半焦的多循环气化活性及微观结构分析

为了研究工业流化床气化条件下多循环过程中半焦的气化活性及微观结构变化规律,在快速反应固定床装置上,对三种不同煤阶的半焦进行了模拟多循环气化.通过残焦质量计算得到了循环次数对半焦碳转化率的影响,并利用孔隙分析仪和XRD分析仪考察了半焦的微观结构变化.结果表明,随循环次数的增加,低阶霍林河褐煤半焦的转化率增加,而神木烟煤和晋城无烟煤半焦的转化率降低.多循环过程中"冷淬"效应的存在使得半焦的BET比表面积和微孔比表面积随循环次数呈"山形"趋势变化,而石墨化结构与转化率的变化趋势一致,是决定碳转化率变化的决定性因素.     

无烟煤流化床气化飞灰的结渣特性

通过烧结特性实验研究了无烟煤流化床气化飞灰在"近灰熔点"处的烧结特性,并利用X射线衍射分析(XRD)进行了结晶矿物质和玻璃相的定量分析以研究其烧结机制。结果表明,飞灰中矿物质间的相互转化控制着其结渣特性。由于铁、钙和镁等碱性组分的部分富集,飞灰的灰熔点与原煤相比要低;在低于灰熔点DT 100~200℃附近,由于长石类矿物质的转变熔融形成了具有黏结性的液相,灰样发生液相烧结导致收缩变形而结块;大部分的钙和铁等助熔组分赋存于玻璃相中提高了其浓度,且在热处理过程中它们并未发生析晶行为,从而促进灰样的烧结致密化过程,进一步使得飞灰的结渣倾向增强。     

A study on the system of nonaqueous microchip electrophoresis with on‐line peroxyoxalate chemiluminescence detection

This article describes a further development of our previously reported miniaturized analysis system of microchip electrophoresis with on‐line chemiluminescence detection. The system, developed first time for nonaqueous microchip electrophoresis with peroxyoxalate chemiluminescence detection, consists of a suction pressure device for sample or reagent introduction, a constant voltage supplied for electrophoretic separation, an either hydrophilic or hydrophobic porous polymer plug for preventing chemiluminescence reagent flowing upstream and a spiral detection channel for enhancement of both detection sensitivity and reproducibility. Especially, by using organic solvent as BGE medium, the developed system avoided the interface problem between aqueous running buffer and low‐water‐content chemiluminescence solvent in previous reports. The influencing factors on chemiluminescence signal were optimized using rhodamine 6G as model molecule. The system performance was further investigated in the experiment of separation of hydrophilic rhodamine dyes and analysis of hydrophobic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, providing the detection limit (S/N = 3) of 3.5 nmol/L for rhodamine 123, 6.8 nmol/L for rhodamine 6G, and 60 nmol/L for 1‐aminopyrene, respectively. The experimental results showed the system offered a number of benefits, including compact structure, high sensitivity, good reproducibility, and a wide range of application prospect.     

Photoluminescence properties of heat-treated porous alumina films formed in oxalic acid

Photoluminescence and optical properties of as-anodized and heat-treated at 500 °C porous alumina films formed in a 0.3 M oxalic acid at 40 V have been studied. The FTIR indicates that the oxalate ions are embedded in the anodic alumina as chelating bidentate structures and further heating up to 500 °C does not cause any change in ion coordination. The results of time-resolved spectroscopy show the presence of two luminescence centers both in the as-anodized and heat-treated anodic alumina films with lifetimes of about 0.25 and 4.0 ns. The F⁺-centers in anodic alumina are responsible for the luminescence peak at about 420 nm, with a lifetime of about 4.0 ns. The luminescence peak at about 480 nm, with lifetime of about 0.25 ns, can be attributed to the luminescence of carboxylate ions existing in bulk of anodic alumina.     

Influence of LiBr on photoluminescence properties of porous silicon

A new method has been developed to improve the photoluminescence intensity of porous silicon (PS), which is first time that LiBr is used for passivation of PS. Immersion of the PS in a LiBr solution, followed by a thermal treatment at 100 °C for 30 min under nitrogen, leads to a nine fold increase in the intensity of the photoluminescence. The atomic force microscope (AFM) shows an increase of the nanoparticle dimension compared to the initial dimension of the PS nanostructure. The LiBr covers the nanoparticles of silicon without changing the wavelength distribution of the optical excitation and emission spectra. Moreover, a significant decrease of reflectivity was observed for the wavelength in the range of 350-500 nm.     

