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{"title":"Influence of Gas from Long-Flame Coal Spontaneous Combustion on Gas Explosion Limit","authors":"Haitao Wang, Yongli Liu, Q. Shan","doi":"10.1155/2023/5096109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/5096109","url":null,"abstract":"To investigate the impact of multiple combustible gases produced by long-flame coal spontaneous combustion on the gas explosion limit and to guide the reoperation of the coal mine goaf and fire area, the influence of gas generated by coal spontaneous combustion on gas explosion limit is investigated in this paper using a temperature-programmed device and a 20 L spherical explosion device. The results show that the volume fraction of CO produced during the spontaneous combustion of coal samples is 0.47%, followed by CH4 and C2H6, and C2H4 has the lowest content. Simultaneously, the coal spontaneous combustion is divided by 30°C, 80°C, and 170°C as the threshold, depending on the different gas characteristics. Organic C2H4 and C2H6 produced by coal spontaneous combustion have a greater impact on the CH4 explosion limit than inorganic CO. The lower and upper limits of CH4 explosion were reduced to 2.98% and 12.2%, respectively, by 0.8% C2H6. C2H4 and C2H6 explosion limits change dramatically when mixed with CH4. The CO and CH4 mixture explosion limit decreases first and then increases. C2H4 and C2H6 have a significant impact on the explosion pressure of mixed gas and the lower explosion limit of gas. The lower explosion limit falls from 5.1% to 4.3% as the explosion pressure rises from 0.25 MPa to 0.29 MPa.","PeriodicalId":13921,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chemical Engineering","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64795931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Production of Industrial-Grade Oxygen from Air by Pressure Swing Adsorption","authors":"Cynthia Chin, Z. Kamin, M. H. V. Bahrun, A. Bono","doi":"10.1155/2023/2308227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/2308227","url":null,"abstract":"Oxygen, an odorless and colorless gas constituent of the atmosphere, is a vital gas component for the Earth, as it makes up 21% of the composition of the air we breathe. Apart from the importance of oxygen for human breathing, its highly pure form is demanding for industrial applications. As such, several technologies have been established to increase the oxygen purity from 21% to somewhat higher than 95%. One of the competitive technologies for producing this high-purity oxygen from the air is through pressure swing adsorption (PSA), which has the advantages of low cost and energy while being highly efficient. Also, PSA is a simple and flexible system due to its ability to start up and shut down more rapidly since its operation occurs at ambient temperature, which is enabled through the use of adsorbents to bind and separate the air molecules. The enhancement of the PSA’s performances was reported through the modification of PSA step cycles and material (zeolite) tailoring. A simplified complete set of a mathematical model is included for modelling the PSA system, aiming to ease the experimental burden of the process design and optimization of an infinite modification of PSA step cycles. Finally, some technological importance of oxygen production via PSA, particularly for onboard oxygen generation system and oxy-enriched incineration of municipal solid waste, was discussed. Continuous development of PSA will make significant contributions to a wide range of chemical industries in the near future, be it for oxygen production or other gas separation applications.","PeriodicalId":13921,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chemical Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46450906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Application of Artificial Intelligent Approach to Predict the Normal Boiling Point of Refrigerants","authors":"Bo Liu, Maryam Karimi Nouroddin","doi":"10.1155/2023/6809569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/6809569","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the desirable and interesting applications of refrigerants in organic Rankine cycles, heat pumps, and refrigeration, engineers and researchers are becoming more interested in refrigerant properties. One of the most dominant thermophysical properties of these fluids is their normal boiling point (Tb). In the current study, a novel extreme learning method (ELM) and ensemble decision tree boosted algorithm (EDT Boosted) are proposed to forecast the normal boiling point from 16 different molecular groups and one topological index. To this end, a total of 334 data points of Tb are gathered to prepare and test ELM and EDT boosted algorithms. The visual and