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A heat pump cycle device includes a compressor for drawing and compressing refrigerant, a first high-pressure heat exchanger located for heating a first fluid circulating in a first fluid circuit using high-pressure refrigerant discharged from the compressor, a second high-pressure heat exchanger for heating a second fluid circulating in a second fluid circuit using the high-pressure refrigerant flowing out of the first high-pressure heat exchanger, a first heating heat exchanger located to heat a third fluid using the first fluid, a second heating heat exchanger located to heat the third fluid using the second fluid, a decompression unit located to decompress the high-pressure refrigerant flowing out of the second high-pressure heat exchanger, and a low-pressure heat exchanger for evaporating low-pressure refrigerant decompressed by the decompression unit. Because the first and second high-pressure heat exchangers are located, cycle efficiency can be improved.

A method and system for generating power from low- and mid-temperature heat sources using a zeotropic mixture as a working fluid. The zeotropic mixture working fluid is compressed to pressures above critical and heated to a supercritical state. The zeotropic mixture working fluid is then expanded to extract power. The zeotropic mixture working fluid is then condensed, subcooled, and collected for recirculation and recompression.

In a heat-pump water heater, a control unit has a heat-radiation determining means for determining a heat radiation from refrigerant to outside air in an air heat exchanger based on a water temperature flowing into a water heat exchanger, and the control unit selectively performs a general cycle operation and a bypass operation in accordance with a determination result of the heat-radiation determining means. That is, when the water temperature flowing into the water heat exchanger is lower than 60° C., the general cycle operation is performed. On the other hand, when the water temperature is equal to or higher than 60° C., the bypass operation is performed.

The invention provides a positive plate of a lithium ion battery. The positive plate comprises a positive current collector and a positive active substance layer, wherein the positive active substance layer is coated on the positive current collector and contains a positive active substance, a conductive agent, a binding agent and a lithium-rich compound, and the lithium-rich compound decomposes to generate lithium ions and release one or more of a gas, conductive carbon and a substance having electrochemical lithium storage activity during formation charging of the lithium ion battery. The generated lithium ions are transferred to a negative electrode from a positive electrode and take participation in reaction with the negative electrode (react with a decomposed product of an electrolyte to form an SEI film at the negative electrode) to supplement to lithium required for forming the SEI film, thus, the lithium ion consumption of the positive active substance can be reduced, and the energy density and the cycle performance of the lithium ion battery are improved. The invention also provides a preparation method for the positive plate of the lithium ion battery, the lithium ion battery applying the positive plate of the lithium ion battery and a preparation method of the lithium ion battery.

In a space of a data center or the like where many disk array apparatuses and electronic equipment systems are arranged, it is an object of the present invention to reduce the energy required for cooling the apparatus itself and cooling the space. In electronic equipment having heat generating elements such as a disk array apparatus or CPU, low-temperature waste heat exhausted from the equipment is heated through a vapor compression cycle once and then recovered as cold water through an absorption refrigeration cycle. In the space of a data center or the like where many disk array apparatuses and electronic equipment systems are arranged, this can reduce the energy required for cooling the apparatus itself and cooling the space, drastically improve the processing speed and reliability of the apparatus / system and realize capacity and speed enhancements.

By employing command value signals for controlling the opening timing of an exhaust valve or an intake valve and means for measuring flow rates of an intake air of a flow direction which flows through an intake manifold of an internal combustion engine, an air flow rate corresponding to the command value signal is measured. A valve mechanism includes the intake valve and the exhaust valve for each cylinder of the internal combustion engine and is controlled by a valve control means for controlling the valve mechanism. A failure diagnosis of an operating status of the valve mechanism can be performed.

A high efficiency R744 air conditioning and refrigeration system and cycle comprises a vapor compressor and two independent ejectors operatively connected to high and low-pressure sides of the compressor, respectively. The two ejectors reduce the overall pressure ratio of the mechanical vapor compressor resulting in dramatically increased thermodynamic cycle efficiency. As one example of its potential applications for residential, commercial or industrial uses, a 150 ton capacity of a water-cooled chiller designed in accordance with the present invention is predicted to provide the power consumption as low as 0.47 kW / ton, when operated in accordance with the cooling methods of the present invention, which corresponds to 7.47 of Coefficient of Performance (COP).

