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Measurements and Visualization of Sound Intensity Around the Human Head in Free Field Using Acoustic Vector Sensor
PublikacjaThis paper presents measurements and visualization of sound intensity around the human head simulator in a free field. A Cartesian robot, applied for precise positioning of the acoustic vector sensor, was used to measure sound intensity. Measurements were performed in a free field using a head and torso simulator and the setup consisting of four different loudspeaker configurations. The acoustic vector sensor was positioned around...
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Effect of pine impregnation and feed speed on sound level and cutting power in wood sawing
PublikacjaThe sound levels along with the cutting power registered during the sawing process of the impregnated and non-impregnated pine wood at two feed speeds are shown and compared in this paper. Statistically significant differences in the acoustic signals occurred at the lower feed rate. The differences became smaller with an increase in the feed speed. In contrast to the sound signal, the differences...
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THE EFFECT OF BEECH WOOD DRYING ON HARDNESS IN THE LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE REAR OF THE SAMPLES
PublikacjaThe objective of this study was to determine the hardness of beech wood samples (Fagus sylvatica L.) in the longitudinal direction from the beginning to the rear of the samples versus the method of drying. The warm air-steam mixture drying process and the modified airdrying process were used in the experiment. The warm air-steam mixture drying process, in comparison to the modified air-drying process, caused a reduction of the...
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Online sound restoration system for digital library applications
PublikacjaAudio signal processing algorithms were introduced to the new online non-commercial service for audio restoration intended to enhance the content of digitized audio repositories. Missing or distorted audio samples are predicted using neural networks and a specific implementation of the Jannsen interpolation method based on the autoregressive model (AR) combined with the iterative restoring of missing signal samples. Since the distortion...
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Nonlinear generation of non-acoustic modes by low-frequency sound in a vibrationally relaxing gas
PublikacjaTwo dynamic equations referring to a weakly nonlinear and weakly dispersive flow of a gas in which molecular vibrational relaxation takes place. are derived. The first one governs an excess temperature associated with the thermal mode, and the second one describes variations in vibrational energy. Both quantities refer to non-wave types of gas motion. These variations are caused by the nonlinear transfer of acoustic energy into...
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Radiation Detection Technology and Methods
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The Courts Public image - The Desired Direction of Change
PublikacjaThis paper proposes to scientifically explore notions of court identity, principles of shaping a court system's image, and best practices in positive court image development relating to thhe courts in Poland
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Visual Detection of People Movement Rules Violation in Crowded Indoor Scenes
PublikacjaThe paper presents a camera-independent framework for detecting violations of two typical people movement rules that are in force in many public transit terminals: moving in the wrong direction or across designated lanes. Low-level image processing is based on object detection with Gaussian Mixture Models and employs Kalman filters with conflict resolving extensions for the object tracking. In order to allow an effective event...
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Online sound restoration system for digital library applications.
PublikacjaAudio signal processing algorithms were introduced to the new online non-commercial service for audio restoration intended to enhance the content of digitized audio repositories. Missing or distorted audio samples are predicted using neural networks and a specific implementation of the Jannsen interpolation method based on the autoregressive model (AR) combined with the iterative restoring of missing signal samples. Since the distortion...
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Energy losses in hydrostatic drive:Drive investigation method compatible with diagram of power increase opposite to the direction of power flow
PublikacjaEnergy losses and efficiency of drive motor must be presented as functions of physical quantities independent of losses in the motor. Such quantities are speed and load required by the driven device, changing in the drive operating field. Speed and load decide of the useful power and, in differentiated way, of kinds and values of losses in the motor. But energy losses and efficiency of drive motors are evaluated as functions of...
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Investigation of the vertical distribution of the sound speed of the Gulf of Gdansk in the years 2000-2010
PublikacjaThe conditions of the acoustic wave propagation in the southern Baltic are much more complex than in other shallow waters. In the typical shallow water, seasonal changes in acoustical conditions in the upper layer, of the depth of about 60-70 m, are observed. They are caused by variation of the annual meteorological conditions. Most often, in the deep water layer, acoustical conditions are stable throughout the year. However, in...
