Journal of Energy Resources Technology: Recent submissions
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Testing Machine Learning Algorithms for Drilling Incidents Detection on a Pilot Small-Scale Drilling Rig
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)In recent years, drilling digitalization and automation have advanced from being automation of rig floor equipment to an idea that is starting to be applied to entire drilling processes. However it is very costly in terms ... -
Reservoir and Wellbore Flow Coupling Model for Fishbone Multilateral Wells in Bottom Water Drive Reservoirs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Nowadays, different types of complex production wells are applied in challenging reservoirs in order to maximize oil recovery. A representative application is the fishbone multilateral horizontal wells, which have advantages ... -
Numerical-Experimental Optimization of the Common-Feeding Injection System Concept for Application to Light-Duty Commercial Vehicles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The innovative common feeding (CF) fuel injection system has been designed for a light duty commercial vehicle diesel engine in order to reduce production costs and to allow easy installation on the engine, compared with ... -
Fuel Stratification Influence on NOx Emission in a Premixed Axial Reacting Jet-in-Crossflow at High Pressure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Three reacting jet-in-crossflow (JiC) methane/air flames were numerically investigated in a lean axially staged combustor at a pressure of five atmospheres. A detailed chemistry Star-CCM+ computational fluid dynamics (CFD) ... -
Experimental and Numerical Analysis on the Influences of Direct Fuel Injection Into Oxygen-Depleted Environment of a Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition Engine
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The oxygen-depleted environment in the recompression stroke can convert gasoline fuel into light hydrocarbons due to thermal cracking, partial oxidation, and water-gas shift reactions. These reformate species can influence ... -
Effects of Particle Size and Mainstream Inlet Angle on Deposition in a Turbine Cascade
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Based on the critical velocity model, impact and capture efficiencies in an AGTB turbine cascade are investigated numerically under various inlet angles of mainstream, blowing ratios, particle sizes, and particle densities. ... -
Experimental Test and Estimation of the Equivalent Thermoelectric Properties for a Thermoelectric Module
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)When analyzing and optimizing the performance of thermoelectric (TE) devices in theory, Seebeck coefficient, thermal conductivity, and electrical resistivity are indispensable TE properties. However, most manufacturers do ... -
On the Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Recompression Cycle
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) Brayton cycle has been studied in recent years, and its high efficiency and environmental safety have been investigated. One of the most promising sCO2 designs is the Recompression cycle ... -
Investigation of a Combined Refrigeration and Air Conditioning System Based on Two-Phase Ejector Driven by Exhaust Gases of Natural Gas Fueled Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition Engine
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)A natural gas-fueled homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engine is coupled to an exhaust gas operated turbine driven two-phase ejector cycle to generate power and cooling energy, simultaneously. By establishing ... -
Numerical Modeling of Hydrogen-Rich Gas Production From Gasoline Autothermal Reforming in a Plug Flow Reactor for Electric Vehicles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Due to the increase in the greenhouse effect, lowering emissions is becoming a certain issue all over the world. It is a concern to develop alternative options to minimize the spread of exhaust gases. For this purpose, in ... -
A Comparison of the Effects of Sodium Borohydride-Based Hydrogen Storage System and Compressed Hydrogen Storage Tank on the Fuel Cell Vehicle Performance
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Thanks to its features such as being harmless to the environment, not creating noise pollution, and reducing oil dependence, many countries have started promoting the use of fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) and making plans on ... -
Exergy and Energy Analyses of the Spirulina Microalgae Blends in a Direct Injection Engine at Variable Engine Loads
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This article explores the exergy analysis of the diesel engine with the selected Spirulina microalgae bio-oil (SMBO) biodiesel. The adaptability of the biofuels as an efficient replacement to the fossil fuel has to be ... -
Hydrogen-Enriched Biogas Premixed Charge Combustion and Emissions in Direct Injection and Indirect Injection Diesel Dual Fueled Engines: A Comparative Study
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This paper presents a comparative study on combustion and emissions of hydrogen-enriched biogas premixed charge direct injection dual-fuel (DIDF) engine and indirect injection dual-fuel (IDIDF) engine. The results show ... -
Effects of Bypass Ratio Change Trend on Performance in a Military Aircraft Turbofan Engine With Comparative Assessment
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)In this study, it is aimed to observe the bypass effects on energetic and exergetic performance in a JT3D-3B Military Aircraft Turbofan Engine and its components. For this aim, the comprehensive energy and exergy analyses ... -
Computational Study of a Radial Flow Turbine Operates Under Various Pulsating Flow Shapes and Amplitudes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Radial flow turbines are extensively used in turbocharging technology due to their unique capability of handling a wide range of exhaust gas flow. The pulsating flow nature of the internal combustion engine exhaust gases ... -
Thermodynamic Analysis of Using Ethanol—Methanol— Gasoline Blends in a Turbocharged, Spark-Ignition Engine
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Low-carbon alcohols have been universally acknowledged as an alternative to fossil fuel in the world, which is environmentally friendly and clean. In this paper, the detailed exergy and energy analysis was carried out on ... -
Design Optimization of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide (s-CO2) Cycles for Waste Heat Recovery From Marine Engines
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The global climate change challenge and the international commitment to reduce carbon emission can be addressed by improving energy conversion efficiency and adopting efficient waste heat recovery technologies. Supercritical ... -
A Compendium of Methods for Determining the Exergy Balance Terms Applied to Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Exergy analysis of the reciprocating internal combustion (IC) engines is studied by estimating various input and output energy transfer parameters concerning a dead state reference. Exergy terms such as fuel input, work ... -
Investigation of the Factors Influencing the Flowback Ratio in Shale Gas Reservoirs: A Study Based on Experimental Observations and Numerical Simulations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The flowback behavior of hydraulic fractured horizontal well in shale gas reservoir is relatively different from that of conventional reservoirs. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate the relationship between the ... -
Machine Learning-Based Improved Pressure–Volume–Temperature Correlations for Black Oil Reservoirs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Pressure–volume–temperature (PVT) properties of crude oil are considered the most important properties in petroleum engineering applications as they are virtually used in every reservoir and production engineering calculation. ...