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Multi-Stable Isotope Constraints on the Sources and Evolution of Potash-Forming Fluids in the Mahai Basin, Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

  • Zhendong Wang,
  • Qiugui Wang,
  • Zengping Ning,
  • Weigang Su,
  • Ying Ma,
  • Yujun Ma,
  • Enzong Xiao and
  • Xiaohang Lu

7 February 2026

The Mahai Basin (MHB), situated in the northern Qaidam Basin on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, hosts significant Quaternary potash resources. Nevertheless, the sources and evolutionary pathways of potash-forming fluids remain controversial. In th...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,586 Views
20 Pages

13 January 2023

The material source and the evolution of ore-forming hydrothermal fluids of Xiaojiashan gold deposits remain controversial. We carried out a mineralogical characteristics analysis, trace elements analysis, sulfur isotope composition analysis, and flu...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,830 Views
17 Pages

Hydrocarbon Accumulation and Overpressure Evolution in Deep–Ultradeep Reservoirs in the Case of the Guole Area of the Tarim Basin

  • Zhanfeng Qiao,
  • Tianfu Zhang,
  • Ruyue Wang,
  • Yahao Huang,
  • Yifan Xue,
  • Jiajun Chen,
  • Haonan Tian,
  • Anjiang Shen and
  • Chunsong Si

31 July 2024

Usually, deep oil and gas accumulation is often controlled by strike–slip faults. However, in the Tarim Basin, deep Ordovician oil and gas accumulations are also found in areas far from the fault zone. The process of oil and gas accumulation in...

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3 Citations
2,581 Views
32 Pages

14 December 2023

The current study sought to investigate the physiochemical conditions and fluid evolution within the Yolindi Cu-Fe skarn mineralization located in the Biga Peninsula, NW Turkey. This was accomplished through a comprehensive investigation of geologica...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,507 Views
20 Pages

3 January 2023

Fluorite is a widespread mineral in porphyry and hydrothermal vein Mo-polymetallic deposits. Here, fluorite is utilised as a probe to trace the fluid source and reveal the fluid evolution process in the Chalukou giant Mo (Pb–Zn) deposit, Northe...

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2 Citations
2,577 Views
20 Pages

Trace Elements of Gangue Minerals from the Banbianjie Ge-Zn Deposit in Guizhou Province, SW China

  • Yun-Lin An,
  • Jia-Xi Zhou,
  • Qing-Tian Meng,
  • Guo-Tao Sun and
  • Zhi-Mou Yang

4 May 2023

There are many dispersed element-rich Pb-Zn deposits hosted by Paleozoic carbonate rocks in the Middle-Upper Yangtze Block, China. The origin and nature of the ore-forming fluids that formed them are still much debated (syngenetic vs. epigenetic). Th...

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1,094 Views
29 Pages

8 August 2025

The Xiaobaihegou fluorite deposit is located in the southwest of the Altyn-Tagh Orogen, NW China. However, the provenance, thermodynamic properties, and enrichment mechanisms of the ore-forming fluids in this deposit remain unclear. Fluorite minerali...

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7 Citations
2,510 Views
14 Pages

Genesis of the Baiyangping Cu–Co and Pb–Zn Mineralizations in Lanping Basin, SW China

  • Jiaxuan Zhu,
  • Hongyu Duan,
  • Lifei Yang,
  • Qi Chen,
  • Lijun Liu,
  • Kangxing Shi,
  • Jinlong Qian,
  • Qiaoxin Li and
  • Rong Hu

18 February 2022

The Oligocene to Miocene Baiyangping Cu–Co and Pb–Zn mineralization was deposited during the collision of the India and Asia continents. The mineralization is hosted in veins in faulted carbonate and clastic rocks, which act as fluid path...

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14 Citations
4,317 Views
18 Pages

4 October 2020

Abundant fluorites occur in the Shihuiyao rare metal (Nb-Ta-Rb) deposit in Inner Mongolia of NE China, and they can be classified by their occurrence into three types. Type I occurs disseminated in greisen pockets of albitized granite. Type II occurs...

