Esta dissertação apresenta um novo modelo criado para a previsão do valor da tensão superficial de misturas de hidrocarbonetos. Pode ser utilizado na forma preditiva ou correlativa. Este modelo foi baseado no modelo preditivo para soluções ideais de HildebrandScott (1950) e no modelo correlativo de JouybanAcree (2004). Outras regras de mistura foram avaliadas e comparadas com o modelo proposto, incluindo abordagens clássicas como de Sprow e Prausnitz, parácoro e estados correspondentes. Foram avaliados os desempenhos dos modelos escolhidos na previsão e na correlação da tensão superficial de misturas de hidrocarbonetos em diferentes temperaturas que continham diferentes assimetrias na mistura, tanto em natureza química (e.g., parafínicos, naftênicos e aromáticos) quanto em tamanho de cadeia. No total foram empregados 773 dados experimentais. Dentre os modelos preditivos, o modelo proposto foi o de melhor desempenho. Para sistemas com comportamento próximo da idealidade, esse modelo apresentou desvios em relação aos dados experimentais compatíveis com o erro experimental. Todos os modelos correlativos estudados apresentaram desvios essencialmente da ordem do erro experimental. O modelo proposto é importante, pois é capaz de prever a tensão superficial de misturas binárias aproximadamente ideais de hidrocarbonetos com elevada acurácia, além de permitir a correlação eficiente dos dados de todas as misturas estudadas / This dissertation presents a new model created for the prediction of the value of the surface tension of hydrocarbons mixtures. It can be used in a predictive or correlative way. This model was based on the predictive model for ideal solutions of Hildebrand-Scott (1950) and on the correlative model of Jouyban-Acree (2004). Other mixing rules had been evaluated and compared with the proposed model, including classic approaches like Sprow and Prausnitz, parachor, and corresponding states. There was evaluated the performance of the chosen models in the prediction and the correlation of the surface tension of hydrocarbons mixtures at different temperatures that contained different asymmetries in the mixture, as in chemical nature (e.g., parafinics, naftenics and aromatics) as well as in chain size. The total of 773 experimental data had been used. The proposed model had the best performance among the predictive models. This model showed errors essentially of the order of the experimental error for approximately ideal systems. All of the correlative models studied have shown errors essentially of the order of the experimental error. The proposed model is important because it is capable of predicting the surface tension of approximately ideal binary mixtures of hydrocarbons with high accuracy, beyond permitting the efficient correlation of the data of all the studied mixtures

This thesis investigates three problems in the general area of environmental fluid mechanics. The first two problems are related to liquid or gas flow through clay-water suspensions, with relevance for the underground storage of radioactive waste and also for understanding the mechanism of eruption in mud volcanoes. The third problem centres on the different problem of mixing in a turbulent buoyant plume. First, the injection of gas and water from a central source into a two-dimensional layer of clay confined between two circular horizontal plates is investigated. This provides a model of the potential pressurisation and failure of the seal rock around a radioactive waste repository as may arise if gas is continuously generated in the repository. As the gas injection pressure is gradually increased the cell walls deform and the clay moves radially outwards. However, at a critical radius, the liquid-clay interface becomes unstable and a series of channels propagate through the clay. When one of the channels reaches the edge of the domain the gas escapes and the pressure is released. As a result, the domain relaxes by elastic deformation and the clay seals the channel. In this way, continuous fluid injection leads to episodic release of gas from the cell. The second problem concerns the flow of mud along a vertical conduit driven by the combined effect of reservoir pressure and buoyancy associated with the gas injected at the base of the conduit. This represents an analogue model of the eruption of a mud volcano, in which mud rises from a deep reservoir to the surface. I find that the pressure associated with the reservoir and any buoyancy force produced by the migration of gas from deep in the reservoir to the surface leads to a continuous eruption if the net pressure is greater than the yield stress of the clay. If the reservoir pressure falls during such an event, the eruption will eventually stop, once the pressure reaches a dynamic yield stress condition. Only later, if the reservoir pressure increases to the static yield stress of the clay will the eruption start again, and this can lead to a series of eruption cycles which depend on the non-Newtonian rheology of the clay. In contrast, if this pressure is smaller than the yield stress of the clay, a series of episodic gas burst events can occur until the conduit is cleared of mud. The third problem relates to the mixing in a turbulent buoyant plume. Through a series of new experiments and some complementary theoretical modelling I show that the mixing in a turbulent plume is strongly affected by the eddies and leads to significant longitudinal dispersion in the flow. The implications of the modelling for determining the residence time distribution of the fluid in the plume is discussed.

