In this study,vehicle exhaust particles were collected three locations (the middle,entrance and outside) of the Dapu Road tunnel in downtown Shanghai,and the particle samples were characterized using SEM,XAFS,ICP-MS and M?ssbauer spectrometry,and the oxidative damage was assessed by plasmid DNA.Most iron-containing particles are found from vehicle exhaust,and iron oxide is the major species in all samples.Its concentration in the particles inside the tunnel is higher than that the outside particles.The iron particles inside the tunnel have higher proportion of water-soluble fraction in hydrous iron sulfate form or smaller size.ZnCl2 is the main soluble fraction in zinc-containing particles,while higher percentage of insoluble fraction existed in the particles outside of tunnel.Major species of lead-containing particles are PbSO4,Pb3(PO4)2 and PbCO3.In addition,the soluble fraction of other transition metallic elements as Ti and V is higher in the particles inside the tunnel than that outside the tunnel.The plasmid DNA assay results indicate that the particles from vehicle exhaust have a stronger oxidative damage and inflammation than that from outside of the tunnel.
JIN ChanFAN XiaoyanLI YanLIANG FengLI YulanZOU YangYANG YongjiXIE Yaning
The vertical centrifugal-casting technique is widely used in the manufacture of various irregularlyshaped castings of advanced structural alloys with thin walls, complex shapes and/or large sizes. These castings are used in the increasing applications in aero-space/aviation industries, human teeth/bone repairs with nearnet shaped components, etc. In a vertically rotating casting system, the mold-filling processes of alloy melts, coupled with solidification-heat transfer, may be much more complicated, because they are driven simultaneously by gravity, centrifugal and Coriolis forces. In the present work, an N-SNOF-equations-based model, solved using a SOLA-VOF algorithm, under a rotating coordinate system was applied to numerically investigate the impacts of centrifugal and Coriolis forces on metallic melt mold-filling processes in different vertical centrifugal-casting configurations with different mold-rotation rates using an authors＇ computer-codes system. The computational results show that the Coriolis force may cause remarkable variations in the flow patterns in the casting-part-cavities of a large horizontal-section area and directly connected to the sprue via a short ingate in a vertical centrifugal-casting process. A ＂turn-back＂ mold-filling technique, which only takes advantage of the centrifugal force in a transient rotating melt system, has been confirmed to be a rational centrifugal-casting process in order to achieve smooth and layer-by-layer casting-cavities-filling control. The simulated mold-filling processes of Ti-6AI-4V alloy melt, in a vertical centrifugal-casting system with horizontally-connected plate-casting cavities, show reasonable agreement with experimental results from the literature.
