Due to the increasing importance of producing and consuming energy more sustainably, Energy Informatics (EI) has evolved into a thriving research area within the CS/IS community. The article attempts to characterize this young and highly dynamic field of research by describing current EI research topics and methods and provides an outlook of how the field might evolve in the future. It is shown that two general research questions have received the most attention so far and are likely to dominate the EI research agenda in the coming years: How to leverage information and communication technology (ICT) to (1) improve energy efficiency, and (2) to integrate decentralized renewable energy sources into the power grid. Selected EI streams are reviewed, highlighting how the respective research questions are broken down into specific research projects and how EI researchers have made contributions based on their individual academic background. 相似文献
In this investigation, a comparative study for a NOX storage catalytic system was performed focusing on the parameters that affect the reduction by using different reductants (H2, CO, C3H6 and C3H8) and different temperatures (350, 250 and 150 °C), for a Pt/BaO/Al2O3 catalyst. Transient experiments show that H2 and CO are highly efficient reductants compared to C3H6 which is somewhat less efficient. H2 shows a significant reduction effect at relatively low temperature (150 °C) but with a low storage capacity. We find that C3H8 does not show any NOX reduction ability for NOX stored in Pt/BaO/Al2O3 at any of the temperatures. The formation of ammonia and nitrous oxide is also discussed.
Transient experiments were performed to study sulfur deactivation and regeneration of Pt/BaO/Al2O3 and Pt/SrO/Al2O3 NOx storage catalysts. It was found that the strontium-based catalysts are more easily regenerated than the barium-based catalysts
and that a higher fraction of the NOx storage sites are regenerated when H2 is used in combination with CO2 compared to H2 only. 相似文献
Given a collection of parameterized multi-robot controllers associated with individual behaviors designed for particular
tasks, this paper considers the problem of how to sequence and instantiate the behaviors for the purpose of completing a
more complex, overarching mission. In addition, uncertainties about the environment or even the mission specifications
may require the robots to learn, in a cooperative manner, how best to sequence the behaviors. In this paper, we approach this
problem by using reinforcement learning to approximate the solution to the computationally intractable sequencing problem,
combined with an online gradient descent approach to selecting the individual behavior parameters, while the transitions
among behaviors are triggered automatically when the behaviors have reached a desired performance level relative to a task
performance cost. To illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, it is implemented on a team of differential-drive
robots for solving two different missions, namely, convoy protection and object manipulation. 相似文献
The effect of artificial aging parameters on the corrosion performance of air cooled AlMgSi(Cu) model alloy extrusions was investigated. Accelerated corrosion test revealed that the extrusions were highly susceptible to intergranular corrosion (IGC) in the naturally aged condition. However, IGC susceptibility was reduced, and finally eliminated, by artificial aging. Overaging introduced slight pitting susceptibility. EDS X-ray mapping in FE-TEM revealed Mg2Si and Q-phase (Al4Cu2Mg8Si7) grain boundary precipitates and a continuous Cu-enriched grain boundary film. IGC susceptibility was related to the Cu-enriched grain boundary film. Increased IGC resistance was caused by coarsening of the grain boundary film by aging. Pitting susceptibility by over aging evolved due to coarsening of the Q-phase particles in the grain bodies. 相似文献
Snowmelt is known to cause peak concentrations of pollutants, which may adversely affect receiving water quality. High concentrations of metals and suspended solids in snow have been reported, whereas studies on organic pollutants are rare. This study aims at investigating the occurrence of anthropogenic organic compounds in urban snow in Gothenburg (Sweden). The most frequently detected organic pollutants in the collected snow samples were polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), high molecular-weight phthalates, 4-nonylphenol and 4-t-octylphenol. Brominated flame retardants and chlorinated paraffins were only sporadically detected. In several snow samples, the concentrations of specific PAHs, alkylphenols and phthalates were higher than reported stormwater concentrations and European water quality standards. Pollutant source identification and sustainable management of snow are important instruments for the mitigation of organic contaminants in the urban environment. 相似文献
This paper reports on the use of qualitative analysis to inform a risk analysis framework for decentralised water systems. To realise the benefits from these technologies, a methodology is applied to learn from previous difficulties in implementing and managing them. A workshop process was used to capture stories from industry professionals on difficulties they have encountered in planning and implementation. Qualitative analysis of story narratives revealed stages where there was some type of development process failure; as well as failure modes and factors influencing the difficulties encountered. The analysis also generated insights: difficulties in one part of the development process tends to propagate to subsequent stages; system difficulties most often occurred in the policy stage of development due to institutional inertia and lack of adaptive governance; and the best indicator of problems with a decentralised system was complaints of poor water quality. Furthermore, this paper also provides a method to learn from past difficulties by identifying what data needs to be collected in order to populate a risk model which can be used for improving risk assessment of the development process for decentralised systems. This can provide a basis for better decision making, policy and guidelines; an important factor in mainstream acceptance. 相似文献
Electrostatic probes or Langmuir probes are the most common diagnostic tools in plasma discharges. The second derivative of the Langmuir probe I-V characteristic is proportional to the electron energy distribution function. Determining the second derivative accurately requires some method of noise suppression. We compare the Savitzky-Golay filter, the Gaussian filter, and polynomial fitting to the Blackman filter for digitally smoothing simulated and measured I-V characteristics. We find that the Blackman filter achieves the most smoothing with minimal distortion for noisy data. 相似文献
Applied Intelligence - The task of reconstructing detailed 3D human body models from images is interesting but challenging in computer vision due to the high freedom of human bodies. This work... 相似文献