In situ measurements of human cough aerosol hygroscopicity

The airborne dynamics of respiratory droplets, and the transmission routes of pathogens embedded within them, are governed primarily by the diameter of the particles. These particles are composed of the fluid which lines the respiratory tract, and is primarily mucins and salts, which will interact with the atmosphere and evaporate to reach an equilibrium diameter. Measuring organic volume fraction (OVF) of cough aerosol has proved challenging due to large variability and low material volume produced after coughing. Here, the diametric hygroscopic growth factors (GF) of the cough aerosol produced by healthy participants were measured in situ using a rotating aerosol suspension chamber and a humidification tandem differential mobility analyser. Using hygroscopicity models, it was estimated that the average OVF in the evaporated cough aerosol was 0.88 ± 0.07 and the average GF at 90% relative humidity (RH) was 1.31 ± 0.03. To reach equilibrium in dry air the droplets will reduce in diameter by a factor of approximately 2.8 with an evaporation factor of 0.36 ± 0.05. Hysteresis was observed in cough aerosol at RH = ∼35% and RH = ∼65% for efflorescence and deliquescence, respectively, and may depend on the OVF. The same behaviour and GF were observed in nebulized bovine bronchoalveolar lavage fluid.     

Food recognition using neural network classifier and multiple hypotheses image segmentation

ABSTRACT

This paper proposes the multiple-hypotheses image segmentation and feed-forward neural network classifier for food recognition to improve the performance. Initially, the food or meal image is given as input. Then, the segmentation is applied to identify the regions, where a particular food item is located using salient region detection, multi-scale segmentation, and fast rejection. Then, the features of every food item are extracted by the global feature and local feature extraction. After the features are obtained, the classification is performed for each segmented region using a feed-forward neural network model. Finally, the calorie value is computed with the aid of (i) food volume and (ii) calorie and nutrition measure based on mass value. The experimental results and performance evaluation are validated. The outcome of the proposed method attains 0.947 for Macro Average Accuracy (MAA) and 0.959 for Standard Accuracy (SA), which provides better classification performance.     

生物可降解PCL/PLA开孔发泡材料制备及吸油性能

以聚己内酯（PCL）为基体，添加不同含量聚乳酸（PLA）熔融共混制备具有不同分散相形态的PCL/PLA共混物，利用超临界二氧化碳（scCO₂）微孔发泡工艺制备不同发泡倍率和开孔率的PCL/PLA多孔材料用于吸油应用。针对边长3 mm正方体样品溶解度实验发现100 min后CO₂在PCL中已达到饱和吸附状态。PLA分散相含量的增加显著增大了PCL/PLA共混物泡孔密度，并使共混泡孔尺寸减小且分布更加均匀；发泡温度升高6℃，泡孔尺寸增大50%，发泡倍率增大38%，开孔率减小了20%。PCL/PLA开孔材料具有明显的亲油疏水性，发泡倍率越高，疏水性越好；针对花生油和硅油的吸油实验发现材料吸油率与发泡倍率和开孔率整体呈正比，实际吸油量高于理论计算值，10次循环吸油测试后样品吸油率仅降低8.5%，材料吸油量与油品特性黏度关系不大。     

稠油油藏出砂冷采技术实践

套保油田为普通稠油油藏，其开发的难点是常规冷采产能低、递减快，蒸汽吞吐开采注入压力过高破坏隔层导致底水上窜、注入压力过低不能保证注入蒸汽质量导致开采效果差。因此开展出砂冷采试验，经研究及现场试验形成了较完善的配套工艺技术，出砂冷采在套保油田白92块工业化应用，单井日产油达到10～30m^3／d，为常规冷采产量的10～20倍。     

控制室格栅形屏蔽设计的计算

以抗雷击电磁脉冲干扰为例，按下列2种情况讨论控制室格栅形大空间屏蔽的设计计算：已知屏蔽网格，求磁场强度的衰减是否符合控制系统的脉冲磁场抗扰度；已知控制系统的脉冲磁场抗扰度，求屏蔽网格的宽度W等参数。     

