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An electric power supply system includes a rectifier with an input connected to a power line and a DC output connected to a DC / DC converter. Two buffer capacitors are connected across the input and output, respectively, of the DC / DC converter. The output of the rectifier includes a plurality of diodes. An electronically controllable switch is electrically connected in parallel with a corresponding diode of the rectifier. A controller receives an input signal from a phase voltage of the power line and provides control signals to the controllable switches. The DC / DC converter is constructed symmetrically. This configuration results in a more cost-effective power supply system with an improved energy balance.

By means of the continuous pressure hydrolysis of lignocellulose material and subsequent enzymatic hydrolysis of solid unhydrolysed residues is obtained glucose, to which starch raw materials are added and all of which undergoes amylolytic cleavage and spirituous fermentation. Ethanol, furfural, acetic and ligin are obtained. The device, which comprises the filling unit, hydrolysers, expanders, distilling and rectifying columns is represented in that the continuous worm pressure filling unit (13) consists of segments formed by the body (94) with single-threated conveyer worms (86) place on the shaft (85). Between the worms there is at least one steam ring (88), which conically widens on the input side of the raw material. In the outlet filler (93) with the reducing part leading into the first hydrolyser (22) a pressure identical to that of the first hydrolyser (22) is achieved. The last hydrolyser (24) is connected to the first rectifying column (43) for furfural and to the section of the cellulolytic enzyme hydrolysis, amylolytic cleavage, and ethanol fermentation.

To gasify carbonaceous material into gas containing CO and H2, the drying and / or the heating and the pyrolysis of the carbonaceous material are performed using microwave irradiation and thermal irradiation and the pyrolysis products and / or the carbonaceous material are then gasified. For this purpose the carbonaceous material is irradiated in a microwave station with a heating unit, and then passed on into a reactor for gasification. The gasification occurs with the aid of a water-steam plasma source.

The invention pertains to a crop residue chopping and distributing arrangement for a combine harvester (10) with a straw chopper (60) and two discharge blowers (100), wherein a guide element (150) that distributes the crop residue stream over the two discharge blowers (100) is arranged between said blowers. Passages (162) remain between the guide element (150) and the discharge blowers (100) such that the crop residues can be rearwardly discharged onto the field by the straw chopper (60) through said passages. Outer guide elements (141) are provided between the straw chopper (60) and the discharge blowers (100) in order to deflect the outer regions of the crop residue stream inward. The straw chopper housing (19) may feature a curved bottom (112) that axially conveys the crop residues to the discharge blowers (100) at an angle, wherein a flat crop residue guide element (112) is arranged between the straw chopper housing (90) and the discharge blowers (100).

The invention discloses a random walk routing method combining opportunistic forwarding in a mobile wireless multi-hop network. The random walk routing method combines the opportunistic forwarding; wireless nodes use omnidirectional antennae; and each node in the network periodically sends Beacon bags. On that basis, to further improve the energy balance capability, an improved scheme of intruding a dump energy-based preferential forwarding mechanism into a forwarding strategy of the opportunistic routing, namely determining the priorities of the alternate forwarding nodes according to the dump energies of the alternate forwarding nodes is designed. By adopting the mechanisms, the data forwarding task is dynamically adjusted according to the dump energy of the node, so that the random walk energy balance is further improved. The routing method designed by the invention avoids calculating routes in advance and the nodes does not need to collect a large amount of network state information, so that the cost is extremely low, and the routing method has the advantages when used in the mobile wireless networks which have small data volume and low requirements on data forwarding delay.

The invention discloses a low temperature liquid gas storage device and a control method thereof. The low temperature liquid gas storage device comprises a receiving system, a storage system, an outside conveying system, a BOG reliquefaction system and a tail gas incineration system; wherein, the BOG reliquefaction system is internally provided with an ethylene compression system, a propylene refrigerating unit, an ethylene condenser, a condensate receiver, an ethylene flash tank and a cold energy recovery device. The device is characterized in that the cold energy recovery device includes an ethylene precooler and an ethylene energy-saving device, and is connected with other BOG reliquefaction fluid passages in parallel, and the ethylene precooler is connected with the ethylene energy-saving device in series. The device and the method thereof have the advantages of energy conservation and emission reduction, thus reducing the production cost.

A pressure-supercharged fluidized-bed gasification chamber has a pressure-tight lock for supplying the feed materials which are to be gasified. The fluidized-bed gasification chamber is connected to a filter chamber via a connecting channel, with the result that the gas produced can flow over from the fluidized-bed gasification chamber into the filter chamber, where it is directed through the filter layer. An external heat source provides the necessary heat for the allothermic gasification. A heat-pipe arrangement directs the heat from the external heat source into the gasification bed of the fluidized-bed gasification chamber, in order to provide the temperature which is necessary for the gasification.

