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Design and Implementation of Automatic Wheat Mower Based on Smart Sensor Fed by a Photovoltaic

The biggest problems of our time are environmental pollution and the reduction of fossil fuel resources. In recent years, photovoltaic (PV) has started to be used efficiently in order to produce electrical energy from solar energy throughout the world. In this study, a wheat mover machine taking its energy with PV technology transformation from the sun was designed supported by smart sensors. The designed vehicle was tested in two wheat fields in Sivas in Turkey. It was seen that daily average sunshine rates were not lower than 700 Watt/m2during the testing dates and time. The amounts of electrical charge used to mow 5 m2and 50 m2areas are obtained as 500 mAh and 3395 mAh, respectively. Also maximum power is calculated from used PV panel as 26.15 Watt during the day of the experiments. The range of solar radiation intensity is found 4.5 kWh/m2/day at the studied kWh which was$0.140 USD on the date of November 2015. This system is 94.5% more economic than conventional mowers over an area of 1000 m2.

The effect of crystal textures on the anodic oxidization of zirconium in a boiling nitric acid solution

ABSTRACTThe effects of crystal textures and the potentials in the anodic oxidation of zirconium in a boiling nitric acid solution were investigated to study the stress corrosion cracking of zirconium in nitric acid solutions. The test specimen was machined such that the specimen surface was parallel to the rolling surface, arranged with a (0002) crystal texture. The potentials applied for the anodic oxidation of zirconium were set at 1.2, 1.4, and 1.5 V against a saturated KCl–Ag/AgCl electrode (SSE) in boiling 6 M HNO3. The growth of the zirconium oxide film dramatically changed depending on the applied potential at a closed depassivation potential (1.47 V vs. SSE in this study). At 1.5 V, the zirconium oxide film rapidly grows, and its growth exhibits cyclic oxidation kinetics in accordance with a nearly cubic rate law. The zirconium oxide film grows according to the quantity of electric charge and the growth rate does not depend on the crystal texture in the pretransition region before the cyclic oxidation kinetics. However, the growth and cracking under the thick oxide film depend on the crystal texture in the transition region. On the normal direction side, the oxide film thickness decreases on average since some areas of the thick oxide film are separated from the specimen surface owing to the cracks in the thick oxide. On the rolling direction (RD) side, no cracks in the thick oxide film are observed, but cracks are found under the thick oxide film, which deeply propagate in metal matrix along the RD without an external stress. The cracks under the thick oxide film propagate to the center of the oxide layer. The crystal orientation relationship between the oxide layer and the zirconium matrix is (0002)Zr//(111)ZrO2, and the cracks in the oxide layer propagate in the (0002)Zr plane in the zirconium matrix. The oxide layer consists of string-like zirconium oxide and zirconium hydride. The string-like zirconium oxide contains orthorhombic ZrO2 in addition to monoclinic ZrO2. It is not well known why the cracks propagate along the (0002)Zr plane under the thick oxide film. As one assumption for the mechanism of crack initiation and propagation without an external stress, it is considered that the oxidizing zirconium hydrides precipitated in the (0002)Zr plane near the interface of the thick oxide film and the matrix. Then, the phase transformation from orthorhombic ZrO2 to monoclinic ZrO2 in the oxide layer causes the crack propagation in the (0002) plane.

Accelerated Testing and Modeling of Potential-Induced Degradation as a Function of Temperature and Relative Humidity

An acceleration model based on the Peck equation was applied to power performance of crystalline silicon cell modules as a function of time and of temperature and humidity, which are the two main environmental stress factors that promote potential-induced degradation (PID). This model was derived from module power degradation data obtained semicontinuously and statistically by in-situ dark current–voltage measurements in an environmental chamber. The modeling enables prediction of degradation rates and times as functions of temperature and humidity. Power degradation could be modeled linearly as a function of time to the second power; additionally, we found that the quantity of electric charge transferred from the active cell circuit to ground during the stress test is approximately linear with time. Therefore, the power loss could be linearized as a function of coulombs squared. With this result, we observed that when the module face was completely grounded with a condensed phase conductor, leakage current exceeded the anticipated corresponding degradation rate relative to the other tests performed in damp heat.

