Analysis of the accumulation the sedimentary mass in coal-water slurries

The problem of assessing the sedimentation stability of water-coal suspensions, which are a promising type of fuel, possessing the advantages of both liquid fuels and coal, which can be effectively used as a substitute for liquid petroleum fuel (fuel oil), is considered. However, coal-water suspensions have not found wide application at present, which is promoted, in particular, by unresolved issues related to their sedimentation stability: in the production, storage, and transport of suspension, an important qualitative characteristic is its stability over time: the higher it is, the more qualitative is the suspension. The paper proposes a method of solving the problem of predicting the value of particle sedimentation during the sedimentation process, which allows us to calculate the dynamics of sediment accumulation over a certain period of time from the beginning of sedimentation at a given depth of dispersion. The implementation of the calculation method as a systematic approach to determining the dynamics of sediment accumulation is shown on the example of sedimentation analysis data of 50 % water-coal suspension from coal from the Neryungri deposit. It is shown that the proposed method of solving the problem of predicting the size of sedimentation of particles during the sedimentation process allows to calculate the dynamics of sediment accumulation for a certain period of time at a given depth, as well as to determine the minimum sedimentation time, at which the particles of maximum size sediment completely

Paleolithic Man of Denisova Cave and Zoogeography of Pleistocene Mammals of Northwestern Altai

Mammal population of the northwestern Altai included residents, autochthonous species, cosmopolitans, and migrants. The last clearly indicate biogeographical relationships of the biota of the Altai Mountains in the Pleistocene. Most of them penetrated into the Altai from the south. The majority of ungulates and rodents migrated from Central Asia. Yak, red dog, and snow leopard came from the Himalayas, Pamir, and Tien Shan. The natural environment of the Altai Mountains in the Pleistocene enabled migrations of these mammals from the south to north. The same opportunity was true of the ancient man. It is possible to assume that humans migrated from southeastern Asia and Indochina along the eastern foothills of the Himalayas and Nan Shan Mountains to the northwest, to the Zaisan Depression and Altai. This resulted in inevitable exchange of gene material of Paleolithic human populations of southeastern Asia and the Altai