Journal of Energy Resources Technology: Recent submissions
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Kick Detection Using Downhole Accelerometer Data
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The high-frequency downhole vibration data include a greater amount of hidden information than the low-frequency surface data. This paper proposes the monitoring of high-frequency acceleration data for early kick detection. ... -
Performance and Emission Analysis of Compression Ignition Engine With Neem Methyl Ester Mixed With Cerium Oxide (CeO2) Nanoparticles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper depicts Box-Behnken design (BBD) approach to optimize the performance and emission characteristics of adjustable compression ratio, single- cylinder diesel engine with nanoparticle-blended biofuel. Cerium oxide ... -
Thermal Performance of Ammonia in Dual Mixed Refrigerant Cycle of Natural Gas Liquefaction Process
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Mixed refrigerant (MR) system is commonly used for a liquefaction process of liquid natural gas (LNG) plants due to its higher efficiency of heat transfer rate compared to pure refrigerants. The performance of MR system ... -
Study of the Constraint Selection Through ASVDADD Method for Rate-Controlled Constrained-Equilibrium Modeling on Ethanol Oxidation Without PLOG Reactions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Reduction of the detail chemical kinetic mechanism is important in solving complex combustion simulation. In this work, a model reduction scheme rate-controlled constrained-equilibrium (RCCE) is considered in predicting ... -
Organic Rankine Cycle Optimization With Explicit Designs of Evaporator and Radial Inflow Turbine
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Although there are studies on optimizing organic Rankine cycles (ORCs) through individual components, in this study, for the first time, both evaporator and turbine designs are included in a multiobjective optimization. ... -
Experimental Investigation of Vertical Downward Two-Phase Flow in Annulus
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)A limited amount of work exists on gas–liquid flow in vertical pipe annulus, and, to the knowledge of the authors, there is no work on the literature to characterize vertical downward two-phase flow in pipe annulus. In the ... -
Special Section: Selected Papers From the 44th International Technical Conference on Clean Energy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Special issue from the 45th International Clearwater Clean Energy Conference to be held during September 8–11, 2020, is planned to be published in the August 2021 issue of ASME Journal of Energy Resources and Technology ... -
Microscopic Spray Characteristics of Biodiesels Derived From Karanja, Jatropha, and Waste Cooking Oils
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This study aims to assess the microscopic characteristics of Jatropha, Karanja, and Waste cooking oil-based biodiesels vis-a-vis conventional diesel under different ambient conditions in order to understand the in-cylinder ... -
Data-Driven Models to Predict Hydrocarbon Production From Unconventional Reservoirs by Thermal Recovery
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)In the numerical simulations of thermal recovery for unconventional resources, reservoir models involve complex multicomponent-multiphase flow in non-isothermal conditions, where spatial heterogeneity necessitates the huge ... -
Utilizing Food Waste Product (Date Tree Seeds) to Enhance the Filtration Characteristics in Water-Based Drilling Fluid System: A Comparative Study
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Practically, to regulate filtration characteristics of drilling fluid, non-biodegradable materials used commonly have a high cost with side effects on personnel safety and the environment. Hence, eco-friendly additives are ... -
Optimization of the Process Parameters for Hydrotreating Used Cooking Oil by the Taguchi Method and Fuzzy Logic
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Hydrotreating process is an alternate approach for producing diesel hydrocarbons from the biomass-based oils. In the present study, used cooking oil was selected for the hydrotreating process due to its high abundance. A ... -
Correlations of Permeability and Geological Characteristics Based on Mercury Intrusion Data and Hierarchical Statistical Models: A Case Study
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The mercury intrusion technique is a crucial in-lab method to investigate the porous medium properties. The potentiality of mercury intrusion data has not been explored significantly in the traditional interpretation. Thus, ... -
Improved Method for the Estimation of Minimum Miscibility Pressure for Pure and Impure CO2–Crude Oil Systems Using Gaussian Process Machine Learning Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The minimum miscibility pressure (MMP) is one of the critical parameters needed in the successful design of a miscible gas injection for enhanced oil recovery purposes. In this study, we explore the capability of using the ... -
Performance Evaluation of Degradable Temporary Plugging Agent in Laboratory Experiment
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Temporary plugging fracturing is an effective way to enhance the fracture complexity and increase the stimulated reservoir volume (SRV) of unconventional reservoirs. The performance of temporary plugging agents (TPA) ... -
Simplified Predictive Model for Downhole Pressure Surges During Tripping Operations Using Power Law Drilling Fluids
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Surge/swab pressure is a crucial parameter that provokes well-control problems such as fluid loss, fractured formations, fluid influx, and kick. Thus, a precise estimation of differential pressure is required to evade any ... -
Limitations of Natural Gas Lean Burn Spark Ignition Engines Derived From Compression Ignition Engines
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Converting existing diesel engines to the spark ignition (SI) operation can increase the utilization of natural gas (NG) in heavy-duty applications, which can reduce oil imports in the US and curtail greenhouse-gas emissions. ... -
Emissions From Oxy-Combustion of Raw and Torrefied Biomass
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This work assesses the evolution of acid gases from raw and torrefied biomass (distiller’s dried grains with solubles and rice husk) combustion in conventional (air) and simulated oxy-combustion (oxygen/carbon dioxide) ... -
Investigation of Dual-Fuel Combustion by Different Port Injection Fuels (Neat Ethanol and E85) in a DE95 Diesel/Ethanol Blend Fueled Compression Ignition Engine
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper investigated the effect of different substitution ratios of neat ethanol (E100) and ethanol–gasoline blend E85 on in-cylinder combustion, engine efficiency, and exhaust emissions, in a dual-fuel diesel engine, ... -
Numerical Study of Enhanced Oil Recovery Using In Situ Oxy-Combustion in a Porous Combustion Tube
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)In situ combustion (ISC) in a one-dimensional combustion porous tube has been modeled numerically and presented in this article. The numerical model has been developed using the cmg stars (2017.10) software and it was used ... -
Split Injection Strategies for Biodiesel-Fueled Premixed Charge Compression Ignition Combustion Engine—Part II: Particulate Studies
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)In this study, experiments were performed in a single-cylinder research engine to investigate the particulate matter (PM) characteristics of the engine operated in premixed charge compression ignition (PCCI) mode combustion ...