APPLICATION OF CYCLOSTATIONARY PROPERTIES OF PERIODIC SIGNALS FOR POWER ANALYSIS IN ELECTRIC CIRCUITS

Предложен циклостационарный подход к анализу мощности электрических цепей, возбуждаемых источниками периодических токов и напряжений. Получены теоретические выражения для характеристик мгновенной мощности на основе взаимной спектральной ковариационной функции и показана их связь со средней и полной мощностью. Проведен анализ гармонического распределения мощности в линейной цепи при периодическом воздействии. На примере численного расчета резонансной цепи продемонстрированы этапы циклостационарного анализа и получены основные характеристики мощности. The paper proposes a cyclostationary approach to the power analysis for electric circuits excited by sources of periodic currentsorvoltages.Theformalexpressions forcharacteristics of instantaneous power are obtained on the basis of cross spectral covariance function and their relation to the average and apparent power is established. The analysis of the harmonic distribution of the power in a linear circuit under periodic excitation is carried out. The main stages of the method are illustrated with a numerical simulation example.

Diagnosis and Optimization of Gold Ore Flotation Circuit via Linear Circuit Analysis and Mass Balance Simulation

The aim of this study is to diagnose and optimize a closed multistage gold ore flotation circuit in an operational industrial plant. Linear circuit analysis (LCA), a partition-based model, and a mass balance model using flotation first-order kinetics are employed to diagnose the current process. The result shows that the current circuit operates with high recovery but the gold grade of the final concentrate is low owing to the low buoyancy ratio. Hence, several alternative circuits with different streamlines and cell arrangements are proposed and simulated using LCA and a mass balance model. The result suggests that if the current process is changed to an alternative circuit in which the floated product stream of the rougher bank is changed, then the gold grade of the concentrate can be improved by 128%. Finally, the current circuit is optimized by changing it to an alternative circuit. This study provides a methodology for adapting the simulation of optimization for the flotation circuit of an industrial plant via LCA and mass balance simulation.

A Fast Image Thresholding Algorithm for Infrared Images Based on Histogram Approximation and Circuit Theory

Image thresholding is one of the fastest and most effective methods of detecting objects in infrared images. This paper proposes an infrared image thresholding method based on the functional approximation of the histogram. The one-dimensional histogram of the image is approximated to the transient response of a first-order linear circuit. The threshold value for the image segmentation is formulated using combinational analogues of standard operators and principles from the concept of the transient behavior of the first-order linear circuit. The proposed method is tested on infrared images gathered from the standard databases and the experimental results are compared with the existing state-of-the-art infrared image thresholding methods. We realized through the experimental results that our method is well suited to perform infrared image thresholding.