Gas Evolution from the Pyrolysis of Jordan Oil Shale in A Fixed-bed Reactor

Jordan oil shale from El-Lajjun deposit was pyrolysed in a fixed-bed pyrolysis reactor and the influence of the pyrolysis temperature between 400 to 620°C and the influence of the pyrolysis atmosphere using nitrogen and nitrogen/steam on the product yield and gas composition were investigated. The gases analysed were H₂, CO, CO₂ and hydrocarbons from C₁ to C₄. The results showed for both nitrogen and nitrogen/steam that increase the pyrolysis bed temperature from 400 to 520°C resulted in a significant increase in the oil yield, after which temperature the oil yield decreased. The alkene/alkane ratio including ethene/ethane, propene/propane, and butene/butane ratios, can be used as an indication of pyrolysis temperature and the magnitude of cracking reactions. Increasing alkene/alkane ratio occurring with increasing pyrolysis temperature. The alkene/alkane ratio for nitrogen/steam pyrolysis atmosphere was lower than the one found under nitrogen atmosphere. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

CeO_2改性Cu/Zn-Al水滑石衍生催化剂对甲醇水蒸气重整制氢性能的影响

采用原位合成法在γ-Al2O3表面合成了锌铝水滑石,再采用顺次浸渍法制备了Ce/Cu/Zn-Al催化材料;将其应用于甲醇水蒸气重整制氢,探讨了Ce含量对Cu/Zn-Al催化剂催化性能的影响.催化剂表征结果表明,CeO_2的引入改善了活性组分铜的分散度、铜的比表面积以及催化剂的氧化还原性质,进而提高了催化剂的催化活性和产氢率.当Ce含量为4%时,催化剂活性最佳,在250℃时,甲醇转化率达到100%,CO摩尔分数为0.39%,与Cu/Zn-Al催化剂相比,甲醇转化率提高了近40%.     

Initial steps in the production of H2 from ethanol: A FT-IR study of adsorbed species on Ni/MgO catalyst surface

Reactivity of pure ethanol and acetaldehyde on Ni/MgO catalyst at different reaction temperatures was investigated confirming that hydrogen production is ascribable to a series of consecutive and/or parallel reactions. FT-IR studies on adsorbed dry molecules (ethanol or acetaldehyde) showed that ethanol decomposition occurs on catalyst surface through formation of acetaldehyde, which is converted to acetates and then to carbonates, or decomposes to CO, C and H₂.     

酸蒸气水热免洗法制备前驱物ZrMo2-xWxO7(OH,Cl)2·2H2O和立方ZrMo2-xWxO8热收缩化合物

采用酸蒸气水热免洗方法合成了立方ZrW2O8类型化合物的系列前驱物ZrMo2-xWxO7(OH, Cl)2·2H2O(x=0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8), 并由此制备了纯立方相ZrMo2-xWxO8(x=0.6, 0.8, 1.0, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8). 提出了用X射线粉末衍射相对积分强度表征有序-无序介稳态晶体有序度的方法, 发现在制备条件下, 随着Mo/W摩尔比的减小, 立方相ZrMo2-xWxO8有序-无序介稳态的饱和有序度增加的规律. 讨论了原料选择以及中间产物的形貌对合成目标产物的影响, 探讨了以铵盐为原料制备前驱物反应的微观过程.     

吸收增强式甲烷水蒸气重整制氢实验研究

利用固定床反应器对吸收增强式甲烷水蒸气重整制氢反应进行了考察,研究了温度、甲烷流量、颗粒粒径和吸收剂种类等参数对反应过程的影响。结果表明,吸收增强式制氢反应过程最佳反应温度受热力学和动力学两方面因素影响;常压下以CaO为吸收剂时,最佳反应温度为600℃~700℃;CH4流量的选取要根据反应器内吸收剂的量与吸收增强段持续时间综合比较而定; 颗粒粒径大于90 μm,分析纯CaO和新型钙基CO2吸收剂CaO/Ca12Al14O33 均能达到较好的吸收增强效果。     

Synthesis and Characterization of Ordered Mesoporous Aluminosilicate Molecular Sieves with High Stability in High-Temperature Steam

The ordered mesoporous aluminosilicate molecular sieve （MASMS-1） stable in the high-temperature steam has been successfully synthesized from the assembly of diluted ZSM-5-type precursor with mesoporous MCM-41. The material was characterized by XRD, N2 adsorption-desorption, FE-SEM, TEM, FT-IR spectroscopy and 27A1 MAS NMR techniques. This mesoporous material shows high stability in the high-temperature steam [H2O （φ=20%） in N2 at 800 ℃ for 4 h], which might be ascribed to the synergistic effect of both thick walls containing zeolite-like five-membered ring subunits and highly condensed surface silanol groups.     

