Patents Assigned to Tongji University
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Publication number: 20220099010Abstract: The disclosure relates to a self-adaptive oil spraying control system and method for a biodiesel engine. The control system includes an exhaust pipe, a gas sensor, a control module and an oil sprayer, wherein the exhaust pipe is connected to the oil sprayer, the gas sensor is mounted in the exhaust pipe, and the gas sensor and the oil sprayer are connected to the control module respectively. According to the control method, a main spray advance angle of the engine is subjected to closed-loop control directly through comparison between an idling steady state NOx emission signal and an idling steady state NOx emission value of pure diesel when the engine uses the biodiesel, so that emission of NOx in the exhaust is reduced. Compared with the prior art, the disclosure has the advantages of no need of detecting a biodiesel ratio, high efficiency, good effect and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: TONGJI UNIVERSITYInventors: Diming Lou, Yinghua Zhao, Piqiang Tan, Yunhua Zhang, Liang Fang, Zhiyuan Hu
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Publication number: 20220076570Abstract: The invention relates to a variable speed limit (VSL), ramp metering (RM), and a collaborative method of variable speed limit and ramp metering (VSL-RM) on expressways based on crash risk, including the following steps: 1) calculating the crash risk index within each control step, activating the VSL-RM strategy when the crash risk index exceeds the threshold of the crash risk index, and 2) conduct a multiple-ramp metering strategy, determine the ramps to be controlled and the start-up time for RM, and calculate the integrated ramp regulation rate; 3) execute a variable speed limit strategy to obtain the displayed speed limit value for the segment downstream of the cluster and adjust the ramp regulation rate, mainline desired speed and mainline speed of the segment for the next time period accordingly.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Applicant: TONGJI UNIVERSITYInventors: WANJING MA, ZILIANG HE, LING WANG, CHUNHUI YU
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Publication number: 20220064043Abstract: A process for enhanced anaerobic digestion of sludge by alcoholization of food waste, comprising steps of: (1) ethanol prefermentation of food waste—feeding the food waste having been crushed into a uniform grain size into an ethanol production reactor, where the food waste is subjected to rapid and efficient anaerobic fermentation activated by addition of yeast and pH adjustment to produce ethanol and obtain a fermentation broth and a fermentation residue; (2) sludge pretreatment—pretreating the sludge after mixing with the fermentation residue; and (3) methanogenesis of anaerobic digestion—subjecting products resulting from the sludge pretreatment to be mixed with the fermentation broth and then to methanogenesis of anaerobic digestion in a methane production reactor. With this process, the sludge and the food waste can be treated efficiently via multi-phase reactions, and the resource recovery and biogas quality can be enhanced.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2020Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: Tongji UniversityInventors: Xiaohu DAI, Lei LI, Jun GAO, Ying XU, Bin DONG, Lingling DAI, Zhigang LIU
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Patent number: 11260325Abstract: The present invention discloses a filtering device used for removing impurities in a mixture of biological diatomite, which relates to the technical field of sewage treatment. This device includes a plurality of deflectors evenly distributed in multiple layers in the vertical direction. Each deflector includes a shell and a top plate. There is a filter unit symmetrically arranged on the left and right sides of each deflector. The top of the shell is covered with a top plate hinged with the depressed plate. The bottom of the shell is provided with water inlets which communicate with the shunt pipe, and the upper parts of the left and right side walls of the shell are provided with overflow ports. The shell also has a plurality of diversion folding plates located below the overflow ports and vertically staggered and distributed on the left and right side walls. The filter unit includes an inclined water guiding groove and a filtering plate.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: TONGJI UNIVERSITYInventors: Xiaohu Dai, Bin Lu, Xiaoli Chai, Boran Wu, Zheng Zhou, Xiuzhong Wang
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Patent number: 11261461Abstract: Provided are methods and compositions for transdifferentiation of a somatic cell, e.g., a fibroblast to a dopaminergic precursor, Specifically, provided are induced dopaminergic (iDP) cells, or master transcription factors (TFs) therefore, methods for making iDP cells, and methods and compositions for using them in, e.g., treating neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2015Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignees: Tongji University, Board of Regents of the University of NebraskaInventors: Jialin Zheng, Changhai Tian