Transthoracic ventricular fibrillation charge thresholds.

Standards, including IEC 60479-1 and -2, provide current-based ventricular fibrillation thresholds (VFT) for stimuli durations between 0.1 ms and 10 s. It has been established that the amount of electrical charge, not the current calculated by root-mean-square, is most representative of the effects of cardiac stimulation. There are no unified models that present transthoracic charge VFTs for a wide range of stimuli durations. This work proposes a new unified charge model applicable to transthoracic stimuli durations ranging over 1 μs - 300 s. VFTs were compiled from our previous animal work and from other published reports, including from the studies that provided the raw data for IEC 60479-1 and -2. Our study goal was to cover a wide range of stimuli durations, for which reliable data exists. Consistent data were found for stimuli durations covering the range of 1 μs - 300 s where VFTs were expressed as charge. The model predicted a transthoracic charge VFT of 1 mC at 1 μs duration. The charge VFT increased with stimulus duration and reached 10 C at 300 s. Presenting the first charge-based transthoracic VFT model covering stimuli durations over 1 μs - 300 s, we found 3 behavioral regions of charge VFT vs. For short stimuli durations, 1 μs - 10 ms, VFTs followed a classic Weiss charge strength-duration curve. For long stimuli, longer than 5 s, charge VFTs can be approximated using a 38 mArms constant current model. From 10 ms to 5 s, charge VFTs tracked through a transition zone that could be approximated as a constant charge model Q≈100 mC.

An arc-light-based method for estimation of contact strip wear

A measured contact-loss ratio is used to estimate current-collection performance. There are two types of methods used to estimate the contact-loss ratio. One is to measure all the contact losses, including small ones; the other is to measure only contact losses that are greater than 5 ms in duration. The extent of wear of a contact strip caused by arc discharges varies as a function of the amount of electric charge. This fact makes it possible to manage the wear on a contact strip. This paper shows a calculation method for the amount of electric charge based on the output of a contact-loss measurement as well as the expected lifetime of the contact strip and the creation of a maintenance threshold level for of the contact strip.

Angular melting scenarios in binary dusty-plasma Coulomb balls: magic versus normal clusters.

Molecular-dynamic simulations were performed in order to investigate the melting processes of isotropically confined binary systems. We considered two species of particles, which differ by their amount of electric charge. A Lindemann type of criterion was used to determine the angular melting temperature. We demonstrate that the magic-to-normal cluster transition can evolve in two distinct ways, that is, through a structural phase transition of the first order or via a smooth transition where an increase of the shells' width leads to a continuous decreasing mechanical stability of the system. Moreover, for large systems, we demonstrate that the internal cluster exerts a minor effect on the mechanical stability of the external shell. Furthermore, we show that highly symmetric configurations, such as those found for multiple ring structures, have large mechanical stability, i.e., high angular melting temperature.

On the mechanism of electrical aging of polymer insulation materials

The results of studies of the intercoupling between the structure and properties of polyvinylidenfluoride (PVDF) samples exposed to glow and torch discharges in an atmosphere of residual atmospheric air gases, argon, and SF6 are detailed. It is demonstrated that the amount of electric charge accumulated in samples exposed to an electric discharge depends on the defects and the degree of imperfection of these samples. The processes of thermally stimulated relaxation of charges from the PVDF samples are studied. This allows one to qualitatively estimate changes in the defect size and the degree of imperfection of the samples in terms of changes in material properties.

Partial Access Mode: New Method for Reducing Power Consumption of Dynamic Random Access Memory

Demands have been placed on a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) to not only have increased memory capacity and data transfer speed, but also have reduced operating and standby currents. When a system uses a DRAM, a refresh operation is necessary because of its data retention time restriction: each bit of the DRAM is stored as an amount of electrical charge in a storage capacitor that is discharged by the leakage current. Power consumption for the refresh operation increases in proportion to the memory capacity. We propose a new method to reduce the refresh power consumption by effectively extending the memory cell retention time. Conversion from 1 cell/bit to 2 N cells/bit reduces the variation in the retention time among memory cells. Although active power increases by a factor of 2 N , the refresh time increases by more than 2 N as a consequence of the fact that the majority decision does better than averaging for the tail distribution of retention time. The conversion can be realized very simply from the structure of the DRAM array circuit, and it reduces the frequency of disturbance and power consumption by two orders of magnitude. On the basis of this conversion method, we propose a partial access mode to reduce power consumption dynamically when the full memory capacity is not required.

