A three-dimensional mathematical model for the transferred-type argon arc was developed to describe arc force on the anode surface. The software ANSYS was employed to solve the model. The model includes a part of torch and tungsten electrode to achieve more reasonable results. The arc temperature and flow fields were derived. And the influences of welding parameters on arc force were also studied. The simulated results show that arc pressure at the anode are dependent on the welding current, plasma gas flow rate and electrode neck-in, while not sensitive to arc length.

Flow visualization and hot-wire measurement techniques were combined to investigate the influence of the size and number of tabs on jet flow field and vortex structure generation mechanism. Streamwise vortices generated by the tabs of different sizes and numbers were observed from the flow visualization images. Combined with flow visualization, hot-wire measurement gave a quantitative insight of the effect of various tabbed jet flows. Instantaneous two-component velocity signals (longitudinal and transverse velocity components) at different cross sections along radius direction and streamwise direction with different tabbed jet nozzles were measured using hot-wire anemometer. Average flow field parameters of tabbed jet flow such as mean velocity, turbulence intensity, vorticity were analyzed and the effects of tabs with different sizes and numbers were compared with that of circular no-tab jet flow. It is revealed that the generation of a series of counter-rotating quasi-streamwise vortices, azimuthal vortices and double-row azi-muthal vortex are the reasons for mixing enhancement of tabbed turbulent jet flow.

Low valence vanadium oxide(VO_2−x) thin films were prepared on SiO₂/Si substrates at room temperature by direct current facing targets reactive magnetron sputtering, and then processed through rapid thermal annealing. The effects of the annealing on the structure and phase transition property of VO₂ were discussed. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction technique and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy were employed to study the phase composition and structure of the thin films. The resistance-temperature property was measured. The results show that VO₂ thin film is obtained after annealed at 320 °C for 3 h, its phase transition temperature is 56 °C, and the resistance changes by more than 2 orders. The vanadium oxide thin films are applicable in thermochromic smart windows, and the deposition and annealing process is compatible with micro electromechanical system process.

An adaptive ramp generator based on linear histogram was proposed for the built-in self-test (BIST) of analog to digital convertor (ADC) in CMOS image sensor. By comparing the generated ramp signal to a reference voltage and feeding back a calibration signal, the slope adjustment was implemented, and high linearity and precision of ramp slope were realized. By modulating the pulse width and reference voltage, sweep length varied from microsecond to second and signal swing could reach 3 V with 5.6 mW power consumption. The ramp was used as input to an ideal 10-bit single-slope ADC, and the corresponding DNL and INL were 0.032 LSB and 0.078 LSB, respectively.

The thin emitter structure was introduced into reversely switched dynistor(RSD) to improve its turn-on characteristics. According to the analysis of turn-on condition, thin emitter structure is capable of reducing the extraction action for the triggering plasma layer P₁ during turn-on process, and satisfying the requirement that triggering electric charge cannot be exhausted and therefore enables RSD to turn on uniformly. The on-state thin emitter RSD was equivalent to an asymmetric pin diode model. The simulation result shows that the forward voltage drop of RSD falls with the decrease of doping dose in p⁺-emitter in a certain range, and when the doping concentration is extremely low, the decrease of the width of p⁺-emitter can obtain a low forward voltage drop. Thin emitter RSD chips were made by sintering Al on n-Si. The test result shows that their turn-on process is uniform and the voltage drop is 7.5 V when the peak conversion current is 5 500 A.

With the aim of visualizing the real-time simulation calculation of water delivery system (WDS), a structural drawing-oriented (SDO) simulation technique was presented, and applied to Zhangjiuhe Diversion Project, which is a long-distance water delivery system constructed for drawing water from the Zhangjiuhe River to Kunming city. Taking SIMULINK software as simulating platform, the technique established a visual dynamic simulation model for the system. The simulation procedure of the system was simplified, and the efficiency of modeling was also enhanced according to the modularization and reutilization of the simulation program. Furthermore, a self-optimization model was presented. Based on the digital simulation models, the on line controlled optimization link was added, and the input data can be continually optimized according to the feedback information of simulating output. The system was thus optimized automatically. Built upon MATLAB software, simulation optimization of the Zhangjiuhe Diversion Project was achieved, which provides a new way for the research of optimal operation of WDS.

Room temperature ionic liquids as solvents for palladium-catalyzed copolymerization of carbon monoxide and styrene were prepared by reaction of aqueous lead tetrafluoroborate with correspond-ing chloride or bromide salts. The recyclability of palladium composite catalyst in various ionic liquids was investigated. [Pd(bipy)₂][BF₄]₂ showed a lower catalytic activity than [Pd(bipy)₂][PF₆]₂ in similar conditions, although the catalytic activity of each composite catalyst in ionic liquids still existed after 4 successive recycles. It was shown the catalytic activity of palladium composite catalyst was higher than that of the catalyst formed in situ from palladium acetate, 2,2′-bipyridyl, and HA (A=PF₆ ⁻, BF₄ ⁻) in ionic liquids. The effects of volume of ionic liquids, reaction time, and the dosage of benzoquinone on the copolymerizati on were also studied.

