Study of asynchronizing phenomena using generator model with field mutual leakage reactance

This paper describes the effect of mutual leakage reactance in the rotor circuit on the analysis of generator transient characteristics. The authors derive a detailed equivalent circuit model for a 48P‐15,750‐kVA generator, analyze sudden short circuits and asynchronization phenomena of the generator by simulations with an electromagnetic transients program (ATP‐EMTP), and compare the results with experimental data. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electr Eng Jpn, 153(3): 31–40, 2005; Published online in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience.wiley.com ). DOI 10.1002/eej.20147     

Influence of charged droplet cloud on flashover of air gaps for lightning impulse voltage

Transmission lines passing through a mountainous region often are struck by winter lightning. As a result, numerous double-circuit faults occur. Space charge might be responsible for this phenomena. Several investigations on flashover characteristics have been performed focusing on reduction of flashover voltage due to ionic space charge formed by corona discharge. In this paper, flashover characteristics of an air gap within a charged droplet cloud ejected from an airless nozzle using an induction charging method are discussed. The droplets are charged in the range -200 to 200 μC/kg, forming the space-charge density of approximately 13 μC/m³. The flashover voltage and the time lag to flashover were measured when 1.2 × 50 μs lightning impulse voltage applied to a rod-sphere gap is placed within the charged cloud. Flashover voltage for a positive rod increased markedly within a positive charged cloud by increasing the charge-to-mass ratio. The increase of flashover voltage was up to 80 percent in comparison with uncharged droplets. Flashover voltage for the negative rod decreased about 20 percent in the cloud of either polarity. The results show that the presence of charged droplets in the air gaps affects the discharge process significantly.     

Radiation heat transfer in three‐dimensional closed space including diffuse and specular surfaces

A method of numerical calculation for radiation heat transfer in a three‐dimensional closed space including diffuse and specular surfaces was developed. To enable an analysis of the radiation heat exchange on each surface considering multiple specular reflections and obstacles to radiation in the space, an improved heat ray‐tracing method was presented to calculate view factors accurately. The method was determined to be applicable to complicated problems in test calculations using models with specular surfaces and obstacles. Continuing efforts are being applied to more realistic problems. The example examined in this paper is an infrared emitter with a parabolic specular reflector, which is a conventional electric heating apparatus. The measured result for radiant power distribution agrees well with the calculated one. The practical validity of our method was verified. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Heat Trans Asian Res, 32(2): 108–129, 2003; Published online in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience.wiley.com ). DOI 10.1002/htj.10074     

Direct computation of expected numbers of failures and repairs via integral equation approach

This paper develops a method for computing the expected number of failures and the expected number of repairs of a component in a prescribed time interval. Our method computes directly the above mentioned quantities without passing through a conventional step of calculating the unconditional failure and repair intensities over the corresponding time interval. Our method is constructed via integral equation formulation with its operator equation representation. It is shown that the expected number of failures and the expected number of repairs can be computed with the same precision of accuracy as that of the unconditional failure and repair intensities, which cannot be possible by a conventional approach.     

Preparation and properties of disyndiotactic poly(alkyl crotonate)s

Ethyl, n-propyl, iso-propyl and n-butyl crotonates were polymerized by group transfer polymerization (GTP) using ketene trialkylsilyl acetals as initiators in the presence of mercury (II) iodide as catalyst and iodotriethylsilane as co-catalyst. Predominantly disyndiotactic polymers with number-average molecular weights ranging from 56,000 to 90,000 were obtained almost quantitatively. Thermal and mechanical properties of poly(alkyl crotonate)s, such as glass transition temperature (T_g), refractive index, transmissivity, Izod impact strength, Young's modulus, hardness, tensile strength, tensile elongation at break, gas permeability coefficient and density were measured. All the polycrotonates have 65–90 °C higher T_g than the corresponding polymethacrylates.     

Solution copolymerization of ethylene with α-olefins by a MgCl2 supported TiCl4 catalyst

Summary Copolymerization of ethylene with -olefins, i.e. propylene, butene-1, 4-methyl-pentene-1(4-MP-1), was carried out by a MgCl₂ supported TiCl₄ catalyst in combination with Et₃Al at a temperature as high as 170 °C at which the polymerization system was homogeneous. This catalytic system showed very a high activity and produced copolymers having a density of 0.91–0.94 g/ml. Of these three kinds of comonomers, propylene showed the highest reactivity and caused most frequently the termination of a polymer growing by chain transfer reaction and produced copolymers having the broadest MWD.     

The liquid flow in multi-stage flash evaporators

In an attempt to reach a quantitative understanding of the interaction between the fluid mechanics and flash evaporation in a stage of a multi-stage flash (MSF) evaporator, and in horizontal free-surface streams in general, a numerical analysis is performed, as a first step, of two-dimensional turbulent isothermal flow of a liquid in a flash chamber (stage) with and without a baffle (sill) placed downstream of the inlet orifice. Experiments are also performed, and validate the model successfully in the range of flows of 4.3 × 10⁵−8.7 × 10⁵ kg h⁻¹ (m width)⁻¹ and liquid level of 0.4 m, conditions typical to MSF evaporators. The baffle plate is found to serve well in propelling the entering liquid to the free surface and in generating low-pressure regions, primarily near the stream line rising from the top edge of the baffle, both effects promoting evaporation rates. The interstage orifice coefficient is found to be practically independent of the liquid superheat, temperature, and mass flow rate.     

Crosslinked polymer from N-vinylcarbazole and formalin

A crosslinked polymer has been synthesized from the reaction of N-vinylcarbazole and formalin in toluene in the presence of dry HCl gas. The copolycondensate is insoluble in all common solvents for poly-N-vinylcarbazole, and exhibits higher thermal stability than the unmodified poly-N-vinylcarbazole. However, this polymer is less thermally stable than the corresponding furfural modified poly-N-vinylcarbazole. A mechanism for the overall reaction has been suggested and the factors affecting the synthesis have been discussed.     

MACSYM: A hierarchical parallel image processing system for event-driven pattern understanding of documents

MACSYM is a hierarchical parallel processing system for pattern understanding applications. It features event-driven parallel processing for knowledge-based understanding of document images. The system is composed of a master processor, slave processors and a large shared memory, and is equipped with versatile communication facilities. The parallel processing software system M.UM has been developed on MACSYM. It supplies a parallel processing language MacC, an extended version of C, and supports the programming for document image understanding. The Japanese newspaper layout understanding system EXPRESS is being developed on MACSYM. It analyzes a newspaper image and extracts articles in a few seconds.