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Flux, able to improve the ash fusibility, usually contains catalytic metal compounds. Unfortunately, the quantitative analysis of synergistic catalysis effects between different fluxing agents on coal gasification has not been investigated thoroughly. In this study, the effect of the kinds and content of Na/Ca-based fluxes on char gasification was investigated in thermogravimetry analyzer (TGA). The synergistic catalysis effects and mechanism between the two kinds of fluxes were also studied. Finally, based on the TGA tests, the kinetics models for char gasification with flux addition were developed. The results showed that all the four Na-based fluxes could increase the char reactivity. Na2CO3, which afforded the best activity, could increase the reactivity by 5.3 times when the content was 5%. The five Ca-based fluxes had a weaker catalysis effect compared with Na-based fluxes. CaCl2, exhibiting the best activity among the five Ca-based fluxes, could increase the reactivity by 2.3 times when the content was 5%. For composite fluxes, Na2CO3–CaO and Na2CO3–CaCO3 had a remarkable synergistic effect, whereas others had less effect. Na2CO3 could inhibit the aggregation of Ca, which might cause the synergistic effects between Na and Ca fluxes. The random pore model was more suitable to describe the catalytic gasification process.

Intrinsic dielectric properties and tuning conductivity play important roles in microwave absorption. Novel multi-interfaced ZnSnO3@ fine ash (ZSFA) composite was successfully synthesized by coating cube-like ZnSnO3 particles with highly graphitized gasification fine ash. After hydrothermal reaction and Ostwald ripening process, fine ash was tightly wrapped around the assembly of ZnSnO3 particles. Related electromagnetic parameters and dielectric dissipation ability were discussed with different mass additions. Owing to the strong polarization relaxation, special conductive network, and multi-interface structural design, the as-synthesized ZSFA exhibited adjustable dielectric loss behaviors and efficient microwave absorption ability. When 50% mass added, the maximum reflection loss value of the obtained ZSFA-2 is −47.8 dB at 2.5 mm thickness, showing the enhanced dielectric loss ability. Meanwhile, the widest effective absorption bandwidth (RL ≤ −10 dB) can cover 7.0 GHz (11.0–18.0 GHz) at a thickness of only 2.2 mm, which included the entire Ku band. This unique pure dielectric composite exhibited high-performance electromagnetic wave attenuation property and broadband frequency response, thereby providing a new approach to the production of a superior microwave absorber.

In China, approximately 70% of beverage alcohol is consumed in the form of spirits. An estimated 25% of all alcohol consumed is unrecorded, mostly spirits (bai jiu), produced outside regulatory systems in small neighborhood distilleries, mostly in rural areas. Unrecorded bai jiu drinkers are generally older, male, prefer higher-strength bai jiu, and drink daily and mostly at home. To explore possible regional differences, researchers used interview data from 2919 bai jiu drinkers in rural areas in Hebei, Anhui, and Hubei provinces in China. Results confirmed that patterns varied by province. The sample in Hubei preferred unrecorded bai jiu with a more stable preference to alcohol type, tended to drink less frequently, and reported experiencing less drinking pressure, suggesting lower-risk drinking patterns in this region. The Hebei and Anhui sample reported higher frequency and greater amount of alcohol consumption, were more likely to experience drinking pressure, indicating higher-risk patterns in alcohol use in these two regions. The results provide needed details about regional differences in unrecorded bai jiu drinking patterns that are not evident in aggregated data and suggest variations in drinking patterns that may reflect local geography, local values, traditions, and ethnic differences.

1,4-Butanediol (BDO) is an important organic and fine chemical raw material. BDO is widely used, but the waste liquid (BDO tar) discharged from the BDO production plant is complex in composition, c...

The melting temperature of Z coal ash was reduced by adding calcium–magnesium compound flux (WCaO/WMgO = 1). In the process of simulated coal gasification, the coal ash and slag were prepared. The transformation of minerals in coal ash and slag upon the change of temperature was studied by using X-ray diffraction (XRD). With the increase of temperatures, forsterite in the ash disappears, while the diffraction peak strength of magnesium spinel increases, and the content of the calcium feldspar increases, then the content of the amorphous phase in the ash increases obviously. The species and evolution process of oxygen, silicon, aluminum, calcium, magnesium at different temperatures were analyzed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The decrease of the ash melting point mainly affects the structural changes of silicon, aluminum and oxygen. The coordination of aluminum and oxygen in the aluminum element structure, e.g., tetracoordinated aluminum oxide, was changed. Tetrahedral [AlO4] and hexacoordinated aluminoxy octahedral [AlO6] change with the temperature changing. The addition of Ca2+ and Mg2+ destroys silica chain, making bridge oxide silicon change into non-bridge oxysilicon; and bridge oxygen bond was broken and non-bridge oxygen bond was produced in the oxygen element structure. The addition of calcium and magnesium compound flux reacts with aluminum oxide tetrahedron, aluminum oxide octahedron and silicon tetrahedron to promote the breakage of the bridge oxygen bond. Ca2+ and Mg2+ are easily combined with silicon oxide and aluminum oxide tetrahedron and aluminum. Oxygen octahedrons combine with non-oxygen bonds to generate low-melting temperature feldspars and magnesite minerals, thereby reducing the coal ash melting temperatures. The structure of kaolinite and mullite was simulated by quantum chemistry calculation, and kaolinite molecule has a stable structure.

