The petrogenesis and origin of the analcime in the volcanic rocks of the Crowsnest Formation, Alberta

1978 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. J. Ferguson ◽  
A. D. Edgar
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Crustal Material ◽  
Igneous Origin ◽  
Partial Fusion ◽  
Extensive Exchange ◽  
Inclusion Trails ◽  
Convincing Data ◽  
Differentiation Trend

The Crowsnest Formation consists of trachytes, analcime phonolites and blairmorites, metamorphosed to zeolite facies. The latter rocks contain large analcime phenocrysts variously suggested as being of primary igneous origin or due to transformation from original leucite by reaction of Na-rich fluids. Although neither field relationships or petrography provide convincing data favouring either hypothesis, the presence of primary undisrupted inclusion trails in the analcime tend to support the former hypothesis. Compositions of the analcimes differ from that of an analcime formed by transformation from leucite. The chemistry of the rocks and their constituent pyroxenes are consistent with a sodic rather than a potassic differentiation trend; feldspar and garnet analyses support this conclusion. Oxygen isotope values for the pyroxenes indicate no extensive exchange with a low temperature fluid. Thus it seems unlikely that leucite was ever a constituent of the Crowsnest suite as necessitated by the hypothesis of transformation from leucite. Geochemistry and known experimental data indicate that the analcime phonolites and blairmorites differentiated from a trachytic magma under restricted conditions at depths greater than 25 km by early sanidine and later analcime fractionation. The parental trachyte may be produced by partial fusion of crustal material at depths greater than 35 km.

Seeking the Good Fitting Procedure of PALS Polymer Spectra

2008 ◽  
Vol 607 ◽  
pp. 64-66
Author(s):  
Nicolas Laforest ◽  
Jérémie De Baerdemaeker ◽  
Corine Bas ◽  
Charles Dauwe
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
Positron Annihilation ◽  
Physical Meaning ◽  
Lifetime Measurements ◽  
Positron Annihilation Lifetime ◽  
Fitting Procedure ◽  
Fitting Procedures ◽  
Blob Model

Positron annihilation lifetime measurements on polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) at low temperature were performed. Different discrete fitting procedures have been used to analyze the experimental data. It shows that the extracted parameters depend strongly on the fitting procedure. The physical meaning of the results is discussed. The blob model seems to give the best annihilation parameters.

scholarly journals Low-temperature thermal hydrolysis of sludge prior to anaerobic digestion: principal component analysis (PCA) of experimental data

Data in Brief ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 107323
Author(s):  
Mohamed N.A. Meshref ◽  
Seyed Mohammad Mirsoleimani Azizi ◽  
Wafa Dastyar ◽  
Rasha Maal-Bared ◽  
Bipro Ranjan Dhar
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Principal Component Analysis ◽  
Anaerobic Digestion ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Component Analysis ◽  
Thermal Hydrolysis ◽  
Hydrolysis Of

Electron drift caused by rf field gradient creates many plasma phenomena: An attempt to distinguish the cause and the effect

2011 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. L. XAPLANTERIS ◽  
E. D. FILIPPAKI ◽  
I. S. MISTAKIDIS ◽  
L. C. XAPLANTERIS
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Steady State ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
Mathematical Models ◽  
Field Gradient ◽  
Collision Frequency ◽  
The Other ◽  
Frequency Effect ◽  
Electron Drift ◽  
Plasma Parameters

AbstractMany experimental data along with their theoretical interpretations on the rf low-temperature cylindrical plasma have been issued until today. Our Laboratory has contributed to that research by publishing results and interpretative mathematical models. With the present paper, two issues are being examined; firstly, the estimation of electron drift caused by the rf field gradient, which is the initial reason for the plasma behaviour, and secondly, many new experimental results, especially the electron-neutral collision frequency effect on the other plasma parameters and quantities. Up till now, only the plasma steady state was taken into consideration when a theoretical elaboration was carried out, regardless of the cause and the effect. This indicates the plasma's complicated and chaotic configuration and the need to simplify the problem. In the present work, a classification about the causality of the phenomena is attempted; the rf field gradient electron drift is proved to be the initial cause.

scholarly journals Mobility Enhancement in Square Quantum Wells: Symmetric Modulation of the Envelop Wave Function