Nesta dissertação de mestrado analisa-se e compara-se, através de ensaios laboratoriais, o comportamento mecânico e de adesividade de misturas em concreto asfáltico, confeccionadas a partir de ligantes asfálticos modificados e convencionais. O conhecimento e entendimento destas características são de extrema importância, pois refletem diretamente no desempenho do pavimento em serviço. Foram estudadas misturas elaboradas com um ligante convencional e três ligantes modificados por polímeros. Todas as misturas foram dosadas segundo a metodologia Marshall, e submetidas a ensaios laboratoriais de módulo de resiliência e resistência à tração por compressão diametral, resistência à fadiga com tensão controlada, fluência por compressão uniaxial dinâmico e dano por umidade induzida. Para uma avaliação combinada entre a rigidez e os modelos de fadiga das misturas, também realizou-se uma análise paramétrica de estruturas hipotéticas de pavimentos. Os resultados obtidos mostraram, na maioria dos casos, o melhor comportamento à fadiga das misturas elaboradas a partir de ligantes modificados. Embora pouco consistentes, os resultados de resistência à deformação permanente também indicam a superioridade das misturas modificadas. Entretanto, a mistura com ligante convencional foi a que se mostrou menos suscetível à temperatura nos ensaios de módulo de resiliência. Já os resultados do ensaio de dano por umidade induzida mostraram bom desempenho de todas as misturas, ainda que não se possa quantificar a influência do tipo de ligante sobre eles. / This research analyses and compares, trough laboratory tests, the mechanical and the stripping behavior of asphalt concrete mixtures, prepared with traditional and modified binders. The understanding of these characteristics is extremely important, since they reflect directly on pavements performance. Mixtures prepared with one traditional binder and three polymers modified binders. All mixtures were prepared following the Marshall methodology, and submitted to laboratory tests of resilient modulus, tensile strength, fatigue life (stress controlled), dynamic creep and resistance to moisture damage. In order to assess a combination of fatigue and stiffness modulus of the mixtures, a parametric analysis of hypothetical pavement structures was also done. The results obtained showed, in most cases, best behavior regarding fatigue of the mixtures prepared with modified binders. Although not very consistent, the results of permanent deformations resistance also indicate the superiority of the modified mixtures. However, the conventional binder mixture showed the lowest thermal susceptibility in the resilient modulus tests. The results of moisture damage resistance tests showed good performance for all mixtures, but it is not possible to quantify the influence of the binder type on then.

Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Chemistry / Paul E. Smith / Kirkwood Buff (KB) theory is one of the most important theories of solutions. The theory can relate integrals over radial (pair) distribution functions (rdfs) in the grand canonical ensemble to common thermodynamic properties. An inversion of the KB theory has been proposed by Ben-Naim and this has led to the wide spread popularity of KB theory. The idea of the KB inversion procedure is to calculate KB integrals from available thermodynamic properties. The KB theory can be used to validate the force field (ff) parameters used in molecular dynamics simulations. We have tested a series of small molecule ff parameters using KB theory that consists of both atom centered partial atomic charges and extra charge sites. The results indicate that using extra charge sites, derived from QM calculations, does not necessarily provide a more accurate representation of condensed phase properties. A further study aimed at an ongoing project of deriving new biomolecular ff parameters based on KB theory, has developed ff parameters for esters in order to represent the ester conjugation of the phospholipid molecule. The models were further tested against experimental properties. Preferential solvation (PS) is an important concept of solution mixtures that can be described using KB theory. The difference between local composition and bulk composition in solution mixtures leads to the concept of PS. A generalized explanation based on local mole fractions was derived by Ben-Naim using KB theory. However, the original expressions have been modified over years. Here, we propose a new approach based on local volume fractions to explore PS in binary and ternary solution mixtures. Experimental and simulation data were used to examine different approaches to PS. A relationship between the rdf and the triplet distribution function can be obtained using the Kirkwood Superposition Approximation (KSA). A combination of Fluctuation Solution Theory and experimental rdfs are used to examine the KSA at a series of state points for pure water. The accuracy of several other approximate relationships between the pair and triplet correlation functions was also investigated and are in good agreement for regions of the phase diagram where the compressibility is small.

Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Statistics / Weixing Song / In this dissertation, we proposed a new robust estimation procedure for two multivariate mixture regression models and applied this novel method to functional mapping of dynamic traits. In the first part, a robust estimation procedure for the mixture of classical multivariate linear regression models is discussed by assuming that the error terms follow a multivariate Laplace distribution. An EM algorithm is developed based on the fact that the multivariate Laplace distribution is a scale mixture of the multivariate standard normal distribution. The performance of the proposed algorithm is thoroughly evaluated by some simulation and comparison studies. In the second part, the similar idea is extended to the mixture of linear mixed regression models by assuming that the random effect and the regression error jointly follow a multivariate Laplace distribution. Compared with the existing robust t procedure in the literature, simulation studies indicate that the finite sample performance of the proposed estimation procedure outperforms or is at least comparable to the robust t procedure. Comparing to t procedure, there is no need to determine the degrees of freedom, so the new robust estimation procedure is computationally more efficient than the robust t procedure. The ascent property for both EM algorithms are also proved. In the third part, the proposed robust method is applied to identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) underlying a functional mapping framework with dynamic traits of agricultural or biomedical interest. A robust multivariate Laplace mapping framework was proposed to replace the normality assumption. Simulation studies show the proposed method is comparable to the robust multivariate t-distribution developed in literature and outperforms the normal procedure. As an illustration, the proposed method is also applied to a real data set.

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Submitted by Lucienne Costa (lucienneferreira@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-04-17T13:30:49Z No. of bitstreams: 1 THALITA MARIA RAMOS PÔRTO DE MORAES – DISSERTAÇÃO (PPGECA) 2018.pdf: 3322287 bytes, checksum: 36e41cf17e60d380a38ffe1e5778f8e0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-17T13:30:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 THALITA MARIA RAMOS PÔRTO DE MORAES – DISSERTAÇÃO (PPGECA) 2018.pdf: 3322287 bytes, checksum: 36e41cf17e60d380a38ffe1e5778f8e0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02 / CNPq / As misturas mornas surgem como uma opção para a redução das temperaturas de usinagem e compactação, uma alternativa que proporciona vantagens econômicas, ambientais e técnicas. Este trabalho trata da utilização das ceras de carnaúba do tipo 1, nos teores de 1, 2 e 3% (m/m), como aditivo incorporado as misturas asfálticas para a obtenção de misturas mornas. A cera do tipo 1 foi utilizada para modificar o ligante 50/70 e foram avaliados seus efeitos a partir de ensaios empíricos: penetração, ponto de amolecimento e ensaios no viscosímetro rotacional. O ligante asfáltico modificado com 2 e 3% de cera de carnaúba apresentou uma considerável diminuição das temperaturas de usinagem (TU) de 9°C, reduzindo as emissões de gases poluentes (CO2 e VOCs, por exemplo) e o gasto energético. Foi utilizado o método SUPERPAVE, com objetivo de produzir os corpos de prova que foram utilizados para fazer a análise mecânica. Com o propósito de avaliar os efeitos da redução das temperaturas de produção e compactação e a influência da incorporação do aditivo na mistura asfáltica, foram realizados ensaios mecânicos: Resistência à Tração, Modulo de Resiliência, Dano por Umidade (Lottman), Fadiga, Flow Number, Cântabro e Módulo Dinâmico. A mistura com 2% de cera de carnaúba apresentou melhores resultados em relação as análises mecânica e reológica, uma maior redução das temperatura de usinagem e compactação. Espera-se que tal pesquisa possa contribuir para a redução dos danos causados ao meio ambiente, maior viabilidade técnica e econômica. Portanto, a cera de carnaúba cumpre algumas exigências mecânicas e reológicas para a sua utilização como aditivo em misturas asfálticas mornas. / Warm mixtures appear as an option for reducing temperature machining and compression, an alternative that provides economic advantages, environmental and technical. This paper deals with the use of carnauba wax type 1, the levels 1, 2 and 3% (m / m), as an additive incorporated into the asphalt mixtures for obtaining mixtures of lukewarm. Wax type 1 was used to modify the binder 50/70 and evaluated its effects from empirical tests: penetration point testing the softening and rotational viscometer. The modified asphalt binder 2:03% carnauba wax showed a considerable reduction in temperature machining (TU) of 9 ° C, reducing pollutant emissions (CO 2 and VOCs, for example) and energy expenditure. SUPERPAVE the method was used, in order to producing the specimens which were used to make mechanical analysis. As order to evaluate the effects of reducing the production and compaction temperatures and the influence of the incorporation of the additive in the asphalt mixture, tests were conducted Mechanical: tensile strength, modulus of resilience, moisture damage (Lottman) Fatigue, Flow Number, Cántabro and dynamic modulus. The mixture with 2% wax carnauba showed better results than the mechanical and rheological analysis, further reducing the temperature machining and compression. It is expected that such research can contribute to the reduction of damage to the environment, most technical and economic feasibility. Therefore, carnauba wax meets certain requirements mechanical and rheological properties for use as an additive in warm asphalt mixes.