mathematical comparisons of model outputs and real Tb express that proposed models have great potential to predict Tb of refrigerant. Moreover, sensitivity analysis is applied to explain the effectiveness of input parameters on the determination of Tb for refrigerants.","PeriodicalId":13921,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chemical Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43869155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Modified t-Distribution Stochastic Neighbor Embedding Using Augmented Kernel Mahalanobis-Distance for Dynamic Multimode Chemical Process Monitoring","authors":"Haoyu Gu, Li Wang","doi":"10.1155/2022/8460463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/8460463","url":null,"abstract":"The traditional data-driven process monitoring methods may not be applicable for the system which has dynamic and multimode characteristics. In this paper, a novel scheme named modified t-distribution stochastic neighbor embedding using augmented Mahalanobis-distance for dynamic multimode chemical process monitoring (AKMD-t-SNE) is proposed to realize dynamic multimodal process monitoring. First, the augmented matrix strategy is utilized to ensure the sample contains the autocorrelation of the process. Moreover, AKMD-t-SNE method eliminates the scale and spatial distribution differences among multiple modes by calculating the kernel Mahalanobis distance between the samples to establish the global model. The features extracted via the proposed method are obviously non-Gaussian, and there will be a deviation in the construction of traditional statistics. Then, the support vector data description (SVDD) method is used to construct statistics to deal with this problem. In addition, a hybrid correlation coefficient method (HCC) is proposed to achieve fault isolation and improve the accuracy of isolation results. The advantages of the proposed scheme are illustrated by a numerical case and the Multimode Tennessee Eastman Process (MTEP) benchmark.","PeriodicalId":13921,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chemical Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48389662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bioremediation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Contaminated Soils Using Vermicompost","authors":"F. Mohammadi-Moghadam, Ramazan Khodadadi, M. Sedehi, M. Arbabi","doi":"10.1155/2022/5294170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/5294170","url":null,"abstract":"Bioremediation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in contaminated soils are reported in many literatures. Composting, in addition to bioremediation, can simultaneously increase soil organic matter content and soil fertility and is thus regarded as one of the most cost-effective methods of soil remediation. In this study, biodegradation of phenanthrene (PHE) and pyrene (PYR) is reported by microbial consortia enriched by vermicompost. After soil samples preparation and grinding, the samples were contaminated with 100, 200, and 300 mg/kg of PHE and PYR concentrations and inoculated with three concentrations (2, 4, and 6 wt.%) of vermicompost. PHE and PYR concentrations were analyzed by HPLC during bioremediation. After 70 days, two highly capable microbial consortia were used to remove the pollutants in bioaugmentation conditions. Analysis of their microbial composition revealed that the consortia contain several Proteobacteria phylum bacterial species, and the most common genera were Pseudomonas and Citrobacter. Decontamination rates for PHE and PYR were estimated to be 89% and 83% over 45 days, respectively. Biodegradation kinetics revealed that microbial degradation followed a first-order kinetics. This study provides clear evidence on the biodegradation of PHE and PYR, paving the way for the development of bioremediation technologies for the recovery of polluted ecosystems.","PeriodicalId":13921,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chemical Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42229935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Investigation of the Characteristics of a Gas Turbine Combustion Chamber with Steam Injection Operating on Hydrogen-Containing Mixtures and Hydrogen","authors":"S. Serbin, Kateryna Burunsuz, Daifen Chen","doi":"10.1155/2022/9123639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/9123639","url":null,"abstract":"The article is devoted to the investigation of the characteristics of a gas turbine combustion chamber with a steam injection when operating on hydrogen-containing mixtures and pure hydrogen. The parameters of a cannular combustion chamber with a separate injection of ecological and energy steam were studied to ensure the stable and ecologically clean chamber’s operation without