Ammonia as carbon-free substrate for hydrogen production in bioelectrochemical systems

In this study, ammonia was used as an anode substrate for cathode hydrogen generation by controlling the anode potential in two compartment bioelectrochemical systems. During batch experiments, the total quantity of electric charge increased from 129 C at 10 mM ammonia to 185 C at 20 mM ammonia, and it reached 281 C at 30 mM ammonia. Besides, the nitrogen removal efficiency reached 41%, 56% and 48% at 10, 20 and 30 mM ammonia respectively. Correspondingly, the productions of nitrogen were respectively 5.1 ml, 13.3 ml and 14.3 ml, and the productions of hydrogen were respectively 7.2 ml, 13.4 ml and 14.6 ml. However, there were no nitrogen and hydrogen production, as well as only a little electric charge of 10 C when there was no ammonia addition. The coulombic efficiency was higher than 50% during 5 days operation, which demonstrated that the bacteria growing on the anode were able to utilize most of the available ammonia for current generation. In addition, ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and ammonia-assimilating bacteria were detected by microbial community analysis of 16S rRNA genes based on high throughput sequencing, but anammox bacteria were not found at the anode biofilms, which suggested that there were two different pathways for anodic ammonia transformation. Copyright (C) 2014, Hydrogen Energy Publications, LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Forming Process of Anodic TiO2 Nanotubes under a Preformed Compact Surface Layer

Anodic TiO2 nanotubes (NTs) have been studied extensively for many years. However, the growth kinetics still remains unclear, because it is hardly derived by direct in situ methods. Here, an interesting approach is proposed to overcome this challenge. A combinatorial anodization was exploited to monitor the pore initiation and nanotube growth under a preformed compact surface layer (CSL). The preformed CSL and the NTs under the CSL (UCSL-NTs) were formed in fluoride-free and fluoride-containing electrolytes, respectively. The forming process of UCSL-NTs was discussed as compared with that of the general NTs, mainly focusing on the differences of current-time curves and electric charge quantity (Coulomb). The results show that pore embryos of UCSL-NTs have already been achieved under the CSL before the CSL is dissolved. There are five stages in the current-time curve of UCSL-NTs, which is significantly different from three stages of the general NTs. A new growth model, based on a comprehensive review of the existing theories, is proposed to explain the current decrease and increase. And the forming process of TiO2 NTs is considered to be dominated by the oxide plastic flow around the oxygen bubbles.

Influence of substrate on electricity generation of Shewanella loihica PV-4 in microbial fuel cells.

BackgroundThe substrate, serving as carbon and energy source, is one of the major factors affecting the performance of microbial fuel cells (MFCs). We utilized BIOLOG system to rapidly screen substrates for electricigens, and further evaluated influence of these substrates on electricity generation of Shewanella loihica PV-4 in MFCs.ResultsThree of most favorable substrates (lactate acid, formic acid and cyclodextrin) with OD590/750 of 0.952, 0.880 and 0.849 as well as three of most unfavorable substrates (galactose, arabinose and glucose) with OD590/750 of 0.248, 0.137 and 0.119 were selected by BIOLOG system under aerobic conditions. The chronoamperometry results showed that MFCs fed with these substrates exhibited different current behaviors. Cyclic voltammograms results showed that arabinose, galactose and glucose promoted electron transfer from outer membrane c-Cyts of cells to the electrode surface. Lactic acid, formic acid and cyclodextrin produced lower quantity of electric charge of 10.13 C, 9.83 C and 10.10 C, the corresponding OD600 value was 0.180, 0.286 and 0.152 in BES; while galactose, arabinose and glucose generated higher quantity of electric charge of 12.34 C, 13.42 C and 17.45 C, and increased OD600 values were 0.338, 0.558 and 0.409 in BES. SEMs results showed that plenty of plump and stretched cells as well as appendages were observed when lactic acid, formic acid, and cyclodextrin were utilized as substrates, while sparse cells in short shape were obtained when galactose, arabinose and glucose were used as substrates.ConclusionsThese results suggest that substrate not only has important role in electrochemical performances of MFCs but also in biological properties of electricigens. Lactic acid, formic acid, and cyclodextrin beneficial for cell growth under aerobic conditions are unfavourable for planktonic cell growth and current generation under anaerobic conditions, while consumptions of galactose, arabinose and glucose adverse to cell growth under aerobic conditions are favourable for planktonic cell growth and current generation under anaerobic conditions due to the increase of cell numbers with more outer membrane c-Cyts transferring electrons between the electrode surface and cells.

