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steel, etc ; artificial reefs; fish; hydroacoustics; research; Australia; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Artificial reef designs have evolved rapidly over the past two decades, but further work is needed to inform how specific design features affect reef function. In south-eastern Australia, most artificial reefs consist of either a field of concrete modules, or large steel structures which are deployed to enhance recreational fisheries. To evaluate how these two designs might influence the densities ...
stainless steel, etc ; adsorption; industrial wastewater; methylene blue; moxifloxacin; porosity; solvents; zirconium; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) exhibit large potential in many fields while the high cost limits their large-scale use. Herein, stainless steel pickling wastewater was successfully transformed to Fe/Cr-MIL-100, during which Ni²⁺ was largely purified. As an integration of metal, solvent and acid modifier, the use of the wastewater simplifies the preparation units and reduces the cost of MOFs. Conv ...
stainless steel, etc ; cream; geometry; glass; kinetics; models; peanut butter; polymethylmethacrylate; soil; Show all 9 Subjects
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... The removal of thick (approximately 1–10 mm) layers of three viscoplastic soft-solid food-related materials (a moisturising cream, Biscoff® spread and smooth peanut butter) from polymethylmethacrylate plates by turbulent, coherent, 2 mm diameter water jets was studied for jet velocities of 10.6–25.4 m s⁻¹ (10 500 < Re < 25 400). When the layer thickness was smaller than the nozzle diameter, soil r ...
steel, etc ; chemical species; cotton; deltamethrin; environment; fipronil; human resources; permethrin; plywood; remediation; Show all 10 Subjects
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... Pesticide misuse incidents are reported worldwide each year. The potential exposure to pesticides creates a concern for occupants in affected homes, apartments, and other occupied buildings. Pesticides that are improperly applied within these locations may require remediation prior to reoccupation. Incident response personnel rely heavily on data from sampling results to identify residue levels an ...
... High phosphorus steel slag and carbonized rice husk are two common wastes characterized by high generation and low secondary use values. Through the reduction of high phosphorus steel slag by biomass, both wastes were fully utilized, thus reducing the negative impact on the environment. In this study, variables such as temperature, time, and amount of reactants were changed to determine the optima ...
... Pseudomonas fragi and Escherichia coli are considered as common colonizers of fresh and spoilage meat, where they tend to live in the proximity. In this study, we primarily tested interplay patterns between different isolates of these two species in two-by-two combinations grown on stainless steel surfaces as dual-species biofilms. Results showed that these two species presented competition as maj ...
... Sealing treatment is an effective method to prolong the service life of Fe-based amorphous coatings for steel substrates. Common sealants always have the disadvantages of releasing amounts of volatile organic compounds (VOC) and are expensive, prompting researchers to develop an eco-friendly, low cost and high-performance sealant. However, their simultaneous improvement is restricted by some inevi ...
steel, etc ; aerosols; autumn; basins; biomass; cities; coal; combustion; nitrates; organic carbon; particulate emissions; pollution; risk; sulfates; water content; winter; China; Show all 17 Subjects
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... Nowadays, the fine particle pollution is still severe in some megacities of China, especially in the Sichuan Basin, southwestern China. In order to understand the causes, sources, and impacts of fine particles, we collected PM₂.₅ samples and analyzed their chemical composition in typical months from July 2018 to May 2019 at an urban and a suburban (background) site of Chengdu, a megacity in this r ...
stainless steel, etc ; biodegradability; carbon; cathodes; cost effectiveness; electric potential difference; electrical treatment; environment; microbial electrolysis cells; phylogeny; spectral analysis; wastewater; wastewater treatment; Show all 13 Subjects
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... Microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) has been existing problems such as poor applicability to real wastewater and lack of cost-effective electrode materials in the practical application of refractory wastewater. A hydrolysis-acidification combined MEC system (HAR-MECs) with four inexpensive stainless-steel and conventional carbon cloth cathodes for the treatment of real textile-dyeing wastewater, whi ...
steel; steel wool, etc ; adhesion; corrosion; electrochemistry; seawater; temperature; titanium dioxide; vapors; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Transparent and robust titanium dioxide (TiO₂) coatings were prepared by the facile aerosol-assisted chemical vapor deposition (AACVD) method. The effects of deposition temperature and precursor concentration on the crystal growth and optical properties of TiO₂ coating were investigated. It is found that the obtained TiO₂ coating has strong adhesion to the substrate, which can effectively avoid me ...