Porous silicon bandgap broadening at natural oxidation

Emission and excitation photoluminescence spectra of porous silicon thin layers have been investigated at natural oxidation. The shift of both types of spectra to high-energy region with time has been shown. Analysis of excitation spectra points out the indirect behavior of electron transitions responsible for visible photoluminescence, which remains unaltered at natural oxidation. The value of optical bandgap is estimated in each case. It is shown that the optical bandgap broadens during oxidation due to size reduction of silicon nanocrystallites.     

On the use of the digital image correlation method for heterogeneous deformation measurement of porous solids

In this paper, several crucial issues arising from the application of the digital image correlation (DIC) method to the measurement of heterogeneous deformation of porous solids are discussed. To handle samples with complex geometry, the performance of the two commonly employed DIC methods, namely the subset-based DIC and the finite-element based DIC methods are first evaluated and compared. A combined DIC approach and an adaptive DIC approach suitable for samples with discontinuities/holes are then proposed. Aluminum plates with circular holes subject to compressive loading are employed to evaluate the accuracy of the proposed methods. It has been found that in addition to other factors such as the number of pixels and speckle size, the orientation of the camera lens also plays an important role on the measurement accuracy. A calibration method for the adjustment of camera orientation is proposed, which leads to a good agreement between the experimentally measured displacements and finite element simulation results. Another finding of the presented work is that for relatively stiff specimens, the deformation of the loading system itself must be considered in order to obtain an accurate displacement.     

A green synthetic approach to graphene nanosheets for hydrogen adsorption

A green and facile strategy of preparing graphene by reducing exfoliated graphite oxide (GO) with glucose was developed in this study. The as-prepared samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and Atomic force microscopy (AFM). The characterization results indicated that the graphene sheets (GS) were of high quality with smooth surface, rich pore structure and few layer graphene. The samples have a BET specific surface area of 1205.8 m² g⁻¹ measured by N₂ adsorption at 77 K. The hydrogen storage capacity of 2.7 wt.% at 298 K and 25 bar demonstrated that the as-prepared graphene employing glucose as reductant is supposed to be a promising material with outstanding property for hydrogen storage.     

Morphological and optical properties changes in nanocrystalline Si (nc-Si) deposited on porous aluminum nanostructures by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition for Solar energy applications

Photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy was used to determine the electrical band gap of nanocrystalline silicon (nc-Si) deposited by plasma enhancement chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) on porous alumina structure by fitting the experimental spectra using a model based on the quantum confinement of electrons in Si nanocrystallites having spherical and cylindrical forms. This model permits to correlate the PL spectra to the microstructure of the porous aluminum silicon layer (PASL) structure. The microstructure of aluminum surface layer and nc-Si films was systematically studied by atomic force microscopy (AFM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Raman spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction (XRD). It was found that the structure of the nanocrystalline silicon layer (NSL) is dependent of the porosity (void) of the porous alumina layer (PAL) substrate. This structure was performed in two steps, namely the PAL substrate was prepared using sulfuric acid solution attack on an Al foil and then the silicon was deposited by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) on it. The optical constants (n and k as a function of wavelength) of the deposited films were obtained using variable angle spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE) in the UV-vis-NIR regions. The SE spectrum of the porous aluminum silicon layer (PASL) was modeled as a mixture of void, crystalline silicon and aluminum using the Cauchy model approximation. The specific surface area (SSA) was estimated and was found to decrease linearly when porosity increases. Based on this full characterization, it is demonstrated that the optical characteristics of the films are directly correlated to their micro-structural properties.     

One-step, template-free route to silver porous hollow spheres and their optical property

Silver porous hollow spheres (SPHS) were fabricated via ultrasonic spray pyrolysis of aqueous solutions containing AgNO₃ and glucose. In the hot spherical liquid droplets, glucose, as reducing agent, reacted with Ag⁺ to form Ag nanoparticles, which subsequently moved to the periphery of the hot liquid droplets to form Ag nanoparticles-glucose hybrid shell. With the temperature further increased, aforementioned Ag nanoparticles melted to form Ag skeleton decorated with unreacted glucose, which converted to SPHS via dissolving unreacted glucose in water. Due to their porous hollow structures, SPHS exhibited a wide Vis-NIR adsorption in the range of 400-1100 nm.