Potential for rice straw ethanol production in the Mekong Delta,Vietnam

This study is to evaluate the potential for development of a cellulosic ethanol facility in Vietnam. Rice straw is abundant in Vietnam and highly concentrated in the Mekong Delta, where about 26 Mt year⁻¹ of rice straw has been yearly produced. To minimize the overall production cost (PC) of ethanol from rice straw, it is crucial to choose the optimal facility size. The delivered cost of rice straw varied from 20.5 to 65.4 $ dry t⁻¹ depending on transportation distance. The Mekong Delta has much lower rice straw prices compared with other regions in Vietnam because of high density and quantity of rice straw supply. Thus, this region has been considered as the most suitable location for deploying ethanol production in Vietnam. The optimal plant size of ethanol production in the region was estimated up to 200 ML year⁻¹. The improvement in solid concentration of material in the hydrothermal pre-treatment step and using residues for power generation could substantially reduce the PC in Vietnam, where energy costs account for the second largest contribution to the PC, following only enzyme costs. The potential for building larger ethanol plants with low rice straw costs can reduce ethanol production costs in Vietnam. The current estimated production cost for an optimal plant size of 200 ML year⁻¹ was 1.19 $ L⁻¹. For the future scenario, considering improvements in pre-treatment, enzyme hydrolysis steps, specific enzyme activity, and applying residues for energy generation, the ethanol production cost could reduce to 0.45 $ L⁻¹ for a plant size of 200 ML year⁻¹ in Vietnam. These data indicated that the cost-competitiveness of ethanol production could be realized in Vietnam with future improvements in production technologies.     

A derivative UKF for tightly coupled INS/GPS integrated navigation

The tightly coupled INS/GPS integration introduces nonlinearity to the measurement equation of the Kalman filter due to the use of raw GPS pseudorange measurements. The extended Kalman filter (EKF) is a typical method to address the nonlinearity by linearizing the pseudorange measurements. However, the linearization may cause large modeling error or even degraded navigation solution. To solve this problem, this paper constructs a nonlinear measurement equation by including the second-order term in the Taylor series of the pseudorange measurements. Nevertheless, when using the unscented Kalman filter (UKF) to the INS/GPS integration for navigation estimation, it causes a great amount of redundant computation in the prediction process due to the linear feature of system state equation, especially for the case with system state vector in much higher dimension than measurement vector. To overcome this drawback in computational burden, this paper further develops a derivative UKF based on the constructed nonlinear measurement equation. The derivative UKF adopts the concise form of the original Kalman filter (KF) to the prediction process and employs the unscented transformation technique to the update process. Theoretical analysis and simulation results demonstrate that the derivative UKF can achieve higher accuracy with a much smaller computational cost in comparison with the traditional UKF.     

Optimal strategies for manufacturing/remanufacturing system with the consideration of recycled products

This paper analyzes the model of the recycled products which are considered with the minimum quality level in manufacturing/remanufacturing system. In this model, a constant demand is satisfied by manufacturing raw materials and remanufacturing recycled products which are up to the quality level. It is assumed that functions of recycling rate, buyback cost and remanufacturing cost are depend on the minimum quality level. The quality level of recycled products is set to be exponential distribution and then the model is established. The results show that when the buyback cost is low (the quality of the recycled products is low), the average total cost is low, though the remanufacturing cost is high. Namely, the companies are willing to recycle the used products with low quality level. Meanwhile, the optimal strategy of recycling, manufacturing and remanufacturing is investigated here. Through construction of a solution process on Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Genetic Algorithm (GA) and numerical examples with sensitive analysis, the validity of the model has been proved.     