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 193
Author(s):  
Doan Nhat Quang ◽  
Nguyen Huyen Tung ◽  
Nguyen Trung Hong ◽  
Tran Thi Hai
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Wave Function ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
Quantum Wells ◽  
Quantum Transport ◽  
Variational Approach ◽  
Theoretical Study ◽  
Recent Experimental Data ◽  
Carrier Distribution ◽  
Analytic Expressions

We present a theoretical study of the effects from symmetric modulation of the envelop wave function on quantum transport in square quantum wells (QWs). Within the variational approach we obtain analytic expressions for the carrier distribution and their scattering in symmetric two-side doped square QWs. Roughness-induced scattering are found significantly weaker than those in the asymmetric one-side doped counterpart. Thus, we propose symmetric modulation of the wave function as an efficient method for enhancement of the roughness-limited QW mobility. Our theory is able to well reproduce the recent experimental data about low-temperature transport of electrons and holes in two-side doped square QWs, e.g., the mobility dependence on the channel width, which have not been explained so far.

scholarly journals Fluid control on low-temperature mineral formation in volcanic rocks of Kahrizak, Iran

Geofluids ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 295-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. KOUSEHLAR ◽  
T. B. WEISENBERGER ◽  
F. TUTTI ◽  
H. MIRNEJAD
Keyword(s):  
Low Temperature ◽  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Mineral Formation ◽  
Fluid Control

Performance Improvement of RF Inductors Using LTCC Technology

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 (CICMT) ◽  
pp. 000054-000058 ◽  
Author(s):  
Goran Radosavljević ◽  
Andrea Marić ◽  
Walter Smetana ◽  
Ljiljana Živanov
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
Design Optimization ◽  
Quality Factor ◽  
Performance Improvement ◽  
Air Gap ◽  
Frequency Range ◽  
Operating Frequency Range ◽  
Rf Inductors ◽  
First Time

This paper presents for the first time a parallel comparison of the performance of RF inductors realized on different substrate configurations. Presented inductors are meander type structures fabricated in Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic (LTCC) technology. Also, chosen material is never before implemented for inductor fabrication. The performance improvement is achieved by design optimization of different substrate configurations that incorporate placement of an air-gap beneath the inductor and/or introduction of an additional shielding layer on the top. Designed structures are characterized on the basis of simulation and experimental data, achieving good correlation between obtained results. Presented results show over 30 % increase in quality factor and widening of the operating frequency range by over 55 %.

scholarly journals The quasi-low temperature behaviour of specific heat

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 171285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuri Vladimirovich Gusev
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Experimental Data ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
Specific Heat ◽  
Temperature Regime ◽  
Silver Chloride ◽  
Condensed Matter ◽  
Fourth Power ◽  
Temperature Behaviour ◽  
Lattice Materials

A new mathematical approach to condensed matter physics, based on the finite temperature field theory, was recently proposed. The field theory is a scale-free formalism; thus, it denies absolute values of thermodynamic temperature and uses dimensionless thermal variables, which are obtained with the group velocities of sound and the interatomic distance. This formalism was previously applied to the specific heat of condensed matter and predicted its fourth power of temperature behaviour at sufficiently low temperatures, which was tested by experimental data for diamond lattice materials. The range of temperatures with the quartic law varies for different materials; therefore, it is called the quasi-low temperature regime. The quasi-low temperature behaviour of specific heat is verified here with experimental data for the fcc lattice materials, silver chloride and lithium iodide. The conjecture that the fourth order behaviour is universal for all condensed matter systems has also supported the data for glassy matter: vitreous silica. This law is long known to hold for the bcc solid helium-4. The characteristic temperatures of the threshold of the quasi-low temperature regime are found for the studied materials. The scaling in the specific heat of condensed matter is expressed by the dimensionless parameter, which is explored with the data for several glasses. The explanation of the correlation of the ‘boson peak’ temperature with the shear velocity is proposed. The critique of the Debye theory of specific heat and the Born–von Karman model of the lattice dynamics is given.

