Novel gate-overlap tunnel FET based innovative ultra-low-power ternary flash ADC

This paper presents a highly efficient ternary flash ADC, designed using the innovative gate-overlap tunnel FET (GOTFET) at the 45 nm technology node. The proposed GOTFETs have on-state currents I_on more than double, while the off-state currents I_off remaining at least an order of magnitude lower than the corresponding values of the standard 45 nm CMOS technology with the same width. Replacing MOSFETs with the proposed GOTFETs significantly reduces the static power consumption and improves performance. However, the higher I_on increases the dynamic power as well. To minimize the dynamic power, we propose a novel complementary GOTFET (CGOT) based comparator design. In addition to the inherent advantages of the GOTFET technology, the proposed design further reduces the dynamic power, such that the final power delay product (PDP) is merely 6.3% of the PDP in conventional CMOS comparator design. In addition to the novelty related to the innovative GOTFET devices, there are at least two-fold circuit-level novelty reported in this work. Firstly, we propose a novel CGOT based comparator circuit design, which, in addition to the advantages of GOTFET, further reduces the dynamic power such that the PDP is less than 1/3rd of the original PDP of the conventional comparator designed with GOTFETs. Secondly, the proposed CGOT based ADC requires only 48 transistors to encode the comparator outputs into the 2-bit ternary output, which is 30% lower than the 70 transistors necessary for the 2-bit CMOS based ternary flash ADC designs reported earlier in the literature. We propose an efficient 2-bit ternary flash ADC with a resolution of 50 mV and input quantized to 9 levels. Subsequently, we benchmark the performance of the proposed CGOT ternary flash ADC with the same ADC circuit implemented using the standard 45 nm CMOS technology library, all corresponding devices having the same width. We demonstrate that in addition to the superior performance than the corresponding CMOS ADC, the proposed CGOT ADC design consumes significantly lower power. The overall PDP of the proposed CGOT ADC is merely 6.3% of the PDP in corresponding CMOS design.     

高温烟气中煤焦气化行为

针对高温烟气中煤焦的气化行为，本文采用FactSage 6.1计算了煤焦在高温烟气下的高温反应特性，并利用热重分析仪分析了煤焦气化行为。通过沉降炉实验进一步研究了不同温度、气体配比、粒径条件下气体产物的动态析出特性，同时计算了评价指标α、β、LHV值。结果表明：随着温度的升高，气体产物H₂和CO的含量增加，β、α、LHV值增大，CH₄和CO₂的含量下降。在温度为1200℃时，β、α值分别由CO₂/CO比为10∶70时的10.80%、5.21%增加到CO₂/CO比为50∶30时的24.71%、41.06%。同时，随着CO₂/CO比值的增大，高温烟气对煤焦气化反应抑制减弱。通过对比反应温度和粒径对煤焦气化反应的影响，得出反应温度远大于粒径对煤焦气化反应的影响。通过实验验证了向高温烟气中喷吹煤焦制备高品质可燃气体方法的可行性。     

中高温烟气干燥脱硫废水过程研究

脱硫废水零排放(ZLD)已成为现阶段环境治理的趋势,传统的治理方法具有高成本、难维护等缺点,因此提出一种利用中高温烟气干燥电厂脱硫废水的新技术。通过将选择性催化还原(SCR)脱硝后的热烟气引入喷雾干燥器,雾化废水使其与烟气充分接触,经干燥进入空气预热器后的原烟道。结果表明:抽取锅炉烟气量的7%左右可干燥脱硫废水2.5 t,使锅炉热效率降低0.68%左右,影响较小。干燥后烟气酸露点温度从93.20℃提高到96.72℃,不会腐蚀空气预热器等后续工艺设备,同时该技术有利于静电除尘器(ESP)、湿法烟气脱硫(WFGD)系统的运行,利用中高温烟气干燥脱硫废水是可行且有效的技术方法。     

基于ECMWF和WRF的嘉陵江流域面雨量预报精度评估

将降雨数值预报产品运用到水文预报中已经逐渐成为提高洪水作业预报的预见期的重要手段。为充分了解ECMWF(European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts)和WRF(Weather Research and Forecasting model)2种数值天气预报产品对嘉陵江研究区面雨量预报的预报精度和误差分布,且为增强洪水预报精度的稳健性提供科学支持,采用TS评分、空报率、漏报率、正确率等指标,对嘉陵江地区7个气象分区内的2016年汛期面雨量预报结果进行了检验,分析了不同分区内各检验指标与预报时效的关系。结果表明:ECMWF数值预报产品和WRF数值预报产品均可用于该地区晴雨预报,且2种产品的预报精度随降水等级的增大呈增大趋势,随预报时效的增加呈减小趋势。综合而言,ECMWF数值预报产品对嘉陵江研究区的预报效果更好。     