A method of processing slops including production of biogas characterized in that slops are exposed to anaerobic fermentation in a anaerobic fermenter under generation of biogas and at least a portion of the biogas containing methane and carbon dioxide is fed into a first photo-bioreactor, where the carbon dioxide or a part thereof is consumed during a photosynthesis process producing micro-algae and methane and the residual carbon dioxide are hen withdrawn for further processing.

A flavouring oil able to prevent obesity is proportionally prepared from diacylglyceride, flavouring components, antioxidizing agent, food additive and sterol. Its advantages are high stability, rich nutrients and good taste.

A system for storing and outputting thermal energy and a method for operating the system are provided. The system operates according to the Brayton cycle, wherein a heat accumulator is charged by a compressor and a cold accumulator is charged by turbines. The cycle is reversed for discharging. In addition, the cold accumulator supplies a cooling circuit, which provides the cooling for a superconducting generator by a cooling unit. A favorable generator weight can thereby be advantageously achieved in particular for wind turbines, because the generators are limited regarding the weight thereof due to being housed in the nacelle of the wind power plant. Thus, advantageously higher power can be converted in the wind power plant.

The invention belongs to the field of wireless sensor network and target tracking technology application, and discloses a target tracking method and system for self-adaptive node selection based on aVino diagram, and the method comprises the steps: taking a Voronoi graph as a network model, carrying out the clustering of nodes in the network, and enabling an activated node, a dormant node, and aunique cluster head node to exist in a cluster; Partially activating the sensor nodes in the Voronoi graph area according to a proposed node selection algorithm, and performing extended Kalman filtering for target tracking. By implementing the method, the algorithm can have lower energy consumption and higher tracking precision, the energy consumption of the sensor node can be reduced, and the life cycle of the network can be prolonged; The problem of energy balance is greatly improved, and the number of activated nodes is effectively reduced through setting of a greedy algorithm and a threshold value by nodes in the cluster.

A method when extracting solvent and heat from a gas (B) to absorb solvent in a solution (D) containing solvent and one or several absorbents with strong affinity to the solvent, wherein the absorption takes place so that gas (B) and solution (D) is contacted in parallel flow mainly on one side of a heat exchanger, where the heat liberated at the absorption simultaneously is transferred indirectly or regeneratively to a cooling medium (F, G), which meets the absorption media in counter flow.

A dryer is provided having a drying chamber for items to be dried and a process air duct in which are located a heater for heating the process air, a blower for driving the process air from the heater through the drying chamber, and a heat exchanger arrangement. Via the heat exchanger arrangement, heat can be withdrawn from the process air flowing away from the drying chamber, and the process air flowing toward the heater can be fed to the heat exchanger. The process air duct is divided into a main duct and a secondary duct, the secondary duct having an evaporator in which condensate that was separated from the process air in the heat exchanger arrangement can be evaporated into the process air flowing therethrough and is connected to the exhaust opening.

A device and method for recovering energy from a hot medium, in particular from hot wort or hot mash for a beer brewery, including a first heat exchanger device for a heat transfer medium that is arranged in particular downstream of a device for heating, boiling or keeping wort or mash warm and is designed such that the heat transfer medium can be heated while cooling preferably wort or mash, wherein at least one heat consumer of the brewery is heated with the heat transfer medium. The heat transfer medium cooled down during heating the heat consumer can be recirculated to the first heat exchanger device in the circuit.

In a crop residue chopping and distributing arrangement for a combine harvester (10) with a straw chopper (60) and two discharge blowers (100), a guide element (150) distributes the crop residue stream over the two discharge blowers (100) is arranged between said blowers. Passages (162) remain between the guide element (150) and the discharge blowers (100) such that the crop residues can be rearwardly discharged onto the field by the straw chopper (60) through said passages. Outer guide elements (141) are provided between the straw chopper (60) and the discharge blowers (100) in order to deflect the outer regions of the crop residue stream inward. The straw chopper housing (19) may feature a curved bottom (112) that axially conveys the crop residues to the discharge blowers (100) at an angle, wherein a flat crop residue guide element (112) is arranged between the straw chopper housing (90) and the discharge blowers (100).

The invention discloses application of lycium barbarum polysaccharide in preparing a feed additive for reducing a ruminant rumen gas production rate. The fact that the lycium barbarum polysaccharide can be applied in preparing the feed additive for reducing the ruminant rumen gas production rate is discovered for the first time; 0.1 to 0.5 percent of lycium barbarum polysaccharide is added in a feed for ruminants, so that the output of greenhouse gases such as methane and carbon dioxide in rumens can be remarkably reduced, and the rumens are prevented from producing flatus; meanwhile, the degradation rates of dried matters and crude protein in the feed for the ruminants can be also improved, and the utilization rate of the feed is effectively improved.

