Jitka Jeníková, Kristýna Michaliková, F. Hrdlička, J. Hrdlička, L. Pilař, Matěj Vodička, Pavel Skopec
{"title":"Applicability of Secondary Denitrification Measures on a Fluidized Bed Boiler","authors":"Jitka Jeníková, Kristýna Michaliková, F. Hrdlička, J. Hrdlička, L. Pilař, Matěj Vodička, Pavel Skopec","doi":"10.14311/ap.2022.62.0341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14311/ap.2022.62.0341","url":null,"abstract":"This article compares performance of selective catalytic reduction (SCR) and selective non-catalytic reduction (SNCR) applied on the same pilot unit, a 500 kW fluidized bed boiler burning Czech lignite. Correlation of the denitrification efficiency on the normalized stoichiometric ratio (NSR) is investigated. The fundamental principle of the SCR and SNCR is similar with the same reaction scheme. The difference is in the use of the catalyst that lowers the activation energy of the key reaction. As a result, the reduction is performed in the SCR method at lower temperatures. During experiments, the NSR was up to 1.6 for the SCR method. For the SNCR method, which has a higher reducing agent consumption, maximum denitrification efficiency was reached for NSR about 2.5. The efficiency of both secondary methods was investigated. The denitrification efficiency during experiments exceeded 98 % for the SCR method, and the SNCR method, together with the primary measures, reached an efficiency of 58 %.","PeriodicalId":45804,"journal":{"name":"Acta Polytechnica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44455387","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":"Theoretical and experimental study of water vapour condensation with high content of non-condensable gas in a vertical tube","authors":"J. Krempaský, J. Havlík, T. Dlouhý","doi":"10.14311/ap.2022.62.0352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14311/ap.2022.62.0352","url":null,"abstract":"This article deals with the possibility of separating water vapour from flue gases after oxyfuel combustion using condensation processes. Those processes can generally be described as condensation of water vapour in the presence of non-condensable gases. Hence, the effect of noncondensable gas (NCG) on the condensation process has been theoretically and experimentally analysed in this study. The theoretical model was developed on the basis of the heat and mass transfer analogy with respect to the effect of the NCG, the flow mode of the condensate film, the shear stress of the flowing mixture, subcooling and superheating. Subsequently, an experimental analysis was carried out on a 1.5m long vertical pipe with an inner diameter of 23.7mm. The mixture of vapour and air flowed inside the inner tube with an air mass fraction ranging from 23% to 62%. The overall heat transfer coefficients (HTC) from the theoretical model and experimental measurement are significantly lower than the HTC obtained according to the Nusselt theory for the condensation of pure water vapour. The overall HTC decreases along the tube length as the gas concentration increases, which corresponds to a decrease in the local condensation rate. The highest values of the HTC are observed in the condenser inlet, although a strong decrease in HTC is also observed here. Meanwhile, there is a possibility for an HTC enhancement through turbulence increase of the condensing mixture in the condenser outlet. Results also showed that the heat resistance of the mixture is several times higher than the heat resistance of the condensate film. The developed theoretical model based on heat and mass transfer analogy is in good agreement with experimental results with the standard deviation within +25% and −5%. The model is more accurate for lower NCG concentrations.","PeriodicalId":45804,"journal":{"name":"Acta Polytechnica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49642895","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}
Ondřej Červený, P. Vybíral, J. Hemerka, Luďek Mareš
{"title":"Measurement of solid particle emissions from oxy-fuel combustion of biomass in fluidized bed","authors":"Ondřej Červený, P. Vybíral, J. Hemerka, Luďek Mareš","doi":"10.14311/ap.2022.62.0337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14311/ap.2022.62.0337","url":null,"abstract":"The presented work summarizes the results of the measurement of solid particle emissions from an experimental 30 kW combustion unit. This unit has been used for the research of oxy-fuel combustion of biomass in a fluidized bed, which, when accompanied with carbon capture technologies, is one of the promising ways for decreasing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. To implement a carbon capture system, it is first needed to separate various impurities from the flue gas. Therefore, the goal of this work was to identify solid particles contained in the flue gas.Part of the apparatus used for this measurement was an ejector dilutor. To evaluate the results of this measurement, it is key to know the dilution ratio of the dilutor. For this purpose, a method for determining the dilution ratio of an ejector dilutor was proposed and experimentally