凌庄子水厂保水堰流量系数试验

凌庄子水厂蓄水池进水口处有一保水堰,为非标准薄壁堰,不能使用已有堰流公式对其过流量进行准确计算。为了得出较为精确的过流流量,按照重力相似准则制作几何比尺为1∶5的模型进行试验研究。在已有自由出流公式的基础上,对自由出流流量系数进行修正并对淹没情况下流量变化过程进行研究。对该非标准堰自由出流流量系数的实测值与经验值进行分析比较,发现堰板槽降低了实际自由出流过流能力。淹没出流的流量系数主要与下游尾水位有关,试验中形成的淹没式堰流受实际堰型尺寸影响,下游尾水位和堰上水位近似相等,不完全适用已有淹没出流流量公式,通过试验给出了修正淹没系数随h/p的变化关系。结果表明利用堰前、堰后水位初步计算过流流量是可行的,可为该工程提供参考,也可为实际工程中非标准矩形堰的流量计算提供思路。     

Flow regime recognition in a long pipeline-riser system based on signals at the top of the riser

To identify conveniently multiphase flow regimes in subsea pipeline-risers, we study in this paper experimentally two-phase flows in a 1657 m long pipeline with an S-shaped riser to simulate field experiment, within a wide range of gas and liquid velocities. Three flow regimes, namely severe slugging, transitional flows, and stable flows, are analyzed based on three differential pressure and one pressure signals at the top of the riser; comparatively speaking, the positions of these signals in the experimental system are similar to those of the sea level signals in industrial fields, which are easy and less expensive to obtain. The obtained signals are decomposed into six scales via a multi-scale wavelet analysis, and further four statistical parameters on each scale are extracted, including mean values, standard deviations, ranges, and mean values of absolute. We compared the effects of six SVM classifiers with different kernel functions on the recognition rate of flow regimes, and it is found the recognition rates of SVM classifier with quadratic and cubic kernel functions are the highest. Further, the principal component analysis is employed to reduce the dimension of statistical parameters and it indicates that the recognition rate tends to increase with the rising number of principal components from 1 to 6, and it remains constant if the principal component number is further increased. Moreover, The results suggest that the recognition rate obtained from the pressure difference between the top of the riser and the separator peaks, and then it comes that from the pressure signal at the top of the riser, and that for the pressure difference signal at the top of the riser is the least satisfying one. As for the optimal differential pressure signals between the top of the riser and the separator, the results show that the recognition rate increases rapidly from 70.2% to 90.4% when the sample duration rising from 2.3 s to 18.6 s, and when the sample duration exceeds 74.4 s, the recognition rate exceeds 92.9% and remains unchanged.     

Rheokinematics for product development—Formulation screening in rotational rheometers

Product formulations for industrial processes are typically developed at laboratory scale. However, the mixing conditions are not easily mimicked in the laboratory. A rotational device is proposed in this study as a fast laboratory-scale formulation development, which enables mimicking the mixing conditions in the industrial process. The geometrical configurations of the rotational device are from rheometry devices (plate-plate and cone-plate). The main advantages of this method are the small amounts of raw materials and shorter testing times. This methodology is applied to an industrial case study, the reaction injection molding (RIM) process. The mixing length scales evolution in the rotational rheometer were matched to those in RIM machines. The main novelty of this study is the introduction of a protocol that bridges the processing conditions at laboratory using small amounts of raw materials to high throughput continuous flow reactors.     

基于CFD⁃DEM的水下切粒装置水室内颗粒流动过程数值模拟

基于CFD?DEM耦合方法，研究了颗粒在水室内的流动状态，分析了不同刀盘转速、粒子水通入量和水室出口角度对造粒过程的影响，发现提高刀盘转速、增加粒子水通入量和水室出口倾斜一定的角度都有利于水室内颗粒的排出。进一步研究了颗粒与碎屑在水室内的流动，发现在水室出口处二者的流动基本呈现出一定的分离角度。     

Three-dimensional coupling numerical simulation of two-phase flow and electrochemical phenomena in alkaline water electrolysis

Alkaline water electrolysis has the advantage of scalability for industrial-scale mass production of hydrogen; however, it is operated under a lower current density than other methods of water electrolysis because a high overpotential resulting from ion transport limitations will occur at high current density. Bubble dynamics can both prevent ion transport by its existence and accelerate it by bubble-induced flow. In this study, we conduct three-dimensional coupling numerical simulations of two-phase flow and electrochemical phenomena to elucidate the mechanisms by which microscale bubble dynamics influence ion transport and the cell overpotential. We find that the flow induced by rising microbubbles enhances ion transport to the anode and suppresses the cell overpotential. Moreover, bubble atomization further suppresses the overpotential because smaller bubbles approach the anode more closely than larger ones and accelerate ion transport to the anode surface.     

