Theoretical and technological aspects of flow batteries：Measurement of state of charge

电池实际可放出的瓦时容量与实际可放出的最大瓦时容量的比值定义为荷电状态,准确测定荷电状态对储能应用十分重要。本文从理论和应用角度,讨论全钒液流电池荷电状态的理论概念、工程定义和主要影响因素;提出2种确定最大瓦时容量的方法,其中实测法准确度更高,包含钒离子跨膜迁移、水分子扩散、负极电解液析氢和被氧化的信息,用于表征储能系统的荷电状态具有实际价值;阐述最大瓦时容量、电化学瓦时容量和理论瓦时容量的区别与联系。所提出的荷电状态确定方法,能够用于全钒液流电池SOC的估计。     

An Experimental Study of Three-Dimensional Characteristics of Turbulent Wakes of Axial Compressor Rotors

This paper presents an experimental investigation of the characteristics of three-dimensional turbulent wakes of an isolated axial compressor rotor and a single-stage axial compressor rotor. The wakes were measured from hub to tip using a single-slant hot-wire and a four-hole conical high frequency pressure probe. The experiments were made at both design and near stall conditions. Variations of mean velocities, total pressure, static pressure and turbulence stresses in the wakes are shown and interpreted. The experimental data from the isolated compressor rotor wake are compared with that from the single-stage compressor rotor.     

Effect of Exit Geometry of Tail Pipe on the Performance of Pulse Jet Engines

In this paper,the effect of geometries of tube open end on the shock,compression and expansion wavespropagating in the tube was investigated numerically and experimentally.One of them is a conventional straightshock tube with an open end.The other has a divergent tail tube at the exit.Applying a divergent tail tube(flaretube)to an open end shock tube,the period of one-cycle process could be shortened and the pressure behind theexpansion wave produced at the exit of the shock tube could be lowered much more below the atmosphericpressure than that produced in the straight tube.The results suggested that the intake air into the engine wassignificantly increased by applying a flare tube instead of a straight tube.     

Effects of a Kind of Non-smooth Blade on the Performance of an Axial Fan

This paper presents an experimental investigation of effects of a kind of streamwise-grooved blade on theperformance of an axial-flow fan.The flow field at 25% chord downstream from the trailing edge at hub wasmeasured using a 5-hole pressure probe at different mass-flow conditions.The fan performance of the grooveblades was compared with that of the smooth blades.The measurement results indicate that:(1)the non-smoothblades increase mass flow of the fan at the same throttle conditions except a near stall condition;(2)thenon-smooth blades reduce the relative total pressure loss in the rotor passage and increase the fan's total pressurerise at the test mass-flow conditions except the near stall condition;(3)Negative benefits are obtained at a nearstall condition when the smooth blades are replaced by the non-smooth ones.The fan mass flow decreases 0.9%while the total-pressure rise decreases 2.4% at the near stall condition.     

3D Computation of Hydrogen-Fueled Combustion around Turbine Blade-Effect of Arrangement of Injector Holes

Recently,a number of environmental problems caused from fossil fuel combustion have been focused on.Inaddition,with the eventual depletion of fossil energy resources,hydrogen gas is expected to be an alternativeenergy resource in the near future.It is characterized by high energy per unit weight,high reaction rate,widerange of flammability and the low emission property.On the other hand,many researches have been underway inseveral countries to improve a propulsion system for an advanced aircraft.The system is required to have higherpower,lighter weight and lower emissions than existing ones.In such a future propulsion system,hydrogen gaswould be one of the promising fuels for realizing the requirements.Considering these backgrounds,our group hasproposed a new cycle concept for hydrogen-fueled aircraft propulsion system.In the present study,we perform 3dimensional computations of turbulent flow fields with hydrogen-fueled combustion around a turbine blade.Themain objective is to clarify the influence of arrangement of hydrogen injector holes.Changing the chordwise andspanwise spacings of the holes,the 3 dimensional nature of the flow and thermal fields is numerically studied.     

Challenges of Tomorrowm——Fire Hazards of Systems Using Renewable Sources of Energy

Dramatic climate change, caused by over consumption of coal, oil and other traditional energy sources, as well as exhaustion of their reserves, imposed technological need to look for their substitution with new, renewable energy sources. The exploitation of these new forms of energy, solar, wind, earth and bio-fuels, initiated the development and application of new technologies, so far unused in practice. Rapid development and wide application of installations for use of renewable energy in many households and companies opened a whole new risk and danger in the fire protection field. With the purpose of introducing this problem to engineers in the area of fire protection, health and safety at work, this paper systematically presents various types of facilities for exploitation of renewable energy sources as well as potential dangers, risks and issues related to their safe operation.     