The invention discloses a gravity energy storing system relying on a massif. The gravity energy storing system comprises a high-altitude stacking platform, a low-altitude stacking platform, a plurality of standard weights, electric power increasing and generating devices and a control system. The position between the high-altitude stacking platform and the low-altitude stacking platform is paved with at least two inclined tracks, each inclined track is provided with at least one section of continuous track and each section of continuous track is provided with one set of electric power increasing and generating device. Each set of electric power increasing and generating device comprises a trailer, a cable, a cable winch and an electric generating all-in-one machine, wherein the trailer is arranged on the corresponding continuous track and connected with one end of the cable, the cable winch is installed on the edge of the platform at the end of the corresponding continuous track, and the cable winch is connected with the electric generating all-in-one machine. The control system controls the working conditions of transferring, transporting and stacking equipment and the electric power generating all-in-one machine. The gravity energy storing system is high in efficiency, low in cost, small in occupied space and high in safety coefficient.

In a gas turbine bucket having a shank portion and an airfoil portion having leading and trailing edges and pressure and suction sides, an internal cooling circuit, the internal cooling circuit having a serpentine configuration including plural radial outflow passages and plural radial inflow passages, and wherein a coolant inlet passage communicates with a first of the radial outflow passages along the trailing edge, the first radial outflow passage having a plurality of radially extending and radially spaced elongated rib segments extending between and connecting the pressure and suction sides in a middle region of the first passage to prevent ballooning of the pressure and suction sides at the first radial outflow passage.

The invention discloses an air purifier. The air purifier comprises a shell; an air cavity for air to circulate is formed in the shell; the shell comprises a top wall and a peripheral wall; the top wall of the shell is provided with an upper air outlet communicated with the air cavity; the purifier also comprises a distributing component fixed to the shell; the distributing component comprises an air blocking piece covering above the upper air outlet; the air blocking piece diffuses air blown out of the air outlet upwards to the periphery. The air purifier is omni-directional in air outlet, so that the purified air is more quickly and more efficiently diffused indoors, and the cycle efficiency of the purified air is improved.

A non-aqueous electrolyte to be used in a Li-ion battery includes a lithium salt, a cyclic carbonate, a linear carbonate and an isocyanate-based additive, with the following general formulaR1—N═C═Owherein R1 represents linear or branched alkyl groups which have 1 to 7 carbon atoms, or aromatic groups having the following general formula wherein R2 and R3, which may be the same or different and located at any positions of carbons 2, 2′, 3, 3′ and 4 in the benzyl ring, represent hydrogen atoms or halogen atoms, isocyanate groups, either groups, ester groups or alkyl groups, having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, and are optionally substituted with halogen atoms.

Apparatus and methodologies are provided to improve the refrigeration system by precisely controlling refrigerator compartment and heat exchanger temperatures through continuous modulation of device speeds or positions to match capacity with instantaneous load. A controller in a refrigerator is configured to provide a plurality of control loops to control various operational aspects of selected components in the refrigerator. A first loop controls the operating speed of a compressor based on temperature of the evaporator or based on the desired speed of an evaporator fan. A second control loop controls speed of an evaporator fan to maintain a prescribed freezer compartment temperature. A third control loop maintains a prescribed temperature in a fresh food compartment. In certain embodiments selected of the control loops may be thermodynamically coupled by way of thermal interaction between the various cooled compartments rather than being electrically coupled. The control loops may be individually configured as one of a proportional, proportional-integral, or proportional-integral-derivative control loop.

In a heat pump type hot water supply apparatus having a compressor (16), an outdoor heat exchanger (22), an expansion valve (24) and at least one indoor heat exchangers, and a water heat exchanger (18) for heat-exchanging refrigerant and water to achieve hot water, the water heat exchanger (18) is equipped in the refrigerant circuit so as to be connected to the outdoor heat exchanger (22) in series in the refrigerant circuit.

A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery is produced using a non-aqueous electrolyte including: a non-aqueous solvent that primarily contains a solvent mixture of ethylene carbonate and propylene carbonate and includes a fluorine-substituted ether having a divalent group represented by a formula: —CFX—CH(CH3)—O—, where X is a hydrogen atom or fluorine atom, in a molecule thereof; and a lithium salt that is dissolved in the non-aqueous solvent. The non-aqueous electrolyte has favorable wettability towards a polyolefin separator, and improves the cycle characteristics and the load characteristics of the non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery.

An electrical output power generation system is provided. A gas turbine engine rotor spool with at least one alternator rotor and steam turbine rotor are integrated and within a engine body having a combustor or external heat source having fluid communication with the bladed compressor rotor and a gas turbine bladed rotor of the said rotor spool. The alternator rotor has permanent magnets retained and positioned in close proximity and co-axial to the electrical stator having iron laminat and electrical wires. Relative rotational motion between the electrical stator and alternator rotor cause magnetic flux and subsequent electricity to be generated. The steam energy to drive the said rotor spool integrated steam turbine rotor can be from the gas turbine engine exhaust waste heat and or thru external heat energy sources.

