Inverse colloidal crystal membranes for hydrophobic interaction membrane chromatography

Hydrophobic interaction membrane chromatography has gained interest due to its excellent performance in the purification of humanized monoclonal antibodies. The membrane material used in hydrophobic interaction membrane chromatography has typically been commercially available polyvinylidene fluoride. In this contribution, newly developed inverse colloidal crystal membranes that have uniform pores, high porosity and, therefore, high surface area for protein binding are used as hydrophobic interaction membrane chromatography membranes for humanized monoclonal antibody immunoglobulin G purification. The capacity of the inverse colloidal crystal membranes developed here is up to ten times greater than commercially available polyvinylidene fluoride membranes with a similar pore size. This work highlights the importance of developing uniform pore size high porosity membranes in order to maximize the capacity of hydrophobic interaction membrane chromatography.     

褐煤半焦直接加氢制甲烷反应特性及其孔结构和表面形态变化

在高温高压(1 000 ℃、12 MPa)固定床反应器上对内蒙古褐煤半焦的加氢甲烷化反应特性进行了研究,采用氮吸附和扫描电镜(SEM)对甲烷化残渣比表面积、孔结构和表面形态进行了表征。结果表明,半焦加氢甲烷化可分为加氢热解、快速加氢和慢速加氢等三个反应阶段,每阶段分别发生含氧官能团和烷基侧链加氢反应、芳环结构加氢反应以及贫氢骨架碳结构加氢反应。半焦加氢甲烷化最优反应温度为800 ℃,反应压力为3.0~4.0 MPa;提高升温速率可以缩短前段(碳转化率低于46%)反应过程时间,对后段(碳转化率高于46%)反应过程影响较小。半焦甲烷化残渣的吸附-脱附等温线呈反S型,滞后环呈H3回线形状;在甲烷化反应过程中,半焦平均孔径先减小后增大,总孔容积和介孔容积逐渐增大,微孔容积和比表面积先增大后减小。     

活性炭孔隙结构对催化氧化脱除单质汞的影响

研究活性炭在硫化氢存在条件下催化氧化脱除煤气中单质汞的吸附机理和探讨提高其吸附能力的方法,在模拟煤气气氛下对3种活性炭和一种活性焦进行汞的吸附性能实验,并进一步分析活性炭(焦)的孔隙结构。用BET方程处理N₂等温吸附数据,计算比表面积;用HK法进行微孔分析;用BJH法计算中孔孔径分布。结果表明,硫化氢被催化氧化后,生成吸附在活性炭孔壁上的活性硫促进了对汞的吸附;随着活性炭微孔和中孔体积的增大,活性炭对汞的吸附能力得到提高。     

13C SPE MAS measurement of ligand concentration in compressible chromatographic beads

A method for measuring the ligand concentration in heterogeneous materials like chromatography media is described. In this method, ¹³C single pulse excitation magic angle spinning NMR experiment with broadband ¹H decoupling is used to determine the peak integrals for a butyl ligand in the spectrum of a dried chromatography medium. Within a carefully controlled protocol, those integrals compared with that of the internal reference compound dimethyl sulfone provide the required volume concentration with an accuracy of ca 2%. The effects of temperature, degree of hydration, and other experimental parameters are discussed. Copyright © 2015 The Authors. Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.     

Analysis of Concentration as Sampled in

The aim of this paper is to analyze the statistical properties of solute concentration in natural aquifers as sampled in observation wells, having a small diameter in comparison with the characteristic size of the heterogeneity in hydraulic properties. The analysis, in Langragian framework, takes advantage of the reverse formulation, where, instead of considering the destination of the injected particles, the origin of the particle being sampled is sought. In the case of small values of the log-conductivity variance _Y², it allows the derivation of an analytical expression for concentration mean, variance and pdf, while for aquifer characterized by high value in _Y², a numerical analysis based on a Monte Carlo approach using a reverse scheme is developed and applied for values of _Y² up to 2. In this case, the use of a Beta function to fit the concentration pdf proves valid for practical applications. The comparison between the numerical and the analytical results defines the range of validity of the analytical ones. The relative role of large-scale dispersion processes and pore-scale effects is analyzed in terms of global variance in order to point out limits and accuracy of the Eulerian scheme in comparison with the Lagrangian one.     

冲击荷载作用下粘土孔隙水压的数值分析

为了分析冲击荷载作用下粘土的孔隙水压力的增长规律，为分析粘土介质的动态响应、动力固结加固提供理论依据，将冲击瞬态荷载简化为三角形荷载，通过编制瞬变动态弹塑性有限元程序，对冲击荷载作用下粘土孔隙水压的动态响应进行了模拟，得出了冲击荷载作用下粘土孔隙水压的增长规律，发现孔隙水压力峰值无论是随水平距离还是随深度的增加均呈指数形式衰减，和实际工程施工中孔隙水压的监测数据相吻合。     

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL FOR STRUCTURES OF COLLOIDS CONFINED IN A SLIT-LIKE PORE

A density functional theory is applied to calculating the local density profiles of colloids confined in a slit-like pore as well as the radial distribution functions of bulk colloids. The interaction between the colloidal particles is described using a hard-core Yukawa model. The excess Helmholtz energy functional is a combination of the modified fundamental measure theory of Yu and Wu （2002） for the hard-core contribution and a corrected mean-field theory for the attractive contribution. Comparison with the results from the Monte Carlo simulations shows that the corrected theory improves the density profiles of colloids in the vicinity of contact over the original mean-field theory. Both the present corrected theory and simulations suggest that there are depletion and desorption for the colloid with strong attraction between particles at low temperature.     

Capillary Imbibition and Pore Characterisation in Cement Pastes

The kinetics of capillary imbibition in ordinary Portland cement pastes has been studied experimentally and theoretically. Nuclear magnetic resonance stray field imaging (STRAFI) has been used to record water concentration profiles for various ingress times. The profiles follow a t law and thus a master curve can be formed using the Boltzmann transformation. The distribution of pore sizes within the sample as measured by NMR cryoporometry shows a prominent peak at 100Å. A computer model of the pore structure was developed consisting of a lattice of interconnecting pores with a size distribution consistent with the cryoporometry results. The Hagen–Poiseuille law was used to describe the kinetics of the water in this pore structure. The best agreement between the computer simulations and the experimental master curve was obtained by using a narrower range of pore sizes than indicated by the cryoporometry results.