Petrographic prediction of coking properties for the Curragh coals of Australia     

Ralph J. Gray  C. M. Bowling   《International Journal of Coal Geology》1995,27(2-4)

Curragh Queensland Mining Limited, Australia, produces a high quality medium volatile bituminous coking coal from the Orion, Pollux and Castor seams from the upper Permian Rangal Coal Measures. It is one of the lowest ash, prime hard coking coal blends produced in Australia. It is also low in sulfur and produces very strong coke when carbonized alone and in blends. Early attempts to predict coking properties of the coals from petrographic data produced predicted coke stabilities that were significantly lower than those determined from coke tests. There is some question as to how much of the ‘inertinite’ in these and other southern hemisphere coals is truly inert during carbonization and how much is reactive. The current study characterized the Curragh coals in terms of physical, chemical and petrographic characteristics and also involved the production of test oven cokes for characterization and strength testing. As part of the work effort a series of suggested techniques for improving predictions of coke strength from petrographic data were examined and a new and improved technique was developed for the Curragh coals. How broadly the technique can be applied to other coals needs to be determined.  相似文献   

WHAT ABOUT GROUND WATER?     

Ralph C. Heath 《Ground water》1973,11(6):50-51

EDITOR'S NOTE: The following article by Ralph C. Heath which appeared in the January 1973 issue of the North Carolina Engineer is another excellent example of how ground-water geologists and hydrologists should and must speak out in their communities in support of ground-water development.  相似文献   

Meteorite stranding surfaces and the Greenland icesheet     

Ralph P. Harvey  Anders Meibom  Henning Haack 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2001,36(6):807-816

Abstract— Thirty years of recoveries in East Antarctica have led to significant understanding of the regional characteristics associated with meteorite stranding surfaces. In Antarctica these sites are characterized by patches of snow‐free blue ice at high altitude on the icesheet in regions where iceflow is highly restricted. Melting is extremely rare or absent and sublimation rates are high, even though meteorite stranding surfaces are predominantly found within regions where accumulation typically dominates. Localized environmental conditions that persist for thousands of years or longer appear to be the dominant factor rather than shorter‐term or seasonal cycles. In this paper we describe our discovery of regions in Northeast Greenland with blue ice areas that exhibit many of the requisite characteristics, suggesting that they are excellent prospects for future meteorite recovery efforts.  相似文献   

Trace metal composition of and accumulation rates of sediments in the Upper Gulf of Thailand     

Herbert L. Windom  Suchada Silpipat  Aurapin Chanpongsang  Ralph G. Smith  Manuwadi Hungspreugs 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》1984,19(2):133-142

Sediment cores and grab samples were collected in the Upper Gulf of Thailand to determine sedimentation rates and to determine if metal concentrations reflect anthropogenic inputs.Accumulation rates of sediments in the Upper Gulf measured using the ²¹⁰Pb method, appear to vary from ca. 4 to 11 mm yr^?1. Sediment budgets suggest that little of the sediment delivered to the Upper Gulf by the major rivers is ultimately transported to the Lower Gulf. Metal concentrations in Upper Gulf sediments appear to be dominantly controlled by natural inputs.  相似文献   

Methane Abundance on Titan, Measured by the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph     

Mark T. LemmonPeter H. Smith  Ralph D. Lorenz 《Icarus》2002,160(2):375-385

Although methane is the dominant absorber in Titan's reflection spectrum, the amount of methane in the atmosphere has only been determined to an order of magnitude. We analyzed spectra from the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, looking at both a bright surface region (700-km radius) and a dark surface region. The difference between the spectra of the two regions is attributed to light that has scattered off the surface, and therefore made a round-trip through all of Titan's methane. Considering only absorption, the shape of the difference spectrum provides an upper limit on methane abundance of 3.5 km-am. Modeling the multiple scattering in the atmosphere further constrains the methane abundance to 2.63±0.17 km-am. In the absence of supersaturation and with a simplified methane vertical profile, this corresponds to a surface methane-mole fraction near 3.8% and a relative humidity of 0.32. With supersaturation near the tropopause, the surface methane mole fraction could be as low as 3%.  相似文献   

Ground viscosity and stiffness measurements for near surface seismic velocity   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Robert Ley  Willem Adolfs  Ralph Bridle  Mohammad Al-Homaili  Aldo Vesnaver  Paul Ras 《Geophysical Prospecting》2006,54(6):751-762