流量脉动对燃油喷嘴雾化过程影响的实验研究

针对航空发动机燃烧室中存在的燃油流量脉动问题开展实验研究,设计并搭建了燃油喷嘴流量脉动激光可视化实验台,在等流量条件下利用高频激光粒子图像速度仪(High Speed Particle Image Velocimetry, PIV)分析燃油脉动频率变化对喷嘴雾化特性影响。实验结果表明:流量脉动促进了液膜表面的发展及液膜的破碎,对喷嘴的雾化产生积极的影响;喷嘴下游带状液膜区的发展和液滴的瞬态速度与喷嘴的流量脉动频率具有一致性;液滴的瞬态速度脉动幅值受脉动频率影响,在50 Hz时存在极大值。     

Methylcyclohexane production under fluctuating hydrogen flow rate conditions

Energy storage using liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) is a long-term method to store renewable energy with high hydrogen energy density. This study investigated a simple and low-cost system to produce methylcyclohexane (MCH) from toluene and hydrogen using fluctuating electric power, and developed its control method. In the current system, hydrogen generated by an alkaline water electrolyzer was directly supplied to hydrogenation reactors, where hydrogen purification equipment such as PSA and TSA is not installed to decrease costs. Hydrogen buffer tanks and compressors are not equipped. In order to enable MCH production using fluctuating electricity, a feed-forward toluene supply control method was developed and introduced to the system. The electrolyzer was operated under triangular waves and power generation patterns of photovoltaic cells and produced hydrogen with fluctuating flow rates up to 7.5 Nm³/h. Consequently, relatively high purity of MCH (more than 90% of MCH mole fraction) was successfully produced. Therefore, the simplified system has enough potential to produce MCH using fluctuating renewable electricity.     

Electrolyte flow optimization and performance metrics analysis of vanadium redox flow battery for large-scale stationary energy storage

Vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) is the best choice for large-scale stationary energy storage, but its low energy density affects its overall performance and restricts its development. In order to improve the performance of VRFB, a new type of spiral flow field is proposed, and a multi-physics coupling model and performance metrics evaluation system are established to explore the electrolyte distribution characteristics. The results show that the new spiral flow field can effectively improve the uniformity of electrolyte flow and alleviate the phenomenon of local concentration polarization as compared with the traditional serpentine flow field and parallel flow field. Due to the long flow channel and large pressure drop, the system efficiency is low. However, coulombic efficiency, voltage efficiency and energy efficiency are significantly better than the traditional flow fields. Therefore, the novel flow field has obvious advantages in the application of small stacks.     

Water electrolysis using plate electrodes in an electrode-paralleled non-uniform magnetic field

Compared with other ways to produce hydrogen, water electrolysis is the best way to obtain ultra-pure hydrogen, but its low energy efficiency greatly limits its wide application. It was proved that external magnetic field can reduce energy consumption, thereby increase electrolysis efficiency. Most of the researchers are focused on the impact of uniform magnetic field but few on a non-uniform one. To address the industrial operation reality, in our work, water electrolysis was operated using alkaline solution and plate electrodes in a non-uniform Magnetic field. The results show that a rotational flow on the vertical plane was formed by Lorentz force within the entire cell range. Although the entrainment effect of rotating flow made the cell full of microbubbles, the cell voltage was still reduced. By measuring the voltage difference of cathode side and anode side, we think that the bubble layer in the vicinity of the electrode surface matters the most among the sources of electric resistance. And the velocity distribution near the electrode was measured by PIV, it reveals that MHD flow is the dominant effect on the flow field of the cell. The results show that non-uniform magnetic field has potential merit in industrial electrolysis process.     

新型地锚张弦梁式泥石流格栅坝构件受力的简化计算方法

针对常见泥石流防治结构被冲击破坏的问题，基于“柔性消能”理念，结合张弦梁结构和竖向预应力锚杆技术，提出一种既能改善结构受力性能、增加结构整体抗冲击能力、保证结构安全可靠，又能减小结构构件截面尺寸、节约成本、便于现场施工组装和后期运营维护的新型地锚张弦梁式泥石流格栅坝，并阐述其技术原理。根据泥石流荷载分布和新型地锚张弦梁式泥石流格栅坝的受力特征，给出其简化的内力计算方法；并利用SAP2000建立新结构有限元模型，分析了结构的整体受力，验证了构件简化计算方法的合理性；结合Python语言和Qt De? signer软件开发了相应的设计计算软件，对新型地锚张弦梁式泥石流格栅坝的内力进行求解。结果表明：提出的新结构抗冲击性能好，构件受力均匀；以后设计中应关注竖杆的剪切脆性破坏和立柱偏心受力情况，保证结构安全；变形协调仅使底层张弦梁与竖杆内力偏大，实际工程应用时，应着重验算底层构件，防止其破坏；文中提出的简化计算方法能较准确的反映结构的受力特性，具有一定的合理性，研究可为新型地锚张弦梁式泥石流格栅坝的设计计算和推广应用提供理论依据和技术支持。