verified.","PeriodicalId":45804,"journal":{"name":"Acta Polytechnica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47787716","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":"Exact solutions for time-dependent complex symmetric potential well","authors":"B. Khantoul, Abdelhafid Bounames","doi":"10.14311/AP.2023.63.0132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14311/AP.2023.63.0132","url":null,"abstract":"Using the pseudo-invariant operator method, we investigate the model of a particle with a time-dependent mass in a complex time-dependent symmetric potential well V (x, t) = if (t) |x|. The problem is exactly solvable and the analytic expressions of the Schrödinger wavefunctions are given in terms of the Airy function. Indeed, with an appropriate choice of the time-dependent metric operators and the unitary transformations, for each region, the two corresponding pseudo-Hermitian invariants transform into a well-known time-independent Hermitian invariant which is the Hamiltonian of a particle confined in a symmetric linear potential well. The eigenfunctions of the last invariant are the Airy functions. Then, the phases obtained are real for both regions and the general solution to the problem is deduced.","PeriodicalId":45804,"journal":{"name":"Acta Polytechnica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42449829","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}
Acta PolytechnicaPub Date : 2022-05-09DOI: 10.1007/s41050-022-00036-2
E. Echeweozo, E. Efurumibe, A. D. Asiegbu, L. Nnanna, H. K. Idu
{"title":"Assessment of Granite – Kaolin Composite Bricks as Storage Barrier Facility for Liquid Radioactive Waste","authors":"E. Echeweozo, E. Efurumibe, A. D. Asiegbu, L. Nnanna, H. K. Idu","doi":"10.1007/s41050-022-00036-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41050-022-00036-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45804,"journal":{"name":"Acta Polytechnica","volume":"260 1","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89061208","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 mindlin shell finite element for stone masonry bridges with backfill","authors":"P. Řeřicha","doi":"10.14311/ap.2022.62.0293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14311/ap.2022.62.0293","url":null,"abstract":"Stone masonry bridges are difficult to analyse with commercial finite element (FE) packages for their specific heterogeneous composition. The stone arch is best modelled as a thick shell where there are predestined directions of tension failure, normal to the bed joints. A dedicated, very simple, Mindlin shell finite element is developed with five translational degrees of freedom per node. It features compatibility with linear isoparametric or constant strain elements for the backfill. Most bridges can be analysed with a sufficient accuracy assuming plain strain conditions. The element then simplifies to a Timoshenko beam element with three translational degrees of freedom per node. An application of the latter one to the bridge at Poniklá is presented.","PeriodicalId":45804,"journal":{"name":"Acta Polytechnica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42559496","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}
S. Samsonovich, B. K. Fedotov, N. Rozhnin, R. Goryunov
{"title":"Results of research on backlash compensation in a power electric drive by low-power electronic device","authors":"S. Samsonovich, B. K. Fedotov, N. Rozhnin, R. Goryunov","doi":"10.14311/ap.2022.62.0303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14311/ap.2022.62.0303","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers the feasibility of restoring and maintaining the kinematic accuracy of the support-rotary device drives by introducing a backlash compensation device into the control system. The power electromechanical drives of support-rotary device considered in this article contain two motors, the summation of the torques of which is carried out on a common output shaft. It is shown that the restoration of the required kinematic accuracy of the drives can be achieved by introducing one of two variants of an electronic device for backlash compensation into the control system. In the first variant, equal and opposite displacement signals are introduced into the control signals of the motors. The second variant introduces an electronic cross-connections backlash compensation scheme was into the control system. The study of the operation of the support-rotary device drive system with two backlash compensation devices carried out by a simulation method showed that the use of a cross-connection scheme is the most preferable and effective.As a result of the research, it was shown that the introduction of an electronic backlash compensation device into the control system makes it possible to ensure the operability of the power electromechanical drives of a support-rotary device with initial kinematic accuracy.","PeriodicalId":45804,"journal":{"name":"Acta Polytechnica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48378847","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":"Improvement of