Research on Detection Device for Broken Wires of Coal Mine-Hoist Cable

In order to overcome the flaws of present domestic devices for detecting faulty wires such as low precision,low sensitivity and instability,a new instrument for detecting and processing the signal of flux leakage caused by bro-ken wires of coal mine-hoist cables is investigated. The principle of strong magnetic detection was adopted in the equipment. Wires were magnetized by a pre-magnetic head to reach magnetization saturation. Our special feature is that the number of flux-gates installed along the circle direction on the wall of sensors is twice as large as the number of strands in the wire cable. Neighboring components are connected in series and the interference on the surface of the wire cable,produced by leakage from the flux field of the wire strands,is efficiently filtered. The sampled signal se-quence produced by broken wires,which is characterized by a three-dimensional distribution of the flux-leakage field on the surface of the wire cable,can be dimensionally condensed and characteristically extracted. A model of a BP neu-ral network is built and the algorithm of the BP neural network is then used to identify the number of broken wires quantitatively. In our research,we used a 6×37+FC,Φ24 mm wire cable as our test object. Randomly several wires were artificially broken and damaged to different degrees. The experiments were carried out 100 times to obtain data for 100 groups from our samples. The data were then entered into the BP neural network and trained. The network was then used to identify a total 16 wires,broken at five different locations. The test data proves that our new device can enhance the precision in detecting broken and damaged wires.

A method and device for online magnetic resonance multiphase flow detection

Most multiphase flow separation detection methods used commonly in oilfields are low in efficiency and accuracy,and have data delay.An online multiphase flow detection method is proposed based on magnetic resonance technology,and its supporting device has been made and tested in lab and field.The detection technology works in two parts:measure phase holdup in static state and measure flow rate in flowing state.Oil-water ratio is first measured and then gas holdup.The device is composed of a segmented magnet structure and a dual antenna structure for measuring flowing fluid.A highly compact magnetic resonance spectrometer system and intelligent software are developed.Lab experiments and field application show that the online detection system has the following merits:it can measure flow rate and phase holdup only based on magnetic resonance technology;it can detect in-place transient fluid production at high frequency and thus monitor transient fluid production in real time;it can detect oil,gas and water in a full range at high precision,the detection isn’t affected by salinity and emulsification.It is a green,safe and energy-saving system.

Ocular surface heat effects on ocular hemodynamics detected by real-time measuring device

AIM: To investigate the ocular hemodynamic effects of applying a hot compress to the eye.METHODS: The right eyes of five New Zealand white rabbits, both male and female, were hot-compressed for 18 min. An independently designed novel ocular contacttype temperature measuring device was used to measure the ocular surface temperature before and after the heating. Relevant retrobulbar hemodynamic parameters such as peak systolic velocity(PSV), end diastolic velocity(EDV), and resistance index(RI) of each of the central retinal artery(CRA), long posterior ciliary artery(LPCA), and ophthalmic artery(OA), as well as the mean velocity(V_m) of the central retinal vein(CRV), were measured using a color Doppler flow imaging(CDFI) technique and expressed as mean values with standard deviation(mean±SD). A statistical analysis was conducted based on a paired t-test and the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. RESULTS: The employed real-time temperature measuring device was able to accurately measure ocular surface temperature during the hot-compress process. The temperature increased after the hot compress was applied. Analysis showed that the PSV and EDV values of the CRA and LPCA significantly increased after the application of the hot compress, as did the V_m of the CRV. There were no significant changes in the EDV of the OA nor the RI of each artery. CONCLUSION: This experiment, which is the first of its kind, confirms that the retrobulbar blood flow velocities can increase upon heating the ocular surface. This simple method may be useful in the future.

