Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage: Recent submissions
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NH3 as a Transport Fuel in Internal Combustion Engines: A Technical Review
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Ammonia (NH3) is an excellent hydrogen (H2) carrier that is easy to bulk manufacture, handle, transport, and use. NH3 is itself combustible and could potentially become a clean transport fuel for direct use in internal ... -
The Staged Thermal Conversion of Sewage Sludge in the Presence of Oxygen
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This study compares a staged thermal processing of the sewage sludge, with single step, integrated thermal processing. The aim of this study is to find the optimal conditions for drying and subsequently for carbonization ... -
On the Assessment of a Numerical Weather Prediction Model for Solar Photovoltaic Power Forecasts in Cities
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Recent developments in the weather research and forecasting (WRF) model have made it possible to accurately estimate incident solar radiation. This study couples the WRF-solar modifications with a multilayer urban canopy ... -
Special Issue for the 12th International Conference on Energy Sustainability (ES2018)
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Thermal Design and Analysis of a Solid-State Grid-Tied Thermal Energy Storage for Hybrid Compressed Air Energy Storage Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Power overgeneration by renewable sources combined with less dispatchable conventional power plants introduces the power grid to a new challenge, i.e., instability. The stability of the power grid requires constant balance ... -
A New Vascular System Highly Efficient in the Storage and Transport of Healing Agent for Self-Healing Wind Turbine Blades
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Self-healing wind turbine blades offer a substantial offset for costly blade repairs and failures. We discuss the efforts made to optimize the self-healing properties of wind turbine blades and provide a new system to ... -
Multivariable Analysis of Aerodynamic Forces on Slotted Airfoils for Wind Turbine Blades
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Improvement of the aerodynamic performance for cambered airfoils with leading-edge slots is investigated in this work. This concept is proven both computationally and experimentally in recent years. Five design variables ... -
Uncertainty Quantification of Aerodynamic Icing Losses in Wind Turbine With Polynomial Chaos Expansion
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Icing of wind turbine blades poses a challenge for the wind power industry in cold climate wind farms. It can lead to production losses of more than 10% of the annual energy production. Knowledge of how the production is ... -
Multirotor Systems Using Three Shrouded Wind Turbines for Power Output Increase
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Brimmed-diffuser augmented wind turbines (B-DAWTs) can significantly increase the performance of the rotor. Multirotor systems (MRSs) have a lot of merits such as significant saving mass and overall cost of the wind turbine ... -
Experimental Study of the Wake Regions in Wind Farms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)It is desired, through this work, to investigate in detail the scenario that takes place behind a single wind turbine unit by focusing on three parameters; average axial wind velocity component, velocity deficit, and total ... -
An Improved Mass Consistent Model for Three-Dimensional Wind Field Construction
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)An improved diagnostic mass-consistent finite element model (FEM) has been developed to construct 3D wind fields over irregular terrain. Instead of using constant Gauss precision moduli over the whole domain in the existing ... -
Physicochemical Properties of Fuel Blends Composed of Heavy Fuel Oil and Tire-Derived Pyrolytic Oils
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The paper presents physicochemical properties of pyrolysis oil (PO) blends obtained from pyrolysis of rubber and spent tires mixed with selected heavy fuel oil (HFO) and the effect of PO properties on physicochemical ... -
Numerical Predictions of Three-Dimensional Unsteady Turbulent Film-Cooling for Trailing Edge of Gas-Turbine Blade Using Large Eddy Simulation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This work investigates the performance of film-cooling on trailing edge of gas turbine blades using unsteady three-dimensional numerical model adopting large eddy simulation (LES) turbulence scheme in a low Mach number ... -
Multilayer Nickel–Copper Anode for Direct Glucose Fuel Cell
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Multilayer nickel–copper coatings consisting of layers of nickel–copper alloy and a mixture of metals with hydroxides were obtained by electrodeposition from polyligand pyrophosphate–ammonia electrolyte by the two-pulse ... -
Performance Evaluation of an SOFC-GT Hybrid System With Ejectors for the Anode and Cathode Recirculations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The ejectors used for the fuel cell recirculation are more reliable and low cost in maintenance than high-temperature blowers. In this paper, an anode and cathode recirculation scheme, equipped with ejectors, was designed ... -
A Review of State of Health Estimation of Energy Storage Systems: Challenges and Possible Solutions for Futuristic Applications of Li-Ion Battery Packs in Electric Vehicles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery pack is vital for storage of energy produced from different sources and has been extensively used for various applications such as electric vehicles (EVs), watches, cookers, etc. For an efficient ... -
Temperature Distribution Optimization of an Air-Cooling Lithium-Ion Battery Pack in Electric Vehicles Based on the Response Surface Method
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Electric vehicles have become a trend in recent years, and the lithium-ion battery pack provides them with high power and energy. The battery thermal system with air cooling was always used to prevent the high temperature ... -
Modeling, Development, and Testing of a 2 MW Polymeric Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell Plant Fueled With Hydrogen From a Chlor-Alkali Industry
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The chlor-alkali industry produces significant amounts of hydrogen as by-product which can potentially feed a polymeric electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell (FC) unit, whose electricity and heat production can cover part ... -
Ferrous Nitrate–Nickel Oxide (Fe(NO3)2–NiO) Nanospheres Incorporated With Carbon Black and Polyvinylidenefluoride for Supercapacitor Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Ferrous nitrate/nickel oxide {Fe(NO3)2–NiO} nanocomposite was synthesized via two-step facile hydrothermal route. The nanocomposite exhibits crystalline structure as unveiled by X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern, while as ... -
An Enhanced Fuel Cell Dynamic Model With Electrochemical Phenomena Parameterization as Test Bed for Control System Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)In this work, a model of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) is presented. A dynamic performance characterization is performed to assess the cell transient response to input variables. The model used in the ...