The Cradle-to-Cradle Life Cycle Assessment of Polyethylene terephthalate: Environmental Perspective

Over the last several years, the number of concepts and technologies enabling the production of environmentally friendly products (including materials, consumables, and services) has expanded. One of these ways is cradle-to-cradle (C2C) certified^TM. Life cycle assessment (LCA) technique is used to highlight the advantages of C2C and recycling as a method for reducing plastic pollution and fossil depletion by indicating the research limitations and gaps from an environmental perspective. Also, it estimates the resources requirements and focuses on sound products and processes. The C2C life cycle measurements for petroleum-based poly (ethylene terephthalate) (PET) bottles, with an emphasis on different end-of-life options for recycling, were taken for mainland China, in brief. It is considered that the product is manufactured through the extraction of crude oil into ethylene glycol and terephthalic acid. The CML analysis method was used in the LCIA for the selected midpoint impact categories. LCA of the product has shown a drastic aftermath in terms of environmental impacts and energy use. But the estimation of these consequences is always dependent on the system and boundary conditions that were evaluated throughout the study. The impacts that burden the environment are with the extraction of raw material, resin, and final product production. Minor influences occurred due to the waste recycling process. This suggests that waste degradation is the key process to reduce the environmental impacts of the production systems. Lowering a product’s environmental impact can be accomplished in a number of ways, including reducing the amount of materials used or choosing materials with a minimal environmental impact during manufacture processes.     

基于微燃机的空气湿化循环构建与分析

基于同一微燃机,构建了注水回热(RWI)、HAT、部分空气湿化(PHAT)、压气机入口喷雾冷却的HAT(AHAT)循环模型,对各循环的性能进行了模拟分析并对比了效率和比功.结果表明,在可比条件下,空气湿化循环功率和效率较回热循环分别提高40%以上和5个百分点左右.研究结果为微燃机改造为空气湿化循环提供了依据和理论指导.     

基于甲醇化学链燃烧的新型燃气轮机间冷循环

本文提出一种新颖的甲醇化学链燃烧动力循环系统.该系统利用空气压缩的间冷热提供甲醇和Fe2O3反应热,将间冷的低温热转换为高品位化学能;同时得到预冷的空气吸收燃烧产物Fe2O3的显热,降低了还原反应的温度.与常规化学链循环相比,该循环利用间冷的热量代替高温Fe2O3的显热提供还原反应的反应热,系统内能量品位匹配更加合理.根据图像(火用)分析方法,阐明了甲醇化学链燃烧过程(火用)损失减少和间冷热品位提升的机理.本文对新循环进行了分析,并以常规化学链循环为参照,研究了其性能.新循环的效率较高,同时可以实现CO2无能耗的分离.     

A Hierarchical Scheme for Video-Based Person Re-identification Using Lightweight PCANet and Handcrafted LOMO Features

A two-level hierarchical scheme for video-based person re-identification (re-id) is presented, with the aim of learning a pedestrian appearance model through more complete walking cycle extraction. Specifically, given a video with consecutive frames, the objective of the first level is to detect the key frame with lightweight Convolutional neural network (CNN) of PCANet to reflect the summary of the video content. At the second level, on the basis of the detected key frame, the pedestrian walking cycle is extracted from the long video sequence. Moreover, local features of Local maximal occurrence (LOMO) of the walking cycle are extracted to represent the pedestrian' s appearance information. In contrast to the existing walking-cycle-based person re-id approaches, the proposed scheme relaxes the limit on step number for a walking cycle, thus making it flexible and less affected by noisy frames. Experiments are conducted on two benchmark datasets: PRID 2011 and iLIDS-VID. The experimental results demonstrate that our proposed scheme outperforms the six state-of-art video-based re-id methods, and is more robust to the severe video noises and variations in pose, lighting, and camera viewpoint.     