A new extension method of retention time for memory cell on dynamic random access memory

Demands have been placed on dynamic random access memory (DRAM) to not only increase memory capacity and data transfer speed but also to reduce operating and standby currents. When a system uses DRAM, the restricted data retention time necessitates a refresh operation because each bit of the DRAM is stored as an amount of electrical charge in a storage capacitor. Power consumption for the refresh operation increases in proportion to memory capacity. A new method is proposed to reduce the refresh power consumption dynamically, when full memory capacity is not required, by effectively extending the memory cell retention time. Conversion from 1 cell/bit to 2N cells/bit reduces the variation of retention times among memory cells. The proposed method reduces the frequency of disturbance and power consumption by two orders of magnitude. Furthermore, the conversion itself can be realized very simply from the structure of the DRAM array circuit, while maintaining all conventional functions and operations in the full array access mode.

바이오 폴리머 콘크리트의 환경 저항성 평가 연구

PURPOSES : The objective of this study is to evaluate the environmental resistance of bio-polymer concrete for use of pavement materials developed for reducing the carbon-dioxide. METHODS : The compression, tension, and bending strength tests were conducted on the bio-polymer concrete specimens with and without environmental conditioning. The specimens were conditioned using the freezing-thaw and accelerated weathering process for long period of time. To assess the resistance against chloride, the chloride ion penetration resistance tests were carried out on the bio-polymer concrete specimens. RESULTS : Test results show that the maximum difference in strength between specimens with and without conditioning is about 2.6MPa indicating that the effect of environmental conditioning on specimen strength is negligible. Based on the chloride ion penetration resistance test, the penetration quantity of electric charge of the specimens is zero and there is no ion penetration within the bio-polymer concrete. CONCLUSIONS : It is found from this study that there is slight change in strength of bio-polymer concretes before and after environmental conditioning process and no chloride ion penetration observed in these specimens. Therefore, the developed bio-polymer concretes can be applied effectively as pavement materials due to the small change of physical properties with environment change.

Improvement of the Stability of X-Ray Emission by Thermal Excitation of a Pyroelectric Single Crystal

X-ray emission using pyroelectric crystals is intermittent, and has low intensity and stability. One of the factors for low stability is related to creeping discharge, due to the accumulation of surface electric charges that change in response to the temperature. The time dependence of the net amount of electric charge was investigated by changing the cycle period of the crystal temperature. The stability of the X-ray emission is demonstrated to be strongly dependent on the temperature cycle period.

Influence of relative humidity and temperature on quantity of electric charge of static protective clothing used in petrochemical industry

In this paper, the working principle of static protective clothing and its testing method of quantity of electric charge are introduced, and the influence of temperature and relative humidity on the quantity of electric charge (qe) of static protective clothing is studied by measuring qe of different clothing samples. The result shows that temperature and relative humidity can influence qe of static protective clothing to some extent and the influence of relative humidity is bigger than that of temperature. According to experimental results, the relationship of qe and relative humidity and temperature was analysed, and the safety boundary of quantity of electric charge is discussed. In order to reduce the occurrence of electrostatic accidents and ensure safe production and operation of petrochemical industry, some suggestions on choosing and using of static protective clothing are given for guaranteeing its static protective performance.