Using feed coal as a reference, a series of modern advanced analysis and measurement technologies such as X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy–energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction have been used to analyze the gasification fine ash obtained from a pulverized coal gasification unit. The results show that the fine ash mainly consists of elemental carbon, oxygen, silicon, and aluminum. The elemental carbon distributes primarily on the foams structure, while the spherical particles mainly consisted of silicon and aluminum are embedded in the foams structure. The C1s spectrum is composed of five components in which the content of graphitized carbon is up to 38.36%, and the content of aromatic C–C or C–H, the main existing form on coal surface, is only 25.75%. The 67.31% of elemental silicon is combined with bridging oxygen (Si–O) and 32.69% of that connected to non-bridging oxygen (Si–O2). The existence of aluminum is in the form of aluminum oxides with two coordinated modes ([AlO6] and [AlO4]), and the content of [AlO6] group is nearly double that of [AlO4]. Simultaneously, the binding energies of silicon and aluminum increase by approximately 3 eV, while that of carbon almost no change because of the number of carbon atoms is significantly higher than that of other elements. The silicon atoms and aluminum atoms are surrounded by masses of carbon atoms for the special microstructure of FA. The different chemical states of carbon with higher electronegativity along with the role of high temperature and pressure make the binding energies of silicon and aluminum changed dramatically.

Background Isocorydine (ICD) has anticancer effects; however, its suboptimal bioactivity has driven the production of ICD derivatives, including 8-amino-isocorydine (8-NICD). Objective This study explored the antitumor effects of 8-NICD on a variety of tumor cell lines to detect tumors sensitive to 8-NICD and investigated the mechanisms by which it suppresses tumor cell growth. Methods Human gastric carcinoma (GC) cells (MGC-803) were used to evaluate the effects of 8-NICD on cell proliferation and apoptosis. The in vivo action of 8-NICD in a nude mouse xenograft model was also investigated. The antioxidant activity of 8-NICD was evaluated using a 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl radical scavenging assay. Results 8-NICD exerted significant antitumor activity against several tumor cell lines with IC50 between 8.0 and 142.8 µM and was not toxic to healthy fibroblasts and epithelial cells at concentrations up to 100 µM. Moreover, 8-NICD strongly inhibited the proliferation of MGC803 cells without causing toxicity to human umbilical vein endothelial cells with a selectivity index of 19.2 and arrested MGC803 cells in the S phase. Further, the percentages of apoptotic MGC-803 and BGC823 cells increased in a concentration-dependent manner, and the expression of apoptosis regulator Bax increased, whereas that of Bcl-2 decreased in response to 8-NICD treatment. Further, 8-NICD significantly suppressed MGC-803 tumor growth in nude mice. In addition, 8-NICD was a potent scavenger of radicles in a 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (IC50 = 11.12 µM) antioxidant assay. Conclusions These results suggest that 8-NICD exerts significant antitumor effects on GC cells by inducing apoptosis and cell cycle arrest and is a promising candidate anti-GC drug. The particularly high sensitivity of MGC803 cells suggest that the potential of 8-NICD to treat GC should be further explored. (Curr Ther Res Clin Exp. 2021; 82:XXX–XXX)

Objective: Tetratricopeptide repeat (TRP)-mediated cofactor proteins are involved in a wide range of cancers. TTC36 is little studied member of TRP subfamily. This study aimed to investigate the role of TTC36 in human gastric carcinoma (GC) and explore the potential underlying mechanisms. Methods: The analysis of TTC36 differential expression in GC was conducted using data from TCGA and a human tissue microarray. And effects of TTC36 expression on the prognosis of patients with gastric carcinoma were analyzed using the data from the GEO database. Lentivirus was transfected into the cell lines of AGS and BGC823 to construct overexpression and knocked down TTC36 cell model respectively. The effect of TTC36 expression on the growth, apoptosis and cell cycle of cells was explored in vitro. Downstream molecules were detected by western blotting. GSEA predicted signal pathway and related proteins were then detected. Results: TTC36 expression in human GC tissues was found significantly lower than that in adjacent normal tissues and closely related to clinical prognosis. The overexpression of TTC36 notably inhibited tumor progression, cell cycle G1/S transfer and increased apoptosis in AGS cells. Conversely, the opposite effects were observed when TTC36 was suppressed in BGC823 cells. The expression of cleaved caspase3, Survivin, cyclin D1 and c-Myc were consistent with the phenotype in TTC36 operated GC cell lines. Intriguingly, GSEA analysis predicted Wnt-β-catenin pathway involved in TTC36 induced effects in GC cells, expression of β-catenin and downstream molecules such as TCF4, c-jun and pAKT were found negative related to TTC36 expression in GC cells. Notably, treatment with the Wnt/β-catenin inhibitor XAV939 dramatically attenuated the effects of TTC36 in GC cells. Conclusion: These results signify a critical role for TTC36 as a tumor suppressor in gastric carcinoma via regulating Wnt-β-catenin pathway.

