燃气轮机进气道内部复杂三维流动研究

本文采用高分辨率多块多网格方法,数值研究工业燃气轮机非轴对称进气道内部的复杂三维流动。文中描述了所采用的数值方法,给出了进气道内部流场的细节,分析了进气道出口流场的非轴对称情况。     

Occurrence of Phthalates in Bottled Drinks in the Chinese Market and Its Implications for Dietary Exposure

Ubiquitous occurrences of phthalic acid esters (PAEs) or phthalates in a variety of consumer products have been demonstrated. Nevertheless, studies on their occurrence in various types of bottled drinks are limited. In this study, fifteen PAEs were analyzed in six categories of bottled drinks (n = 105) collected from the Chinese market, including mineral water, tea drinks, energy drinks, juice drinks, soft drinks, and beer. Among the 15 PAEs measured, DEHP was the most abundant phthalate with concentrations ranging from below the limit of quantification (LOQ) to 41,000 ng/L at a detection rate (DR) of 96%, followed by DIBP (DR: 88%) and DBP (DR: 84%) with respective concentration ranges of below LOQ to 16,000 and to 4900 ng/L. At least one PAE was detected in each drink sample, and the sum concentrations of 15 PAEs ranged from 770 to 48,004 ng/L (median: 6286 ng/L). Significant differences with respect to both PAE concentrations and composition profiles were observed between different types of bottled drinks. The median sum concentration of 15 PAEs in soft drinks was over five times higher than that detected in mineral water; different from other drink types. Besides DEHP, DBIP, and DBP, a high concentration of BMEP was also detected in a tea drink. The estimated daily dietary intake of phthalates (EDI_drink) through the consumption of bottled drinks was calculated based on the concentrations measured and the daily ingestion rates of bottled drink items. The EDI_drink values for DMP, DEP, DIBP, DBP, BMEP, DAP, BEEP, BBP, DCP, DHP, BMPP, BBEP, DEHP, DOP, and DNP through the consumption of bottled mineral water (based on mean concentrations) were 0.45, 0.33, 12.5, 3.67, 2.10, 0.06, 0.32, 0.16, 0.10, 0.09, 0.05, 0.81, 112, 0.13, and 0.20 ng/kg-bw/d, respectively, for Chinese adults. Overall, the EDI_drink values calculated for phthalates through the consumption of bottled drinks were below the oral reference doses suggested by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA).     

轻卡进气管的结构优化及其声学性能

为有效降低轻卡进气管的噪声,首先通过原始进气管的噪声实验,测试得出噪声的主要贡献频率,结合管道的布置情况,进行了消声器(谐振腔)的设计,进而完成对进气管的优化设计;通过专业声学分析软件LMS Virtual.lab对优化前后的进气管进行声学性能的模拟研究,得出了谐振腔对声场的具体影响;通过噪声实验,分析出加装谐振腔的进气管相比于原始进气管的降噪效果。研究结果表明：在所研究的进气管噪声的主要贡献频率下(即125 Hz、180 Hz、465 Hz、640 Hz),加装谐振腔后,传递损失均能得到有效增加;在怠速工况和加速工况下,优化后的进气管噪声值均能满足限定值。因此,通过添加谐振腔来优化进气管可以达到了较好的降噪效果。该研究可为汽车进气管降噪元件的优化设计提供一定的指导。     

Use of an On Site Integrated Pump Sampler for Estimation of Total Daily Intake of Some Metals from Tap Water

Abstract

An on-site pump-integrated water sampler-preconcentration device combined with a pressure sensitive switch to allow sampling of water from kitchen taps as a direct function of use is described. The sampler was used in the analysis of 18 tap water samples in the Montreal Metropolitan area for Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn during six days of normal use. The sampler-preconcentration device has the potential for giving a more accurate estimate of the total daily intake of the above metals from drinking water.     

Computation of internal aerodynamic noise from a quick-opening throttle valve using frequency-domain acoustic analogy

Recently, plastic products in air-intake parts of automotive engines have become very popular due to advantages that include reduced weight, constricted cost, and lower intake air temperature. However, flow-induced noise in air-intake parts becomes a more serious problem for plastic intake-manifolds than for conventional aluminum-made manifolds. This is due to the fact that plastic manifolds transmit more noise owing to their lower material density. Internal aerodynamic noise from a quick-opening throttle valve is computed by using a frequency-domain acoustic analogy, which is based on the integral formula derived by using the General Green Function, Lighthill’s acoustic analogy and Curle’s extension of Lighthill’s. The integral formula is arranged in such a manner that allows a frequency-domain acoustic signal to be predicted at any location in a duct through the use of unsteady flow data in space and time, which can be obtained by applying Computational Fluid Dynamics techniques. The prediction of the acoustic pressure level from the quick-opening throttle valve shows good agreement with actual measurement. Through the detailed analysis of the flow-noise generation mechanism it was found that the anti-vortex lines, formed behind the throttle valve during the quick-opening behavior, feed the large-scale coherent turbulence and, as a result, play a crucial role in generating the dipolar sound from unsteady loading of the quick-opening throttle valve. From this, it can be inferred that the low-noise design of the throttle-duct system can be made by using this concept to break the large-scale vortex structure.     

