A Methodological Analysis of Complex Dynamics of Grain Prices

A model of the wheat secondary market pricing mechanism is developed in the paper. The study is based on the data of agricultural relative stability in the period of 2000–2006. An adaptive model is constructed by combining several standard time-series ones. It allows assessing the pricing situation in the future by taking into account both seasonal fluctuations and specifics of the current year.wheat market; seasonal fluctuations

The Transformation of Di- and Tri-chloromethane Induced By Low Voltage Discharge

This article is focused on the transformation of di- and trichloromethane by induced low-voltage discharges in the liquid phase. To generate discharges, a direct current source is used (capacitance 2200 μF, voltage 60 V). The products and probable intermediates of the CH2Cl2 and CHCl3 transformation were determined by the methods of thermodynamic modeling, FTIR spectroscopy and electron microscopy. Under the action of low-voltage discharges on the liquid substrates, needle fullerene- like structures are formed. In this case the gas phase consists mainly of hydrogen chloride. From the simulation of the nonequilibrium composition of particles and molecular systems it follows that in the course of induced reactions of CH2Cl2 and CHCl3 and geminal elimination of HCl molecules, predominantly carbene-type intermediates are generated. Keywords: dichloromethane, trichloromethane, low temperature plasma, discharges in the liquid phas

Control of the Energy Impact of Electric Discharges in a Liquid Phase

This paper describes the scheme and algorithm for controlling a laboratory setup that result in low uncertainty and high convergence with respect to the characteristics of electric discharges under the conditions of variable parameters of a reaction medium. The article presents current and voltage oscillograms when processing hydrocarbon raw materials. Methods for calculating the energy impact of electrical discharge are described. A comparison is made between the parameters of electric discharge with current pulse limitations and those without current pulse duration limitations. The proposed approach to controlling the characteristics of electric discharges provides the same parameters of nonthermal nonequilibrium plasma and, as a result, a regular composition of the products of plasma pyrolysis of hydrocarbon raw materials