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Examining Classifiers Applied to Static Hand Gesture Recognition in Novel Sound Mixing System
PublikacjaThe main objective of the chapter is to present the methodology and results of examining various classifiers (Nearest Neighbor-like algorithm with non-nested generalization (NNge), Naive Bayes, C4.5 (J48), Random Tree, Random Forests, Artificial Neural Networks (Multilayer Perceptron), Support Vector Machine (SVM) used for static gesture recognition. A problem of effective gesture recognition is outlined in the context of the system...
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Automatic labeling of traffic sound recordings using autoencoder-derived features
PublikacjaAn approach to detection of events occurring in road traffic using autoencoders is presented. Extensions of existing algorithms of acoustic road events detection employing Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients combined with classifiers based on k nearest neighbors, Support Vector Machines, and random forests are used. In our research, the acoustic signal gathered from the microphone placed near the road is split into frames and converted...
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Stress anisotropy characterisation with the help of Barkhausen effect detector with adjustable magnetic field direction
PublikacjaIn the paper we describe a novel apparatus for the measurement of the Barkhausen noise (BN) angular dependence, which in turn may be indicative of the stress induced anisotropy of magnetic properties. Such dependence can be further used for the stress distribution evaluation. The change of magnetization direction in the material is obtained by varying the magnetic flux density in two perpendicular yokes of the apparatus. We present...
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Comparison of ambisonic and object-based spatial sound recording techniques
PublikacjaThis article presents a comparison of spatial sound recording techniques based on scene-based and object-based audio. The study aimed to make different mixes from a recording which consists of a higher-order ambisonic microphone and spot microphones. For spot microphones simple ambisonics encoding was used, which allows panning the individual channels on an ambisonic sphere as objects. Recordings were combined in various variants...
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EVALUATION OF SOUND QUALITY FEATURES ON ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE EFFECTS – A CASE STUDY APPLIED TO ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE
PublikacjaThe paper shows a study on the relationship between noise measures and sound quality (SQ) features that are related to annoyance caused by the traffic noise. First, a methodology to perform analyses related to the traffic noise annoyance is described including references to parameters of the assessment of road noise sources. Next, the measurement setup, location and results are presented along with the derived sound quality features....
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Analyzing the relationship between sound, color, and emotion based on subjective and machine-learning approaches
PublikacjaThe aim of the research is to analyze the relationship between sound, color, and emotion. For this purpose, a survey application was prepared, enabling the assignment of a color to a given speaker’s/singer’s voice recordings. Subjective tests were then conducted, enabling the respondents to assign colors to voice/singing samples. In addition, a database of voice/singing recordings of people speaking in a natural way and with expressed...
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Recovering Sound Produced by Wind Turbine Structures Employing Video Motion Magnification
PublikacjaThe recordings were made with a fast video camera and with a microphone. Using fast cameras allowed for observation of the micro vibrations of the object structure. Motion-magnified video recordings of wind turbines on a wind farm were made for the purpose of building a damage prediction system. An idea was to use video to recover sound & vibrations in order to obtain a contactless diagnostic method for wind turbines. The recovered signals...
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VIBRATION PARAMETERS FOR DAMAGE DETECTION IN STRUCTURES
PublikacjaThe aim of this paper is to examine how damage indicators are sensitive to changing number of frequencies and mode shapes and also to number and location of measurement points. The influence of measurement errors was also analyzed for all cases. For the analysis, those damage indicators are chosen which use changes in such modal parameters as natural frequencies and mode shapes and also differences between the curvatures of the damaged...
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Loudness Scaling Tests in Hearing Problems Detection
PublikacjaThe number of people using portable audio players has increased significantly over the recent years. This implies the rise in the number of people having hearing loss problems. Therefore, there is a need to find appropriate procedures that simplify the process of the hearing problem detection. Investigations performed show that audiometric tests may not be sufficient to assess hearing in young people. Contrarily, the obtained results...
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Direction of Arrival Estimation Based on Received Signal Strength Using Two-Row Electronically Steerable Parasitic Array Radiator Antenna
PublikacjaIn this paper, we present a novel approach to direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation using two-row electronically steerable parasitic array radiator (ESPAR) antenna which has 12 passive elements and allows for elevation and azimuth beam switching using a simple microcontroller, relying solely on received signal strength (RSS) values measured at the antenna output port. To this end, we thoroughly investigate all 18 available 3D antenna...
