CFD Analysis of Gas Distributor in Packed Column——Prediction of Gas Flow and Effect of Tower Intemals Geometry Structure

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations were carried out on the gas flow patterns of twintangential annular deflector gas distributor in the absence of liquid flow in a packed column (6.4 m in diameter) , and the gas flow field in the column was presented close to reality on the whole. Furthermore, after amelioration of this gas distributor frame, turbulence energy and turbulence energy dissipation rate were both decreased greatly. Simulation results showed that the flow pattern and the distribution of gas flow were strongly affected by the column bottom frame ; the proper column bottom frame could decrease the flow pressure drop greatly. Multifold factors, such as the column bottom geometry structure and distributor structure which affects the distribution capacity, must be considered.     

Seismic performance testing of reinforcement concrete frames strengthened with Y-eccentrically brace

Two single-storey single-span reinforcement concrete (RC) frame structures strengthened with Y-eccentrically brace were designed and manufactured to be 1/3 scale. The pseudo-dynamic testing method was used to study the mechanical characteristics and the seismic performance under El-Centro earthquake action with different peak acceleration adjusted by China’s Code for Seismic Design of Buildings. The test results indicate that RC frame structures strengthened with Y-eccentrically steel brace present perfect seismic performance under strong earthquake action owing to the good ductility, strong bearing capability and fine energy absorbing capability provided by energy dissipation element and high lateral stiffness provided by diagonal braces. The seismic performance is also affected by the length of outsourcing steel at the joint between energy dissipation element of eccentric steel brace and RC frame beam. The joint should be considerably designed to make sure that shear failure can firstly occur in energy dissipation element.     

Adsorption of Pb（Ⅱ） on Sediment of the Dianshan Lake：Adsorption Models and Kinetics

The adsorption characteristics of Pb on sediments of the Dianshan Lake in Shanghai was studied. The results show that (1)the relationship between the amount q of apparent equilibrium adsorption and the equilibrium concentration C conforms to the Freundlich isothermal adsorption equation; (2) the adsorption and desorption of Pb on sediments are not reversible, that is, adsorption/desorption of Pb exhibits hysteresis; (3) Pb adsorption behavior is initially fast, followed by a slow reaction, and the slow reaction conforms to a reversible first-order reaction; (4) by deducing the Pb adsorption kinetics, four kinetics parameters n, k1, k2, qmax independent of C could be worked out; (5) the equilibrium parameter (K) and the free energy change (ΔG) could also be determined,and the negative values of free energy change (ΔG) indicate the spontaneous nature of the adsorption.     

Elastoplastic analysis of knee bracing frame

INTRODUCTION Steel framed structures are widely used in in-dustrial and commercial buildings. According to thedifferent lateral load resisting system, the steel framescan be mainly divided into four kinds (Fig.1a): themoment-resisting frame (MRF), concentricallybraced frame (CBF), eccentrically braced frame(EBF), and knee bracing frame (KBF). Fig.1b shows the difference in the lateral per-formances of the above frames that have similarstructural parameters. Although the MRF is an e…     

Model Experiment on Integral Seismic Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Frame with Split Columns

Based on a series of previous studies, an experiment on the integral seismic behavior of a 1/3 scaled model of two-bay and three-story reinforced concrete frame with split columns at lower two stories is performed under cyclic loading. The original columns at lower two stories of the model frame are short columns and they are replaced by the split columns. The hysteresis curves between the horizontal cyclic load and the lateral displacement at the top of the model frame, indicate that under the cyclic loading, the model frame undergoes the process of cracking, yielding, and maxi-mum loading before being destroyed at the ultimate load. They also indicate that the model frame has better ductility, and the ratio of the ultimate displacement to the yielding displacement, reaches 6.0. The yielding process of the model frame shows that for the frame with split columns, plastic hinges are generated at the ends of beams and then the columns begin yielding while the frame still possesses the bearing and deformation capacity. The design idea of directly changing the short col-umn to long one in the reinforced concrete frame may be realized by replacing the short column with the split one.     

Recent Advances in the Comprehension and Regulation of Lattice Oxygen Oxidation Mechanism in Oxygen Evolution Reaction

Water electrolysis,a process for producing green hydrogen from renewable energy,plays a crucial role in the transition toward a sustainable energy landscape and the realization of the hydrogen economy.Oxygen evolution reaction(OER) is a critical step in water electrolysis and is often limited by its slow kinetics.Two main mechanisms,namely the adsorbate evolution mechanism(AEM) and lattice oxygen oxidation mechanism(LOM),are commonly considered in the context of OER.However,designing efficient c...     

