Effect of thermal treatment on the antioxidant activity of egg white hydrolysate and the preparation of novel antioxidant peptides

Heat treatment will affect the nutritional properties and potential bioactivity of food materials. The aim of this work was to evaluate the effect of different thermal treatment (4, 56, 65 and 100 ℃) and in vitro gastrointestinal digestion on the antioxidant activity of egg white hydrolysate. The results demonstrated that egg white hydrolysate treated at 65 ℃ exhibited the highest antioxidant. Remarkably, the simulated digestion significantly increased antioxidant activity of egg white hydrolysate. Furthermore, we identified twenty-four potential antioxidant peptides by performing mass spectrometry and bioinformatic analysis. Six peptides were selected based on the activity prediction score of the online tool. The results showed that P6 (ACPECPK) possessed the most outstanding antioxidant properties and had low cytotoxicity and allergenicity. Bioinformatics technology combined with biochemical assays may offer a way for discovering novel antioxidant peptides from different kinds of food under various heat treatment conditions.     

管状带式输送机在线纠扭托辊的研究与应用

管状带式输送机是一种新型环保的散状物料连续输送设备,在运行过程中受各种因素影响,头、尾过渡段经常会跑偏,管状段经常会扭转,常规停机调偏纠扭方法已不能胜任复杂路线长距离管带机稳定运行的要求。为适应市场发展趋势,设计人员分析了管带机扭转原因,结合纠扭基本原理及常规纠扭方法,新开发出一种在线(不停机)纠扭托辊并投入项目应用。     

Study of tritium transport characteristics in a transportable fluoride‐salt‐cooled high‐temperature reactor

Tritium management is one of the most critical issues that limit the development of fluoride‐salt‐cooled high‐temperature reactor (FHR); therefore, it is important to figure out the tritium transport characteristics in FHRs. In this paper, 3 works concerning about tritium in FHR are conducted: first, the tritium transport characteristics in the primary loop of FHRs are introduced, including tritium production and speciation, the absorption and desorption by graphite, dissolution and diffusion in molten salt, and permeation through structural materials. Second, the physical and mathematical models are established for tritium transport characteristic analysis in a transportable FHR (TFHR). The tritium transport characteristic analysis code (TAPAS) for TFHR is developed and benchmarked. The results prove the fidelity and accuracy of TAPAS. Finally, the tritium transport characteristics in the TFHR are analyzed systematically by TAPAS. Three conclusions are obtained: (1) tritium in the primary coolant loop is mainly in the form of T₂; (2) when TFHR operates at steady state, the permeation rate of T₂ can be regarded as a constant (9.03 × 10⁹ Bq ? EFPD^?1 ); and (3) ⁷Li enrichment and redox potential of molten salt have great influence on the tritium distribution. This work might provide contribution to the tritium control in FHRs.     

Finite Element Study on the Influence of Structural Parameters on the Ballistic Performance of 3D Networked Fabrics

Networked fabrics are a type of three-dimensional multilayer fabrics having predetermined interconnections between layers by combining yarns from two adjacent sublayers into one. This paper reports the research on the influence of structural parameters on the ballistic performance of networked fabrics using finite element analysis in parallel with experiment. The widths of separate and combined sections are found to affect the energy absorption (EA) of regular networked fabrics against high-velocity impact. Separate sections of networked fabrics generally outperform combined sections. The optimal width of the separate section is around 9.5 cm for both dense and loose networked fabrics when impacted at the separate section. The optimal width of combined section decreases from 2.38 cm to 1.15 cm with the decrease of weave density in this area. For the studied structural parameters, highest EAs of dense and loose networked fabrics are around 13.3% and 17.1% higher than those of their counterpart layups of dense and loose plain-woven fabrics, respectively. These findings suggest networked fabrics could be engineered to improve the ballistic performance of flexible fabrics.     