... In this work, reactive-inspired ball-milling (RBM) and spark plasma sintering (SPS) were employed to produce an ODS-316 L steel. The evolution of Y₂O₃ particles during RBM and SPS processes was investigated, and the powder milled for different times was characterized for exploring the precipitation and coarsening behaviors of Y₂O₃ particles. It was found that Y₂O₃ particles with a metastable hexag ...
... Strengthening the flotation recovery of silver by fine grinding with special ceramic-medium stirred mill (SCSM), steel ball-medium stirred mill (SBSM) and ball mill (BM) were investigated, respectively. Grinding with SCSM exhibited better performance in terms of Ag recovery, which was approximately 2% higher than those obtained by grinding with SBSM and BM. The reduction of iron ions produced duri ...
... Design aids in the form of load tables or span tables are well known to engineers and are commonly used in timber and steel design. Such tables reduce the need for repetitive calculation and allow for easy ‘what-if’ queries during design. They also permit rapid communication of minimum design requirements. This paper demonstrates an approach for developing design load tables for full culm bamboo e ...
... This research aims to analyse the impact of hand wash, laundry softener, water volume in the laundry process, and mechanical action on the microfiber release from the polyester knitted fabric. The results of the experiments revealed that the delicate hand wash and machine wash processes shed a similar amount of microfibers from the polyester textiles. Whereas, the harsh hand wash sheds significant ...
... Alloys processed by laser powder-bed fusion show distinct microstructures composed of dislocation cells, dispersed nanoparticles, and columnar grains. Upon post-build annealing, such alloys show sluggish recrystallization kinetics compared to the conventionally processed counterpart. To understand this behavior, AISI 316L stainless steel samples were constructed using the island scan strategy. Rho ...
... The experimental study presented in this paper investigate the post-fire performance of through reinforced concrete (RC) beam to concrete-filled steel tube (CFST) column connection. A total of twelve connection specimens were tested under hogging moment. The connection specimens are grouped into two groups; group A-connections, without fire exposure and group F-connections that are exposed to fire ...
... In this paper, the influence of the strengthening configuration on the structural response of U-wrapped SRG (Steel-Reinforced Grout) shear-strengthened reinforced concrete beams was analyzed both experimentally and theoretically. The parameters varied were the ratio sf/wf, sf being the distance between two consecutive U-shaped strips and wf the width of the strips, and the number of steel fabric l ...
... In the present study, N-doped carbon dots (N-CDs) and Cu,N-doped carbon dots (Cu,N-CDs) with various Cu doping amounts were explored as corrosion inhibitors for mild steel substrate. Material characterizations of synthesized materials were performed using UV-Vis, FTIR and XRD, TEM and XPS techniques. Electrochemical corrosion testing showed enhanced corrosion inhibition performance for Cu,N-CDs re ...
... In this work, we developed a 9 wt% Cr martensitic heat-resistant cast steel with high N and W contents that achieved an excellent high-temperature strength and ductility balance at 923 K, i.e. the ultimate tensile strength and elongation for the steel are ~ 409 MPa and ~ 30.2%, respectively. Meanwhile, it exhibited the encouraging short-term creep performance at 923 K, like, 2425 h for 140 MPa, an ...
... The potential use of recycled steel strap from packaging industry to strengthen bond between reinforcement steel and concrete was investigated. Through a series of pull-out experimental tests, this technique was shown to improve the bond properties between reinforcement steel and concrete. This research found that concrete strength and amount of steel straps provided for confinement affect the imp ...