Advanced Materials Research Vols. 396-398

Abstract: The reasearch shows that when the mass ratio of copper to iron is equal or greater than 100, the influence of copper on the determination of trace iron can not be ignored. To eliminate the interference, the polypropylene radical strong base anion ion exchange fiber was taken as the solid phase extraction solvent. Extraction and separation of trace iron (Ⅲ) from solution copper (Ⅱ) by the extraction solvent was studied. The extraction conditions including of adsorption and elution were optimized. The strong base anion ion exchange fiber was put into the analysis solution with the medium of 6mol/L HCl. After adsorption 1h by vibration on the oscillator, adsorptive iron(Ⅲ) was eluted with the 1mol/L HCl. The concentration of iron (Ⅲ) in the eluate solution was mesured by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES). The results showed that the residual Cu (Ⅱ) in the eluate solution did not affected the accurate determination of iron. The iron in metal copper, copper oxide and copper nitrate were separated and determinated, and the RSDs(n=3) were between 2.3% and 4.2%, the recoveries were between 96% and 103%, the detection limit of the method was 0.011μg/mL.

Abstract: A series of novel Schiff base containing diacetylferrocene and 5-alkyl-2-amino-1,3,4 -thiodizoles were reported in this paper. Diacetylferrocene(Ⅱ) was synthesised with ferrocene(Ⅰ) and acetyl chloride with AlCl3 as catalyst in CH2Cl2. In the presence of diacetylferrocene and 5-alkyl-2-amino-1,3,4-thiodizole reacted under solvent and catalyst condition to furnish Schiff base containing diacetylferrocene and 5-alkyl-2-amino-1,3,4-thiadiazoles(Ⅲ). Chemical structures have been confirmed by elemental annalysis and the spectral techniques of FTIR,1H NMR. Antimicrobial activity (in vitro) was evaluated against the two pathogenic bacterial strains. The compounds have shown better activity.

Abstract: Nine Chinese herbs including Artemisiae Argyi, Peristrophe baphica, Paederia scandense, Patrinia villosa, Cassia mimosoides, Gynostemma Pentaphyllum, Rabdosin serra, Mesona chinensis and Houttuynia cordata are commonly used in Hakka area. We investigated the antioxidant activities of 95% ethanol extracts from whole plants of the nine Chinese herbs by two in vitro assays, namely DPPH radical-scavenging activity and ferric reducing/antioxidant power(FRAP) assay. The contents of total flavonoids and total phenols were measured by aluminum chloride and Folin-Ciocalteu colorimetric assays, respectively, and their correlations with DPPH radical-scavenging effect and ferric reducing/ antioxidant power (FRAP) were analyzed. The extracts were found to have different levels of antioxidant activity in the systems tested. Cassia mimosoides had the highest value of antioxidant activity based on DPPH radical-scavenging activity and ferric reducing power and the highest contents of total flavonoids and total phenols, followed by Rabdosin serra. Ferric reducing/ antioxidant power (FRAP) was shown to provide higher association with the contents of total flavonoids and total phenols than DPPH radical-scavenging activity. Thus, we suggest that Cassia mimosoides and Rabdosin serra could be used as potential sources of safe dietary supplement or antioxidant of natural origin to promote human health.

Abstract: The objective of this article is to provide the heat transfer characteristics of Cu-H2O nanofluids in self-exciting mode oscillating-flow heat pipe under different laser heating input, and to compare with the heat transfer characteristics of the same heat pipe with distilled water as working fluids. In this paper, the peculiarity of heat transfer rate of the SEMOS heat pipe with Cu-H2O fluid has been experimentally confirmed by changing the proportion of working fluid and Cu nanoscale particles in the heat pipe. As the results, it has been confirmed that the parameter of filling rate of working fluid determine the heat transfer rate of SEMOS heat pipe, although under certain condition heat transfer performance could be improved because of the addition of nanofluids.

Abstract: Porous titanium alloys are frequently used as bio-implant scaffold. In this research, porous Ti-6Al-4V was fabricated by using powder sintering method with ammonium bicarbonate powders as space holder. The space holder decomposes to gases like ammonia, carbon dioxide and water at comparatively low temperature. The advantages of this pore holder and its decomposition products are that they have no contamination to host powders, and harmless to sintering machine. Green bodies with different weight ratio of pore holder and host powder are prepared, and then the pore holders are fully removed by heating at 200°C. Porosity, density, compressive strength and modulus of the sintered porous Ti-6Al-4V are tested.

Abstract: In systems with two minimum binary azeotropes, there are two isovolatility lines. Different volatility order can be obtained according to different isovolatility lines. The volatility orders of components are identified according to the isovolatility lines and are compared with that identified based on the rigorous simulation using Aspen Plus. The results show that, in the system with two minimum binary azeotropes and two isovolatility lines, the volatility order of components is determined by the isovolatility line passing through the unstable node. Based on this, the rule for identifying the volatility order is proposed. The case studies show that this rule is simple and feasible.This template explains and demonstrates how to prepare your camera-ready paper for Trans Tech Publications. The best is to read these instructions and follow the outline of this text.

Abstract: This paper introduces the application of vanadium in the fields of catalysts and the new materials in recent years. It prospects new applications of vanadium catalysts of new type, optical conversion materials, vanadium-based solid solution hydrogen alloy, rare-earth vanadate, etc.

Abstract: The flow patterns of oil/water two-phase upward flows in a small vertical tube with an internal diameter of 0.010 m were investigated by high speed video system. Using stainless steel tube as test section, transparent plastic tube as observing section and deionized water and kerosene (density of 796kg/m3) as working fluids, 5 flow patterns, i.e., annular, churn, slug, bubble and dispersed droplets, were observed under the experimental conditions. The transition boundaries of these flow patterns were compared with the literature and theoretical models of Taitel et al [1] for gas-liquid upward flows. There are some differences of the transition boundaries between the present study and the literature of either gas-liquid or liquid-liquid systems. The theoretical models of Taitel et al can well predict the transition boundaries from annular to churn and from churn to bubble.

Abstract: Air stripping of ammonia is a widely used process for the pretreatment of wastewater. Scaling and fouling on the packing surface in packed towers and a lower stripping efficiency are the two major problems in this process. New patented equipment that is suitable for the air stripping of wastewater with suspended solids has been developed. Air stripping of ammonia from water with Ca(OH)2, was performed in the newly designed gas-liquid contactor, a water-sparged aerocyclone (WSA). The mechanism of the mass transfer process in the WSA was investigated using a CO2—NaOH rapid pseudo first order reaction system. The results indicated that there is a critical gas phase inlet velocity Ug. When Ug is lower than this value, the increase of the inlet velocity has a double function of both intensifying the liquid side film mass transfer coefficient kL and increasing the specific mass transfer area a; whereas when Ug is larger than this value, the major function of Ug increase is to make the water drops in the WSA broken, increasing the mass transfer area of gas-liquid phases.

Abstract: The long afterglow phosphor CaAl₂O₄: Eu²⁺, Nd³⁺ was prepared by combustion synthesis, and the influence of glycine on the luminescent properties of the long afterglow phosphor was studied. The samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and fluorescence spectroscopy (PL) etc. The results showed that the main phase of the combustion products is CaAl₂O₄ with monoclinic crystal structure. The introduction of glycine prolongs the afterglow time.