Shake table study of annular baffles in steel storage tanks as sloshing dependent variable dampers

Aboveground steel storage tanks are widely utilized in industrial areas such as oil refineries, petrochemical complexes, oil depots, and etc. Assurance of these infrastructure facilities in high seismic areas is a very important engineering consideration. High amplitude fluid sloshing is one of the widespread causes of steel oil storage tanks during strong earthquakes addressed as an important failure mode. This phenomenon generates additional forces impacting the wall and roof of the tanks. Annular baffles can be used as slosh damping devises to control liquid sloshing within a tank. The main objective of this paper is experimental study of annular baffle effects as anti-sloshing damping devices to reduce fluid wave sloshing height in steel storage tanks typically used in oil and petrochemical complexes during an earthquake. Shake table tests have been used on a reduced scale model steel storage tank in two cases of with and without annular baffles. Three real earthquake ground motion records are used as input base motion. Based on the experimental test results, dynamic characteristics of studied tank models with different filling levels and different baffle dimensions and arrangements have been obtained and summarized in this paper. Also, sloshing heights and convective mode damping values are determined from the test results and compared with API650 code recommendations and recommended equations by other researchers. Generally, the results of this study indicate significant effects of the annular baffles in reducing the fluid wave sloshing height as sloshing dependent variable dampers.     

Solidification of tannery wastes

The high chromium concentrations in tannery-wastewater treatment-plant sludges, render them unsuitable for direct disposal. Therefore, one aims to fix the chromium of the tannery waste by adding different additive materials to cause solidification. The properties of the raw sludge were determined and subsequently, the sludge was mixed with cement and additives and left to solidify for 28 days. During the study, 28 different mixtures were prepared and their compressive strengths were determined. Standard elutriation tests were carried out with each solidified sample. Compressive strengths were obtained below the desired concrete strengths. Most of the pollutant parameters in eluate were under the required values.     

硫酸卷曲霉素生产废水生化前预处理试验研究

对某厂硫酸卷曲霉素废水进行预处理试验,为水处理工程设计提供参考.选择混凝-气浮-水解酸化工艺组合作为预处理工艺,试验表明,依某厂硫酸卷曲霉素生产废水特征,以PAC为混凝剂、PAM为助凝剂,投药量分别为100和5 mg/L条件下,混凝-气浮单元的COD、BOD5和SS去除率分别在42.6%～48.7%、25.5%～40.8%和84.6%～92.6%之间;在水解酸化单元接种厌氧污泥,可以大大缩短污泥驯化时间,用经过14 d驯化时间的污泥处理气浮单元出水,HRT为16 h时,该单元的COD、BOD5去除率分别在8.4%～33.8%和5.0%～19.5%之间;气浮单元、水解酸化单元均提高了出水的可生化性.将混凝-气浮单元与水解酸化单元联合作为硫酸卷曲霉素生产废水的生化处理的前处理措施是可行的.     

Kinetic research on the sorption of aqueous lead by synthetic carbonate hydroxyapatite

The sorption of aqueous lead on carbonate-hydroxyapatite (CHAp) is a complicated non-homogeneous solid/water reaction, which from the kinetic point of view has two stages. In the first stage, the reaction rate is so fast and the kinetic pathway so intricate that further research is required. In the second stage, the reaction rate slows down and the reaction process follows that of a first-order kinetic equation. Experimental results show that the relationship between the reaction rate constant k(1) and temperature T agrees with the Arrhenius equation, and that the activation energy of sorption (E(a)) is 11.93 kJ/mol and the frequency factor (A) is 2.51/s. The reaction rate constant k(1) increases with the Pb(2+) initial concentration and decreasing pH, but with increasing CHAp dosage. X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersion spectrum (SEM-EDS) and toxicity characteristic leaching procedure (TCLP) tests indicate that the main sorption mechanism is dissolution-precipitation, in conjunction with surface sorption.     

