In this article, we propose the endothermic screen model. The aim is to reduce the problems of the high temperature and low utilization of waste heat in industrial plants with high radiant heat. In ...this paper, the Rhino software is used to establish the model and import it into the FLUENT software, divide the mesh, set the boundary conditions and analyze the transient temperature field. Finally, the temperature change law in the plant and the waste heat recovery efficiency of the endothermic screen are obtained. The flow of cooling water in the endothermic screen is used to transform and transfer the high-radiation heat inside the plant to the outside. The simulation results show that after adding the endothermic screen, the average indoor temperature drops from 313.33 K to 305.66 K, which has a cooling effect. The waste heat recovery efficiency reaches up to 56%, and the waste heat recovery effect is obvious. The research results can provide a reference for the application of an endothermic screen in actual high radiant heat plants and provide a more comfortable working environment for the plant workers.
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IZUM, KILJ, NUK, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, UL, UM, UPUK
Ever since the deployment of the first-generation of mobile telecommunications, wireless communication technology has evolved at a dramatically fast pace over the past four decades. The upcoming ...fifth-generation (5G) holds a great promise in providing an ultra-fast data rate, a very low latency, and a significantly improved spectral efficiency by exploiting the millimeter-wave spectrum for the first time in mobile communication infrastructures. In the years beyond 2030, newly emerged data-hungry applications and the greatly expanded wireless network will call for the sixth-generation (6G) communication that represents a significant upgrade from the 5G network - covering almost the entire surface of the earth and the near outer space. In both the 5G and future 6G networks, millimeter-wave technologies will play an important role in accomplishing the envisioned network performance and communication tasks. In this paper, the relevant millimeter-wave enabling technologies are reviewed: they include the recent developments on the system architectures of active beamforming arrays, beamforming integrated circuits, antennas for base stations and user terminals, system measurement and calibration, and channel characterization. The requirements of each part for future 6G communications are also briefly discussed.
This paper presents a high-efficiency GaN Doherty power amplifier (PA) with 100-MHz instantaneous bandwidth for 3.5-GHz long-term-evolution (LTE)-advanced application. A modified load modulation ...network, employing an enlarged peaking amplifier to carrier amplifier power ratio and moderately increased load impedance of the carrier amplifier, is proposed for enhancing efficiency and achieving improved load modulation. To increase the power ratio and alleviate the influence of slight impedance mismatch, a proposed load impedance strategy and corresponding stepped-impedance matching network are adopted for high-efficiency and wideband operation. By tuning the carrier offset line, the inconsistency of efficiency, gain, and output power in the operation band can be alleviated. Measurement results show that the Doherty PA has a drain efficiency of approximately 40% with gain fluctuation less than 0.5 dB at 9-dB back-off power, and maximum efficiency of about 60% at saturation in the signal band of 3.4-3.5 GHz. By using the digital pre-distortion (DPD) technique, the Doherty PA achieves adjacent channel leakage ratio of about -48 dBc at an average output power of 40.4 dBm with efficiency of 42.5%, when driven by 100-MHz LTE-advanced signal. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first high-performance result of linearization using conventional DPD technique with 100-MHz bandwidth signals for the GaN Doherty PA at 3.5-GHz frequency band thus far.
A modified canonical piecewise-linear function (CPWL)-based model is proposed for characterizing wideband power amplifiers. The model has a similar structure of the decomposed vector rotation (DVR) ...model but without DVR operations, in which the first-order basis function can be replaced by a second-order function by analysis. The model has lower complexity than the DVR model and the model parameter scan be estimated by least-square method. Experimental results show that the proposed model nearly gives the same normalized mean square error performance as the DVR model when a wideband Doherty power amplifier is excited by a 5-carrier long-term evolution advanced (LTE-A) signal of 100 MHz bandwidth.
The adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) has been widely used for modeling different kinds of nonlinear systems including RF power amplifiers (PAs). The modified ANFIS (MANFIS) architecture ...is simpler than that of ANFIS, but with nearly the same performance for modeling nonlinear systems. In this paper, the MANFIS is applied to model RF PAs with memory effects. The simulation and experimental results both in the time and frequency domains show that this model has good modeling accuracy and the characteristics of faster convergence and lower computational complexity compared with the ANFIS model. The normalized mean squared errors of the MANFIS model are slightly lower than those of some other neural network models such as the real-valued time delay neural network, radial basis-function neural network, etc. Finally, the MANFIS model is successfully used in a digital predistortion system, which can provide over 10- dB adjacent channel leakage ratio improvement for three-carrier wideband code division multiple access signals.
This paper presents a controllable mode design method for a concurrent dual-mode power amplifier (PA). The principle of the controllable mode combination is proposed by investigating the ...characteristics of different highly efficient PA modes, which is analyzed from frequency response of the low-pass matching circuit. Then a dual-mode PA with Class- F -1 and Class-J mode is taken for example to verify this mode combination concept. A GaN device PA with 10-W output is designed at two frequency ranges of 1.9 ~ 2.0 GHz and 2.3 ~ 2.6 GHz. Measurement results show an output power of 40.2 ~ 42.9 dBm and drain efficiency of 75.6 ~ 80.3% and 76.6 ~ 68.8% in two frequency bands. It also provides a broadband operation with drain efficiency of 60 ~ 80.3% over 1.7 ~ 2.8 GHz. To evaluate its modulated signal performance with concurrent multiband and broadband applications, dual-band signals (20 MHz + 20 MHz) with 140- and 300-MHz frequency spacing and 100-MHz long-term evolution advanced (LTE-A) signals at two modes are both employed. With digital pre-distortion algorithm, adjacent channel leakage ratio lower than -47.5, -48.6 and -46.1 dBc are achieved, indicating its excellent performance in mobile communication systems.
In this letter, dynamic fuzzy neural networks (D-FNN) are applied to model power amplifiers (PAs) with memory effects. The D-FNN model implements Takagi-Sugeno-Kang (TSK) fuzzy systems based on ...extended radial bias function (RBF) neural networks. The parameters of the model are trained by the online self-organized learning algorithm, in which the neurons can be recruited or deleted dynamically according to their significance to system performance, and the over fitting or over training problems can be avoided. The D-FNN model is validated in our test bench in which a Doherty PA is excited with 10 MHz and 20 MHz worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) signals. Experimental results show that the D-FNN model can give an accurate approximation to characterize the wideband PAs with memory effects.
A nonlinear filter-based Volterra model with low complexity is proposed for modeling and characterizing wideband power amplifiers. This model has a similar form of a simplified second-order dynamic ...deviation reduction (DDR)-based Volterra model but without complex square root calculations and high order terms, which are replaced by a first-order nonlinear filter. The model parameters with smaller magnitude distribution range and lower precision in storing and calculation can be estimated by least-square method, and then the model has lower complexity than the second-order simplified DDR Volterra model. Experimental results verified that good performance and lower complexity can be achieved by using this model for a wideband Doherty power amplifier. Finally, the model is employed to compensate the nonlinearity of the Doherty power amplifier, and over 12 dB adjacent channel leakage ratio (ACLR) improvement is achieved for a five-carrier long-term evolution advanced (LTE-A) signal of 100 MHz bandwidth.
This letter presents a novel structure for the dynamic behavioral modeling of radio frequency power amplifiers (RF PAs) with ANFIS-based Hammerstein model for memory effects. The model is an adaptive ...neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) followed by a finite impulse response (FIR) filter. A hybrid learning algorithm is adopted to identify the parameters of the ANFIS. The parameters of the FIR filter are estimated by a straightforward least-squares method. The input and output signals of the PA excited with a three-carrier WCDMA signal were sampled for the model identification and validation in a test bench. Experimental results in the frequency and the time domains show that the proposed model was able to give an accurate approximation to characterize the wideband RF PAs.