Modelling of diesel fuel penetration depth in protective sand bed

Author(s):  
Anastasia V. Massold ◽  
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Dzhamil U. Dumbolov ◽  
Alexander V. Dedov ◽  
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When deploying a temporary fuel storage warehouse, the primary source of soil contamination by oil products is technological losses related to the leakage of isolation valves. To protect the soil from contamination, containers are placed on a layer of sand. The thickness of the sand layer depends on the volume of possible losses. The purpose of the work is to model the depth of diesel fuel penetration into the protective layer of sand bed. The method of performing the experiment imitated a high rate of fuel penetration in the form of droplets onto the protective layer. The article considers the mechanism of fuel penetration into sand and factors, determining the penetration depth. It is established that the mechanism of fuel penetration into the protective layer has two stages, on each of which the penetration depth and rate of fuel distribution are different. The maximum penetration depth is reached on the first stage and depends on the quantity of fuel. The author developed the model, which allows the determination of the thickness of the sand bed protective layer with known granulometric particle composition necessary for the prevention of diesel fuel penetration into soil.

Author(s):  
Юрий Николаевич Рыбаков ◽  
Александр Васильевич Дедов ◽  
Роман Игоревич Кюннап ◽  
Сергей Владимирович Ларионов

Исследована проницаемость фторированного полиэтилена высокого давления (ПВД), предназначенного для изготовления ремонтных и технологических вкладышей резервуаров складов временного хранения топлива. Использование таких вкладышей позволяет снизить технологические потери углеводородов и увеличить надежность хранилищ из полимерных материалов. В качестве объекта исследования использовали пленки ПВД 10204-003 толщиной 100 мкм. Проницаемость пленок определяли при контакте с бензином марок Нормаль-80, Премиум-95, авиационным керосином ТС-1 и дизельным топливом. Рассмотрен механизм формирования структуры поверхностного фторированного слоя. Исследована кинетика изменения коэффициента проницаемости исходного и модифицированного полиэтилена в течение возможного срока хранения топлив. По результатам исследования установлено: 1) в полиэтилене перенос топлива протекает в две стадии, что определяется раздельной диффузией низкомолекулярных и высокомолекулярных фракций углеводородов; 2) фторирование полиэтилена приводит к уменьшению коэффициента проницаемости (что имеет практическое значение для сохранения качества топлива), но не влияет на перенос фракции углеводородов минимальной молекулярной массы. The permeability of fluorinated high-pressure polyethylene (HDPE), intended for the manufacture of repair and technological liners of tanks for temporary fuel storage has been investigated. As the object of research, 10204-003 HDPE films with 100 μm thickness were used. The permeability of the films was determined by contact with gasoline of the Normal-80 and Premium-95 brands, aviation kerosene TS-1, and diesel fuel. The formation mechanism of the surface fluorinated layer structure was considered. The kinetics of changes in the permeability coefficient of the original and modified polyethylene during the possible fuel storage period has been studied. It has been established that the transfer of fuel in polyethylene proceeds in two stages, which is determined by the separate diffusion of low-molecular and high-molecular hydrocarbon fractions. Fluoridation of polyethylene decreases the permeability coefficient, but does not affect the transfer of hydrocarbon fraction with the minimum molecular weight.


2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 949-957 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luhua Han ◽  
Francis Kumi ◽  
Hanping Mao ◽  
Jianping Hu

HighlightsA multi-pin flexible pick-up gripper with a four-jaw chuck having four pick-up pins has been developed.The gripper can effectively grasp, hold and release plug seedlings with low damages to the plants and the root soil.Based on a typical on-off control and cylinder stroke position detection, the control system for timely response was designed to automate the process of picking up and releasing seedlings.Abstract. A multi-pin flexible seedling pick-up gripper for automatic transplanting was developed and evaluated. The gripper having a four-jaw chuck mainly consists of a parallel-type air gripper with four fingers, four fork frames, four cylinder fingers, and several connecting/supporting parts. The air gripper moves to open and close the cylinder fingers, and the cylinder fingers each having a flexible pin grasp and release the seedling. When the pick-up gripper extracts seedlings from the tray cells, its four cylindrical fingers push out four pick-up pins to penetrate deep into the root soil and then close, making the pick-up pins to firmly hold the root soil for lifting. When the pick-up gripper releases seedlings, its fingers open, making the pick-up pins loosen the root soil and then pull back for discharging. An electrical and pneumatic control system was designed to coordinate the execution of each action. The pick-up gripper attached to a robotic manipulator was tested on a range of plug seedling transplanting parameters and conditions. The results showed that penetration depth, seedling species, and the interaction of working pressure and seedling species significantly influenced the successful automatic transplanting. On the whole, the seedling integrity ratio in automatic transplanting was found to be up to 93.37%. For optimum performance of the device in transplanting seedlings, the pick-up pins of the multi-pin gripper need to grasp the maximum amount of root soil at their maximum penetration depth. Keywords: Gripper, Flexible, Multi-pin, Seedlings, Transplanting.


