爆破地震作用下地基的动力响应分析

通过简化爆破荷载的形式,对爆破振动作用下地基位移方程进行了推导,在此基础上给出了爆破作用下影响地基位移的诸要素,并提出了地基位移幅值在爆破作用下的变化规律,这对结构抗震工作的开展有着重要意义。     

某铜矿浮选药剂用量优化及技术应用探讨

湖北某铜矿浮选在常规加药条件下，前两槽不能有效形成泡沫层，浮选液面经常出现“翻花”现象，以致选矿指标波动大，起泡剂用量大幅上升，因此开展了浮选试验研究。试验结果表明，在总药量不变的情况下，适当降低粗选捕收剂用量，使有用矿物有序上浮，有效改善了浮选泡沫层的稳定性。在生产现场应用后，浮选现场泡沫稳定，层次感分明，彻底解决了浮选前两槽不起泡、翻花等问题，选铜回收率提高0.69%，起泡剂单耗降低18g/t，取得较好的应用效果。     

Energy Filtering of Charge Carriers: Current Trends,Challenges, and Prospects for Thermoelectric Materials

Exhaustive attempts are made in recent decades to improve the performance of thermoelectric materials that are utilized for waste heat‐to‐electricity conversion. Energy filtering of charge carriers is directed toward enhancing the material thermopower. This paper focuses on the theoretical concepts, experimental evidence, and the authors' view of energy filtering in the context of thermoelectric materials. Recent studies suggest that not all materials experience this effect with the same intensity. Although this effect theoretically demonstrates improvement of the thermopower, applying it poses certain constraints, which demands further research. Predicated on data documented in literature, the unusual dependence of the thermopower and conductivity upon charge carrier concentrations can be altered through the energy filtering approach. Upon surmounting the physical constraints discussed in this article, thermoelectric materials research may gain a new direction to enhance the power factor and thermoelectric figure of merit.     

Recovery planning of industrial robots based on semantic information of failures and time-dependent utility

Industrial robots are required to recover from temporary errors and continue operations under a changing environment. In this paper, we propose a recovery planning system that considers the semantic information behind errors during robotic actions. In order to establish general repair strategies for feasible recovery plans under uncertainties, the proposed system uses a conceptual graph based on case grammar and a Bayesian network that is dynamically constructed according to the semantic information. In addition, we tackle the problem that the wealth of the recovery plan depends on the uncertainty of execution costs against the deadline at the production site. The proposed system controls the decision model by using a time-dependent utility. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed system through simulations of assembly tasks by multiple robots.     

空气间隔装药对混凝土爆破效应的数值模拟

为了了解空气间隔装药条件下,药柱爆炸对混凝土破碎效应的影响,利用AUTODYN-2D软件建立空气间隔装药模型,研究不同条件下的爆破效应。模拟结果表明,与耦合装药相比,空气间隔装药能显著降低炮孔初始压力,因而可减少炮孔周围混凝土的过度破碎。同时也分析了空气柱的位置、长度、起爆位置以及炸药类型对混凝土破碎效应的影响。     

Simulation and experimental investigation of two hybrid solar domestic water heaters with drain water heat recovery

In this paper, the performance of two solar domestic hot waters (SDHW) with drain water heat recovery (DWHR) units is investigated. Both SDHW systems are recently installed at the Archetype Sustainable Twin Houses at Kortright Center, Vaughan, Ontario. The first SDWH system in House A consists of a flat plate solar thermal collector in combination with a gas boiler and a DWHR unit. The second SDHW system in House B includes an evacuated tube solar collector, an electric tank, and a DWHR unit. Both systems are modeled in TRNSYS, and the models are validated by experimental data. The addition of the DWHR and the flat‐plate solar thermal collector would result in 1831 kWh of annual energy saving in House A. While the addition of the DWHR and the evacuated tube collector in House B would result in an annual energy saving of 1771 kWh. Subsequently, the models are used to investigate the performance of similar systems for five major Canadian cities of Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Edmonton, and Vancouver. The conjunctions of solar thermal collectors with DWHR units are found most beneficial in Edmonton. It is also noted from experimental and simulated results that flat‐plate solar collector‐based water heater produced more thermal energy than the system based on the evacuated tube solar collector for all major Canadian cities. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

An evaluation of enhanced oil recovery strategies for a heavy oil reservoir after cold production with sand

Cold heavy oil production with sand (CHOPS) is the process of choice for unconsolidated heavy oil reservoirs with relatively high gas content. The key challenge of CHOPS is that the recovery factor tends to be between 5% and 15%, implying that the majority of the oil remains in the ground after the process is rendered uneconomic. Continued cold production (without sands) is not productive for a post‐CHOPS reservoir because of the low oil saturation and depleted reservoir pressure in the wormhole regions. There is a need to develop viable recovery processes for post‐CHOPS reservoirs. Here, different follow‐up processes are examined for a post‐CHOPS heavy oil reservoir. In post‐CHOPS cold water flooding, severe water channeling is ineffective at displacing high viscosity heavy oil. Hot water flooding improves the sweep efficiency and produces more oil compared with cold water flooding. However, the swept region is limited to the domain between the neighboring wormhole networks, and the energy efficiency of the process is relatively poor. Compared with the hot water flooding case, steam flooding achieves higher oil production rates and lower water use. A cyclic steam stimulation strategy achieves the best performance regarding oil production rates and water usage. Based on our results, it is observed that thermally based techniques alone are not capable to recover the oil economically for post‐CHOPS reservoirs. However, it is suggested that techniques with combined use of thermal energy and solvent could potentially yield efficient oil recovery methods for these reservoirs. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Optimal design of a light commercial freezer through the analysis of the combined effects of capillary tube diameter and refrigerant charge on the performance

In this work, a discussion on a methodology to optimize the performance of a commercial freezer by using a simulation tool is presented. In order to provide a practical tool for deciding the best combination of refrigerant charge and capillary tube diameter, the results of the numerical studies are shown in the form of two-dimensional maps. The usefulness of this type of representation lies in the possibility of selecting the best operating point of the system, taking into account not only the efficiency or the power consumption but also the technical constrictions imposed by parameters such as the suction line temperature, the condenser subcooling, the evaporator superheat, and the run-time ratio. The discussion leads to the conclusion that the useful performance map is drastically reduced when all the operation requirements must be satisfied. Once the system design had been optimized, an additional numerical study, aimed at identifying the influence of the external conditions on the system behavior, was performed. The results show that the performance reduction can be effectively minimized modifying the refrigerant charge.