The Guanzhong basin is a part of the three top priority regions in China's blue sky action as of 2019. Understanding the chemical composition, sources, and atmospheric process of aerosol in this region is therefore imperative for improving air quality. In this study, we present, for the first time, the seasonal variations of organic aerosol (OA) in Xi'an, the largest city in the Guanzhong basin. Biomass burning OA (BBOA) and oxidized OA (OOA) contributed N50% of OA in both autumn and winter. The average concentrations of BBOA in autumn (14.8 +/- 5.1 mu g m(-3)) and winter (11.6 +/- 6.8 mu g m(-3)) were similar. The fractional contribution of BBOA to total OA, however, decreased from 31.9% in autumn to 15.3% in winter, because of enhanced contributions from other sources in winter. The OOA fraction in OA increased largely from 20.9% in autumn to 34.9% in winter, likely due to enhanced emissions of precursors and stagnant meteorological conditions which facilitate the accumulation and secondary formation. A large increase in OOA concentration was observed during polluted days, by a factor of similar to 4 in autumn and similar to 6 in winter compared to clean days. In both seasons, OOA formation was most likely dominated by photochemical oxidation when aerosol liquid water content was b30 mu g m(-3) or by aqueous-phase processes when Ox was b35 ppb. A higher concentration of BBOA was observed for air masses circulated within the Guanzhong basin (16.5-18.1 mu g m(-3)), compared to air masses from Northwest and West (10.9-14.5 mu g m(-3)). Furthermore, compared with OA fraction in non-refractory PM1 in other regions of China, BBOA (17-19%) and coal combustion OA (10-20%) were major emission sources in the Guanzhong Basin and the BTH region, respec-tively, whereas OOA (10-34%) was an important source in all studied regions. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
This article presents a power-efficient purely voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO)-based second-order continuous-time (CT) ΔΣ analog-to-digital converter (ADC), featuring a modified digital phase-locked loop (DPLL) structure. The proposed ADC combines a VCO with a switched-ring oscillator (SRO)-based time-to-digital converter (TDC), which enables second-order noise shaping without any operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs). The nonlinearity of the front-end VCO is mitigated by putting it inside a closed loop. An array of phase/frequency detectors (PFDs) is used to relax the requirement on the VCO center frequency and thus reduces the VCO power and noise. The proposed architecture also realizes an intrinsic tri-level data-weighted averaging (DWA). A prototype chip is fabricated in a 40-nm CMOS process. The proposed ADC achieves a peak signal-to-noise-and-distortion ratio (SNDR) of 69.4 dB over 5.2-MHz bandwidth, while operating at the 260 MS/s and consuming 0.86 mW from a 1.1-V supply.
A semitransparent perovskite solar cell (PSC) with a dielectric/metal/dielectric (DMD) multilayer film as the top transparent electrode is investigated. Through adjusting the thickness and the deposition rate of Ag and WO3 layers, a transparent electrode with a low sheet resistance of 7 omega sq(-1) and high average visible transmittance (AVT) of 73% in the visible wavelength range of 400-800 nm is obtained. Using the resultant DMD film as the top transparent electrode and different bandgap perovskites of CH3NH3PbI3 (MAPbI(3)), CH(NH2)(2)PbI3 (FAPbI(3)), and FA(0.5)MA(0.38)Cs(0.12)PbI(2.04)Br(0.96) as the optical active layer, a solar cell with a device architecture of ITO/SnO2/perovskite/spiro-OMeTAD/MoO3/Ag/WO3 is fabricated. A series of efficient semitransparent PSCs with high transmittance are achieved.
Formaldehyde (HCHO) is the most abundant atmospheric carbonyl compound and plays an important role in the troposphere. However, HCHO detection via traditional incoherent broadband cavity enhanced absorption spectroscopy (IBBCEAS) is limited by short optical path lengths and weak light intensity. Thus, a new light-emitting diode (LED)-based IBBCEAS was developed herein to measure HCHO in ambient air. Two LEDs (325 and 340 nm) coupled by a Y-type fiber bundle were used as an IBBCEAS light source, which provided both high light intensity and a wide spectral fitting range. The reflectivity of the two cavity mirrors used herein was 0.99965 (1 - reflectivity = 350 ppm loss) at 350 nm, which corresponded with an effective optical path length of 2.15 km within a 0.84 m cavity. At an integration time of 30 s, the measurement precision (1 sigma) for HCHO was 380 parts per trillion volume (pptv), and the corresponding uncertainty was 8.3%. The instrument was successfully deployed for the first time in a field campaign and delivered results that correlated well with those of a commercial wet-chemical instrument based on Hantzsch fluorimetry (R2 = 0.769). The combined light source based on a Y-type fiber bundle overcomes the difficulty of measuring ambient HCHO via IBBCEAS in near-ultraviolet range, which may extend IBBCEAS technology to measure other atmospheric trace gases with high precision.
We propose a new technology to advanced treat overflow wastewater from a combined sewer system using a storage tank-wastewater treatment plant (STP)-constructed wetland (CW) system. The engineering demonstration (a 7,500 m(3)storage tank and a 3,436 m(2)CW) has been built to treat the combined sewer overflows (CSOs) at the largest combined rainwater/wastewater overflow outlet in the middle reaches of the Xinbaoxiang River, which is the second largest river in the Dianchi Lake Basin. During the rainfall period, CSOs enter the storage tank. After sedimentation purification, the higher concentration CSOs at the bottom enter the STP, and the upper low-concentration CSOs enter CWs, thereby linking the multiple means of treating CSOs and minimizing the impact of CSOs on the STP. During the dry season, CWs can also assist in purification of polluted river water. The supernatant (COD <80 mg/L) and the bottom part water (COD >200 mg/L) of the storage tank were sent to CWs and STP, respectively, for treatment. The project was stably operated over 6 months. The final effluent qualities were 12, 1.79, and 0.18 mg/L for COD, TN, and TP, respectively, which achieved the surface water class V standard. Practitioner points A combined system of storage tank-wastewater treatment plant-wetland was proposed to advanced treat overflow wastewater of rainy season. The SWMM could calculate the water quality and volume of overflow under different rainfall conditions in the runoff area. The effluent of the engineering demonstration reached the standard of surface water class V.
Applying an absorbing coating to the surface of an aircraft is a widely used target
stealth method. For high-speed motion vehicles, the temperature of the stealth coating profile is
non-uniform due to the "aerodynamic effect", which affects the millimeter wave radiation of the
target. In this paper, we study the calculation method of millimeter wave radiation of stealth
coating for sports aircraft. Firs
tly, the temperature variation model of the coating under different
boundary conditions was analyzed. Then, the coating brightness temperature under non-uniform
temperature distribution was simulated and calcul
ated, and the brightness temperature difference
of the coating with or without
temperature gradient was analyzed. Finally, the millimeter wave
radiation measurement experiment of the coat
ing verified the accuracy of the simulation
calculation, and the millimeter-wave radiation ch
aracteristics of the non-uniform temperature
stealth coating are obtained.