气相色谱-质谱联用法结合保留指数对高良姜挥发油成分的分析

采用气相色谱-质谱联用(GC-MS)法结合保留指数(RI)对高良姜水蒸气蒸馏法(SD)、超声波辅助溶剂提取法(UAE)和亚临界流体萃取法(SFE)所制备的挥发油进行分析,分别鉴定出51,46和60个挥发性组分,并通过峰面积归一化法确定各组分的相对含量。结果表明,高良姜挥发油的指标性成分1,8-桉叶素含量的大小顺序为SD法≈SFE法UAE法,UAE法虽耗时少、能耗低,但由于所用有机溶剂难去除,所得挥发油品质较差。SFE法可得到部分SD法无法得到的化合物,如2-羟基-1,8-桉叶素、二苯基庚烷类等。另外β-石竹烯、α-石竹烯、α-法尼烯、γ-杜松烯等高沸点组分比例,SFE法所得高于另两种方法;α-蒎烯、莰烯、β-蒎烯、柠檬烯、樟脑和α-松油醇等低沸点组分比例,SD法所得最高。同一批药材不同提取方法所得的挥发油成分大部分相似,但部分成分与组分比例因不同提取方法的原理存在差异,实际生产中可根据功效需求选择不同提取方法加以开发利用。     

甲醇水蒸气重整制氢独立反应探讨

分析了甲醇重整氢反应可能的反应途径，分析结果表明体系中有2个独立反应，则至少应有2个动力学方程才能描述，利用平衡温距的概念，分析了WGS反应在甲醇水重整反应体系中的作用，根据在固定床反应器上的实验结果，证明变换反应不宜出现在动力学模型中，合理的动力学模型认为水蒸气重整反应和甲醇分解反应平行进行，CO和CO2同时生成。     

Numerical Prediction of Two-Phase Flow through a Tube Bundle Based on Reduced-Order Model and a Void Fraction Correlation

Predicting the void fraction of a two-phase flow outside of tubes is essential to evaluate the thermohydraulic behaviour in steam generators. Indeed, it determines two-phase mixture properties and affects two-phase mixture velocity, which enable evaluating the pressure drop of the system. The two-fluid model for the numerical simulation of two-phase flows requires interaction laws between phases which are not known and/or reliable for a flow within a tube bundle. Therefore, the mixture model, for which it is easier to implement suitable correlations for tube bundles, is used. Indeed, by expressing the relative velocity as a function of slip, the void fraction model of Feenstra et al. and Hibiki et al. developed for upward cross-flow through horizontal tube bundles is introduced and compared. With the method suggested in this paper, the physical phenomena that occur in tube bundles are taken into consideration. Moreover, the tube bundle is modelled using a porous media approach where the Darcy–Forchheimer term is usually defined by correlations found in the literature. However, for some tube bundle geometries, these correlations are not available. The second goal of the paper is to quickly compute, in quasi-real-time, this term by a non-intrusive parametric reduced model based on Proper Orthogonal Decomposition. This method, named Bi-CITSGM (Bi-Calibrated Interpolation on the Tangent Subspace of the Grassmann Manifold), consists in interpolating the spatial and temporal bases by ITSGM (Interpolation on the Tangent Subspace of the Grassmann Manifold) in order to define the solution for a new parameter. The two developed methods are validated based on the experimental results obtained by Dowlati et al. for a two-phase cross-flow through a horizontal tube bundle.     

Extraction of Camphor Tree Essential Oil by Steam Distillation and Supercritical CO2 Extraction

The essential oil extracted from Cinnamomum camphora leaves is a mixture of volatile compounds, mainly terpenes, and is widely used in medicine, perfume and chemical industries. In this study, the extraction processes of essential oil from Cinnamomum camphora leaves by steam distillation and supercritical CO₂ extraction were summarized and compared, and the camphor tree essential oil was detected by GC/MS. The extraction rate of essential oil extracted by steam distillation is less than 0.5%, while that of supercritical CO₂ extraction is 4.63% at 25 MPa, 45 °C and 2.5 h. GC/MS identified 21 and 42 compounds, respectively. The content of alcohols in the essential oil is more than 35%, and that of terpenoids is more than 80%. The steam extraction method can extract volatile substances with a low boiling point and more esters and epoxides; The supercritical method is suitable for extracting weak polar substances with a high alcohol content. Supercritical CO₂ extraction can selectively extract essential oil components and effectively prevent oxidation and the escape of heat sensitive substances.