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15 Citations
2,897 Views
18 Pages

21 November 2019

The acoustic field distribution and evolution characteristics in a time domain inside a centrifugal pump are studied. During the fluid motion process, the acoustic source and acoustic pressure are basically less than 0, and the minimum value of the t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,807 Views
28 Pages

9 July 2019

Skarn Sn-polymetallic deposits, located in the southern Great Khingan Range, can be divided into Sn–Fe and Sn–Pb–Zn deposits. By systematically studying the geochemical characteristics of source granitoid and deposits, the ore-formi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,603 Views
23 Pages

27 May 2024

The Hongtoushan Cu-Zn volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposit, located in the Hunbei granite–greenstone terrane of the North China Craton, has undergone a complex, multi-stage metallogenic evolution. The deposit comprises three main types of...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,711 Views
14 Pages

14 January 2019

The Rammelsberg sulfide deposit is classically considered as a SEDEX-type deposit. The origin of SEDEX-type massive sulfides links with the evolution of their hosting basins. They frequently constitute the source for the metal-enriched basinal brines...

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1 Citations
2,336 Views
16 Pages

8 November 2023

The Nanpanjiang basin hosts the world’s second-largest concentration of Carlin-type gold deposits. To decipher the origin and evolution of hydrothermal fluid, this study conducted Sm–Nd dating, in-situ trace element, and C-O-Sr isotopic a...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,661 Views
22 Pages

Numerical Simulation in the Melt Pool Evolution of Laser Powder Bed Fusion Process for Ti6Al4V

  • Yixuan Xu,
  • Dongyun Zhang,
  • Junyuan Deng,
  • Xuping Wu,
  • Lingshan Li,
  • Yinkai Xie,
  • Reinhart Poprawe,
  • Johannes Henrich Schleifenbaum and
  • Stephan Ziegler

28 October 2022

In order to track the free interface of the melt pool and understand the evolution of the melt pool, the flow of fluid, and the interface behavior of gas and liquid, a physical model is developed by using the VOF method in this paper. Its characteris...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,154 Views
35 Pages

3 September 2025

To elucidate the mechanisms governing hydrocarbon accumulation and phase evolution in the deep–ultradeep reservoirs of the Mo-Yong area, this study integrated 2D basin modeling and multi-component phase state simulation techniques, investigatin...

  • Article
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20 Citations
2,700 Views
12 Pages

In a spatially flat Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker background space, we consider a scalar-torsion gravitational model which has similar properties to the dilaton theory. This teleparallel model is invariant under a discrete transformation simila...

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5 Citations
2,492 Views
18 Pages

31 January 2024

The Jiaodong gold province is one of the most important gold fields globally and the largest in China. The Denggezhuang gold deposit is situated in the eastern portion of the Muping metallogenic belt, within the Jiaodong gold province. Despite many r...

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4 Citations
2,909 Views
33 Pages

11 January 2024

The mineralogical, fluid inclusion, and stable isotope (C, O) study was conducted on a Late Variscan Zn-Pb vein Bt23C, Příbram uranium and base-metal district, Bohemian Massif, Czech Republic. The vein is hosted by folded Proterozoic clas...

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12 Citations
6,185 Views
36 Pages

Mineralogy, Fluid Inclusions, and Isotopic Study of the Kargah Cu-Pb Polymetallic Vein-Type Deposit, Kohistan Island Arc, Northern Pakistan: Implication for Ore Genesis

  • Zahid Hussain,
  • Chunhui Tao,
  • Chun-Feng Li,
  • Shili Liao,
  • Masroor Alam,
  • Muhammad Farhan,
  • Huichao Zhang and
  • Amjad Hussain

14 November 2021

The Kargah Cu-Pb polymetallic deposit is a newly discovered ore deposit from the Gilgit-Baltistan region, located in the Kohistan Island Arc, northern Pakistan. However, this area is poorly researched on the ore genesis, and its origin and the evolut...

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23 Pages

Source and Precipitation Process of Gold in the Linglong Gold Deposit, Jiaodong Peninsula: Constraints from Trace Elements of Pyrite and S-Pb Isotopes

  • Fei Ren,
  • Zheng-Jiang Ding,
  • Zhong-Yi Bao,
  • Jun-Wei Wang,
  • Shun-Xi Ma,
  • Tao Niu,
  • Kai-Qiang Geng,
  • Bin Wang,
  • Chao Li and
  • Shan-Shan Li
  • + 1 author

19 November 2025

Jiaodong Gold Province is a globally rare giant gold cluster, with ongoing debates regarding its metallogenic material sources and mineralization mechanisms. This study focuses on the Linglong quartz-vein-type gold deposit within the Zhaoping Fault Z...