the formation of flashback zones. The injection of ecological steam in the area of the vane swirler of the flame tube for the diffusion-type combustion chamber makes it possible to provide low emissions of nitrogen oxides at significant concentrations of hydrogen in its mixtures with natural gas, even if the maximum gas temperature in the primary zone of a combustion chamber increases. For the investigated chamber’s operating modes, the calculated carbon monoxide emission does not exceed 18.1 ppm. Emissions of nitrogen oxide when the hydrogen content changes from 0 to 50% initially decrease from 36.1 to 17.8 ppm due to increased steam injection to the combustion zone and then increase to 38 ppm when operating on pure hydrogen. An increase in the nonuniformity of the temperature field at the combustion chamber outlet with an increase in the hydrogen content in the mixture with natural gas was noted.","PeriodicalId":13921,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chemical Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44102125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dry Reforming of Methane with Mesoporous Ni/ZrO2 Catalyst","authors":"Subhan Azeem, R. Aslam, M. Saleem","doi":"10.1155/2022/3139696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/3139696","url":null,"abstract":"Dry reforming of methane has exhibited significant environmental benefits as it utilizes two major greenhouse gases (CO2 and CH4) to produce synthesis gas, a major building block for hydrocarbons. This process has gained industrial attention as catalyst deactivation due to coke deposition being a major hindrance. The present study focuses on the dry reforming of methane over Ni-supported mesoporous zirconia support. Ni metal was loaded over in-house synthesized mesoporous zirconia within the 0–15 wt% range using the wet impregnation method. The physicochemical properties of the synthesized catalysts were studied using various characterization techniques, namely, XRD, SEM, FTIR, TGA, and N2 adsorption-desorption techniques. The activity of all the catalysts was evaluated at 750°C and gas hourly space velocity (GHSV) of 72000 ml/h/gcat for 9 hours (540 min). The deactivation factor indicating a loss in conversion with time is reported for each catalyst. 10 wt% Ni/ZrO2 showed the highest feed conversion of about 68.8% for methane and 70.2% for carbon dioxide and the highest stability (15.1% deactivation factor and 21% weight loss) for dry reforming of methane to synthesis gas.","PeriodicalId":13921,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chemical Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43293985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Volute Optimization Based on Self-Adaption Kriging Surrogate Model","authors":"Fannian Meng, Zi-An Zhang, Liang-Yuan Wang","doi":"10.1155/2022/6799201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/6799201","url":null,"abstract":"Optimizing the volute performance can effectively improve the efficiency of a centrifugal fan by changing the volute geometric parameter, so the self-adaption Kriging surrogate model is used to optimize the volute geometric parameter. Firstly, volute radius Rd, the radius of tongue r, and outlet angle of the volute θ are selected as the optimization parameters of the volute, and latin hypercube sampling is used to configure the initial sample points, the corresponding three-dimensional aerodynamic model under each sample point configuration is constructed. CFD software is used to simulate the aerodynamic efficiency and total pressure of the centrifugal fan under each initial sample point configuration. Secondly, the Kriging surrogate model of initial sample point configuration parameters, aerodynamic efficiency, and total pressure of volute is constructed, and sample points are added by expectation improvement (EI) method to improve the fitting accuracy of Kriging surrogate model. Finally, the high-precision Kriging surrogate model is used as the fitness function of NSGA-II algorithm to find the Pareto optimal solution under multiobjective optimization, and the optimization target are aero dynamical efficiency and total pressure. The rationality of the above method is verified by optimizing the 9–19.4A type centrifugal fan volute. The efficiency of the optimized fan under working conditions is increased by 1%, and the total pressure under working conditions is not reduced. The optimized volute can effectively improve the overall performance of the centrifugal fan. This study is helpful to promote the application of numerical optimization design method in the volute of centrifugal fan. It provides reference for the optimization design of high-performance centrifugal