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Detection, classification and localization of acoustic events in the presence of background noise for acoustic surveillance of hazardous situations
PublikacjaEvaluation of sound event detection, classification and localization of hazardous acoustic events in the presence of background noise of different types and changing intensities is presented. The methods for discerning between the events being in focus and the acoustic background are introduced. The classifier, based on a Support Vector Machine algorithm, is described. The set of features and samples used for the training of the...
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Cascade Object Detection and Remote Sensing Object Detection Method Based on Trainable Activation Function
PublikacjaObject detection is an important process in surveillance system to locate objects and it is considered as major application in computer vision. The Convolution Neural Network (CNN) based models have been developed by many researchers for object detection to achieve higher performance. However, existing models have some limitations such as overfitting problem and lower efficiency in small object detection. Object detection in remote...
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A study of nighttime vehicle detection algorithms
Dane BadawczeThis dataset is from my master's thesis "A study of nighttime vehicle detection algorithms". It contains both raw data and preprocessed dataset ready to use. In the pictures below you can see how images were annotated.
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A fast procedure of stress state evaluation in magnetically anisotropic steels with the help of a probe with adjustable magnetizing field direction
PublikacjaThe paper presents a novel approach to the stress state evaluation issue. It deals with a strongly (magnetically) anisotropic materials for which a direct interpretation of the Barkhausen effect (BE) intensity would lead to erroneous results. In such a case one has to take into account both the measured BE intensity and the orientation of the magnetisation direction relative to the magnetic easy axis. For the in plane stress distribution...
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On the Nonlinea Distortions of Sound and its Coupling with Other Modes in a Gasesous Plasma with Finite Electric Conductivity in a Magnetic Field
PublikacjaNonlinear phenomena of the planar and quasi-planar magnetoacoustic waves are considered. We focus on deriving of equations which govern nonlinear excitation of the non-wave motions by the intense sound in initially static gaseous plasma. The plasma is treated as an ideal gas with finite electrical conductivity permeated by a magnetic field orthogonal to the trajectories of gas particles. This introduces dispersion of a flow. Magnetoacoustic...
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Autonomus hydroacoustics sound velocity profiler.
PublikacjaPraca zawiera opis bezpośredniej zasady pomiarowej i struktury wersji autonomicznego miernika pomiarów rozkładów prędkości dźwięku w akwenach przeznaczonych do stosowania na okrętach nawodnych, podwodnych i opuszczanych antenach sonarowych śmigłowców i okrętów nawodnych.
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Automatic evaluation of sound separation quality
PublikacjaW publikacji tej opisano problem oceny efektywności algorytmów separacji dźwięków muzycznych. Standardowa procedure służąca do takiej oceny nie istnieje. Najbardziej uzasadnionym podejściem wydają się być odsłuchowe testy subiektywne. Niemniej, aby taka ocena była wartościowa, niezbędna jest porządna walidacja statystyczna wyników, co oznacza iż grupa ekspertów powinna być duża oraz właściwości akustyczne pomieszczenia. Ponadto...
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Detection of damages in a rivetted plate
PublikacjaThe paper presents the results of damage detection in a riveted aluminium plate. The detection method has been based on Lamb wave propagation. The plate has been analysed numerically and experimentally. Numerical calculations have been carried out by the use of the time-domain spectral finite element method, while for the experimental analysis laser scanning Doppler vibrometry (LSDV) has been utilised. The panel has been excited...
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Further Developments of the Online Sound Restoration System for Digital Library Applications
PublikacjaNew signal processing algorithms were introduced to the online service for audio restoration available at the web address: www.youarchive.net. Missing or distorted audio samples are estimated using a specific implementation of the Jannsen interpolation method. The algorithm is based on the autoregressive model (AR) combined with the iterative complementation of signal samples. Since the interpolation algorithm is computationally...
