新的改性沥青设备与加工技术

通过对沥青改性方法的研究 ,基于提高改性沥青单位小时产量的目的 ,探索出利用高速剪切和二次泵技术实施沥青改性。这种加工技术突破了以往沥青改性采用的“胶体磨”技术 ,适用范围广 ,可加工不同种类的改性沥青 ;采用该种加工技术提高了生产效率 ,产品的技术指标满足甚至超过规范要求。通过研制出的改性沥青生产设备制备出 PE、SBS、化学网构改性沥青等 ,而且将这几种改性沥青已应用于实体工程。     

柴油机管理系统开发与设计方法的研究

根据国内外柴油机电控技术开发与设计的经验，阐述了开发与设计柴油机管理系统所采用的最新技术与方法。通过新技术与新方法的运用，提高整个系统功能控制和以数管理的性能，最终达到改善柴油机经济性，动力性及排放等的目的。     

发动机缸盖内部冷却水腔的设计与流动数值模拟

讨论了发动机缸盖内部冷却水腔设计的发展趋势及要求 ,应用自行开发的三维流动数值模拟计算软件对冷却水腔内的流动情况进行了数值模拟。     

The dynamic relationships between paper petroleum refining and physical trade of crude oil into the United States

This article examines the relationship between refinery margins traded on paper using petroleum futures (the paper refinery) and the physical trade of crude oil into the US. Computations of a 3:2:1 crack spread were constructed using daily observations of second- and third-nearby unleaded gasoline and heating oil futures contracts traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NY MEX) and spot Brent crude oil prices. The crack spread represents the margin between the cost of crude oil feed stock today and the value of the products produced by a refinery in the future. Unit root tests on each of the time series found crack spreads to be stationary while crude oil imports were found to be non-stationary. A s the two series were found to be integrated of different order, cointegration analysis of the two series was not deemed appropriate. Instead, linear relationships between crack spreads and imports were examined using causality tests. It was found that the 2-month 3:2:1 crack spread Granger-causes crude oil imports and that this causality is unidirectional. The significance of these findings lies in the fact that other industries like tanker shipping derive their demand from the demand for, and trade in, petroleum. Crack spreads, therefore, can provide a leading indicator for short term developments in tanker demand. For a chartering manager who has ships on the spot market, crack spreads can help him/her anticipate demand developments and influence vessel deployment and chartering decisions.     

Some Thoughts on Flags of Convenience

The purpose of this article is to formulate the problem, to assess its magnitude, and at the same time to suggest the areas that must be investigated before any practical policy recommendations can be made.     

大跨度钢管桁架无柱雨棚施工技术

重庆江北火车站大跨度钢管桁架无柱式雨棚,高14m,长540m,建筑面积达56230m2。结构工程跨度大,场地条件复杂,施工制约因素多,质量要求高。对主桁架等大型构件首次采用加工厂下料、现场加工制作、现场拼装、整体吊装的方案。详述了主桁架的吊装、焊接等工艺和施工控制措施。通过合理选择施工方案,严格按照工艺要求,合理安排施工程序,保证了工程如期保质保量的完成。     

Route choice of cyclists in Zurich

This paper presents the first route choice model for bicyclists estimated from a large sample of GPS observations and overcomes the limitations inherent in the generally employed stated preference approach. It employs an improved mode detection algorithm for GPS post-processing to determine trips made by bicycle, which are map matched to an enriched street network. The alternatives are generated as a random sample from an exhaustive, but constrained search. Accounting for the similarity between the alternatives with the path-size factor the MNL estimates show that the elasticity with regards to trip length is nearly four times larger than that with respect to the share of bike paths. The elasticity with respect to the product of length and maximum gradient of the route is small. No other variable describing the routes had an impact. The heterogeneity of the cyclists is captured through interaction terms formulated on their average behaviour.