Evaluation of criteria for design of current collectors of the lead–acid battery

The effect of the main structural parameters of the current collectors on efficiency of operation of the positive electrode of the lead–acid battery was investigated.     

Energy consumption in iodine section of I–S: Effect of operating parameters of electro-electrodialysis on overall efficiency of cycle

Reducing heat demand for increasing concentration of HI in the HI_x solution of the iodine circuit of the Iodine–Sulphur cycle is considered the most effective way of increasing efficiency of the cycle. Electro-electrodialysis has emerged as an energy efficient way of increasing the HI_x concentration above azeotropic value. Simulation of the iodine circuit consisting of an EED, a flash and a decomposer was carried out in Aspen Plus™ simulation platform to study the effect of EED current density and outlet HI concentration on the efficiency of the cycle. Efficiency reduced strongly with increase in current density. For EED current density of 5 A/dm², maximum efficiency was ∼35.9% and the optimal range of EED catholyte's exit HI concentration, iodine-free, mole fraction was 0.19–0.21. Simulation results showed that reducing EED resistance was most effective, among all EED parameters, in increasing the cycle's thermal efficiency and if the EED resistance is completely eliminated the thermal efficiency value would increase to 39.4%.     

Characteristics of Compression Wave Caused by Reflection of Expansion Wave at Open End of Tube

When an expansion wave propagated along a constant area straight tube reaches at the open end, the negative impulsive wave and the compression wave are formed by the emission and reflection of expansion wave. The negative impulsive wave is emitted toward the surrounding area and causes an impulsive noise like the sonic boom. The compression wave propagates in the tube toward the upstream and may cause the impulsive noise at the surrounding area of tube portal. With the advance of industrial engineering, it seems that the discharging of the expansion wave will become important problems. In this study, the experimental and numerical investigations are carried out using the shock tube and the TVD numerical method. The formation process of compression wave near the open end, the relationship with the compression wave and the expansion wave and the characteristics of compression wave are discussed.     

Comparison of Performances of Turbines for Wave Energy Conversion

The Wells turbine for a wave power generator is a self-rectifying air turbine that is available for an energy conversion in an oscillating water-air column without any rectifying valve. The objective of this paper is to compare the performances of the Wells turbines in which the profile of blade are NACA0020, NACA0015, CA9 and HSIM15-262123-1576 in the small-scale model testing. The running characteristics in the steady flow, the start and running characteristics in the sinusoidal flow and the hysteretic characteristics in the sinusoidal flow were investigated for four kinds of turbine. As a conclusion, the turbine in which the profile of blade is NACA0020 has the best performances among 4 turbines for the running and starting characteristics in the small-scale model testing.     

The Study of the Damage Laws of Pool Fires

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Calculation of NARM''''s Equilibrium with Peng-Robinson Equation of State

IntroductionThere are mainly tWo well-known methods for thecalculation of fluid Phase equilibriUm, the method ofusing equation of state (EOS) or achvity coeffident.The later needs a plenty Of vapor-liquid equilibriumexperimental data in Order tO regress the calculatingmodel's parameters (such as non-random tWo liquidequation, (NRTL) etc). All means to describethermodynndc prOPelties are theoretically fonddedwith the equation Of state. If the EOS is suitable for theentire thermodyntalc …     

Dichotomy of WKB-Solutions of Discrete Schrödinger Equation

The asymptotic behavior of solutions of a discrete Schrödinger equation is studied via the perturbation theory approach and by the method based on the reduction to the Riccati equation. Solutions of WKB type are constructed which exhibit a dichotomy property similar to that known for differential equations. Provided that the potential is regularly varying in a certain sense, these solutions can be asymptotically represented as products of continued fraction approximants related to the corresponding Riccati equation.     

Thermal Emission of a Disc Body of Semitransparent Material

INTRODUCTIONThethermalemissionofseveraJshapesofsemi-transparelltbodieshasbeeninvestigatedinthepastdecades.Forexample,Mcmahonderivedananalyt-icalexPressionforthehemisphericalendssivityofasemitransparentparallelslabl1];Gardonpresentedamethodforevaluatingtheemissivityofaglassslabl21;byimprovingtheGardon'smethod,Isardcalculatedtheendssivitiesofglassspheres,cylindersandtubes,andobtainedanapproximateexpressionwithtwoex-ponentialtermsl3];TuInerandLove,byusingtheMollterCarlomethod,simulatedthe…     

Numerical Study of Effects of Mach Number on Aerodynamic Performance of Large Enthalpy Drop Stationary Cascade

Based on the method to change blade loading type along blade height, that is, applying aft-loading at both end zones of cascade while applying fore-loading in the mid zone of cascade, HTC （Harbin Turbine Company） de- signed a twisted and bowed stationary cascade with low aspect ratio and large enthalpy drop. To verify the aero- dynamic performance of such cascade, firstly, low-speed wind tunnel tests were conducted to validate the calcula- tion results of commercial software CFX, and then numerical simulations were made for the aerodynamic per- formance of the cascade at different Mach numbers. The simulation results show that the large enthalpy drop sta- tionary cascade designed by HTC can offer good aerodynamic performance while keeping its high-load charac- teristics in the change range of outlet Mach number as stated in this paper.     

