Distribution Ratio of Sulfur between CaO-SiO₂-Al₂O₃-Na₂O-TiO₂ Slag and Carbon-Saturated Iron

To explore the feasibility of hot metal desulfurization using red mud, the sulfur distribution ratio (LS) between CaO-SiO2-Al2O3-Na2O-TiO2 slag and carbon-saturated iron is evaluated in this paper. First, the theoretical liquid areas of the CaO-SiO2-Al2O3 (-Na2O-TiO2) slag are discussed and the fluxing effects of Al2O3, Na2O, and TiO2 are confirmed. Then, LS is measured via slag-metal equilibrium experiments. The experimental results show that LS significantly increases with the increase of temperature, basicity, and Na2O content, whereas it decreases with the increase of Al2O3 and TiO2 content. Na2O in the slag will volatilize with high temperatures and reducing conditions. Furthermore, based on experimental data for the sulfur distribution ratio between CaO-SiO2-Al2O3-Na2O-TiO2 slag and the carbon-saturated iron, the following fitting formula is obtained: log L S = 45.584 &#923; + 10568.406 &#8722; 17184.041 &#923; T &#8722; 8.529 </inline-formula

Utformning av sidoområden med hänsyn till vägens livscykelkostnad

Single vehicle accidents are one of the most common types of accidents that occur on the Swedish road network. Depending on the design of the road, the presence of a crash barrier and embankment on the roadside, the outcome of a roadside collision can lead to serious injuries and even deaths.The aim of this project is to investigate the possibility of improving road safety by designing the optimal roadside area based on the results of a life cycle cost analysis (LCC).The questions that have been answered during the duration of this project are: 1) Describe the current technical solutions for roadside area design and the various barrier types used in Sweden.2) Complete an existing mathematical model that has been developed by Hawzheen Karim, for calculating life-cycle costs for various roadside areas.3) Calculate and compare the life cycle costs for the side area with a barrier and without a barrier. By performing an analysis of the documentation on the current guidelines and rules for shaping the roadside, was it possible to describe the current technical solutions for the formation the roadside as well as the current roadside barriers in use today. A mathematical model for calculating the life cycle costs of different barrier types had already been developed by Hawzheen Karim. This model was supplemented so that it could calculate life-cycle costs of the roadside region with and without a barrier. After the model was completed, an analysis was performed to obtain life-cycle costs of a roadside with and without a barrier.The result showed that there is a clear relationship between the slope inclination, fill height, and the rate at which the costs rise. This breakpoint is highly dependent on several factors such as the price of land, the presence of bedrock in the construction process and if the ballast material needs to be treated. A flatter slope causes an increase in both the volume of material and the area of land that needs to be obtained, while a steep slope with a barrier may result in higher costs to society due to fatal collisions with the barrier and higher operating and maintenance costs.Singelolyckor är en av de vanligaste olyckstyperna som förekommer på det svenska vägnätet. Beroende på utformningen av vägen, förekomsten av vägräcke och slänten på sidoområdet kan förloppet av en avkörningsolycka leda till svåra skador och även dödsfall. Syftet med detta projektet är att undersöka möjligheten att öka trafiksäkerheten genom att utforma det optimala sidoområdet baserat på en livscykelkostnadsanalys (LCC-analys).De frågeställningar som har besvarats under projektets utförande är: 1) Beskriv de nuvarande tekniska lösningar för sidoområdets utformning och de olika typer av räcken som används i Sverige.2) Komplettera en befintlig matematisk modell som har tagits fram av Hawzheen Karim, för beräkningar av livscykelkostnader för olika sidoområden.3) Beräkna och jämför livscykelkostnader för sidoområdet med räcken och utan räcken. Genom att utföra en dokumentanalys på de nuvarande riktlinjer och bestämmelser kunde alla nuvarande tekniska lösningar för sidområdets utformning och olika räckestyper beskrivas. De nuvarande tekniska lösningar som finns för att utforma sidoområden är både enkla och mycket effektiva, och riktlinjerna som finns för utformning av sidoområden är också omfattande och lätta att förstå.En matematisk modell för beräkning av livscykelkostnader av olika räckestyper hade redan tagits fram av Hawzheen Karim. Denna model kompletterades för att kunna användas både på sidoområdet med och utan räcken. För att få fram de samhällsekonomiska kostnaderna var det nödvändigt att använda STRADA (Swedish Traffic Accident Data Acquisition) för att räkna ut hur ofta avkörnings- och påkörningsolyckor i räcken leder till skador och dödsfall vilket blir stora kostnader för samhället. Efter att modellen kompletterats kunde en analys utföras för att få fram livscykelkostnader för ett sidoområde med och utan räcken. Resultatet redovisades grafiskt och skärningspunkterna visade den fyllnadhöjd då det blev mer lönsamt att installera vägräcken med en brant slänt istället för att bygga en flackare slänt. Resultatet visade att det finns ett tydligt samband mellan släntens lutning, fyllnadshöjden och graden till vilken kostnaderna stiger. Denna brytpunkt är mycket beroende på en rad faktorer så som markpriset, förekomsten av berggrund i området och om friktionsmaterial behöver behandlas. En flackare slänt medför en ökning av både volymerna av material samt area mark som behöver inlösas, medans en brant slänt med räcken kan medföra högre samhällsekonomiska kostnader på grund av påkörningsolyckor med räcken samt högre drift-och underhållskostnader