fan.","PeriodicalId":13921,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chemical Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41765174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Influence of Injection Pressure on the Dual-Fuel Mode in CI Engines Fueled with Blends of Ethanol and Tamanu Biodiesel","authors":"M. Parthasarathy, P. Elumalai, M. Murunachippan, P. Senthilkumar, Saboor Shaik, M. Sharifpur, N. Khalilpoor","doi":"10.1155/2022/6730963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/6730963","url":null,"abstract":"The acceleration of global warming is primarily attributable to nonrenewable energy sources such as conventional fossil fuels. The primary source of energy for the automobile sector is petroleum products. Petroleum fuel is depleting daily, and its use produces a significant amount of greenhouse emissions. Biofuels would be a viable alternative to petroleum fuels, but a redesign of the engine would be required for complete substitution. The use of CNG in SI engines is not new, but it has not yet been implemented in CI engines. This is due to the fuel having a greater octane rating. The sole use of CNG in a CI engine results in knocking and excessive vibration. This study utilizes CNG under dual-fuel conditions when delivered through the intake manifold. In a dual-fuel mode, compressed natural gas (CNG) is utilized as the secondary fuel and a blend of 90% tamanu methyl ester and 10% ethanol (TMEE10) is used as the primary fuel. The injection pressure (IP) of the primary fuel changes between 200 and 240 bar, while the CNG induction rate is kept constant at 0.17 kg/h. The main combustion process is governed by the injection pressure of the pilot fuel. It could be affecting factors such as the vaporization characteristics of the fuel, the homogeneity of the mixture, and the ignition delay. Originally, tamanu methyl ester (TME) and diesel were used as base fuels in the investigation. As a result of its inherent oxygen content, TME emits more NOx than diesel. The addition of 10% ethanol to TME (TMEE10) marginally reduces NOx emissions in a CI mode because of its high latent heat of vaporization characteristics. Under peak load conditions, NOx emissions of TMEE10 are 6.2% lower than those of neat TME in the CI mode. Furthermore, the experiment was conducted using TMEE10 as the primary fuel and CNG as the secondary fuel. In the dual-fuel mode, the TMEE10 blend showed higher combustion, resulting in an increase in performance and a significant decrease in emission characteristics. As a result of the CNG’s high-energy value and rapid burning rate, the brake thermal efficiency (BTE) of TMEE10 improves to 29.09% compared to 27.09% for neat TME. In the dual-fuel mode of TMEE10 with 20.2% CNG energy sharing, the greatest reduction in fuel consumption was 2.9%. TMEE10 with CNG induction emits 7.8%, 12.5%, and 15.5% less HC, CO, and smoke, respectively, than TME operation.","PeriodicalId":13921,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chemical Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47949924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Local Resistances of Gas–Liquid Two-Phase Flows in Vertical L-Shaped and Z-Shaped Pipes","authors":"Bing Wang, Shanqun Chen, Bin Liao","doi":"10.1155/2022/8251430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/8251430","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a systematic numerical study of the local resistance coefficients of vertical L-shaped and Z-shaped pipes for gas‒liquid two-phase flows under vertical conditions was carried out using a realizable k-ε turbulence model combined with a mixture model in Fluent software. Specifically, the influence of the Reynolds number Rel, the gas-phase volume rate α, the radius–diameter ratio R/D, the height–diameter ratio H/D, and the two-phase flow direction on the local resistance coefficient ξ were discussed in detail. ξ of the vertical Z-shaped pipe decreases with increasing Rel, while ξ of the vertical L-shaped pipe does not change significantly. In a specific range, ξ of vertical L-shaped and Z-shaped pipes increases with increasing α and decreases with increasing R/D. In Z-shaped pipes, under the upward flow condition, ξ increases with increasing H/D, and under the downward flow and horizontal flow conditions, ξ first decreases and then increases with increasing H/D. Overall, upward and downward flow conditions have a larger ξ than the horizontal flow condition. When H/D is larger than 14, ξ tends to be stable under all three flow conditions. Finally, the relationship equations between ξ and Rel, α, R/D, and H/D were fitted, which agreed with the numerical results.","PeriodicalId":13921,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chemical Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43078577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}