2014 We study the interactions between flexible and rodlike macromolecules in solution. If the solvent is a good solvent for the flexible chain, a mean-field theory can be used and the mutual virial coefficient is proportional to the product of the masses of the two polymers. If the solvent is a 03B8 solvent, the two polymers interact as hard spheres when the space dimension is slightly smaller...

This paper considers the model-based control of composition and thickness for a thin-film drying process used in the continuous manufacturing of pharmaceutical tablets. In this nonlinear distributed dynamical system, a drug formulation solution is coated onto a moving surface and then dried to form thin films of approximately 250 μm in thickness. A dynamic optimizer is designed that employs a f...

1,3-butadiene, bd is produced from c4-cut by extractive distillation. the separation of 1,3-butadiene from c4-cut is not possible through the conventional distillation processes, because several mixtures have consisted of close boiling points constituents and make azeotrope. the basf extraction distillation process in bd unit of jam and amirkabir petrochemical company improves the relative vola...

a numerical study has been done through an al2o3–water in a double lid-driven  square  cavity with various  inclination  angles  and discrete heat sources. the top and right moving walls are at low temperature. half of  the  left and bottom walls are  insulated and  the  temperatures of the other half are kept at high. a large number of simulations for a wide  range  of richardson  number  of  ...

CO2 emission reduction is an essential step to achieve the climate change targets. Solvent-based post-combustion capture (PCC) processes are efficient be retrofitted existing industrial operations/installations. Solvent degradation (and/or loss) one of main concerns in PCC processes. In this study, thermal monoethanolamine (MEA) investigated through utilization hybrid connectionist strategies, ...

polymer-graphite powder composite behaves as a low-conductive material which can be used as an automatic fuse for adhesive connector in electrical circuits. the conductivity of this composite, below its transition temperature, tt, depends on concentration of carbon powder, slowly decreases as the temperature increases. meanwhile, the electrical resistivity of this material in transition tempera...

Temperature and pressure were shown to vary significantly with solvent mixing, showing maxima at different solvent ratios. Acetonitrile/water mixing resulted in temperature reduction of solutions whereas methanol/water mixing caused temperature increases. On the other hand, maximum recorded chromatographic pressure of acetonitrile:water mixtures occurred at a solvent ratio of 1:6 compared with ...

Mechanical engineering often uses fluid lubrication to limit friction. Even in the presence of a lubricant, metallic contact between the sliding surfaces may readily occur. In running-in, the oil film thickness can be so thin that contact arises at the summit of asperities, thus, increasing both the friction coefficient and wear. Such regimes are the so-called mixed or boundary lubrication. In ...

Probe mapping is a common approach for identifying potential binding sites in structure-based drug design; however, it typically relies on energy minimizations of probes in the gas phase and a static protein structure. The mixed-solvent molecular dynamics (MixMD) approach was recently developed to account for full protein flexibility and solvation effects in hot-spot mapping. Our first study us...

The thermal diffusion coefficient of colloids consists of two additive contributions, one related to specific interactions between the surfaces of colloidal particles with solvent molecules, and a contribution due to interactions between the colloidal particles. In the present paper, the effect of intercolloidal particle interactions on their thermodiffusive behavior is discussed within a stati...