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  • Open Access
2,282 Views
19 Pages

Influence of Tectonic Movements on Hydrocarbon Accumulation in the Dongying Formation, Western Bohai Bay Basin, China

  • Jieqiong Zhu,
  • Xiaodong Li,
  • Longchuan Pu,
  • Xiwei Li,
  • Ketong Chen,
  • Chengyun Wang,
  • Jichao Zhang,
  • Yawen Li,
  • Yan Li and
  • Rongsheng Zhao
  • + 3 authors

20 November 2025

The hydrocarbon accumulation process in the Dongying Formation (a key Cenozoic reservoir in the western Bohai Bay Basin) is complex due to superimposed tectonic activities. To reconstruct its evolution, we integrated fluid inclusion analysis, burial&...

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3 Citations
4,310 Views
31 Pages

4 May 2019

Motility behavior of an engineered chemosensory particle (ECP) in fluidic environments is driven by its responses to chemical stimuli. One of the challenges to understanding such behaviors lies in tracking changes in chemical signal gradients of chem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,496 Views
25 Pages

Petrography and Fluid Inclusions for Petroleum System Analysis of Pre-Salt Reservoirs in the Santos Basin, Eastern Brazilian Margin

  • Jaques Schmidt,
  • Elias Cembrani,
  • Thisiane Dos Santos,
  • Mariane Trombetta,
  • Rafaela Lenz,
  • Argos Schrank,
  • Sabrina Altenhofen,
  • Amanda Rodrigues,
  • Luiz De Ros and
  • Rosalia Barili
  • + 1 author

The complex interaction of hydrothermal fluids and carbonate rocks is recognized to promote significant impacts on petroleum systems, reservoir porosity, and potential. The objective of this study is to investigate the fluid phases entrapped in the m...

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1 Citations
954 Views
21 Pages

8 September 2025

The evolution of ore-forming fluids in gold precipitation is a key aspect in understanding the genesis of orogenic gold deposits. Traditional fluid inclusion analyses are often limited in revealing the fluid property changes during mineralization, le...

  • Review
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12 Citations
6,299 Views
13 Pages

Granite is a distinctive constituent part of the continental crust on Earth, the formation and evolution of which have long been hot research topics. In this paper, we reviewed the partial melting processes of crustal rocks without or with fluid assi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,920 Views
14 Pages

Fuzzy-Ball Fluids Enhance the Production of Oil and Gas Wells: A Historical Review

  • Xiaoyong Li,
  • Lihui Zheng,
  • Yuanbo Chen,
  • Xiaowei Huang,
  • Xiaopeng Zhai,
  • Panfeng Wei,
  • Xiujuan Tao and
  • Shuaishuai Nie

15 September 2023

Advancements in drilling technology are pivotal to optimizing the production and sustainability of oil and gas wells. One of the emerging innovations is the application of a specialized fluid known as “Fuzzy-ball” fluid. This paper compre...

  • Article
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669 Views
20 Pages

10 July 2025

The Shabaosi gold field is located in the western Mohe Basin, part of the northern Great Xing’an Range, NE China, and contains multiple gold deposits. However, the sources of the ore-forming materials, the fluid evolution, and the genesis of th...

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36 Citations
9,629 Views
13 Pages

PVDF Sensor Stimulated by Infrared Radiation for Temperature Monitoring in Microfluidic Devices

  • Salvatore A. Pullano,
  • Ifana Mahbub,
  • Syed K. Islam and
  • Antonino S. Fiorillo

13 April 2017

This paper presents a ferroelectric polymer-based temperature sensor designed for microfluidic devices. The integration of the sensor into a system-on-a-chip platform facilitates quick monitoring of localized temperature of a biological fluid, avoidi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
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30 Pages

Genesis and Reservoir Implications of Multi-Stage Siliceous Rocks in the Middle–Lower Ordovician, Northwestern Tarim Basin

  • Jinyu Luo,
  • Tingshan Zhang,
  • Pingzhou Shi,
  • Zhou Xie,
  • Jianli Zeng,
  • Lubiao Gao,
  • Zhiheng Ma and
  • Xi Zhang

