Open‐cycle OTEC systems with freshwater product: Effects of noncondensable gases on performance of condenser

An open‐cycle ocean thermal energy conversion (OC‐OTEC) system is one of the energy conversion methods used to generate electricity from ocean thermal energy. For the OC‐OTEC system, steam evaporated from the surface seawater due to flash evaporation drives the turbine. At that time, dissolved gas such as air is introduced into the low‐pressure system (OC‐OTEC system) as the noncondensable gas, which degrades the performance of condensation heat transfer. In this paper, a small‐scale OC‐OTEC experimental unit experimentally investigates the effect of noncondensable gas on the heat transfer performance in a condenser. The experimental results are discussed in comparison with theoretical estimation by the Sparrow–in method. It is shown that the condensation is occupied by heat and mass transfer near a condensation surface and that the condensation efficiency is affected by exhaust quantity of noncondensable gas at a relatively high concentration ratio of condensable gas. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electr Eng Jpn, 154(1): 29–35, 2006; Published online in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience.wiley.com ). DOI 10.1002/eej.20179     

Evaluation of tile–wall bonding integrity based on impact acoustics and support vector machine

It is well recognized that the impact-acoustic emissions contain information that can indicate the presence of the adhesive defects in the bonding structures. In our previous papers, artificial neural network (ANN) was adopted to assess the bonding integrity of the tile–walls with the feature extracted from the power spectral density (PSD) of the impact-acoustic signals acting as the input of classifier. However, in addition to the inconvenience posed by the general drawbacks such as long training time and large number of training samples needed, the performance of the classic ANN classifier is deteriorated by the similar spectral characteristics between different bonding status caused by abnormal impacts. In this paper our previous works was developed by the employment of the least-squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) classifier instead of the ANN to derive a bonding integrity recognition approach with better reliability and enhanced immunity to surface roughness. With the help of the specially designed artificial sample slabs, experiments results obtained with the proposed method are provided and compared with that using the ANN classifier, demonstrating the effectiveness of the present strategy.     

Boundary Layers in an Ocean Related System

In this article two regularizations of an hyperbolic model system derived from the primitive equations of the ocean (or the atmosphere) are presented. The two regularized systems converge to different limits as the regularization parameter converges to 0. Numerical approximations of these equations and numerical simulations are also presented     

The measuring method of early lateral energy fraction in the scale model experiments

This paper introduces a measuring method of early lateral energy fraction in the scale model experiments. According to the interference principle of half wave length making the high frequency figure-8 directional microphone. With the signal-processing technique, a receiving and analyzing system, for the measurements of lateral energy fraction in the scale model is realized.     

NONLINEAR COCHLEAR MECHANICAL MODEL AND ITS BIAS TECHNIQUE

The nonlinear equation modeling 2-D cochlear mechanics is established and aneffective method—bias technique for computing this equation is presented.The model showsmany effects which correlate closely to physiological experimental data.Quantitative data on thelevel-dependence of frequency responses are given.     

使用EASE软件中一些误区的讨论(待续)

在厅堂扩声系统工程设计中,大多采用声学模拟软件EASE进行室内声环境设置和扬声器布置,进而对工程完成后的室内一些声学参量做出预测,用于厅堂扩声系统工程投标中。然而这里最重要的一点就是要正确使用EASE软件。有鉴于此,就需要对使用EASE软件中存在的一些误区进行深入讨论。这些误区涉及正版EASE软件的版本配置,涉及适用房间的大小,涉及到吸声材料数据库和扬声器数据库等诸多方面。只有走出这些误区才能正确把握EASE的使用,使该软件更好地服务于厅堂声学设计。     

两种海洋节肢动物风味物质的分析与评价

目的:利用固相微萃取技术分析渤海产地三疣梭子蟹和口虾蛄肌肉中的风味化合物.方法:采用涂有聚二甲基硅氧烷-二乙烯苯(PDMS-DVB)涂层的固相微萃取头萃取挥发性化合物,并通过气相色谱质谱联用来分析鉴定两种海洋节肢动物肌肉中的风味成分.结果:固相微萃取技术有效提取了三疣梭子蟹和口虾蛄肌肉中的呈味物质,经过 NIST 质谱数据库和文献对照,分别确定了20种和15种主要呈味物质,大多是一些酸类、酯类、醛类、醇类等化合物.结论:两种海洋节肢动物所含有的风味物质因其含量及构成比例不同而形成了各自独有的风味和口感.     

生物技术在药物研究和开发中的应用

生物技术应用于药物研究和开发领域可以大量获得生物活性物质、半合成药物等;分子生物学的发展使基因药物、基因治疗、细胞因子药物成为临床药物及治疗方法;生物技术还将大大促进海洋药物研究与开发。     

板中超声传播的几何法分析及应用

根据声-超声的发射、传播和接收模式,利用几何声学法对板中传播的超声波信号进行分析,实验证明了该方法的科学性及其在板的超声检测中的作用。