Wind power has been recognized as one of the important green energy resources in Taiwan. However, installing large-capacity wind generators needs to meet many environmental regulations, limiting the penetration of win...
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(纸本)9783037853283
Wind power has been recognized as one of the important green energy resources in Taiwan. However, installing large-capacity wind generators needs to meet many environmental regulations, limiting the penetration of wind power to households/communities. In this paper, the design of a novel double-deck vertical-axis wind generator for households is presented, hoping "many a little makes a mickle" and making better use of green energy to reduce carbon emission. The proposed wind generator is an axial-flux permanent-magnet (PM) synchronous generator, which design is different from other existing wind generators in several aspects: (1) double decks for double wind turbines vs. single turbine, (2) silicon-steel-lamination-cored vs. air-cored for armature coils, and (3) axial-flux PM generator vs. conventional PM generator. The performance of the proposed design is simulated with the aid of a finite element software package. The experimental results are consistent with the simulation. The prototype of the proposed wind generator is also compared with a commercial mini wind generator on the market. The proposed wind generator produces satisfactory results.
We have investigated the effect of varying the film thickness on the surface orientation texturing in polycrystalline Si films obtained via mixed-phase solidification (MPS) of initially a-Si precursor films on SiO2. I...
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We have investigated the effect of varying the film thickness on the surface orientation texturing in polycrystalline Si films obtained via mixed-phase solidification (MPS) of initially a-Si precursor films on SiO2. It is found that, for a given number of MPS exposure cycles, the degree of (100)-surface texturing is reduced as the film thickness is increased. We discuss how this trend can be accounted for by the previously proposed thermodynamic model of MPS, wherein a decreasing local solid/liquid interface curvature with increasing film thickness is identified as the primary cause for decreasing the influence which anisotropic solid-Si/SiO2 interfacial energies have on the survivability of the grains. This, in turn, leads to other factors becoming more significant in determining the grains that survive the MPS cycle, thereby reducing the degree of (100)-surface texturing in the resulting films.
This paper proposes to manipulate the thickness of the electro-double-layer (EDL) inside the anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) nanochannels as a virtual filter to select uni-ions for desalination through electrical static c...
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(纸本)9780979806452
This paper proposes to manipulate the thickness of the electro-double-layer (EDL) inside the anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) nanochannels as a virtual filter to select uni-ions for desalination through electrical static charges. Due to the electric static sieving effect at larger channel diameter (~100 nm), the power consumption is much less than those by tradition methods, such as reverse-osmosis (RO) and electrodialysis (ED) which need to function in much smaller nano pores or channels of 1 nm. This method has demonstrated the desalination rate at 55% and the pumping power consumption is estimated 0.2 kwh, which is decreased 1 order to that by RO method.
We have investigated the effect of varying the film thickness on the surface orientation texturing in polycrystalline Si films obtained via mixed-phase solidification (MPS) of initially a-Si precursor films on SiO 2. ...
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With an industrial trend of going green, the use of natural fibers in polymer composites is growing rapidly, especially in the automotive industry. The objectives of this research are to investigate the processability...
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(纸本)9781934551127
With an industrial trend of going green, the use of natural fibers in polymer composites is growing rapidly, especially in the automotive industry. The objectives of this research are to investigate the processability of kenaf fibers in making nonwoven composites for automotive interior parts and to explore the composite end-use performance in terms of physical structure, mechanical properties, thermal stability, and acoustical behavior. The kenaf/polypropylene(KF/PP) composites were fabricated with 50/50 blend ratio by weight. All nonwovens were produced by carding and needle-punching techniques and thermally bonded by a panel press. The tensile, three-point bending and in-plane shearing tests were performed to evaluate the composite mechanical properties. Based on the mechanical tests, the optimum processing conditions were determined. Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) was used to measure the thermal-mechanical properties of composites. The sound absorption and sound insulation performance was evaluated. The correlation between mechanical properties and acoustical behavior was also verified by the panel resonance theory.
For life cycle analysis, it is essential to know the structure capacity at a given point in time. Determining the strength from equations that do not consider the size effect can lead to insufficient maintenance plans...
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(纸本)9780415621267
For life cycle analysis, it is essential to know the structure capacity at a given point in time. Determining the strength from equations that do not consider the size effect can lead to insufficient maintenance plans, higher costs and potentially unsafe structures. With this aim, the 'Type 2' size effect, valid for structures that develop large cracks prior to reaching the maximum load, and 'Type 1' size effects, for structures with no pre-existing crack, have each been widely investigated and are quite different. In practice, however, a pre-existing crack at maximum load can be neither large nor negligible compared to the structure dimensions. Therefore, the Type 1-Type 2 transition is important. To determine it, and clarify the role of crack length, a large-scale experimental program, consisting of more than 120 geometrically similar three-point bend beams of 4 sizes, with the size range of 1:12.5, as well as 24 cylinders and 12 beams for ASTM flexural strength tests, has been undertaken. At the time of writing, only partial results are available. A detailed journal article is in preparation.
Staggered bottom-gate hydrogenated nanocrystalline silicon (nc-Si:H) thin-film transistors (TFTs) were demonstrated on flexible colorless polyimide substrates. The dc and ac bias-stress stability of these TFTs were in...
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We consider the thermodynamically driven self-assembly of spheres onto the surface of a central sphere. This assembly process forms self-limiting, or terminal, anisotropic clusters (N-clusters) with well-defined struc...
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We consider the thermodynamically driven self-assembly of spheres onto the surface of a central sphere. This assembly process forms self-limiting, or terminal, anisotropic clusters (N-clusters) with well-defined structures. We use Brownian dynamics to model the assembly of N-clusters varying in size from two to twelve outer spheres and free energy calculations to predict the expected cluster sizes and shapes as a function of temperature and inner particle diameter. We show that the arrangements of outer spheres at finite temperatures are related to spherical codes, an ideal mathematical sequence of points corresponding to the densest possible sphere packings. We demonstrate that temperature and the ratio of the diameters of the inner and outer spheres dictate cluster morphology. We present a surprising result for the equilibrium structure of a 5-cluster, for which the square pyramid arrangement is preferred over a more symmetric structure. We show this result using Brownian dynamics, a Monte Carlo simulation, and a free energy approximation. Our results suggest a promising way to assemble anisotropic building blocks from constituent colloidal spheres.
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