Journal of Energy Resources Technology: Recent submissions
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Rolling Turbines—Theoretical Considerations and Experimental Verification
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Rolling turbines are fluid motors that may be used in pico hydro applications at very small hydraulic heads of below 1 m and can operate even with untapped (waste) water. The present study proposes a theory of their ... -
Wall Energy Loss and Entropy Generation in Solar Ponds Using One-Dimensional and Two-Dimensional Transient Analyses
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)In this paper, wall thermal energy loss in a cylindrical solar pond is studied using one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) transient models. It is seen that for a given quantity of insulation applied around the ... -
Performance Evaluation of an Improved Unglazed Photovoltaic and Thermal Hybrid System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This paper proposes a novel unglazed photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) system completely covered by photovoltaic (PV) cells, the system can significantly increase the power generation, and unglazed structure helps to improve the ... -
Prediction of Short-Term Photovoltaic Power Via Self-Attention-Based Deep Learning Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Photovoltaic (PV) is characterized by random and intermittent. As increasing popularity of PV, it makes PV power prediction increasingly significant for efficiency and stability of the power grid. At present, prediction ... -
An Experimental Investigation of Drilling Performance Improvement Using Reaming While Drilling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This work investigates the drilling performance by reaming while drilling (RWD) using a dual-body bit and compared it with conventional drilling by a standard drilling bit. The dual-body bit consisted of a 2.45-in. pilot ... -
Leakages Through Radial Cracks in Cement Sheaths: Effect of Geometry, Viscosity, and Aperture
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Annular cement sheath is considered to be one of the most important barrier elements in the well, both during production and after well abandonment. It is however well-known that mechanical damage to the cement sheath might ... -
A Comparison of Different Nanoparticles’ Effect on Fine Migration by Low Salinity Water Injection for Oil Recovery: Introducing an Optimum Condition
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Today, enhance oil recovery (EOR) methods are attracting more attention to increase the petroleum production rate. Some EOR methods such as low salinity water flooding can increase the amount of fine migration and sand ... -
Analysis of Compositions of Flowback Water From Marcellus Shale Wells by Utilizing Data Mining Techniques
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Volume and salt concentrations in Marcellus flowback water depend on geology, drilling and completions, stimulation and flowback operations. Recent studies include evaluations of geochemical origins based on the compostition ... -
Machine Learning Applications to Predict Surface Oil Rates for High Gas Oil Ratio Reservoirs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Well-performance investigation highly depends on the accurate estimation of its oil and gas flowrates. Testing separators and multiphase flowmeters (MPFMs) are associated with many technical and operational issues. Therefore, ... -
Preparation of Activated Coke by One-Step Activation Method, Ammonization, and K2CO3 Modification of Coal and Biomass
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Coal and biomass are regularly used in the preparation of activated coke. In this paper, coal and biomass (poplar bark) were co-pyrolyzed, and activated coke was prepared by physical “one-step activation,” followed by ... -
Combustion Characteristics of Coal, Petroleum Coke, Biomass, and Their Ternary Blends
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This work presents the combustion characteristics of coal, petroleum coke (PC), rice straw (RS), mustard cake (MC), and their blends to assess the applicability of blended fuel for thermal power generation. Characterization ... -
Experimental Investigation of Direct Fuel Injection Into Low-Oxygen Recompression Interval in a Homogenous Charge Compression Ignition Engine
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This work analyzed measured data from a single-cylinder engine operated under the gasoline direction injection homogenous charge compression ignition (GDI-HCCI) mode. The experiments were conducted at a 0.95 equivalence ... -
Numerical and Orthogonal Study on Optimization Analysis of Structure Parameters of Bubble Breaker for Electrical Submersible Pump System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Under slug flow conditions, electrical submersible pumps (ESPs) show a low efficiency due to Taylor bubbles, which cause pressure surging and gas pockets and the further deterioration of pressure boosting ability. In this ... -
Advanced Exergy-Based Audit of Heat Recovery Steam Generators: A Case Study
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The current paper enhances the methods presented in The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Performance Test Code (PTC) 4.1 and 4.4 and proposes an exergy-based loss method (LM) for assessing heat recovery steam ... -
Numerical Study on the Dynamic Performance of Combined Sensible-Latent Heat Packed-Bed Thermocline Tank
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Thermal energy storage (TES) using thermocline technology with phase change materials (PCM) is a promising technique for peak-shaving operation in cogeneration units. One of the disadvantages of this connotation is the use ... -
COVID-19 and the Global Shift Progress to Clean Energy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has presented us with an unprecedented global emergency that severely threatens the lives of millions of people around the world. In response to this existential crisis, state governments have ... -
Numerical Analysis of Flow Behavior in Gas–Liquid Cylindrical Cyclone (GLCC©1) Separators With Inlet Design Modifications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The Gas–Liquid Cylindrical Cyclone (GLCC©) is a simple, compact, and low-cost separator, which provides an economically attractive alternative to conventional gravity-based separators over a wide range of applications. ... -
Rock Strength Prediction in Real-Time While Drilling Employing Random Forest and Functional Network Techniques
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The rock unconfined compressive strength (UCS) is one of the key parameters for geomechanical and reservoir modeling in the petroleum industry. Obtaining the UCS by conventional methods such as experimental work or empirical ... -
Estimation of the Rate of Penetration While Horizontally Drilling Carbonate Formation Using Random Forest
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Predicting the rate of penetration (ROP) is challenging especially during horizontal drilling. This is because there are many factors affecting ROP. Machine learning techniques are very promising in identifying the structural ... -
Novel Empirical Correlation for Estimation of the Total Organic Carbon in Devonian Shale From the Spectral Gamma-Ray and Based on the Artificial Neural Networks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The evaluation of the quality of unconventional hydrocarbon resources becomes a critical stage toward characterizing these resources, and this evaluation requires the evaluation of the total organic carbon (TOC). Generally, ...