Identification of factors that accelerate hydrogen production by Clostridium butyricum RAK25832 using casamino acids as a nitrogen source

The ability of Clostridium butyricum RAK25832 to use casamino acids as a nitrogen source was investigated. Strain RAK25832 showed the capacity to utilize different types of carbon sources. With glucose as a carbon source (10 g/L), the preferred final concentration of casamino acids was 26.67 g/L, with a cumulative hydrogen production, production rate, and yield of 2505 mL H₂/L, 160 mL/h, and 1.81 mol H₂/mol glucose, respectively. Eighteen metal elements were screened to identify the most important metals for biohydrogen production, and four elements were optimized. The optimal medium composition was MgCl₂·6H₂O (0.1 g/L), K₂HPO₄·3H₂O (6.67 g/L), NaHCO₃ (2.6 g/L), and FeCl₂·4H₂O (0.002 g/L). Vitamin supplementation of the medium showed no significant effect on hydrogen production. Under the optimized conditions, cumulative hydrogen production reached 3074 mL H₂/L. This is the first study to demonstrate the use of casamino acids as a nitrogen source by C. butyricum.     

Multi-objective particle swarm optimisation based integrated production inventory routing planning for efficient perishable food logistics operations

Sustainable and efficient food supply chain has become an essential component of one’s life. The model proposed in this paper is deeply linked to people's quality of life as a result of which there is a large incentive to fulfil customer demands through it. This proposed model can enhance food quality by making the best possible food quality accessible to customers, construct a sustainable logistics system considering its environmental impact and ensure the customer demand to be fulfilled as fast as possible. In this paper, an extended model is examined that builds a unified planning problem for efficient food logistics operations where four important objectives are viewed: minimising the total expense of the system, maximising the average food quality along with the minimisation of the amount of CO₂ emissions in transportation along with production and total weighted delivery lead time minimisation. A four objective mixed integer linear programming model for intelligent food logistics system is developed in the paper. The optimisation of the formulated mathematical model is proposed using a modified multi-objective particle swarm optimisation algorithm with multiple social structures: MO-GLNPSO (Multi-Objective Global Local Near-Neighbour Particle Swarm Optimisation). Computational results of a case study on a given dataset as well as on multiple small, medium and large-scale datasets followed by sensitivity analysis show the potency and effectiveness of the introduced method. Lastly, there has been a scope for future study displayed which would lead to the further progress of these types of models.     

锚杆锯切设备自动化改造技术应用

通过对锚杆锯切设备的设计、改进情况进行总结，详细介绍了自动化改造前后的设备工作原理、结构组成以及各部分工作过程动作描述等内容，根据改造前后的各项数据统计分析，列出了自动化改造后产品质量、生产效率和企业的利润的变化，同时还有设备故障率、工人劳动强度、设备操作人员数量的减少以及工厂生产环境由污染型转变成节能环保型企业等相关内容，展示所取得的有益效果。     

脱硫废水在热烟气环境中的蒸发特性及其产物特性研究

针对旁路烟道旋转喷雾干燥技术和主烟道蒸发技术,开展了脱硫废水蒸发干燥过程及其产物特性的分析对比研究,比较了两种工艺过程中脱硫废水蒸发特性,并对脱硫废水蒸发产物的表面结构特性进行了研究,考察了Cl元素的迁移分布特性及其对后续除尘系统和粉煤灰资源化利用的影响。结果表明:氯离子浓度增大,蒸发效果会随之降低,pH值则对其影响不大,旋转雾化条件较之于主烟道蒸发效果好;两种工艺下蒸发干燥产物表面粗糙,烟道出口S元素含量增加明显,Ca、Mg、K等元素略有增加,蒸发后产物大致相同,由于温度的不同,旋转雾化条件主要是以莫来石、SiO_2、Al_2O_3、 KCl、MgSO_4、CaSO_4·0.5H_2O为主,主烟道蒸发则是以莫来石、SiO_2、Al_2O_3、KCl、MgSO_4·H_2O、CaSO_4·0.5H_2O和CaSO_4·2H_2O等为主;废水中氯离子浓度对氯元素以HCl形式进入烟气影响不大,而碱性脱硫废水则可以有效抑制其以HCl形式析出。