Data requirements for improving the Quantitative Risk Assessment of liquid hydrogen storage systems

Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) supports the development of risk-informed safety codes and standards which are employed to enable the safe deployment of hydrogen technologies essential to decarbonize the transportation sector. System reliability data is a necessary input for rigorous QRA. The lack of reliability data for bulk liquid hydrogen (LH₂) storage systems located on site at fueling stations limits the use of QRAs. In turn, this hinders the ability to develop the necessary safety codes and standards that enable worldwide deployment of these stations. Through a QRA-based analysis of a LH₂ storage system, this work focuses on identifying relevant scenario and probability data currently available and ascertaining future data collection requirements regarding risks specific to liquid hydrogen releases. The work developed consists of the analysis of a general bulk LH₂ storage system design located at a hydrogen fueling station. Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) and traditional QRA modeling tools such as Event Sequence Diagrams (ESD) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) are employed to identify, rank, and model risk scenarios related to the release of LH₂. Based on this analysis, scenario and reliability data needs to add LH₂-related components to QRA are identified with the purpose of improving the future safety and risk assessment of these systems.     

Affine hull based target representation for visual tracking

Handling appearance variations is a challenging issue in visual tracking. Existing appearance models are usually built upon a linear combination of templates. With such kind of representation, accurate visual tracking is not desirable when heavy appearance variations are in presence. Under the framework of particle filtering, we propose a novel target representation for tracking. Namely, the target candidates are represented by affine combinations of a template set, which leads to better capability in describing unseen target appearances. Additionally, in order to adapt this representation to dynamic contexts across a video sequence, a novel template update scheme is presented. Different from conventional approaches, the scheme considers both the importance of one template to a target candidate in the current frame and the recentness of the template that is kept in the template set. Comprehensive experiments show that the proposed algorithm achieves superior performances in comparison with state-of-the-art works.     

Reducing the complexity of distance measurement methods for circular turbo codes that use structured interleavers

The knowledge of turbo code's minimum Hamming distance (d_min) and its corresponding codeword multiplicity (A_min) is of a great importance because the error correction capability of a code is strongly tied to the values of d_min and A_min. Unfortunately, the computational complexity associated with the search for d_min and A_min can be very high, especially for a turbo code that has high d_min value. This paper introduces some useful properties of turbo codes that use structured interleavers together with circular encoding. These properties allow for a significant reduction of search space and thus reduce significantly the computational complexity associated with the determination of d_min and A_min values. © 2014 The Authors. International Journal of Communication Systems published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Data-oriented multi-index Hashing

The multi-index hashing (MIH) is the state-of-the-art method for indexing binary codes. However, it is based on the dataset codes uniform distribution assumption, and will lower efficiency in dealing with non-uniformly distributed codes. In this paper, we propose a data-oriented multi-index hashing method. We first compute the correlations between bits and learn adaptive projection vector for each binary substring. Then, instead of using substrings as direct indices into hash tables, we project them with corresponding projection vectors to generate new indices. With adaptive projection, the indices in each hash table are nearly uniformly distributed. Besides, we put forward an entropy based measurement to evaluate the distribution of data items in each hash table. Experiments conducted on reference large scale datasets show that compared to the MIH the time performance of our method can be 36.9％～87.4％ better .     

基于CCSDS(8176,7154)LDPC码的缩短码性能研究

文章从单奇偶检验码的最大后验概率译码出发推导了LDPC码的消息传递机制。并基于此介绍了LDPC码的分层置信传播译码算法。然后结合工程实现给出了三种不同的缩短码实现方案,并通过仿真验证了三种缩短方案的有效性。最后在头部缩短方案的基础上搭建了基于FPGA的高速数传系统,中频环路上进行误码率性能测试表明头部缩短方案在复杂度和性能上有比较好的折中,误码率与理论值相差小于1.5d B。     

Investigation of BeO as a reflector for the low power research reactor

Calculations of the fuel burnup, core excess reactivity, and the reactivity worths of the top beryllium shim plates for two reflector types (beryllium and beryllium oxide (BeO)) in the Miniature Neutron Source Reactor (MNSR) have been presented in this paper using the GETERA and MCNP4C codes. The results showed that the reactor infinity multiplication factors were 1.7030 and 1.6824, the core unadjusted excess reactivities were 31.9 and 5.0 mk, and the reactivity worths of the top beryllium shim plates were 22 and 19 mk for the BeO and Be reflectors respectively. Finally, using the beryllium oxide instead of the existing Be reflector in the MNSR reactor increased the core excess reactivity and reactor operation time.     

Safety analysis of reactivity insertion accidents in a heavy water nuclear research reactor core using coupled 3D neutron kinetics thermal-hydraulic system code technique

Nuclear power plant Safety analysis using coupled 3D neutron kinetics/thermal-hydraulic codes technique is increasingly used nowadays. Actually, the use of this technique allows getting less conservatism and more realistic simulations of the physical phenomena. The challenge today is oriented toward the application of this technique to the operating conditions of nuclear research reactors. In the current study, a three-Dimensional Neutron Kinetics and best estimate Thermal-Hydraulic model based upon the coupled PARCS/RELAP5 codes has been developed and applied for a heavy water research reactor. The objective is to perform safety analysis related to design accidents of this reactor types. In the current study two positive reactivity insertion transients are considered, SCRAM protected and self-limiting power excursion cases. The results of the steady state calculations were compared with results obtained from conventional diffusion codes, while transient calculations were assessed using the point kinetic model of the RELAP5 code. Through this study, the applicability and the suitability of using the coupled code technique with respect to the classical models are emphasized and discussed.     

基于马尔可夫随机场的加密二值图像有损压缩算法

尽管当前已有众多二值图像的压缩方法,但这些方法并不能直接应用于加密二值图像的压缩。在云计算、分布式处理等场景下,如何高效地对加密二值图像进行有损压缩仍然是一个挑战,而当前鲜有这方面的研究。针对此问题,提出了一种基于马尔可夫随机场(MRF)的加密二值图像有损压缩算法。该算法用MRF表征二值图像的空域统计特性,进而借助MRF及解压缩还原的像素推断加密二值图像压缩过程中被丢弃的像素。所提算法的发送方采用流密码对二值图像进行加密,云端先后利用分块均匀但块内随机的下抽样方式及低密度奇偶校验(LDPC)编码对加密二值图像进行压缩,接收方则通过构造包含解码、解密及MRF重构的联合因子图实现二值图像的有损重构。实验结果表明,所提算法获得了较好的压缩效率,在0.2~0.4 bpp压缩率时有损重构图像的比特误差率(BER)不超过5%;而与针对未加密原始二值图像的国际压缩标准JBIG2的压缩效率相比,所提算法的压缩效率与其相当。这些充分表明了所提算法的可行性与有效性。     

伊朗南阿油田中心处理站消防系统设计

以伊朗南阿油田项目中心处理站的消防系统设计为基础,说明了伊朗油田消防系统设计参数的选取．对比分析了国内外消防规范中对有关参数设计、计算时所采用的不同方法,介绍了伊朗南阿油田中心处理站消防设计的特点,以供相关设计人员参考。