21 January 2026

Siliceous rocks of various colors and types are extensively developed within the Middle–Lower Ordovician carbonate along the Northwest Tarim Basin. Their genesis provides important insights into the evolution of basinal fluids and the associate...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,017 Views
23 Pages

Computational Fluid Dynamics on Solar Dish in a Concentrated Solar Power: A Bibliometric Review

  • Aristotle T. Ubando,
  • Ariel Conversion,
  • Renyl B. Barroca,
  • Nelson H. Enano and
  • Randell U. Espina

6 May 2022

Concentrated solar power is an alternative renewable energy technology that converts solar energy into electrical energy by using a solar concentrator and a solar receiver. Computational fluid dynamics have been used to numerically design concentrate...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,539 Views
15 Pages

8 June 2024

The laser drilling of carbon steel is always suffered from the formation of slag, the presence of cutting burrs, the generation of a significant quantity of spatter, and the incomplete penetration of the substrate. In order to avoid these defects for...

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2 Citations
2,917 Views
15 Pages

Deep-sea hydrothermal circulation plays a pivotal role in the material and energy exchange in deep-sea environments, exerting significant influence on the evolution of seawater chemistry and global climate dynamics. Based on existing data and assumpt...

  • Article
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3 Citations
2,452 Views
16 Pages

18 November 2022

The world-class Shimensi tungsten (W)-polymetallic deposit is located in Jiangnan Orogen, with an estimated reserve of 742.5 kt WO3 @ 0.195% W, 403.6 kt Cu and 28 kt Mo. In this paper, the trace elements and Pb-O isotopes of scheelite (the main ore m...

  • Review
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10 Citations
7,760 Views
21 Pages

MHD Generation for Sustainable Development, from Thermal to Wave Energy Conversion: Review

  • José Carlos Domínguez-Lozoya,
  • David Roberto Domínguez-Lozoya,
  • Sergio Cuevas and
  • Raúl Alejandro Ávalos-Zúñiga

18 November 2024

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) generators are direct energy conversion devices that transform the motion of an electrically conducting fluid into electricity through interaction with a magnetic field. Developed as an alternative to conventional turbine-ge...

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18 Citations
3,607 Views
21 Pages

Hydrothermal Alteration and Its Superimposed Enrichment for Qianjiadian Tabular-Type Uranium Deposit in Southwestern Songliao Basin

  • Ming-Kuan Qin,
  • Shao-Hua Huang,
  • Jia-Lin Liu,
  • Zhang-Yue Liu,
  • Qiang Guo,
  • Li-Cheng Jia and
  • Wen-Jian Jiang

30 December 2021

The evolution characteristics of hydrothermal activity and superimposed uranium mineralization in the Qianjiadian ore field in southwestern Songliao Basin are still controversial and lack direct evidence. In this comprehensive study, a detailed ident...

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972 Views
24 Pages

Numerical Simulation of Annular Flow Field and Acoustic Field of Oil Casing Leakage

  • Yun-Peng Yang,
  • Bing-Cai Sun,
  • Ying-Hua Jing,
  • Jin-You Wang,
  • Jian-Chun Fan,
  • Yi-Fan Gan,
  • Shuang Liang,
  • Yu-Shan Zheng and
  • Mo-Song Li

5 June 2025

The generation and propagation mechanisms of acoustic waves from leakage below the annular liquid level in gas wells have attracted widespread attention. To study the characteristics of acoustic sources beneath the liquid level, a physical model of l...

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10 Citations
7,087 Views
20 Pages

3D-Basin Modelling of the Lishui Sag: Research of Hydrocarbon Potential, Petroleum Generation and Migration

  • Jinliang Zhang,
  • Jiaqi Guo,
  • Jinshui Liu,
  • Wenlong Shen,
  • Na Li and
  • Guangchen Xu

17 February 2019

The Lishui Sag is located in the southeastern part of the Taibei Depression, in the East China Sea basin, where the sag is the major hydrocarbon accumulation zone. A three dimensional modelling approach was used to estimate the mass of petroleum gene...

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6 Citations
2,520 Views
24 Pages

3 April 2022

Multistage fluid activities and hydrocarbon accumulation processes have occurred in the Dengying Formation of the Sichuan Basin during its long geological history. Petrography and cathodoluminescence observations; in situ microanalysis of rare earth...

