Journal misalignment usually exists in journal bearings that affect nearly all the bearings static and dynamic characteristics including minimum oil film thickness, maximum oil film pressure, maximum oil film temperature, oil film stiffness, and damping. The main point in this study is to provide a comprehensive analysis on the oil film pressure, oil film temperature, oil film thickness, load-carrying capacity, oil film stiffness, and damping of journal bearing with different misalignment ratios and appropriately considering the turbulent and thermo effects based on solving the generalized Reynolds equation and energy equation. The results indicate that the oil thermo effects have a significant effect on the lubrication of misaligned journal bearings under large eccentricity ratio. The turbulent will obviously affect the lubrication of misaligned journal bearings when the eccentricity or misalignment ratio is large. In the present design of the journal bearing, the load and speed become higher and higher, and the eccentricity and misalignment ratio are usually large in the operating conditions. Therefore, it is necessary to take the effects of journal misalignment, turbulent, and thermal effect into account in the design and analysis of journal bearings.

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An algal bloom is a naturally occurring phenomenon in freshwaters due to discharge of wastewater containing nitrogen and phosphate. Coagulation-flocculation was widely used in removal of cyanobacteria and algae organic matter (AOM) from water. Microalgae and AOM differ greatly in physiochemical properties at different growth stages, which are likely to have important effects on their coagulation behavior. In this study, the interacting mechanisms between polymeric aluminum chloride (PACl) and microalgae cells and AOM at the different growth stages were investigated by characterizing morphology and AOM properties of microalgae flocs formed from PACl treatment. The results showed that PACl coagulation exhibited better removal efficiency for the microalgae cells and AOM in exponential and stationary phase than that in decline phase. The protein and humic acid content in loose bound AOM (LB-AOM) were found to be key constituents affecting floc dewatering behavior, and complexation adsorption of hydrolyzed products for proteins and humic substances in LB-AOM was responsible for microalgae floc dewatering improvement. These results provide a novel insight into optimization of flocculation and dewatering of cyanobacteria at different growth stages with PACl treatment.

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A graphene oxide based ternary composite was synthesized for targeted drug carrier.