Assessment of railway wheel slide protection(WSP) systems involves the execution of complex experimental activities that are quite expensive and time-consuming, since they involve the physical reproduction of degraded...Assessment of railway wheel slide protection(WSP) systems involves the execution of complex experimental activities that are quite expensive and time-consuming, since they involve the physical reproduction of degraded adhesion conditions on a real railway line. WSP is devoted to regulating applied braking forces to avoid excessive wheel sliding in case of degraded adhesion conditions between wheel and rail. WSP must be also compliant to safety specifications related to assured braking performances and consumed air. Hardware in the loop(HIL) testing offers an affordable and sustainable way to accelerate these activities optimizing cost, duration and safety of experimental activities performed online. HIL test rigs are subjected to continuous updates, customization and natural ageing of their components. This work investigates the criteria that can be adopted to assure a continuous monitoring and validation of a real WSP test rig, the Italian test rig of Firenze Osmannoro.展开更多
BACKGROUND: Liver transplantation is the therapy of choice for patients with end-stage liver diseases. However, the gap between the low availability of organs and high demand is continuously increasing. Innovative st...BACKGROUND: Liver transplantation is the therapy of choice for patients with end-stage liver diseases. However, the gap between the low availability of organs and high demand is continuously increasing. Innovative strategies for organ protection are necessary to expand donor pool and to achieve better outcomes for liver transplantation. The present review analyzed and compared various strategies of liver protection.DATA SOURCES: Databases such as PubM ed, Embase and Ovid were searched for the literature related to donor liver protection strategies using following key words: "ischemia reperfusion injury", "graft preservation", "liver transplantation", "machine perfusion" and "conditioning". Of the 146 studies identified,only those with cutting edge strategies were analyzed.RESULTS: A variety of therapeutic approaches were proposed to alleviate graft ischemia/reperfusion injury, which included static cold storage, machine perfusion (hypothermic, normothermic and subnormothermic), manual conditioning (pre,post and remote), and pharmacological conditioning. Evidences from animal experiments and clinical trials suggested that all these strategies could potentially protect liver graft; however, their clinical applications are limited partially due to their own disadvantages.CONCLUSIONS: There are a plenty of methods suggested to decrease the degree of donor liver transplantation-related injury. However, none of these approaches is perfect in clinical practice. More translational researches (molecular and clinical studies) are needed to improve the techniques in liver graft protection.展开更多
Aiming at digital relay protection system, a novel hidden failure Markov reliability model is presented for a single main protection and double main protection systems according to hidden failure and protection functi...Aiming at digital relay protection system, a novel hidden failure Markov reliability model is presented for a single main protection and double main protection systems according to hidden failure and protection function under Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) circumstance and reliability indices such as probability of protection system hidden failure state are calculated. Impacts of different parameters (containing impacts of human errors) to hidden failure state probability and the optimal measures to improve reliability by variable parameter method are also analyzed. It’s demonstrated here that: Compared to a single main protection, double main protection system has an increased hidden failure probability, thus the real good state probability decreases, two main protections’ reliability must be improved at the same time, so configuration of the whole protection system for the component being protected can’t be complicated. Through improving means of on-line self-checking and monitoring system in digital protection system and human reliability, the real application of CBM can decrease hidden failure state probability. Only through this way can we assure that the protection systems work in good state. It has a certain reference value to protection system reliability engineering.展开更多
Accurate conditions monitoring and early wrong action warnings of relay protection in the Smart Substation is the basic guarantee to realize the normal operation of primary and secondary system of the power grid.At pr...Accurate conditions monitoring and early wrong action warnings of relay protection in the Smart Substation is the basic guarantee to realize the normal operation of primary and secondary system of the power grid.At present,the traditional operation and maintenance monitoring methods of relay protections have poor timeliness,while some automatic monitoring methods have insufficient early warning performance,and lack the online action deduction function independent of the actual device.In this paper,a design method of integrated action deduction system including protection logic reasoning and software and hardware operation condition is proposed.The system can receive real-time operation information of protection online,simulate different types of faults,and output the recording information of sub modules belongs to the action deduction system.It can realize the online monitoring of device faults such as deducing the correctness of setting values at a certain time in the future,giving the wrong action warnings and predicting the probability of them as well,which effectively improves the operation and maintenance efficiency of the secondary system in the intelligent substation.展开更多