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Publication number: 20220043049Abstract: A method for testing a lifetime of a surface state carrier of a semiconductor, including the following steps, 1) a narrow pulse light source is used to emit a light pulse, and coupled to an interior of a near-field optical probe, and the near-field optical probe produces a photon-generated carrier on a surface of a semiconductor material under test through excitation. 2) The excited photon-generated carrier is concentrated on the surface of the semiconductor material, and recombination is conducted continuously with a surface state as a recombination center. 3) A change in a lattice constant is produced due to an electronic volume effect, a stress wave is produced, and a signal of the stress wave is detected in a high-frequency broadband ultrasonic testing mode. 4) Fitting calculation is conducted on the signal of the stress wave to obtain the lifetime of the surface state carrier ?c.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2020Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicant: TONGJI UNIVERSITYInventors: Qian CHENG, Weiya XIE, Ya GAO, Yiming CHEN, Yingna CHEN, Mengjiao ZHANG, Haonan ZHANG, Shiying WU
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Publication number: 20220041480Abstract: A nano zero valent iron biological coupling device for organic wastewater includes a continuous flow stirred reactor, a flocculation sedimentation device and a membrane bioreactor arranged in series. A nano zero valent iron feeding device is arranged in the continuous flow stirred reactor, a flocculant and a coagulant aid are arranged in the flocculation sedimentation device, and a microbial reaction liquid is arranged in the membrane bioreactor. A nano iron biological coupling process includes: S1, placing the organic wastewater in the continuous flow stirred reactor, adding the nano zero valent iron, stirring and mixing; S2, placing the organic wastewater treated after S1 in the flocculation sedimentation device; S3, placing the organic wastewater treated after S2 in the membrane bioreactor and interacting with the microbial reaction liquid; S4, performing a membrane separation on the organic wastewater treated after S3 in the membrane bioreactor to obtain purified organic wastewater.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2020Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicant: Tongji UniversityInventors: Nuo LIU, Weixian ZHANG, Airong LIU, Jing LIU
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Patent number: 11242268Abstract: A compound heavy metal chelating agent, which relates to the field of chemical and environmental protection technology, includes dithiocarboxylate functionalized ethoxylated pentaerythritol core hyperbranched polymer and alkylene diamine-N,N?-sodium bisdithiocarboxylate with a molar ratio in a range of 1:1.0 to 1:10.0. The two different structural types of components have the synergistic positive effect. While chelating heavy metals, the compound heavy metal chelating agent alternately combine with heavy metals to form insoluble chelating super-molecular deposits, which has both chelation and flocculation functions. The compound heavy metal chelating agent meets the standard for treating heavy metal wastewater, and low concentration heavy metal wastewater. It has a wide adaptability range, and does not need to add coagulant. Moreover, it is simple in preparation method, easily available for raw materials, low in cost, and easy to be industrialized.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignees: Shandong Xintai Water Treatment Technology Co., Ltd., Tongji UniversityInventors: Jin Cui, Bingru Zhang, Fengting Li
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Publication number: 20220033285Abstract: A copper integrated electrode with a convertible oxidation state, a preparation method and an application method are provided. The preparation process is based on an electrochemically induced self-growth method. Copper foam is used as a precursor, soaked in a graphene oxide solution, dried, calcined at high temperature and annealed, and then treated with an alkali solution to obtain the copper integrated electrode with the convertible oxidation state. The working electrode prepared by the nano-catalytic material of the present invention has good denitrification performance in the environmental field, which can achieve nearly 100% nitrate removal rate, nearly 100% nitrogen selectivity and long-term stability. These properties are due to the prepared working electrode having an oxidizable copper (I, II/0, I), oxygen vacancy (O) and a one-dimensional nanowire structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2020Publication date: February 3, 2022Applicant: Tongji UniversityInventors: Ying WANG, Fengting LI, Tao FENG
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Publication number: 20220033866Abstract: A regulation method for preparing ?-polyglutamic acid by sludge substrate fermentation includes: 1) extraction of glutamic acid from sludge protein (high pressure hydrothermal treatment, gravity pressure filtration treatment), 2) secondary metabolic synthesis of ?-polyglutamic acid (activation of domesticated strains and secondary metabolic fermentation strains); and 3) preparation of pure ?-polyglutamic acid (acidification, centrifugation, filtration, precipitation based on polar repulsion, purification, impurity removal and drying). The present invention realizes a recycling of high-value carbon and nitrogen sources of sludge without secondary pollution, and has advantages of simplified operation, good feasibility, and low preparation cost. The synthesized ?-polyglutamic acid has high economic value and broad application prospect.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2020Publication date: February 3, 2022Applicant: Tongji UniversityInventors: Bin DONG, Xin LI