A method for decomposition of cellulose to produce 5-hydroxymethyl-furaldehyde (5-HMF) in subcritical water-carbon dioxide binary system was proposed. A series of experiments were performed in a batch reaction vessel. Main products of the decomposition of cellulose are 5-HMF, furfural, levulinic acid and 1, 2, 4-benzenetriol. The optimum condition for the preparation of 5-HMF was found as 523.15 K, 5.0% carbon dioxide mole fraction, and 30 min reaction time. The addition of carbon dioxide to water conduced to the decomposition of cellulose to 5-HMF. As can be seen from the distribution of the prod-ucts, the decomposition mechanism of cellulose is similar to the hydrothermal reaction of D-glucose and D-fructose.

Based on a comprehensive study of various algorithms, the automatic recognition of traditional ocular optical measuring instruments is realized. Taking a universal tools microscope(UTM) lens view image as an example, a 2-layer automatic recognition model for data reading is established after adopting a series of pre-processing algorithms. This model is an optimal combination of the correlation-based template matching method and a concurrent back propagation(BP) neural network. Multiple complementary feature extraction is used in generating the eigenvectors of the concurrent network. In order to improve fault-tolerance capacity, rotation invariant features based on Zernike moments are extracted from digit characters and a 4-dimensional group of the outline features is also obtained. Moreover, the operating time and reading accuracy can be adjusted dynamically by setting the threshold value. The experimental result indicates that the newly developed algorithm has optimal recognition precision and working speed. The average reading ratio can achieve 97.23%. The recognition method can automatically obtain the results of optical measuring instruments rapidly and stably without modifying their original structure, which meets the application requirements.

The security constrained distributed optimal power flow (DOPF) of interconnected power systems is presented. The centralized OPF problem of the multi-area power systems is decomposed into independent DOPF subproblems, one for each area. The dynamic security region (DSR) to guarantee the transient stability constraints and static voltage stability region (SVSR) constraints, and line current limits are included as constraints. The solutions to the DOPF subproblems of the different areas are coordinated through a pricing mechanism until they converge to the centralized OPF solution. The nonlinear DOPF subproblem is solved by predictor-corrector interior point method (PCIPM). The IEEE three-area RTS-96 system is worked out in order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Gap statistic is a well-known index of clustering validity, but its realization is difficult to be comprehended and accurately determined. A direct method is presented to improve the performance of the Gap statistic, which applies the two-order difference of within-cluster dispersion to replace the constructed null reference distribution in the Gap statistic. Hence, the realization of the Gap statistic becomes easy and is reformulated, and its uncertainty in applications is reduced. Also, the limitation of the Gap statistic is analyzed by two typical examples, that is, the Gap statistic is difficult to be applied to the dataset that contains strong-overlap or uneven-density clusters. Experiments verify the usefulness of the proposed method.

The overvoltage phenomena of ultra high voltage (UHV) transmission lines are analyzed and verified by EMTDC/PSCAD simulation. Referring to the theoretical analyses and operating experiences of extra high voltage (EHV) transmission lines in China and UHV transmission lines in Russia and Japan, the methods to suppress the internal overvoltage in UHV transmission lines by protection and control strategies are discussed. Through the cooperation among the recloser, shunt reactor, tripping and closing resistance, and metal oxide varistor(MOV), the overvoltage can be restrained within an acceptable level.

In order to meet the requirements of information exchange varieties and manners in wide area protection system, a communication service model based on IEC 61850 is proposed. This service model can realize communication consistency and cooperation between different types of devices. Furthermore, the communication reliability and time delay performance are guaranteed to meet the requirements of relay protection from the upper layer. Message structure of generic substation event (GSE) and its communication mechanism are discussed. General methods to communicate digital information by generic substation status event (GSSE) and communicate analog sampling information by sampling analog value (SAV) of GSE are proposed.

The conventional fault analysis method based on symmetrical components supposes that the three-phase parameters of un-transposed transmission line are symmetrical in case of fault. The errors caused by the method with the symmetrical distributed parameter circuit model as the equivalent circuit of the un-transposed ultra high voltage(UHV) transmission line were studied under both normal operation and fault, and the corresponding problems arising were pointed out. By contrast with electromagnetic transient and power electronics(EMTPE) simulation results with the asymmetrical distributed parameter circuit model of un-transposed line, it is shown that the conventional method cannot show the existence of negative and zero sequences before fault happening and there are many errors on voltage and current after fault happening which are different with fault types. The error ranges of voltage and current are 2.13%–81.13% and −7.82%– −86.15%, respectively.