LNG低温管托的结构特点及材料选用

LNG(液化天然气)在输送过程中,冷量泄漏易汽化产生BOG气体,会严重影响接收站的经济收益。在设计过程中,考虑低温管托需承重,其选用的保冷材料与管道本体不同,选择合适的结构和材料,可以最大限度地减少冷量泄漏。文中介绍一种低温管托的设计要求、结构特点和材料选用,该管托在实际应用过程中表现出良好的保冷性能且施工方便,值得推广应用。     

LNG工程保冷层施工

保冷层施工是LNG工程建设的关键技术之一,合适的保冷结构和施工工艺可以提高LNG系统运行的安全性和经济性。通过比较常用保温材料的性能及优缺点,确定了适合LNG管道的保温材料。介绍了LNG系统的保冷层结构及作用。分别论述了LNG运输系统中的直管线、弯头、法兰、阀门等不同部位的保冷层施工工艺,还分析了LNG系统运行过程中保冷层存在的失效风险,并提出了相应的改进建议。     

钢管与法兰对接环焊缝开裂分析

采用化学成分分析、力学性能检测、宏观及扫描电镜分析等方法对输送管道站场发现的F52法兰与L360/X52 HFW钢管对接环焊缝开裂的原因进行了分析。结果表明:F52法兰含碳量偏高、焊接性差是导致法兰侧热影响区产生冷裂纹的主要内因,现场焊接工艺及实施过程控制不当是裂纹产生的主要诱因。采取以焊接性较差的一侧确定焊接工艺及焊前预热措施后,该类现象再未发生过。     

全国天然气供需分析及LNG接收站布点研究

本文在分析预测我国可供气量及天然气需求的基础上,分析已建、在建及拟建沿海LNG接收站能否满足LNG进口需求,建议在沿海LNG接收站新增或储备布点。     

LNG接收站再冷凝器工艺控制分析

针对目前某LNG接收站采用的再冷凝工艺,在简要介绍再冷凝器结构和工艺的基础上,从温压补偿,比率计算,流量、压力及液位控制方面入手,对再冷凝器串级控制模式下的工艺控制原理进行详细地阐述和分析。该分析是基于某LNG接收站近4年的平稳运营经验形成,对新建LNG接收站再冷凝器的投用和平稳操作具有一定的参考价值。     

液化天然气(LNG)接收站运营输量控制研究

文中以某一运行的LNG接收站为研究对象,在分析现有再冷凝工艺对相对最小外输量控制的基础上,对影响外输量的主要操作参数进行详细分析,然后提出具体改进方案,应用于实际操作过程,证明了此方案能够有效地降低相对最小外输量,满足接收站在特殊工况下对外输量的要求,具有较好的可行性和可操作性.     

LNG接收站蒸发气管输控制方案研究

LNG接收站在生产运行过程中会产生一定量蒸发气(BOG),对BOG气体的回收处理需要消耗一定能量。为了更好控制蒸发气的产生量,实现节能降耗,文中通过分析出LNG接收站在生产运行过程中产生BOG气体的各项因素,并对产生BOG的因素进行详细探讨,得出通过优化码头冷循环设计运行方案、高压泵运行方案以及高压泵和汽化器的设计布局,来实现控制BOG产生量,从而降低回收处理BOG的成本,实现节能降耗的目的。     

石油化工装置管道系统的泄漏及预防

本文着重探讨了管道系统中管道、法兰密封面及阀门泄漏的原因、种类和主要泄漏部位。介绍了配管设计和施工安装过程中避免管道系统泄漏的一些主要措施。     

浅谈LNG动力船舶的改建与检验

LNG燃料动力改建成柴油/LNG混合燃料或纯LNG单燃模式,通过采用LNG全部或部分替代柴油燃料,达到节省燃油和降低排放的双重目的。本文根据检验工作中遇到的问题,结合相关法规和规范的要求,叙述了LNG单燃料、LNG/柴油双燃料动力船的改建和建造过程中需要注意的问题。     

