Journal of Energy Resources Technology: Recent submissions
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Comparative Assessment of Engine Vibration, Combustion, Performance, and Emission Characteristics Between Single and Twin-Cylinder Diesel Engines in Unifuel and Dual-Fuel Mode
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The persistent efforts among the researchers are being done to reduce emissions by the exploration of different alternative fuels. The application of alternative fuel is also found to influence engine vibration. The present ... -
Design and Analysis of a Solar Energy Driven Tri-Generation Plant for Power, Heating, and Refrigeration
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)A tri-generation plant producing power, heat, and refrigeration has been designed and analyzed. Using solar energy as input. The power side of the plant uses supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) recompression cycle. The ... -
Performance, Combustion, and Emission Evaluation of Ethanol-Gasoline Blends Ignited by Diesel in Dual-Fuel Intelligent Charge Compression Ignition (ICCI) Engine
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)A recent proposed dual-fuel combustion mode, intelligent charge compression ignition (ICCI), realizes the high-efficiency and clean combustion by organizing continuous stratification in a wide range of engine load. The ... -
Neural Network Soft Sensors for Gasoline Engine Exhaust Emission Estimation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Worldwide research and development programs aim to reduce harmful emissions from transportation vehicles. Soft sensors have shown great potentials to reduce cost and improve onboard diagnosis for vehicle emission control. ... -
Design, Analysis, and Fabrication of Water Turbine for Slow-Moving Water
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The energy crisis of the modern era may be overcome by hydrokinetic energy, the most readily and free source of energy available, to provide basic electricity needs to remote and urban areas at a low cost. The kinetic ... -
A Comparative Analysis of Exhaust Gas Temperature Based on Machine Learning Models for Aviation Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The main objective of this study is to investigate elaborately the relationship between exhaust gas temperature (EGT) and various operational parameters specific to aero-engine for the cruise phase. EGT prediction is ... -
An Overview of Nanotechnology in Upstream and Downstream of Oil and Gas Industry: Challenges and Solutions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Nowadays, engineers and researchers have deeply perceived the application of nano-scale materials and the associated emerging technology so-called nanotechnology (NT) not only to address the existing challenges in all ... -
COVID Shut-In Choices Across Unconventional Reservoirs: Evidence From the Bakken and the Marcellus
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The COVID-19 epidemic had unprecedented impacts on oil and gas markets. Vanishing energy demand in this sector led to significant drop of oil and gas prices over a short period of time. Some operators choose to curtail ... -
Development of an Air-Cooled Induction Manifold for Diesel Engines in Hot and Humid Climate
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Extreme weather conditions in the Gulf, Qatar, have been taken as an example in this study, tend to be hot and humid mostly throughout the year, especially in the summer. Such weather negatively affects the performance and ... -
Development of a Model Efficiency Improvement for the Designing of Feedwater Heaters Network in Thermal Power Plants
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Thermal power plants play a significant role in generating power, electricity, and energy consumption in the world, especially in developing countries. Therefore, the energy analysis of these power plants is very useful ... -
Design and Evaluation of Lab-Scale, Heat Exchanger Prototypes to Provide Thermal Refugia for Trout
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)In recent years, some streams and fisheries have been experiencing higher surface water temperatures, which negatively impact cold-water trout species. One potential solution is to provide localized refugia of colder water ... -
Coupled Heat Power Operation of Smart Buildings via Modular Pumped Hydro Storage
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)In the United States, building sector is responsible for around 40% of total energy consumption and contributes about 40% of carbon emissions since 2012. Within the past several years, various optimization models and control ... -
Performance of Two-Dimensional Functionally Graded Anode Supported Solid-Oxide Fuel Cells
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Ceramic materials used in solid-oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are subjected to high thermal stresses which is a result of the unequal thermal expansion coefficient of different layers. As a result, SOFCs are susceptible to ... -
Improved Particle Swarm Algorithm Using Rubik’s Cube Topology for Bilevel Building Energy Transaction
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Following the rapid growth of distributed energy resources (e.g., renewables, battery), localized peer-to-peer energy transactions are receiving more attention for multiple benefits, such as reducing power loss and stabilizing ... -
Design and Feasibility Study of Biomass-Driven Combined Heat and Power Systems for Rural Communities
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Meeting energy demands at crucial times can often be jeopardized by an unreliable power supply from the grid. Local, onsite power generation, such as combined heat and power (CHP) systems, may safeguard against grid ... -
Multi-Attribute Assessment of Waste-to-Energy Technologies for Medical, Industrial, and Electronic Residual Wastes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)There is a global need for residual waste management to prevent environmental and health hazards from waste and reduce its volume for disposal to sanitary landfills. A waste-to-energy (WtE) facility can provide solutions ... -
A Dispatch Optimization Model for Hybrid Renewable and Battery Systems Incorporating a Battery Degradation Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)A recent increase in the integration of renewable energy systems in existing power grids along with a lack of integrated dispatch models has led to waste in power produced. This paper presents a mixed-integer nonlinear ... -
Hydrogen Gas Refueling Infrastructure for Heavy-Duty Trucks: A Feasibility Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)In view of serious environmental problems occurring around the world and in particular climate change caused significantly by dangerous CO2 emissions into the biosphere in the developmental process, it has become imperative ... -
In-Situ Thermal Bridge Evaluation of a Building Using Bayesian Inference With Measured Infrared Thermography
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Useful thermal bridge performance indicators (ITBs) of existing buildings may differ from calculated thermal bridge performance derived theoretically due to actual construction conditions, such as irregular shapes and ... -
The Effect of Using Different Wake Models on Wind Farm Layout Optimization: A Comparative Study
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The accuracy of analytical wake models applied in wind farm layout optimization (WFLO) problems is of great significance as the high-fidelity methods such as large eddy simulation (LES) and Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes ...