{"title":"The development of an artificial gill to supply oxygen to a submerged microbial fuel cell","authors":"M. J. Stanway","doi":"10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1406524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1406524","url":null,"abstract":"The development of an effective system for extracting dissolved oxygen from water would enable humans to work underwater for extended periods. This would have applications to science, industry, exploration, military, and recreation. Human sustenance would require a very sophisticated and high capacity gill system, one that has not been developed to date. The overall aim of this research was to develop an artificial gill that would operate with a realistic and useful load. The load chosen for this research was a microbial fuel cell operating underwater. Countercurrent gill plates were constructed to evaluate several different candidates for use as the oxygen transfer membrane. The oxygen gain of each membrane was measured by comparing dissolved oxygen readings before and after the gill. Celgard 2500 (Celgard, Inc. Charlotte NC), a microporous polypropylene membrane, was chosen as the most suitable candidate; it sustained an oxygen gain greater than 2 mmol/sec. This was a much higher gain than necessary to sustain the fuel cell, which is on the order of 10 nmol/sec. The original fuel cell (NCBE, University of Reading, UK) was then redesigned. The new system was more modular, allowing for a multitude of different experimental configurations. Two of the configurations included an integrated gill, with no moving parts and therefore no power consumption. The cathode of the fuel cell was modified to respond more quickly to changes in oxygen supply. Experiments were conducted measuring the power output of the modified fuel cell and the oxygen uptake of the gill. The MFC ran for multiple days for each test cycle, and data was recorded on a Tattletale Model 8 microcontroller (Onset, Pocasset, MA). It was demonstrated that providing the cathode of the cell with oxygen enabled the cell to sustain much higher voltages than without a continuous oxygen supply. Typical experiments yielded a few microwatts of power between 100 and 200 mV","PeriodicalId":390971,"journal":{"name":"Oceans '04 MTS/IEEE Techno-Ocean '04 (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37600)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129243878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The configuration analysis of fiber optic interferometer of hydrophones","authors":"W.W. Lin, C. Chang, C.W. Wu, M.C. Chen","doi":"10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1405466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1405466","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a configuration analysis of optical fiber interferometric hydrophones. We use mathematical methods to compare their characteristics and relation of sensitivity, delay fiber and physical frequency of the Sagnac type interferometer. In the experiment, we use PGC modulation technology and measure the sensitivity of the three types interferometer in this paper proposed. The preliminary results of the acoustic signal sensitivity are as follows: Michelson, compensating type Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Hybrid of a Mach-Zehnder and a Sagnac type interferometer are -201.67, -205.97, -212.47 dB re V/1 /spl mu/Pa, respectively.","PeriodicalId":390971,"journal":{"name":"Oceans '04 MTS/IEEE Techno-Ocean '04 (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37600)","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123633737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Kimura, H. Tai, K. Nakagawa, Y. Yokoyama, Y. Ikegami, T. Takeda
{"title":"Effect of drinking water without salt made from deep sea water in lipid metabolism of rats","authors":"M. Kimura, H. Tai, K. Nakagawa, Y. Yokoyama, Y. Ikegami, T. Takeda","doi":"10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1402935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1402935","url":null,"abstract":"These results suggest that high magnesium water made from deep sea water may be a useful natural drink to improve lipid metabolism and to prevent of atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease.","PeriodicalId":390971,"journal":{"name":"Oceans '04 MTS/IEEE Techno-Ocean '04 (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37600)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114080309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Accuracies of marine meteorological observations made on merchant ships","authors":"N. Iwasaka","doi":"10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1405782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1405782","url":null,"abstract":"Accuracies of wind speed and air temperature observations were assessed. Wind speed observation reported to the Japan Meteorological Agency in 1996 and 1997 were examined by comparing them with the NSCAT surface wind observations. Systematic errors in wind direction measurements are negligibly small, but the random error is as large as 44 degrees. In overall evaluation, wind speed observed aboard is overestimated by 1.30 m s-1 and the random error is 2.83 m s -1, respectively. It is confirmed that anemometer height correction can successfully reduce the systematic error for instrumental observation. In contrast, the systematic errors in visually observations were not reduced by applying a newly developed correction