Journal of Energy Resources Technology: Recent submissions
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A Power Balance Simulator to Examine Business Continuity in Hospital Facilities Due to Power Outages in a Disaster
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)In hospitals, the energy supply is the key to ensuring modern medical care even during power outages due to a disaster. This study qualitatively examined whether the supply–demand balance can be stabilized by the private ... -
Fault Management Architecture Based on a Digital Twin Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Fault management of systems is a key component in mission/operation success of each system or technology. Fault management can be implemented into various different applications, power generation, industrial processing, ... -
Machine Learning-Based Digital Twins Reduce Seasonal Remapping in Aeroderivative Gas Turbines
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Aeroderivative gas turbines have their combustion set points adjusted periodically in a process known as remapping. Even turbines that perform well after remapping may produce unacceptable behavior when external conditions ... -
Energy Conversion Efficiency of Thermoelectric Power Generators With Cylindrical Legs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Thermoelectric power generators (TEGs) have been attracted increasing attention due to their capability of converting waste heat into useful electric energy without hazardous emissions. Many theoretical models to conduct ... -
Modal Analysis of Breakup Mechanisms for a Liquid Jet in Crossflow
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Liquid fuel jet in crossflow (LJIC) is a vital atomization technique significant to the aviation industry. The hydrodynamic instability mechanisms that drive a primary breakup of a transverse jet are investigated using ... -
Power Generation and Oxygen Transfer Analyses for Micro Hydro-Turbine Installed in Wastewater Treatment Aeration Tank
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This study targets one of the major energy consumers in the U.S. It suggests a new mechanical system that can recover a portion of the energy in Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTPs). The proposed system entails a hydro-turbine ... -
Performance Enhancement Analysis of a Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine by Vortex Trapping Cavity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)A wind turbine blade has the particularity of containing twisted and tapered thick airfoils. The challenge with this configuration is the highly separated flow in the region of high twist. This research presents a numerical ... -
Reviewer’s Recognition
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board of the ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology would like to thank all of the reviewers for volunteering their expertise and time reviewing manuscripts in 2021. Serving as reviewers ... -
Hydrocavitation Piezoelectric Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The possibility to convert the ocean wave energy into electrical energy by piezoelectric layers has excited the imagination of ocean wave energy conversion designers for decades owing to its relative robustness (no mechanical ... -
Investigating the Potential of Recycling Flare-Source Hydrocarbon Gases in an Industrial Burner
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Flare gas is considered a global environmental concern. Flaring contributes to wasting limited material and energy resources, economic loss, and greenhouse gas emissions. Utilizing flared gas as a fuel feed to industrial ... -
Stratified and Hydrogen Combustion Techniques for Higher Turndown and Lower Emissions in Gas Turbines
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This review overviews combustion technologies for reduced emissions and better fuel economy in the industrial gas turbine. Lean premixed combustion (LPM) technology is introduced as a low-temperature combustion technique ... -
Employing Deep Learning Neural Networks for Characterizing Dual-Porosity Reservoirs Based on Pressure Transient Tests
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The deep learning model constituting two neural network models (i.e., densely connected and long short-term memory) has been applied for automatic characterization of dual-porosity reservoirs with infinite, constant pressure, ... -
Injection of Xanthan Gum and Guar Gum Through Carbonate Rocks Evaluated by Two-Phase Core Flooding
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Polymer flooding is widely applied to enhance oil recovery in sandstone reservoirs. However, applications in carbonate formations are challenged by the possible high adsorption of anionic polymers such as polyacrylamides ... -
Numerical Simulation Study on Boiler Combustion Characteristics With Different Volume Fraction of Ventilation Air Methane
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The combustion process of ventilation air methane (VAM) with air in a tangential coal-fired boiler was investigated by the component transport model. The influence of VAM with different volume fractions of methane (CH4) ... -
Investigation of the Effect of Altitude on In-Cylinder Heat Transfer in Heavy-Duty Diesel Engines Based on an Empirical Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Diesel engines are the predominant power source for the trucking industry. Heavy-duty trucks carry more than 70% of all goods transported across the United States. Atmospheric conditions vary with altitude but are critical ... -
Experimental and Simulation Analysis on Spray Characteristics of Hydrous Ethanol–Gasoline Blends
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Hydrous ethanol application in engines can not only improve combustion and reduce emissions but also save energy consumption in the production process, which is a potential alternative fuel for engines. However, little ... -
A Double-Wiebe Function for Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition Combustion Using Reformate Diesel
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Reactivity controlled compression ignition (RCCI) combustion has previously been proposed as a method to achieve high fuel conversion efficiency and reduce engine emissions. A single-fuel RCCI combustion strategy can have ... -
Analysis of Turbomachinery Losses in sCO2 Brayton Power Blocks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This paper analyzes the contribution of different turbomachinery loss mechanisms to the overall efficiency of a simple recuperated supercritical carbon dioxide (s-CO2) Brayton cycle for output capacities ranging from 100 ... -
How to Cover Additional Cooling Load Needs During COVID-19 Pandemic?
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)It has been crystal clear to everyone that the fresh air supply is one of the highest priorities to keep people under safe indoor conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic. In many buildings, either there are no mechanical ... -
Machine Learning Models for Acoustic Data Prediction During Drilling Composite Lithology Formations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The rock acoustic data that provide important information about the formation petrophysics and geomechanics are highly needed to design the wells drilling programs, in addition to, reservoir stimulation and field development ...