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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1970. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Orientador: Niederauer Mastelari / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecanica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-14T13:06:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Correa_FernandaCristina_M.pdf: 2774513 bytes, checksum: 26936aae7fde336d3017925056dfbe4e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Escoamentos bifásicos gás-líquido são comumente encontrados na natureza e em diferentes atividades industriais. Neste tipo de escoamento, as fases presentes podem escoar dispostas em diferentes configurações espaciais no interior do duto, denominadas de regimes ou padrões de escoamento, cuja determinação é crítica para o projeto de sistemas de escoamento bifásico. No presente trabalho, a indicação dos padrões de escoamento é realizada a partir da medida de fração de gás utilizando um instrumento microcontrolado composto por um transdutor e um condicionador de sinais. Um sistema de reconhecimento de padrões é composto por diferentes módulos, que consistem em: adquirir o sinal; extrair informações relevantes do sinal; e por fim a classificação propriamente dita. Para a extração das informações relevantes do sinal, aplicou-se funções estatísticas de média e desvio padrão por ser interessante sob o ponto de vista computacional. Na etapa classificatória, a utilização de um conjunto de regras através de técnicas de Sistemas Especialistas é utilizado pelo desempenho deste tipo de classificação e também pouca necessidade computacional. Desta forma, com a junção das funções estatísticas de média e desvio padrão e um conjunto de regras com Sistemas Especialistas, é desenvolvido neste trabalho um sistema de reconhecimento de padrões de escoamento bifásico gás-líquido embarcado em um instrumento de medição de fração de gás microcontrolado. / Abstract: Two-phase flow gas-liquid are commonly found in nature and in various industrial activities. In this type of flow, the phases present can escape arranged in different spatial configurations in the duct, called regimes or flow patterns, the determination is critical for the design of two-phase flow systems. In this study, an indication of the flow pattern is achieved from the measurement of gas fraction microcontrolled using an instrument composed of a transducer and signal conditioner. A system of pattern recognition consists of different modules, which consist of: acquiring the signal, extracting relevant information from the signal, and finally the classification itself. Statistical functions of mean and standard deviation are applied to extract the relevant information from the signal, for computacional purposes. In the classification stage, a set of rules using techniques of expert systems is used by the performance of this type of classification and also little need computing. Thus, with the addition of the statistical functions of mean and standard deviation and a set of rules with expert systems is developed in this work a system of pattern recognition of two-phase flow gas-liquid loaded into an microcontrolled instrument for measuring gas fraction. / Mestrado / Mecanica dos Sólidos e Projeto Mecanico / Mestre em Engenharia Mecânica

Zeolite membranes are attractive materials to separate gas and liquid mixtures. MFI is a widely studied zeolite type due to its ease of preparation and comparable pore size with the molecular size of many substances. In this study MFI type membranes were synthesized over porous &amp / #945 / -Al2O3 supports and characterized with XRD, SEM and gas permeation measurements. In the first part of this study the effect of soda concentration of the synthesis solution on the membrane morphology and crystal orientation was investigated. The synthesis was carried out from solutions with a molar composition of (0- 6.5)Na2O:25SiO2:6.9TPABr:1136H2O at 150oC. At soda concentrations between 0.45 and 1.8 the membrane layers with (h0h)/c-directed orientation were obtained. At lower and higher soda concentrations membrane layer formed from randomly oriented crystals. The (h0h)/c-oriented membranes showed H2/n-C4H10 ideal selectivities of 478 and 36 at 25&deg / C and 150&deg / C, respectively.In the second part, MFI membranes were synthesized from mixtures with different concentrations of template molecules. Tetrapropylammonium hydroxide, tetrapropylammonium bromide or mixture of both types were used as template. The nucleation period, the size of MFI crystals, membrane thickness decreased as the tetrapropylammonium hydroxide concentration increased. Besides conversion of SiO2 in the synthesis solution to MFI passed through a maximum with increasing concentration of tetrapropylammonium hydroxide in the synthesis solution. When tetrapropylammonium bromide was used as template thicker membranes were obtained. In the third part MFI type membranes with a thickness of 1.5-2 &amp / #956 / m were synthesized by mid-synthesis addition of silica to the synthesis medium. The membranes synthesized with and without mid-synthesis addition of silica have n-C4H10/i-C4H10 ideal selectivities of 47 and 8 at 100oC, respectively. The change of composition during the synthesis increases the crystal growth rate and the size of the crystals forming the membrane, thus better quality membranes can be obtained by mid-synthesis addition of silica to the synthesis medium. In the last part of this study, thin MFI type zeolite membranes were synthesized in a recirculating flow system at 95&deg / C on the inner side of the tubular &amp / #945 / - alumina supports. A membrane synthesized by two consecutive synthesis steps had a separation selectivity of 38 and 86 for equimolar mixtures of n- C4H10/CH4 and n-C4H10/N2 at 25oC, respectively. The membrane selectively permeated large n-C4H10 over small CH4 and N2, suggesting that the separation is essentially adsorption-based and the membrane has few nonselective intercrystalline pores.