面向机电设备评估的重置成本法及应用研究

由于市场的局限性和设备创造价值的不可分割性，重置成本法在机电设备评估实践中得到了广泛应用。但在应用该方法获取评估值时，对于基本公式的选择以及三大贬值或综合成新率的确定目前存在很大分歧。基于重置成本法的基本公式和定义，综合考虑了机器设备的有形损耗和无形磨损，以实体性贬值、功能性贬值和经济性贬值为基础建立了因素集，并建立了科学合理的计算设备价值的方法，对评估价值量较小且单一的机械设备的价格具有一定的实际意义和参考价值。     

Factors involved in associations between Facebook use and college adjustment: Social competence,perceived usefulness,and use patterns

Although previous research has investigated widespread use of social media, especially Facebook, by youth attending college, the conditions under which these media foster adjustment to college remain unclear. This study tested a model illuminating pathways linking social competence to college adjustment via students’ perceptions about the usefulness of Facebook and ways in which they used the medium. Self-report survey data from 321 college students (M age = 20.09; 58% female; 84% Caucasian) attending a major Midwestern university supported the proposed model, indicating that higher social competence could foster or impede college adjustment, depending upon how it was related to beliefs about the usefulness of different Facebook functions and how these perceptions, in turn, were associated with patterns of Facebook use. Findings underscore the importance of considering connections among personal attributes, perception of media effectiveness, and media behaviors in assessing the implications of social media for users’ psychosocial well-being.     

Elitist clonal selection algorithm for optimal choice of free knots in B-spline data fitting

Data fitting with B-splines is a challenging problem in reverse engineering for CAD/CAM, virtual reality, data visualization, and many other fields. It is well-known that the fitting improves greatly if knots are considered as free variables. This leads, however, to a very difficult multimodal and multivariate continuous nonlinear optimization problem, the so-called knot adjustment problem. In this context, the present paper introduces an adapted elitist clonal selection algorithm for automatic knot adjustment of B-spline curves. Given a set of noisy data points, our method determines the number and location of knots automatically in order to obtain an extremely accurate fitting of data. In addition, our method minimizes the number of parameters required for this task. Our approach performs very well and in a fully automatic way even for the cases of underlying functions requiring identical multiple knots, such as functions with discontinuities and cusps. To evaluate its performance, it has been applied to three challenging test functions, and results have been compared with those from other alternative methods based on AIS and genetic algorithms. Our experimental results show that our proposal outperforms previous approaches in terms of accuracy and flexibility. Some other issues such as the parameter tuning, the complexity of the algorithm, and the CPU runtime are also discussed.     

GK1C型内燃机车频繁停车现象探讨与解决方案

运用过程中各类相关因子的变化,会使得机车柴油机配气相位出现一定程度变化,采取某种措施调整或是处理可以解决动力不足的问题。     

企业全面预算管理与成本管理实务探究 ——以XY化学工业有限公司为例

企业管理过程中,全面预算管理与成本管理相互促进、相辅相成。针对成本管理及全面预算管理的现状及存在的问题,以陕西某化学工业有限公司(XY公司)为案例,开展了优化成本管理及全面预算管理的对策探讨。首先介绍了全面预算管理和成本管理的基本理论及两者的关系,并针对公司现状及存在的问题,提出了优化全面预算管理和成本管控的思路和措施。通过两种管理相结合的方式,形成科学、健全的管理模式,使企业在市场竞争中获得有利地位,实现企业发展的良性循环。     

低成本火箭弹弹载计算机的设计

低成本制导火箭弹是一种对点目标具有较高命中概率的低成本灵巧弹药，具有较高的作战效费比。弹载计算机是火箭弹制导控制系统的核心，本文从弹载计算机的运算和接口处理要求出发，充分考虑相关电路低成本、高可靠性的实现方法，为火箭弹低成本、制导化的实施提供参考。     

H2NG environmental-energy-economic effects in hybrid energy systems for building refurbishment in future National Power to Gas scenarios

In order to comply to the ambitious targets of European Hydrogen Strategy, Member States will strongly encourage the deployment of Power-to-Gas (PtG) technologies. A significant fraction of produced green hydrogen will be injected into the existing natural gas networks, and the end-users will be served by Hydrogen enriched Natural Gas blends (H₂NG). The aim of this paper is to analyse the H₂NG effects on technical, economic and environmental parameters of hybrid energy systems for building refurbishment. Three hybrid energy systems for the existing plants replacement have been proposed, dynamically simulated and compared with the separate generation. Fuel supply has been simulated by varying the H₂ volumetric fraction in a range between 0 and 20%vol. The H₂NG blend employment will allow greater primary energy savings and avoided emissions. However, if the levelized cost of hydrogen (LCOH) due to electrolysis does not decrease, those benefits will be offset by a lower economic competitiveness.