Stresses and Displacements in a Four Layered System with Fixed Bottom,

1985 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. F. Van Cauwelaert
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2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 7481-7497
Author(s):  
Yousef Najjar ◽  
Abdelrahman Irbai

This work covers waste energy utilization of the combined power cycle by using it in the candle raw material (paraffin) melting process and an economic study for this process. After a partial utilization of the burned fuel energy in a real bottoming steam power generation, the exhaust gas contains 0.033 of the initially burned energy. This tail energy with about 128 ºC is partly driven in the heat exchanger of the paraffin melting system. Ansys-Fluent Software was used to study the paraffin wax melting process by using a layered system that utilizes an increased interface area between the heat transfer fluid (HTF) and the phase change material (PCM) to improve the paraffin melting process. The results indicate that using 47.35 kg/s, which is 5% of the entire exhaust gas (881.33 kg/s) from the exit of the combined power cycle, would be enough for producing 1100 tons per month, which corresponds to the production quantity by real candle's factories. Also, 63% of the LPG cost will be saved, and the payback period of the melting system is 2.4 years. Moreover, as the exhaust gas temperature increases, the consumed power and the payback period will decrease.


Author(s):  
Emilia Kuzniak-Glanowska ◽  
Piotr Konieczny ◽  
Robert Pełka ◽  
Tadeusz M. Muzioł ◽  
Marcin Kozieł ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Partha Das ◽  
Tadikonda Venkata Bharat

AbstractIn this work, we assess the self-sealing and swelling ability of the compacted granular bentonite (GB) under an inorganic salt environment and induced overburden stresses from the landfill waste. The laboratory permeation tests with high ionic strength salt solutions reveal that the GB fails to seal and exhibits a significant mechanical collapse under different applied stresses. The applicability of GB in the form of geosynthetic clay liners as the bottom liner facilities in landfills that produce high ionic strength salt leachates, therefore, remains a serious concern. We propose an additional barrier system based on kaolin, for the first time, to address this problem. The proposed kaolin-GB layered system performs satisfactorily in terms of its sealing and swelling ability even in adverse saline conditions and low overburden stresses. The kaolin improves the osmotic efficiency of the self and also helps the underlying GB layer to seal the inter-granular voids. The estimated design parameters by through-diffusion test suggest that the kaolin-GB layered system effectively attenuates the permeant flux and suitable as a landfill liner.


Author(s):  
Robert Fendt ◽  
Michael Sprung ◽  
Christian Gutt ◽  
Oliver Hermann Seeck ◽  
Metin Tolan

AbstractWe report on X-ray reflectivity experiments of thin liquid heptane films. The films were examined using X-ray reflectivity and modelled both as a layered system using the Parratt algorithm and using a ´phase guessing´ inversion method. Our results combined with simulations of films of shrinking thickness show that small temperature instabilities during the investigation can cause artifacts in the electron density profile. These can easily be mistaken for density os cillations near the interface as might be expected for liquid molecules near a hard wall.


ChemInform ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 34 (26) ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil D. Draper ◽  
Raymond J. Batchelor ◽  
Bryan C. Sih ◽  
Zuo-Guang Ye ◽  
Daniel B. Leznoff

2021 ◽  
pp. 002199832110476
Author(s):  
Haiyan Zhang ◽  
Yan Ren ◽  
Jiaxin Song ◽  
Qi Zhu ◽  
Xuefen Ma

Out-of-plane waviness is one of the most common defects which degenerates the strength, stiffness, and fatigue life of hybrid glass–carbon fiber–reinforced polymer composites (FRPs). An accurate and high-speed non-destructive testing method is highly desired for large composite structures in industries. Ultrasonic phased array is a great candidate for such application. This paper applies the wavenumber algorithm to image the waviness in hybrid FRP plates which are a multi-layered medium. The central frequency of 5 MHZ is chosen in order to maximize the ply resonance. Transducers are migrated virtually to each interface between glass and carbon plies in order to overcome the difficulty of wave propagation analysis in such multi-layered system. The wavenumber algorithm demonstrates a better computational performance compared to that of the traditional total focusing method (TFM) in time domain up to 6 times. The glass ply depth and waviness angle can be more accurately presented with relative errors less than 1.5% and 14.8%, respectively. In addition, the resin-rich defect characterization is also achievable with a maximum error of 14.4%.


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