Utilizing biomass and waste for power production—a decade of contributing to the understanding, interpretation and analysis of deposits and corrosion products

Through the years, Danish utilities have gained significant knowledge on how to minimize or even avoid ash deposition problems in utility boilers, firing a worldwide suite of high-volatile bituminous coals. In the early 1990s, the Danish Government decided on a 20% reduction in the CO₂-emission before the year 2005, based on the 1988-level. Biomass is considered CO₂-neutral due to its short time of regeneration, compared to fossil fuels. Thus, the Danish power producers are enjoined to burn 1.0 Mtonnes of straw, 0.2 Mtonnes of wood chips and 0.2 Mtonnes of straw/wood chips (free choice) every year beyond year 2005. As a consequence of this, the CHEC Research Centre, Department of Chemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, being partly funded by the Danish power utilities, has during the last decade, investigated ash and deposit formation, and corrosion, in utility boilers fired with coal, petcoke, orimulsion, and different types of biomass (straw (barley, rape and wheat), wood (beech, spruce, fibreboard, bark and waste wood), shea nuts, olive stones, etc.). A number of reviews of these full-scale measuring campaigns have been provided in the open literature. Recently, a project on the formation of ash and deposits in waste incinerators has been initiated.This paper summarizes our findings, including recent activities on: (1) deposit formation during coal-wheat straw co-firing in suspension-fired boilers; (2) a pilot-scale study of ash and deposit formation in the Sandia Multi-Fuel Combustor (MFC); (3) a full-scale measuring campaign dealing with the effect of co-firing of biomass on the ash and deposit formation; (4) a full-scale measuring campaign addressing low-temperature corrosion of tubes in the air pre-heater of a straw-fired utility boiler; (5) a lab-scale study of the corrosion of superheater materials in straw-fired utility boilers, and, finally; (6) a fundamental study on ash and deposit formation in municipal solid waste incinerators. The paper provides insight into the experience gained on ash, deposit and corrosion formation in thermal fuel conversion systems fired with solid non-fossil fuels, and focuses attention on how these results fit into our current understanding of this subject. A complete and updated list of references covering our research activities within this area during the last decade is provided. In addition, a brief overview of current and future research activities is provided.     

基于生成树算法的链路层拓扑发现研究

随着大规模交换网络的发展,网络拓扑发现的研究由网络层拓展到数据链路层。链路层的拓扑发现能够发现网络层拓扑发现无法发现的局域网内部的详细的物理连接情况,对网络配置管理具有重要意义。研究了目前基于地址转发表（AFT）的方法,针对现有算法的不足作了一定分析,提出了一种基于生成树算法（STA）的链路层网络拓扑发现算法,利用SNMP获得网桥MIB中的生成树信息,通过分析这些信息计算出链路层的网络拓扑。该算法相比其它算法更简单、高效,有应用价值。     

基于STA-LSSVM的槽电压优化方法

针对铝电解过程中,槽电压的参数调节主要采用“试探法”、过于依赖技术员、耗时长等问题,提出了一种基于状态转移算法(State Transition Algorithm, STA)的槽电压优化方法。首先,采用灰色关联度分析方法确定槽电压模型的输入变量;然后,基于改进的最小二乘支持向量机(Least Square Support Vector Machine, LSSVM)建立槽电压软测量模型;最后,采用状态转移算法对槽电压优化控制模型进行实验,获得槽电压优化值和一组优化操作参数。结果表明,建立的槽电压软测量模型具有较高的预测精度,STA算法可寻到3.819 7 V的优化槽电压值,相较于优化前降低了115.8 mV,每吨铝直流电耗降低了363 kW·h,实现了槽电压的优化控制,达到了较好的节能降耗目的。     

静态时序分析在数字ASIC设计中的应用

主要介绍了静态时序分析在数字ASIC设计中的应用，描述了静态时序分析的基本原理和流程，并以I^2C总线设计为例，分析了对数字ASIC作静态时序分析中可能出现的问题，提出了消除虚假路径的实际方法．通过对全芯片进行静态时序分析，可以确认设计的准确性和可靠性，从而为设计流程中每一部分的工作取得sign—off提供可靠保证．     