spectrum sensing performance in cognitive radio using modified hybrid sensing method","authors":"H. Abed, Hikmat N. Abdullah","doi":"10.14311/ap.2022.62.0228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14311/ap.2022.62.0228","url":null,"abstract":"Cognitive radio (CR) is a wireless technology for increasing the bandwidth usage. Spectrum sensing (SS) is the first step in CR. There are three basic techniques in SS, energy detection (ED), matched filter (MF), and cyclostationary detection (CFD). These techniques have many challenges in performance detection (Pd) and computational complexity (CC). In this paper, we propose a hybrid sensing method that consists of MF and CFD to exploit their merits and overcome their challenges. The proposed method aims to improve Pd and reduce CC. When MF hasn’t had enough information about PU, it switches to CFD with a reduction of CC in both MF and CFD. The proposed method is simulated under fading with cooperative and non-cooperative scenarios, measured using Pd and CC ratio Cratio, and evaluated by comparing it with traditional and hybrid methods in the literature. The simulation results show that the proposed method outperforms other methods in Pd and Cratio. For example, at Eb/No equal to 0 dB under the Rayleigh fading channel, the Pd in the proposed method increased by 38 %, 28 %, 28 %, and 18 % as compared with the modified hybrid method, traditional hybrid method, traditional CFD method, and traditional MF method in the literature, respectively.","PeriodicalId":45804,"journal":{"name":"Acta Polytechnica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41725537","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}
Tomás Darío Marín Velásquez, Dany Day Josefina Arriojas Tocuyo
{"title":"Analysis of factors affecting the efficiency of Jatropha curcas oil as an asphaltene stabiliser","authors":"Tomás Darío Marín Velásquez, Dany Day Josefina Arriojas Tocuyo","doi":"10.14311/ap.2022.62.0283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14311/ap.2022.62.0283","url":null,"abstract":"The effect of temperature and applied dose on the efficiency of Jatropha curcas seed oil as an asphaltene stabiliser was studied. Two crude oil samples (light and medium) were used. J. curcas oil was subjected to heating at 100, 150 and 170 °C for 24 h with an unheated sample (25 °C) and applied at doses of 2, 4, 6, and 8 μL in 10 ml of sample. The asphaltene instability index (AII) was determined as the ratio between the amount in ml of n-heptane to flocculate the asphaltenes and the amount in ml of xylene to disperse the flocs. The experimental design was Taguchi factorial with a response surface for one response variable (AII) and two experimental factors (the applied dose and heating temperature). For light crude oil, the optimum conditions were 8 μL and T = 127 °C with an 85.3 % efficiency and for medium crude oil, 2 μL and T = 25 °C with a 94.3 % efficiency. The efficiency of J. curcas oil and the influence of the type of crude oil on the results obtained were demonstrated.","PeriodicalId":45804,"journal":{"name":"Acta Polytechnica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41443716","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":"Analysis of output voltage ripple for dual randomized PWM buck converter operating in continuous and discontinuous conduction modes","authors":"Aimad Boudouda, N. Boudjerda, F. Nafa","doi":"10.14311/ap.2022.62.0262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14311/ap.2022.62.0262","url":null,"abstract":"Dual Randomized Pulse Width Modulation (DRPWM) is renowned for its better effectiveness than Simple Randomized Pulse Width Modulation (SRPWM) in reducing conducted Electro-Magnetic Interferences (EMI) in power converters. However, the introduction of low-frequency ripples into the output voltage by dual randomization has not yet been addressed; this effect is investigated in this paper for a buck converter operating in both the continuous conduction mode (CCM) and the discontinuous conduction mode (DCM). First, the modulating principle is presented. Then, a general analytical expression for power spectral density (PSD) of the input current is derived and validated for the proposed DRPWM scheme for both the CCM and DCM. A comparison of the PSDs of the input current for all RPWM schemes in both the CCM and DCM shows the PSD spreading effectiveness of the dual scheme as compared to simple schemes. Finally, the low-frequency output ripple is analysed using the PSD of output voltage. The results reveal that the output voltage ripple is affected by all the randomized schemes in both the CCM and the DCM. Also, the dual scheme (RCFM-RPPM) introduces the highest low-frequency voltage ripple, especially in the CCM and for low duty cycles. In DCM, the RPPM scheme gives the lowest voltage ripple, while the RCFM scheme gives the lowest voltage ripple in the CCM. The results are confirmed by both theory and simulations.","PeriodicalId":45804,"journal":{"name":"Acta Polytechnica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41481589","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}