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A Numerical Study on Baseline-Free Damage Detection Using Frequency Steerable Acoustic Transducers
PublikacjaIn structural health monitoring (SHM) a considerable amount of damage detection algorithms based on guided waves (GW) have been developed. Most of them rely on extensive transducer networks, besides preliminary reference measurements of the structures. This originated a growing demand for hardware simplification and cost reduction of the wave-based SHM methods, driving the conception of new solutions enabling both: the reduction...
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Automatic detection and correction of detuned singing system for use with query-by-humming applications
PublikacjaThe aim of the paper is to present an idea of using the automatic detection and correction of detuned singing as a subsystem in query-by-humming (QBH) applications. The common approach to searching for a requested song basing on the melody retrieved from hummed pattern usually employs the so-called Parsons code or melody contour. In such a case information about sound pitch is discarded. It was thought out that an additional module...
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Application of the Barkhausen effect probe with adjustable m agnetic field direction for stress state determination in the P91 ste el pipe
PublikacjaThe paper presents the results of application of a novel Barkhausen effect (BE) probe with adjustable magnetizing field direction for the stress level evaluation in ferromagnetic materials. The investigated sample was in a form of a pipe, made of P91 steel that was anisotropic due to the production process. The measurements were performed before and after welding, revealing the influence of welding process on the residual stress...
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A Multi-Antenna Scheme for Early Detection and Mitigation of Intermediate GNSS Spoofing
PublikacjaThis article presents a method for detecting and mitigating intermediate GNSS spoofing. In this type of attack, at its early stage, a spoofer transmits counterfeit signals which have slight time offsets compared to true signals arriving from satellites. The anti-spoofing method proposed in this article fuses antenna array processing techniques with a multipath detection algorithm. The latter is necessary to separate highly correlated...
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Automatic detection and correction of detuned singing system for use with query-by-humming applications
PublikacjaThe aim of the paper is to present an idea of using the automatic detection and correction of detuned singing as a subsystem in query-by-humming (QBH) applications. The common approach to searching for a requested song basing on the melody retrieved from hummed pattern usually employs the so-called Parsons code or melody contour. In such a case information about sound pitch is discarded. It was thought out that an additional module...
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The new method of settings the small fishes' backs in the desired direction
PublikacjaW artykule przeanalizowano znane sposoby ukierunkowywania małych ryb grzbietem w jedną stronę. Podano założenia nowego sposobu orientowania poprzecznego. Przedstawiono wstępną analizę teoretyczną orientowania poprzecznego opartego na wykorzystaniu pary równoległych, nachylonych do poziomu, współbieżnych, gładkich rolek. Przeprowadzono weryfikację doświadczalną nowego sposobu na przykładzie szprotów bałtyckich. Ze względu na wstępny...
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Experience-based Intelligence Augmentation with Decisional DNA: Upcoming direction
PublikacjaIntelligence amplification systems and technologies have gained significant interest from academia and industry during the past few decades. One of the main reasons behind this trend is the fact that most experts agree that truly intelligent artificial system is yet to be developed. The question increasing often asked is this: Is full replication of human intelligence desirable key aim in intelligence related technology and research?...
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Transient detection for speech coding applications
PublikacjaSignal quality in speech codecs may be improved by selecting transients from speech signal and encoding them using a suitable method. This paper presents an algorithm for transient detection in speech signal. This algorithm operates in several frequency bands. Transient detection functions are calculated from energy measured in short frames of the signal. The final selection of transient frames is based on results of detection...
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Detection and segmentation of moving vehicles and trains using Gaussian mixtures, shadow detection and morphological processing
PublikacjaSolution presented in this paper combines background modelling, shadow detection and morphological and temporal processing into one system responsible for detection and segmentation of moving objects recorded with a static camera. Vehicles and trains are detected based on their pixellevel difference from the continually updated background model utilizing a Gaussian mixture calculated separately for every pixel. The shadow detection...
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Detection of the acoustic interferences during AFM operation
Dane BadawczeAtomic force microscopy is a particularly complicated surface imaging technique due to the large number of factors that affect the quality of the resulting images. They are obviously difficult and sometimes even impossible to control at the same time. One of such factors may even be the seismological location of the building or the influence of mechanical...
