le proprietà statistiche delle variabili climatiche stesse e per caratterizzare la variabilità climatica dal punto di vista della teoria statistica dei processi irreversibili. Si presentano applicazioni a un problema semplice di convezione termica e ad un modello di bilancio d'energia mediato a zone; si discute la possibilità di verifica sperimentale.

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