基于亚像素边缘检测的纱线条干均匀度测量

为了精确地评价纱线的表观条干均匀性,提出一种基于亚像素边缘检测的纱线条干均匀度检测方法。首先通过图像采集装置获取纱线图像;然后对纱线图像进行亚像素边缘检测获取纱线边缘点集;利用开运算对获取的边缘点集进行处理,进而获得纱线条干的边缘;最后采用坐标直方图方法计算纱线平均直径和条干CV值。为验证方法的有效性和准确性,对多种不同线密度的纯棉纱线进行测试,并将测试结果与电容式条干仪的均匀度检测及基于模糊C均值分类和Otsu图像法的检测结果进行了对比。结果表明:基于亚像素边缘检测的纱线条干均匀度检测方法与电容式的测量结果有着较好的一致性,证明所提方法可得到准确的结果。     

显色图像分析技术在水稻叶耳花青甙显色目测分级中的应用

目的基于颜色特征的叶耳花青甙显色分级研究。方法以水稻倒二叶叶耳花青甙显色测试为切入点,在Emgu Cv3.0图像分析软件基础上,对完成图像分割的目标区域提取红绿蓝(red green blue, RGB)、色调饱和度亮度(hue saturation value, HSV)颜色特征,利用SPSS软件对颜色特征和测试分级数据进行相关性、回归等统计分析,建立颜色特征多元回归模型。结果叶耳花青甙显色强度与R(红色)、G(绿色)、B(蓝色)、H(色调)、V(亮度)极显著负相关;所有颜色特征值中,G值与叶耳花青甙显色强度相关性最显著,是一元和多元回归主要自变量; G值建立的一元回归模型中, R~2为0.980;多元回归模型R~2值为0.994。结论回归模型的拟合效果好,用这两个模型均可完成叶耳花青甙显色强度分级。     

100 MeV质子回旋加速器二期辐照效应管道设计

针对中国原子能科学研究院100 MeV质子回旋加速器上的单粒子效应辐照装置进行了二期管道设计，采用八极磁铁校正法对束流进行了扩束及均匀化，最终在靶上得到了一个30 cm×30 cm、均匀性好于92%的均匀分布的束斑，满足了单粒子效应实验的需求。为降低靶站处的束流能散及中子本底，采用两级降能的方案，在偏转磁铁前放置1个降能片，将能量分为100 MeV和40 MeV两档，并分别针对这两个能量点进行方案设计，束流利用率均在42%以上。公差分析结果表明，四极磁铁对靶上束斑均匀性的影响大于八极磁铁，安装过程中应优先保证四极磁铁的安装公差。     

Mixing of low-dose cohesive drug and overcoming of pre-blending step using a new gentle-wing high-shear mixer granulator

The objective of this study was to examine the influence of drug amount and mixing time on the homogeneity and content uniformity of a low-dose drug formulation during the dry mixing step using a new gentle-wing high-shear mixer. Moreover, the study investigated the influence of drug incorporation mode on the content uniformity of tablets manufactured by different methods. Albuterol sulfate was selected as a model drug and was blended with the other excipients at two different levels, 1% w/w and 5% w/w at impeller speed of 300?rpm and chopper speed of 3000?rpm for 30?min. Utilizing a 1?ml unit side-sampling thief probe, triplicate samples were taken from nine different positions in the mixer bowl at selected time points. Two methods were used for manufacturing of tablets, direct compression and wet granulation. The produced tablets were sampled at the beginning, middle, and end of the compression cycle. An analysis of variance analysis indicated the significant effect (p?uniformity of the powder blend and the corresponding tablets. For 1% w/w and 5% w/w formulations, incorporation of the drug in the granulating fluid provided tablets with excellent content uniformity and very low relative standard deviation (～0.61%) during the whole tableting cycle compared to direct compression and granulation method with dry incorporation mode of the drug. Overall, gentle-wing mixer is a good candidate for mixing of low-dose cohesive drug and provides tablets with acceptable content uniformity with no need for pre-blending step.     

Numerical study on premixed hydrogen/air combustion characteristics and heat transfer enhancement of micro-combustor embedded with pin fins

Aimed at improving the energy output performance of the Microthermal Photovoltaic (MTPV) system, it is necessary to optimize the structure of the micro combustor. In this paper, micro combustor with in-line pin fins arrays (MCIPF) and micro combustor with both end-line pin fins arrays (MCEPF) were presented to realize the efficient combustion and heat transfer enhancement, and the influence of inlet velocity, equivalent ratio, and materials on thermal performance was investigated. The results showed that pin fins embedding is beneficial to improving combustion, and the combustion efficiency of MCIPF and MCEPF reaches 98.5% and 98.7%, which is significantly higher than that of the conventional cylindrical combustor (MCC). However, with the increase of inlet velocity from 8 m/s to 14 m/s, MCIPF exhibits the highest external wall temperature with a range of (1302–1386 K), while MCEPF maintains the best temperature uniformity. As the inlet velocity increases to 10 m/s, the external wall temperature and temperature uniformity reach the optimum. Besides, under the conditions of different equivalence ratios, both external wall temperature and heat flux increases first and then decreases, meanwhile the temperature uniformity of MCEPF is significantly improved compared with that of MCIPF, they all exhibit the highest external wall temperature with an equivalence ratio of 1.1, and the thermal performance is greatly enhanced. By comparing the heat transfer performance of combustors with different materials based on MCEPF, it is interesting to find that the application of high thermal conductivity materials can not only increase the external wall temperature, but also improve the temperature uniformity. Therefore, materials with high thermal conductivity such as Aluminum, Red Copper and Silicon Carbide should be selected for application in micro combustors and their components. The current work provides a new design method for the enhanced heat transfer of the micro combustor.     

