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AEREX350 is a wrought Ni-Co base superalloy which was first developed as a fastener alloy and is a member of MP family of alloys which are thermo-mechanically processed. Due to chemical composition of AEREX350, the alloy benefits from precipitation hardening and solid solution strengthening as well as cold working and can be used in higher temperatures. To investigate the effect of deformation during precipitation, solution-treated samples was underwent hot compression test up to strain of 0.5 at range 650-800˚C, range of γ΄ formation. It is seen that work-hardening and deformation mechanism of high temperature deformation is slip and as a result its structure is dislocation but in room... 

Silver chloride nanoparticles (AgCl NPs) have been widely used in various areas such as medicine industry, photographic materials, catalytic materials, pigments, and photochromic materials. Therefore, various studies were conducted for their synthesizes. In the present work, precipitation or reactive crystallization method was used for the synthesis of AgCl NPs. In this regard, silver nitrate and sodium chloride as reactants and gelatin as a surfactant were used in a continuous spinning disk reactor (SDR) at the ambient temperature and pressure. The influences of various parameters such as initial supersaturation , free ion ratio, dilution with water , disk diameter , disk rotation speed,... 

Lithium is one of the most commonly used metals in industry with a wide variety of applications including batteries, lubricating grease and pharmaceutical products. Demand for lithium is expected to rise with the increasing adoption of electric vehicles. Market reports have predicted that world lithium demand will increase by 2.5 times from 2010 to 2020. Therefore, there is a pressing need to develop new sources of lithium to support this anticipated increase in demand. Lithium can be extracted from salt brine and lithium containing minerals as lithium compounds.
Salt brines are the most abundant lithium sources available in the world, comprising about 60% of all known lithium deposits.... 

Recently, preparation of biofunctionalized nanoparticles with specific magnetic properties has received great attention for medical imaging. Targeting magnetic nanoparticles with high signal in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could be a powerful tissue imaging and cellular tracking agent. Main purpose of this research is the synthesis of Mn3O4@polymer composite nanoparticles as a positive MRI contrast agent. Nanoparticles were prepared by modified microwavepolyol and precipitation method with average particle size of 18 and 3nm.Respectivelythe effect of diffrent parameters such as time, surfactant and the presence of water in polyol method and the amount ofpolyethylene glycol as surfactant... 

Today a significant portion of the world magnesia supply is produced by approximately 20 manufacturers by precipitation of magnesium hydroxide either from seawater or brine sources, which amounts to about 14% of the world magnesia production. The first synthetic magnesia production occurred along the French coast of the Mediterranean Sea, near Aiques-Mortes, operating sometime before 1885. Magnesium hydroxide was precipitated from seawater by reacting it with milk of lime in a continuous fashion using three sequential agitated reactors. Because of the abundance of brine resources enrich in Magnesium in our country, in this project, was tried to precipitate Magnesium Hydroxide from brine... 

In this study, low-cost and simple method of precipitation or reactive crystallization was used to synthesize nanoparticles of silver iodide. For this purpose, the reaction of silver nitrate and potassium iodide along with several surfactants in a rotating disk reactor at ambient temperature and pressure was applied. In addition, the effects of hydrodynamic conditions such as diameter and rotating speed of the disk, feed flow rate, and feed injection location, with some of the effective kinetic parameters in the synthesis such as the concentration of the reactants, type and concentration of the surfactants and free ion ratio and aging time of solutions using dynamic light scattering analysis... 

In this research copper oxide ores were dissolved under acidic condition. Chemical analysis (XRF) and X-Ray diffraction analysis (XRD) were used to identify the phases and determine the percentage and amount of the elements in the mineral. The results showed that the mineral contains 4.464% by weight of copper, which is malachite in mineral. The experimental design method (DOE) was used to dissolve concentrate by sulfurice acid. The parameters of temperature, time, acid concentration and solid to liquid ratio, as well as the interaction of these parameters on leaching and optimization of parameters were also done by response surface method (RSM). To determine the amount of copper dissolved,... 

In this study, non-isothermal annealing of multi-directionally forged (MDF) aluminum alloy 2024 has been investigated. Two initial heat treatments have been considered, the solution treated (without S′/S (Al2CuMg)) and the over-aged (with S′/S (Al2CuMg)) conditions. DSC curves have shown that GPB zones/Cu-Mg co-clusters have been dynamically formed during MDF. This dynamic formation of these meta-stable phases has been modeled and in the presented model volume fraction of meta-stable phases has been calculated and its effect on the dislocation density has been considered. Although, hardness of solution treated sample has been increased by two-fold after MDF, hardness of over-aged sample has... 