New Type of Basic Functions of FEM in Application to Solution of Inverse Heat Conduction Problem

The work presents the application of heat polynomials for solving an inverse problem. The heat polynomials form the Treffetz Method for non-stationary heat conduction problem. They have been used as base functions in Finite Element Method. Application of heat polynomials permits to reduce the order of numerical integration as compared to the classical Finite Element Method with formulation of the matrix of system of equations.     

Investigation of effects of sulfur on dry reforming of biogas over nickel–iron based catalysts

The aim of this study is to maintain and increase the activity of the catalyst in the presence of H₂S with the addition of iron to the Ni catalyst. Alumina-supported monometallic iron and bimetallic nickel-iron catalysts with different weight percentages (8% Fe, 3% Ni – 3% Fe and 8% Ni – 8% Fe) were synthesized using the wet impregnation method in this study. Alumina was prepared by the sol-gel method. The activities of these synthesized catalysts in the methane dry reforming reaction were investigated at different H₂S concentrations (0 ppm, 2 ppm, and 50 ppm) with a total flow rate of 60 mL/min containing an equimolar ratio of CH₄, CO₂, and Ar at 750 °C and atmospheric pressure. To investigate the effect of sulfur compounds on the catalytic activity, the catalysts were also exposed to different gas compositions such as the mixture of H₂S + He, H₂S + CO₂ + He, and H₂S + CO₂ + CH₄ + He. In this case, FT-IR with a gas cell was used to determine the components in the gas stream at the reactor outlet. To explain catalytic performance, characterization studies were carried out using XRD, N₂ adsorption/desorption, DRIFT, SEM, TGA, and XPS analysis. All-synthesized materials showed Type-IV isotherm with a hysteresis loop corresponding to an ordered mesoporous structure. The DRIFT analysis showed a decrease in the Lewis acid sites after the addition of iron into the Ni-catalysts. In the activity test carried out in the presence of 50 ppm H₂S, it was observed that the iron-containing 8Ni–8Fe@SGA catalyst increased the sulfur resistance slightly, compared to the monometallic 8Ni@SGA catalyst. TGA analysis showed that Fe addition reduced coke deposition, as the Ni–Fe catalyst had a lower nickel crystal size than the Ni-based catalyst. FTIR analysis with a gas cell showed that sulfur in H₂S transformed to other sulfur compounds such as COS and/or SO₂ during dry reforming of biogas over alumina-supported Ni–Fe catalysts.     

Effect of Meridional Characteristic Angle on Aerodynamic Performance of Ram-Rotor

A kind of meridional concept which has a shape of contraction-expansion(Con-Exp)was applied to the ram-rotor in the paper,and detailed numerical simulation to understand the impact of meridional shape and geometric characteristic angle on the aerodynamic behavior of ram-rotors has been undertaken.Compared to baseline,there was a positive effect in intensifying shock train and suppressing low momentum fluid in Con-Exp scheme,and the pressure ratio and efficiency of Con-Exp scheme increased by 2.075%and 3.160%,respectively.When the contracting angle was increasing,supersonic flow at and after throat region accelerated remarkably,and the static pressure rise was decreased gradually.The terminating shock train was transformed to terminating shock,and the efficiency of ram-rotor was unfavorable to improve due to low throttle extent.As expanding angle rose,the terminating shock moved forward and turned to shock train gradually.The pressure rise capacity and throttling ability of ram-rotor were raised.More low momentum fluid was accumulated near the middle and upper flow-path,yielding greater flow loss at large expanding angle.     

Analysis of Cold Flowfield of Multi—Annular Opposed Jets

The technique of the use of multi-annular opposed jets as different from using swirl and bluff body createsan excellent recirculation zone with desired size in a large space.The size of recirculation,the magnitude ofreverse velocity and turbulence intensity are much greater than those formed by bluff body.Factors affectingthe flowfield include the velocity ratio of the opposed jets to the primary air J,the diameter and constructionof the opposed jet ring,secondary air velocity and configuration,and confined or unconfined flow condition andso on.This method is a promising way for flame stabilization in combustion technology.