method. The numerical experiments were also conducted for several types of merchant ships to examine the distributions of wind speed around the ships. The results of the experiments give some idea where an anemometer should be installed on and how much the systematic error can be expected. Basic field experiments were performed to quantitatively evaluate the bias error on the air temperature measurement aboard. It is confirmed that the relationship between the bias error and insolation that was shown by previous studies; i.e., the bias is almost linearly proportional to the magnitude of insolation in the same time. The bias also seems to weakly depend on fetch of the wind on the ship","PeriodicalId":390971,"journal":{"name":"Oceans '04 MTS/IEEE Techno-Ocean '04 (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37600)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114641917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Y. Yoo, D. Hou, N. Kouguchi, H. Ishida, S. Shiotani, H. Fujii, I. Deguchi
{"title":"Arrayed GPS-buoys wave observation system","authors":"Y. Yoo, D. Hou, N. Kouguchi, H. Ishida, S. Shiotani, H. Fujii, I. Deguchi","doi":"10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1405781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1405781","url":null,"abstract":"Since the period of the long period gravity wave is so long and its amplitude is relatively small, the accurate measurement by the conventional technique was often so difficult. At 2002 Techno-Ocean conference, we had proposed the wave direction finding system using the GPS buoy array using the multiple signal classification method for the wave signal analysis, and it was verified practically enough in the simulation test. After that conference, we had four experiments in order to prove the useful validity of our proposed system. We describe the method and some results of our three experiments and show the excellent accuracy to estimate wave directions.","PeriodicalId":390971,"journal":{"name":"Oceans '04 MTS/IEEE Techno-Ocean '04 (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37600)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124314149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A probabilistic method on ship damages","authors":"H. Sayyaadi, M. Tavakoli","doi":"10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1402919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1402919","url":null,"abstract":"Marine accidents especially when considering ship accidents and crashes are addressed here in this paper. In order to identify damage stability in ships and marine vessels, there are basically two main approaches including: deterministic methods, and probabilistic methods. A probabilistic method is used here in this paper and because of probabilistic calculus; statistical data is needed to identify models, methods, etc. IMO data base is used to do analysis and present research results. Probabilistic modeling has been performed by introducing three individual factors which are as follows: a) the probability that one or more than one ship compartments to be flooded (there is no any more longitudinal and/or horizontal subdivision in it), b) the probability of not damaging longitudinal subdivision (if there will be some), c) the probability of not damaging horizontal subdivision (if there will be some). In this research work focus is on the first and second factors that are functions of the location, the length and the width of compartment(s). In order to ease the proposed method and also to generalize the results, nondimensional damage location and nondimensional damage length and nondimensional damage penetration are introduced. Referring to IMO data base, the bilinear functions are used to describe nondimensional damage length and nondimensional location. Completion of these methods and models will lead us to a new formulation for probability of the flooded compartments in ships and vessels and the results will be illustrated to prove the validity of the method","PeriodicalId":390971,"journal":{"name":"Oceans '04 MTS/IEEE Techno-Ocean '04 (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37600)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127729092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Difference of water and nutrients budgets in estuary of the Yellow River between 80's and 90's","authors":"M. Hayashi, T. Yanagi, G. Xinyu","doi":"10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1405766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1405766","url":null,"abstract":"Difference of Dissolved Inorganic Nitrogen (DIN) and Dissolved Inorganic Phosphorus (DIP) budgets in the Bohai Sea between 1980s and 1990s related the decrease of the Yellow River discharge is discussed on the basis of observed data. The estuarine circulation in the Bohai Sea had been weakened from 80s to 90s due to the decrease of the Yellow River discharge and the average residence time of fresh water had become longer. DIN concentration increased but DIP concentrations decreased from 80s to 90s in the Bohai Sea. Primary production was regulated mainly by water temperature and DIN concentration in 80s but it was regulated mainly by DIP concentration in 90s. Primary production was larger than decomposition plus bottom release and nitrogen fixation was larger than denitrification in 90s. However, decomposition plus bottom release was larger than primary production and denitrification was larger than nitrogen fixation in 90s in the Bohai