With the rapid development of electricity production, SO2 from coal-fired power stations causes severe air pollution problem. In 1997, the SO2 emitted from thermal power plants reached 7.,0 Mt, accounting for about 33% of the national emissions. At present and in the future, th...

Mechanical failure modes leading to cracks or breeches in proton exchange membrane fuel cells are driven by mechanical forces associated with swelling from water uptake and shrinkage from dehumidification. To determine the magnitude of compressive mechanical stress imposed by water swelling in a pro...

Efficient support for querying large-scale resource description framework (RDF) triples plays an important role in semantic web data management. This paper presents an efficient RDF query engine to evaluate SPARQL queries, where the inverted index structure is employed for indexing the RDF triples. ...

This paper is to promote investigation into the nuclear rocket engine (NRE) propulsion option that is considered as a key technology for manned Mars exploration. Russian NRE developed since the 1950s in the former Soviet Union to a full-scale prototype by the 1990s is viewed as advantageous and the ...

In this paper, three partitioned-stator (PS) machines, namely the PS flux-switching DC-field (PS-FSDC) machine, the PS-FS hybrid-excitation (PS-FSHE) machine, and the flux adjuster FS permanent-magnet (FA-FSPM) machine are proposed. With different flux-regulating mechanisms, all three proposed machi...