Zhengnan Sun

ORCID: 0000-0001-6954-7766
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Research Areas
  • Petroleum Processing and Analysis
  • Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Lubricants and Their Additives
  • Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization
  • Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies
  • Advanced oxidation water treatment
  • Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques
  • Surfactants and Colloidal Systems
  • TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Coagulation and Flocculation Studies
  • Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition
  • Muscle activation and electromyography studies
  • Polymer crystallization and properties
  • Membrane Separation Technologies
  • Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection
  • Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers
  • Polymer Science and PVC
  • Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques
  • Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis

Northeast Petroleum University
2016-2025

Zhejiang University
2023-2024

Xi'an Jiaotong University
2024

State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment
2024

Daqing Oilfield General Hospital
2023

China University of Geosciences (Beijing)
2015-2017

Nanohybrid pour-point depressants (PPDs) were prepared by organically modified nano-SiO2 in copolymers of ethylene and vinyl acetate (EVA) with various contents. The effects nanohybrid PPDs on the cold-flow properties 25 wt % wax model oil evaluated. crystallization behavior crystal morphology at low temperatures also observed using polarized optical microscopy. results indicated that co-crystallization dispersion EVA crystals are key factors determining heterogeneous nucleation effect PPDs....

10.1021/acs.energyfuels.7b00189 article EN Energy & Fuels 2017-04-27

The nanocomposite EVAL-CNT was produced by chemical grafting in the solution system through esterification of ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (EVAL) and carboxylated multi-walled carbon nanotubes (O-MWCNT), its structural properties were characterized. improvement rheological waxy oil novel pour point depressant investigated using macroscopic measurements microscopic observations. results showed that (PPD) could significantly reduce improve low temperature fluidity crude had better...

10.1016/j.petsci.2023.05.016 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Petroleum Science 2023-05-22

Bimanual dexterous manipulation remains significant challenges in robotics due to the high DoFs of each hand and their coordination. Existing single-hand techniques often leverage human demonstrations guide RL methods but fail generalize complex bimanual tasks involving multiple sub-skills. In this paper, we introduce VTAO-BiManip, a novel framework that combines visual-tactile-action pretraining with object understanding facilitate curriculum enable human-like manipulation. We improve prior...

10.48550/arxiv.2501.03606 preprint EN arXiv (Cornell University) 2025-01-07

Nanocomposite pour point depressants (PPDs) provide a new way to further improve the fluidity of waxy crude oil at low temperatures, which has important application values in pipeline transportation. In this work, effect ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA) doped with magnetic spherical nanoparticles Fe3O4 (30 nm) on morphology wax crystals and flow behavior Daqing was investigated by polarized optical microscopy rheological testing. The results showed that, compared EVA PPD nano-SiO2 (with same...

10.1021/acs.energyfuels.9b00689 article EN Energy & Fuels 2019-05-29

The nano-hybrid pour-point depressant (PPD) was prepared with organically modified nano-silica covering in EVA. effects of nano-silica/EVA on the flow behavior and wax crystallization model oils different contents were evaluated. Compared pure EVA nano-silica/EVA, exhibited a better effect, when doped 500 ppm, pour point oil containing 20 wt% reduced from 33°C to 0°C. However, it is noteworthy that cannot accurately reflect effect YSiO2/EVA as cold improver for high content. crystal...

10.1080/01932691.2017.1295869 article EN Journal of Dispersion Science and Technology 2017-02-22

Nanocomposites of attapulgite (ATT)/ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer (EVA) were prepared with organically modified ATT covering in EVA. Organically was using KH550 and organic acid. The effect nano-hybrid on the flow behavior model oil containing 15 wt% wax evaluated. crystallization crystal morphology at low temperature observed by polarizing optical microscopy (POM). results indicated that long-chain acid-modified exhibited a better compared short-chain ATT, pure In addition, it is...

