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The objective of this research was to systematically study the effect of processing conditions on crystallization behavior and destabilization mechanisms of oil-in-water (o/w) emulsions. The effects of oil content (20 and 40 wt %); crystallization temperature (Tc = 10, 5, 0, -5, -10 °C); homogenization conditions, such as high shear (HS), very low pressure homogenization (VLPH), and high pressure homogenization (HPH); and cooling rate (0.2 and 30 °C/min) on both thermal behavior and destabilization mechanisms were analyzed. Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) was added to VLPH emulsions and its effect on the physicochemical and oxidative stabilities and flavor was studied. Emulsions with 20% oil were less stable than those with 40% oil with a fast-cooling rate; however, stability increased when the emulsions were cooled slowly. Stability was also affected by oil and droplet size; the smaller the droplet the more stable the system. Smaller droplets (i.e., VLPH, HPH) had an effect on crystallization by delaying the onset of the crystal formation, which was promoted in emulsions with larger droplets (i.e., HS); 20% o/w emulsion crystallization was delayed more than 40%; and in emulsions crystallized using a slow-cooling rate, the crystal formation was less inhibited (i.e., crystals formed at a higher onset temperature [Ton], but at lower Tc) than when using a fast-cooling rate. The formation of lipid crystals either helped stabilize (small droplets) the emulsion and melted in a less fractionated manner or destabilized (big droplets) the emulsion. In addition, fast-cooling rates have greater fractionation than slow-cooling rates. Due to the greater stability of VLPH emulsions after thawing from being at -10 °C for 3 h, DHA was added to evaluate its effect on flavor (besides the effect on stability) of the emulsion. A descriptive panel was used to evaluate four attributes: oxidized, rancid, fishy, and buttery. The panelists were given samples after 72 h, because contrary to the TBA analysis which showed no significant differences between samples with and without DHA, the fishy smell was evident. The sensory evaluation results showed that there was a significant (p < 0.05) difference in fishiness between the VLPH emulsions with and without DHA, and that the odor was repulsive. No significance was seen for rancid and buttery flavors, and only a marginal significance was seen for oxidized.

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Though the least squares technique has many advantages, its possible limitations as applied in the atmospheric sciences have not yet been fully explored in the literature. The assumption that the atmosphere responds either in phase or out of phase to the solar input is ubiquitous. However, our analysis found this assumption to be incorrect. If not properly addressed, the possible consequences are bias in the linear trend coefficient and attenuation of the solar response coefficient. Using USU Rayleigh lidar temperature data, we found a significant phase offset to the solar input in the temperatures that varies ±5 years depending on altitude. In addition to introducing a phase offset into the linear regression model, we argue that separating what we identify as the solar-noise is to be preferred because (1) the solar-noise can contain important physical information, (2) its omission could lead to spurious conclusions about the significance of the solar-proxy coefficient, and (3) its omission could also bias the solar proxy coefficient. We also argue that the Mt. Pinatubo eruption caused a positive temperature perturbation in our early mesopause temperatures, exerting leverage on the linear trend coefficient. In the upper mesosphere, we found a linear cooling trend of greater than -1.5 K/year, which is possibly exaggerated because of leverage from the earlier temperatures and/or collinearity. In the middle mesosphere we found a cooling trend of -1 K/year to near zero. We use the autocorrelation coefficient of the model residuals as a physical parameter. The autocorrelation can provide information about how strongly current temperatures are affected by prior temperatures or how quickly a physical process is occurring. The amplitudes and phases of the annual oscillation in our data compare favorably with those from the OHP and CEL French lidars, as well has the HALOE satellite instrument measurements. The semiannual climatology from the USU temperatures is similar to that from the HALOE temperatures. We also found that our semiannual and annual amplitudes and phases compare favorably with those from the HALOE, OHP, and CPC data.

