Analysis of low load transients for the Vandellòs-II NPP: Application to operation and control support

The Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) has been jointly working with the Asociación Nuclear Ascó-Vandellòs (ANAV) for a number of years in order to establish, qualify and use best estimate (BE) models for the reactors under the control of ANAV. ANAV is the consortium that is responsible for operation of the Ascó and Vandellòs-II reactors. The reactors are Westinghouse-design three-loop PWRs with an approximate electrical power of 1000 MW. The existing integral plant models for each plant are currently used for many different purposes among which are support of plant operation and control. Quite a number of studies have been done in order to improve both safety and plant competitiveness. Most of these dynamic analyses were carried out in relation to transients starting at nominal full power or at least, very close to full power. This paper develops a specific use of the Vandellòs-II plant model for operation and control support at low power involving new ranges of system actuation parameters. It also examines scenarios that are somewhat different from those typically analysed. The study starts showing the results of an assessment case, which is a start-up test and provides some additional qualification, and subsequently attempts to establish calculations to support both an improvement in feed water controls and to set up operating recommendations for low-load manual operation of feed water turbo-pump. Both results hopefully, will produce an outcome, which leads to an improvement in safety and reduces reactor trip probability.     

一种适合众核MPI的托管式消息模型

以异构多核为特征的众核处理器已成为处理器技术的主流发展方向,如何在众核上实现高效、可用的MPI将逐渐成为一个研究热点。本文首先介绍了众核MPI的研究现状,然后结合已有的研究成果提出一种适合众核MPI的消息模型,最后对MPI在众核上的发展趋势进行了展望。     

生物加密综述

生物加密(BE)将生物模板和密钥相结合生成生物密钥,可以取代传统口令对密钥进行保护。在没有通过验证的情况下,攻击者无法获取密钥或生物模板。BE包含了可撤销生物认证技术,增强了生物认证中的安全性和保护隐私。该文介绍这一领域的主要方案,并指出各类方案的优缺点。     

Microwave tomography for breast cancer detection on Cell broadband engine processors

Microwave tomography (MT) is a safe screening modality that can be used for breast cancer detection. The technique uses the dielectric property contrasts between different breast tissues at microwave frequencies to determine the existence of abnormalities. Our proposed MT approach is an iterative process that involves two algorithms: Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) and Genetic Algorithm (GA). It is a compute intensive problem: (i) the number of iterations can be quite large to detect small tumors; (ii) many fine-grained computations and discretizations of the object under screening are required for accuracy. In our earlier work, we developed a parallel algorithm for microwave tomography on CPU-based homogeneous, multi-core, distributed memory machines. The performance improvement was limited due to communication and synchronization latencies inherent in the algorithm. In this paper, we exploit the parallelism of microwave tomography on the Cell BE processor. Since FDTD is a numerical technique with regular memory accesses, intensive floating point operations and SIMD type operations, the algorithm can be efficiently mapped on the Cell processor achieving significant performance. The initial implementation of FDTD on Cell BE with 8 SPEs is 2.9 times faster than an eight node shared memory machine and 1.45 times faster than an eight node distributed memory machine. In this work, we modify the FDTD algorithm by overlapping computations with communications during asynchronous DMA transfers. The modified algorithm also orchestrates the computations to fully use data between DMA transfers to increase the computation-to-communication ratio. We see 54% improvement on 8 SPEs (27.9% on 1 SPE) for the modified FDTD in comparison to our original FDTD algorithm on Cell BE. We further reduce the synchronization latency between GA and FDTD by using mechanisms such as double buffering. We also propose a performance prediction model based on DMA transfers, number of instructions and operations, the processor frequency and DMA bandwidth. We show that the execution time from our prediction model is comparable (within 0.5 s difference) with the execution time of the experimental results on one SPE.     

T型焊接接头疲劳裂纹应力强度因子的3D边界元计算

应用边界元（BEM）子域法,编写程序,计算3D混合模式表面裂纹的应力强度因子。按照T型焊接接头的实验模型建立边界元计算模型。计算结果表明,程序是可靠的。     

一种基于自适应退避值的ZigBee网络CSMA/CA接入机制

目前,IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee网络CSMA/CA接入机制中退避值的初始值采取了固定设置模式,难以适应不同的网络应用环境,从而对ZigBee网络的时延、能耗、吞吐量等性能造成了一定的负面影响。文章提出一种基于自适应退避值的Zigbee网络CSMA/CA接入机制,旨在通过动态调整退避指数和竞争窗口长度,自适应节点数据传输情况,达到提高网络性能的目的。仿真结果表明,文章所提出的自适应接入机制在提高ZigBee网络吞吐量、降低能耗等方面优势较为明显。     

防爆开关通断试验装置的研制

通断能力试验是考核防爆开关产品性能的一项安全指标,设计采用了先进的BE494数据采集板和计算机构成的测量系统,整个试验装置的可靠性、数据采集与分析的准确性均达到了较先进的水平。     

Role of activated carbon on micropollutans degradation by ionizing radiation

The objective of this study was to analyze the influence of the presence of activated carbon on the degradation of the triiodinated contrast medium diatrizoate (DTZ) by the simultaneous use of gamma radiation and activated carbon. Four commercial activated carbons (Ceca, Witco, Sorbo, and Merck) with different textural and chemical characteristics were used for this purpose. The percentage DTZ removal obtained was considerably higher with the gamma radiation/activated carbon (GM/AC) system than with radiolysis in the absence of activated carbon, and it depended on the specific activated carbon employed. First, we optimized the amount of activated carbon required to maximize the amount of DTZ removed by the GM/AC system (0.06 g). The degradation constants were higher with the GM/AC system than with radiolysis alone, evidencing a synergic effect that favors pollutant removal. This synergic effect is independent of the textural but not the chemical characteristics of the activated carbon, observing a higher synergic activity for carbons with a higher surface content of oxygen, specifically quinone groups. We also highlight that the synergic effect of the activated carbon requires adsorbent–adsorbate electrostatic interaction and is absent when this interaction is hindered.     

自对准InGaP/GaAs HBT单片集成跨阻放大器

对自对准 In Ga P/ Ga As HBT单片集成跨阻放大器进行了研究 .采用发射极金属做腐蚀掩膜并利用 Ga As腐蚀各向异性的特点来完成 BE金属自对准工艺 ,最终制作出的器件平均阈值电压为 1.15 V,单指管子电流增益为5 0 ,发射极面积 4μm× 14μm的单管在 IB=2 0 0μA和 VCE=2 V偏压条件下截止频率达到了 4 0 GHz.设计并制作了直接反馈和 CE- CC- CC两种单片集成跨阻放大器电路 ,测量得到的跨阻增益在 3d B带宽频率时分别为 5 0 .6 d BΩ和 4 5 .1d BΩ ,3d B带宽分别为 2 .7GHz和 2 .5 GHz,电路最小噪声系数分别为 2 .8d B和 3.2 d B.