The free surface effect on the grain crystallography and morphology during recrystallization has been studied in stable Goss {110} and brass {110} - oriented single crystals of Al-1%wt.Mn alloy. The samples were plane strain compressed up to a strain of about 0.5 to develop a homogeneous structure comprising two sets of symmetrical microbands and t...
The fluidized bed signals can be decomposed into micro-scale, meso-scale and macro-scale by means of multi-resolution analysis, while how to perform the scale resolution accurately and convincingly still lacks appropriate criteria. In this study, the dual-channel fiber optical signals in the circulating fluidized bed were utilized to investigate th...
Recovery of sugars from cane molasses is a promising approach to increase the added value of molasses and reduce its environmental pollution. In this work, for the first time, nanofiltration (NF) was used for the separation of sucrose and reducing sugar in cane molasses by a cascade diafiltration-concentration process. The retention difference betw...
Chloride molten salts are promising candidates for high temperature thermal storage applications, owing to their energy storage density and thermal stability. Nevertheless, the main disadvantage of them is their corrosive behaviour with metal containers, which narrows down the range of applications. Encapsulation is considered a favourable method t...
Extraction of alumina from high-alumina fly ash (HAFA) enhances the value-added utilization of HAFA. However, this industrial application has been restricted by the high silica content of HAFA. Thus, alumina enrichment via the separation of silica is a key technique for HAFA utilization. In this study, a novel method of alumina enrichment by ammoni...
In biological system, early detection and treatment at the same moment is highly required. For synthetic materials, it is demanding to develop materials that possess self-reporting of early damage and self-healing simultaneously. This dual function is achieved in this work by introducing an intelligent pH-responsive coatings based on poly(divinylbe...
Membrane fouling, essentially originated from the interactions between foulant and membrane surface, is a big obstacle to use membrane distillation (MD) for ionic liquid recycling from its aqueous solution. By applying the extended Derjaguin-Landau-Verwey-Overbeek (XDLVO) approach and surface element integration method, this study mainly investigat...
The damping property expressed by internal friction tan phi of as-cast Mg-Zr binary alloys with Zr content from 0.6 to 5.0% was experimentally measured under conditions of changing temperature from ambient temperature T-am to 600 K (327 degrees C), vibration frequency f from 1.0 to 10.0 Hz, strain epsilon from 1.0 x 10(-6) to 1.0 x 10(-3), and heat...
Effect of phase-forming salts on the phase separation dynamics of the three-liquid-phase system, composed of tributyl phosphate (TBP) and PEG2000-salts aqueous two phases, was investigated. We found the species of salts exhibited almost no effect on the separation rate of oil top phase and polymer middle phase from salt aqueous bottom phase, howeve...
For non-catalytic gas-solid reaction, it is desirable to match the mean residence time (MRT) of particles and complete conversion time (t(c)) in a fluidized bed. In this study, the MRT differences (MRT ratios) between the coarse particles and the fine particles were investigated in a continuous fluidized bed with a side exit by varying the superfic...