微气相色谱法分析氢氘同位素组分气体

该文建立了聚变堆燃料循环系统中氢氘组分的微气相色谱定量分析方法。采用MnCl2溶液改性的氧化铝色谱柱(4～6 m×0.53 mm)为分离柱,考察了改性液含量、色谱柱长和载气流量对氢氘组分分析的影响,在液氮低温(77 K)条件下实现了H₂、HD和D₂混合物的分离。结果表明,19%MnCl2溶液处理的色谱柱分离氢同位素的效果优于15%MnCl₂溶液处理的色谱柱;柱越长,H₂和HD的分离效果越好,当色谱柱长度大于5 m时,H2和HD组分可以完全分离,分离度大于1.5;HD和D2的最小理论塔板高度分别为0.013 cm和0.016 cm。He中H2、HD、D23组分氢同位素在0%～10%含量范围内的线性相关系数均不低于0.993,检出限(LOD)分别为600.1、343.8、654.5μL/L。方法的相对标准偏差为0.34%～1.5%。该法是一种快速、准确、实用的氢同位素分析方法,有望用于聚变堆D/T燃料循环系统氢同位素气体的测定。     

An In Vitro Anticancer,Antioxidant, and Phytochemical Study on Water Extract of Kalanchoe daigremontiana Raym.-Hamet and H. Perrier

Kalanchoe species are succulents with anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and analgesic properties, as well as cytotoxic activity. One of the most popular species cultivated in Europe is Kalanchoe daigremontiana Raym.-Hamet and H. Perrier. In our study, we analyzed the phytochemical composition of K. daigremontiana water extract using UHPLC-QTOF-MS and estimated the cytotoxic activity of the extract on human ovarian cancer SKOV-3 cells by MTT (3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide) assay, flow cytometry, luminometric, and fluorescent microscopy techniques. The expression levels of 92 genes associated with cell death were estimated via real-time PCR. The antioxidant activity was assessed via flow cytometry on human keratinocyte HaCaT cell line. The DPPH (2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl) radical and FRAP (ferric-reducing antioxidant power) assays were also applied. We identified twenty bufadienolide compounds in the water extract and quantified eleven. Bersaldegenin-1,3,5-orthoacetate and bryophyllin A were present in the highest amounts (757.4 ± 18.7 and 573.5 ± 27.2 ng/mg dry weight, respectively). The extract showed significant antiproliferative and cytotoxic activity, induced depolarization of the mitochondrial membrane, and significantly arrested cell cycle in the S and G2/M phases of SKOV-3 cells. Caspases-3, 7, 8, and 9 were not activated during the treatment, which indicated non-apoptotic cell death triggered by the extract. Additionally, the extract increased the level of oxidative stress in the cancer cell line. In keratinocytes treated with menadione, the extract moderately reduced the level of oxidative stress. This antioxidant activity was confirmed by the DPPH and FRAP assays, where the obtained IC₅₀ values were 1750 ± 140 and 1271.82 ± 53.25 μg/mL, respectively. The real-time PCR analysis revealed that the extract may induce cell death via TNF receptor (tumor necrosis factor receptor) superfamily members 6 and 10.     

复叠系统低温级制冷剂的循环性能对比实验

通过实验测试,比较了不同冷凝温度和蒸发温度下复叠系统低温级常用制冷工质R13、R23、R503和RS08B的COP、压比及制冷量等循环性能,又结合各制冷工质的环境性能、热工性能,分析了现有常用复叠系统低温级制冷工质各自的优缺点,为新工质的开发及进一步的制冷性能对比实验工作提供了有益的帮助.     

关于吸收式碳捕集热力学机制的探索

热再生吸收式碳捕集的传统认识难以揭示其热力学机制,一种新的认识是"热-化学能"转换中存在中间能量形式.本文从热力学碳泵概念出发,对吸收式碳捕集理想系统进行了解耦,其可视为"热机-碳泵"的热力学组合,探索了极限效率的表达,并采用第二定律效率作为评价参数对已有中试试验系统进行了性能水平探索.结果表明,理想循环性能系数仅取决...     

Beddington-DeAngelis型捕食-食饵动力系统的正平衡点及其稳定性

A class of Beddington-DeAngelis' type predator-prey dynamic system with prey and predator both having linear density restriction is considered. By using the qualitative methods of ODE, the existence and uniqueness of positive equilibrium and its global asymptotic stability are analyzed. The direct criterions for local stability of positive equilibrium and existence of limit cycle are also established when inference parameter of predator is small.     

用于低温半导体器件筛选的新型温度循环设备

在某些情况下斯特林制冷机采用间歇式工作方式,以延长卫星在太空中的服务年限,因此由斯特林机致冷的低温半导体器件如HgCdTe中长波红外探测器会经受成千上万次从-173℃以下到常温的温度循环,这个过程可能会造成器件的失效.为了研究器件的失效机理和可靠性,帮助筛选器件,本文介绍了一种自制新型的温度循环实验设备,型号TCE-a.经过数千次温度循环,设备满足器件筛选实验要求.