The invention discloses lithium-sulfur battery anode material comprising porous metal. The porous metal is compounded with lithium sulfide so as to be used as the anode material of the lithium-sulfur battery. The invention also discloses a preparation method of the lithium-sulfur battery anode material comprising the porous metal. According to the invention, by utilizing the characteristics of high electric conductivity, high porosity, high specific surface area and the like of the porous metal, elemental sulfur or the lithium sulfide is filled into pores of the porous metal, metal / sulfur composite material can be manufactured, and the utilization rate of the elemental sulfur and the lithium sulfide and the multiplying performance of the composite electrode can be increased; and simultaneously, by utilizing the strong interaction between the porous metal and the elemental sulfur or the lithium sulfide, the elemental sulfur, the lithium sulfide or polysulfide generated in a charge-discharge process can be more firmly attached on the surface of the porous metal, the dissolution of the polysulfide in an electrolyte, the shuttle effect caused by the dissolution of the polysulfide in the electrolyte and the deactivation on an anode and a cathode by redox product of the polysulfide can be restrained, and the circulation stability of a metal / sulfur composite electrode and the lithium-sulfur battery can be increased.

The invention discloses a three-dimensional macroporous graphene, carbon nano tube and molybdenum disulfide composite material, and a preparation method and an application of the composite material, and relates to a nano composite material, and a preparation method and an application of the nano composite material. The composite material, the preparation method and the application aim at solving the problems of poor stability and too low first cycle efficiency of existing molybdenum disulfide serving as a cathode active substance of a lithium ion battery. The method comprises the steps of 1, preparing a three-dimensional macroporous graphene / foam metal composite, 2, preparing a three-dimensional macroporous graphene / carbon nano tube / foam metal composite, 3, preparing a three-dimensional macroporous graphene / carbon nano tube, 4, loading molybdenum disulfide by a hydrothermal method, and 5, annealing the three-dimensional macroporous graphene / carbon nano tube loaded with molybdenum disulfide to obtain the three-dimensional macroporous graphene, carbon nano tube and molybdenum disulfide composite material.

The invention provides a small turbine system in a power plant for recovering the exhaust steam heat to the thermal cycle system in the power plant. The system comprises a backheating-type small turbine unit and a driven device driven by the backheating-type small turbine unit. The backheating-type small turbine unit comprises a small turbine, a small turbine admission pipe system and a small turbine exhaust pipe system. The small turbine admission pipe system is arranged on the upstream of the small turbine and receives steam source from the thermal cycle system in the power plant; the small turbine exhaust pipe system is arranged on the downstream of the small turbine; the exhaust steam of the small turbine exhaust pipe system enters to the backheating unit of the thermal cycle system in the power plant so that the exhaust heat is recovered. The invention further provides a backheating system and a thermal cycle system in the power plant containing the small turbine system in the power plant. The systems can greatly improve the power supply efficiency of the unit.

The present invention relates to a carbonaceous lithium ion cell negative electrode material with core-shell structure and its preparation method, belonging to the field of carbon material and chemical power supply technology. The described negative electrode material is formed from core portion and shell portion. The core portion is graphite obtained after the graphite intercalation compound is disintercalated, the shell portion is amorphous carbon obtained by pyrolysis of organics. Said invention also provides the concrete steps of its preparation method.

The invention discloses a generating set optimization control method for correcting sliding pressure operation curve by adopting steam consumption rate, which comprises the detailed steps of: confirming the throttling coefficients and minimum pressure of a steam turbine under a designed working condition according to the load command of the generating set and confirming the main steam pressure set value; confirming the parameters of dynamic compensation section according to the main steam pressure response characteristics; respectively calculating the steam consumption rate of the generating set under the designed working condition and the actual working condition, working out the steam consumption rate correction coefficients, and implementing online correction on the load command of the generating set; using the corrected load command to divide the throttling coefficients of the steam turbine, then implementing calculation on the dynamic compensation procedure and minimum pressure limitation, and finally obtaining the best main steam pressure set value of the generating set under the current operation condition. The best main steam pressure set value is applied in a cooperation control system of a unit set so as to realize the best cooperation relation between the inlet steam pressure and inlet steam flow of the generating set, thus reducing the throttling loss of the steam turbine and guaranteeing the best thermoeconomic performance of the generating set.