In land surveys, the weathering layer can often distort the seismic signal due to it passing through rapid velocity and density changes, dispersion, scattering and inelastic absorption. In a simple spring‐dashpot model for the earth response, an equivalent medium groups these complex phenomena into two parameters only; these are called ground viscosity and ground stiffness. The most recent controllers for vibrators can estimate both parameters. To validate these measurements, Saudi Aramco conducted an experiment measuring ground viscosity and stiffness from two different vibrator control systems over an area of varying terrain conditions, including unconsolidated sand and limestone outcrop. The two systems measured different values, but detected similar trends that correlated well with weathering conditions and surface geology, e.g. lower viscosity values on the outcrop than on the sand. The ratio of ground viscosity to ground stiffness can approximate the shallow S‐wave velocity, which we converted into P‐wave velocity through calibration with sparse uphole data. Static corrections incorporating this velocity information somewhat improved the focusing of seismic time sections. This new approach does not require additional acquisition efforts, and can model shallow complex formations in arid areas where classical static methods often fail.  相似文献   

Gamma-ray bursts from stellar remnants: probing the Universe at high redshift     

Ralph A. M. J. Wijers  Joshua S. Bloom  Jasjeet S. Bagla  & Priyamvada Natarajan 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》1998,294(1):L13-L17

A gamma-ray burst (GRB) releases an amount of energy similar to that of a supernova explosion, which combined with its rapid variability suggests an origin related to neutron stars or black holes. Since these compact stellar remnants form from the most massive stars not long after their birth, GRBs should trace the star formation rate in the Universe; we show that the GRB flux distribution is consistent with this. Because of the strong evolution of the star formation rate with redshift, it follows that the dimmest known bursts have z  ∼ 6, much above the value usually quoted and beyond the most distant quasars. This explains the absence of bright galaxies in well-studied GRB error boxes. The increased distances imply a peak luminosity of 8.3 × 10⁵¹ erg s⁻¹ and a rate density of 0.025 per million years per galaxy. These values are 20 times higher and 150 times lower, respectively, than are implied by fits with non-evolving GRB rates. This means either that GRBs are caused by a much rarer phenomenon than mergers of binary neutron stars, or that their gamma-ray emission is often invisible to us due to beaming. Precise burst locations from optical transients will discriminate between the various models for GRBs from stellar deaths, because the distance between progenitor birth place and burst varies greatly among them. The dimmest GRBs are then the most distant known objects, and may probe the Universe at an age when the first stars were forming.  相似文献   

Light curves of SN 1998A and comparison with similar unusual SNe     

Simon J. Woodings  rew J. Williams  Ralph Martin  Ronald R. Burman  & David G. Blair 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》1998,301(1):L5-L9

Following the proposal by Damineli that the central object of Eta Carinae may be an early-type binary, we perform numerical simulations of the X-ray emission from colliding stellar winds. A synthetic light curve has been generated which qualitatively agrees with the recent X-ray variability, and provides further support for the binary model. In particular, the model predicts a rise in the observed X-ray emission towards periastron, followed by a sharp drop and subsequent recovery. This is indeed what is seen in the RXTE light curve, although some problems concerning the X-ray spectrum at periastron still need to be explained. The simulations suggest that the width of the periastron dip will provide strong constraints on the binary and stellar wind properties of the components of Eta Car.  相似文献   

Compaction of Argillaceous Sediments (Developments in Sedimentology 16): H.H. Rieke III and G.V. Chilingarian. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1974, 424 pp., Dfl. 85.00     

Ralph E. Grim 《Journal of Geochemical Exploration》1975,4(3):389-390

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An aircraft study of turbulence dissipation rate and temperature structure function in the unstable marine atmospheric boundary layer     

C. W. Fairall  Ralph Markson  G. E. Schacher  K. L. Davidson 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1980,19(4):453-469

The dissipation rate of turbulent kinetic energy, , and the temperature structure function parameter, C _T ², have been measured over water from the near surface (Z = 3 m) to the top of the boundary layer. The near surface values of and C _T ² were used to calculate the velocity and temperature Monin-Obukhov scaling parameters u _* and T _*. The data collected during unstable lapse rates were used to evaluate the feasibility of extrapolating the values of and C _T ² as a function of height with empirical scaling formulae. The dissipation rate scaling formula of Wyngaard et al. (l971 a) gave a good fit to an average of the data for Z < 0.8 Z _i. In the surface layer the scaling formula of Wyngaard et al. (1971b) disagreed with the C _T ² values by as much as 50%. This disagreement is due to an unexpected reduction in the measured values of C _T ² forZ < 30 m. At this point it is not clear if the discrepancy is a unique property of the marine boundary layer or if it is simply some unknown instrumental or analytical problem. The mixed layer scaling results were similar to the overland results of Kaimal et al. (1976).  相似文献