Leak Detection of Gas Pipelines Based on Characteristics of Acoustic Leakage and Interfering Signals

When acoustic method is used in leak detection for natural gas pipelines,the external interferences including operation of compressor and valve,pipeline knocking,etc.,should be distinguished with acoustic leakage signals to improve the accuracy and reduce false alarms.In this paper,the technologies of extracting characteristics of acoustic signals were summarized.The acoustic leakage signals and interfering signals were measured by experiments and the characteristics of time-domain,frequency-domain and time-frequency domain were extracted.The main characteristics of time-domain are mean value,root mean square value,kurtosis,skewness and correlation function,etc.The features in frequency domain were obtained by frequency spectrum analysis and power spectrum density,while time-frequency analysis was accomplished by short time Fourier transform.The results show that the external interferences can be removed effectively by the characteristics of time domain,frequency domain and time-frequency domain.It can be drawn that the acoustic leak detection method can be applied to natural gas pipelines and the characteristics can help reduce false alarms and missing alarms.

An extraction method for pressure beat vibration characteristics of hydraulic drive system based on variational mode decomposition

In the pump-controlled motor hydraulic transmission system,when the pressure pulsation frequencies seperately generated by the pump and the motor are close to each other,the hydraulic system will generate a strong pressure beat vibration phenomenon,which will seriously affect the smooth running of the hydraulic system.However,the modulated pressure signal also carries information related to the operating state of the hydraulic system,and a accurate extraction of pressure vibration characteristics is the key to obtain the operating state information of the hydraulic system.In order to extract the pressure beat vibration signal component effectively from the multi-component time-varying aliasing pressure signal and reconstruct the time domain characteristics,an extraction method of the pressure beat vibration characteristics of the hydraulic transmission system based on variational mode decomposition(VMD)is proposed.The experimental results show that the VMD method can accurately extract the pressure beat vibration characteristics from the high-pressure oil pressure signal of the hydraulic system,and the extraction effect is preferable to that of the traditional signal processing methods such as empirical mode decomposition(EMD).

Design aspect of a novel L-shaped pulsed column for liquid–liquid extraction applications: Energy consumption and the characteristics velocity concept

This article deals with the evaluation of the consumption of energy for a steady state solvent extraction in a novel L-shaped pulsed sieve-plate column, which is highly required for design and optimization of the periodic flow processes for industrial applications. In this regard, a comprehensive evaluation on the energy consumption in case of a pulsed flow for three different chemical systems is conducted and besides the influence of pulsation intensity, the effect of geometrical parameters including the plate spacing and the plate free area is investigated as well. Moreover, the concept of characteristic velocity models at flooding points is evaluated with respect to the variation of pressure drop along the column at different operational conditions.

Extraction Characteristics of Radio Frequency ICP Ion Source

An inductively coupled radio frequency ion source has been developed and its extraction characteristics measured. Beam current density up to 0.11 mA/ cm2 was obtained with argon at a rf discharge power of about 140 W. The dependences of ion beam on the discharge parameters such as rf source power, gas pressure and gas flow rate was studied.

Image-based Extraction of Characteristic Value of Pathological Leaf Surface

[ Objective] Computer image processing technology was used to distinguish the angular leaf spot and spotted disease in the agricultural production. [Method] The computer vision technology was used to carry out chromatic research on the plant pathological characteristics. The color and texture were taken as the plant disease image characteristic parameter to extract the perimeter, area and the shape of the lesion image, thus carrying out the classification judgment on the disease image. [ Result] C IE1976H IS chorma percentage histogram method was adopted to extract chromaticity characteristic parameters, the process was simple and effective with fast operation speed, eliminating the effect of leaf size and shape. The statistical characteristic parameter of chorma histogram was analyzed to obtain chroma skewness, which could significantly distinguish different symptoms of disease. [ Conclusion] The study suggested that chroma skewness could be adopted as the characteristic parameter to distinguish spotted disease with angular leaf spot.