2011 ◽  
Vol 361-363 ◽  
pp. 320-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong Mei Liu ◽  
Geoffrey Michael Evans ◽  
Qing Lin He

Film flotation is a process which consumes much lower energy than mechanical cells. The extended film flotation technique is to separate mineral mixtures by different critical impact velocities. In this study the maximum penetration depth of a particle at its critical condition was investigated experimentally and theoretically. Experiments were performed using spherical glass beads of different diameters and hydrophobicities and different liquids. The penetration depth at critical condition was recorded and measured using high speed video camera. Buckingham’s PI theorem was applied to analyse the dimensionless groups, and then an empirical correlation for penetration depth was obtained by partial least squares method. It was found that the prediction results of the empirical equation were in good agreement with the measurements. Also, the influence factors were analysed. It was noticed that the hydrophobicities of particle and particle-liquid density ratio had most significant effects on the penetration depth.


1989 ◽  
Vol 176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masatsune Akashi ◽  
Takanori Fukuda ◽  
Hiroshi Yoneyama

ABSTRACTThis paper describes a study of corrosion behavior of a mild steel as a candidate of the high-level nuclear waste package in the geological disposal situations, conducted to establish a model for estimating the corrosion allowance requirement to achieve the 1,000 year lifetime for the package. In several series of galvanostatic tests, the maximum penetration depth and the depth distribution were measured for each specimen with a sophisticated ultrasonic inspection technique. The Gumbel distribution model was successfully used in analyzing each set of data for the maximum penetration depth. Relations among the average penetration depth, the maximum penetration depth, and the corrosion allowance requirement were discussed.


2010 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 245-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Emiroglu

Estimating Flow Characteristics of Different Weir Types and Optimum Dimensions of Downstream Receiving PoolThis paper presents the results of a laboratory study on the flow characteristics of sharp-crested weirs, broad-crested weirs, and labyrinth weirs. The variation of the maximum bubble penetration depth for different weir types is investigated depending on overfall jet expansion, discharge, and drop height. Moreover, most efficient depth, length and width of the downstream receiving pool in an open channel system are studied by considering the penetration depth, overfall jet expansion, jet trajectory and the bubble zone. The results show that overfall jet expansion at the labyrinth weirs is significantly wider than the rectangular sharp-crested weirs and the trapezoidal sharp-crested weir. It is demonstrated that the labyrinth weirs have the lowest values of bubble penetration depth among the weirs tested. Furthermore, it is found that the rectangular and the trapezoidal weirs are observed to have the highest bubble penetration depth among all weirs. Consequently, empirical equations are obtained for predicting the maximum penetration depth of bubbles, trajectory of free overfall nappe, jet expansion of free overfall nappe, and the length of the bubble zone.


Author(s):  
Karen L. Torres ◽  
Brian C. Stoltz ◽  
Melissa D. Hankins ◽  
Stanley E. Jones

In this paper, the authors use recent results for predicting the onset of lateral instability to discuss the limitations on rigid body penetration. An analysis of lateral instability was proposed in [1] and verified experimentally for laboratory-scale projectiles [2]. After the onset of lateral instability, declining performance was observed even though the projectile does not catastrophically fail. The authors utilized an analysis to estimate the critical velocity at which the penetrator becomes laterally unstable. With this estimate, a maximum penetration depth for each penetrator aspect ratio is predicted. The objective of the analysis is to determine the velocity limits to achieve the maximize penetration depth. The results are supported by a limited set of experimental data.


2000 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 898-900 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akira Ito ◽  
Kazuaki Yamagiwa ◽  
Kei Tajima ◽  
Masanori Yoshida ◽  
Akira Ohkawa

2016 ◽  
Vol 853 ◽  
pp. 137-141
Author(s):  
Yuan Yuan Cui ◽  
Yun Fei Jia ◽  
Fu Zhen Xuan

The cyclic deformation behavior of the austenite and ferrite phase in an austenite-ferrite duplex stainless steel was studied by using the load-controlled cyclic nanoindentation approach. The results showed that the maximum penetration depth onto both austenite and ferrite phases increased continuously while the rate decreased gradually and finally reached to a constant during the repeated indentation. Both transient state and quasi-steady state were observed for the penetration depth per cycle on both of the austenite and ferrite phases with the increased cycles. By contrast, both the penetration depth and rate per cycle into the austenite phase were larger than those into the ferrite phase. This was ascribed to the stress-induced densification in the austenite and ferrite phases and strain-induced transformed martensite in the austenite phase.


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