微流控制系统在DNA计算中的应用

DNA计算系统以人工合成或自然存在的DNA分子作为信息存储的媒介,通过分子生物工程技术例如PCR、凝胶电泳、酶反应实现计算过程。文章简要介绍了DNA计算的原理、特点及研究概况,从对DNA及蛋白质分子的操控及检测两个方面详细分析了微流控制系统在DNA计算中的应用。研究了生物芯片在集成DNA计算系统中的作用,随着可集成的功能通用化、结构三维化生物芯片系统的出现,基于生物芯片的DNA计算系统将可能成为DNA计算机的一种重要实现途径。

介电泳微流控制分离不同尺寸碳纳米管研究

采用介电泳微流控制技术,利用不同尺寸碳纳米管在流动介电液中受到的大小不等的介电泳力,从而产生不同运动轨迹实现分离.通过建立介电泳数学模型和微流控制通道几何模型,对不同尺寸碳纳米管的分离过程进行仿真研究.结果表明:电场强度、流体流速和碳纳米管受到的介电泳力在主通道内最大,不同尺寸碳纳米管的运动轨迹在主通道开始出现分离,最终从不同的出口流出;当交变电压从±5V到±30V逐渐增大时,入口1与入口2的流速和流速比也逐渐增大;相较于异丙醇,用去离子水做介电液,流体流速近似高一个数量级.

聚合物载药微珠的制备研究

利用微流控技术制备出粒径大小可控、粒径均匀、形状规则的聚乳酸(PLA)载药微珠,确定了流动相和分散相的条件,研究了分散相与流动相的流速对载药液滴直径的影响及载药量对微珠粒径的影响。结果表明:以聚乙烯醇水溶液为流动相的最佳溶液浓度为8%,分散相中PLA的苯溶液与PLA的1,2-二氯乙烷溶液的体积比为17∶10时密度正合适;分散相的流速越大,微珠粒径越大;流动相的流速越大,微珠粒径越小;载药微珠的尺寸随着载药量的增加而增大。

Novel Design of HID Lamp Electronic Ballast for Automotive Systems

This paper presents a high intensity discharge（HID） lamp for automotive illumination. A novel type of ballast for HID is proposed without an acoustic resonance. The system consists of high frequency DC/DC converter,DC/AC inverter（SLA2403M）, high voltage igniter and a microcontroller unit（MCU）. The proposed ballast controls the complex start-up process and constant power process by programming on the rnicrocontroller. It is verified that experimental results agree well with the calculated ones. The ballast features such functions as failure protection, line under-voltage, line over-voltage, output short circuit and disconnection protections.

微流芯片

介绍了基于电流变液控制的微流芯片的工作原理和制作过程.由于电流变液的粘度随外加电场的增加而增大,且这种改变是可逆的,响应时间也极快(毫秒量级).利用此特性,作者设计制成了电流变液数值型微流阀.基于此类微流阀,我们制成了一系列微流器件,例如:微流混合装置、微减震器以及微流泵.

Application of pH control to a tubular flow reactor

Tubular flow reactors are mainly used in chemical industry and waste water discharged units. Control of output variables is very difficult because of the existence of high dead-time in these types of reactors. In the present work, sodium hydroxide and acetic acid solutions were sent to the tubular flow reactor. The aim was to control p H at 7 in the nonlinear region. The p H control of a tubular flow reactor with high time delay and a highly nonlinear behavior in p H neutralization reaction was investigated experimentally in the face of the various load and set point changes. Firstly, efficiency of conventional Proportional-Integral-Derivative(PID) algorithm in the experiments was tested. Then self-tuning PID(STPID) control system was applied by using the ARMAX model. The model parameters were calculated from input–output data by using PRBS signal as disturbance and Bierman algorithm. Lastly, the experimental fuzzy control of p H based on fuzzy model was achieved to compare the success of fuzzy approach with the performance of other control cases studied.

Frequency Regulation of Alternating Current Microgrid Based on Hierarchical Control Using Fuzzy Logic

An alternating current(AC)microgrid is a system that integrates renewable power,power converters,controllers and loads.Hierarchical control can manage the frequency of the microgrid to prevent imbalance and collapse of the system.The existing frequency control methods use traditional proportion integration(PI)controllers,which cannot adjust PI parameters in real-time to respond to the status changes of the system.Hierarchical control driven by fuzzy logic allows real-time adjustment of the PI parameters and the method used a two-layer control structure.The primary control used droop control to adjust power distribution,and fuzzy logic was used in the voltage loop of the primary control.The secondary control was added to make up for frequency deviation caused by droop control,and fuzzy logic was used in the secondary frequency control to deal with the dynamic change of frequency caused by the disturbances of loads.The proposed method was simulated in Matlab/Simulink.In the primary control,the proposed method reduced the total harmonic distortion(THD)of two cycles of the output voltage from 4.19%to 3.89%;in the secondary control,the proposed method reduced the frequency fluctuation of the system by about 0.03 Hz and 0.04 Hz when the load was increased and decreased,respectively.The results show that the proposed methods have a better effect on frequency maintenance and voltage control of the AC microgrid.

