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- Bobba, A. G., et al.
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Application of a watershed runoff model to north-east pond river, Newfoundland: To study water balance and hydrological characteristics owing to atmospheric change
- 1997
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Ingår i: Hydrological Processes. - 1099-1085. ; 11:12, s. 1573-1593
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The hydrological sensitivities to long-term climate change of a watershed in Eastern Canada were analysed using a deterministic watershed runoff model developed to simulate watershed acidification. This model was modified to study atmospheric change effects in the watershed. Water balance modelling techniques, modified for assessing climate effects, were developed and tested for a watershed using atmospheric change scenarios from both state of the art general circulation models and a series of hypothetical scenarios. The model computed daily surface, inter- and groundwater hows from the watershed. The moisture, infiltration and recharge rate are also computed in the soil reservoirs. The thirty years of simulated data can be used to evaluate the effects of climatic change on soil moisture, recharge rate and surface and subsurface flow systems. The interaction between surface and subsurface water is discussed in relation to climate change. These hydrological results raise the possibility of major environmental and socioeconomic difficulties and have significant implications for future water resource planning and management. (C) 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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- Das, D. K., et al.
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Microstructural degradation of plain and platinum aluminide coatings on superalloy CM247 during isothermal oxidation
- 1999
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Ingår i: Materials Science and Technology. ; 15:10, s. 1199-1208
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Isothermal oxidation at 1100°C of a high activity plain aluminide coating and a platinum aluminide coating, developed by the pack cementation technique, on cast nickel base superalloy CM247 has been carried out with the primary objective of systematically understanding the coating degradation process during oxidation. While the weight gains during oxidation for both plain aluminide and platinum aluminide coatings follow parabolic kinetics from the very beginning of oxidation exposure, the bare alloy was seen to exhibit a considerably long initial transient oxidation period (∼20 h), beyond which the parabolic law was followed. The parabolic rate constant for the platinum aluminide coating was found to be nearly two orders of magnitude lower than that for the plain aluminide coating. Alumina was identified as the only oxide phase that formed on both plain aluminide and platinum aluminide coatings during most of the oxidation exposure, although NiAl2O4 was also found in the case of the plain aluminide coating beyond ∼200 h. The oxide layer on the bare alloy, however, was found to consist of Al2O3, Cr2O3, and NiAl2O4. The microstructural degradation of both the plain aluminide and platinum aluminide coatings during oxidation was seen to occur in three distinct stages which, however, differed for each coating. This stagewise degradation, which involves final obliteration of the interdiffusion layer in each case, is discussed in detail. © 1999 IoM Communications Ltd.
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- Das, O. K., et al.
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Evolution of aluminide coating microstructure on nickel-base cast superalloy CM-247 in a single-step high-activity aluminizing process
- 1998
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Ingår i: Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science. ; 29:8, s. 2173-2188
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study deals with the aluminizing of a directionally cast Ni-base superalloy, namely CM-247, by a single-step process using a high-activity pack. It is observed that significant incorporation of Al into the substrate surface during aluminizing continues over a period of about 1 hour and is not restricted merely to the first few minutes, as reported in the literature. Based on the microstructural details of the coatings formed at various stages of aluminizing, it is concluded that the coating growth in the above process takes place primarily by inward Al diffusion initially, followed by an intermediate stage when the growth involves both inward Al and outward Ni diffusion. In the final stages, the outward diffusion of Ni dominates the coating formation process. The above mechanism of coating formation is different from the one that prevails in the conventional two-step high-activity coating process in that the reaction front for the formation of NiAl remains spatially stationary despite the outward diffusion of nickel during the intermediate stage. It is also shown in the present study that the content of the Al source in the pack affects the coating structure significantly. It is further demonstrated that the microstructure of the aluminide coatings depends not only on the amount of Al incorporated in the sample during aluminizing but also on the time over which the uptake of this Al takes place.
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- FALT, IC, et al.
