scholarly journals Resonant Photoacoustic Gas Monitoring of Combustion Emissions

Proceedings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (13) ◽  
pp. 962 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud El-Safoury ◽  
Miguel Dufner ◽  
Christian Weber ◽  
Katrin Schmitt ◽  
Hans-Fridtjof Pernau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sulphur Dioxide ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Exhaust Gas ◽  
Gas Treatment ◽  
Combustion Gases ◽  
Gas Streams ◽  
Gas Detector ◽  
Waste Gas Treatment ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Global Economic Growth

Since the entrance into the industrial era and the increasing demand for energy due to global economic growth and development, the amount of energy-related emissions have continuously grown every year to significantly high levels. Greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide or methane cause an increase in the earth’s temperature. Toxic gases like nitrous oxides, Sulphur dioxide and carbon monoxide are extremely detrimental to the health of all living beings. Over the past few years, global organizations are imposing tighter limits by international laws for flue-gas emissions from fossil-fuel combustion. Emission-limiting techniques like filter and scrubber systems have to be installed for waste gas treatment in the exhaust gas streams. In addition, exhaust gas measuring technologies detect the actual emission values of the respective target gases. We present the development of a low-cost and highly sensitive photoacoustic gas detector for the monitoring of emitted combustion gases. First tests were carried out with the toxic Sulphur dioxide (SO2) in secure lab conditions, where a sensitivity below 1 part per million (ppm) was achieved during continuous flow of the gas.

scholarly journals Experimental Study on the Absorption of Toluene from Exhaust Gas by Paraffin/Surfactant/Water Emulsion

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ping Fang ◽  
Zi-jun Tang ◽  
Xiong-bo Chen ◽  
Zhi-xiong Tang ◽  
Ding-sheng Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gas Flow ◽  
Organic Waste ◽  
Saturation Pressure ◽  
Absorption Efficiency ◽  
Exhaust Gas ◽  
Water Emulsion ◽  
Gas Treatment ◽  
Waste Gas ◽  
Volatile Organic ◽  
Waste Gas Treatment

A new paraffin/surfactant/water emulsion (PSW) for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) controlling was prepared and its potential for VOCs removal was investigated. Results indicated that PSW-5 (5%, v/v) provided higher toluene absorption efficiency (90.77%) than the other absorbents used. The saturation pressure, Henry’s constant, and activity coefficient of toluene in PSW-5 were significantly lower than those in water, and toluene solubility (1.331 g·L−1) in the PSW-5 was more than 2.5 times higher than the value in water. Several factors potentially affecting the toluene absorption efficiency were systematically investigated. The results suggested that concentration and pH of PSW, absorption temperature, and gas flow rate all had a strong influence on the toluene absorption, but the inlet concentration of toluene had little effect on the toluene absorption. There were different absorbing performances of PSW-5 on different VOCs, and the ketones, esters, and aromatics were more easily removed by the PSW-5 than the alkanes. Regeneration and reuse of the PSW were possible; after 3 runs of regeneration the absorption efficiency of PSW-5 for toluene also could reach 82.42%. So, the PSW is an economic, efficient, and safe absorbent and has a great prospect in organic waste gas treatment.

scholarly journals Synthesis, Structure and Diffusion Pathways of Fast Lithium-Ion Conductors in the Polymorphs α- and β-Li8SnP4

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas F Fässler ◽  
Stefan Strangmüller ◽  
Henrik Eickkhoff ◽  
Wilhelm Klein ◽  
Gabriele Raudaschl-Sieber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Lithium Ion ◽  
Conducting Materials ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Battery Technology ◽  
Lithium Ion Conductors ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Ion Conductors

The increasing demand for a high-performance and low-cost battery technology promotes the search for Li+-conducting materials. Recently, phosphidotetrelates and aluminates were introduced as an innovative class of phosphide-based Li+-conducting materials...

Voice In Ear

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Yang Gao ◽  
Yincheng Jin ◽  
Jagmohan Chauhan ◽  
Seokmin Choi ◽  
Jiyang Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
User Authentication ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
The Body ◽  
Ear Canal ◽  
Replay Attacks ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
The Right ◽  
Sound Conduction ◽  
Enrollment Data ◽  
Secure Authentication

With the rapid growth of wearable computing and increasing demand for mobile authentication scenarios, voiceprint-based authentication has become one of the prevalent technologies and has already presented tremendous potentials to the public. However, it is vulnerable to voice spoofing attacks (e.g., replay attacks and synthetic voice attacks). To address this threat, we propose a new biometric authentication approach, named EarPrint, which aims to extend voiceprint and build a hidden and secure user authentication scheme on earphones. EarPrint builds on the speaking-induced body sound transmission from the throat to the ear canal, i.e., different users will have different body sound conduction patterns on both sides of ears. As the first exploratory study, extensive experiments on 23 subjects show the EarPrint is robust against ambient noises and body motions. EarPrint achieves an Equal Error Rate (EER) of 3.64% with 75 seconds enrollment data. We also evaluate the resilience of EarPrint against replay attacks. A major contribution of EarPrint is that it leverages two-level uniqueness, including the body sound conduction from the throat to the ear canal and the body asymmetry between the left and the right ears, taking advantage of earphones' paring form-factor. Compared with other mobile and wearable biometric modalities, EarPrint is a low-cost, accurate, and secure authentication solution for earphone users.

The Research on Preparation Methods of Sludge-Based Adsorbent and its Application in Water Treatment

2013 ◽  
Vol 798-799 ◽  
pp. 1166-1169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kun Huang ◽  
Bing Xin Du
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sewage Sludge ◽  
Preparation Method ◽  
Research Direction ◽  
Excess Sludge ◽  
Preparation Methods ◽  
Gas Treatment ◽  
Waste Gas ◽  
Waste Gas Treatment ◽  
Process Of Urbanization

The accelerated process of urbanization and industrialization leads to the increase of sewage sludge production. The reuse of excess sludge which meets the idea of sustainable development is aimed to develop it into resources. Preparation of sludge-based adsorbents with various functions provides a new way for sludge utilization as a resource in China. The preparation method of sludge-based adsorbents and its application in wastewater and waste gas treatment are introduced. Suggestions about the research direction of sludge-based adsorbents in the future are point out.

scholarly journals Co-Check: Collaborative Outsourced Data Auditing in Multicloud Environment

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Mao ◽  
Wenqian Tian ◽  
Yan Zhang ◽  
Jian Cui ◽  
Hanjun Ma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Communication Networks ◽  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Cloud Storage ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Data Outsourcing ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Outsourced Data ◽  
Low Performance ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Data Auditing

With the increasing demand for ubiquitous connectivity, wireless technology has significantly improved our daily lives. Meanwhile, together with cloud-computing technology (e.g., cloud storage services and big data processing), new wireless networking technology becomes the foundation infrastructure of emerging communication networks. Particularly, cloud storage has been widely used in services, such as data outsourcing and resource sharing, among the heterogeneous wireless environments because of its convenience, low cost, and flexibility. However, users/clients lose the physical control of their data after outsourcing. Consequently, ensuring the integrity of the outsourced data becomes an important security requirement of cloud storage applications. In this paper, we present Co-Check, a collaborative multicloud data integrity audition scheme, which is based on BLS (Boneh-Lynn-Shacham) signature and homomorphic tags. According to the proposed scheme, clients can audit their outsourced data in a one-round challenge-response interaction with low performance overhead. Our scheme also supports dynamic data maintenance. The theoretical analysis and experiment results illustrate that our scheme is provably secure and efficient.

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