Neglected but affected: voices from the oil-producing regions of Ghana and Uganda

The ‘resource curse’ is the paradoxical theory frequently used to explain how a seemingly desirable asset, such as oil, can actually pervert an economy, erode governance, perpetuate conflict, and ruin local communities to the extent that it becomes a curse. New oil discoveries in western Ghana and western Uganda have raised concerns for the democratic prospects and future stability of these countries and their surrounding regions. Based on field interviews in these oil-producing regions, this report summarises how local communities have been affected thus far and their concerns for the future. The authors assess the extent to which each country is vulnerable to oil-induced instability, and identify groups or communities that would be most likely to perpetuate it. Lastly, it provides some assessment of the future trajectory of each country.     

建筑材料燃烧性能分级新变革

介绍我国建筑材料燃烧性能分级的现状和未来的发展方向,提出引进欧盟的分级体系形成新的分级方法,并进行分析比较。     

Vapor-phase decomposition of dimethyl methylphosphonate (DMMP), a sarin surrogate,in presence of metal oxides

Chemical warfare agents (CWA) are stockpiled in large quantities across the globe. Agents stored in inaccessible facilities need to be destroyed rapidly without dispersing the compounds to surrounding areas. Metal-based energetic formulations are used in such prompt defeat applications to rapidly decompose the CWA by generating a high temperature environment. An alternate, and possibly a more effective decomposition pathway could be provided by chemicidal action of aerosolized condensed combustion products, which typically consist of metal oxides. Toxic fumes that escape the high tem-perature blast zone can be neutralized by smoke generated during combustion, depending on the par-ticle size, surface characteristics, chemical properties, and concentration of this smoke. This review considers relevant experimental and modeling studies quantifying decomposition of CWA comprising organophosphorus compounds and their surrogates on the surface of various metal oxides. Dimethyl methylphosphonate (DMMP), a sarine surrogate, was used most commonly for such experiments. Many reported efforts focused on the mechanisms of adsorption of DMMP to various metal oxides and initial reaction steps cleaving various bonds from the chemisorbed molecules. For selected oxides, these ex-periments were supported by quantum-mechanical calculations. In other studies, the capacity of oxide surfaces to adsorb and decompose DMMP was quantified. In most cases, porous catalysts were used although limited experimental data are available for aerosolized nonporous oxide particles. The reported experimental data applicable to scenarios involving prompt decomposition of CWA are summarized. It is noted that information is lacking describing respective heterogeneous reaction kinetics. Preliminary estimates of aerosolized smoke particle concentrations required to destroy CWA are made considering gas phase diffusion rates and reported values of the oxide capacity to decompose CWA or their surrogates.     

分解炉内煤粉燃烧和CaCO3分解流场的数值模拟

针对国内某大型水泥高性能分解炉,基于Fluent软件,采用有限速率/涡耗散模型模拟了炉内煤粉燃烧和生料分解的湍动多相流场,给出了炉内速度矢量、温度、压力和组分分布,结果显示,炉内流动趋势合理,可为分解炉的研究提供参考.     

多点喷射空气酒精燃气发生器试验验证

为有效解决现有燃气引射气源存在的诸多缺点,适应一种引射系统大流量、小型化的需要,在综合分析各燃气引射气源方案的基础上,研制了一种以空气、酒精作为推进剂的多点喷射结构的燃气发生器,并开展了多种工况下的试验研究。结果表明:采用的多点喷射方案大大提高了空间利用率,有效满足了引射系统小型化的要求;喷雾性能好,喷雾锥角及粒径优于设计指标要求;点火可靠性高,解决了领域内现有燃气发生器点火可靠性低的缺点;点火迅速,燃烧平稳,可实现较为均匀的出口温度场;燃气发生器工作范围较宽,能在余气系数2.52～4.34范围内稳定燃烧;高效的火焰筒内壁空气冷却方式有效保证了燃气发生器长时间工作运行。     

超声速燃烧火焰放热区结构CH-PLIF成像技术

超燃冲压发动机是吸气式高超声速飞行器的关键部件之一,超燃冲压发动机燃烧室内火焰结构的研究对揭示超声速燃烧的稳焰机理具有重要意义。利用平面激光诱导荧光（Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence,PLIF）技术测量了超声速燃烧直连式试验台燃烧过程中重要自由基CH的二维分布,实现了超声速燃烧火焰放热区结构的可视化。在开敞空间的低速射流火焰炉中使用甲烷/空气预混火焰对CH-PLIF技术进行了初步验证和系统优化,再利用CH-PLIF技术在凹腔稳焰的超燃直连台上实现了超声速燃烧火焰放热区结构的二维可视化,并与OH-PLIF和CH自发辐射测量结果进行了对比。实验结果表明,在开敞空间的低速射流预混火焰中,火焰放热区会发生扭曲、褶皱和分裂等现象,随着雷诺数的增大,火焰锋面褶皱程度更加显著;在凹腔稳焰的超声速燃烧中,火焰放热区高度褶皱和破碎,放热区结构的厚度为0.5～6.5 mm,同时也存在放热区的分裂与剥离等现象。CH-PLIF技术能够以较高的空间分辨率更准确地呈现凹腔超声速火焰放热区的结构,其在凹腔稳焰的超声速燃烧诊断中具有重要的应用价值。     

测量火焰中氢氧基分布的激光诱导荧光技术

使用平面激光诱导荧光(PLIF)技术测量了不同火焰的氢氧基分布图像,简述了测量原理,讨论了影响测量结果的主要因素,并将测量结果与自发辐射测量结果进行了比较。对PLIF技术在燃烧过程研究中的应用进行了尝试,证明该技术是燃烧分析的有力工具。     

我国内燃机电站的现状分析及展望

分析了我国内燃机电站产品的现状 ,介绍了我国先进发电机组的主要性能和技术水平 ,并对未来内燃机电站市场的需求进行了分析和展望。     

西藏与内地古建筑常用木材燃烧特性对比研究

为研究西藏高海拔条件对古建筑火灾的影响,分别在拉萨与廊坊进行了中等规模木垛燃烧实验。测得了木垛燃烧的质量损失速率、火焰高度和燃烧温度,并分析了空气中氧气含量和大气压力对木垛引燃和燃烧的影响。实验表明：在拉萨低气压条件下,木垛引燃难度加大、燃烧时间增加、质量损失速率降低、木垛中心温度降低。     

火药燃烧驱动子弹的数值分析

用LS DYNA非线性动力有限元程序对某型号子母弹战斗部模型火药燃烧驱动子弹的前期运动过程进行了数值分析,获得了波纹管材料和子弹壳体材料的应力应变历程曲线以及子弹抛撒的初速度等多个结果,这对于研究该型号战斗部作用机理和效应评估等都有重要意义。模拟计算的子弹抛撒初速度与试验值基本一致。