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2 Citations
2,345 Views
28 Pages

Genesis of the Aït Abdellah Copper Deposit, Bou Azzer-El Graara Inlier, Anti-Atlas, Morocco

  • Marieme Jabbour,
  • Said Ilmen,
  • Moha Ikenne,
  • Basem Zoheir,
  • Mustapha Souhassou,
  • Ismail Bouskri,
  • Ali El-Masoudy,
  • Ilya Prokopyev,
  • Mohamed Oulhaj and
  • Lhou Maacha
  • + 1 author

20 May 2025

The Aït Abdellah copper deposit in the Bou Azzer-El Graara inlier of the Moroccan Anti-Atlas provides key insights into structurally and lithologically controlled mineralization in Precambrian terranes. The deposit is hosted in feldspathic sands...

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6 Citations
3,625 Views
15 Pages

An Isotope Study of the Dzhida Mo–W Ore Field (Western Transbaikalia, Russia)

  • German S. Ripp,
  • Olga K. Smirnova,
  • Ivan A. Izbrodin,
  • Eugeny I. Lastochkin,
  • Mikhail O. Rampilov and
  • Viktor F. Posokhov

24 November 2018

The Dzhida ore field includes Pervomaika (Mo), Inkur (W) and Kholtoson (W) deposits. This article presents stable and radiogenic isotopic data (O, C, D, S, Sr and Nd) in an attempt to better understand the petrogenetic processes and the problem conce...

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23 Citations
3,123 Views
21 Pages

11 November 2022

Understanding the characteristics of a volcanic system is always important and becomes crucial when the volcano is in pluri-decadal unrest and located in a densely populated area, such as Campi Flegrei caldera, Italy. Ground deformation is a powerful...

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11 Citations
5,646 Views
20 Pages

3 March 2019

The Carboniferous Batamayineishan Formation of the Kelameili Gas Field is a specific weathered crust-related volcanic reservoir that has a significant production rate in the Junggar Basin, Northwestern China, attributed to debatable processes of flui...

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666 Views
39 Pages

20 January 2026

The Hadamengou gold deposit, hosted in the Precambrian metamorphic basement, is a super-large gold deposit occurring along the northern margin of the North China Craton. Despite extensive investigation, the genesis of the gold mineralization is poorl...

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5 Citations
2,032 Views
20 Pages

19 October 2023

Shale oil and gas, as source-reservoir-type resources, result from organic matter hydrocarbon generation, diagenesis, and nanoscale pore during the evolution processes, which are essential aspects of shale gas enrichment and reservoir formation. To i...

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4 Citations
1,775 Views
21 Pages

4 September 2024

The marine carbonates in the Ordovician Majiagou Formation in the Ordos Basin have significant exploration potential. Research has focused on their thermal history and hydrocarbon accumulation stages, as these are essential for guiding the exploratio...

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31 Citations
6,918 Views
15 Pages

11 June 2018

A three-dimensional multiphysical transient model was developed to investigate keyhole formation, weld pool dynamics, and mass transfer in laser welding of dissimilar materials. The coupling of heat transfer, fluid flow, keyhole free surface evolutio...

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1 Citations
2,189 Views
24 Pages

31 March 2023

This paper presents data on the geological position, geochemical features, main mineral composition (micas, feldspars), and melt and fluid inclusions in quartz from Aba high-silica leucocratic granitoids in the western part of the Talitsa batholith,...

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654 Views
28 Pages

27 December 2025

The Sanjiang Tethys orogenic belt in Southwest China is a globally important polymetallic metallogenic domain, hosting numerous world-class Cu-Pb-Zn deposits. Among these, the Lanping Basin is a typical ore concentration area, characterized by comple...

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4 Citations
1,900 Views
12 Pages

Numerical Study of Homogenous/Inhomogeneous Hydrogen–Air Explosion in a Long Closed Channel

  • Jiaqing Zhang,
  • Xianli Zhu,
  • Yi Guo,
  • Yue Teng,
  • Min Liu,
  • Quan Li,
  • Qiao Wang and
  • Changjian Wang

18 November 2024

Hydrogen is regarded as a promising energy source for the future due to its clean combustion products, remarkable efficiency and renewability. However, its characteristics of low-ignition energy, a wide flammable range from 4% to 75%, and a rapid fla...

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