Contrastive analysis on the university rankings of China

According to the four rankings of China＇s universities conducted in 2007 by Guangdong Managing Science Academe, On-line College, China Universities Alumnus Association and Center for Science Evaluating of China. This paper attempts to analyze and contrast the standard systems in the four rankings, focusing on the frame construction of the standard-system and the proportion, talents training （the condition of students）, the account of scientific researches and classification rankings as well.     

Application of Charpy Impact Absorbed Energy to the Safety Assessment Based on SINTAP

The European Structural Integrity Assessment Procedure(SINTAP) was applied to the assessment of welded joints of the API 5L X65 pipeline steel with an assumed embedded flaw and surface flaw at the weld toe. At default level (level 0), the assessment point was established by estimating fracture toughness value KIC conservatively from Charpy energy test data. At the same time, the analysis level 1 (basic level)was applied based on the fracture toughness CTOD. Then the two assessment levels were compared. The assessment results show that all assessment points are located within the failure lines of analysis levels 0 and 1. So the welded joint of the pipeline is safe. It can be concluded that the assessment based on Charpy absorbed energy is practicable when other fracture toughness data are not available, or cannot be easily obtained. The results are conservative.     

Studying on the increasing temperature in IT-SOFC： Effect of heat sources

The dimensions and the materials type limit the performance of fuel cell. The increase of the temperature in electrodes and electrolyte of the cell,is due to the over potential of activation (transfer of load),the over potential Ohmic (resistance of polarization),the over potential of reaction (heat released by the chemical reaction) and the over potential of diffusion. In this paper,we studied the thermo-electrical performance of an intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cell (IT-SOFC) with electrode supported. The aim of this work is to study this increasing temperature of a single cell of an IT-SOFC under the influence of the following parameters: heat sources,functioning temperature and voltages of the cell,geometric configuration and materials type. The equation of energy in one dimension is numerically resolved by using the method of finite volumes. A computing program (FORTRAN) is developed locally for this purpose in order to obtain fields of temperature in every element of the cell.     

Experimental research on seismic performance of storey-adding frame structures

The seismic behaviors of an integral concreting frame, a light steel storey-adding frame and a storeyadding frame strengthened with carbon fiber reinforced polymer(CFRP)were investigated under low-cycle and repeated load(scale 1∶3). The failure characteristics, hysteretic behavior, rigidity degeneracy, deflection ductility and energy-dissipation capacity of the three specimens were compared. The test results reveal that chemicallybonded rebar technique can meet the requirements of storey-adding engineering. The carrying capacity, the deflection ductility, the energy-dissipating capacity and seismic performance of the light steel storey-adding frame are higher than those of the integral concreting frame, and they are the highest in the storey-adding frame strengthened with CFRP.     

Study on performance of a packed bed latent heat thermal energy storage unit integrated with solar water heating system

INTRODUCTION Efforts of rational and effective energy man-agement, as well as environmental considerations, increase the interest in using renewable energy sources, especially solar energy. Because of discrep-ancy between the energy supply and demand in solar heating applications, a thermal energy storage (TES) device has to be used for the most effective utilization of the energy source. Energy storage combined with solar collectors and photovoltaic systems have been developed over the…     

Recent Advances in Electrolytes for High-Voltage Cathodes of Lithium-Ion Batteries

With the increasing scale of energy storage,it is urgently demanding for further advancements on battery technologies in terms of energy density,cost,cycle life and safety.The development of lithium-ion batteries(LIBs) not only relies on electrodes,but also the functional electrolyte systems to achieve controllable formation of solid electrolyte interphase and high ionic conductivity.In order to satisfy the needs of higher energy density,high-voltage(>4.3 V) cathodes such as Li-rich layered c...     

Nonlinear modeling of PEMFC based on neural networks identification

INTRODUCTION With worldwide increase of air pollution and the environmental consciousness of governments, people have to look for new resources to mitigate the energy crisis and improve the present environmental status (Ferng et al., 2004; Rowe and Li, 2001). Fuel cells are highly efficient and environmentally clean electrical generators (Mann et al., 2000) that convert the chemical energy of a gaseous fuel directly into elec-tricity energy and play an important role in solving the prob…     

Performance of the geometric approach to fault detection and isolation in SISO, MISO, SIMO and MIMO systems

In this paper,a geometric approach to fault detection and isolation (FDI) is applied to a Multiple-Input Multi-ple-Output (MIMO) model of a frame and the FDI results are compared to the ones obtained in the Single-Input Single-Output (SISO),Multiple-Input Single-Output (MISO),and Single-Input Multiple-Output (SIMO) cases. A proper distance function based on parameters obtained from parametric system identification method is used in the geometric approach. ARX (Auto Regressive with eXogenous input) and VARX (Vector ARX) models with 12 parameters are used in all of the above-mentioned models. The obtained results reveal that by increasing the number of inputs,the classification errors reduce,even in the case of applying only one of the inputs in the computations. Furthermore,increasing the number of measured outputs in the FDI scheme results in decreasing classification errors. Also,it is shown that by using probabilistic space in the distance function,fault diagnosis scheme has better performance in comparison with the deterministic one.     

