Atmospheric Freeze Drying—Modeling and Simulation of a Tunnel Dryer

Drying is an important unit operation in processing of foods and other biotechnological products. Vacuum freeze drying is said to be the best drying technology regarding product quality of the end product, but the disadvantages are, among others, expensive operational costs and batch drying. Atmospheric freeze drying was introduced to lower the production costs of high-quality dried foods, and the need of simulation tools became important in estimations of the industrial drying processes.

A simplified mathematical model (AFDsim) is developed based on uniformly retreating ice front (URIF) considerations. The model is used to calculate theoretical drying curves of atmospheric freeze dried foods in a tunnel dryer. Studies of thermal and mass transfer properties during drying are essential for understanding the changes in product quality and for designing and dimensioning the drying process. The model can be used to simulate industrial atmospheric freeze drying of different foodstuff in a tunnel. The results from AFDsim modeling are in good accordance with the experimental results.     

应用烃类直接检测技术预测天然气藏

柴达木盆地位于青藏高原北部，是中国大型含油气盆地之一，历经４０年的勘探，发现了丰富的油气资源。柴达木盆地东部地区是第四纪沉降与沉积中心，区内第二系生储气岩厚度大、分布广、第四纪新构造运动形成的同生沉积构造发育、保存完整、具有形成大中型天然气田的地质条件。此外，由于该地区含气地层时代新、埋藏浅、成岩与胶结作用差、含气层厚度大、孔渗性好，加之构造条件简单，人文干扰小、是应用烃直接检测技术寻找天然气的有     

Machining with tool–chip contact on the tool secondary rake face—Part II: analysis and discussion

The forces, chip thickness, and natural tool–chip contact length in machining with a double-rake-angled tool are predicted in Part II of the present study. It is revealed that in comparison with a single-rake-angled tool, a double-rake-angled tool increases the forces, especially the thrust force. However, the increase in chip thickness and tool–chip contact length is not significant under the input conditions specified in the present study. The effect of seven input variables of the proposed model is quantitatively investigated. The predicted variations of forces, chip thickness, and natural tool–chip contact length are in good agreement with theoretical and experimental results obtained by other researchers. The interrelationships among the resultant force, the chip thickness, and the natural tool–chip contact length are established, which provides a new and promising method to estimate the tool–chip contact length by employing the resultant force. It is demonstrated that the model can also be extended to study the problem of machining with a groove-type chip breaker tool.     

Steps towards a consumer-driven ‘concept innovation machine’ for food and drink

Innovation is often left to insight and serendipity. A lot of what researchers call innovation is actually a process by which one can make the individual consumer or practitioner more ‘creative’. Although it is important to work with the creative individual in hopes of coming up with the better ‘idea’ and new product/service opportunity, an equally valid albeit novel and counterintuitive approach systematizes creativity in a ‘research-driven machine’. This paper presents an approach to the systematization, based upon the point of view that creativity and innovation comprise the recombination of components into new blends. Given this point of view, to then spur innovation requires a systematic database that the user can access, with tools to help manipulate that database. The paper shows how such a database can be constructed and then used to create a novel product. The approach provides a general framework for the sensory professional to become more involved in the early stages of product development, where the focus is on the conceptual aspects of food features rather than on their physical manifestations in actual products.     

真丝绸产品的清洁生产与生态设计

通过对真丝绸整个产品生命过程的分析，对其进行了生命周期评价，说明了丝绸与其产地环境之间的联系和影响，尝试寻求两者之间的和谐关系，提出了清洁生产工艺的规划和各种行之有效的对策和措施，尝试了对环境友好的丝绸印染工艺的生态设计。     

罗801块微生物驱油菌种代谢产物分析

为了研究罗801块微生物驱油菌种代谢产物,从代谢产物化学性质的角度探索驱油作用机理,依据微生物代谢规律,应用气相色谱、气质联用仪(气相色谱-质谱GC-MS)、傅立叶变换红外光谱仪等化学分析仪器和手段,建立了一套通用的驱油菌种代谢产物定性定量分析方法:短链脂肪酸和生物气气相色谱分析,长链脂肪酸、醇类、酚类以及生物烃的预处理和GC-MS分析,醛类、酮类的衍生化及GC-MS分析,生物表面活性物质的薄层层析和红外光谱定性分析,脂类化合物的GC-MS定量分析等;介绍了罗801块驱油菌种代谢产物分析结果:罗801块驱油菌种代谢产物共检出近百种化合物,不同菌种代谢产物种类和数量差异较大。驱油菌种代谢产物分析说明了驱油菌种代谢的复杂性,该研究对矿场试验效果评价及微生物驱油机理探索有重要意义。     

Modern interpretation on the high-stretching of natural rubber attained by the classic ‘racking’ method

To investigate the mechanism of high elongation of natural rubber attained by the ‘racking method’, a strip of smoked-sheet was elongated up to 150 times in length, by stretching rapidly at room temperature and forcing to shrink at 75-80 °C repeatedly. On X-ray diffraction, a typical fibre pattern with an amorphous ring appeared already at ×10 (stretch ratio=10). The degree of crystallinity increased to the level of 17-18% at ×20 and turned to decrease after ×60, but the degree of crystallite orientation reached at a high level already at ×10 and did not change significantly and the half-height width of reflection profiles stayed almost at a constant level, while the Young's modulus increased up to ca. 300 MPa at ×100 and then fell rather discontinuously. It was assumed that some fractions of chain segments between entanglements were gradually broken in each step of stretching operation, rather than disentangled and slipped.     

Characterizing Performance Variation of Product Designs

Quality and reliability design practitioners have utilized Taguchi's methodology of matrix experimentation to generate computer simulation data for characterizing performance variation of product designs. However, the sampling strategy employed renders computer implementation of matrix experimentation cumbersome and statistically invalid. Weaknesses of this approach also include sample size limitation and overestimation of performance variation. An alternative approach that combines Monte Carlo simulation with the strategies of independent sampling across runs and correlated sampling between runs is presented. An application case study shows that the proposed approach constitutes an improvement on the matrix approach with respect to statistical validity and estimation accuracy.     

求解机械装配规划的新方法

本文提出一个求解机械装配规划的算法,其计算量～O(sN~2),其中s是零件所有可能装配方向的个数,N是工件的零件数(一般s～O(N)).而现行的求机械装配规划的算法,其计算量均随N的增加按指数律增加.     

SC文法功能体系

文法体系的研究一直是自然语言处理研究的核心问题之一.但是,由于自然语言本身所固有的复杂性和非规范性,多义问题始终未能得到圆满的解决.本文提出了SC文法(A SubCategory grammar for integrating Se-mantic and Case analysis),它是一种基于传统的上下文无关文法、语义文法,以及超前与反馈分析技术和格框架约束分析等技术的上下文相关处理文法.该文法不仅能继承传统的上下文无关文法的表示简洁、处理方便的特点,而且能实现语法和语义一体化分析和处理上下文相关以及复杂多义问题.