The world heritage is the resource and wealth shared by the people of the world,and it has very important value.With beautiful scenery and splendid culture,China is a country which has a wealth of heritage resources.B...The world heritage is the resource and wealth shared by the people of the world,and it has very important value.With beautiful scenery and splendid culture,China is a country which has a wealth of heritage resources.By 2016,50world heritage sites in China were named the World Natural and Cultural Heritage by the UNESCO including35world culture heritages,11world natural heritages and 4both cultural and natural heritages.This paper summarizes the general situation of the world heritage sites in China,describes protective measures of Chinese world heritage sites,analyzes the exiting problems and then puts forward proposals to further strengthen the protection of world heritages.展开更多
This paper studies the deterioration of bridge substructures utilizing the Long-Term Bridge Performance(LTBP)Program InfoBridge^(TM)and develops a survival model using Cox proportional hazards regression.The survival ...This paper studies the deterioration of bridge substructures utilizing the Long-Term Bridge Performance(LTBP)Program InfoBridge^(TM)and develops a survival model using Cox proportional hazards regression.The survival analysis is based on the National Bridge Inventory(NBI)dataset.The study calculates the survival rate of reinforced and prestressed concrete piles on bridges under marine conditions over a 29-year span(from 1992 to 2020).The state of Maryland is the primary focus of this study,with data from three neighboring regions,the District of Columbia,Virginia,and Delaware to expand the sample size.The data obtained from the National Bridge Inventory are condensed and filtered to acquire the most relevant information for model development.The Cox proportional hazards regression is applied to the condensed NBI data with six parameters:Age,ADT,ADTT,number of spans,span length,and structural length.Two survival models are generated for the bridge substructures:Reinforced and prestressed concrete piles in Maryland and reinforced and prestressed concrete piles in wet service conditions in the District of Columbia,Maryland,Delaware,and Virginia.Results from the Cox proportional hazards regression are used to construct Markov chains to demonstrate the sequence of the deterioration of bridge substructures.The Markov chains can be used as a tool to assist in the prediction and decision-making for repair,rehabilitation,and replacement of bridge piles.Based on the numerical model,the Pile Assessment Matrix Program(PAM)is developed to facilitate the assessment and maintenance of current bridge structures.The program integrates the NBI database with the inspection and research reports from various states’department of transportation,to serve as a tool for condition state simulation based on maintenance or rehabilitation strategies.展开更多
在双碳目标的背景下,虚拟电厂、微电网等形式的产消者大规模涌现。多产消者之间的能量共享能够提升整体的经济效益与新能源消纳水平。在计及各产消者数据隐私的基础上,文中提出弱中心化模式下的多产消者能量共享协同运行机制。首先,构...在双碳目标的背景下,虚拟电厂、微电网等形式的产消者大规模涌现。多产消者之间的能量共享能够提升整体的经济效益与新能源消纳水平。在计及各产消者数据隐私的基础上,文中提出弱中心化模式下的多产消者能量共享协同运行机制。首先,构建含多种分布式资源的产消者内部调度模型,并考虑负荷需求以及新能源出力的波动性与随机性,基于条件风险价值(conditional value at risk,CVaR)量化不确定性带来的风险。然后,提出多产消者弱中心化电价迭代机制,利用供需关系引导电价更新。同时考虑到产消者隐私保护,基于Paillier同态加密算法和秘密共享原理设计电量数据聚合方法。该方法能够在各方主体隐私得到保护的前提下获取系统的供需信息。最后,通过算例验证了文中所提机制的有效性与合理性,且经过能量共享后多产消者整体成本降低12.6%。展开更多
文摘Assessment of railway wheel slide protection(WSP) systems involves the execution of complex experimental activities that are quite expensive and time-consuming, since they involve the physical reproduction of degraded adhesion conditions on a real railway line. WSP is devoted to regulating applied braking forces to avoid excessive wheel sliding in case of degraded adhesion conditions between wheel and rail. WSP must be also compliant to safety specifications related to assured braking performances and consumed air. Hardware in the loop(HIL) testing offers an affordable and sustainable way to accelerate these activities optimizing cost, duration and safety of experimental activities performed online. HIL test rigs are subjected to continuous updates, customization and natural ageing of their components. This work investigates the criteria that can be adopted to assure a continuous monitoring and validation of a real WSP test rig, the Italian test rig of Firenze Osmannoro.
基金supported in part by grants from the National Science and Technology Major Project (2012ZX10002-017)Natural Science Foundation of China for Innovative Research Group (81121002)+3 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81470891)the Qianjiang Talent Program of Zhejiang Province, China (2012R10045)the 863 National High-Technology Research and Development Program of China for young scientists (2015AA020923)the Scientific Research Program for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, Ministry of Health, China (491010-G51104)
文摘BACKGROUND: Liver transplantation is the therapy of choice for patients with end-stage liver diseases. However, the gap between the low availability of organs and high demand is continuously increasing. Innovative strategies for organ protection are necessary to expand donor pool and to achieve better outcomes for liver transplantation. The present review analyzed and compared various strategies of liver protection.DATA SOURCES: Databases such as PubM ed, Embase and Ovid were searched for the literature related to donor liver protection strategies using following key words: "ischemia reperfusion injury", "graft preservation", "liver transplantation", "machine perfusion" and "conditioning". Of the 146 studies identified,only those with cutting edge strategies were analyzed.RESULTS: A variety of therapeutic approaches were proposed to alleviate graft ischemia/reperfusion injury, which included static cold storage, machine perfusion (hypothermic, normothermic and subnormothermic), manual conditioning (pre,post and remote), and pharmacological conditioning. Evidences from animal experiments and clinical trials suggested that all these strategies could potentially protect liver graft; however, their clinical applications are limited partially due to their own disadvantages.CONCLUSIONS: There are a plenty of methods suggested to decrease the degree of donor liver transplantation-related injury. However, none of these approaches is perfect in clinical practice. More translational researches (molecular and clinical studies) are needed to improve the techniques in liver graft protection.