Age and petrogenesis of the Qassiarsuk carbonatite-alkaline silicate volcanic complex in the Gardar rift, South Greenland

1997 ◽  
Vol 61 (407) ◽  
pp. 499-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Single Stage ◽  
Volcanic Complex ◽  
Crustal Material ◽  
Crustal Component ◽  
Depleted Mantle ◽  
Common Parent ◽  
Nd Model Age ◽  
Extrusive Carbonatite ◽  
Age Estimates

AbstractThe Qassiarsuk (formerly spelled Qagssiarssuk) complex is located in a roughly E–W trending graben structure between Qassiarsuk village and Tasiusaq settlement in the northern part of the Precambrian Gardar rift, South Greenland. The complex comprises a sequence of alkaline silicate tuffs and extrusive carbonatites interlayered with sandstones, and their subvolcanic equivalents, which represent possible feeders for the extrusive rocks. The Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd and Pb isotopic characteristics of 65 samples of extrusive carbonatite- and silicate tuffs and carbonatite diatremes have been determined by mass spectrometry. The Qassiarsuk complex can be dated to c. 1.2 Ga by Rb-Sr and Pb-Pb isochrons on whole-rocks and mineral separates, agreeing with previous isotopic ages for the volcanic rocks of the Eriksfjord formation in the Eriksfjord area of the Gardar rift, but not with previous, indirect age estimates of >1.31 Ga for assumed Eriksfjord equivalents in the Motzfeldt area further east. Recalculated isotopic compositions at 1.2 Ga indicate that the Qassiarsuk carbonatite- and alkaline-silicate magmas were comagmatic and derived from a depleted mantle source (εNd>4, εSr<−13, time-integrated, single- stage 238U/204Pb ≤ 7.4). The mantle-derived magmas were contaminated with crustal material, equivalent to the local, pre-Gardar granites and gneisses and sediments derived from these. The crustal component has a depleted mantle Nd model age of 2.1-2.6 Ga; at 1.2 Ga it was characterized by εSr = +76, εNd = −8.4, time-integrated, single- stage 238U/204Pb = 8.2−8.3. Strong decoupling of the Pb from the Sr and Nd isotopic systems suggests that the contamination happened only after carbonatitic and alkaline-silicate magmas had evolved from a common parent, by processes such as liquid immisicibility and/or fractional crystallization. Post-magmatic hydrothermal alteration (oxidation, hydration of mafic silicates, carbonatization of melilite) may have contributed further to the contamination of the carbonatite and alkaline silicate rocks of the Qassiarsuk complex.

A Computational Investigation of the Impact of Multiple Injection Strategies on Combustion Efficiency in Diesel-Natural Gas Dual Fuel Low Temperature Combustion Engine

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Bartolucci ◽  
Stefano Cordiner ◽  
Vincenzo Mulone ◽  
Sundar R. Krishnan ◽  
Kalyan K. Srinivasan
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Combustion Efficiency ◽  
Dual Fuel ◽  
Pilot Injection ◽  
Low Temperature Combustion ◽  
Single Cylinder ◽  
Temperature Combustion ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Dual fuel diesel-methane low temperature combustion (LTC) has been investigated by various research groups, showing high potential for emissions reduction (especially oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and particulate matter (PM)) without adversely affecting fuel conversion efficiency in comparison with conventional diesel combustion. However, when operated at low load conditions, dual fuel LTC typically exhibit poor combustion efficiencies. This behavior is mainly due to low bulk gas temperatures under lean conditions, resulting in unacceptably high carbon monoxide (CO) and unburned hydrocarbon (UHC) emissions. A feasible and rather innovative solution may be to split the pilot injection of liquid fuel into two injection pulses, with the second pilot injection supporting the methane combustion once the process is initiated by the first one. In this work, diesel-methane dual fuel LTC is investigated numerically in a single-cylinder heavy-duty engine operating at 5 bar brake mean effective pressure (BMEP) at 85% and 75% percentage of energy substitution (PES) by methane (taken as a natural gas surrogate). A multidimensional model is first validated in comparison with experimental data obtained on the same single-cylinder engine for early single pilot diesel injection at 310 CAD and 500 bar rail pressure. With the single pilot injection case as baseline, the effects of multiple pilot injections and different rail pressures on combustion emissions are investigated, again showing good agreement with experimental data. Apparent heat release rate and cylinder pressure histories as well as combustion efficiency trends are correctly captured by the numerical model. Results prove that higher rail pressures yield reductions of HC and CO by 90% and 75%, respectively, at the expense of NOx emissions, which increase by ∼30% from baseline. Furthermore, it is shown that post-injection during the expansion stroke does not support the stable development of the combustion front as the combustion process is confined close to the diesel spray core.

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