Cooperative role of cobalt and gallium under the ethanol steam reforming on Co/CeGaOx

The performance of gallium promoted cobalt-ceria catalysts for ethanol steam reforming (ESR) was studied using H₂O/C₂H₅OH = 6/1 mol/mol at 500 °C. The catalysts were synthetized via cerium-gallium co-precipitation and wetness impregnation of cobalt. A detailed characterization by N₂-physisorption, XRD, H₂-TPR and TEM allowed the normalization of contact time and rationalization of the role of each catalysts component for ESR. The gallium promoted catalyst, Co/Ce₉₀Ga₁₀O_x, was more efficient for the ethanol conversion to H₂ and CO₂, and the production of oxygenated by-products (such as, acetaldehyde and acetone) than Co/CeO₂. The catalytic performance is explained assuming that: (i) bare ceria is able to dehydrogenate ethanol to ethylene; (ii) Ce–O–Ga interface catalyzes ethanol reforming; (iii) both Ce–O–Co and Ce–O–Ga interfaces takes part in acetone production; and (iv) cobalt sites further allow C–C scission. It is suggested that a cooperative role between Co and Ce–O–Ga sites enhance the H₂ and CO₂ yields under ESR conditions.     

2019年黑龙江省猪肉市场运行情况分析

2018年非洲猪瘟疫情出现以来,全国及黑龙江省生猪生产、猪肉市场受到了较大的影响,生猪、能繁母猪存栏减少,生猪出场价格也经历了明显波动。2019年春节以后,随着省外调出量增加和猪源减少,黑龙江省生猪出场价格进入上升通道,超过了全国平均水平,白条猪肉批发价格和猪肉市场零售价格随之上行。通过对2019年黑龙江省生猪生产环节、屠宰加工环节、猪肉市场零售环节进行调研,对生猪出场价格、白条猪肉批发价格、猪肉零售价格、生猪和能繁母猪产能等指标进行分析,阐述了以生猪和猪肉市场为重点的肉类产销形势,为促进肉类产业高质量发展、提高市场保供能力提供参考。     

基于“校企协同”的制冷空调课程体系的构建

从制冷空调企业的现状出发,利用校企协同、产教融合的创新组织模式,整合暖通行业、企业和学校的资源优势,构建一套“协同创新”的制冷空调课程体系,从根本上提高建环专业学生工程素养和创新能力,以满足暖通行业、企事业单位对具有实践及创新能力的高素质应用型技术人才需求。     

Domestic demand-side response with heat pumps: controls and tariffs

ABSTRACT

Electric heat pumps feature prominently in projected energy transitions in the UK and elsewhere. Owing to their high electricity consumption, heat pumps are viewed as important targets for demand-side response (DSR). Findings are presented from a field trial of a new control system that aims to optimize heat pump performance, including under time-varying tariff conditions. The trial involved monitoring 76 properties with heat pumps, but without dedicated heat storage; 31 of these received the control system. Interviews were conducted with a subsample of 12 participants. The controller successfully evened out electricity demand over the day (reducing the evening peak), but this was associated with increased late night and daytime temperatures. Interview participants reported some disturbance owing to overnight heating and noise, as well as usability issues with the controller interface and hardware. These issues present risks to the future acceptability of such systems. While the system delivered short-term demand reductions successfully, longer-term demand shifting risked causing unacceptable disturbance to occupants. Future control systems could overcome some of the issues identified in this pioneering trial through more effective zoning, using temperature caps or installing dedicated heat storage, but these may either limit the available flexibility or be challenging to achieve.     

超高层劲性结构及大型机械设备立体协同施工技术

基于某超高层建筑群项目的主体施工阶段,对超高层劲性结构建筑群项目施工过程中可能遇到的问题,诸如大型机械立体协同、钢结构与钢筋连接节点优化、钢结构桁架层施工等重难点进行总结分析,并提出相应的解决方案以供探讨,可为同类型工程提供参考经验。     

中外合作办学模式下化学实验室的开放与管理

基础化学实验课程是学习化学的基础,对于提高学生对化学理论知识的理解、培养学生科研素质起到非常重要的作用。公共基础化学实验室的开放,使不同专业的学生有更多的机会可以接触化学实验,增强对化学基础知识的了解和掌握,培养学生实践能力和创新能力。介绍了如何建立开放化学实验室准入制度、实验室分区和安全管理制度、实验室跟进和激励制度,并给出了一些中外合作的探索措施,为化学实验室的开放管理和运行提供参考。     

Testing the oil price efficiency using various measures of long-range dependence

In this paper, we empirically examine the application of a host of techniques employed to measure price efficiency through long-range dependence using prices of monthly oil contracts. Using a series of methods, we analyse the volatility (daily absolute returns) of WTI and Brent oil prices for nine different contracts with maturity, ranging from 1 to 9 months, during the sample period of 1990-2017. We use bootstrapping to compute the confidence interval of the parameter of long-range dependence. Our results indicate that on an average, there is no long-range dependence in the volatility of oil price contracts at least at the 10-percent level of significance. Moreover, our results of rolling estimates suggest that the normality assumption does not affect the results considerably, and the results are robust to different rolling window sizes. While the results of the efficiency index suggest that the efficiency of oil returns vary with time, the futures contracts for Brent oil are found to be less efficient compared to WTI oil. The long-term futures contracts are more efficient than short-term contracts.     

Financial development and energy consumption nexus in emerging economies

This study aims to examine the relationship between financial development, energy price, real income, and energy consumption in 17 emerging economies. In doing so, the financial development has been handled with three different dimensions (banking sector, stock market, and bond market) and the effects of each financial development dimension on energy consumption is investigated. For this purpose, the annual data of 1991–2015 are analyzed using the common correlated effect (CCE) estimator to take into account the cross-sectional dependence. The results show that bond market development is the most efficient dimension to reduce the energy consumption.     

Analysis of the patent cooperation network in global artificial intelligence technologies based on the assignees

Studying the distribution of the patent cooperation networks from the perspective of assignees provides a very important reference to improve the analysis of the market situation, master the layout of industrial technology and seek partners or mergers and acquisitions. This study uses the Derwent patent database and the patent metric approach to investigate the cooperative network structure of the assignees. The overall patent output in the artificial intelligence field on a global scale exhibited a rapid growth, and the proportion of cooperative patents significantly increased; the cooperation structure between the assignees was loose, and the innovation efficiency was low.     

The Territorial Impact Assessment of transport: the case of the Egnatia motorway system in the cohesion potential of Southeast Europe

Territorial Impact Assessment (TIA) is proposed as a critical tool in order to investigate the way policies affect spatial development and hence territorial cohesion. The paper introduces a TIA methodological model in relation to transport sector. The design of the methodological model is based on a quantitative evaluation framework that comprises a set of selected indicators applied in a cross-border area of southeast Europe, influenced by the operation of the Greek motorway system of Egnatia and its vertical axes. The indicators are grouped into three main fields of TIA, i.e. transport intermodality, polycentric spatial organization and cross-border territorial cooperation. The TIA’s indicators are approximated by quantitative analysis. The procedure concludes to an overall composite indicator measuring the ‘level of territorial cohesion’ along with some core results and the expected added value. It also highlights some key technical aspects about the routines used and proceeds to suggestions for further refinement.