High-performance hollow fiber NF membranes with network structure were successfully prepared by adding macromolecular polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) into aqueous phase to change the diffusion coefficient of amine monomer (piperazine, PIP) in organic phase. Based on Wilke-Change equation, a theoretical...

We document a unique determinant of financial systemic risks in China, share pledge financing (SPF) network, by studying all listed Chinese financial institutions that provide SPF business. As one of the most popular refinancing tools in China, SPF formulates a network among financial...

This research examines customer biases relating to employee accents in call service encounters. Extant research and practitioners generally assume that customers automatically evaluate call service employees with a negatively biased accent lower than employees with a standard accent. However,...

This paper constructs the positive arbitrage position by alternating the spot index with Chinese Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) portfolio and estimating the arbitrage-free interval of futures with the latest trade data. Then, an improved Delta-normal method was used, which replaces the simple linear...

Biomass can be converted to liquid product for fuels and for chemicals by hydrothermal treatment. A method for further treatment of the liquid product much depends on the composition determination, and therefore analysis of the liquid product is important. The much water makes the analysis...

Coal bio-oil slurries (CBSs) were prepared by blending coal with bio-oil from the fast pyrolysis, and their apparent viscosities were measured by a rotary viscometer. The influences of coal rank, solid concentration, particle size distribution and temperature on the apparent viscosity and...

Thermal gravimetric (TG) analysis was conducted to compare the fundamental pyrolytic behaviors between the lignocellulose fermentation residue (LFR) and three other biomass raw materials. It was found that the TG weight loss curve of LFR appeared very close to the curve of acidified alkaline...

Triethylamine was found to be effective in promoting the cracking of heptane at the temperature of 550–650°C. The experimental yields of ethylene and propylene are more than twice as high as the calculated values on hypothesis of no interaction between triethylamine and heptane, when the mass...