A method for the manufacture of container preforms in which recycled plastic material is subjected to at least one heat treatment in a recycling machine before it is transferred to a preform machine, where at least a major portion of heat introduced into the plastic material during its heat treatment and storage is transferred from the recycling machine with the plastic material into the preform machine. In a plant embodied for carrying out the method, the recycling machine is coupled with the preform machine either directly or via at least one intermediate storage such that at least a major portion of heat introduced in the recycling machine during a heat treatment of the plastic material can be transferred with the plastic material into the preform machine.

The invention relates to a dryer for a textile fabric web, comprising a dryer chamber (2) and having at least one drum (3a) which is arranged in the dryer chamber (2) and around at least part of which the fabric web (5) is wrapped, wherein heated drying air flows through the fabric web (5) and is discharged via an interior chamber of the drum (3a), characterized in that the dryer (1) has a separate additional compartment (10) via which fresh air (11) is supplied and exhaust air (13) is discharged.

The invention relates to a method and to a device for producing thin silicon rods such as those used in the conventional Siemens process for precipitating silicon. Due to the strongly increasing demand for silicon for semiconductors and solar cells, the demand for thin silicon rods is also increasing. The method according to the invention fundamentally corresponds to the classical pedestal method. According to the invention, the induction coil (1) used comprises further draw openings (5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4) about the central opening (4) having circumfluent current. A sufficiently uniform temperature profile is generated in the stock rod under the induction coil (1), such that the point of the stock rod melts and a melt pool forms (6.1) (6). One thin silicon rod (9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4) each can be drawn upward out of the melt pool through the further draw openings in the induction coil. In contrast to the known prior art, no rod is drawn upward through the central opening having circumfluent current. The further additional draw openings are preferably disposed concentrically to the central opening and at a sufficient distance from the outer edge of the stock rod (6). The spacing thereof to each other is selected such that the growing thin silicon rods do not thermally influence each other too strongly, so that the individual thin silicon rods grow as uniformly as possible. The greater the diameter of the raw Si rod, the greater the diameter of the induction coil can be selected, and a correspondingly greater number of additional draw openings can be provided.

The invention demonstrates how energy saving working cylinders are loaded with fluid under pressure in order, for example, to power devices for tensioning (toggle joint tensioning apparatus), and / or compressing and / or jointing and / or stamping and / or embossing and / or punching and / or welding, if necessary, under the interposition of gearing parts such as guides, parallelogram gears, toggle joint articulations or the like, with the fluid supply being controlled in such a way during the no-load stroke (idle stroke) of the piston (4) that only the forces of inertia and / or weight and / or the forces of friction of moveable parts are overcome and pressure is not applied from the fluid until the power stroke of the piston (4).

The present relates to ship equipped with thermal energy recovery means and related process. The present invention particularly relates to a ship equipped with: - at least one diesel engine (1) of which some internal parts (11A, 12A), even external parts, are cooled by a first so-called high-temperature liquid cooling circuit, whilst others (13B, 14B, 15B) are cooled by a second so- called low-temperature liquid cooling circuit, these circuits differing by the difference in temperature of the liquid entering said engine (1), - at least one item of equipment, separate from said engine (1), which consumes thermal energy, - recovery means (2) to recover at least part of the calories conveyed by the liquid in the high-temperature circuit, to supply heat to said equipment. It is noteworthy in that it further comprises recovery means (3) to recover at least part of the calories conveyed by the liquid in the low-temperature circuit, to supply heat to said equipment. The invention can greatly improves the energy balance for ships.

The invention relates to a device for producing granules from a polymer melt by extrusion, having a breaker plate (1), from which the polymer melt is extruded at a pressure above ambient pressure, a process chamber (2), into which the polymer melt is extruded, a breaking-down device (3) for breaking down strands of the polymer melt extruded from the breaker plate into individual granules, the process chamber being filled with a process fluid (4), and a conveying device (5), which feeds the process fluid into the process chamber at a pressure above ambient pressure, wherein downstream of the process chamber the pressure of the process fluid with the granules contained in it is reduced. According to the invention, provided downstream of the process chamber is an energy transducer (6), which at least partially extracts the compressive energy from the process fluid with the granules contained in it, thereby reduces the pressure of the process fluid with the granules contained in it and thereby converts the extracted energy at least partially into a form of energy that can be put to further use. The invention also relates to a corresponding method for producing granules from a polymer melt by extrusion and a corresponding use.