Effect of Charge Action on the Annular Molten Metal of Spray Forming

This paper described the effect of hollow jet atomization technology, under charge action, according to the spray forming process, to improve the quality of atomization. In order to deeply study the charge action on the annular molten metal of spray forming process, this paper analyzed theoretically quantity of electric charge of the annular molten metal and the surface tension of atomization droplets. The results show that the quantity of electric charge increases with the increasing of charging voltage. Under the same conditions, the hollow annular metal liquid charge is always greater than the solid cylindrical molten metal charge, but the surface tension is less than the solid molten metal. As the quantity of electric charge reduce the surface tension of the droplet, the power of atomization increases relatively. It means that the atomization quality of annular molten metal will be better than the solid cylindrical molten metal. By comparison, the structure under charge action is fine and homogeneous after experiment.

Stringy stability of charged dilaton black holes with flat event horizon

Abstract Electrically charged black holes with flat event horizon in anti-de Sitter space have received much attention due to various applications in Anti-de Sitter/Conformal Field Theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence, from modeling the behavior of quark-gluon plasma to superconductor. Crucial to the physics on the dual field theory is the fact that when embedded in string theory, black holes in the bulk may become vulnerable to instability caused by brane pair-production. Since dilaton arises naturally in the context of string theory, we study the effect of coupling dilaton to Maxwell field on the stability of flat charged AdS black holes. In particular, we study the stability of Gao-Zhang black holes, which are locally asymptotically anti-de Sitter. We find that for dilaton coupling parameter α > 1, flat black holes are stable against brane pair production, however for 0 ≤ α < 1, the black holes eventually become unstable as the amount of electrical charges is increased. Such instability however, behaves somewhat differently from that of flat Reissner-Nordström black holes. In addition, we prove that the Seiberg-Witten action of charged dilaton AdS black hole of Gao-Zhang type with flat event horizon (at least in 5-dimension) is always logarithmically divergent at infinity for finite values of α, and is finite and positive in the case α → ∞. We also comment on the robustness of our result for other charged dilaton black holes that are not of Gao-Zhang type.

Evaluation of Off-State Current Characteristics of Transistor Using Oxide Semiconductor Material, Indium–Gallium–Zinc Oxide

We measured a significantly low off-state current (135 yA/µm at 85 °C) of a metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor using indium–gallium–zinc oxide (IGZO), which is an oxide semiconductor material. Note that “y” is 10-24. A transistor in which the hydrogen concentration in an IGZO film is lowered (5×1019 cm-3 or lower) was used. To estimate the minute current accurately, we established a measurement method in which changes in the amount of electrical charge are measured for a long time. Such extremely low off-state current characteristics show promise for new applications of IGZO transistors in memories.

Organic Non-Volatile Memory Device: Floating-Gate Organic Thin Film Transistor

A new structure is proposed for organic thin film transistors (OTFT) and the operation of the device is presented. The threshold voltage of this device can be adjusted by controlling the quantity of electric charge on floating gate, and the different threshold voltages can be used to store two different states: ”0” and ”1”. So this device can be used as organic non-volatile memory device. This device is studied by the method of numeric simulation, and the study shows this memory device has a large memory window about 4 V and good programmable memory characteristics. This new structure memory device can be widely used in the filed of information storage.

Potentiostatic Electrodeposition of Pt Nanoparticles on Carbon Black

Simple potentiostatic electrodeposition of platinum nanoparticles was performed on carbon black to prepare a carbon-supported Pt catalyst for polymer electrolyte fuel cells. The effect of ethylene glycol (EG) as an additive, deposition potential, and pH on the size and content of the electrodeposited Pt particles in the carbon powder was examined. Compared with the particles electrodeposited from a solution without EG, those with EG were smaller and dispersed well on the carbon. The electrodeposition at a more negative potential produced smaller particles. However, when the deposition potential was more negative than the equilibrium potential for H+/H2, Pt content higher than 30 wt % could not be obtained. In contrast, when the deposition potential was more positive than the equilibrium potential of H+/H2, the Pt content could be controlled by the amount of electrical charge, and increased up to 40 wt %. The electrodeposition from an alkaline solution yielded Pt particles with a mean size of 4 nm, smaller than those obtained from a standard acidic solution.