Effect of surface free energy on the adhesion of biofouling and crystalline fouling

Pipelines and heat exchangers using seawater as coolant suffer from biofouling. Biofouling not only reduces heat transfer performance significantly, but also causes considerable pressure drop, calling for higher pumping requirements. It would be much more desirable if surfaces with an inherently lower stickability for biofouling could be developed. In this paper, a cost-effective autocatalytic graded Ni-Cu-P-PTFE composite coating with corrosion-resistant properties was applied to reduce biofouling formation. The experimental results showed that the surface free energy of the Ni-Cu-P-PTFE coatings, which were altered by changing the PTFE content in the coatings, had a significant influence on the adhesion of microbial and mineral deposits. The Ni-Cu-P-PTFE coatings with defined surface free energy reduced the adhesion of these deposits significantly. The anti-bacterial mechanism of the composite coatings was explained with the extended DLVO theory.     

Potentiometric titration of long chain quaternary ammonium compounds using sodium tetraphenyl borate

Current methods for determining the activity of long chain quaternary ammonium compounds (QACS) are based either on dye partition, titration, or colorimetric analysis. The two major disadvantages of these methods are the disparity of partition coefficients among differently constituted QACS and the difficulty in detecting visual end points. Some potentiometric titration methods for QACS have been reported in the literature. However, back titration techniques, as well as complicated electrode systems, are generally involved. A new potentiometric titration system is presented which uses aqueous sodium tetraphenylborate (TPB) solution as a titrant and a platinum-platinum electrode system to detect the end point. Standard potentiometric titration instruments may be used for this method. This new potentiometric method is superior in precision and accuracy to visual (colorimetric) methods. Original version presented at the 1986 Annual AOCS Meeting in Honolulu, HI.     

熔体塔式造粒法生产尿基复混肥

化肥企业生产尿基复混肥对于农业科学施肥、提高肥料利用率、避免环境污染及促进企业产品结构调整都具有十分重要的意义。熔体塔式造粒法生产尿基复混肥较之其它方法优越性更为显著,笔者简要介绍该法的生产机理、工艺流程、技术特点、国内现状及产品市场前景等方面的一些情况。     

新桥硫铁矿二步骤回采工艺及充填方案的探讨

介绍了新桥硫铁矿二步骤回采工艺，并从技术经济角度对该矿所采用的充填料及充填系统进行了探讨。     

实验快堆项目施工进度管理的实践与探讨

本文在总结中国实验快堆安装工程施工进度管理工作实践的基础上,对施工进度管理的背景、任务、目标及各个实施环节做了全面的描述和有益的探讨,并提出了一些经过实践检验的改进意见,对类似核工程的施工进度管理具有一定的借鉴意义。     

铟（Ⅲ）－钼酸铵－罗丹明B显色反应体系的研究及其应用

铟（Ⅲ）与钼酸铵和罗丹明Ｂ在ＰＶＡ存在下的酸性水溶液中形成离子缔合物而产生显色反应，该体系的灵敏度高，摩尔吸光系数ε＝２．４４×１０５Ｌ·ｍｏｌ－１ｃｍ－１，离子缔合物稳定性好，至少稳定４８ｈ。研究了显色体系的光度特性和３０多种共存离子的影响，该法应用于纯锡中痕量铟的测定，结果满意。     

Security concepts for the dynamics of autonomous vehicle networks

The secure operation of autonomous vehicle networks in the presence of adversarial observation is examined, in the context of a canonical double-integrator-network (DIN) model. Specifically, we study the ability of a sentient adversary to estimate the full network’s state, from noisy local measurements of vehicle motions. Algebraic, spectral, and graphical characterizations are provided, which indicate the critical role of the inter-vehicle communication topology and control scheme in achieving security.     

Collaborative representation with reduced residual for face recognition

Collaboration representation-based classification (CRC) was proposed as an alternative approach to the sparse representation method with similar efficiency. The CRC is essentially a competition scheme for the training samples to compete with each other in representing the test sample, and the training class with the minimum representation residual from the test sample wins the competition in the classification. However, the representation error is usually calculated based on the Euclidean distance between a test sample and the weighted sum of all the same-class samples. This paper exploits alternative methods of calculating the representation error in the CRC methods to reduce the representation residual in a more optimal way, so that the sample classes compete with each other in a closer range to represent the test sample. A large number of face recognition experiments on three face image databases show that the CRC methods with optimized presentation residual achieve better performance than the original CRC, and the maximum improvement in classification accuracy is up to 12 %.