Test sample allocation method for testability verification test

An extended failure mode effect and criticality analysis (FMECA)-based sample allocation method for testability verification is presented in this study to deal with the poor representativeness of test sample sets and the randomness of the testability evaluation results caused by unreasonable selection of failure samples. First, the fault propagation intensity is introduced as part of the extended information of FMECA, and the sample allocation impact factors of component units and failure modes are determined under this framework. Then, the failure mode similarity and impact factor support are defined, and the game decision method for weighing the relationship between similarity and support is proposed to obtain the weight of failure mode impact factor. Finally, a two-step allocation framework of test samples is formulated to realize the sample allocation of component units and failure modes. This method is applied to the testability verification test of a launch control system. Results show that this method can obtain more representative test samples compared with the traditional sample allocation method while effectively reducing randomness of single testability evaluation result.     

Spatiotemporal variations in soil CO2 fluxes under a winter wheat-summer maize cropping system in the North China Plain

Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems - Most studies on soil CO2 fluxes focus on the upper soil layers (i.e., 0–200 mm); however, there is a lack of investigation into soil layers below...     

人工监督神经网络在煤层裂缝发育区识别中的应用

针对在地震属性应用中难以精细识别煤层裂缝发育区边界的难题,开展了基于人工监督神经网络技术的煤层裂缝发育区应用研究。从地震资料中获取倾角导向体以提取高质量的地震属性,以多属性为指导进行人工拾取样点,并基于多层感知器进行神经网络机器训练学习,建立裂缝的最优属性集,拓展整体数据后获得裂缝概率体,从而识别划分出煤层裂缝发育区。该技术在山西阳泉新元矿区进行了应用,煤层裂缝发育区的识别结果明显优于属性直接识别,但勘探区内暂无钻井资料,预测效果还有待进一步验证。     

降雨入渗对非饱和土体边坡稳定性影响及治理对策

为研究降雨入渗对非饱和土体边坡稳定性影响，基于饱和—非饱和渗流理论，分析了降雨入渗条件下边坡内部渗流场变化及其对边坡稳定性的影响。研究表明：①降雨入渗是饱和—非饱和过程，其内部体积含水率随降雨持续时间的变化而发生动态改变，在降雨初期，土体处于非饱和状态，黏聚力随着含水率的增大而增大，内摩擦角变化幅度较小，总体呈下降趋势，基质吸力增强，安全系数升高，对边坡稳定性有利；②随着降雨持续，孔隙水压力由负变正，黏聚力和内摩擦角随着含水率的增大而减小，基质吸力减弱，边坡稳定性降低；③降雨入渗终态过程为内部水位线升高，动静水压增加，土体有效重度降低，土体发生软化，力学强度参数降低，边坡稳定性随之降低，土体渗透系数与边坡安全系数总体成反比关系。在上述分析的基础上，结合土质边坡实例，应用强度折减法，分析了降雨入渗状态下边坡潜在滑动面、峰值位移随降雨持续时间的变化规律，认为降雨初期潜在滑动面由浅入深，峰值位移不断增大；降雨停止后，土体内部应力重新分布，土体由饱和转为非饱和，潜在滑动面、峰值位移发生逆变化。为防止降雨条件下边坡发生失稳破坏，针对性地提出了土质边坡治理建议，为非饱和土体边坡综合治理提供了有益参考。     

Stochastic processes in renewable power systems: From frequency domain to time domain

With the increasing penetration of renewable energy resources(RESs), the uncertainties of volatile renewable generations significantly affect the power system operation. Such uncertainties are usually modeled as stochastic variables obeying specific distributions by neglecting the temporal correlations. Conventional approaches to hedge the negative effects caused by such uncertainties are thus hard to pursue a trade-off between computation efficiency and optimality. As an alternative, the theory of stochastic process can naturally model temporal correlation in closed forms. Attracted by this feature, our research group has been conducting thorough researches in the past decade to introduce stochastic processes within renewable power systems. This paper summarizes our works from the perspective of both the frequency domain and the time domain, provides the tools for the analysis and control of power systems under a unified framework of stochastic processes, and discusses the underlying reasons that stochastic process-based approaches can perform better than conventional approaches on both computational efficiency and optimality. These work may shed a new light on the research of analysis, control and operation of renewable power systems.Finally, this paper outlooks the theoretic developments of stochastic processes in future's renewable power systems.