The resource utilization of coal gasification fine slag (FS) is very urgent. The residual carbon (RC) from coal gasification FS was obtained via a facile two-step acid leaching process. The structure, compositions, micromorphology, thermal stability, and electromagnetic parameters of the RC were tested by variously analytical techniques in details. The RC exhibits the unique layer morphology and partial graphitization. Results demonstrate that the RC shows good thermal stability and microwave absorption (MA) properties. The outstanding microwave-absorbing capability may be caused by dielectric loss and polarization relaxation. Significantly, the RC content in the mixture has a noticeable impact on its MA properties. The minimum reflection loss of the RC achieved −52.3 dB at 5.04 GHz when the adding content was only 20% in a paraffin matrix. With an easy treating process, the RC obtained via an acid leaching method from coal gasification FS is a competitively alternative and cheap source for microwave absorber.

1, 4-Butanediol (BDO) is an important organic and fine chemical raw material, but the waste liquid (BDO tar) discoal charged from the BDO production plant is complex in composition, contains salt, and is complicated to handle. In this study, BDO tar was treated by the method of waste-coal water slurry, and the gasification process of blending BDO tar was studied. The results show that as the BDO tar content increases, the organic component in the BDO tar causes the temperature point corresponding to the peak of the maximum reaction rate to migrate to the high temperature zone during the initial temperature to 150 °C. In the temperature range of 200 °C~300 °C, the weight loss of BDO tar leads to a significant weight loss peak of TG curves. From 600 °C to the final reaction temperature range, the alkali metal Na enriches the surface of the coal char with more active “spot”, and due to the alkali metal Na limits the graphitization of coal char, the active sites increase, which increases the coal char gasification reaction activity.

Elemental mercury (Hg 0 ) re-emissions from slurries and solutions were evaluated in a lab-scale simulated scrubber. Oxidized mercury (Hg 2+ ) standard solution was injected into the simulated scrubber at a desired rate to simulate absorbing and dissolving of Hg 2+ in the flue gas across wet flue gas desulfurization (WFGD) systems. PS analytical mercury analyzer was used to continuously determine Hg 0 re-emission concentrations in the carrier gas from the scrubber. Sulfite ion in the slurry of CaSO 3 was validated to reduce Hg 2+ to Hg 0 , while no Hg 0 re-emission occurred from slurries of CaSO 4 and CaO. Transitional metal ions with low chemical valence such as Fe 2+ , Pb 2+ , Ni 2+ , and Cu + were used to prepare solutions with concentration levels of mmol·L −1 . Reduction reaction of Hg 2+ to Hg 0 was observed from these solutions. Reduction capabilities for the different transitional metal ions in the solutions were: Pb 2+ >Cu + >Fe 2+ > AsO − 2 >Ni 2+ .

Angular-momentum-projected energy surface calculations for A ≈ 110 nuclei indicate three distinct energy minima occurring at different angular-momenta. These correspond to normal, super-, and hyper- deformed shapes coexisting in one nucleus. 110Pd is studied in detail, with a quantitative prediction on super- and hyper-deformed spectra by the Projected Shell Model calculation. It is found that several other neighboring nuclei in the A-110 mass region, with the neutron number around 64, also exhibit clear super- and hyper-deformation minima in the projected calculation.

A new model for generation of coherent non-Gaussian clutter is proposed on basis of amplitude-phase separation method. First the non-coherent non-Gaussian clutter with specific autocorrelation function is generated by zero memory nonlinearity, and then a correlated uniform phase random process independent of the preceding amplitude process is devised to form coherent non-Gaussian clutter with assigned power spectrum density. The procedures for generation of the correlated uniform phase process are given, and the relation among the normalized autocorrelation functions of non-Gaussian amplitude process, uniform phase process and the desired complex non-Gaussian process is derived. The accuracy of the method is assessed by computer simulation results.