文摘Aiming at digital relay protection system, a novel hidden failure Markov reliability model is presented for a single main protection and double main protection systems according to hidden failure and protection function under Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) circumstance and reliability indices such as probability of protection system hidden failure state are calculated. Impacts of different parameters (containing impacts of human errors) to hidden failure state probability and the optimal measures to improve reliability by variable parameter method are also analyzed. It’s demonstrated here that: Compared to a single main protection, double main protection system has an increased hidden failure probability, thus the real good state probability decreases, two main protections’ reliability must be improved at the same time, so configuration of the whole protection system for the component being protected can’t be complicated. Through improving means of on-line self-checking and monitoring system in digital protection system and human reliability, the real application of CBM can decrease hidden failure state probability. Only through this way can we assure that the protection systems work in good state. It has a certain reference value to protection system reliability engineering.
基金supported by the Science and Technology Program of State Grid Corporation of China(No.kj2020–056).
文摘Accurate conditions monitoring and early wrong action warnings of relay protection in the Smart Substation is the basic guarantee to realize the normal operation of primary and secondary system of the power grid.At present,the traditional operation and maintenance monitoring methods of relay protections have poor timeliness,while some automatic monitoring methods have insufficient early warning performance,and lack the online action deduction function independent of the actual device.In this paper,a design method of integrated action deduction system including protection logic reasoning and software and hardware operation condition is proposed.The system can receive real-time operation information of protection online,simulate different types of faults,and output the recording information of sub modules belongs to the action deduction system.It can realize the online monitoring of device faults such as deducing the correctness of setting values at a certain time in the future,giving the wrong action warnings and predicting the probability of them as well,which effectively improves the operation and maintenance efficiency of the secondary system in the intelligent substation.
文摘The world heritage is the resource and wealth shared by the people of the world,and it has very important value.With beautiful scenery and splendid culture,China is a country which has a wealth of heritage resources.By 2016,50world heritage sites in China were named the World Natural and Cultural Heritage by the UNESCO including35world culture heritages,11world natural heritages and 4both cultural and natural heritages.This paper summarizes the general situation of the world heritage sites in China,describes protective measures of Chinese world heritage sites,analyzes the exiting problems and then puts forward proposals to further strengthen the protection of world heritages.
基金This research receives funding from the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration.
文摘This paper studies the deterioration of bridge substructures utilizing the Long-Term Bridge Performance(LTBP)Program InfoBridge^(TM)and develops a survival model using Cox proportional hazards regression.The survival analysis is based on the National Bridge Inventory(NBI)dataset.The study calculates the survival rate of reinforced and prestressed concrete piles on bridges under marine conditions over a 29-year span(from 1992 to 2020).The state of Maryland is the primary focus of this study,with data from three neighboring regions,the District of Columbia,Virginia,and Delaware to expand the sample size.The data obtained from the National Bridge Inventory are condensed and filtered to acquire the most relevant information for model development.The Cox proportional hazards regression is applied to the condensed NBI data with six parameters:Age,ADT,ADTT,number of spans,span length,and structural length.Two survival models are generated for the bridge substructures:Reinforced and prestressed concrete piles in Maryland and reinforced and prestressed concrete piles in wet service conditions in the District of Columbia,Maryland,Delaware,and Virginia.Results from the Cox proportional hazards regression are used to construct Markov chains to demonstrate the sequence of the deterioration of bridge substructures.The Markov chains can be used as a tool to assist in the prediction and decision-making for repair,rehabilitation,and replacement of bridge piles.Based on the numerical model,the Pile Assessment Matrix Program(PAM)is developed to facilitate the assessment and maintenance of current bridge structures.The program integrates the NBI database with the inspection and research reports from various states’department of transportation,to serve as a tool for condition state simulation based on maintenance or rehabilitation strategies.
文摘在双碳目标的背景下,虚拟电厂、微电网等形式的产消者大规模涌现。多产消者之间的能量共享能够提升整体的经济效益与新能源消纳水平。在计及各产消者数据隐私的基础上,文中提出弱中心化模式下的多产消者能量共享协同运行机制。首先,构建含多种分布式资源的产消者内部调度模型,并考虑负荷需求以及新能源出力的波动性与随机性,基于条件风险价值(conditional value at risk,CVaR)量化不确定性带来的风险。然后,提出多产消者弱中心化电价迭代机制,利用供需关系引导电价更新。同时考虑到产消者隐私保护,基于Paillier同态加密算法和秘密共享原理设计电量数据聚合方法。该方法能够在各方主体隐私得到保护的前提下获取系统的供需信息。最后,通过算例验证了文中所提机制的有效性与合理性,且经过能量共享后多产消者整体成本降低12.6%。