Novel conductive metallo-supramolecular polymer AIE gel for multi-channel highly sensitive detection of hydrazine hydrate

Hydrazine hydrate(DH)is an important fine chemical intermediate and as fuel for rockets,however,it also has serious toxic for humans and environment.Developing novel materials and methods for sensitive detection of DH in water and air is an important task.In order to effectively detect DH,a novel conductive supramolecular polymer metallogel(PQ-Ag)has been constructed by the coordination of bis-5-hydroxyquinoline functionalized pillar[5]arene(PQ5)with Ag+.The metallogel PQ-Ag could realize the multi-channel sensitive detection of DH through naked-eye,fluorescence,and electrochemical methods.The lowest limit of detection(LOD)is 0.1 mg/m^(3)in air and 2.68×10^(−8)mol/L in water,which is lower than the standard of the US Environmental Protection Agency(EPA)for DH of maximum allowable concentration in drinking water.More importantly,an electronic device for DH detection based on the metallogel PQ-Ag was designed and prepared,which can realize conveniently and efficiently multi-channel detection and alert of DH through sound and light alarms not only in water but also in air.

Electrochemical detection of human ferritin based on gold nanorod reporter probe and cotton thread immunoassay device

In this study,a natural cotton thread immunoassay device combined with gold nanorod（GNR） reporter probe is developed for the rapid,sensitive and quantitative electrochemical determination of human ferritin,a lung cancer related biomarker.Human ferritin as an analyte and a pair of monoclonal antibodies are used to demonstrate the proof-of-concept on the cotton thread immunoassay device.An enhancement of the sensitivity is achieved by using gold nanorod as an electroactive report probe compared with a traditional gold nanoparticle（GNP） report probe.The device was capable of measuring 1.58 ng/mL ferritin in 30 min by anodic stripping voltammetry（ASV） testing,which meet the requirement for clinical diagnosis.

Recent progress of flexible and wearable strain sensors for human-motion monitoring

With the rapid development of human artificial intelligence and the inevitably expanding markets, the past two decades have witnessed an urgent demand for the flexible and wearable devices, especially the flexible strain sensors. Flexible strain sensors, incorporated the merits of stretchability, high sensitivity and skin-mountable,are emerging as an extremely charming domain in virtue of their promising applications in artificial intelligent realms, human-machine systems and health-care devices. In this review, we concentrate on the transduction mechanisms, building blocks of flexible physical sensors, subsequently property optimization in terms of device structures and sensing materials in the direction of practical applications. Perspectives on the existing challenges are also highlighted in the end.

Utilizing a microfluidic device to enrich and fluorescently detect circulating tumor cells

Circulating tumor cells(CTCs)are cancer cells that have propagated from primary tumor sites,spreading into the bloodstream as the cellular origin of fatal metastasis,and to secondary tumor sites.Capturing and analyzing CTCs is a kind of‘‘liquid biopsy'of the tumor that provides information about cancer changes over time and tailoring treatment[1].CTC enrichment and detection remains technologically challenging due to their extremely low concentra-

Reconfigurable intelligent surface assisted grant-free massive access

Massive machine-type communications(mMTC)is envisioned to be one of the pivotal scenarios in the fifth-generation(5G)wireless communication,where the explosively emerging Internet-of-Things(IoT)applications have triggered the demand for services with low-latency and high-reliability.To this end,grant-free random access paradigm has been proposed as a promising enabler in simplifying the connection procedure and significantly reducing access latency.In this paper,we propose to leverage the burgeoning reconfigurable intelligent surface(RIS)for grant-free massive access working at millimeter-wave(mmWave)frequency to further boost access reliability.By attaching independently controllable phase shifts,reconfiguring,and refracting the propagation of incident electromagnetic waves,the deployed RISs could provide additional diversity gain and enhance the access channel conditions.On this basis,to address the challenging active device detection(ADD)and channel estimation(CE)problem,we develop a joint-ADDCE(JADDCE)method by resorting to the existing approximate message passing(AMP)algorithm with expectation maximization(EM)to extract the structured common sparsity in traffic behaviors and cascaded channel matrices.Finally,simulations are carried out to demonstrate the superiority of our proposed scheme.