<p> The objectives of the present study were to investigate the reaction mechanisms and the effects of certain physical variables on the overall reaction rate of the conversion of aqueous Na2S to gaseous H2S by bubbling with CO2 gas, which is a simultaneous absorption-desorption reaction.</p> <p> The dependence of reaction rate on the physical variables investigated were the volumetric flow rate and the CO2 partial pressure of inlet gas and reaction temperature. Potential advantages of a pressurized reaction system were also studied. It was found that the effect of reaction temperature on the overall reaction rate was relatively small as compared to that of inlet gas flow rate and CO2 partial pressure.</p> <p> Gas-liquid interfacial area was estimated and the overall reaction rate constant determined. It was found that the carbonation conversion of Na2S is first order with respect to both the HS- ion concentration of the liquid phase and the CO2 partial pressure of the inlet gas.</p> <p> The rate limiting step of the overall conversion reaction, under the present laboratory conditions, appeared to be the desorption of hydrogen sulfide.</p> / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc)

An experimental investigation has been carried out to study the heat transfer in a two-phase two-component mixture flowing upward inside a 1" double pipe heat exchanger. The heat transfer coefficient was measured using either air to lift the liquid (air-lift system) or a mechanical pump. The heat transfer coefficient results have been extensively studied and compared with other workers' results. An attempt was made to correlate the present heat transfer data in dimensionless correlations. Possible factors affecting the two-phase heat transfer coefficient have been studied with special attention being given to the fluid properties, particularly the liquid viscosity. Experiments were also carried out to investigate the effect of solid particles added to a liquid flow on the measured heat transfer coefficient. The present investigation was carried out using air as the gas-phase ranging from 2x 10-5 up to 80 x 10-5 m3/s. Liquids used were water and glycerol solutions with viscosity ranging from 0.75 up to 5.0 C. P. and flowrates between 4x 10-5 and 25 x 10-5 m3/s. Void fraction and pressure drop were also measured during the heat transfer process. Flow pattern in gas-liquid mixture was investigated in a perspex tube of identical dimensions to the heat exchanger tube.

Dans le but d'étudier l'impact de la taille et de la morphologie de cristaux zéolitiques sur les propriétés texturales, chimiques et diffusionnelles, une série de zéolithe beta a été étudiée.L'augmentation logique des surfaces et des volumes poreux avec la diminution de la taille des cristaux est constatée. En outre, cela implique également une baisse de l'acidité globale ainsi que de la force des sites. Toutefois, la compréhension de l'acidité complexe de ces matériaux nécessite des techniques poussées de caractérisation.L'adsorption de molécules sondes (pyridine, CO, éthylène) suivie par infrarouge ainsi que la thermodésorption d'ammoniac ont été corrélées à des réactions modèles de transformation de l'éthanol et de craquage du n-hexane. Lors de celui-ci, la morphologie des cristaux a peu d'influence et les performances sont dictées par les sites de Brønsted. La présence d'aluminiums extra-réseaux permet d'exalter la force acide des sites protoniques. Avec la transformation de l'éthanol, de meilleures activités et stabilités sont observées dans le cas de zéolithes hiérarchisées.L'étude de la diffusion par chromatographie en phase gaz à flux inversées (RF-IGC) a permis de montrer que, si les coefficients de diffusion augmentent à l'opposé de la taille des cristaux, la porosité secondaire réduit le chemin diffusionnel. De plus, les sites faibles majoritairement présents sur les matériaux hiérarchisés facilitent la désorption des molécules et sont impliqués dans les interactions latérales mesurées par RF-IGC.Ce travail apporte donc des éléments de réponse à la stabilité et aux comportements catalytiques complexes observés sur la zéolithe beta. / In order to study the impact of the size and morphology of zeolite crystals on the textural, chemical and diffusion properties, a series of beta zeolites was studied.The logical increase of the porous surfaces and volumes with the decrease in crystal size is observed. In addition, this also implies a decrease in the overall acidity as well as strength of the adsorption sites. However, understanding the complex acidity of these materials requires advanced characterization techniques.The adsorption of probe molecules (pyridine, CO, ethylene) followed by infrared as well as ammonia thermodesorption were correlated to model reactions of ethanol conversion and n-hexane cracking. In this case, the morphology of the crystals has little influence and performance is mainly dictated by the Brønsted sites. The presence of extra-framework aluminums makes it possible to exalt the acid strength of the protonic sites. With the transformation of ethanol, better activities and stabilities are observed in the case of hierarchical zeolites.The study of diffusion by the reversed-flow gas chromatography (RF-IGC) showed that if the diffusion coefficients increase as opposed to crystal size, the secondary porosity reduces the diffusion path. Moreover, the weak sites predominantly present on the hierarchized materials facilitate the desorption of the molecules and are involved in the lateral interactions measured by RF-IGC.This work thus provides elements of response to the stability and the complex catalytic behaviors observed on the beta zeolite.