X-42钢在碳酸钠-碳酸氢钠溶液中慢拉伸时电化学噪音信号的小波分析

本文应用小波分析理论研究了X42管线钢在0.5 mol/l Na2CO3 1 mol/l NaHCO3溶液中,在-950mVSCE、-1100mVSCE阴极极化条件下,慢应变速率实验过程中的极化电流信号.结果表明,极化电流信号的低频部分代表着其发展趋势.在阴极极化时,由于阴极析氢造成的体系pH值升高,因而电流信号有逐渐增大的趋势.而且,在对SSRT过程中阴极极化电流信号进行分析时,并未发现第二类间断点.因此,对于工业腐蚀监控,是否可用出现第二类间断点来预测X-42钢在土壤中的应力腐蚀失效,还有待于进一步的研究与探讨.     

Research Articles

The metabolism of phenanthrene was studied both in cell suspension cultures of wheat (Triticum aestivum) and soybean (Glycine max), and in intact plants of the water mossFontinalis antipyretica. Metabolism in cell suspension cultures strongly differed between the monocotyle and the dicotyle plant. Only small amounts oftrans-phenanthrene-9,10-dihydrodiole and phenanthrene-9,10-dione were detectable in the wheat culture. Soybean cultures, in contrast demonstrated a strong turnover resulting in a 75% reduction of the initial phenanthrene concentration. Metabolites were phenanthrene-9,10-dione, not further characterized polar metabolites and bound residues. Intact plants ofFontinalis antipyretica metabolized only small amounts of phenanthrene. Data obtained from cell cultures did not provide information for the metabolic potential in intact plants. Therefore standardized tests with model systems like suspension cultures lead to inadequate assessment of the ecological risk of certain xenobiotics.     

Bulgarian emergency response models–validation against ETEX first release

In the paper, the performance of two Bulgarian dispersion models is tested against European Tracer Experiment (ETEX) first release data base. The first one is the LED puff model which was the core of the Bulgarian Emergency Response System during all releases of ETEX. The second one is the newly created Eulerian dispersion model EMAP. These models have two important features: they are PC-oriented and they use quite a limited amount of input meteorological information. First, a number of runs with various source configurations are made on meteorological data produced by ECMWF. The aim of these runs is to verify the models’ ability to simulate reliably ETEX first release. To this end, a set of statistical criteria selected in ATMES (Atmospheric Transport Models Evaluation Study, see Klug et al., 1992 are used. The best runs for both models are obtained when the source is presented as a column towering from the ground to heights of 400–700 m. These runs took part in the second phase of ETEX (ETEX-II), the so called ATMES-type exercise where EMAP ranked ninth and LED - fourteenth among 34 models. Here, additional sets of EMAP are presented where in the first run the value of the horizontal diffusion coefficient is varied and in the other runs different meteorological data sets are tested. The results obtained from the first run show that the values of K_h=4–6×10⁴ m² s^-1 produce fields which fit experimental data best. The other sets of runs show that the higher the frequency of the meteorological data, the better the simulation. The results can be improved by linear interpolation of the meteorological parameters with time, the best fitting obtained with interpolation at each time step.     

气候环境试验设备性能确认

本文以气候环境试验方法对试验参数的要求为出发点,提出气候环境试验设备性能确认的原则。同时,扼要介绍气候环境试验设备性能确认相关标准的一些问题。     

车用机械式安全气囊使用维护和诊断测试探析

根据汽车安全气囊系统的组成特点及使用要点,本文介绍了轿车SRS系统的诊断测试,研究了汽车安全气囊系统故障检排,同时列举了沃尔沃系列轿车SRS气囊系统故障检查与排除方法。     

The Damping of Off-Central Impact for Selected Industrial Safety Helmets Used in Poland

The paper presents a review of head injury criteria and determines an assessment criterion for test results. Parameters characterizing the protection properties of off-central impacted industrial helmets are chosen and the test stands used in the Central Institute for Labour Protection to test those parameters are presented. The idea of damping 2 selected industrial helmets used in Poland is discussed. The test results of the parameters characterizing the protection properties are compared for damped and not damped helmets.