The friction stir welding of steel has produced a hard zone in several different alloys. Despite its detrimental effects on weld toughness, the reasons behind neither its formation nor a method of reducing its size or effects have been explored. Recent advances in process control allow for direct heat input control, which combined with the use of backing plates of different thermal conductivity allows for an expansion of the process window. These control methods also affect the HAZ cooling rate by providing greater range (a 60% increase compared to a fixed backing plate) and control (five welds within 16 °C/s). This increased range produced microstructures consisting of various forms of ferrite at lower cooling rates and bainite at higher cooling rates. The hard zone was determined to be the result of the formation of the bainite at higher cooling rates and was avoided by keeping the cooling rate below 20 °C/s in HSLA-65.

Regarding the great importance of fast cooling in steel industry for the production processes, a deep understanding of heat transfer and fluid dynamics must be held. A steel plate is heated up until a maximum temperature of 700 ⁰ C to be the n cooled down seconds later by a configuration of multi ple impinging water jets. Different flow rates are used simultaneously by different adjacent jets to perform quenching over the sample, so different hardness is obtained in the material over a small area . Temperature drop in time i s measured and monitored by embedded thermocouples and LabVIEW program. To achieve greater understanding of the quenching performance with different flow rates , several parameters are selected to be varied in order to achieve the best working conditions. Jet diameter takes values between 4 and 10 mm, initial temperature of quenching varies from 400 to 700 ⁰ C , subcooling temperature is tested for 65 and 75 K, and jet velocity varies between 1.9 and 3.9 m/s. The result of total number of 9 expe riments shown that v ariation of jet diam eter does not influence substantially on the cooling rate if flow rate is kept constant. High initial quenching temperature (600 - 700 ⁰ C ) led to slightly higher cooling rate in the stagnation region of water jets. The peak value of heat transfer rate in the upwash flow zone was more highlighted for initial quenching temperature 600 ⁰ C and below it. High er values of subcooling and jet velocity produce better cooling rates. The result shown higher jet velocity at one column of water jets changes position of upw ash flow slightly toward the adjacent column of jets with lower jet velocity. In general, the result shown that all the studied parameters did not have negative effect on obtaining various cooling rates over the steel plate.

The estimation of gas hydrate volume in closed systems such as pipelines during shut-in time has a great industrial importance. A method is presented to estimate the volume of formed or decomposed gas hydrate in closed systems. The method was used to estimate the volume of formed gas hydrate in a gas hydrate crystallizer under different subcoolings of 0.2, 0.3, 0.6 and 4.6 degrees C, and initial pressures of 2000 and 2500 psi. The rate of gas hydrate formation increased with increases in subcooling and initial pressure. The aim of the second part of the study was the evaluation of the formation of gas hydrate and ice phases in a super-cooled methane-water system under the cooling rates of 0.45 and 0.6 degrees C/min, and the initial pressures of 1500, 2000 and 2500 psi, in pure and standard sea water-methane gas systems. The high cooling rate conditions are likely to be present in pipelines or around a wellbore producing from gas hydrate reservoir. Results showed that the initial pressure and the chemical composition of the water had little effect on the ice and gas hydrate formation temperatures, which were in the range of -8 +/- 0.2 degrees C in all the tests using the cooling rate of 0.45 degrees C/min. In contrast, the increase in the cooling rate from 0.45 to 0.6 degrees C/min decreased the ice and gas hydrate formation temperatures from -8 degrees C to -9 degrees C. In all tests, ice formed immediately after the formation of gas hydrate with a time lag less than 2 seconds. Finally, an analytical solution was derived for estimating induced radial and tangential stresses around a wellbore in a gas hydrate reservoir during gas production. Gas production rates between 0.04 to 0.12 Kg of gas per second and production times between 0.33 to 8 years were considered. Increases in production time and production rate induced greater radial and tangential stresses around the wellbore.

Abstract The purpose of the thesis is the research of metallurgical properties , mechanical properties and texture analyses of four magnesium-based materials during E-beam welding process. After rapid solidification, the welding properties of fusion zone of four materials are very well without obvious defects and hot cracking. The Surface and depth of the weld of three Mg alloys has stable performance without sputter with Al content increasing.