LNG储罐罐壁工程质量缺陷及控制措施

LNG储罐是LNG接收站中关键的设备之一,其工程质量非常重要。为使罐壁施工质量达到良好状态,可事先采用施工用的混凝土、钢筋和DOKA模板等施工材料建造小段试验墙,根据这段试验墙可以提前发现工程可能出现的缺陷,这些缺陷包括模板错缝、预埋件凹陷、混凝土表面局部气孔麻面、墙体裂缝、漏浆及混凝土表面色差等,对这些缺陷产生的原因进行分析并采取相应的控制措施,以确保罐壁施工顺利且高质量进行。     

Survey of R&D in PRT systems

A survey of research and development in advanced transit has been made by Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg in cooperation with Trans21 in Boston. Summary findings are reported for fourteen academic research programs and ten development programs for PRT. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the International Conference of PRT and other Emerging Systems held in Minneapolis in 1996.     

The Impact of Container Type Diversification on Regional British Port Development Strategies

Abstract

Despite a concentration of container traffic in the southeast of the UK over the last few decades, regional ports are attempting new development strategies to capture or retain specific traffic segments. These include intra-European short-sea traffic and a potentially increasing feeder market. These trends are reflected in the movement of different container types, which result in a number of planning challenges related to changing infrastructural and operational requirements. This paper uses highly disaggregated data on container type movements to address three issues that can inform these planning challenges. First, the imbalance of trade resulting in empty container repositioning; second, the requirement for gauge-cleared rail routes to cater for the increasing proportion of high-cube containers; and third, the specialisation of European short-sea traffic at secondary UK ports. The results reveal the disproportionate repositioning of empty containers at Scottish ports and the importance of 45?ft, high-cube and pallet-wide containers at regional ports, highlighting their focus on intra-European short-sea traffic and raising difficulties relating to their lower quality of landside infrastructure (particularly rail) in comparison to the large south-eastern ports. The potential repercussions on hinterland infrastructure development raise questions about both public and private sector responses to regional port development.     

Modular route bus design – A method of meeting transport operation and vehicle manufacturing requirements

This research examines the problem of route bus specification and vehicle manufacturability. In order for bus operators to provide transport services, a range of vehicle configurations must be available from bus manufacturers, generating variety which has a negative impact on the manufacturing process. Larger part inventories, uncontrolled labour tasks and more troublesome maintenance are known impacts of this variety. This research identifies the functional necessities in route bus interior design and reduces the problems in bus manufacture and operation caused by specification diversity by proposing a modularised system of bus design. In particular, it makes recommendations as to how bus configuration should be carried out, ensuring an optimum mix of operational and manufacturing needs:

• 1.Determine user needs before the bus specification process.
• 2.Designs to be developed by the manufacturer in response to user needs.
• 3.This design should be standardised where possible, as suggested by the user needs.
• 4.Where user needs dictate product variations, apply a mass customisation approach to accommodate these needs.

The recommendations are communicated in design proposals for a modular bus interior, demonstrated by four cases designed to meet the present status quo of bus interior design and predictions for the future of the field.     

管道风险分析指数评分法中分值调整初探

管道风险分析指数评分法中重要步骤之一就是确定影响管道事故因素的权重,各个管道风险因素在整个管道事故中所占的权重是不相同的。针对目前管道风险分析指数评分法基本假设之一（各因素的分值范围都是0～100分）,为了更加客观、准确、合理地反映各个风险因素对于管道事故的影响程度,提出并论述了依据层次分析法的数学逻辑性进行综合计算得出管道风险因素的权重,然后对评分法中各个因素的最高分值,根据其权重不同进行相应调整,从而增强评价者对风险因素的认识和评判能力,提高管道风险评价结果的准确性。     

