Control of combustion area using electrical resistivity method for underground coal gasification

Underground coal gasification （UCG） is one of the clean technologies to collect heat energy and gases （hydrogen, methane, etc.） in an underground coal seam. It is necessary to further developing environ- mentally friendly UCG system construction. One of the most important UCG＇s problems is underground control of combustion area for efficient gas production, estimation of subsidence and gas leakage to the surface. For this objective, laboratory experiments were conducted according to the UCG model to iden- ti[y the process of combustion cavity development by monitoring the electrical resistivity activity on the coal samples to setup fundamental data for the technology engineering to evaluate combustion area. While burning coal specimens, that had been sampled from various coal deposits, electrical resistivity was monitored. Symmetric four electrodes system （ABMN） of direct and low-frequency current electric resistance method was used for laboratory resistivity measurement of rock samples. Made research and the results suggest that front-end of electro conductivity activity during heating and combusting of coal specimen depended on heating temperature. Combusting coal electro conductivity has compli- cated multistage type of change. Electrical resistivity method is expected to be a useful geophysical tool to for evaluation of combustion volume and its migration in the coal seam.

Magnetic-field enhanced high-thermoelectric performance in topological Dirac semimetal Cd3As2 crystal

Thermoelectric materials can be used to convert heat to electric power through the Seebeck effect. We study magneto-thermoelectric figure of merit （ZT） in three-dimensional Dirac semimetal Cd3A 5 2 crystal. It is found that enhancement of power factor and reduction of thermal conductivity can be realized at the same time through magnetic field although magnetoresistivity is greatly increased. ZT can be highly enhanced from 0.17 to 1.1 by more than six times around 350 K under a perpendicular magnetic field of 7 T. The huge enhancement of ZT by magnetic field arises from the linear Dirac band with large Fermi velocity and the large electric thermal conductivity in CdsA 5 2. Our work paves a new way to greatly enhance the thermoelectric performance in the quantum topological materials.

Calculation Model of Effective Thermal Conductivity of a Spiral-wound Lithium Ion Battery

This paper proposed an analytical model which can calculate the effective thermal conductivity (ETC) of a spiral-wound Lithium-ion battery (Li-ion battery). It bases on a two-dimensional energy balance with both radial and spiral heat transfer, as well as internal thermal contact resistance (TCR) considered simultaneously and studies the influence of winding layers and winding tension on the ETC. Results show that the analytical data are in good agreement with the numerical results. With the winding layers decreased and the winding tension enhanced, the ETC of Li-ion battery increases gradually. The radial temperature in Li-ion battery is also investigated which demonstrates a relatively higher temperature when considering the internal TCR.

Measuring the thermal conductivity and interfacial thermal resistance of suspended MoS2 using electron beam self-heating technique

Establishment of a new technique or extension of an existing technique for thermal and thermoelectric measurements to a more challenging system is an important task to explore the thermal and thermoelectric properties of various materials and systems. The bottleneck lies in the challenges in measuring the thermal contact resistance. In this work, we applied electron beam self-heating technique to derive the intrinsic thermal conductivity of suspended Molybdenum Disulfide （MoS2） ribbons and the thermal contact resistance, with which the interracial thermal resistance between few-layer MoS2 and Pt electrodes was calculated. The measured room temperature thermal conductivity of MoS2 is around -30 W/（m K）, while the estimated interracial thermal resistance is around -2 × 10 -6 m-2 K/W. Our experiments extend a useful branch in application of this technique for studying thermal properties of suspended layered ribbons and have potential application in investigating the interracial thermal resistance of different twodimensional （2D） heterojunctions.

Thermal Conductivity of Complex Plasmas Using Novel Evan-Gillan Approach

The thermal conductivity of complex fluid materials （dusty plasmas） has been explored through novel Evan-Gillan homogeneous non-equilibrium molecular dynamic （HNEMD） algorithm. The thermal conductivity coefficient obtained from HNEMD is dependent on various plasma parameters （T,k）. The proposed algorithm gives accurate results with fast convergence and small size effect over a wide range of plasma parameters. The cross microscopic heat energy current is discussed in association with variation of temperature （1/Г） and external perturbations （Pz）. The thermal conductivity obtained from HNEMD simulations is found to be very good agreement and more reliable than previously known numerical techniques of equilibrium molecular dynarnic, nonequilibrium molecular dynamic simulations. Our new investigations point to an effective conclusion that the thermal conductivity of complex dusty plasmas is dependent on an extensive range of plasma coupling （P） and screening parameter （k） and it varies by the alteration in these parameters. It is also shown that a different approach is used for computations of thermal conductivity in 2D complex plasmas and can be appropriate method for behaviors of complex systems.

Molecular Dynamics Simulation on Thermodynamic Properties and Transport Coefficients

Molecular dynamics simulation (MDS) is used to study the thermodynamic properties and transport coefficients of an argon system with Lennend-Jones potential. The results on the velocity distribution,mean free path, mean collision time, specific heat and self-diffusion coefficient agree well with the existing theoretical/ experimental data. It shows that molecular dynamics method is another bridge to connect microworld and macroworld.