Hoppers are widely used in process industries. With such widespread application, difficulties in achieving desired operational behaviors have led to extensive experimental and mathematical studies in the past decades....
Hoppers are widely used in process industries. With such widespread application, difficulties in achieving desired operational behaviors have led to extensive experimental and mathematical studies in the past decades. Particularly, the discrete element method has become one of the most important simulation tools for design and analysis. So far, most studies are on spherical particles for computational convenience. In this work, ellipsoidal particles are used as they can represent a large variation of particle shapes. Hopper flow with ellipsoidal particles is presented highlighting the effect of particle shape on the microscopic properties.
Particle shape affects the packing characteristics significantly. Such a topic has been investigated extensively in the literature by physical experiments or mathematical modelling. In this paper, we give a summary of...
Particle shape affects the packing characteristics significantly. Such a topic has been investigated extensively in the literature by physical experiments or mathematical modelling. In this paper, we give a summary of packing of ellipsoidal particles using discrete element method. As ellipsoidal particles can represent a large number of shapes, e.g. from platy to elongated, the relationships between packing properties (such as packing fraction, coordination number and radial distribution function) and aspect ratios are established. Flow and force structures are also presented to illustrate how the shape affects those microscopic properties for further fundamental understanding. The results demonstrate that discrete element method provides a useful method to investigate the packing dynamics of ellipsoidal particles.
Impaction of particle streams on granular beds can be observed in various processes. One typical example is the burden distribution in an ironmaking blast furnace. The stream of heavy iron-bearing pellets impacts the ...
Impaction of particle streams on granular beds can be observed in various processes. One typical example is the burden distribution in an ironmaking blast furnace. The stream of heavy iron-bearing pellets impacts the pre-formed coke surface at the blast furnace throat region. The coke layer then can move and collapse. The formed burden profile is important in controlling the radial distribution of gas flow, and hence productivity and stability. In this paper, the impaction of pellets on the coke surface is investigated using discrete element method. A 90 degree sector is modelled with a pre-formed coke surface impacted by pellets flowing from a rotating chute. Microscopic analysis on the flow and force structures is carried out to examine the impaction with different chute angles and discharge rates.
Nowadays, there is a must to operate the power system close to its security limit due to current economic growth and the difficulties to upgrade the existing grid infrastructure. With the sudden increment of demand, t...
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Nowadays, there is a must to operate the power system close to its security limit due to current economic growth and the difficulties to upgrade the existing grid infrastructure. With the sudden increment of demand, the voltage instability problem has become a main concern to the power system operator. Hence, methods for early warning of voltage instability are required to prevent the power system from a collapse. This paper describes the use of real-time voltage instability predictors for the load areas in the Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) network based on measurement from Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) placed at the boundary of the load center. The voltage instability predictor calculates the power margin and compares to the preset margin threshold. Finally, the stability of the system is based on the comparison between the margin and pre-set threshold.
The modulational instability (MI) phenomenon in the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) extended by two different nonlinear dispersion terms and the gradient term is investigated. We find that the possibility o...
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The modulational instability (MI) phenomenon in the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) extended by two different nonlinear dispersion terms and the gradient term is investigated. We find that the possibility of instability of plane waves depends on the sign of the nonlinear dispersion parameters with regard to the linear dispersion coefficient. In contrast to the basic NLSE, the system may exhibit instability in the defocusing media for amplitude exceeding a critical value depending on the magnitude of the nonlinear dispersion. An additional feature, namely the higher order or the infinite gain band, absent in the NLSE case, may appear and in which MI induces the birth of the nonlinear localized wave (NLW) of different carrier wave numbers. The result of the qualitative investigations of the system's dynamics indicates the existence of the NLW, such as peak, bright, dark, and compact dark solitary waves which can be well predicted by the MI criteria. In addition the nonlinear dispersion induces the existence of a pair of bright-dark solitary waves which is usually exhibited by the coupled NLSEs only, and the pairs of peak-dark and compact dark-bright solitary waves.
Wireless sensor networks consists of hundreds or thousands of sensor nodes supported by small capacity battery. For environmental monitoring purposes, sensor nodes must have high endurance capabilities. Therefore, sel...
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There is a challenge to segment the medical image which is often blurred and consists of noise. The objects to be segmented are always changing shape. Thus, there is a need to apply a method to automated segment well ...
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Network Coding has been proven to be a method that will increase the throughput of network. Network coding will perform an XOR operation in the intermediate nodes to improve the throughput of the network. The simulati...
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