The Region 1 & 3 Broadcasting‐Satellite Service Plan after WRC‐03

The 1977 Broadcasting‐Satellite Service (BSS) Plan for Region 1 & 3 had been widely acknowledged to be out‐of‐date by the late 1980s. Development of digital modulation in the early 1990s provided an opportunity to update the technical provisions of the Plan to make it more economically viable. After a decade of work and three World Radiocommunication Conferences (WRCs), the revision of Region 1 & 3 BSS Plan was finally completed in 2003. The new Plan increased channel assignments from 5 to 10 analog‐equivalent channels for each country in Region 1, and from 4 to 12 channels for each country in Region 3. Yet, despite the increase in capacity, the new Plan is surprisingly similar to the original one in terms of the technical parameters. It is still based on national coverage, and the channel plan, orbital location, orbital spacing, and polarization are also the same. As a result, the new Plan is no more economically viable to implement than the old. To create economically viable BSS systems would most likely require modifications to the assignment in the Plan. Yet, modification procedures were made more difficult to apply after replanning. Less future implementation of BSS networks than would otherwise have occurred can be expected, and an inefficient usage of these frequency bands will likely result. On the other hand, less implemented systems will mean more capacity set aside for future use. This is important for countries that currently do not have satellite operations. In the end, BSS replanning reflects the eternal conflict between efficient usage and guaranteed future access. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

“四低一高”工艺在85kA预焙槽的应用与优化

本文介绍了“四低一高”(低电解温度、低分子比、低氧化铝浓度、低阳极效应系数、高工作电压)工艺技术条件在85kA预焙槽上的应用与优化,实验证明“四低一高”工艺需要针对具体槽型进行优化设计,适宜的技术条件对提高电流效率、降低直流电耗,节能效果显著。     

Electrochemical Aspects of Electroosmotic Dewatering of Clay Suspensions

An attempt is made to elucidate the electrochemical aspects of the electroosmotic dewatering (EOD) of clays as reported in some recent work, especially that on interrupted DC power electroosmotic dewatering published by Rabie, Mujumdar and Weber (2). These authors showed that the dewatering by EOD stops after the DC power has been on for several minutes or hours; on interruption of their power and on short-circuiting of the electrodes, conditions can be created again for some further dewatering by DC power EOD. This discovery, of Rabie et al. is interpreted as a fuel cell effect and it is shown that it affords clues to several other electrochemical strategies for the possible enhancement of the efficiency of the EOD by DC power.

Further, the open circuit potentials observed by Rabie et al. (2) on the interruption of DC power are given an electrochemical interpretation which leads to quantitative estimates in agreement with the experimental values.     

添加剂对尖晶石型锰酸锂性质表征的影响

以LiOH·H_20和MnO_2为原料,分别掺入H_2BO_3、Al_2O_3、SiO_2和P_2O_5等添加剂,用固相分段法制备尖晶石型锰酸锂。结果表明,SiO_2和P_2O_5可以有效地改善LiMn_2O_4的电化学性能,H_3BO_3对锰酸锂的电化学性能影响不大,而Al_2O_3破坏了LiMn_2O_4的电化学性能。面扫描结果显示,Si或P元素各自都均匀地分散于LiMn_2O_4的物相中。从元素电负性和原子半径的角度分析了B、Si、P和Al元素对尖晶石型LiMn_2O_4结构和性能的影响。     

A feasibility study of a direct-mapping parallel processing method to solve linear equations in load-flow calculation

With the growing size and complexity of power systems, system analysis—such as transients calculation—takes much time. Hence, fast calculation methods are required. Although parallel processing is a hopeful method, there have been difficulties in the parallel solution of linear equations which appear in power-flow calculations by the Newton-Raphson method. This paper aims at the fast calculation of the power-flow problem by means of parallel processing. In order to improve the suitability to the parallel solution of the differential equation in transients calculation, we assume the use of a direct-mapping parallel processing machine to map directly the network of a power system onto a network of processors. Under this assumption, we propose a new parallel-processing-oriented method in which the linear equation is solved by linear iterations between nodes with Aitken acceleration. We simulate the method on three model power systems and compare this Parallel Iterative Method (PIN) with a Parallel Direct Method (PDM) which uses the banded matrix according to the number of operations required. As a result, we can expect that PIM may solve linear equations faster than PDM with m processors, although the PIM might be inferior to the PDM with m × m processors, where m denotes the half-band width of the banded matrix.     

Effective lightning protection schemes for distribution line

The causes of lightning outage are subdivided into direct lightning strokes and induced lightning strokes, which are identified by the characteristics of the lightning overvoltage. In the past, lightning protection devices were directed mainly toward the latter, and attention has been focused on the installation of lightning protection devices, ground wires, and reinforcement of insulators. However, lightning outages continue to occur. Thus it is extremely important to clarify the fault characteristics of lightning surges and to study the effectiveness of various lightning protection devices by considering both direct lightning stroke and induced lightning stroke in order to prevent lightning outage in the future. In this research, the electromagnetic transients program (EMTP) has been applied to the direct lightning stroke, and the induced lightning outage analysis program for multiple conductor systems has been applied to the induced lightning stroke to study the effectiveness of lightning protection devices provided by combination of various lightning protection devices. The most effective lightning protection schemes are analyzed and evaluated based on verification tests on the full scale models as well as economic considerations.     

磁热效应的直接测量及装置

磁热效应的测量有间接测量和直接测量两种方法。本文在比较两种测量方法各自特点的基础上,重点综述了直接测量装置的种类及特点;指出直接测量装置在室温磁制冷技术研究中的重要作用。     

外商直接投资对上海国内投资的挤出效应研究

建立了衡量挤入、挤出效应的数量模型，利用模型定量地讨论了外商直接投资(FDI)对上海国内投资的挤入、挤出效应，得到了外商直接投资对上海国内投资存在挤出效应的结论，并分析了产生挤出效应的原因。     

中压电动机传统起动方式的危害性

本通过对中压电动机的几种传统起动方式的探讨分析，阐述了使用这些方法对电网和周围其他用电设备产生的不利影响，提出了改进措施。     

滴注式直-压淬双排渗碳线的设计及应用

详细阐述了滴注式直-压淬两用双排气体渗碳自动线的组成单元，渗碳气氛、工艺柔性化、设计特点以及工艺调试；生产实践证明：自动线运行可靠．稳定，主要技术性能和指标达到或优于国家标准。