10.1080/01932691.2017.1394197 article EN Journal of Dispersion Science and Technology 2017-10-24

Modified ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer (EVAM) and amino-functionalized nano-silica (NSiO2) particles were employed as the base materials for synthesis of nanocomposite pour point depressant designated EVAM-g-NSiO2. This involved a chemical grafting process within solution system, followed by structural characterization. Moreover, combining macro-rheological performance with microscopic structure observation, influence on rheological properties model waxy oil system was investigated. The...

10.1016/j.petsci.2024.06.012 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Petroleum Science 2024-06-01

Robotic dexterous grasping is a challenging problem due to the high degree of freedom (DoF) and complex contacts multi-fingered robotic hands. Existing deep re-inforcement learning (DRL) based methods leverage human demonstrations reduce sample complexity dimensional action space with grasping. However, less attention has been paid hand-object interaction representations for high-level generalization. In this paper, we propose novel geometric spatial representation, named DexRep, capture...

10.1109/iros55552.2023.10342334 article EN 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2023-10-01

In this paper, the organic nano-sepiolite was modified to obtain highly dispersibility in oil phase, and then, EVA (ethylene-vinyl acetate)/nano-sepiolite prepared by melt blending. The effects of un-doped/doped different NPPDs samples on pour point, gel viscosity, yield value Daqing crude were evaluated. changes wax crystal morphology at low temperature observed polarizing optical microscopy (POM). results show that due heterogeneous nucleation mechanism high dispersion EVA/nano-sepiolite...

10.1080/01932691.2020.1727749 article EN Journal of Dispersion Science and Technology 2020-02-20

Differences in the synthesis methods can affect performance of nanocomposite materials. The SiO2-based pour point depressants synthesized by chemical hybrid are mostly situ polymerization and grafting. However, there still some gaps nanocomposites using In this paper, amino-modified Nano-SiO2 octamethyl methacrylate-maleic anhydride copolymer was used to prepare PM18-g-NSiO2 an amidation reaction, product compared with PM18/SiO2 prepared solution blending method. characterization results...

10.3390/pr11041159 article EN Processes 2023-04-10

Introduction: Crude oil is a complex mixture consisting of different hydrocarbons such as resins, asphaltenes, aromatics and paraffins. Wax deposition in pipelines considered to be one the most serious flow assurance problems. Method: In order obtain pour point depressant with better effect on Daqing waxy crude oil, model containing paraffin was investigated. Polyoctadecyl acrylate prepared by taking polymerization octadecyl monomer under corresponding reaction conditions. The viscosity were...

10.2174/2405520416666230614122518 article EN Recent Innovations in Chemical Engineering (Formerly Recent Patents on Chemical Engineering) 2023-04-01

Chemical pour point depressant modification is an important means to reduce and viscosity of waxy crude oil. In recent years, the research on depressants has made a great progress. This paper summarizes types novel nano-pour depressants, preparation methods, evaluation mechanism action influencing factors. The development future outlook brief summary.

10.1080/10916466.2017.1413388 article EN Petroleum Science and Technology 2017-12-26

This article mainly describes the advantages of nano-pour point depressants on low-temperature fluidity crude oil compared with traditional pour depressants. The common are divided blend type and polymerization type. It can effectively improve wax crystal structure strength, thereby improving oil. Nano-particles have better application prospects in rheological properties waxy

10.1080/10916466.2018.1479421 article EN Petroleum Science and Technology 2018-07-23

Low-density polyethylene (LDPE) was modified with 2-hydroxyethyl acrylate (HEA) by a swollen phase grafting method azobisiso-butyronitrile (AIBN) as initiator and xylene swelling agent. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) 1H-nuclear magnetic resonance (1H-NMR) showed that the HEA grafted onto PE molecular chains copolymer (LDPE-g-PHEA) formed. The rheological data illustrated content of long chain branches (LCB) in LDPE-g-PHEA higher than LDPE. Melt flow index (MFI) measurements...

10.1080/00222348.2016.1138033 article EN Journal of Macromolecular Science Part B 2016-01-08
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