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Orientador: Fernando Antonio Cabral / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia de Alimentos / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-08T22:39:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Papa_DanielaCristinaPansani_M.pdf: 1249228 bytes, checksum: 48e963b9295cdf560b6661fa719b53f4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Neste trabalho foi estudado o fracionamento de óleo de palma bruto (Elaes guineensi) com dióxido de carbono supercrítico; mediu-se a solubilidade, a composição em ácidos graxos, carotenóides totais, tocoferóis, tocotrienóis e ácidos graxos livres. Foi determinado o equílibro de fases no intervalo de pressão de 100 a 350 bar e nas temperaturas de 40, 50 e 60°C. A quantificação dos componentes minoritários presentes nos extratos foi feita por espectrofotometria para a determinação de carotenóides totais, por cromatografia líquida de alta eficiência para a determinação dos tocoferóis e tocotrienóis e por titulação potenciométrica para os ácidos graxos livres. Realizou-se uma extração fracionada utilizando raspas de madeiras como suporte na condição de 40°C a 200 bar, onde doze amostras foram extraídas, nas quais mediu-se a solubilidade e a concentração de ácidos graxos livres e carotenóides totais. Observou-se que a composição em ácidos graxos do óleo de palma refinado e a composição dos extratos em equilíbrio com o CO2 apresentaram pequenas variações na concentração dos ácidos palmítico, oléico e linoléico. Os valores de coeficiente de distribuição, que indicam o grau de fracionamento entre as fases, foram menores que a unidade para tocoferóis e carotenóides e maiores que a unidade para ácidos graxos livres. Notou-se que o comportamento do equilíbrio de fases, transcrito em termos dos coeficientes de distribuição, concorda com os valores da literatura, exceto para os tocoferóis onde o comportamento foi diferente daqueles reportados na litertura / Abstract: In this work was studied the fractionation of crude oil palm (Elaes guineensi) with supercritical carbon dioxide; it measured solubility, the free fatty acids composition, carotenoids totals, tocochromanols and free fatty acids. Was determined equilibrium phase in the interval at pressure of 100 at 350 bar and temperature of 40, 50 and 60°C. The quantification of the minor components present in extracts was made by spectrometer for the determination of carotenoids totals, liquid chromatography of high efficiency for the determination of tocochromanols and potenciometric titration for determination free fatty acids. Were fulfilled extraction fractionated using wood scraps as support in condition of 40°C at 200 bar, where twelve sample had been extracted, in which it measured the solubility and the concentration of free fatty acid and carotenoids totals. It was observed that the free fatty acid composition of refined oil palm and the composition the extracts in equilibrium with CO2 had present small variations in the palmitic acid, oleic acid and linoleic acid. The values separation factor, that indicate the degree of fractionation between the phase were smaller than unit for tocochromanols, carotenoids totals and bigger than unit for free fatty acids. It was noticed that the behavior of equilibrium phase, transcript in term of the separation factor, had agreed to the values of literature, except for the tocochromanols where the behavior was different of those reported in the literature / Mestrado / Mestre em Engenharia de Alimentos

We study the non-equilibrium behavior of systems that are driven out of equilibrium from the interface. In the first part of this thesis, we study a model of a two-dimensional lattice gas that is in contact with two heat baths that are at different temperatures. Performing Monte Carlo simulations, we find that there are three possible types of non-equilibrium steady states, depending on the values of certain system parameters. They include a disordered phase, a fully phase separated state, and an interesting state with striped patterns in the half of the lattice where the temperature is lower. The last one is a novel non-equilibrium steady state that we study systematically by varying the system parameters. To obtain the non-equilibrium finite-size phase diagram, we perform a spectrum analysis to classify not only the three major states, but also the sub-states of the striped phase. In the second part of the thesis, we study magnetic friction that results when two Potts systems move with respect to each other. In this research, we first study a model that consists of two interacting Potts blocks, where one block moves on top of the other. As a result, the system is driven out of equilibrium constantly. In our research we find for weak interfacial couplings that the contacting surfaces behave rather similar to a free surface. If the interfacial coupling is strong, however, anisotropic spin patterns appear on the contacting surfaces. This study is extended to a three-dimensional Potts wedge with a tip sliding along the surface of a Potts block. It is found that the shape of the Potts lattice influences the surface behavior of the system. / Ph. D.

