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Potential application of high-performance polymers in the oil and gas drilling engineering
Published in Domenico Lombardo, Ke Wang, Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, 2021
The rapid development of high-tech technologies such as the Internet of Things, big data, cloud computing, virtual reality, quantum computing, 5G communications, high-performance materials, microelectronic components, and their integration with the oil and gas industry are expected to promote technological innovation in petroleum engineering, and produce a series of disruptive technology. The progress of key technologies in basic disciplines provides impetus for technological breakthroughs in the field of petroleum engineering, such as epoxy resin modification technology, high-end radio frequency chips, high-strength steel materials, high-precision algorithms and other fields that provide important prospects for technological innovation in petroleum engineering. At present, high-performance polymers have been applied in fields such as expandable screens, high-temperature-resistant sealing materials, and environmentally responsive plugging agents, and have achieved good economic benefits [1–3]. More and more attention has been paid to the application of high-performance polymers in thefield of petroleum engineering, which requires higher technical maturity and technical relevance of technologies in related disciplines. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct technology mining and application feasibility analysis of high-performance polymers, to provide new ideas and methods for the development of the next generation of petroleum engineering technology.
Wireless Networks
Published in Jiguo Yu, Xiuzhen Cheng, Honglu Jiang, Dongxiao Yu, Hierarchical Topology Control for Wireless Networks, 2018
Jiguo Yu, Xiuzhen Cheng, Honglu Jiang, Dongxiao Yu
Advances in microelectronics, computing, and wireless communications led to the rapid development of low-power multifunctional sensors that can integrate information acquisition, data processing, and wireless communications in a small space, and thus WSN emerged. WSN is a multihop self-organizing network system formed by a large number of inexpensive micro-sensor nodes deployed in the monitoring area. The purpose of WSN is to cooperatively sense, collect, and process the information of objects in the covering area and then launch it to the observers. Sensors, sensing objects, and observers constitute a sensor network. WSN is an interdisciplinary research field involving sensor technology, computer network technology, wireless transmission technology, distributed information processing technology, microelectronics manufacturing technology, software programming technology, and so on; it has distinct characteristics of interdisciplinary research. The technology in the military and civil fields has important application prospects, which will have a significant impact on the political, military, and industrial development of countries. Bloomberg Businessweek and the MITTechnology Review consider the WSN one of the most influential technologies in the twenty-first century and one of the top 10 technologies to change the world, in a report predicting future technology developments. Sensor networks, plastic electronics, and bionic human organs are also known as the future of the three major high-tech industries.
Energy and the Macroeconomy
Published in Ferdinand E. Banks, The Political Economy of Natural Gas, 2017
In the United States, and perhaps the entire OECD, many new jobs are being created in the area known as high tech, and there is even some talk of the present industrial world finding its salvation in the design and manufacture of robots, computers and so on. I depart company from this kind of thinking, and advise my more sensible colleagues to do likewise. On the average, high-tech industries require even less capital and technology than heavy manufacturing, and as a result they could gravitate to the newly industralising countries (NICs) with the same ease as steel and ship-building. Yes, the output of the high tech sector will grow fast compared with other sectors, but because the high tech sector is small, and its productivity is increasing rapidly, it will only be capable of creating a small number of jobs. What it all comes down to is that — directly or indirectly — the de-emphasis on manufacturing will shuttle larger numbers of people in the industrial world into low-tech occupations or, if they are unlucky, unemployment. According to my interpretation of income statistics, this process is in full swing in several countries, and the United States seems to be one of them.
A stage-dependent economic order quantity model for high-tech products with a finite life cycle
Published in International Journal of Systems Science: Operations & Logistics, 2021
In recent years, life cycle of high-tech products is becoming shorter and shorter due to the increasing pressure of global competition. Personal computers, smart phones, digital cameras, military equipment and chemical drugs are examples of high-tech products. Due to the crucial role of high-tech industries in economic growth, many researches have been done in this field over the last decade. Some of the issues that have been investigated in these researches include production planning in high-tech industries (Hsu & Li, 2009), supplier selection in high-tech industries (Lee, Kang, Hsu, & Hung, 2009), closed-loop supply chain (CLSP) design for high-tech industries (Chuang, Wang, & Zhao, 2014), investigating the impact of supply chain complexity on the performance of high-tech industries (Kou & Lee, 2015), identifying the role of innovation in high-tech industries (Martín-de Castro, 2015), marketing of high-tech products (Presutti, Boari, Majocchi, & Molina-Morales, 2019) and knowledge management in high-tech industries (Yang & Gabrielsson, 2017).