Exposure assessment to ochratoxin A from the consumption of Italian and Hungarian wines

A total of 267 wine samples including 19 dessert, 186 red, 11 rosé and 51 white produced mostly in the years 1997–2002 in Italian and Hungarian regions were analyzed for ochratoxin A (OTA) using inmunoaffinity column (IAC) clean-up and HPLC with fluorimetric detection. None of Hungarian wine samples were contaminated with this mycotoxin. For Italian red wines, 84% of the samples were positive for OTA ranged from 0.01 to 4.00 ng/mL. Furthermore, OTA was detected in 63% of dessert, in 56% of rosé and in 19% of white wine samples ranged from 0.01 to 1.64, from 0.01 to 1.04 and from 0.01 to 0.21 ng/mL, respectively. A study of OTA daily exposure assessment in Italian wines was also carried out outlining a quite low contribution to the overall daily intake.     

The need for reference materials when monitoring nitrate intake

Whether dietary exposure to nitrate metabolites is detrimental or beneficial to human health has long been a matter of controversy. In spite of no consistent epidemiological evidence, nitrate metabolites are associated with the formation of carcinogenic-nitrosamines and gastric cancer. Furthermore, recent studies demonstrate that ingested nitrate plays a role in host defence against gastrointestinal pathogenic bacteria. Analytical values of nitrate content in foods are essential for estimating nitrate intake. The analytical process is of paramount importance for assessing human nitrate exposure and for establishing a link between these exposures and the current and future observed health effects. Therefore, the quality assurance of the measurement process is crucial to obtaining reliability, comparability and traceability of results. Certified Reference Materials (CRM) should play a role in the consistency of the measurement process. However, the availability of nitrate CRMs is still poor. When food monitoring is demanded, an approach could be to use In House Reference Materials (IHRM), prepared at a high metrological level, and all preparation steps should be quality driven. IHRMs were prepared, and available CRMs were used to provide traceability of the process. The homogeneity of IHRM was evaluated using an appropriate statistical design. The stability was monitored using an isochronous method. The material shelf life and storage conditions are presented.HPLC was optimised for the determination of nitrates in four vegetable categories. When a suite of IHRMs were used, the response of the HPLC system was linear over the range 1 to 8 mg L^–1. The detection limit for these compounds was 0.2 g L^–1 and the determination limit 1.2 g L^–1.The relationship between measurement uncertainty and critical points of the analytical process is presented. The differences in observed relative uncertainty between food categories could reflect current limitations in the food matrix reference materials.     

Occurrence of ochratoxin A in bread consumed in Morocco

One hundred samples of commercial bread purchased from January to October (2006) from retail bakeshops in five different cities (Rabat, Témara, Salé, Casablanca and Meknès) in Morocco were surveyed for the presence of ochratoxin A (OTA) using liquid chromatography coupled to fluorescence detection. The identification of OTA in positive bread samples was confirmed by methyl ester derivatization. Analytical results showed that forty eight (48%) samples were positive with OTA greater than the limit of quantification (LOQ = 0.051 ng/g). Levels of OTA in positive samples ranged between 0.14 and 149 ng/g. The average contamination of bread samples with OTA was 13 ± 1.5 ng/g. The highest frequency of positive samples (61.5%) and the most contaminated sample (149 ng/g) were found in bread commercialized in the Casablanca area. Twenty six of the positive samples exceeded the maximum level of 3 ng/g set by European regulations for OTA in cereals and derivatives. Based in the results presented in this study, the estimated daily intake of OTA from bread was 126 ng/kg bw/day. The present paper is the first ever drafted on the natural occurrence of OTA in bread consumed in Morocco. Data on the daily intake of OTA by the Moroccan population are also estimated for the first time.     

Quality assurance in daily practice

 A report based on the workshop on "Quality Assurance in Daily Practice", organised by the study group "Quality Assurance and Accreditation" from the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the Federation of European Chemical Societies (SGQAA/DAC/FECS) held at the EUROANALYSIS-10 conference in Basle, 6–11 September 1998.