For pulsed power devices, surface flashover phenomena across solid insulators greatly restrict their overall performance. In recent decades, much attention has been paid on enhancing the surface electric withstanding ...For pulsed power devices, surface flashover phenomena across solid insulators greatly restrict their overall performance. In recent decades, much attention has been paid on enhancing the surface electric withstanding strength of insulators, and it is found that surface treatment of material is useful to improve the surface flashover voltage. The carburization treatment is employed to modify the surface components of newly-developed machinable ceramics （MC） materials. A series of MC samples with different glucose solution concentration （0%, 10%, 20%, 30% and 40%） are prepared by chemical reactions for surface carburization modification, and their surface fiashover characteristics are investigated under pulsed voltage in vacuum. It is found that the surface carburization treatment greatly modifies the surface resistivity of MCs and hence the flashover behaviors. Based on the reduction of surface resistivity and the secondary electron emission avalanche （SEEA） theory, the adjustment of flashover withstanding ability can be reasonably explained.展开更多
The application of controlled levels of negative pressure on to a wound has been shown to accelerate evacuation of dead cells, debris and fluid which eventually encourages wound healing in a verity of surgical wounds....The application of controlled levels of negative pressure on to a wound has been shown to accelerate evacuation of dead cells, debris and fluid which eventually encourages wound healing in a verity of surgical wounds. Vacuum Assisted Closure (V.A.C.) therapy—KCI Medical Limited, the terminology by which this is widely known, became popular, especially among the plastic surgery professionals in America and soon gained recognition worldwide. It is now widely used in the UK to manage and assist healing in a wide variety of wounds. Although KCI’s V.A.C. machines were the only ones on the market for a number of years, several wound management companies have now brought out their own machines and these are now known collectively as topical negative pressure therapy (TNPT). Traditional TNPT is often considered a relatively costly procedure. It is often used in patients with large wounds to facilitate dressing management and promote rapid cleaning and granulation. This may also allow them to be discharged to the community when they would otherwise remain inpatients, thereby saving bed days. Capital purchase of the machines is expensive and hospitals often rent or lease them on a short or long term basis. This can lead to difficulties in arranging the finances for discharge to the community. Subsequent dressing changes (recommended every 48 - 72 hrs) also incur high costs and involvement of the trained medical or nursing staff. As we all know;“Need is the mother of invention”. The disposable TNPT machine (V.A.C. ViaTM KCI Medical Ltd) has been introduced to help to solve these problems. It is a single use machine, inclusive of a dressing and canister and available off the shelf. It is very cost effective, easy to use and is used for small to moderate sized wounds. Senior author is using this machine which excellent results and illustrated the use of this machine with pictures in this paper.展开更多
Thermal conductivity is an important quantity which represents the characteristic of Vacuum Insulation Panel’s(VIP’s)performance.Precise measurement of thermal conductivity provides better quality assurance for the ...Thermal conductivity is an important quantity which represents the characteristic of Vacuum Insulation Panel’s(VIP’s)performance.Precise measurement of thermal conductivity provides better quality assurance for the users.In this paper,we presented a novel embedded sensor method to measure the thermal conductivity of VIP.The proposed method evaluated the quality of VIP primarily based on the relationship between thermal conductivity and frequency characteristic of the output signal.In addition,we presented a new mean ridge regression extreme leaning machine(M-RRELM)model via improving extreme learning machine(ELM)by ridge regression to modify the relationship between the thermal conductivity and the output signal frequency characteristic.Experiments have shown that the M-RRELM model has higher precision compared with the traditional ELM.The proposed method achieved good performance and was faster than the well known methods.展开更多
基金supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.50937004,50777051)NSFC-JSPS Joint Project(50911140103)
文摘For pulsed power devices, surface flashover phenomena across solid insulators greatly restrict their overall performance. In recent decades, much attention has been paid on enhancing the surface electric withstanding strength of insulators, and it is found that surface treatment of material is useful to improve the surface flashover voltage. The carburization treatment is employed to modify the surface components of newly-developed machinable ceramics （MC） materials. A series of MC samples with different glucose solution concentration （0%, 10%, 20%, 30% and 40%） are prepared by chemical reactions for surface carburization modification, and their surface fiashover characteristics are investigated under pulsed voltage in vacuum. It is found that the surface carburization treatment greatly modifies the surface resistivity of MCs and hence the flashover behaviors. Based on the reduction of surface resistivity and the secondary electron emission avalanche （SEEA） theory, the adjustment of flashover withstanding ability can be reasonably explained.
文摘The application of controlled levels of negative pressure on to a wound has been shown to accelerate evacuation of dead cells, debris and fluid which eventually encourages wound healing in a verity of surgical wounds. Vacuum Assisted Closure (V.A.C.) therapy—KCI Medical Limited, the terminology by which this is widely known, became popular, especially among the plastic surgery professionals in America and soon gained recognition worldwide. It is now widely used in the UK to manage and assist healing in a wide variety of wounds. Although KCI’s V.A.C. machines were the only ones on the market for a number of years, several wound management companies have now brought out their own machines and these are now known collectively as topical negative pressure therapy (TNPT). Traditional TNPT is often considered a relatively costly procedure. It is often used in patients with large wounds to facilitate dressing management and promote rapid cleaning and granulation. This may also allow them to be discharged to the community when they would otherwise remain inpatients, thereby saving bed days. Capital purchase of the machines is expensive and hospitals often rent or lease them on a short or long term basis. This can lead to difficulties in arranging the finances for discharge to the community. Subsequent dressing changes (recommended every 48 - 72 hrs) also incur high costs and involvement of the trained medical or nursing staff. As we all know;“Need is the mother of invention”. The disposable TNPT machine (V.A.C. ViaTM KCI Medical Ltd) has been introduced to help to solve these problems. It is a single use machine, inclusive of a dressing and canister and available off the shelf. It is very cost effective, easy to use and is used for small to moderate sized wounds. Senior author is using this machine which excellent results and illustrated the use of this machine with pictures in this paper.
基金supported by the Science and Technology Projects of Fujian Province of China(Grant No.2010H6025)Science and Technology Projects of Xiamen City of China(Grant No.3502Z20103012)。
文摘Thermal conductivity is an important quantity which represents the characteristic of Vacuum Insulation Panel’s(VIP’s)performance.Precise measurement of thermal conductivity provides better quality assurance for the users.In this paper,we presented a novel embedded sensor method to measure the thermal conductivity of VIP.The proposed method evaluated the quality of VIP primarily based on the relationship between thermal conductivity and frequency characteristic of the output signal.In addition,we presented a new mean ridge regression extreme leaning machine(M-RRELM)model via improving extreme learning machine(ELM)by ridge regression to modify the relationship between the thermal conductivity and the output signal frequency characteristic.Experiments have shown that the M-RRELM model has higher precision compared with the traditional ELM.The proposed method achieved good performance and was faster than the well known methods.
