Accuracy improvement in evaluation of gas explosion overpressures in congestions with safety gaps

This paper reports a comparison of simulations and published data from experiments carried out by TNO Prins Maurits Laboratory on geometric configurations that involved safety gaps of various separation distances. The Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) based software – FLACS is utilized to conduct the numerical simulations. In the majority of cases, good agreement is found between the simulated results and those obtained by experiment in both the donor and acceptor modules. However, a large discrepancy in the overpressures in the acceptor module is seen when the size of the separation gap approaches one or two times of the module size. A Data-dump technique is used in this study to reset the turbulence length scale for these cases with different separation distances, five sets of explosion scenarios are then numerically simulated and the overpressures are compared with experimentally measured explosion overpressures. The overall results indicate that the software with the Data-dump technique is still an extremely effective tool when it comes to the evaluation of gas explosion overpressures in areas with large separation gaps.     

Recovery of metal values from zinc solder dross

Zinc solder dross containing 14.8% Sn, 16.3% Pb, 0.41% Al and 64.5% Zn was leached with 3% H₂SO₄ at 45°C for 1 h. Zinc and aluminum went into solution, whereas lead and tin remained with the residue. Aluminum was selectively precipitated as calcium aluminum carbonate by treating the sulphate leachate with limestone at pH 4.8. Zinc sulphate solution was either evaporated to obtain zinc sulphate crystals or precipitated as basic zinc carbonate at pH 6.8. The undissolved lead and tin were leached with 5 M hot hydrochloric acid. The major part of lead chloride ( 73%) was separated by cooling the leached products down to room temperature. From the soluble fraction, tin was recovered as hydrated tin oxide by alkylation with caustic soda at pH 2.4, while the remaining lead was separated at pH 8.5 as lead hydroxide. A process flowsheet had been suggested which involved two-stage hydrometallurgical treatment. Parameters affecting the recovery efficiency of the suggested method such as temperature, time, pH and acid: solid stoichiometric ratio were investigated. Results obtained revealed that the optimum leaching conditions were achieved by using 20 ml of 3% H₂SO₄ acid/g dross for 1 h at 45°C. Recovery efficiency of the metal salts was 99.1, 99.4, 99.6 and 99.5% for Zn, Al, Pb and Sn respectively. Recovery efficiency was related to the solubility of the concerned salts under the given experimental conditions.     

硅胶分离-气相色谱法测定海水样品中的有机氯农药及多氯联苯

建立了硅胶净化-具电子捕获检测器气相色谱(GC-ECD)测定海水样品中有机氯农药(OCPs)、多氯联苯(PCBs)的方法。海水样品经正己烷萃取,浓缩萃取液后过硅胶层析柱,通过梯度淋洗进行样品的净化和分离,采用GC-ECD进行分析测试。OCPs回收率达70.7%~109.2%,PCBs回收率达92.6%~119.2%。采用GC-MS进行辅助确证,结果表明,方法可行。     

纳米材料在痕量重金属离子测定中的应用

介绍了纳米材料的吸附性能,评述了影响其分离富集重金属离子效果的主要因素,综述了纳米金属氧化物、碳纳米管及其他纳米材料在痕量重金属离子测定中的应用进展,提出提高纳米吸附材料的选择性和稳定性,开发便携式商品化的纳米材料萃取小柱是今后的发展方向.