基于累积频数统计的FPGA互连资源时序库

为提高现场可编程门阵列(FPGA)静态时序分析模块的仿真精度,提出一种累积频数仿真输入方法,基于此建立FPGA互连资源时序库,采用统计分析的方法对跳变时间进行累积频数分析。实验结果表明,该方法创建的互连资源时序库能够有效减小线性误差,提高仿真精度,并且与传统的均匀仿真输入方法相比,其仿真误差降至8.23%。     

Biotechnical measurement and software system controlled features for determining the level of psycho-emotional tension on man-machine systems by fuzzy measures

A new software technique for determining emotional tension on humans is developed by means of psychological tests connected with the psycho-emotional sphere and on indicators characterizing the state of a subject’s visual attention. Each of these two areas determines several factors for psycho-emotional tension. The level of tension is determined as an aggregate of these two components with the rules of fuzzy logic. The membership functions and solving rules for the psychological tests, and for the state of visual attention, are constructed using fuzzy logic theory. It is shown that the resulting method can be used as an informative feature for prediction of many properties, such as the situational awareness (training and experience) of an operator and the operator’s individual capacity to function (mental-physiological limits). The second group of indicators characterize properties such as switchable attention (the ability to switch attention) (SWA), concentration (ability to concentrate) (CNA), stability of visual attention (STA) and parameters determining the state of memory. One of the most important issues for man-machine systems is to evaluate the performance of operators under abnormal conditions such as stress or tension.     

The S1, S2 and SGA1 ancestral genes for the STA glucoamylase genes all map to chromosome IX in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

The polymorphic extracellular glucoamylase-encoding genes STA1 (chr. IV), STA2 (chr. II) and STA3 (chr. XIV), from Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. diastaticus probably evolved by genomic rearrangement of DNA regions (S1, S2 and SGA1) present in S. cerevisiae, and subsequent translocation to unlinked regions of chromosomal regions. S1, encoding a homologue to the threonine/serine-rich domain of STA glucoamylases (GAI-III), mapped to the right arm of chromosome IX. S2, encoding the hydrophobic leader peptide of GAI-III, was also mapped on the right arm of chromosome IX, next to S1, close to DAL81. The SGA1 sporulation-specific, intracellular glucoamylase-encoding gene is located on the left arm of chromosome IX, 32 kb proximal of HIS5.     

A new practical robust control of cable‐driven manipulators using time‐delay estimation

In this paper, a new practical robust control scheme is proposed and investigated for the cable‐driven manipulators under lumped uncertainties. There are three parts in the proposed method, ie, a time‐delay estimation (TDE) part, a modified super‐twisting algorithm (STA) part, and a fractional‐order nonsingular terminal sliding mode (FONTSM) error dynamics part. The TDE uses intentionally time‐delayed system signals to estimate the lumped dynamics of the system and ensures an attractive model‐free control structure. The STA is applied to guarantee high performance and chattering suppression simultaneously in the reaching phase. The FONTSM error dynamics is utilized to obtain fast convergence and strong robustness in the sliding mode phase. Thanks to the above three parts, the proposed control scheme is model free and can ensure high control performance under lumped uncertainties. The stability considering the FONTSM error dynamics and modified STA scheme is analyzed. Comparative simulation and experiments were conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness and superiorities of the newly proposed control scheme. Corresponding experimental results show that our newly proposed control scheme can provide more than 20% improvement of the steady control accuracy under three different reference trajectories.     

基于模糊滑模算法的永磁同步电机无位置传感器矢量控制

针对传统超螺旋算法二阶滑模观测器(STASSMO)在进行永磁同步电机(PMSM)转子位置和转速估算时固定滑模增益导致鲁棒性差的问题,在已有的稳定条件下提出一种模糊超螺旋算法二阶滑模观测器(FSTASSMO)。利用模糊控制器按照模糊规则进行滑模增益的整定,实现了超螺旋算法滑模增益自整定过程,提高了观测精度,拓宽了有效观测范围,增强了PMSM无位置传感器矢量控制系统的鲁棒性。最后,在MATLAB环境下搭建仿真控制系统对所提出的算法进行验证,结果表明所提算法有效可行。