Orientador: Celia Marina de Alvarenga Freire / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecanica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-10T08:26:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Oliveira_HeltonSallesde_M.pdf: 7606437 bytes, checksum: 8fe5af58a074b04f264f73dca0b003c5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: O titânio puro é utilizado comercialmente como biomaterial, na fabricação de próteses ortopédicas e odontológicas, devido ao seu alto grau de biocompatibilidade e boa resistência à corrosão. O uso do titânio puro apresenta deficiência em propriedades mecânicas onde as solicitações mecânicas são elevadas. Ao se exigir níveis elevados de resistência mecânica, como no implante total de quadril, a aplicação do titânio se dá por meio de ligas metálicas. Dentre estas ligas, as ligas do tipo ß são as mais promissoras devido à alta resistência mecânica, boa resistência à corrosão e excelente biocompatibilidade. As ligas de titânio tipo ß são obtidas pela adição de elementos de liga tais como Nb, Zr e Ta. Através de tratamentos térmicos adequados, tais ligas podem gerar diferentes microestruturas, que apresentam excelentes propriedades mecânicas e boa resistência à corrosão. O objetivo deste trabalho é avaliar a influência do teor de nióbio presente nas ligas Ti-20Nb, Ti-25Nb e Ti-35Nb e avaliar a influência da variação da microestrutura obtida através de diferentes taxas de resfriamento, na resistência à corrosão em meio que simula o fluido corporal. São aplicadas as técnicas de espectroscopia de impedância eletroquímica e polarização eletroquímica, como ferramentas de análise. A partir dos resultados obtidos foi possível selecionar amostras com teores de elementos de liga e taxas de resfriamento que resultaram em um conjunto de propriedades eletroquímicas mais adequadas para a utilização em próteses ortopédicas / Abstract: Pure titanium is used commercially as biomaterial in the manufacture of odontologic and orthopedic prosthesis, due to its high biocompatibility and good corrosion resistance. The use of the pure titanium shows deficiency in mechanical proprieties because the mechanics requests are high. When the mechanic¿s requests are high, like in the hip¿s total implant, the use of titanium is given through metallic alloys. Among these alloys, the ß-alloys is the most promising because of their high mechanics resistance, good corrosion resistance and excellent biocompatibility. The titanium ß-alloys are obtained from addition of alloying elements like Nb, Zr and Ta. Through adequate heat treatments, these alloys can generate different microstructures, which show excellent mechanics proprieties and good corrosion resistance. The objective of this project is observed the influence of the niobium¿s content in the Ti-20Nb, Ti-25Nb and Ti-35Nb alloys and the variation of microstructure through the different cooling rates over corrosion process in the environment that simulates the corporal fluid. The techniques of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy and Electrochemical Polarization are used as analysis tools. From the gotten results it was possible to select samples with element contents of alloys and cooling rates that resulted in a set of electrochemical proprieties more suitable to use in orthopedic prosthesis / Mestrado / Materiais e Processos de Fabricação / Mestre em Engenharia Mecânica

