Grey Spectrum Analysis of Air Quality Index and Housing Price in Handan

To analyze the relationship between air quality index (AQI) and housing price, six relationship indexes between air quality index and housing price were calculated using grey spectrum theory, specifically grey association spectrum, grey cospectrum, grey amplitude spectrum, grey phase spectrum, grey lag time length, and grey condense spectrum. Three main change periods were extracted. There was a negative correction between the air quality and the housing price in Handan. The results provide a basis for the government’s measures to prevent haze.

Effect of Rare Earth Metals, Sr, and Ti Addition on the Microstructural Characterization of A413.1 Alloy

The present work was performed on A413.1 alloy containing 0.2–1.5 wt% rare earth metals (lanthanum or cerium), 0.05–0.15% Ti, and 0–0.02 wt% Sr. These elements were either added individually or combined. Thermal analysis, image analysis, and electron probe microanalysis were the main techniques employed in the present study. The results show that the use of the depression in the eutectic temperature as a function of alloy modification cannot be applied in the case when the alloy is treated with rare earth metals. Increasing the concentration of RE increases the solidification zone especially in Sr-modified alloys leading to poor feeding ability. This observation is more prominent in the case of Ce addition. Depending upon the amount of added Ti, two RE based intermetallics can be formed: (i) a white phase, mainly platelet-like (approximately 2.5 μm thick), that is rich in RE, Si, Cu, and Al and (ii) a second phase made up of mainly grey sludge particles (star-like) branching in different directions. The grey phase is rich in Ti with some RE (almost 20% of that in the white phase) with traces of Si and Cu. There is a strong interaction between RE and Sr leading to a reduction in the efficiency of Sr as a eutectic Si modifier causing particle demodification.

Preparation and characterization of UO2-based AGR SIMFuel

ABSTRACTPreparation and characterization of a Simulated Spent Nuclear Fuel (SIMFuel), which replicates the chemical state and microstructure of Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) discharged from UK Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR) after a cooling time of 100 years is described. Thirteen stable elements were added to depleted UO2 and sintered to simulate the composition of fuel pellets after burn-ups of 25 and 43 GWd/tU and, as a reference, pure UO2 pellets were also investigated. The fission product distribution was calculated using the Fispin code provided by NNL. SIMFuel pellets exhibit a microstructure up to 92% TD. During the sintering process in H2 atmosphere Mo-Ru-Rh-Pd metallic precipitates and grey-phase ((Ba, Sr)(Zr, RE)O3 oxide precipitates) formed within the UO2 matrix. These secondary phases are present in real PWR and AGR SNF, although they are smaller in size than those examined in this study. The grain size of the produced SIMFuel is in good agreement with literature references.

The deuteric mineral sequence in the Enoggera granite, Queensland

The Enoggera 'granite', in which occur the minerals to be described, is situated a few miles to the west of the city of Brisbane, and within the Greater Brisbane area. Deuteric and allied minerals have previously been recorded from quarries in the granite by H. C. Richards and W. H. Bryan, and a specimen is recorded ill the Queensland Mineral Index as 'Heulandite occurring as geodes in granite. Loc. Enoggera.'The granite itself is very varied in character, and Bryan has recognized two main types, a pink phase and a grey phase. The pink phase approaches an adamellite, while the grey is more granodioritic in character. There is, however, every gradation from one type to the other due to admixture, and this reaches its maximum in a hybrid rock formed presumably by the mingling of the two magmas.