A compressor arrangement for compressing fresh air for internal combustion engines includes a compressor wheel and an electric motor having at least one stator and at least one rotor having a rotor magnet and a rotor gap between the rotor and stator. The rotor gap is designed such that when the compressor wheel rotates, at least 50%, of the air mass flow to be compressed is fed through the rotor gap. The compressor wheel is mounted on a shaft or contains the shaft and at least one rotor magnet or a carrier for holding the rotor magnet and is mountable as a separate part on said shaft and may be bolted, splinted, glued, shrunk, or secured by form-fit to said shaft to prevent rotation.

A coating system (1) for blown containers (9) made of plastic material, with high production rate and flexibility so as to allow an efficient coupling with the most advanced one-stage or blowing machines. Such coating system (1), despite its high production rate, envisages a compact global structure with low implementation costs and contained energy consumption. Along with the system, a corresponding coating process is described, which consists in the effective and rapid application of several paint layers on plastic containers (9).

The invention relates to a power system source-grid-load interaction control strategy evaluation method comprising the following steps: acquiring power information and natural power characteristics of a power source side, a grid side and a load side of a power system, analyzing the interaction behavior characteristic of power equipment, and establishing a power system interaction resource structure; analyzing the response characteristics of interaction resources to electricity price, incentive and scheduling interaction mechanisms, and establishing power variation curves of the interaction resources under different interaction mechanisms; determining the interaction potential of the interaction resources, and establishing an interaction cost variation curve of the interaction resources within the scope of interaction potential; determining the amount of interaction of the interaction resources under the three interaction mechanisms, selecting an interaction strategy combination which meets the demand of system power balancing and minimizes the total cost of interaction, and obtaining an interaction control scheme; and evaluating the interaction control scheme respectively from the aspects of response characteristic, effect of interaction, grid security and grid economy, and comprehensively evaluating the influence of the source-grid-load interaction control strategy to the grid and the interaction efficiency of the strategy. The limitation of single index is overcome.

The invention discloses a ferro-manganese oxidized ore fluid bed roasting system and method. The system comprises a feeding bin, a dryer, a cyclone preheater, a fluid bed roasting furnace, a reducinggas cooler, an indirect water cooler and a discharging bin. The method comprises the steps that 1, mineral powder is dehydrated through the dryer from the feeding bin; 2, the dried mineral powder is preheated and heated through the cyclone preheater; 3, the hot mineral powder is subjected to low-temperature fluidization magnetization reduction calcination; 4, reducing ore is subjected to two-section anaerobic heat exchange cooling through the reducing gas cooler and the indirect water cooler and then subjected to low-intensity magnetic separation. The system and method have the advantages thatferro-manganese oxidized ore low-temperature efficient magnetization reduction is performed, the ferric oxide phase magnetic susceptibility and the manganite phase reducing susceptibility are high, sensible heat is effectively utilized, and energy consumption is low, and the purpose of efficiently separating and utilizing ferro-manganese ferro-manganese interdependent resources in ferro-manganeseoxidized ore can be achieved.

The invention discloses a feed additive of a high productive dairy cow. The feed additive comprises the following components of 40-55 percent of extruded soybean, 10-15 percent of hawthorn fruit powder, 5-10 percent of urea, 2-6 percent of rumen-protected lysine, 1-2 percent of rumen protected methionine, 2-6 percent of baking soda, 10-15 percent of monensin, 3-8 percent of slow release preparation and a 0.05-0.1 percent of nicotinic acid. The slow release preparation comprises ferrous sulfate, copper sulfate, calcium carbonate, manganese sulfate, zinc sulfate and sodium metabisulfite. The feed additive of the high productive dairy cow is matched with a cow daily ration for feeding the cow, and thus enough nutrition storage can be provided for the perinatal period of the cow, enough nutrition supply is provided for the lactation peak time, the energy negative balance and physical body condition loss of the cow in the lactation peak time are made up, and the daily milk production and peak sustaining force are increased.

The invention relates to a method for optimizing the energy balance of a forming section in a machine for producing fibrous webs, in which a fiber suspension, which is fed to the forming section by way of a material ramp after the immobility point is reached, is passed through at least two dewatering units within a compression zone and to a subsequent functional unit. The invention is characterized in that a setpoint value for a target dryness to be set is predefined based on the existing dewatering elements as a function of a theoretical maximum achievable dryness under plant conditions in the area of the transition zone, said setpoint being selected such that it is less than the theoretical maximum achievable dryness but is equal to or greater than a required minimum dryness in the area of the transition zone, and that the target dryness is controlled by lowering the inlet dryness at one of the last dewatering units disposed in the direction of passage of the fiber suspension within the compression zone.