Understanding chemical reactions between carbons and NaOH and KOH: An insight into the chemical activation mechanism

Direct mixing of an anthracite with hydroxides (KOH or NaOH) and heat treatment up to 730 °C has shown to be a very good activation procedure to obtain activated carbons with very high surface areas and high micropore volumes. The reactions involved during the heat treatment of these hydroxide/anthracite mixtures have been analysed to deep into the fundamental of the knowledge of this chemical activation process, that has not been studied before. For this purpose, the present paper analyses the drying process, the atmosphere during the carbonisation, the chemical state of the activating agents (NaOH, KOH and Na₂CO₃) and the chemical reactions occurring during the heat treatment which have been followed by FTIR and TPD. The analysis of our results allows us to conclude that steam is a good atmosphere for the carbonisation process, alone or joined with nitrogen, but not as good as pure nitrogen. On the other hand, during the activation process, the presence of CO₂ should be avoided because it does not develop porosity. The reactions, and chemical changes, involved during this chemical process are discussed both from a thermodynamical point of view as well as identifying the reaction products (H₂ by TPD and Na₂CO₃ by FTIR). As a result, this paper helps to cover the present lack of understanding of the fundamentals of the reactions of an anthracite with hydroxides which are necessary to understand the activation of the material.     

Pedestrian detection and tracking in infrared imagery using shape and appearance

In this paper, we present an approach toward pedestrian detection and tracking from infrared imagery using joint shape and appearance cues. A layered representation is first introduced and a generalized expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm is developed to separate infrared images into background (still) and foreground (moving) layers regardless of camera panning. In the two-pass scheme of detecting pedestrians from the foreground layer: shape cue is first used to eliminate non-pedestrian moving objects and then appearance cue helps to locate the exact position of pedestrians. Templates with varying sizes are sequentially applied to detect pedestrians at multiple scales to accommodate different camera distances. To facilitate the task of pedestrian tracking, we formulate the problem of shot segmentation and present a graph matching-based tracking algorithm that jointly exploits the shape, appearance and distance information. Experimental results with both OSU Infrared Image Database and WVU Infrared Video Database are reported to demonstrate the accuracy and robustness of our algorithm.     

Infra-red and Raman spectroscopic study on the thermal stability and high temperature transformation of hydroazafullerene C59HN

Hydroazafullerene C₅₉HN was studied by vibrational infra-red and Raman spectroscopy and its thermal stability was examined. Fingerprints modes were identified and unambiguously differentiate it from bisazafullerene. At 700 K full transformation to bisazafullerene occurred, while an intermediate metastable phase was identified at 540 K showing different spectra where the splitting of most of the lines is strongly reduced.     

坦克红外特征控制技术评述

坦克红外特征控制对于提高坦克的战场生存能力具有重要意义。控制的主要方法有遮障、表面处理、外形技术、主动冷却、总体设计等。坦克红外特征的控制必须与其他波段，特别是射频波段的特性控制兼容。遮障和低发射率涂料是现役坦克红外特征控制的主要措施。而对未来的主战坦克，设计应是减少其系统特性的重要途径。     

硒化铅光导型红外探测器的电极选择

本文主要介绍硒化铅光导型多元红外探测器的电极材料选择和电极的制备工艺。     

128×128元IRCCD成像技术

研制成功了１２８×１２８元ＰｔｓｉＩＲＣＣＤ，获得了清晰的室温目标热像。文章叙述了该摄像机驱动逻辑电路的设计、驱动方式的研究和视频信号、数字信号的处理。     

IR LASER BACKSCATTERING FROM AN ARBITRARILY SHAPED DIELECTRIC OBJECT WITH ROUGH SURFACE

The backscattering of light wave from arbitrarily convex dielectric objects withrough surface is investigated and formulas for calculating the backscattering cross-section of bothcoherent and incoherent fields are obtained.In the infrared wave-band,the influence of the ge-ometry,permittivity and statistical characteristics of the rough surface on LRCS is analyzed,byusing rough sphere and ellipsoids as examples.     

重油隧道窑的红外温度测量

在分析重油隧道窑工况的基础上，分析了窑内烟气、燃烧物发射率、窑墙效应、环境温度对红外测温的影响以及热电偶测温的缺点，采取了相应的措施。利用中国发现专科实现了传感器输出信号的一致性。给出了传感器在重滑隧道窑现场使用２．５年后的复校数据。最后，估算出了用红外温度计替代热电偶测窑温产生的经济效益。     

PVInSb红外探测器的阻抗——频率特性分析

通过理论计算和实际测试，给出了ＰＶＩｎＳｂ红外探测器的低频阻抗－频率特性曲线，结合检测阻抗／动态电阻的方法和阻抗－频率特性曲线的变化规律，分析讨论了ＰＶＩｎＳｂ红外探测器的阻抗与动态电阻的异同，从而说明在涉及ＰＶＩｎＳｂ红外探测器的阻抗／动态电阻时，即使在低频范围也要具体考虑频率因素的影响。     

Background-subtraction using contour-based fusion of thermal and visible imagery

We present a new background-subtraction technique fusing contours from thermal and visible imagery for persistent object detection in urban settings. Statistical background-subtraction in the thermal domain is used to identify the initial regions-of-interest. Color and intensity information are used within these areas to obtain the corresponding regions-of-interest in the visible domain. Within each region, input and background gradient information are combined to form a Contour Saliency Map. The binary contour fragments, obtained from corresponding Contour Saliency Maps, are then fused into a single image. An A^* path-constrained search along watershed boundaries of the regions-of-interest is used to complete and close any broken segments in the fused contour image. Lastly, the contour image is flood-filled to produce silhouettes. Results of our approach are evaluated quantitatively and compared with other low- and high-level fusion techniques using manually segmented data.