The invention discloses a reheated gas temperature optimization control method based on multi-variable predictive control. According to the method, the whole hot steam temperature system is regarded as a two-in one-out multi-variable object, and the flow rate of reheated de-superheating jet water and the opening of a flue gas baffle plate are simultaneously controlled by adopting a multi-variable predictive control method; moreover, optimization of economical efficiency of the system is realized by adding a steady state target value of the opening of a reheated de-superheating jet water adjusting valve into optimization indexes of the conventional predictive control. By adopting the multi-variable predictive control method, coordination of side adjustment of flue gas and side adjustment of steam can be better realized, and the dynamic adjusting quality of the reheated steam temperature is further improved; and meanwhile, by adding the steady state target value of the de-superheating water adjusting valve into the conventional predictive control performance indexes, optimization of the de-superheating water jet quantity is realized, so that the circulating efficiency of a unit can be effectively improved.

The invention belongs to the technical field of gas liquefaction and relates to a mixed refrigerant circulation and nitrogen expansion circulation combinational refrigeration type natural gas liquefying method. The method comprises the following steps of: allowing natural gas subjected to pretreatments such as acid gas removal, dehydration and the like to enter a natural gas liquefying section cooling box; performing refrigeration by vaporizing the mixed refrigerant in the liquefying section cooling box and controlling the pressure to be 4 to 10 Mpa so as to liquefy the natural gas under high pressure, wherein the temperature of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) departing from the liquefying section cooling box is between -75 and -110 DEG C; cooling the LNG to about -150 DEG C after the LNGenters a supercooling section cooling box; reducing pressure to be the pressure of a storage tank by using a liquid expander and further cooling to about -160 DEG C; and then compressing the LNG to serve as fuel gas. The method has the advantages of simple technical process, high reliability, high liquefaction rate and suitability for industrialized production.

The invention related to air condition of saloon car, especially to air return thermoregulated air condition of saloon car. The air condition includes air intake dual duct, refrigeration air duct, and air out duct. A blower fan is setup in the air intake dual duct. Air inlet of air intake dual duct is composed of fresh air inlet, air return inlet, and regulating door for fresh air setup between the fresh air inlet and the air return inlet. Evaporator of air conditioning unit is setup in the refrigeration air duct. Characters are that conduction through air duct insulated from refrigeration air duct is added between the air intake dual duct and air out duct. Air outlet of the conduction through air duct, and air outlet of the refrigeration air duct are led to the air out duct. The invention is in favor of reducing energy consumption caused by heating blast of air condition repeatedly.

An ejector refrigerant cycle device includes a radiator for radiating heat of high-temperature and high-pressure refrigerant discharged from a compressor, a branch portion for branching a flow of refrigerant on a downstream side of the radiator into a first stream and a second stream, an ejector that includes a nozzle portion for decompressing and expending refrigerant of the first stream from the branch portion, a decompression portion for decompressing and expanding refrigerant of the second stream from the branch portion, and an evaporator for evaporating refrigerant on a downstream side of the decompression portion. The evaporator has a refrigerant outlet coupled to the refrigerant suction port of the ejector. Furthermore, a refrigerant radiating portion is provided for radiating heat of refrigerant while the decompression portion decompresses and expands refrigerant. For example, the refrigerant radiating portion is provided in an inner heat exchanger.

A method and system for generating power from low- and mid-temperature heat sources using a zeotropic mixture as a working fluid. The zeotropic mixture working fluid is compressed to pressures above critical and heated to a supercritical state. The zeotropic mixture working fluid is then expanded to extract power. The zeotropic mixture working fluid is then condensed, subcooled, and collected for recirculation and recompression.

The invention provides lithium supplementing slurry for a lithium ion energy storage device, and a preparation method and application of the lithium supplementing slurry. The lithium supplementing slurry comprises lithium oxalate serving as a lithium supplementing active substance, a transition metal compound serving as a catalyst and a solvent. The invention also provides a method for preparing the lithium supplementing slurry for the lithium ion energy storage device. The method comprises the following steps: adding lithium oxalate, a transition metal compound, an optional conductive additive and an optional binder into a solvent, and carrying out mixing to obtain the lithium supplementing slurry. The prepared slurry is used for a positive electrode of the lithium ion energy storage device, so redundant active lithium is effectively released in the first-week charging and discharging process, the irreversible capacity loss of a battery is made up, and meanwhile, the coulombic efficiency and the cycling stability of a positive electrode material are effectively improved. The lithium supplementing slurry is simple to operate, low in cost, high in safety and good in compatibility with electrolyte, and can be directly used for large-scale production.