Bio-inspired Filter Design Based on Vortex Control Mechanism of Parallel Groove Structure

Solid–liquid separation is widely used in daily life and practical engineering.Traditional industrial filters are prone to clogging,but this rarely occurs in filter-feeding organisms.Inspired by the filter feeding mechanism of balaenid whales and considering the local grooves in the fringes layer,a new bionic filter is produced by 3D printing technology through the bionic design of the parallel channels inside the mouth of balaenid whales.At the same time,a test platform composed of the bionic filter,peristaltic pump,fluid pulse rectifier and water tank is built to carry out the fluid flow pattern dyeing and particle filtration experiments.It is found that fluid separation occurs near the groove structure and local vortices are generated.The vortex control filtration mechanism makes the particles in the front grooves tend to accumulate on the left side,which has a certain anti-clogging effect.Moreover,the increase of flow velocity leads to the enhancement of vortices,which makes the accumulation effect on the left more obvious.This study initially practices the bionic application from biological model to engineering design,and the vortex control anti-clogging filtration mechanism proposed in the study has a wide range of application prospects and values.

Predictive model-aided filtering scheme of data-collection in WSN

The paper proposes a prediction-mode-based filtering mechanism（PMF） to solve the problems of transmission energy wasting caused by time-redundant data in wireless sensor networks（WSN）,according to the characteristic of spatio-temporal correlations on sampling series in data-collection.Prior works have suggested several approaches to decrease energy cost during data transmission process via data aggregation tree structure.Distinguish from those methods in above researches,our proposed scheme mainly focus on reducing the temporal redundant degree in event-source to achieve energy-saving effect via self-adaptive filtering structure.The framework of PMF for energy-efficient collection is composed of prediction module for mining the change law of time domain,self-learning module for updating model,and driving module for controlling data filtering operation.Combined with the design of error driving rule and threshold distributing rule,which is the middleware in the above filtering mechanism,the quantity of transmission load in networks can be greatly inhibited on the premise of quality of service（QoS） assurance and energy consumption can be reduced consequently.Finally,the experimental results show that the performance of PMF can significantly outperform some classical data-collection algorithms on energy-saving effect and self-adaptability.

Influence of coagulation mechanisms and floc formation on filterability

Minimizing particles in water is a key goal for improving drinking water quality and safety.The media filtration process,as the last step of the solid–liquid separation process,is largely influenced by the characteristics of flocs,which are formed and controlled within the coagulation process.In a laboratory-based study,the impacts of the physical characteristics of flocs formed using aluminum sulfate on the filtration treatment of two comparative water samples were investigated using a photometric dispersion analyzer and a filterability apparatus.In general,the optimum dosage for maximizing filterability was higher than that for minimizing turbidity under neutral p H conditions.For a monomeric aluminum-based coagulant,the charge neutralization mechanism produced better floc characteristics,including floc growth speed and size,than the sweep flocculation mechanism.In addition,the charge neutralization mechanism showed better performance compared to sweep flocculation in terms of DOC removal and floc filterability improvement for both waters,and showed superiority in turbidity removal only when the raw water had high turbidity.For the different mechanisms,the ways that floc characteristics impacted on floc filterability also differed.The low variation in floc size distribution obtained under the charge neutralization mechanism resulted in the flocs being amenable to removal by filtration processes.For the sweep flocculation mechanism,increasing the floc size improved the settling ability of flocs,resulting in higher filter efficiency.