Energy Levels of Strong Coupling Magnetopolaron in Quantum Dot

By using variational method of Pekar type,we have studied the energy levels of strong coupling magnetopolaron in diskshape quantum dot(QD) and quantum well(QW),our esults show that ,with the increasing magnetic field and confinement strength,the magnetopolaron binding energy of QD and QW in the ground state and in the excited state is enhanced.The limiting results of bulk type and strict two-dimensional type are obtained.     

Simulation study on radiative imaging of combustion flame in furnace

Radiative imaging of combustion flame in furnace of power plant plays an increasingly important role in combustion diagnosis. This paper presents a new method for calculating the radiative imaging of three-dimensional (3D) combustion flame based on Monte Carlo method and optical lens imaging. Numerical simulation case was used in this study. Radiative images were calculated and images obtained can not only present the energy distribution on the charge-coupled device (CCD) camera target plane but also reflect the energy distribution condition in the simulation furnace. Finally the relationships between volume ele- ments and energy shares were also discussed.     

Simulation of Variable Air Volume System with Different Duct Layout

The duct static pressure reset (DSPR) control method is a popular modern control method widely applied to variable air volume (VAV) systems of commercial buildings. In this paper, a VAV system simulation program was used to predict the system performance and zone air temperature of two kinds of layouts that were applied to a typical floor of an existing building office in Hong Kong. The position where the static pressure sensor was placed should affect the zones temperature and energy consumption. The comparison of predictions of the two kinds of layouts indicates that with the same DSPR control method the layout of the air duct might influence the fan control result and energy savings.     

Photo-Corrosion of CdSe Film Electrode by Electrochemical Modulation Reflectance Spectrum

The photo-corrosion of electrodeposited polycrystalline CdSe electrode was inhibited effectively by coating a thin layer of the conductive polyaniline (PAN) film. The relation between the performance and internal band structure of such film-covered PAN/CdSe electrode was studied by the electrochemical modulation reflectance spectrum (EMRS). EMRS of beth CdSe and PAN/CdSe electrodes in K4Fe(CN)6/K3Fe(CN)6 solution exhibited typical France-Keidysh oscillations, by which the values of the energy gap and flat band potential were determined. The EMRS results indicated that the energy band structure of CdSe electrode was not changed after coated with PAN film, so that the photoelectrochemical characteristic of PAN/CdSe electrode was rather similar to that of CdSe electrode.     

An Improvement of MPEG-4 Rate Control Algorithm

Frame skipping in low bit video coding could significantly reduce the visual quality of reconstructed video. At the same time, if the complexity of the video sequence remains high for a long period, then driving up the long term average bit rate, the only resort of MPEG-4 Q2 rate control algorithm results in using a high quantization scale, which shows a poor visual quality of the reconstructed video. This paper analyzes the main causes of frame skipping in current MPEG-4 frame rate control scheme, and presents a new rate control algorithm based on the quadratic R-D model over a CBR channel. Key features of the present work are. 1) the bits allocated to each P-frame or B-frame are in proportion to its distance from the end of this GOP, i.e. more bits are allocated to the frames that are nearer to their reference Ⅰ -frame: 2) the target buffer level is changeable in the GOP, at the end of each GOP( five P-frames or B-frames), the target buffer level is linearly reduced from 1/2 to 1/4 of buffer size, to other frames, the target buffer level is set to 1/2 of buffer size: 3 ) a selective and judicious use of the reduced resolution mode, in addition to a modulation of the quantization scale parameter, is to control the average long term bit rate. Experimental results with different video sequences of varied complexity, encoded at low bit rates show better efficacy of the proposed algorithm than MPEG-4 Q2 rate control scheme, and the experimental results also show that the improved algorithm has significantly reduced the number of frame skipping, increased the overall PSNR, and improved the perceptual quality.     

The research analysis of aerodynamic numerical simulation of grid fin

This paper presents the results of an investigation to use arc-length mesh generation and finite volume TVD scheme to calculate Euler equations for predicting the effect of geometry parameters in reducing the drag force and improving the lift-drag ratio of grid fin in the supersonic flow regime. The effects of frame and web, whose cross section shape and thickness and spacing, on the aerodynamic character of the grid fin were studied. Calculations were made at Mach 2.5 and several angles of attack. The results were validated by comparing the computed aerodynamic coefficients against wind tunnel experimental data. Good agreement was found between computed and experimental results. The computed results suggest that parameters of the grid fin's frame have the greatest effect on the grid fin aerodynamic character, especially on its drag force. It was concluded proper choice of appropriate grid fin geometry parameters could reduce the drag force and improve the lift-drag ratios.