In this project, The cadmium sulfide nanoparticles were formed on a nanostructured and meso-porous titanium dioxide layer and its properties were characterized. Deposition process of titanium dioxide and cadmium sulfide has been performed respectively in one stage and two stages of dipcoating. In order to probing effects of temperature and dipcoating time, samples have been prepared in various times and temperatures. Also, some of the samples have been annealed. Thickness of titanium dioxide and cadmium sulfide coatings were approximately measured 1 μm and between 3-5 μm, respectively. As expected, XRD results disclosed that cadmium sulfide and titanium dioxide were formed in the form of... 

One of the main problems associated with the oil production is asphaltene precipitate in the reservoirs. In order to plan for the EOR methods, production scenario, and selection of completion technology, it is necessary to study the initiation of asphaltene precipitation called onset. Since the experimental methods is not only is so expensive and time consuming, the required materials are not available. Consequently, modeling approaches as new methods are proper substitutes for laboratory procedure. These methods need less costs and time and higher accuracy compared to the experimental investigations which are the advantages of these methods. Computational operations for onset determination... 

The objective of this dissertation is to develop a model to monitor and project the long-term changes in meteorological drought under climate change at watershed scale. In this model, drought is defined based on joint precipitation-temperature values since negative correlation between precipitation and temperature implies that drier periods are often warmer, and therefore, the consequences of drought are more severe compared to low-precipitation periods with mild temperature. This is of particular importance considering global warming. To quantify drought, an indicator called precipitation-temperature deciles index, which is an extension of precipitation deciles index, is introduced. Copula... 

Mineral scale precipitation and carbonate rock dissolution are among the most important reactions that usually occur during water injection in oil reservoirs. These reactions happen due to incompatibility between formation water and injection water as well as deviation from equilibrium conditions. These reactions must be considered precisely because of the fact that they result in variation of reservoir porosity and permeability which affects recovery factor. In this study, the effect of injection pressure on these variations during single-phase water flooding is examined accurately. Additionally, the changes of ion concentration and the amount of dissolved or precipitated calcite or... 

Clustering presents valuable information in discovery of the climatic zones. To use clustering approaches, similarity measure, clustering algorithm, and clustering validity index should be determined. To find climatic zones over Middle East nad North Africa (MENA), this study performs k-means clustering with Euclidean distance as the similarity measure on four monthly precipitation datasets (CRU, GPCC, UDEL, and PREC/L) and two monthly temperature datasets (CRU, NOAA GHCN-CAMS). This study aims to validate clustering results and find a proper number of clusters. For this purpose, five traditional validity indices are examined on experimental datasets. Results show significant differences... 

Formation acidizing is one of the best well stimulation methods to remove reservoir damage and improve recovery of oil and gas well. The proper design of acidizing operations can significantly improve the production of a formation. In the meantime, causing formation damage and precipitation in oil flowlines, which may be caused by the incompatibility of the stimulation fluid with the reservoir fluid and rocks, is one of the most serious problems in the operation, which reduces permeability and oil/gas production. As a result, the success of the acidizing operation requires to study the interaction of components of operation (acid, reservoir water, formation rock, and acid additive)... 

Efforts to identify, predict, and resolve problems linked to asphaltenes and flow assurance have resulted in the development of numerous laboratory and modelling techniques. However, there has been little research on the molecular structure of asphaltenes and how it relates to solubility, stability, aggregation, and deposition behavior. Not only was a thorough structural analysis of asphaltene extracted from three samples of light, medium, and heavy oil performed in this study, but medium oil asphaltene was also fractionated into three sub-fractions based on solubility, with minimum, medium, and maximum solubility, and each subfraction was subjected to a structural analysis. All asphaltene... 

Lake Urmia is the largest hypersaline lake in Iran, as well as a significant aquatic habitat. In recent decades, extreme increasing of extent plans and exploitation of water resources in this basin, cause decreasing inflow, water level and creating several environmental and economic issues. In recent decades, the excessive expansion in the development and exploitation of this basin's water resources has resulted in a drop in the flows into the lake, a decline in the lake's water level, and the creation of several environmental and economic issues. In recent years, these stressors have caused the lake's salinity to exceed 400 g/L, and salt deposits have emerged on the lake bottom and... 

In recent decades, especially with the increase of greenhouse gases and global warming, land degradation has become one of the important global environmental issues. Land degradation has significant impacts on soil performance, vegetation cover, crops, and even the dispersion of dust particles. Land degradation is a complex phenomenon that is affected by multiple factors. Thus, it is necessary to identify these factors and then assess the degree of vulnerability and resilience to it globally. Proper indicators can clarify the integration and effective linkage between related parameters. This study aims to develop a Land Degradation Vulnerability Index (LDVI) using parameters such as...