Structure-Texture Dual Preserving for Remote Sensing Image Super Resolution

Most of the existing remote sensing image super-resolution (SR) methods based on deep learning tend to learn the mapping from low-resolution (LR) images to high-resolution (HR) images directly. But they ignore the potential structure and texture consistency of LR and HR spaces, which cause the loss of high-frequency information and produce artifacts. A structure-texture dual preserving method is proposed to solve this problem and generate pleasing details. Specifically, we propose a novel edge prior enhancement strategy that uses the edges of LR images and the proposed interactive supervised attention module (ISAM) to guide SR reconstruction. First, we introduce the LR edge map as a prior structural expression for SR reconstruction, which further enhances the SR process with edge preservation capability. In addition, to obtain finer texture edge information, we propose a novel ISAM in order to correct the initial LR edge map with high-frequency information. By introducing LR edges and ISAM-corrected HR edges, we build LR&#x2013;HR edge mapping to preserve the consistency of LR and HR edge structure and texture, which provides supervised information for SR reconstruction. Finally, we explore the salient features of the image and its edges in the ascending space, and restored the difference between LR and HR images by residual and dense learning. A large number of experimental results on Draper and NWPU-RESISC45 datasets show that our model is superior to several advanced SR algorithms in both objective and subjective image quality

Hydraulically Coupled Dielectric Elastomer Actuators for a Bioinspired Suction Cup

Suction cups of cephalopods show a preeminent performance when absorbing irregular or flat objects. In this paper, an octopi-inspired suction cup, driven by hydraulically coupled dielectric elastomer actuators (HCDEAs), is proposed, which is considered to be controlled easily and have compact structure. To investigate the performance of suction cups, experiments have been conducted to clarify the effect of the pre-stretch ratio and chamber angle on suction forces. It could be seen that both factors have a complicated influence on suction forces, and the best performance obtained was a reasonable combination of the pre-stretch ratio and chamber angle. Here, we achieved a maximum suction force of 175 mN with λp = 1.2, α = 23° under a DC voltage of 3500 V. To enhance the capacity and adaptation of the suction cup, flat objects of various types of materials were introduced as targets. Experimental results displayed that for tested materials, including a dry/wet acrylic plate, CD, ceramic wafer, and aluminum plate, the suction cup showed outstanding performance of absorbing and lifting the target without any damage or scratch to them. Our research may serve as a guide to the optimal design and provide insights into the performance of the HCDEAs-actuated suction cup

The Two-Stage Ensemble Learning Model Based on Aggregated Facial Features in Screening for Fetal Genetic Diseases

With the advancement of medicine, more and more researchers have turned their attention to the study of fetal genetic diseases in recent years. However, it is still a challenge to detect genetic diseases in the fetus, especially in an area lacking access to healthcare. The existing research primarily focuses on using teenagers&rsquo; or adults&rsquo; face information to screen for genetic diseases, but there are no relevant directions on disease detection using fetal facial information. To fill the vacancy, we designed a two-stage ensemble learning model based on sonography, Fgds-EL, to identify genetic diseases with 932 images. Concretely speaking, we use aggregated information of facial regions to detect anomalies, such as the jaw, frontal bone, and nasal bone areas. Our experiments show that our model yields a sensitivity of 0.92 and a specificity of 0.97 in the test set, on par with the senior sonographer, and outperforming other popular deep learning algorithms. Moreover, our model has the potential to be an effective noninvasive screening tool for the early screening of genetic diseases in the fetus