裂缝性底水油藏储气库最大工作气量的预测方法

利用华北油田水驱开发晚期裂缝性碳酸盐岩块状底水油藏改建大型地下储气库，对保障京、津、冀等地区安全、平稳供气，具有重要意义。虽然前期对华北任11井裂缝性碳酸盐岩块状底水油藏改建地下储气库的可行性已开展了相关研究工作，但没有解决工作气量、气垫气量优化评价的关键技术问题。文章通过借鉴国外含水层储气库注采运行的经验，在物质平衡原理基础上，提出了描述裂缝性碳酸盐岩块状底水油藏改建地下储气库工作气量预测的数学模型。该模型能较准确地预测随油气界面下移，气库能达到的最大工作气量和相应气垫气量。通过实例求解得出注气增压系数对工作气量及其在库容量中所占的比例影响较大。随着注气增压系数的增大，工作气量及所占的比例迅速增加，气库效率随之提高，因此，提高注气增压系数是提高裂缝性碳酸盐岩块状底水油藏储气库效益的重要途径。     

滨北地区T5和T4不整合面剥蚀量恢复

根据不同剥蚀量恢复方法的特点和松辽盆地滨北地区实际地质情况,采用不同的方法对滨北地区T5和T4不整合面进行剥蚀量恢复。利用镜质体反射率法和体积平衡-沉积速率法相结合对T5不整合面进行剥蚀量恢复;应用镜质体反射率法、地层趋势分析法和沉积速率法相结合对T4不整合面进行剥蚀量恢复。研究结果表明T5不整合面因经历较长时间的剥蚀,剥蚀量较大,剥蚀量在700~2800m之间;T4不整合面剥蚀量多在200~1000m,在经历剥蚀时间较长的地区和靠近断陷盆地边缘的地区剥蚀量大。     

A multigrid accelerated hybrid unstructured mesh method for 3D compressible turbulent flow

 A cell vertex finite volume method for the solution of steady compressible turbulent flow problems on unstructured hybrid meshes of tetrahedra, prisms, pyramids and hexahedra is described. These hybrid meshes are constructed by firstly discretising the computational domain using tetrahedral elements and then by merging certain tetrahedra. A one equation turbulence model is employed and the solution of the steady flow equations is obtained by explicit relaxation. The solution process is accelerated by the addition of a multigrid method, in which the coarse meshes are generated by agglomeration, and by parallelisation. The approach is shown to be effective for the simulation of a number of 3D flows of current practical interest. Sponsored by The Research Council of Norway, project number 125676/410 Dedicated to the memory of Prof. Mike Crisfield, a respected colleague     

氮气泡沫调驱用泡沫剂性能评价

对辽河油区海外河油田海1块实施氮气泡沫调驱用泡沫剂性能进行评价，其中静态评价内容有泡沫剂与地层水的配伍性，起泡能力和稳定性，油敏性，耐盐抗二价离子能力以及热吸附性；动态评价方内容有动态封堵能力，泡沫剂用量的筛选。评价结果表明，泡沫剂A发泡能力较好，性能稳定，耐钙离子能力强，阻力因子大于4，可与氮气作为暂堵剂体系。建议现场施工中使用泡沫剂A含量为0．5％的泡沫剂溶液，注入量0．2PV，氮气注入量也是0．2PV较适宜。     

频谱分解技术在塔里木盆地北部TH地区碳酸盐岩缝洞型储层预测中的应用

本文从频谱分解技术的基本原理及计算方法入手,根据正演模型,通过对比缝洞型储层与地震反射特征的关系,总结出储层发育的反射特征,相应地精细调整频谱分解处理参数,进而进行预测。通过与钻井资料对比可知,频谱分解技术可以刻画不同频率强反射、弱反射的边界。