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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,422 Views
19 Pages

18 August 2023

The paper presents the results of an analysis of the process of drawing AISI 321 stainless steel thin-walled seamless tubes on a floating plug. The influence of the geometry of dies and plugs, drawing velocity, and lubricants on the possibility of ca...

  • Review
  • Open Access
293 Citations
52,624 Views
32 Pages

Household Biogas Digesters—A Review

  • Karthik Rajendran,
  • Solmaz Aslanzadeh and
  • Mohammad J. Taherzadeh

8 August 2012

This review is a summary of different aspects of the design and operation of small-scale, household, biogas digesters. It covers different digester designs and materials used for construction, important operating parameters such as pH, temperature, s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,719 Views
14 Pages

Inclusion Removements in a Bottom-Stirring Ladle with Novel Slot-Porous Matched Dual Plugs

  • Xianglong Li,
  • Shaoyan Hu,
  • Deyong Wang,
  • Tianpeng Qu,
  • Guangjun Wu,
  • Pei Zhang,
  • Qi Quan,
  • Xingzhi Zhou and
  • Zhixiao Zhang

17 January 2022

The cleanness of steel has always been a big problem for secondary refining. In this work, a new method, which is coupled with slot and porous plugs, is proposed to improve the cleanness in steel. Water experiments and numerical simulations were perf...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
30,330 Views
15 Pages

24 October 2017

In this article, the transition from 2D NAND to 3D NAND is first addressed, and the various 3D NAND architectures are compared. The article carries out a comparison of 3D NAND architectures that are based on a “punch-and-plug” process—with gate-all-a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,667 Views
15 Pages

12 April 2023

Artificial floating islands (AFIs) have been documented as an efficient, environmentally friendly, and cost-effective solution to address nutrient pollution. However, most AFI studies to date have been conducted in controlled experiments, and AFI app...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,882 Views
11 Pages

4 March 2023

Despite the continuous development of convolutional neural networks, it remains a challenge to achieve performance improvement with fewer parameters and floating point operations (FLOPs) as a light-weight model. In particular, excessive expressive po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,713 Views
17 Pages

22 February 2024

Fractured-vuggy carbonate reservoirs are tectonically complex; their reservoirs are dominated by holes and fractures, which are extremely nonhomogeneous and are difficultly exploited. Conventional water injection can lead to water flooding, and the r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
474 Views
15 Pages

1 December 2025

Efficient cucumber detection in greenhouse environments is crucial for agricultural automation, yet challenges like background interference, target occlusion, and resource constraints of edge devices hinder existing solutions. This paper proposes LMS...

  • Review
  • Open Access
56 Citations
10,222 Views
46 Pages

A Review of Bubble Dynamics in Liquid Metals

  • Tim Haas,
  • Christian Schubert,
  • Moritz Eickhoff and
  • Herbert Pfeifer

19 April 2021

Gas bubbles are of major importance in most metallurgical processes. They promote chemical reactions, homogenize the melt, or float inclusions. Thus, their dynamics are of crucial interest for the optimization of metallurgical processes. In this work...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,870 Views
19 Pages

8 November 2017

This paper presents a freeway driving cycle (FDC) construction method based on traffic information. A float car collected different type of roads in California and we built a velocity fragment database. We selected a real freeway driving cycle (RFDC)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,541 Views
17 Pages

Influencing Factors of Motion Responses for Large-Diameter Tripod Bucket Foundation

  • Xianqing Liu,
  • Puyang Zhang,
  • Mingjie Zhao,
  • Hongyan Ding and
  • Conghuan Le

18 November 2019

Large-diameter multi-bucket foundation is well suited for offshore wind turbines at deeper water than 20 m. Air floating transportation is one of the key technologies for the cost-effective development of bucket foundation. To predict the dynamic beh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
10,615 Views
18 Pages

3D Laser Scanner for Underwater Manipulation

  • Albert Palomer,
  • Pere Ridao,
  • Dina Youakim,
  • David Ribas,
  • Josep Forest and
  • Yvan Petillot

4 April 2018

Nowadays, research in autonomous underwater manipulation has demonstrated simple applications like picking an object from the sea floor, turning a valve or plugging and unplugging a connector. These are fairly simple tasks compared with those already...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,130 Views
22 Pages

2 December 2024

Lightweight object detection algorithms play a paramount role in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) remote sensing. However, UAV remote sensing requires target detection algorithms to have higher inference speeds and greater accuracy in detection. At pr...