Experimental study on the desulfurization and evaporation characteristics of Ca(OH)_(2) droplets

The experiments were conducted to focus on the desulfurization and evaporation characteristics of lime slurry droplets at 298-383 K. We designed an evaporation-reaction chamber with quartz glass windows.The monodisperse slurry droplet stream was injected into the evaporation reaction chamber, and the inlet gas components(air, air + SO_(2)) were introduced into the chamber. We applied the magnified digital in-line holography to measure the droplet parameters and calculated the evaporation rate. The effects of temperature, droplet concentration, and SO_(2) concentration on the evaporation rate of Ca(OH)_(2) droplets were discussed. Moreover, the Ca(OH)_(2) droplets under different experimental conditions were sampled,and the droplets were observed and analyzed using an off-line microscope. The evaporation rate of the Ca(OH)_(2) droplet increased at first, and then decreased during the falling process, and remained constant at last. The average evaporation rate of the Ca(OH)_(2) droplets increased significantly with the temperature increasing.

Models and performance of SBAS and PPP of BDS

Satellite Based Augmentation System(SBAS)is one of the services provided by the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System(BDS).It broadcasts four types of diferential corrections to improve user application performance.These corrections include the State Space Representation(SSR)based satellite orbit/clock corrections and ionospheric grid corrections,and the Observation Space Representation(OSR)based partition comprehensive corrections.The algorithms generating these SBAS corrections are not introduced in previous researches,and the user SBAS positioning performance with the contribution of BDS-3 has not been evaluated.In this paper,we present the BDS SBAS algorithms for these diferential corrections in detail.Four types of Precise Point Positioning(PPP)function models for BDS Dual-Frequency(DF)and Single-Frequency(SF)users using the OSR and SSR parameters are also proposed.One week of data in 2020 is collected at 20 reference stations including the observations of both BeiDou-2 Navigation Satellite System(BDS-2)and BeiDou-3 Navigation Satellite System(BDS-3)satellites,and the PPP under various scenarios are performed using all the datasets and the BDS SBAS broadcast corrections.The results show that the performance of BDS-2/BDS-3 combination is superior to that of BDS-2 only constellation.The positioning errors in Root Mean Square(RMS)for the static DF PPP are better than 8 cm/15 cm in horizontal/vertical directions,while for the static SF PPP are 11 cm/24 cm.In the scenarios of simulated kinematic PPP,three Dimension(3D)positioning errors can reach 0.5 m in less than 10 min for the DF PPP and 30 min for the SF PPP,and the RMSs of the DF and SF PPP are better than 17 cm/21 cm and 20 cm/32 cm in horizontal/vertical directions.In a real-time single-and dual-frequency kinematic positioning test,the positioning errors of all three components can reach 0.5 m within 30 min,and the positioning accuracy after solution convergence in the N,E and U directions is better than 0.3 m.

Improving BDS broadcast ephemeris accuracy using ground-satellite-link observations

The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System(BDS)employs a hybrid constellation including GEO(Geosynchronous Earth Orbit),IGSO(Inclined Geosynchronous Orbit),and MEO(Medium Earth Orbit)satellites,where the GEO and IGSO satellites are critical to providing continuous and reliable Positioning,Navigation,and Timing(PNT)services in the Asia–Pacifc region.To handle the inconsistency between the satellite orbits and clocks in the broadcast ephemeris,which are determined by the Orbit Determination and Time Synchronization(ODTS)and the Two-way Satellite Time Frequency Transfer(TWSTFT)technique,respectively,we present the strategies using ground-satellite-link observations to improve the accuracy of broadcast ephemeris.The clock diferences between the ODTS and TWSTFT techniques are used for correcting the radial orbit component to derive the refned orbits,which are used to generate the refned broadcast ephemeris.The test results show the precision of the refned orbits is improved by 50–60%in the 3-h to 12-h predicted arcs for the GEO satellites,and by 40–50%for the IGSO satellites.Moreover,the validation using satellite laser ranging observations shows the mean precision of the refned broadcast ephemeris is improved by 27%compared to the original one.Applying the proposed strategies in the BDS Operational Control Segment(OCS),the time evolution of BDS Single Point Positioning(SPP)in the period from Jan.2016 to April 2021 is evaluated.The SPP accuracy is improved from 1.94,2.06 and 3.29 m to 1.39,1.85,and 2.39 m in the north,east,and up components,respectively.Further update with the inclusion of BDS-3 satellites improve the corresponding SPP precision to 0.68,0.70 and 1.91 m.