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Patent number: 11236206Abstract: An ethoxylated pentaerythritol core hyperbranched polymer with dithiocarboxylate as side group and terminal group and its applications as a heavy metal chelating agent are disclosed, which relates to the field of chemical and environmental protection technology. The hyperbranched polymer has a chemical formula of C[CH2OCH2CH2OCOCH2CH2N(CSSM)CH2CH2NHCSSM]4, wherein M is Na+, K+ or NH4+. A preparation method of the hyperbranched polymer is simple, the raw materials are easily available, and it is easy to be industrialized. The hyperbranched polymer is able to be used as a heavy metal chelating agent. Its special three-dimensional space structure is able to alternately chelate with heavy metals to form a large three-dimensional molecular conjugate with low solubility, strong stability, and compactness, which is able to effectively treat wastewater and waste containing heavy metals.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2020Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignees: Tongji University, Shandong Xintai Water Treatment Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bingru Zhang, Jin Cui, Fengting Li
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Patent number: 11236867Abstract: The present invention introduced a method for detecting pipe bursts in water distribution systems based on pressure disturbance extraction, including following steps: (1) collecting and pre-processing monitored pressure data, and establishing a matrix of monitored pressures; (2) analyzing time-domain and frequency-domain features of the matrix of monitored pressures by Fourier transform, extracting disturbances, and generating pressure disturbances matrices; (3) identifying outliers in the pressure disturbances matrices by isolation forest algorithm; and (4) further identifying detected outliers by calculating and qualitative index A and quantitative index B and outputting a result of pipe burst detection. Compared with previous methods, the pipe burst detection method introduced in the present invention is accurate and reliable, and is more applicable to large-scale complex water distribution systems.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Tongji UniversityInventors: Kunlun Xin, Weirong Xu, Xiao Zhou, Hexiang Yan, Tao Tao, Shuping Li
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Patent number: 11225927Abstract: An air-fuel ratio control system for a hybrid vehicle engine is provided, including a torque coordination calculation module, which converts a target effective torque of a hybrid power control unit into a target indicated torque; a torque estimation module, which obtains an estimated indicated torque according to an operating state of an engine; an air-fuel ratio feedback control module, which generates a feedback correction factor based on deviation between the estimated indicated torque and the target indicated torque; and an air-fuel ratio feedforward control module, which converts the target indicated torque into an air-fuel ratio feedforward control signal according to a calibration parameter and engine speed. A target air-fuel ratio is obtained by correcting the air-fuel ratio feedforward control signal, via the feedback correction factor; and the target air-fuel ratio is configured to act on the engine to achieve air-fuel ratio control.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2021Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: TONGJI UNIVERSITYInventors: Diming Lou, Liang Fang, Piqiang Tan, Yunhua Zhang, Zhiyuan Hu, Yafeng Shi
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Publication number: 20220009808Abstract: A method for removing calcium ions from high concentration organic wastewater is provided. The method comprises the steps of: (1) introducing high concentration organic wastewater containing Ca2+, inorganic carbon and a seed crystal into a reactor with a molar ratio of Ca2+ to inorganic carbon of 1:(3.2-6.2); (2) adjusting the hydrogen ion activity ?(H+) and ionic strength of the solution in the reactor; (3) sequentially stirring and precipitating in the reactor to convert Ca2+ in the high concentration organic wastewater into calcium carbonate which is then precipitated for calcium removal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2019Publication date: January 13, 2022Applicant: TONGJI UNIVERSITYInventors: Pinjing He, Junjie Qiu, Liming Shao, Fan Lyu, Hua Zhang
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Publication number: 20210403359Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for enhancing deep degradation of proteins in sludge.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Applicant: TONGJI UNIVERSITYInventors: Bin Dong, Sisi Chen, Jun Gao, Danni Shen
