Improved sensitivity of headspace gas chromatography for organic aromatic compounds

Summary The effect of adding an electrolyte and increasing the temperature on the preconcentration of volatile compounds in headspace analysis has been investigated. Quantification of the interactive effects of temperature and addition of salt on the vapor concentration is of interest for the determination of trace organic impurities in pharmaceutical base materials. This study was undertaken to investigate the quantitative effects of the addition of salts alcohols, and acetone, and of increasing the temperature on the vapor concentrations and distribution coefficients of volatile aromatic compounds (benzene, toluene, ando-xylene). It was found that the concentration of aromatic compound residues in the headspace could be increased by adding an inert salt to the water, but this effect was not very significant because of the low orginal solubility of the aromatic compounds in water. The reverse effect can be achieved by use of polar organic additives; this can be explained by the high polarizability of aromatic compounds and their greater solubility in the presence of these solvents. Presented at Balaton Symposium on High-Performance Separation Methods, Siófok, Hungary, September 1–3, 1999.     

Uniqueness of the solution for optimal static routing in open BCMP queueing networks

Optimal static routing problems in open BCMP queueing networks with state-independent arrival and service rates are studied. They include static routing problems in communication networks and optimal static load balancing problems in distributed computer systems. We consider an overall optimal policy that is the routing policy whereby the overall mean response (or sojourn) time of a job is minimized. We obtain the routing decisions of the overall optimal policy and show that they may not be unique, but that the utilization of each service center is uniquely determined by the overall optimal policy. We also consider an individually optimal policy whereby jobs are routed so that each job may feel that its own expected response time is minimized if it knows the mean delay time for each path.     

凝结水精处理阳树脂硫酸根溶出特性研究

电站给水系统中存在微量的SO42-就会对金属材料造成严重腐蚀。针对目前凝结水精处理系统投运后导致核电站蒸汽发生器或炉水中SO42-含量升高的问题,采用动态循环溶出和静态浸泡的方法对几种凝结水精处理常用阳树脂的SO42-溶出行为进行了研究。结果表明,不同树脂的SO42-溶出行为有较大差异,SO42-含量在短时间内随时间增长呈上升趋势,新树脂溶出SO42-的量比旧树脂大得多。通过对溶出液进行高温和氧化处理,发现溶出物中还含有一些有机磺酸盐,它们在高温或氧化条件下会分解产生SO42-和酸性物质。     

Comparison between three static mixers for emulsification in turbulent flow

This paper deals with comparing performances of three different static mixers in terms of pressure drop generated by both single-phase flow and liquid–liquid flow in turbulent flow regime and in terms of emulsification performances. The three motionless mixers compared are the well-known SMX™ and SMV™ and the new version of the SMX called SMXPlus™. This experimental study aims at highlighting the influence of the dispersed phase concentration and some of the geometrical parameters such as number of elements and design of the motionless mixer on droplets size distributions characteristics. Finally, experimental results are correlated in terms of Sauter mean diameter as a function of hydrodynamic dimensionless numbers.     

Reduction of the n-dimensional static vacuum Einstein equation and generalized Schwarzschild solutions

We consider the static vacuum Einstein spacetime when the spatial factor is conformal to a n-dimensional pseudo-Euclidean space. The most general ansatz that reduces the resulting system of partial differential equations to a system of ordinary differential equations is completely described. We obtain the entire set of solutions of the reduced system, where the classical Schwarzschild solution arises as a particular solution. In addition, we show that the Riemannian spatial factors associated to these solutions are foliated by parallel hypersurfaces of constant mean curvature.     

On the microscopic foundations of elasticity

The modeling of the elastic properties of disordered or nanoscale solids requires the foundations of the theory of elasticity to be revisited, as one explores scales at which this theory may no longer hold. The only cases for which microscopically based derivations of elasticity are documented are (nearly) uniformly strained lattices. A microscopic approach to elasticity is proposed. As a first step, microscopically exact expressions for the displacement, strain and stress fields are derived. Conditions under which linear elastic constitutive relations hold are studied theoretically and numerically. It turns out that standard continuum elasticity is not self-evident, and applies only above certain spatial scales, which depend on details of the considered system and boundary conditions. Possible relevance to granular materials is briefly discussed. Received 18 March 2002 and Received in final form 29 May 2002     

Line group theory of commensurate and incommensurate modulations

It is shown that the line group formalism proposed is suitable to describe both commensurate and incommensurate modulations. Symmetry groups of modulated crystal lattices can completely be characterized by symmetry transformations existing in real space, without any application of the formalism based on reciprocal space. As typical examples of the method elaborated, the fundamental invariance and symmetry properties of spin density functions and the soliton lattice are determined. Received: 20 July 1997 / Accepted: 25 August 1997     

Thermodynamics of adiabatically loaded cold bosons in the Mott insulating phase of one-dimensional optical lattices

In this work we give a consistent picture of the thermodynamic properties of bosons in the Mott insulating phase when loaded adiabatically into one-dimensional optical lattices. We find a crucial dependence of the temperature in the optical lattice on the doping level of the Mott insulator. In the undoped case, the temperature is of the order of the large onsite Hubbard interaction. In contrast, at a finite doping level the temperature jumps almost immediately to the order of the small hopping parameter. These two situations are investigated on the one hand by considering limiting cases like the atomic limit and the case of free fermions. On the other hand, they are examined using a quasi-particle conserving continuous unitary transformation extended by an approximate thermodynamics for hardcore particles.     

A method for calculating static transmission errors of plastic spur gears using FEM evaluation

There are many ways to calculate the static transmission errors of steel gears, but none is developed for plastic gears. Since the Young's modulus of the plastic material is lower than that of steel by two orders, the effects of large tooth deflection on the static transmission errors of plastic gears become significant. A multi-tooth contact analysis using finite element method for calculating the static transmission errors of plastic spur gears is established to compare with the existing method for steel spur gears. According to the comparison results, a modification of the existing method is proposed for plastic spur gears and verified by the same finite element contact analysis.