Multi-stage power source and grid coordination planning method considering grid uniformity

Given the increasing uncertainties in power supply and load, this paper proposes the concept of power source and grid coordination uniformity planning. In this approach, the standard deviation of the transmission line load rate is considered as the uniformity evaluation index for power source and grid planning. A multi-stage and multi-objective optimization model of the power source and grid expansion planning is established to minimize the comprehensive cost of the entire planning cycle. In this study, the improved particle swarm optimization algorithm and genetic algorithm are combined to solve the model, thus improving the efficiency and accuracy of the solution. The analysis of a simple IEEE Garver’s 6-node system shows that the model and solution method are effective and feasible. Moreover, they are suitable for the coordinated planning of the power source and grid under a diversified nature of power supply and load.     

Radio frequency pasteurization and disinfestation techniques applied on low-moisture foods

Abstract

The shelf life of foods is usually limited due to the frequent contamination by pests and microorganisms. Although low risk of pathogen contamination and no growth potential compared to those in high water activity animal- or vegetal-derived products, the low-moisture food has still significantly contributed to the total number of foodborne infections and outbreaks. Radio frequency (RF) treatments can be classified as a dielectric heating, which is a promising technology for achieving effective food pasteurization and disinfestations because of the associated rapid and volumetric heating with large penetration depth. The RF technique could be applied at low-moisture food as both the dipole dispersion and ionic conductivity may play effective roles. It can selectively heat and kill the microorganisms/pests without damaging the agricultural product because of the large difference of dielectric loss factors between target microorganisms/pests and host foods. In this article, the low-moisture foods sterilized and disinfested by RF energy are reviewed through basic theories, dielectric properties, heating effect, and uniformity. The potential research directions for further RF heating applications are finally recommended in low-moisture foods.     

In-line characterization of dispersion uniformity evolution during a twin-screw blending extrusion based on near-infrared spectroscopy

Properties of an immiscible polymer blend have been proved to be closely related to dispersion uniformity of the minor phase. At present, dispersion uniformity is difficult to evaluate during the blending process, resulting in hysteretic feedback. Aiming at this problem, this work utilized near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy to in-line characterize dispersion uniformity evolution during a twin-screw extrusion. A multichannel NIR measurement system was set up and applied to evaluate the blending process of polypropylene and polyolefin elastomer (POE). Based on the NIR spectra collected at different positions of the extruder, five prediction models of POE content were established using the light gradient boosting machine algorithm. Dispersion uniformity was characterized through the fluctuation of the predicted content. The evolution of dispersion under such processing parameters was consistent with scanning electron microscopy.     

Experimental investigation on the voltage uniformity for a PEMFC stack with different dynamic loading strategies

The operating life of the proton exchange membrane fuel cell stack is mainly decided by performances of its weakest single cell because of the “Buckets effect”, thus high voltage uniformity during a dynamic loading process is key to the stack durability. In this work, a 3-kW stack is examined experimentally on its voltage uniformity (voltage coefficient variation (Cv)) under conditions of loading from open-circuit state (0 A) to nominal current (165 A) and stack temperatures of 30 °C, 45 °C and 65 °C. Different dynamic loading strategies, namely constant loading rate strategy, decreasing loading rate strategy, and increasing loading rate (square/cube increasing loading rate) strategy, are examined and compared. Results display that during the loading process, (a) the voltage uniformity rises abruptly and goes down quickly when the loading current is small (e.g. from 0 A to 22 A), (b) the voltage uniformity under a small loading current is better than that under the open-circuit state, and (c) voltage uniformity decreases as the loading current increases from a small value to the nominal current. Comparisons of different current loading strategies show that as the stack temperature rises from 30 °C to 65 °C, the stack Cv value under the open-circuit state increases from 1.12 to 1.84 and decreases from 3.85 to 2.45 in the nominal current state. The maximum Cv for the decreasing loading rate strategy decreases from 16.25 to 9.49 and that of the constant loading rate strategy also decreases from 5.85 to 4.96. Cv values of the square current increasing loading rate strategy keep below 3.85 under conditions of the three stack temperatures and display a slight fluctuation during the whole current loading process, which indicates that the strategy can effectively make the stack being of an excellent voltage uniformity during the instantaneous response process.