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Qiang Liu, Chen Li, Minglei Zhao, Ying Li, Yangyang Yang, Yuxuan Li and Siyuan Ma
To reduce the operating costs of conventional membrane bioreactors (MBRs) and improve the stability and quality of the dynamic membrane bioreactor (DMBR) effluent, a homemade inexpensive filter cloth assembly was connected to an up-flow ultra-lightweight...
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Tomasz Gajewski and Pawel Skiba
The main goal of this work is to combine the usage of the numerical homogenization technique for determining the effective properties of representative volume elements with artificial neural networks. The effective properties are defined according to the...
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Zhenyu Li, Gang Wang, Shaoming Yao, Feihong Yun, Peng Jia, Chao Li and Liquan Wang
To predict the sealing performance of the subsea pipeline compression connector, a semi-analytical method is proposed and verified. The leakage condition is obtained as a function of the minimum radial deflection. The semi-analytical method consists of t...
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Mingxiang Liu, Lei Zhang, Le Han, Ying Zhang, Chengjun Gu and Jianbo Huang
Perfluorohexanesulfonic acid (PFHxS) is considered a persistent and harmful substance to ecosystems and human health and should thus be necessarily removed. In this paper, the influence of working pressure, temperature, pH value, initial concentration, a...
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Renato D. Cunha, Livia J. Ferreira, Ednilsom Orestes, Mauricio D. Coutinho-Neto, James M. de Almeida, Rogério M. Carvalho, Cleiton D. Maciel, Carles Curutchet and Paula Homem-de-Mello
Naphthenic Acids (NA) are important oil extraction subproducts. These chemical species are one of the leading causes of marine pollution and duct corrosion. For this reason, understanding the behavior of NAs in different saline conditions is one of the c...
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Yaw-Shyan Tsay, Jui-Yen Lin and Faxin Ma
The bass ratio describes the relationship between the reverberation energy in the low frequency region and that of the middle frequency. An appropriate bass ratio can create a warm sound; however, too much bass can influence speech clarity (C50) and work...
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Mingyuan Ma, Hong Zhang, Dong-Sheng Jeng and Chien Ming Wang
In the present study, a semi-analytical model based on the small-amplitude wave theory is developed to describe the wave fields around a single gravity-type cylindrical open fish net cage. The cage may be submerged to different depths below the free-wate...
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Gexiang Zhang, G. Samdanielthompson, N. Gnanamalar David, Atulya K. Nagar and K.G. Subramanian
In the bio-inspired area of membrane computing, a novel computing model with a generic name of P system was introduced around the year 2000. Among its several variants, string or array language generating P systems involving rewriting rules have been con...
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Cheng Zheng, Yiwen Wang, Xiangshao Kong, Hu Zhou, Haibao Liu and Weiguo Wu
The main objective of this study is to conveniently and rapidly develop a new dimensionless number to characterize and predict the deflection of square plates subjected to fully confined blast loading. Firstly, based on the Kirchhoff?Love theory and dime...
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Longjie Liu, Li Yao, Kai Feng, Zhe Luo, Ke Liu, Hong Zhu and Paul. K. Chu
Methods used to design coating materials for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) are unsystematic and time-consuming because current materials research relies on scientific intuition and trial and error experimentation. In this study, a feas...
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