O conhecimento de propriedades de transporte de misturas a diferentes pressões e temperaturas é importante em projetos, operação, controle e otimização de processos industriais. Nestes processos, frequentemente, o fluido é uma mistura binária ou multicomponente de hidrocarbonetos, como fluidos de petróleo. Propriedades experimentais de misturas, especialmente, a viscosidade absoluta como função de temperatura e pressão, podem fornecer importantes informações sobre o comportamento do fluido em diferentes composições e são usadas no desenvolvimento de modelos e correlações e na caracterização de misturas complexas. Diversas regras de mistura têm sido propostas na literatura para cálculo de viscosidade de misturas. Estas regras de mistura preveem o comportamento da mistura à pressão atmosférica usando propriedades dos componentes puros. Porém, em diversas aplicações é necessário estimar a viscosidade de misturas a altas pressões. Neste estudo, foram avaliadas regras de mistura comumente usadas como Refutas, Fator de Mistura, Índice de Mistura, Grunberg e Nissan, Kendall-Monroe e Eyring bem como Aditividade Molar, usando dados de viscosidade experimental de misturas em altas pressões. Inicialmente, foram realizadas medidas de viscosidade absoluta para a mistura altamente assimétrica de ciclohexano e n-hexadecano na faixa de temperatura entre (318,15 a 413,15) K e pressões até 62,053 MPa e, para este sistema, um modelo foi proposto para cálculo dos componentes puros para dada temperatura e pressão. Além disso, dados experimentais de viscosidade de trinta misturas cujos componentes diferem em forma, tamanho ou flexibilidade foram selecionados na literatura e modelados empregando-se regras de mistura. As viscosidades das misturas foram estimadas a partir de dados de viscosidade experimental dos componentes puros medidos nas mesmas temperaturas e pressões. A altas pressões, Refutas, Fator de Mistura e Índice de Mistura apresentaram os melhores resultados para todos os sistemas estudados. Mesmo para moléculas bastante assimétricas, Refutas, Fator de Mistura e Índice de Mistura podem ser usados. / The knowledge of transport properties of mixtures at different pressures and temperatures is important in design, operation, control and optimization of industrial process. In these processes, often, the fluid system is a binary or multicomponent mixture of hydrocarbons such as petroleum fluids. The experimental properties of mixtures, specially, the dynamic viscosity as a function the temperature and pressure, can provide valuable information about the fluid behavior at different compositions and are useful in developing models and correlations and in the characterization of complex mixtures. Several mixing rules have been proposed in the literature for calculating viscosity of mixtures. These mixing rules predict mixture behavior mainly at atmospheric pressure using pure component properties. However, in several important applications it is necessary to estimate the viscosity of blends at high pressures. In this work, were evaluate the performance of several commonly used mixing models like Refutas, Factor Mixing and Index Mixing, Grunberg and Nissan, Kendall-Monroe and Eyring as well as linear Molar Additivity, using experimental viscosity data of mixtures at high pressures. Initially, the absolute viscosities for the highly asymmetric mixture of cyclohexane and n-hexadecane were measured in the temperature range of (318.15 to 413.15) K and pressures up to 62.053 MPa and for this system, a satisfactorily model is proposed for calculating of pure components viscosities for given temperature and pressure. Also, viscosity data of thirty mixtures, whose components differ in molecular shape, size or flexibility, were selected and were modeled employing mixing. The mixture viscosities were estimated by all the mixing rules using experimental viscosity of pure components measured at the same temperature and pressure. At high pressures, Refutas, Factor Mixing and Index Mixing showed the best results for all systems studied. For very asymmetric systems, Refutas, Factor Mixing and Index Mixing can be used.

