The form and water uptake characteristics of the fine root system in a 5-year-old triploid Populus tomentosa plantation were investigated to make recommendations related to irrigation water management for P. tomentosa plantation. Fine roots for analysis were collected from 2106 soil cores taken...

This paper presents constructive methods of factor neural network (FNN) and their applications to the study of intelligent computation. Liu Zengliang is the first to apply this theory it to intelligent computation, it allows describing numerically and simulating such intelligence problems as...

Although evidence abounds that the development of rural non-farm activities have increased rural household income and contributed to rural development, the underlying structure and mechanism of the linkage between agricultural productivity and non-farm activities is poorly understood. Using a...

This paper presents a case study of underground thermal storage in a solar-ground coupled heat pump system (SGCHPS) for residential buildings. Based on the experimental results, the operation performance is simulated by the unit modelling. The results show that the performance of underground...

Waste heat recovery has been commonly accepted as an efficient, clean, reliable, and promising approach to increase the utilization efficiency of primary energy and reduce the pollutant emissions. A RNGCS (retrofitted natural gas-based cogeneration system), in which domestic hot water is heated...

This article presents the train timetabling problem in the complex railway network (including single-track line, double-track line, mixed-track line and terminal) and a solution algorithm. The problem is to determine the arrival, departure or through time of each train at each station on its...

The sustainable design configuration of utility systems incorporating pollutant emission abatement technologies has an important influence on economic cost, pollutant emission, and energy consumption of the process industry. In this paper, four typical cogeneration systems that address different...

A mobilized thermal energy storage (TES) system has been proposed to recover and use industrial waste or excess heat for distributed users. In this paper, lab-scale test facilities have been built to understand the mechanisms of heat charging and discharging processes. The facilities consist of...

The application of distributed variable speed pumps (DVSP) in the district heating (DH) network has been considered as a technology improvement that has a potential of saving energy, compared to the conventional central circulating pump (CCCP) DH system. A hydraulic model was developed to...

The global exponential synchronization of complex delayed dynamical networks possessing general topology is investigated in this contribution. The network model considered can represent both the directed and undirected weighted networks. Novel delay-dependent linear controllers are designed via...