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Kommentti kirja-arvosteluun: Taiteenfilosofian klassikko raakakäännöksenä / Pentti Määttänen (Tieteessä tapahtuu 1/2011).

Hakkuukoneen syöttörullien vaikutus rungon prosessoinnin nopeuteen, polttoaineenkulutukseen sekä tukkipuuvaurioihin

Seloste artikkelista: Operational efficiency and damage to sawlogs by feed rollers of the harvester head / Yrjö Nuutinen ... [et al.] - Julkaisussa: Silva Fennica 44 (2010) : 1, s. 121-139.

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Kirjallisuusarvostelu

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Kirjallisuusarvostelu

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Kirjallisuusarvostelu

Alkylointiyksikön neutralointi- ja puhdistusprosessin kehittäminen

Tämä diplomityö käsittelee Neste Oilin Porvoon jalostamon HF-alkylointiyksikön alasajon ja huoltopysäytyksen rajapintaa. Työssä tarkastellaan erilaisia vaihtoehtoja alasajon aikaisen neutralointi- ja puhdistusprosessin kehittämiseen huomioiden materiaalitekninen näkökulma. Työn alkuosassa esitellään alkyloinnin perusperiaate, huoltopysäytysprosessi sekä eri neutralointi- ja puhdistusprosessit, joista tarkemmin nykyisin jalostamolla käytettävä EnvTech:n prosessi. Työssä on myös kerrottu alkyloinnin erityisvaatimukset materiaaleille, joista tarkemmin on esitelty perusmateriaaleina käytettävät hiiliteräs A106 sekä Monel® 400. Näiden perusmateriaalien kohdalla on myös esitelty kirjallisuuden pohjalta niiden käyttäytyminen fluorivety-ympäristössä. Työn loppuosassa on esitelty eri vaihtoehtoja, jotta käyttövarmuutta voitaisiin kehittää yhdessä mahdollisesti kasvavien tuotantomäärien kanssa. Putkistojen kohdalla työssä on käsitelty kehityskohteeksi valittua erästä pääkolonni-osaan kuuluvaa linjastoa. Eri vaihtoehtoja on vertailtu teknistaloudelliselta näkökulma ja putkiston kohdalla on työssä päädytty geometrian muuttamiseen sekä koon kasvattamiseen. Työssä on myös esitetty kuumatypetysvaiheen uudelleen aikataulutusta alasajovaiheen nopeuttamiseksi sekä jatkotutkimusehdotuksia putkiston passivoimisesta, rautafluoridikalvon paikalleen jättämiseksi ja huoltopysäytyssyklin kehittämiseksi.

Pharmacokinetics of Oxycodone and Paracetamol in the Elderly. Clinical Pharmacokinetic Study on Orthopaedic Surgical Patients and Healthy Volunteers

The proportion of elderly people over 65 years of age in Finland is expected to grow to over 25% by the 2025. It has been estimated that elderly people today consume nearly 40% of all drugs. Age brings about number of physiological changes that may affect the disposition, metabolism and excretion of drugs. The function of heart, lungs, liver and kidneys decreases even in healthy people, as they get older. The proportion of total body water decreases and the relative fat percentage increases. Also several other factors such as concurrent diseases, concomitant medication and nutritional factors have an effect on drug therapy in elderly. Age increases the risk of adverse drug reactions, which most often are dose-dependent. Despite all this there are not enough studies involving the elderly people and the elderly are most often excluded from clinical trials. Oxycodone is a strong opioid analgesic, which is used to treat moderate or severe pain. Paracetamol is a widely used nonopioid analgesic, which has become popular in the treatment of pain in many patient groups. In this series of studies the pharmacokinetics of oral and intravenous oxicodone as well as intravenous paracetamol in the elderly and young adult patients were investigated. Also a study investigating the interaction of oral antibiotic clarityhromycin, a known cytochrome P450 (CYP) 3A4 inhibitor, with oxycodone pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in elderly and young healthy volunteers was carried out. The pharmacokinetics of oxycodone showed a clear age depency. Patients over 70 years had 50-80% higher mean exposure to oral oxycodone and a twofold greater plasma concentration than young adults 12 h after ingestion of the drug. Elderly patients had 40-80% greater exposure to intravenous oxycodone and patients over 80 years had over twofold greater plasma concentrations 8 h post dose than the young adults. The elderly patients had also greater exposure to intra venous paracetamol compared to young adults. Clarithromycin increased the exposure to oral oxycodone in both young and elderly volunteers. The elderly had marked interindividual variation in the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics when clarithromycin was given concomitantly with oxycodone. Because the pharmacokinetics of oxycodone and intravenous paracetamol depend on the age of the subject, it is important to titrate the analgesic dose individually in the elderly.

Spectrometrical Monitoring of Laser Sintering Process of Ceramic Material

This thesis is done as a part of project called FuncMama that is a project between Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), Oulu University (OY), Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) and Finnish industrial partners. Main goal of the project is to manufacture electric and mechanical components from mixed materials using laser sintering. Aim of this study was to create laser sintered pieces from ceramic material and monitor the sintering event by using spectrometer. Spectrometer is a device which is capable to record intensity of different wavelengths in relation with time. In this study the monitoring of laser sintering was captured with the equipment which consists of Ocean Optics spectrometer, optical fiber and optical lens (detector head). Light from the sintering process hit first to the lens system which guides the light in to the optical fibre. Optical fibre transmits the light from the sintering process to the spectrometer where wavelengths intensity level information is detected. The optical lens of the spectrometer was rigidly set and did not move along with the laser beam. Data which was collected with spectrometer from the laser sintering process was converted with Excel spreadsheet program for result’s evaluation. Laser equipment used was IPG Photonics pulse fibre laser. Laser parameters were kept mainly constant during experimental part and only sintering speed was changed. That way it was possible to find differences in the monitoring results without fear of too many parameters mixing together and affecting to the conclusions. Parts which were sintered had one layer and size of 5 x 5 mm. Material was CT2000 – tape manufactured by Heraeus which was later on post processed to powder. Monitoring of different sintering speeds was tested by using CT2000 reference powder. Moreover tests how different materials effect to the process monitoring were done by adding foreign powder Du Pont 951 which had suffered in re-grinding and which was more reactive than CT2000. By adding foreign material it simulates situation where two materials are accidently mixed together and it was studied if that can be seen with the spectrometer. It was concluded in this study that with the spectrometer it is possible to detect changes between different laser sintering speeds. When the sintering speed is lowered the intensity level of light is higher from the process. This is a result of higher temperature at the sintering spot and that can be noticed with the spectrometer. That indicates it could be possible to use spectrometer as a tool for process observation and support the idea of having system that can help setting up the process parameter window. Also important conclusion was how well the adding of foreign material could be seen with the spectrometer. When second material was added a significant intensity level raise could be noticed in that part where foreign material was mixed. That indicates it is possible to see if there are any variations in the material or if there are more materials mixed together. Spectrometric monitoring of laser sintering could be useful tool for process window observation and temperature controlling of the sintering process. For example if the process window for specific material is experimentally determined to get wanted properties and satisfying sintering speed. It is possible if the data is constantly recorded that the results can show faults in the part texture between layers. Changes between the monitoring data and the experimentally determined values can then indicate changes in the material being generated by material faults or by wrong process parameters. The results of this study show that spectrometer could be one possible tool for monitoring. But to get in that point where this all can be made possible much more researching is needed.