Esta dissertação apresenta um novo modelo criado para a previsão do valor da tensão superficial de misturas de hidrocarbonetos. Pode ser utilizado na forma preditiva ou correlativa. Este modelo foi baseado no modelo preditivo para soluções ideais de HildebrandScott (1950) e no modelo correlativo de JouybanAcree (2004). Outras regras de mistura foram avaliadas e comparadas com o modelo proposto, incluindo abordagens clássicas como de Sprow e Prausnitz, parácoro e estados correspondentes. Foram avaliados os desempenhos dos modelos escolhidos na previsão e na correlação da tensão superficial de misturas de hidrocarbonetos em diferentes temperaturas que continham diferentes assimetrias na mistura, tanto em natureza química (e.g., parafínicos, naftênicos e aromáticos) quanto em tamanho de cadeia. No total foram empregados 773 dados experimentais. Dentre os modelos preditivos, o modelo proposto foi o de melhor desempenho. Para sistemas com comportamento próximo da idealidade, esse modelo apresentou desvios em relação aos dados experimentais compatíveis com o erro experimental. Todos os modelos correlativos estudados apresentaram desvios essencialmente da ordem do erro experimental. O modelo proposto é importante, pois é capaz de prever a tensão superficial de misturas binárias aproximadamente ideais de hidrocarbonetos com elevada acurácia, além de permitir a correlação eficiente dos dados de todas as misturas estudadas / This dissertation presents a new model created for the prediction of the value of the surface tension of hydrocarbons mixtures. It can be used in a predictive or correlative way. This model was based on the predictive model for ideal solutions of Hildebrand-Scott (1950) and on the correlative model of Jouyban-Acree (2004). Other mixing rules had been evaluated and compared with the proposed model, including classic approaches like Sprow and Prausnitz, parachor, and corresponding states. There was evaluated the performance of the chosen models in the prediction and the correlation of the surface tension of hydrocarbons mixtures at different temperatures that contained different asymmetries in the mixture, as in chemical nature (e.g., parafinics, naftenics and aromatics) as well as in chain size. The total of 773 experimental data had been used. The proposed model had the best performance among the predictive models. This model showed errors essentially of the order of the experimental error for approximately ideal systems. All of the correlative models studied have shown errors essentially of the order of the experimental error. The proposed model is important because it is capable of predicting the surface tension of approximately ideal binary mixtures of hydrocarbons with high accuracy, beyond permitting the efficient correlation of the data of all the studied mixtures

Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar a resistência ao trincamento, bem como princípio de propagação de trincas e previsão vida de fadiga de misturas asfálticas empregando o ensaio de flexão em amostra semicircular com fenda (semi-circular bending test – SCB), estático e dinâmico, respectivamente. As trincas que surgem nos revestimentos asfálticos revelam-se como um dos grandes danos que afetam diretamente a serventia e qualidade das estruturas de pavimentos flexíveis. Considerando que a reabilitação dos pavimentos fissurados é geralmente onerosa, revela-se um grande desafio aos engenheiros projetistas dimensionar misturas asfálticas a quente que apresentem resistência suficiente capaz de evitar tanto a deformação permanente, quanto o trincamento por fadiga. Sendo assim, a primeira etapa desta pesquisa analisa três misturas asfálticas, dosadas pelo método Superpave: uma com cimento asfáltico de petróleo CAP 50/70, outra com asfalto modificado por polímero AMP 60/85 e a terceira com asfalto borracha AB8. Os resultados indicam para a maior rigidez da mistura com asfalto modificado, que também apresentou maior vida de fadiga. Os corpos de prova com CAP 50/70 e AB8 apresentaram-se dúcteis e com menor velocidade de propagação das microtrincas. A segunda parte deste trabalho apresenta os resultados dos ensaios conduzidos em amostras com asfalto convencional no teor de projeto (TP) e com 0,5% a mais de ligante asfáltico (TP+0,5%), simulando a camada rich-bottom, amplamente utilizada em projetos de pavimentos perpétuos. Quando comparada a mistura no teor ótimo, aquela com maior quantidade de ligante garante uma mistura mais flexível, pois requer maiores deslocamentos para que se atinja o número de ciclos necessários ao desenvolvimento do trincamento e à ruptura. / This study aims to analyze the cracking resistance, as well as the principle of cracking propagation and prediction of fatigue life in hot mix asphalt (HMA) by means of the semi-circular bending test (SCB), static and dynamic, respectively. Pavement surface cracking is one of the major distress mechanisms that affect the serviceability and quality of flexible pavement structures. Considering that the rehabilitation of a damaged pavement is generaly costly, it becomes a challenge for the engineers to design HMA that endures both rutting and fatigue cracking. Therefore, the first part of this research investigates the cracking resistance and fatigue life of three asphalt concrete mixes, designed by the Superpave method: one with standard binder pen50/70, a polymer modified PMB60/85 (softening point/elastic recuperation) and a third mix with asphalt-rubber binder type AB8. The results indicated to the PMB60/85 mixture stiffness that also presented longer fatigue life. The samples with binder pen50/70 e AB8 demonstrated more ductility, with less microcracks propagation speed. The second part of this work presents the results of tests conducted on standard binder pen50/70 specimens at the design asphalt binder content and with a binder additional of 0,5%, representing the rich-bottom layer, widely used in perpetual pavement structures. The +0,5% asphalt content mix provided a more flexible mixture when compared to the mix at design binder content, because required higher displacements to reach the number of cycles to the development of cracking and failure.