Uncontrolled coal fires are natural disasters that may cause mineral loss and environmental damage.The traditional loop source transient electromagnetic method can effectively detect the low-resistivity region of coal...Uncontrolled coal fires are natural disasters that may cause mineral loss and environmental damage.The traditional loop source transient electromagnetic method can effectively detect the low-resistivity region of coal fires,but its detection efficiency is not so good for high-resistivity regions.In view of this limitation,a technique based on electrical source transient electromagnetics is proposed in this paper to detect high-resistivity regions in the spontaneous combustion process of coal.Considering the complex geometry of the coal fire area,an unstructured tetrahedral grid is used in this study to realize the spatial discretization of the model,and solve the electromagnetic field based on a vector finite element algorithm.Numerical analysis is used to investigate methods for detecting coal fires and the characteristics of effective anomalies are further examined to provide guidance for practical detection.展开更多
Modern electric traction networks(ETN)are equipped with automated systems for commercial accounting of power consumption(ASCAPC),which allows solving properly the problems of enhancing the energy efficiency of transpo...Modern electric traction networks(ETN)are equipped with automated systems for commercial accounting of power consumption(ASCAPC),which allows solving properly the problems of enhancing the energy efficiency of transportation processes.Energy efficiency of ETNs is defined as the amount of power losses in ETN components:overhead catenary systems and traction transformers.Due to the instability of traction loads and changes in their location in space,the electric traction network is different from the general network.It is necessary to develop an approach for loss analysis in traction networks and in transformers of traction substations.To solve this prob-lem,a balance-based technique for power loss calculation in traction networks based on ASCAPC data is proposed.First,the balance-based technique presented here breaks down the power consumption of the train by source.Then,calculates technical power losses in 25 and 225 kV traction networks as well as in traction transformers.Last,the technique is implemented in the form of an algorithm tested on real-life data and it is ready for practical use.展开更多
Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100029 2 Lanzhou University,Lanzhou 730000 3 Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences,Lanzhou 730000 4 Nanjing University of Infor...Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100029 2 Lanzhou University,Lanzhou 730000 3 Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences,Lanzhou 730000 4 Nanjing University of Information Science＆Technology,Nanjing 210044 Using both fast and slow electric field change sensors and field mill,multi-station observations on lightning flashes over China inland plateau areas were conducted during the summer of 2004.All of the stations were synchronized by GPS with a time-resolution of±50 ns.Using the different time of arrival（DTOA）and based on the fast electric field change sensor,a lightning radiation location technique was developed.Radiation pulses in the initial stages of five intracloud（IC）lightning discharges which occurred on 20 August were analyzed.The results indicate that the technique developed could effectively locate the lightning radiation sources.Furthermore,the lightning discharges were compared with the Doppler radar data.The results show that the radiation sources were well associated with the storm development.When the storm was at the mature stage with an echo top of about 10.9 km,the radiation sources ranged from 5.2 to 8.3 km above mean sea level;when the storm gradually became weaker,with echo top of about 7.9 km,the radiation sources ranged from 3.0 to 5.9 km.In particular,one of the IC lightning discharges ranged from 3.0 to 4.9 km during the dissipation stage of the storm.The results also indicate that the radiation sources were closely associated with the high reflectivity region（25–50 dBZ）of the storm,which,to some extent,demonstrates the reliability of the location results,thereby showing that multi-station observations of fast electric field change sensors could be a useful tool for monitoring the storm development.Location errors from radiation sources were also compared with the radar data and the results of a simple simulation.It was found that the errors were getting smaller when the radiation sources approached the center of the detection network, and vice versa.Compared with the limited experimental observations,the simulation results were found capable of effectively reflecting the location errors.展开更多
基金Supported by National Key R&D Program of China(No.2018YFC0807900).
文摘Uncontrolled coal fires are natural disasters that may cause mineral loss and environmental damage.The traditional loop source transient electromagnetic method can effectively detect the low-resistivity region of coal fires,but its detection efficiency is not so good for high-resistivity regions.In view of this limitation,a technique based on electrical source transient electromagnetics is proposed in this paper to detect high-resistivity regions in the spontaneous combustion process of coal.Considering the complex geometry of the coal fire area,an unstructured tetrahedral grid is used in this study to realize the spatial discretization of the model,and solve the electromagnetic field based on a vector finite element algorithm.Numerical analysis is used to investigate methods for detecting coal fires and the characteristics of effective anomalies are further examined to provide guidance for practical detection.
基金the state assign-ment of Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation(theme No 123102000012-2“Compre-hensive study of aerodynamic characteristics of plasma systems of thermochemical fuel preparation”,agreement No 075-03-2023-028/1 of 05.10.2023).
文摘Modern electric traction networks(ETN)are equipped with automated systems for commercial accounting of power consumption(ASCAPC),which allows solving properly the problems of enhancing the energy efficiency of transportation processes.Energy efficiency of ETNs is defined as the amount of power losses in ETN components:overhead catenary systems and traction transformers.Due to the instability of traction loads and changes in their location in space,the electric traction network is different from the general network.It is necessary to develop an approach for loss analysis in traction networks and in transformers of traction substations.To solve this prob-lem,a balance-based technique for power loss calculation in traction networks based on ASCAPC data is proposed.First,the balance-based technique presented here breaks down the power consumption of the train by source.Then,calculates technical power losses in 25 and 225 kV traction networks as well as in traction transformers.Last,the technique is implemented in the form of an algorithm tested on real-life data and it is ready for practical use.
基金the 100 Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciencesthe Special Research Project for Public Welfare of China under Grant No.200704027-1the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.40930949
文摘Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100029 2 Lanzhou University,Lanzhou 730000 3 Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences,Lanzhou 730000 4 Nanjing University of Information Science＆Technology,Nanjing 210044 Using both fast and slow electric field change sensors and field mill,multi-station observations on lightning flashes over China inland plateau areas were conducted during the summer of 2004.All of the stations were synchronized by GPS with a time-resolution of±50 ns.Using the different time of arrival（DTOA）and based on the fast electric field change sensor,a lightning radiation location technique was developed.Radiation pulses in the initial stages of five intracloud（IC）lightning discharges which occurred on 20 August were analyzed.The results indicate that the technique developed could effectively locate the lightning radiation sources.Furthermore,the lightning discharges were compared with the Doppler radar data.The results show that the radiation sources were well associated with the storm development.When the storm was at the mature stage with an echo top of about 10.9 km,the radiation sources ranged from 5.2 to 8.3 km above mean sea level;when the storm gradually became weaker,with echo top of about 7.9 km,the radiation sources ranged from 3.0 to 5.9 km.In particular,one of the IC lightning discharges ranged from 3.0 to 4.9 km during the dissipation stage of the storm.The results also indicate that the radiation sources were closely associated with the high reflectivity region（25–50 dBZ）of the storm,which,to some extent,demonstrates the reliability of the location results,thereby showing that multi-station observations of fast electric field change sensors could be a useful tool for monitoring the storm development.Location errors from radiation sources were also compared with the radar data and the results of a simple simulation.It was found that the errors were getting smaller when the radiation sources approached the center of the detection network, and vice versa.Compared with the limited experimental observations,the simulation results were found capable of effectively reflecting the location errors.