PREDICTION TECHNIQUES OF CHAOTIC TIME SERIES AND ITS APPLICATIONS AT LOW NOISE LEVEL

The paper not only studies the noise reduction methods of chaotic time series with noise and its reconstruction techniques, but also discusses prediction techniques of chaotic time series and its applications based on chaotic data noise reduction. In the paper, we first decompose the phase space of chaotic time series to range space and null noise space. Secondly we restructure original chaotic time series in range space. Lastly on the basis of the above, we establish order of the nonlinear model and make use of the nonlinear model to predict some research. The result indicates that the nonlinear model has very strong ability of approximation function, and Chaos predict method has certain tutorial significance to the practical problems.

Method of Fire Image Identification Based on Optimization Theory

In view of some distinctive characteristics of the early-stage flame image, a corresponding method of characteristic extraction is presented. Also introduced is the application of the improved BP algorithm based on the optimization theory to identifying fire image characteristics. First the optimization of BP neural network adopting Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm with the property of quadratic convergence is discussed, and then a new system of fire image identification is devised. Plenty of experiments and field tests have proved that this system can detect the early-stage fire flame quickly and reliably.

Numerical Simulation of Enhanced Oil-Water Separation in a Three-Stage Double-Stirring Extraction Tank

Numerical simulation of enhanced fluid flow characteristics in a three-stage double-stirring extraction tank was conducted with the coupling of an Eulerian multiphase flow model and a Morsi-Alexander interphase drag force model. Results show that the addition of a stirring device into the settler can efficiently reduce the volume fraction of out-of-phase impurity in the outlet, and accelerate the settling separation of oil-water mixture. Such addition can also effectively break down the oil-water-wrapped liquid droplets coming from the mixer, inhibit reflux from the outlet, and improve the oil-water separation. The addition of a stirring device induces ignorable power consumption compared with that by the mixer, and can thus facilitate the commercialized promotion of this novel equipment.

Numerical simulation and experimental research on an inductively coupled RF plasma cathode

In this study,numerical simulation and discharge current tests were conducted on an inductively coupled radio frequency(RF)plasma cathode.Numerical simulations and experimental measurements were performed to study the factors influencing the electron extraction characteristics,including the gas type,gas flow,input power and extracting voltage.The simulation results were approximately consistent with the experimental results.We experimentally found that the RF input power mainly determines the extracted electron current.An electron current greater than 1 A was acquired at 270 W(RF input power),2.766 sccm(xenon gas).Our results prove that an inductively coupled RF plasma cathode can be reasonable and feasible,particularly for low power electric propulsion devices.

EXTRACTION OF CHARACTERISTIC ROOTS ON BESSEL-NEUMANN’S MIXED EQUATIONS

This paper discusses the problem of the extraction of characteristic roots on Bessel-Neumann's mixed equations. It gives the expressions and the evaluation of the minimum root. The advantage of the method has no use for the table of the multi-figure number Bessel function and it does not need computer but can calculate all the characteristic roots The precision of these roots is still high.

Weak characteristic information extraction from early fault of wind turbine generator gearboxKeywords wind turbine generator gearbox, B-singular value decomposition, local mean decomposition, weak characteristic information extraction, early fault warning

Given the weak early degradation characteristic information during early fault evolution in gearbox of wind turbine generator, traditional singular value decomposition （SVD）-based denoising may result in loss of useful information. A weak characteristic information extraction based on μ-SVD and local mean decomposition （LMD） is developed to address this problem. The basic principle of the method is as follows： Determine the denoising order based on cumulative contribution rate, perform signal reconstruction, extract and subject the noisy part of signal to LMD and μ-SVD denoising, and obtain denoised signal through superposition. Experimental results show that this method can significantly weaken signal noise, effectively extract the weak characteristic information of early fault, and facilitate the early fault warning and dynamic predictive maintenance.