Orientadores: Luis Augusto Barbosa Cortez, Clement Vigneault / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Agrícola / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-04T00:29:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Castro_LarissaRodriguesde_D.pdf: 2524603 bytes, checksum: 96c23f390f533440db271887126eb814 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo desenvolver uma metodologia para o projeto dos orifícios de embalagens para frutas e hortaliças submetidas ao processo de resfriamento rápido a ar forçado. Tendo em vista as altas perdas registradas anualmente sobretudo devido à falta de embalagens adequadas e armazenagem frigorificada, tal metodologia poderá auxiliar de forma prática e precisa a escolha da configuração dos orifícios da embalagem para maximização da eficiência do resfriamento rápido de produtos hortícolas. Esta ferramenta deverá ser utilizada em combinação com demais tecnologias existentes para o projeto de uma embalagem suficientemente atrativa ao consumidor e que atenda não apenas às necessidades do produto submetido a tratamentos pós-colheita, como também à resistência estrutural da caixa, possibilitando inclusive sua higienização, reutilização e desmontagem, visando reduzir custos de confecção e transporte. Para atingir a meta da pesquisa, os produtos hortícolas acondicionados em embalagens foram representados por produtos-modelo nos experimentos laboratoriais. Vários materiais e arranjos experimentais foram testados até se chegar à simulação de uma embalagem com um grupo de esferas plásticas sólidas instrumentadas. Estas simularam com maior precisão a distribuição do ar através de um leito de produtos hortícolas durante o resfriamento rápido a ar forçado. A partir dos resultados obtidos para o coeficiente de resfriamento das esferas, foram desenvolvidas correlações para determinação indireta da velocidade de aproximação do ar ao redor de cada uma delas, considerando sua posição na embalagem relativa ao ar de entrada. Estas correlações foram posteriormente aprimoradas através do refinamento da pesquisa na faixa de regime de fluxo transiente. A precisão das correlações estabelecidas foi verificada através de análises de balanço de massa nas camadas de produto ao longo da direção do fluxo de ar. A metodologia foi aplicada para a investigação do efeito de diferentes configurações de abertura de embalagem na distribuição do ar através do produto submetido ao resfriamento. Tais configurações incluíram orifícios centrais, periféricos, diagonais e uniformemente distribuídos, além das aberturas tipo ¿alça¿ para manuseio. Também foi realizada uma análise energética envolvendo o calor adicionado ao sistema devido à taxa respiratória do produto e ao funcionamento do ventilador usado no resfriamento rápido. Através da ferramenta desenvolvida, foram definidos certos valores de operação do sistema para maximizar a eficiência do processo de resfriamento, em termos de velocidade e uniformidade de resfriamento e energia requerida, que afetarão a qualidade e preço finais do produto. Assim, recomenda-se o projeto de orifícios uniformemente distribuídos na superfície da embalagem com área total aberta entre 8 e 16% . A porcentagem a ser escolhida nesta faixa dependerá dos limites de resistência estrutural do material, fluxo de ar fornecido pelo ventilador e taxa respiratória do produto. Por exemplo, hortícolas com atividade metabólica muito elevada, como brócolis, acondicionados em caixas mais abertas exigirão um maior fluxo de ar para otimização do processo de resfriamento rápido / Abstract: The aim of this research was to develop a methodology for designing container openings for fruits and vegetables submitted to a forced-air precooling process. Due to significant annual losses of fruits and vegetables, especially because of inappropriate packaging and storage, this tool could allow practical and accurate selection of the best package opening configuration to maximize the precooling efficiency of horticultural produce. The tool should be combined with other technologies currently in market use to design a container sufficiently attractive to consumers. This container must not only meet the produce requirements when submitted to postharvest operations, but also the material structural constraints. Furthermore, reusable and foldable containers could be desirable for manufacture and transport cost reductions. To this end, packed horticultural produce were represented by produce simulators in the trials. Several materials and experimental set-ups were tested before selecting an arrangement of instrumented solid plastic spheres in a container. These spheres simulated the air distribution through a horticultural produce stack during forced-air precooling with more accuracy. Correlations were established by measuring the cooling rate of the instrumented simulators for indirect determination of the surrounding air velocity, as a function of the simulator locations in reference to the inlet air. These correlations were further improved by refining the airflow range studied in laminar, transient, and turbulent phases. Their applicability was verified by performing a mass balance through the produce layers perpendicular to the main airflow direction. The methodology was applied to investigate the container opening design on air distribution through horticultural produce submitted to precooling. The configurations tested included central, peripheral, diagonal, and uniformly distributed openings, besides the container handle openings. Furthermore, an energy analysis was performed involving heat added to the system due to produce respiratory rate and fan functioning during precooling. The research tool developed here allowed defining some optimum values for system operation to maximize the cooling efficiency regarding the process rate and uniformity and required energy, which affect produce final quality and cost. Therefore, it is recommended that design openings be uniformly distributed on package surface with total vented area between 8 and 16%. The exact percentage to be selected in this range will depend on the material structural resistance, airflow and produce respiratory rates. For instance, horticultural produce with very high respiratory activity, such as broccoli, require higher airflow rate when submitted to larger venting package to optimize precooling process / Doutorado / Tecnologia Pós-Colheita / Doutor em Engenharia Agrícola