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An automatic generation control (AGC) augmentation system and method for wind power plant integration for controlling the power contribution to a grid by the wind plant is disclosed that provides for the calculation of the area control error (ACE) by actively communicating to the wind plant ramp rate limits and curtailment requests contributing to the ACE calculation. The augmented control of the ACE minimizes the amount of lost energy production by the wind plant.

The invention discloses a steel rail used for high-speed and quasi-high speed railways and a manufacturing method thereof. The method comprises: reducing carbon content and utilizing a mode of controlled cooling after rolling to manufacture the steel rail with favorable rolling contact fatigue performance. The steel rail comprises the following chemical compositions by weight percent: 0.40%-0.64% of C, 0.10%-1.00% of Si, 0.305-1.50% of Mn, less than or equal to 0.025% of S, less than or equal to 0.005% of Al, greater than 0% and less than or equal to 0.05% of rare-earth elements, greater than 0% and less than or equal to 0.20% of at least one of V, Cr and Ti and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities. The steel rail manufactured by the method of the invention maintains the strength and hardness of the existing steel rail of the high-speed railways, and simultaneously has improved plasticity and yield strength; and the energy value needed for initiation and expansion of fatigue microcracks formed on the surface of the steel rail is improved, thus the rolling contact fatigue performance of the steel rail can be improved under the same condition, and finally the service life and transportation safety of the steel rail are improved.

An apparatus and method to convert carbonaceous materials, particularly biomass and those biomass resources which are remotely located, into a solid material, which may be a high performance solid fuel, are presented. This method, and the apparatus described as the means to accomplish this method, provides a continuous process which can be completely powered by the energy contained in the biomass. The heat, mechanical power and electrical power are provided from the energy in the biomass, through the methods described. In this way, the apparatus is free to operate in remote locations, where no power or auxiliary fuel sources are available.

The present invention relates to a plasma-generating device comprising an anode, a cathode and an elongate plasma channel which extends substantially in the direction from said cathode to said anode. The plasma channel has a throttling portion which is arranged in said plasma channel between said cathode and an outlet opening arranged in said anode. Said throttling portion divides said plasma channel into a high pressure chamber, which is positioned on a side of the throttling portion closest to the cathode, and has a first maximum cross-sectional surface transversely to the longitudinal direction of the plasma channel, and a low pressure chamber, which opens into said anode and has a second maximum cross-sectional surface transversely to the longitudinal direction of the plasma channel, said throttling portion having a third cross-sectional surface transversely to the longitudinal direction of the plasma channel which is smaller than said first maximum cross-sectional surface and said second maximum cross-sectional surface. Moreover at least one intermediate electrode is arranged between said cathode and said throttling portion. The invention also relates to a plasma surgical device, use of such a plasma surgical device in surgery and a method of generating a plasma.

An energy management apparatus manages energy consumption of a machine, which has a supply part (14) for supplying energy and a consume part (10) for consuming the energy supplied by the supply part, so that the energy consumed by the consume part is positively saved. An operating part operates the consume part by using the energy supplied by the supply part. An acquisition part acquires an energy conversion characteristic, as an energy efficiency, from an input energy (40), (42) supplied to the consume part into an output energy output (44), (46) from the consume part. A change part changes an operating condition of the consume part based on the acquired energy efficiency so as to improve an actual value of the energy efficiency.

The invention comprises a compressor, condensers, a throttle valve and an evaporator. Each condenser consists of a water tank and a radiator inside. On each water tank are disposed a waterway interface connected in series and a water outlet. A one-way valve connected in series on the waterway interface between the water tanks and between the adjacent condensers can stop later stage higher temp. steam from flowing backward to the prime condenser, so the steam greater than 150 deg. C can be obtained. Because of using the design of several condensers in series the hot water with 45-100 deg. C different temperatures can be obtained at the water outlets the different condensers.

A method of creating a multi-phase fuel wherein said fuel comprises a gas, a solid, a liquid solvent phase and an aqueous phase from animal waste comprising the combination of the animal waste, a solvent, and a water / alcohol solution into a fluid mixture, placing the mixture into a closed reactor, heating said reactor between about 245° C. and 385° C. for between about 5 and 70 minutes and cooling said resulting multi-phase fuel. The animal waste may be manure, mortalities, municipal waste, or chicken litter. The preferred solvent is petroleum with the preferred petroleum being diesel fuel. The final multi-phase fuel can be separated into four separate fuels: a solid fuel, an emulsified solid in the liquid solvent phase by blending the solid, the solvent and a surfactant, an aqueous phase, and the recovered liquid solvent phase. Petroleum is the preferred solvent and the separation may be any conventional means. The mixture preferably consists of 1 part by weight animal waste, about 1.5 parts by weight diesel and between about 0.11 to about 1.86 parts by weight a water / alcohol solution. The water / alcohol solution is between about 5% to about 85% alcohol before heating. Additionally, an alkali base may be added to increase waste solubility.

The invention relates to a method for preparing chemicals containing phenols and aromatic hydrocarbons from bio-oil pyrolysis lignin through catalysis, and belongs to the technical field of biomass energy. The method comprises the following steps of: firstly, washing the bio-oil by using water to obtain a water-phase component and a water insoluble matter, freeze-drying the water insoluble matter to obtain solid-state pyrolysis lignin, dissolving the solid-state pyrolysis lignin in dioxane and then orderly adding methanol or ethanol and a Ru / HZSM-5 catalyst, mixing evenly, and moving the mixture into a hydrogen replacement reaction kettle for a hydrocracking reaction to obtain a reaction mixed liquid; filtering the reaction mixed liquid, calcining the filter residue to be reused as the Ru / HZSM-5 catalyst, performing decompressed rotary distillation on the filtrate to obtain the chemicals containing phenols and aromatic hydrocarbons, and recycling methanol or ethanol obtained through distillation. The method provided by the invention is capable of effectively degrading the pyrolysis lignin in the bio-oil into low-molecular-weight chemicals and fuel additives; the method is simple in process and high in product value added; as a result, the market prospect of the bio-oil is effectively expanded.