Orientador: Charlles Rubber de Almeida Abreu / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Química / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-18T21:35:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Martins_TiagoDias_M.pdf: 4166409 bytes, checksum: 78baf81dcc9cf9d746302c21e813f9e2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: O estudo a nível microscópico do Equilíbrio Sólido-Líquido (ESL) só se desenvolveu a partir do século XX e ainda existem aspectos de tal fenômeno que não são bem compreendidos, mesmo para os sistemas mais simples. Por esse motivo, é necessário que métodos eficientes para simular diretamente o ESL sejam formulados. O principal objetivo deste trabalho foi desenvolver e implementar Métodos Monte Carlo Multicanônicos para simular o ESL de sistemas de Lennard-Jones e, então, avaliar a aplicabilidade de tais métodos com base na sua eficiência. Primeiramente, buscou-se melhorar os resultados do método desenvolvido por Muguruma e Okamoto (2008), que visava amostrar a energia do sistema uniformemente e o volume com probabilidade de Boltzmann, enquanto mantinha-se fixo o número de partículas da caixa de simulação cúbica. Em seguida, uma nova abordagem foi proposta, cuja principal característica é não restringir o formato da caixa, embora a amostragem fosse realizada da mesma forma. Em ambos os métodos, a densidade de estados do sistema foi estimada usando a técnica da matriz de transições e uma abordagem de paralelização das simulações foi empregada a fim de se obter uma amostragem mais efetiva. Os resultados obtidos com o primeiro método mostraram que uma simulação como essa depende significativamente do número de partículas. Além disso, a amostragem dos estados de energia ficou presa na fase sólida. Já os resultados obtidos com a nova metodologia foram ligeiramente melhores que os obtidos com o método anterior. A amostragem para o sistema com o menor número de partículas foi equivalente para as duas fases em questão. No entanto, as simulações com sistemas maiores apresentaram o mesmo problema apontado no método anterior. A princípio, sugeriu-se a existência de uma transição polimórfica. No entanto, simulações na fase sólida com a nova metodologia apontam o contrário. Apesar dos resultados insatisfatórios, este trabalho se constitui em um passo importante no estudo de um tema complexo, que é a previsão de Equilíbrio Sólido-Líquido utilizando métodos de simulação direta / Abstract: The study at the microscopic level of Solid-Liquid Equilibrium (SLE) was only developed in the 20th century and still exist some aspects of this phenomenon that are not well understood, even for the simplest systems. Therefore, it is necessary the development of efficient methods to directly simulate the SLE. The main objective of this work was to develop and implement Multicanonical Monte Carlo methods to simulate the SLE of the Lennard-Jones system and then evaluate their applicability based on efficiency. First, we sought to improve the performance of a method used by Muguruma and Okamoto (2008), which aimed to sample the system energy uniformly and the volume with the Boltzmann probability, while keeping fixed the number of particles in a cubic simulation box. Then a new approach was proposed, whose main feature was let the shape of the box free, although the sampling was performed in the same way. In both methods, the density of states of the system was estimated using the transition matrix technique and an approach for parallelization of the simulations was employed to obtain a more effective sampling. The results obtained with the first method showed that such a simulation depends on the number of particles present in the system. Moreover, the sampling of energy states got stuck in the solid phase. The results obtained with the new method were slightly better than those obtained with the previous method. The sampling for the system with the lowest number of particles was equivalent for the two phases concerned. However, simulations with larger systems presented the same problem of the previous method. At first, it was suggested the existence of a polymorphic transition. However, simulations in the solid phase with the new methodology show the opposite. Despite the unsatisfactory results, this work constitutes na important step in studying a complex subject, which is the prediction of Solid-Liquid Equilibrium using direct simulation methods / Mestrado / Engenharia de Processos / Mestre em Engenharia Química

<div>We propose an order parameter theory of the quantum Hall nematic in high fractional Landau levels in terms of an Ising description. This new model solves a couple of extant problems in the literature: (1) The low-temperature behavior of the measured resistivity anisotropy is captured better by our model than previous theoretical treatments based on the electron nematic having XY symmetry. (2) Our model allows for the development of true long-range order at low temperature, consistent with the observation of anisotropic low-temperature transport.<br></div><div><div> We furthermore propose new experimental tests based on hysteresis that can distinguish whether any two-dimensional electron nematic is in the XY universality class (as previously proposed in high fractional Landau levels), or in the Ising universality class (as we propose). Given the growing interest in electron nematics in many materials, we expect our proposed test of universality class to be of broad interest.</div><div> </div><div> Whereas the XY model in two dimensions does not have a long-range ordered phase, the addition of uniaxial random field disorder induces a long-range ordered phase in which the spontaneous magnetization points perpendicular to the random field direction, via an order-by-disorder transition. We have shown that this spontaneous magnetization is robust against a rotating driving field, up to a critical driving field amplitude. Thus we have found evidence for a new non-equilibrium phase transition that was unknown before in this model. Moreover, we have discovered an incredible anomaly at this nonequilibrium phase transition: the critical region is accompanied by a cascade of period multiplication events. This physics is reminiscent of the period bifurcation cascade signaling the transition to chaos in nonlinear systems, and of the approach to the irreversibility transition in models of yield in amorphous solids~\cite{reichhardt-dahmen,leishangthem_yielding_2017}. This period multiplication cascade is surprising to be present in a statistical mechanics model, and suggests that the non-equilibrium transition as a function of driving field amplitude is part of a larger class of transitions in dynamical systems.</div><div> Moreover, we show that this multi-period behavior represents a new emergent classical discrete time-crystal, since the new period is robust against changes to initial conditions and low-temperature fluctuations over hundreds of driving period cycles.</div><div><br></div><div> We expect this work to be of broad interest, further encouraging cross-fertilization between the rapidly growing field of time-crystals with the well-established fields of nonequilibrium phase transitions and dynamical systems.</div><div> </div><div> Geometrical configurations gave us a better understanding of the multi-period behavior of the limit-cycles.</div><div> Moreover, surface probes are continually evolving and generating vast amounts of spatially resolved data of quantum materials, which reveal a lot of detail about the microscopic and macroscopic properties of the system. <br></div><div> Materials undergoing a transition between two distinct states, phase separate.</div><div> These phase-separated regions form intricate patterns on the observable surface, which can encode model-specific information, including interaction, dimensionality, and disorder. </div><div> While there are rigorous methods for understanding these patterns, they turn out to be time-consuming as well as requiring expertise. </div><div> We show that a well-tuned machine learning framework can decipher this information with minimal effort from the user.</div><div> We expect this to be widely used by the scientific community to fast-track comprehension of the underlying physics in these materials.</div><div><br></div></div>