De-oiling contaminated bleaching clay by high-pressure extraction

The disposal and re-use of spent bleaching clay from the vegetable oil processing industry is a problem of growing importance. Although today the only practical way of removal of the spent material is disposal, extraction with organic solvents is a well-known method of de-oiling contaminated bleaching clay. In our investigations we compare the extractibility of two different types of bleaching clays with CO₂ as a solvent. All experiments were carried out with a high-pressure extraction plant. The extraction and separation conditions, temperature and pressure, as well as the CO₂ mass flow, were varied during experiments. The aim of our investigations was a complete separation of the oil from the adsorbent. The latter should then be re-used as bleaching clay. The oil and the bleaching clay were analyzed and tested, respectively. The results show that oil of good quality can be recovered and the bleaching clay still has an activity approximately 50% of fresh clay.     

Solvent extraction of oil from soybean flour II— pilot plant and two-solvent extractions

The process of grinding soybeans to a fine flour and extracting the flour with hexane was studied on a pilot plant scale. The crude oil from the pilot plant study had 15 ppm phosphorus and was suitable for physical refining after a light acid pretreatment and bleaching. The refined oil showed a Lovibond color of 1.4 yellow and 0.3 red. The pilot plant study also showed that grinding of the soybeans and the separation of solid from miscella were the most difficult steps in solvent extraction with fine flour. A laboratory study on separation of miscella from meal by aqueous ethanol reduced the hold-up volume, but it did not remove all the miscella. A test with betacarotene showed that only the miscella outside the flour particles was displaced. Aqueous ethanol solutions used as a second solvent extracted additional nontriglyceride materials (primarily phospholipids) from the meal. Also, the free fatty acid content of the oil was increased with aqueous ethanol solution wash. The quality of the extracted crude oil was lowered by using a second solvent, but it had the advantage of needing only one centrifugation to separate miscella from meal.     

Effect of sample size on solvent extraction for detecting cocontinuity in polymer blends

The effect of sample size on the results of solvent extraction measurements for detecting cocontinuity in polymer blends was investigated. Poly(ethylene oxide)/polystyrene (PEO/PS) blend samples of several thicknesses were analyzed by removing the PEO phase using water extraction. The experimental degree of continuity was shown to have a linear dependence on the reciprocal of sample thickness. A model is proposed to explain this dependence and to allow the bulk or true degree of continuity to be determined. Measurement of the bulk degree of continuity is useful for understanding properties of cocontinuous polymer blends such as electrical conductivity, impact strength, or tensile strength.     

基于KPCA和SVM的火箭发动机试验台故障诊断方法

为了解决液体火箭发动机试验台的故障诊断问题,提出了一种基于核主元分析(KPCA)特征提取和支持向量多分类机(SVM)的故障诊断方法,该方法首先利用核主元分析对试验台标准故障样本进行特征提取,通过特征分析,建立适合于试验台故障状态识别的层次多分类支持向量机,并对其进行训练,然后将试验数据在主元上投影,输入到训练好的支持向量多分类器,对试验台故障状态进行识别.该方法充分利用了核主元分析强大的非线性特征提取能力和支持向量分类机良好的小样本泛化特性,解决了试验台故障诊断中的小样本、非线性模式识别问题.对试验台的试验结果表明,该方法是有效的、可行的.     

强化两相混合的超临界技术制备聚乳酸微粒

针对商品化聚乳酸微球粒径分布较宽难于适用气溶胶给药要求的不足,采用水力空化混合强化超临界流体辅助雾化技术(SAA-HCM)制备聚乳酸(PLA)超细微粒.该技术主要特点是通过在超临界流体和液相进料处引入水力空化混合器,强化两相间的混合.考察SAA-HCM过程混合器压力、温度、沉淀器温度、进料中CO2与液体溶液质量流量比和溶液质量浓度等操作参数对微粒形态和粒径分布的影响,成功制备出球形度较好,粒径分布较窄(1～3μm)的PLA微球.经X射线衍射(XRD)分析和差示扫描量热(DSC)分析显示,与原料PLA相比,微球晶型及热曲线变化不大,但结晶度下降.同时把操作参数与相行为进行关联,探讨了影响颗粒形貌的机理.对比超临界流体辅助雾化法(SAA)的实验结果表明:水力空化的引入能有效强化混合器内的两相传质,混合更好,能制备出适用于气溶胶给药要求的超细微粒.     

红外与可见光复合寻的制导中的快速图像配准方法

对现有多传感器图像配准方法在红外与可见光复合寻的制导应用中存在的计算量大等不足,提出了一种基于部分Hausdorff距离的快速方法和一种两集合相似度的定义,从而实现了有效减小误匹配特征点对的红外与可见光图像快速配准方法.此算法通过分别提取两幅图像边缘上显著特征点,再根据提出的快速方法和两集合相似度定义,粗略估计出图像间的旋转角度、平移量;然后依据此估计值,缩小特征点匹配时匹配特征点搜索范围,求得一致特征点对;最后用最小二乘法求解最优变换参数.实验结果表明了该方法的有效性、快速性.     

一种基于步幅长度及频域特征的步态识别方法

步态识别作为一种较新的生物认证技术有其独特优势,它旨在根据人行进过程中的行走步态模式来识别其身份.提出一种基于步幅长度及频域特征的步态识别方法:首先采用背景减除算法实现运动人体检测,并根据步幅长度变化特征进行周期分割.然后提取步幅长度极值结合关键帧的频幅均值构成五维特征向量,最后用标准模式分类器在中科院自动化所提供的CASIA步态数据库中进行实验,在降低了算法复杂度的同时,获得了令人鼓舞的实验结果.     

一种适应光照多变的夜间前景提取方法

夜间前景提取是智能监控的必要处理过程,也是新时代下店铺防盗的高效手段。提出了一种在强弱光多变下具有检测鲁棒性的动态目标自动提取算法。在亮度通道上利用直方图均衡技术根据设置参数自适应灰度增幅,结合Canny边缘图像进行差分处理,最后给出前景提取算法。实验结果表明:在强弱光不同光照环境下,该方法可以很好的削弱不同光照对前景提取带来的多噪声、过度曝光等影响,提高前景对比度,相比其他方法,显示效果清晰完整,并满足实时性要求。     

非平稳时序循环平稳趋势提取与机械故障诊断

在简单介绍非平稳时序模型周期趋势项提取方法的基础上，提出了机械故障诊断和分析方法，该方法利用旋转机械出现故障以后所呈现的循环平稳特性，使用循环平稳分析方法剔除非平稳时间序列模型中的趋势项，然后建立平稳时序模型，用该模型进行机械故障诊断分析。并运用仿真和实例对方法的正确性进行了验证。     

Video summarization via minimum sparse reconstruction

The rapid growth of video data demands both effective and efficient video summarization methods so that users are empowered to quickly browse and comprehend a large amount of video content. In this paper, we formulate the video summarization task with a novel minimum sparse reconstruction (MSR) problem. That is, the original video sequence can be best reconstructed with as few selected keyframes as possible. Different from the recently proposed convex relaxation based sparse dictionary selection method, our proposed method utilizes the true sparse constraint L₀ norm, instead of the relaxed constraint _L2,1$L_{2,1}$ norm, such that keyframes are directly selected as a sparse dictionary that can well reconstruct all the video frames. An on-line version is further developed owing to the real-time efficiency of the proposed MSR principle. In addition, a percentage of reconstruction (POR) criterion is proposed to intuitively guide users in obtaining a summary with an appropriate length. Experimental results on two benchmark datasets with various types of videos demonstrate that the proposed methods outperform the state of the art.