Sea.","PeriodicalId":390971,"journal":{"name":"Oceans '04 MTS/IEEE Techno-Ocean '04 (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37600)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127734652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Underwater acoustic channel characterisation for medium-range shallow water communications","authors":"M. Chitre, John Potter, Ong Sim Heng","doi":"10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1402892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1402892","url":null,"abstract":"The ability to effectively communicate underwater has numerous applications for researchers, marine commercial operators and defence organizations. As electromagnetic waves cannot propagate over long distances in seawater, acoustics provides the most obvious choice of channel. Although acoustics has been used effectively for point-to-point communications in deep-water channels, acoustics has had limited success for horizontal transmissions in shallow water. Time-varying multipath propagation and nonGaussian noise are two of the major factors that limit acoustic communication performance in shallow water. Although it is known that medium-range shallow water propagation is dominated by time-varying multipath arrivals, very few measurements of the variability of the multipath structure are available. In this paper, we present channel measurements made in a shallow water channel (depth 15-20 m) up to a range of 1 km. An analysis of the temporal variability of the arrival structure is presented. Most communication systems make the assumption that the noise is additive and Gaussian. Snapping shrimp dominate the ambient noise spectrum above a few kHz in warm shallow waters. It is known that snapping shrimp noise is impulsive and highly nonGaussian. These noise characteristics need to be taken into account when designing communication systems if robust and near-optimal performance is desired. An analysis of the ambient noise characteristics from some warm shallow water channels is also presented.","PeriodicalId":390971,"journal":{"name":"Oceans '04 MTS/IEEE Techno-Ocean '04 (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37600)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126332266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Mochizuki, M. Fujita, M. Sato, Z. Yoshida, T. Yabuki, A. Asada
{"title":"Trials of seafloor geodetic monitoring around Japan","authors":"M. Mochizuki, M. Fujita, M. Sato, Z. Yoshida, T. Yabuki, A. Asada","doi":"10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1406446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1406446","url":null,"abstract":"Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo and the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department, Japan Coast Guard have been constructing a seafloor geodetic observation network around Japan in order to detect and monitor the crustal deformation of the seafloor directly. The observation network had been constructed along the major trenches, such as the Japan trench and the Nankai trough. Observations to measure the positions of the seafloor stations have been conducted repeatedly. Sufficient observational results have been established as we accumulate the experience of the observations to discus the system and the observational method. Although we reached certain level with the existing system, we come up with possible improvements of the system. Trials to improve the system are always done in order to achieve a fully centimeter level geodesy on the seafloor","PeriodicalId":390971,"journal":{"name":"Oceans '04 MTS/IEEE Techno-Ocean '04 (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37600)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126481851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Katsuragi, Y. Sakaguchi, S. Kan, N. Baba, K. Kitaura
{"title":"Computation of advancing gravity currents in ambient flows","authors":"T. Katsuragi, Y. Sakaguchi, S. Kan, N. Baba, K. Kitaura","doi":"10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1405611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1405611","url":null,"abstract":"The interaction of gravity currents with head and tail ambient flows is investigated by computation using the adaptive grids moving with the head of the current. The incompressible Navier-Stokes equation for a heterogeneous fluid, the continuity equation and the transport equation of the relative variation of density are discretized by the finite volume method. The use of the moving grid system raises the computational efficiency as well as the resolution of the moving head. The ambient flow is incorporated with the implementation of the inflow and outflow boundary conditions. The results indicate that the front speed relative to the ambient flow varies in a nonlinear fashion when the boundary layer develops along the wall. The tail wind makes the head round and thicker, and hence it reduces the speed of the head. On the other hand, the head wind makes the head sharp, thinner, and longer, and then the stable interface suppresses the mixing across the density interface. It is found that the boundary layer along the wall affects the inner structure of the current head according to the ambient flows.","PeriodicalId":390971,"journal":{"name":"Oceans '04 MTS/IEEE Techno-Ocean '04 (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37600)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125455421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}