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Detection of Objects Buried in the Sea Bottom with the Use of Parametric Echosounder
PublikacjaThe paper contains results of a in situ research main task of which was to detect objects buried, partially or completely, in the sea bottom. Object detecting technologies employing acoustic wave sources based on nonlinear interaction of elastic waves require application of parametric sound sources. Detection of objects buried in the sea bottom with the use of classic hydroacoustic devices such as the sidescan sonar or multibeam...
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Visual Features for Endoscopic Bleeding Detection
PublikacjaAims: To define a set of high-level visual features of endoscopic bleeding and evaluate their capabilities for potential use in automatic bleeding detection. Study Design: Experimental study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Computer Architecture, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, Gdansk University of Technology, between March 2014 and May 2014. Methodology: The features have...
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Camera sabotage detection for surveillance systems
PublikacjaCamera dysfunction detection algorithms and their utilization in realtime video surveillance systems are described. The purpose of using the proposed analysis is explained. Regarding image tampering three algorithms for focus loss, scene obstruction and camera displacement detection are implemented and presented. Features of each module are described and certain scenarios for best performance are depicted. Implemented solutions...
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Intelligent algorithms for movie sound track restoration
PublikacjaW artykule przedstawiono dwa algorytmy do rekonstruowania optycznych ścieżek dźwiękowych. Pierwszy z nich jest zastosowaniem miary nieprzewidywalności do obliczeń parametrów modelu psychoakustycznego stosowanego do redukowania szumów. Drugi stanowi precyzyjną procedurę oceny pasożytniczej modulacji częstotliwości, opartej na analizie składowych harmonicznych. Wyniki zastosowania obu wymienionych algorytmów są zawarte w artykule.
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Applications of knowledge technologies to sound and vision engineering
PublikacjaSpecjalność Inżynieria Dźwięku i Obrazu jest ukierunkowana przede wszystkim na aplikacje praktyczne metod rejestracji i przetwarzania sygnałów fonicznych i wizyjnych we współczesnej telekomunikacji i w multimediach. W związku z tym, specjalność ta wykorzystuje również wiedzę z obszaru akustyki, psychofizjologii percepcji a także estetyki muzycznej. W zastosowaniach multimedialnej technologii informatycznej w telekomunikacji, w...
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Generation of vorticity mode by sound in Bingham plastic
PublikacjaBadanie dotyczy interakcji między modami akustycznymi i nieakustycznymi (tj. mody wirowe) dla klasy płynów nienewtonowskich zwanych płynami Binghama. Zostały wyprowadzone momentalne równania opisujące interakcje między modami. Uwzględnione zostały efekty nieliniowe w polu intensywnego dźwięku. Otrzymane równania opisują dynamikę zarówno akustycznych jak i wirowych modów (i mogą być stosowane zarówno do periodycznych i aperiodycznych...
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Guided Wave Propagation in Detection of Partial Circumferential Debonding in Concrete Structures
PublikacjaThe following article presents results of investigating the damage detection in reinforced concrete beams with artificially introduced debonding between the rod and cover, using a non-destructive method based on elastic waves propagation. The primary aim of the research was to analyze the possible use of guided waves in partial circumferential debonding detection. Guided waves were excited and registered in reinforced concrete...
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A system for Direction-Of-Arrival estimation in ISM 2.4 GHz frequency band based on ESPAR antenna and SDR technology
PublikacjaDetermination of the direction of the signal arrival (DOA) finds many applications in various areas of science and industry. Knowledge of DOA is used, among others to determine the position of a satellite with a low Earth orbit (LEO), localization of people and things as well as in research of wireless communication systems, for instance the determination of the number of...
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The Direction of the Future Development of ERP and BPMS: Towards a Single Unified Class?
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Cogenerative micro power plants - a new direction for development of power engineering?
PublikacjaW pracy przedstawiono rozważania dotyczące perspektywy mikrosiłowni domowych w gospodarce rozproszonej. Przedstawiono oryginalne kryterium doboru czynnika roboczego w mikrosiłowni oraz przedstawiono sprawności cieplne i egzergetyczne obiegów Clausiusa-Rankina realizujących pracę mikrosiłowni.