Solvent extraction of crude oil from oilseeds is widely applied for its high production capacity and low cost. In this process, solvent recovery and tail gas treatment are usually performed by adsorption, paraffin scr...Solvent extraction of crude oil from oilseeds is widely applied for its high production capacity and low cost. In this process, solvent recovery and tail gas treatment are usually performed by adsorption, paraffin scrubbing, or even cryogenics （at low tail gas flow rates）. Membrane separation, which has a lower energy consumption than these techniques, spans a broad range of admissible concentrations and flow rates, and is moreover easily combined with other techniques. Vapor recompression has potentials to reduce the heat loss in association with distillation and evaporation. In this study, we proved the possibility of combining membrane separation and vapor recompression to improve the conventional vegetable oil production, by both experiments and process simulation. Nearly 73% of energy can be saved in the process of vegetable oil extraction by the novel processing approach. By further environmental assessment, several impact categories show that the optimized process is environmentally sustainable.展开更多
Recently, device storage capacity and transmission bandwidth requirements are facing a heavy burden on account of massive internet images. Generally, to improve user experience and save costs as much as possible, a lo...Recently, device storage capacity and transmission bandwidth requirements are facing a heavy burden on account of massive internet images. Generally, to improve user experience and save costs as much as possible, a lot of internet applications always focus on how to achieve appropriate image reeompression. In this paper, we propose a novel framework to efficiently customize image recompression according to a variety of applications. First of all, we evaluate the input image＇s compression level and predict an initial compression level which is very close to the final output of our system using a prior learnt from massive images. Then, we iteratively recompress the input image to different levels and measure the perceptual similarity between the input image and the new result by a block-based coding quality method. According to the output of the quality assessment method, we can update the target compression level, or switch to the subjective evaluation, or return the final recompression result in our system pipeline control. We organize subjective evaluations based on different applications and obtain corresponding assessment report. At last, based on the assessment report, we set up a series of appropriate parameters for customizing image recompression. Moreover, our new framework has been successfully applied to many commercial applications, such as web portals, e-commerce, online game, and so on.展开更多
For dividing-wall distillation columns(DWDCs) separating a heavy-component dominated and wide boiling-point ternary(HCDWBT) mixture, a significant amount of excessive heat exists inevitably in stripping the heavy-comp...For dividing-wall distillation columns(DWDCs) separating a heavy-component dominated and wide boiling-point ternary(HCDWBT) mixture, a significant amount of excessive heat exists inevitably in stripping the heavy-component from the intermediate-component and it can be employed to initiate the development of vapor recompression heat pump(VRHP) assisted DWDC(VRHP-DWDC). Despite dividing wall may locate in the top, middle, and bottom, the optimum VRHP-DWDC is found to involve uniformlytwo VRHP circles. While the first one serves to compress and transform the excessive heat resulted from the separation of the heavy-component from the intermediate-component, the second one to compress and transform the overhead vapor stream of the light-component pre-heated sequentially with the condensate from the first one and the bottom product stream of the heavy-component, both releasing the temperature-elevated latent heat to the pre-fractionator's or common stripping section. The processing of two HCDWBT mixtures of benzene/toluene/o-xylene and n-pentane/n-hexane/n-heptane are selected to assess the derived optimum topological configurations of the VRHP-DWDC and their optimality is confirmed through detailed comparisons with the DWDC and two VRHP-DWDCs involving only one VRHP circle. The proposed strategy helps to tap the full potential of the VRHP-DWDC with considerably alleviated complication in process development.展开更多
基金This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China （973 program, Grant Nos. 2013CB733600 and 2012CB72520）, the National Natural Science Foundation of China （Grant Nos. 21390202 and 21436002）.
文摘Solvent extraction of crude oil from oilseeds is widely applied for its high production capacity and low cost. In this process, solvent recovery and tail gas treatment are usually performed by adsorption, paraffin scrubbing, or even cryogenics （at low tail gas flow rates）. Membrane separation, which has a lower energy consumption than these techniques, spans a broad range of admissible concentrations and flow rates, and is moreover easily combined with other techniques. Vapor recompression has potentials to reduce the heat loss in association with distillation and evaporation. In this study, we proved the possibility of combining membrane separation and vapor recompression to improve the conventional vegetable oil production, by both experiments and process simulation. Nearly 73% of energy can be saved in the process of vegetable oil extraction by the novel processing approach. By further environmental assessment, several impact categories show that the optimized process is environmentally sustainable.
基金supported by a joint project of Tencent Research and Shanghai Jiao Tong Universitysupported by the National Basic Research 973 Program of China under Grant No.2011CB302203+2 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.61073089,61133009the Open Projects Program of National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition of Chinathe Open Project Program of the State Key Lab of CAD&CG of Zhejiang University of China under Grant No.A1206
文摘Recently, device storage capacity and transmission bandwidth requirements are facing a heavy burden on account of massive internet images. Generally, to improve user experience and save costs as much as possible, a lot of internet applications always focus on how to achieve appropriate image reeompression. In this paper, we propose a novel framework to efficiently customize image recompression according to a variety of applications. First of all, we evaluate the input image＇s compression level and predict an initial compression level which is very close to the final output of our system using a prior learnt from massive images. Then, we iteratively recompress the input image to different levels and measure the perceptual similarity between the input image and the new result by a block-based coding quality method. According to the output of the quality assessment method, we can update the target compression level, or switch to the subjective evaluation, or return the final recompression result in our system pipeline control. We organize subjective evaluations based on different applications and obtain corresponding assessment report. At last, based on the assessment report, we set up a series of appropriate parameters for customizing image recompression. Moreover, our new framework has been successfully applied to many commercial applications, such as web portals, e-commerce, online game, and so on.
基金The financial support from National Natural Science Foundation of China (21878011)。
文摘For dividing-wall distillation columns(DWDCs) separating a heavy-component dominated and wide boiling-point ternary(HCDWBT) mixture, a significant amount of excessive heat exists inevitably in stripping the heavy-component from the intermediate-component and it can be employed to initiate the development of vapor recompression heat pump(VRHP) assisted DWDC(VRHP-DWDC). Despite dividing wall may locate in the top, middle, and bottom, the optimum VRHP-DWDC is found to involve uniformlytwo VRHP circles. While the first one serves to compress and transform the excessive heat resulted from the separation of the heavy-component from the intermediate-component, the second one to compress and transform the overhead vapor stream of the light-component pre-heated sequentially with the condensate from the first one and the bottom product stream of the heavy-component, both releasing the temperature-elevated latent heat to the pre-fractionator's or common stripping section. The processing of two HCDWBT mixtures of benzene/toluene/o-xylene and n-pentane/n-hexane/n-heptane are selected to assess the derived optimum topological configurations of the VRHP-DWDC and their optimality is confirmed through detailed comparisons with the DWDC and two VRHP-DWDCs involving only one VRHP circle. The proposed strategy helps to tap the full potential of the VRHP-DWDC with considerably alleviated complication in process development.
