Methane dehydroaromatization with periodic CH_4-H_2 switch:A promising process for aromatics and hydrogen

Long-term stability test of Mo/HZSM-5-N catalysts（HZSM-5-N stands for nano-sized HZSM-5） in methane dehydroaromatization（MDA）reaction has been performed with periodic CH4-H2 switch at 1033-1073 K for more than 1000 h.During this test,methane conversion ranges from 13% to 16%,and mean yield to aromatics（i.e.benzene and naphthalene） exceeds 10%.N2-physisorption,XRD,NMR and TPO measurements were performed for the used Mo/HZSM-5 catalysts and coke deposition,and the results revealed that the periodic hydrogenation can effectively suppress coke deposition by removing the inert aromatic-type coke,thus ensuring Mo/HZSM-5 partly maintained its activity even in the presence of large amount of coke deposition.The effect of zeolite particle size on the catalytic activity was also explored,and the results showed that the nano-sized zeolite with low diffusion resistance performed better.It is recognized that the size effect was enhanced by reaction time,and it became more remarkable in a long-term MDA reaction even at a low space velocity.

A study of optimal switching problem in limited-cycle with multiple periods

In a social system or production line,the restrictions of the cost and the due-time exist in each period.Generally,whether these restrictions are satisfied is dependent not only on the risks of this period,but also on the risks generated beforehand.We consider controlling the production process by switching the processing rate to a faster one at a given period.This paper deals with the optimal switching period to minimize the total expected cost of the production process.We first propose the optimal switching period model,and then the mathematic formulation of the total expectation is presented.Finally,the policy of optimal switching period is investigated in detail by numerical experiments.

Periodic switching oscillation and mechanism in a periodically switched BZ reaction

By introducing periodic switching signal associated with illumination to the Originator,a switched mathematical model has been established.The bifurcation sets are derived based on the characteristics of the equilibrium points.Two types of periodic oscillation,such as 2T-focus/cycle periodic switching and 2T-focus/focus periodic switching,have been observed,the mechanism of which is presented through the switching relationship.The distribution of eigenvalues related to the equilibrium points determined by two subsystems is discussed to interpret oscillation-increasing and oscillation-decreasing cascades of the periodic oscillations.Furthermore,the invariant subspaces of the equilibrium point are investigated to reveal the mechanism of dynamical phenomena in the periodic switching.

Observability of Periodically Switched Boolean Control Networks

In this paper,observability is studied for periodically switched Boolean control networks(PSBCNs),which are managed with periodic switching signal and consist of some Boolean control networks.Firstly,via semi-tensor product of matrices,PSBCNs are expressed as algebraic forms.Secondly,a parallel system is constructed by combining two same PSBCNs,based on which,the observability problem of the original PSBCN can be transformed into the set reachability problem of this parallel system.Then,two necessary and sufficient conditions are obtained to detect reachability of parallel systems and observability of PSBCNs.In addition,the proposed conditions are extended to the case of state constraints.Finally,a practical example and a numerical example are provided to illustrate the results.

Topology and analysis of an N-stage cascaded polymer eight-port microring optical router with 7N channel wavelengths

Eight-port optical routers are widely used in cluster-mesh photonic networks-on-chip(No C). By using 24 groups of cross-coupling two-ring resonators, a 1-stage 8-port polymer optical router is proposed, which can optically route 7 channel wavelength data streams along definite path in two-dimensional(2D) plane. Under the selected 7 channel wavelengths, the insertion losses along all routing paths are within 0.02-0.58 d B, the maximum crosstalk of all routing operations is less than-39 d B, and the device footprint size is about 0.79 mm2. Then, a universal novel structure and routing scheme of N-stage cascaded 8-port optical router are presented, which contains 7N channel wavelengths. Because of the good scalability in wavelength, this device shows potential application of wideband signal routing in optical No C.