Determinants of modal choice in freight transport

In the next few years, exciting developments in the field of freight transport are likely to occur. The Channel Tunnel will be perceived as giving railways much greater distance of operation, compared to the current train ferry to/from Great Britain. The further development of swap-body technology will allow easier modal transfer and the creation, in 1992, of a single market in Europe will transform the pattern of trade. All of these are likely to have significant impacts on modal choice, and hence modal split, in freight transport. Reappraisal by many firms of the modes of transport used is likely but will it result in a net transfer of freight from road to rail and, if so, to what extent? To answer such questions, an accurate and reliable method of predicting modal split is required. Research in the past has concentrated on the development of modal split models based on generalised costs. These fail to explain adequately the prevalence of road freight in the UK. From surveys of freight managers within industry, it is clear that models to date rely too heavily on the economic cost factor and too little on behavioural factors (Jeffs 1985). This paper derives from a recent study of freight transport modal choice from the standpoint of the transport decision-maker within the firm. It attempts to shed light on the actual parameters which should be incorporated into a modal split model. Many variables appear to exert an influence on modal choice decision-making process. However, it is possible to categorise them into six main groups, namely: customer-requirements; product-characteristics; company structure/organisation; government interventions; available transport facilities; and perceptions of the decision-maker him/herself. It is the interactions and inter-relationships between these which ultimately determine freight modal split. This study has shown that the relationship between the outcome of the transport decision process and the values of particular determinants of modal split is not straight-forward, due to the complexity and variety of interactions involved. Perhaps one of the main reasons for researchers' failure hitherto to develop a successful modal-split model has been the preoccupation with techniques that rely on the development of common metric (e.g. generalised cost), which has led to the exclusion of some important explanatory variables along quite different dimensions. Another important issue concerns the appropriate level of aggregation. In order not to reduce the explanatory power of the key variables, it is important to work at a disaggregate level, although this does make substantial demands on data. The use of factor analysis enables both the aggregation of information without loss of behavioural reality and the specification of variables in terms of a common metric. In conclusion, freight transport has usually been examined within too narrow a framework. It must be placed firmly within the context of the total industrial process. The demand for freight transport is directly influenced by the level, composition and geographical distribution of production and consumption activities. Freight flows are complex and so it is highly unlikely that a universal mode-choice model can ever be developed. Future research should, therefore, be directed towards developing partial models in response to specific needs of those involved in decision-taking in the freight sector.     

A century of evolution of the accessibility concept

The concept of accessibility has acquired numerous meanings along multiple dimensions during the century of its evolution. This essay argues for the salience of two dimensions: application-based and definition-based. In its application, accessibility has incorporated positive and normative dimensions which have varied in prominence over time. In its definition, accessibility has varied between a mode of evaluation incorporating measured mobility and proximity, on the one hand, and a predefined market basket of urbanist improvements to transportation and land use systems, on the other. Advocates of the accessibility shift should emphasize both the measured approach to accessibility and accessibility’s normative side.     

天然气站往复式压缩机活塞失效分析

针对天然气站往复式压缩机活塞的断裂事故,运用失效分析方法,开展了活塞断口扫描电镜分析、能谱和金相分析。根据断口形貌的电镜和金相观察结果,结合理论知识,分析确定了该活塞发生断裂事故的主要原因,即在特定工况下该活塞的材料缺陷是造成断裂的主要因素。     

中国城市道路规划方位性问题研究

文章结合中国的传统建筑文化理念和现代科学原理,从历史文化、能源节约、环境保护、房地产定价、交通安全等多方面分析研究了城市道路在规划和设计时所应遵从的定向规则。     

Predicting queue variability to enable analysis of overload risk

ABSTRACT

Predicting the risk of traffic demands and delays exceeding critical limits at road junctions, airports, hospitals, etc., requires knowing how both mean and variance of queue size vary over time. Microscopic simulation can explore variability but is computationally demanding and gives only sample results. A computationally efficient approximation to the mean is used in many modelling tools, but only empirical extensions for variance in particular situations have been available. The paper derives theoretical formulae for time-dependent and equilibrium variance, believed to be novel and to apply generally to queues covered by the Pollaczek–Khinchin mean formula, and offering possible structural insights. These are applied in an extended approximation giving mutually consistent mean and variance estimates with improved accuracy. Tests on oversaturated peak demand cases are compared with Markov probabilistic simulation, demonstrating accuracy (R^2?>?0.99) for typical random, priority-like (M/M/1) and traffic-signal-like (M/D/1) queues. Implications for risk analysis, planning and policy are considered.