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Expression of Shigella dysenteriae serotype 1 O-antigenic polysaccharide by Shigella flexneri aroD vaccine candidates and different S. flexneri serotypes
- 1995
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Ingår i: Journal of bacteriology. - : American Society for Microbiology. - 0021-9193 .- 1098-5530. ; 177:18, s. 5310-5315
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The potential utility of Shigella flexneri aroD vaccine candidates for the development of bi- or multivalent vaccines has been explored by the introduction of the genetic determinants rfp and rfb for heterologous O antigen polysaccharide from Shigella dysenteriae serotype 1. The serotype Y vaccine strain SFL124 expressed the heterologous antigen qualitatively and quantitatively well, qualitatively in the sense of the O antigen polysaccharide being correctly linked to the S. flexneri lipopolysaccharide R3 core oligosaccharide and quantitatively in the sense that typical yields were obtained, with ratios of homologous to heterologous O antigen being 4:1 for one construct and 1:1 for another. Moreover, both polysaccharide chains were shown to be linked to position O-4 of the subterminal D-glucose residue of the R3 core. In contrast to the hybrid serotype Y SFL124 derivatives, analogous derivatives of serotype 2a vaccine strain SFL1070 did not elaborate a complete heterologous O antigen. Such derivatives, and analogous derivatives of rough, O antigen-negative mutants of SFL1070, formed instead a hybrid lipopolysaccharide molecule consisting of the S. flexneri lipid A R3 core with a single repeat unit of the S. dysenteriae type 1 O antigen. Introduction of the determinants for the S. dysenteriae type 1 O antigen into a second serotype 2a strain and into strains representing other serotypes of S. flexneri, revealed the following for the expression of the heterologous O antigen: serotypes 1a, 1b, 2a, and 5a did not produce the heterologous O antigen, whereas serotypes 2b, 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b, 5b, and X did.
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- Krishna, G. R., et al.
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Role of Pt content in the microstructural development and oxidation performance of Pt-aluminide coatings produced using a high-activity aluminizing process
- 1998
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Ingår i: Materials Science and Engineering A. ; 251:1-2, s. 40-47
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The present study highlights the effect of Pt content on the microstructure of Pt-aluminide coatings produced using a single-step high-activity aluminizing process. The amount of Pt in the coating was varied by changing the thickness of the initial electroplated Pt layer between 1 and 15 μm. The aluminium uptake from the pack was found to be almost the same for all the coatings produced using a Pt layer of thickness 2.5 μm and above, with a somewhat lower uptake for the coating corresponding to a 1 μm thick Pt layer. The coating microstructure, which consisted of an outer two-phase (PtAl2 in a matrix of NiAl) layer, an intermediate NiAl layer and an interdiffusion layer, was also found to be independent of the Pt layer thickness when it was in the range 2.5-10 μm. In the case of the 1 μm Pt layer, however, the whole of the Pt remained in solid solution in the NiAl phase. For a Pt layer thickness exceeding 10 μm, on the other hand, a continuous surface layer of PtAl2 phase was observed. The above mentioned influence of the thickness of the Pt plated layer on the microstructure of the Pt-aluminide coatings observed in the present investigation could be explained in terms of the Pt concentration in the diffusion layer resulting from the interdiffusion between the Pt layer and the superalloy substrate during the pre-aluminizing diffusion treatment. Cyclic oxidation tests on these Pt-aluminide coatings reveal that the presence of Pt in aluminide coatings, in general, enhances oxidation resistance. However, in order to fully realize the beneficial effects of Pt on oxidation behaviour, a certain minimum Pt content in the coating was found to be necessary.
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- Singh, Maneesh, et al.
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Preparation of iron rich cements using red mud
- 1997
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Ingår i: Cement and Concrete Research. - 0008-8846 .- 1873-3948. ; 27:7, s. 1037-1046
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Possibility of producing calcium sulfoaluminoferrite (SAF) (C4(A,F)3S over-bar )-calcium aluminoferrite (C4AF) based cements using lime + red mud + bauxite + gypsum has been investigated. The effects of composition, firing time and firing temperature on the properties of cements produced has been studied. The characteristics of the cements produced have been found to be strongly dependent on the raw mix composition and firing temperature but not so much on firing time. Some of these cements possess strengths comparable to and at times even more than ordinary Portland cement (OPC). Since the red mud used contains significant amount of titania, effect of titania on pure sulfoaluminate phase has also been studied.
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