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Publication number: 20210404077Abstract: A copper-palladium-loaded mesoporous silicon carbide-based catalyst, a preparation method, and an application thereof are provided. First, a mesoporous silicon carbide material is prepared by using mesoporous silica as a hard template; subsequently, the mesoporous silicon carbide material is mixed with a copper-palladium precursor mixed solution, and dried after the solvent is completely volatilized. The dried powder is successively subjected to calcination with N2 and reduction with H2 to finally obtain the copper-palladium-loaded mesoporous silicon carbide-based catalyst. The catalyst is made into an electrode, and the nitrate in water body is catalytically reduced by electrochemical method. The preparation method of the catalyst of the present invention is simple. The catalyst can realize high-efficiency catalytic denitrification at a low metal loading amount, with high selectivity of nitrogen. Moreover, the catalyst has the advantages of high activity, good stability, wide application range and low cost.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2020Publication date: December 30, 2021Applicant: Tongji UniversityInventors: Jianwei FAN, Yue WANG, Weixian ZHANG, Wei TENG, Xianqiang RAN, Bei YU, Xiaoqian CHEN
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Patent number: 11208937Abstract: A method for diagnosing a diesel oxidation catalyst fault includes: obtaining an standard molar enthalpy of formation-revolution speed-load table; obtaining a revolution speed, a load, a temperature difference of front and rear exhaust pipes, and a casing temperature, obtaining an standard molar enthalpy of formation corresponding to the revolution speed and the load from the standard molar enthalpy of formation-revolution speed-load table, and calculating an actual formation enthalpy corresponding to the temperature difference of front and rear exhaust pipes and the casing temperature from the temperature difference of front and rear exhaust pipes and the casing temperature; calculating a standard reaction enthalpy from the standard molar enthalpy of formation and standard conversion efficiency; and diagnosing a diesel oxidation catalyst fault by comparing the actual formation enthalpy with the standard reaction enthalpy.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: TONGJI UNIVERSITYInventors: Piqiang Tan, Chaojie Yao, Deyuan Wang, Zhiyuan Hu, Diming Lou, Yunhua Zhang, Liang Fang
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Publication number: 20210396507Abstract: A digital sensor for pre-warning of multistage breakage-triggered deformation threshold includes first tension rods, second tension rods, a radio-frequency identification (RFID) chip, and a brittle fracture module, where the first tension rods as well as the second tension rods are respectively fixedly connected to two points to be measured on a tension member, and the first tension rods and the second tension rods can move reversely with deformation of the tension members; the RFID chip is fixedly arranged on the first tension rods; the brittle fracture module includes a bottom plate and a plurality of resistors, where two ends of the bottom plate are fixed to the first tension rods and the second tension rods, and the plurality of resistors forming a lumped parallel circuit are parallelly arranged on the bottom plate; the RFID chip is connected to two ends of the lumped parallel circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2020Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: TONGJI UNIVERSITYInventors: Wei WANG, Yan ZHANG
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Patent number: 11195051Abstract: The invention relates to a method for person re-identification based on deep model with multi-loss fusion training strategy. The method uses a deep learning technology to perform preprocessing operations such as flipping, clipping, random erasing and style transfer, and then feature extraction is performed through a backbone network model; joint training of a network is performed by fusing a plurality of loss functions. Compared with other deep learning-based person re-identification algorithms, the present invention greatly improves the performance of person re-identification by adopting a plurality of preprocessing modes, the fusion of three loss functions and effective training strategy.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2020Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignees: Tongji University, Hefei University of Technology, Beijing E-Hualu Info Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Deshuang Huang, Sijia Zheng, Zhongqiu Zhao, Xinyong Zhao, Jianhong Sun, Yang Zhao, Yongjun Lin
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Patent number: 11193374Abstract: The invention discloses a method for detecting service performance of a tunnel lining based on defect characteristics of the tunnel lining. A tunnel, an external load and stratum conditions are simulated by establishing a model using a model test method. A structural stress failure test for the model is carried out, and test results of the defect characteristics of a simulation lining of the model are recorded. A corresponding relationship between the defect characteristics of the simulation lining and the remaining bearing capacity interval is established according to the recorded test results. Detection results of defect characteristics of the tunnel lining are recorded using an in-situ detection method, and a remaining bearing capacity interval of the tunnel lining is determined based on the detection results according to the corresponding relationship between the defect characteristics of the simulation lining and the remaining bearing capacity interval of the model.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2020Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignees: TONGJI UNIVERSITY, Shanghai Tongyan Civil Engineering Technology CorpInventors: Xuezeng Liu, Yunlong Sang, Zhou Sun