Microfluidic generation of Buddha beads-like microcarriers for cell culture

The fabrication of functional microcarriers capable of achieving in vivo-like three-dimensional cell culture is important for many tissue engineering applications. Here,inspired by the structure of Buddha beads, which are generally composed of moveable beads strung on a rope, we present novel cell microcarriers with controllable macropores and heterogeneous microstructures by using a capillary array microfluidic technology. Microfibers with a string of moveable and releasable microcarriers could be achieved by an immediate gelation reaction of sodium alginate spinning and subsequent polymerization of cell-dispersed gelatin methacrylate emulsification. The sizes of the microcarriers and their inner macropores could be well tailored by adjusting the flow rates of the microfluidic phases; this was of great importance in guaranteeing a sufficient supply of nutrients during cell culture. In addition, by infusing multiple cell-dispersed pregel solutions into the capillaries, the microcarriers with spatially heterogeneous cell encapsulations for mimicking physiological structures and functions could also be achieved.

Dielectrophoresis Flow Control of Volatile Fluids in Microchannels

In recent years the microchannel heat exchangers have been applied in a great variety of technical areas. One of the problems, which exist in the microcharmel technology is the flow instabilities, including fluid maldistribution in the microcharmels array for the case of two-phase flow especially in micro-evaporators. One of the ways to solve this problem is flow rate control at the microcharmel inlet. However, due to very small inlet to the array of microchannels the classic flow restriction device （with moving mechanical parts） will be difficult to apply. The new device for the flow rate control based on the dielectrophoresis force was presented in the paper. Experimet^tal research results of using this device for refrigerant flow control was presented in the paper. The experimentally obtained relationships between applied voltages and frequencies and flow rates were presented showing opportunity for applying such method for refrigerants and other volatile fluids.

Drag reduction via turbulent boundary layer flow control

Turbulent boundary layer control(TBLC) for skin-friction drag reduction is a relatively new technology made possible through the advances in computational-simulation capabilities,which have improved the understanding of the flow structures of turbulence.Advances in micro-electronic technology have enabled the fabrication of active device systems able to manipulating these structures.The combination of simulation,understanding and micro-actuation technologies offers new opportunities to significantly decrease drag,and by doing so,to increase fuel efficiency of future aircraft.The literature review that follows shows that the application of active control turbulent skin-friction drag reduction is considered of prime importance by industry,even though it is still at a low technology readiness level(TRL).This review presents the state of the art of different technologies oriented to the active and passive control for turbulent skin-friction drag reduction and contributes to the improvement of these technologies.

Hierarchical control for parallel bidirectional power converters of a grid-connected DC mlcrogrnd

The DC microgrid is connected to the AC utility by parallel bidirectional power converters （BPCs） to import/export large power, whose control directly affects the performance of the grid-connected DC microgrid. Much work has focused on the hierarchical control of the DC, AC, and hybrid microgrids, but little has considered the hierarchical control of multiple parallel BPCs that directly connect the DC microgrid to the AC utility. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical control for parallel BPCs of a grid-connected DC mierogrid. To suppress the potential zero-sequence circulating cm-cent in the AC side among the parallel BPCs and realize feedback linearization of the voltage control, a d-q-O control scheme instead of a conventional d-q control scheme is proposed in the inner current loop, and the square of the DC voltage is adopted in the inner voltage loop. DC side droop control is applied to realize DC current sharing among multiple BPCs at the primary control level, and this induces DC bus voltage deviation. The quantified relationship between the current sharing error and DC voltage deviation is derived, indicating that there is a trade-off between the DC voltage deviation and current sharing error. To eliminate the current sharing error and DC voltage deviation simultaneously, slope-adjusting and voltage-shifting approaches are adopted at the secondary control level. The pro- posed tertiary control realizes precise active and reactive power exchange through parallel BPCs for economical operation. The proposed hierarchical control is applied for parallel BPCs of a grid-connected DC microgrid and can operate coordinately with the control for controllable/uncontrollable distributional generation. The effectiveness of the proposed control method is verified by corresponding simulation tests based on Matlab/Simulink, and the performance of the hierarchical control is evaluated for prac- tical applications.