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In recent years, with the rapid development of the coastal economy and the large-scale development of marine resources, power demand has risen sharply. So it is urgent to promote the construction of UHVDC projects. Coastal saline areas often contain more chloride and other salts than other inland areas due to the high humidity, salinity and light intensity of the marine climatic and environmental conditions, which lead to the different electrical performance of grounding electrodes under different layouts. Therefore, one of the key issues to realizing the rapid development of UHVDC in coastal countries is how to choose the best layout of the coastal DC grounding electrode. It is intended to simulate the coastal environment and establish a mixed stratified soil model using CDEGS to verify the validity of the model through experiments in this paper. Based on the mixed soil model, the changes in grounding resistance, surface potentials and step voltage of grounding electrode sites under zigzag shape, two-row and circular shapes layouts are studied. The results show that when the zigzag shape layout is selected, the ground potential amplitude of the grounding electrode is reduced by 45.77% and 42.7%, the step voltage amplitude is decreased by 39.85% and 32.22%, and the grounding resistance is decreased by 28.45% and 27.68%, compared with the two-row and circular layout. In addition, its utilization rate of electrodes is better than the other two layout shapes.

A discontinuous cavitation model (DCM) containing the effects of ambient overpressure, incondensable gas, inertia, viscosity, surface tension, characteristic nuclei size, and characteristic surface speed of cavitation nuclei was proposed based on two approximate local first integrals of the Rayleigh–Plesset equation. Discontinuities caused by sudden cavitation bursting, heterogeneous nuclei distribution, and bubble-induced turbulence can, thus, be roughly represented. It was employed in simulating kinds of cavitation flows. It presented more physical reasonability than the Singhal model (SM) in capturing the vigorous vaporization in the water pool under strong negative ambient pressure. As for hydrodynamic cavitation around the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics hydrofoil NACA0015, not only large-scale features were obtained as well as the SM, but also, some small-scale structures in the cavitation cloud were presented. For instance, isolated bubbles and their dynamic behaviors, such as inception and collapse, expansion and shrinkage, and breakup and coalescence, were captured. Extra turbulence pulsation, which is correlated with the temporal–spatial distribution of vapor concentration, can also be observed in the cavitation cloud. Moreover, different from the vorticity field obtained by the SM, the surface of the cavitation cloud obtained by the DCM becomes a thick vortex sheet. Moreover, another simulation case with a cavitation number of 0.32 further confirmed its adaptivity in supercavitation flows. Furthermore, by adjusting the parameters (i.e., the fluid density in the phase change layer near the cavitation nucleus) in the DCM, oscillations and waves excited by fierce phase change can be observed in cavitation clouds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fe2O3/g-C3N4 nano-heterostructures for photocatalytic degradation of NOR (norfloxacin) were successfully prepared by combining co-precipitation and calcination methods. The g-C3N4, Fe2O3, and different composite ratios of Fe2O3/g-C3N4 (FeCNs) were characterized by XRD, SEM, XPS, UV-vis DRS, PL, and electrochemical tests, and the mechanism of photocatalytic degradation of NOR was analyzed. The results indicated that the semiconductor was attached to the surface of g-C3N4 in the form of α-Fe2O3 crystal with good crystalline structure. The composite of Fe2O3 with g-C3N4 increased the specific surface area of the material, effectively reduced the band gap, strengthened the photogenerated e−/h+ pair separation, and improved the photocatalytic performance of the composite. The photocatalytic degradation of NOR was consistent with the quasi-primary reaction kinetic model. Among them, FeCN-25wt% showed the optimal photocatalytic degradation of NOR (72.3%) with the largest degradation rate (k = 0.00900 min−1). The Fe2O3/g-C3N4 composite structure is inferred to be a Z-type heterojunction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wheat powdery mildew is an important fungal disease that seriously jeopardizes wheat production, which poses a serious threat to food safety. SJ106 is a high-quality, disease-resistant spring wheat variety; this disease resistance is derived from Wheat-wheatgrass 33. In this study, the powdery mildew resistance genes in SJ106 were located at the end of chromosome 6DS, a new disease resistance locus tentatively named PmSJ106 locus. This interval was composed of a nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) gene cluster containing 19 NLR genes. Five NLRs were tandem duplicated genes, and one of them (a coiled coil domain–nucleotide binding site–leucine-rich repeat (CC-NBS-LRR; CNL) type gene, TaRGA5-like) expressed 69–836-fold in SJ106 compared with the susceptible control. The genome DNA and cDNA sequences of TaRGA5-like were amplified from SJ106, which contain several nucleotide polymorphisms in LRR regions compared with susceptible individuals and Chinese Spring. Overexpression of TaRGA5-like significantly increased resistance to powdery mildew in susceptible receptor wheat Jinqiang5. However, Virus induced gene silence (VIGS) of TaRGA5-like resulted in only a small decrease of SJ106 in disease resistance, presumably compensated by other NLR duplicated genes. The results suggested that TaRGA5-like confers partial powdery mildew resistance in SJ106. As a member of the PmSJ106 locus, TaRGA5-like functioned together with other NLR duplicated genes to improve wheat resistance to powdery mildew. Wheat variety SJ106 would become a novel and potentially valuable germplasm for powdery mildew resistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article has been retracted. A retraction notice can be found at https://doi.org/10.3233/JIFS-219433. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]