COAL DRY BENEFICIATION TECHNOLOGY IN CHINA：THE STATE—OF—THE—ART

In China, coal is the major source of energy and its leading role in energy consumption would not change in the next 50 years. Coal preparation is the essential component of Clean Coal Technology. In China more than two-thirds of available coal reserves are in arid areas, which results in the unfeasibility with conventional wet processing for coal preparation. The uniqueness of dry coal beneflciation technology with air-dense medium fluidized bed is dis-cussed in this paper and a detailed survey of the current status of theoretical study, commercial application and development of the new technoloav is aiven in this paper.     

Analytical solution of coupled soil erosion and consolidation equations by asymptotic expansion approach

In this work, one-dimensional approximation of internal erosion taking place in a soil made from sand and clay mixture was considered. The clay phase that is susceptible to experience erosion under water flow discharge was assumed to be small. A new erosion law fixing the initiation threshold of erosion and integrating the effect of soil consolidation on internal erosion was proposed. Conversely, the effect of erosion on elastic soil deformation was also integrated through damage mechanics concepts. Asymptotic expansion of the coupled equations in terms of a perturbation parameter linked to the total amount of internal erosion that is likely to occur has been performed. This has enabled to view the internal erosion phenomenon occurring inside the soil as a perturbation affecting the classical soil consolidation equation, and further to evaluate the critical discharge gradient for which internal erosion starts. Equations at order zero that are provided by the asymptotic expansion were exactly integrated while an adequate finite difference scheme was introduced to solve the equations at order one. A parametric study was conducted after that in order to assess effects of the main factors on internal erosion and soil deformation.     

Effective macroscopic interfacial transport equations in strongly heterogeneous environments for general homogeneous free energies

We study phase field equations in perforated domains for arbitrary free energies. These equations have found numerous applications in a wide spectrum of both science and engineering problems with homogeneous environments. Here, we focus on strongly heterogeneous materials with perforations such as porous media. To the best of our knowledge, we provide the first derivation of upscaled equations for general free energy densities. In view of the versatile applications of phase field equations, we expect that our study will lead to new modelling and computational perspectives for interfacial transport and phase transformations in strongly heterogeneous environments.     

Long-time asymptotics for the porous medium equation: The spectrum of the linearized operator

We compute the complete spectrum of the displacement Hessian operator, which is obtained from the confined porous medium equation by linearization around its stationary attractor, the Barenblatt profile. On a formal level, the operator is conjugate to the Hessian of the entropy via similarity transformation. We show that the displacement Hessian can be understood as a self-adjoint operator and find that its spectrum is purely discrete. The knowledge of the complete spectrum and the explicit information about the corresponding eigenfunctions give new insights on the convergence and higher order asymptotics of solutions to the porous medium equation towards its attractor. More precisely, the inspection of the eigenfunctions allows to identify symmetries in R^N${\mathbb{R}}^N$ with flows whose rates of convergence are faster than the uniform, translation-governed bound. The present work complements the analogous study of Denzler & McCann for the fast-diffusion equation.     

Optical ammonia gas sensor based on a porous silicon rugate filter coated with polymer-supported dye

An ammonia gas sensor chip was prepared by coating an electrochemically-etched porous Si rugate filter with a chitosan film that is crosslinked by glycidoxypropyltrimethoxysilane (GPTMS). The bromothylmol blue (BTB), a pH indicator, was loaded in the film as ammonia-sensing molecules. White light reflected from the porous Si has a narrow bandwidth spectrum with a peak at 610 nm. Monitoring reflective optical intensity at the peak position allows for direct, real-time observation of changes in the concentration of ammonia gas in air samples. The reflective optical intensity decreased linearly with increasing concentrations of ammonia gas over the range of 0–100 ppm. The lowest detection limit was 0.5 ppm for ammonia gas. At optimum conditions, the full response time of the ammonia gas sensor was less than 15 s. The sensor chip also exhibited a good long-term stability over 1 year. Therefore, the simple sensor design has potential application in miniaturized optical measurement for online ammonia gas detection.     

含氧煤层气流化床催化燃烧脱氧特性研究

利用自制的铜基球形甲烷催化燃烧催化剂,在小型流化床反应器中对模拟含氧煤层气进行了流化床催化燃烧脱氧的实验研究,考察了床层温度、催化剂粒径、空速对脱氧效率和CO₂选择性的影响。结果表明,较高的反应床层温度使催化剂活性增强,进而提高催化脱氧效率。床层温度在450 ℃以上,脱氧效率可稳定保持在95%以上。较小的催化剂粒径降低了内扩散阻力对催化反应的影响,提高催化反应的CO₂选择性。床层温度在450 ℃以下时,降低空速可提高氧气转化率,但温度高于450 ℃时,脱氧反应速率加快,空速变化对脱氧效率影响不明显。此外,通过调节CH₄/Air比例模拟不同含氧量的煤层气,考察流化床反应器及催化剂对含氧煤层气中O₂浓度变化的适应性。模拟含氧煤层气中氧气体积分数在5%~15%,该催化剂均表现出高的脱氧活性和选择性,反应器出口气体中氧气体积分数低于0.2%,CO₂选择性高于98%。     

微型流化床与热重测定煤焦-CO2气化反应动力学的对比研究

对微型流化床反应分析仪(MFBRA)和热重分析仪(TGA)测定煤焦与CO₂的等温气化反应动力学进行了比较.在最小化气体扩散影响的条件下,半焦在MFBRA中的气化反应速率比TGA中大,且在转化率为0.15时有最大值.缩核模型能很好地描述半焦的气化行为.在760~1 000 ℃,半焦气化分两个阶段:在低温段,利用MFBRA和TGA求取的反应活化能基本相同,验证了MFBRA在求取反应动力学数据方面的有效性和可靠性;在高温段,MFBRA测定的反应活化能较大,说明其受扩散的抑制作用较小.相同温度下通过MFBRA求取的效率因子明显较大,这同其较快的反应速率相一致.上述差异充分说明了反应器类型对测试的(表观)反应动力学有显著影响.     

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。