Thermal effects on the energy absorption efficiency of a system consisting of hydrophobic mesoporous silica particles immersed in water have been investigated. As the temperature increases, although the infiltration pressure decreases only slightly and the accessible pore volume remains nearly constant, the system recoverability can be significantly improved, primarily due to an increase in out...

The interaction of water vapour with Al-MCM-41, prepared by direct synthesis at ambient temperature and pressure, using tetraethoxysilane, aluminium sulfate, hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide and ammonia, and its effect on the pore structure were studied in order to investigate the stability towards prolonged exposure to water vapour and the influence of the aluminium content. With this purpos...

*Correspondence: Wei Shan, Institute of Cold Regions Science and Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China e-mail: [email protected] Climate warming leads to permafrost degradation and permafrost melting phase transition, resulting in an increasing number of landslides. This study uses the road segments and road area at the intersection between Bei’an-Heihe Highway and t...

Methane hydrate formation and dissociation kinetics were investigated in seawater-saturated consolidated Ottawa sand-pack under sub-seafloor conditions to study the influence of effective pressure on formation and dissociation kinetics. To simulate a sub-seafloor environment, the pore-pressure was varied relative to confining pressure in successive experiments. Hydrate formation was achieved by...

USE OF MERCURY POROSIMETRY AND NITROGEN ADSORPTION IN CHARACTERISATION OF THE PORE STRUCTURE OF MANNITOL AND MICROCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE POWDERS, GRANULES AND TABLETS Sari Westermarck, 2000, University of Helsinki (FIN), pp. 50. ISBN952-91-2534-8 The effects of pretreatment and scanning speed of mercury porosimetry on the mercury porosimetry results of non-hygroscopic mannitol and hygroscopic mi...

Due to the complexity of natural ground condition, consolidation settlement is usually difficult to predict. In this study, a Pareto multi-objective optimization based back analysis method for consolidation settlement is presented in this study. The model is a coupled flow and deformation model for unsaturated soil foundation which is implemented in the interactive multiphysics software environ...

Washing systems using water soluble detergent are used in electrical and mechanical industries and the wastewater containing O/W emulsion are discharged from these systems. Membrane filtration has large potential for the efficient separation of O/W emulsion for reuses of treated water and detergent. The separation properties of O/W emulsions by cross-flow microfiltration and ultrafiltration wer...

Quantification of the permeability of connective tissue linings isolated from implanted capsules was achieved by two types of experiments. The objective of the first type was to determine the restriction offered by the lining to diffusion of 125I-labeled human serum albumin. The restricted diffusion coefficient of albumin with respect to the connective tissue lining the luminal capsule surface ...