Journal of Energy Resources Technology: Recent submissions
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Introducing a Novel Air Handling Unit Based on Focusing on Turbulent Exhaust Air Energy-Exergy Recovery Potential
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)A novel air handling unit (AHU) aimed at reducing energy consumption was introduced in this study. In the proposed novel AHU, the heating coil is completely removed, and therefore, no heating coil energy demand is needed. ... -
Thermo-Hydraulic Performance of a Lubricant Containing Zinc Oxide Nano-Particles: A Two-Phase oil
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The first goal is to propose a two-variable equation for predicting the viscosity of zinc oxide-SAE50 nano-lubricant. In this way, the curve fitting was applied on laboratory data. Laboratory data have been reported in the ... -
Turbulent Flows Inside Pipes Equipped With Novel Perforated V-Shaped Rectangular Winglet Turbulators: Numerical Simulations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)In this study, computational simulations have been performed to investigate the turbulent characteristics and energy consumption through heat exchanger tubes equipped by new perforated V-shaped rectangular winglet (PVRW) ... -
Numerical Modeling of Subcooled Flow Boiling and Heat Transfer Enhancement: Validation and Applicability to Fusion Reactor Target Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Boiling flows are an extremely efficient mechanism for the transfer of ultrahigh heat fluxes and used in numerous industrial applications. In this paper, the accuracy of computational fluid dynamics in predicting the ... -
A Computational Fluid Dynamics Investigation on the Effect of the Angular Velocities of Hot and Cold Turbulator Cylinders on the Heat Transfer Characteristics of Nanofluid Flows Within a Porous Cavity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)In the present study, turbulent flow of a Cu-water nanofluid through a porous cavity is investigated using a numerical method. Two rotating cylinders with different temperatures are placed inside the porous enclosure to ... -
Evaporation of a Saltwater Film in a Vertical Channel and Comparison With the Case of the Freshwater
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)In this paper, we analyze the evaporation of a seawater film by mixed convection of humid air. The flown plate is heated and the second plate is dry and can exchanges heat with the environment, be isothermal or adiabatic. ... -
Activation Energy and Thermal Radiation Aspects in Bioconvection Flow of Rate-Type Nanoparticles Configured by a Stretching/Shrinking Disk
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Recent trends in advanced nanotechnology developed thermal consequences of nanoparticles due to increasing significance in various engineering and thermal extrusion systems. The current continuation analyzes the axisymmetric ... -
Significance of Activation Energy and Effective Prandtl Number in Accelerated Flow of Jeffrey Nanoparticles With Gyrotactic Microorganisms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This research addresses the interesting rheological features of Jeffrey nanofluid containing gyrotactic microorganism over an accelerated configuration. The additional consequences of activation energy and thermal radiation ... -
Special Issue on Multiphase and Turbulent Flows in Energy Engineering Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The topics covered in this special issue include, but are not limited to Turbulent flowsMultiphase flowsHydrodynamics instabilitiesGas/oil/water separationHeat treatment and phase changeNano-fluidic treatmentFluid–structure ... -
Investigation on Flow Field Characteristics by Drag Reducing Agent Additives in a Stirred Vessel
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)In this paper, experimental investigation on two oil-soluble drag-reducing agents (DRAs) were carried out in stirred vessel by standard six-blade Rushton, based on the application of particle image velocimeter (PIV). Two ... -
Advanced Exergetic Analysis of a Double-Effect Series Flow Absorption Refrigeration System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper contains theoretical results of an advanced exergy study of a double-effect series flow absorption refrigeration cycle. Traditional second law of thermodynamics analysis was performed and revealed the absorber ... -
Investigation of an Energy Source Temperature for NH3 + NaSCN and NH3 + LiNO3 Absorption Refrigeration Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper evaluates the energy source temperature for novel salts based ammonia/sodium thiocyanate (NH3 + NaSCN) and ammonia/lithium nitrate (NH3 + LiNO3) absorption refrigeration systems. Minimum energy source temperature ... -
Sandstone Acidizing Using a Low-Reaction Acid System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Sandstone acidizing is the process of removing the damage from sandstone reservoirs to restore the well productivity/injectivity to its original or expected rates. It differs from carbonate acidizing in which a substantial ... -
A Machine Learning Method to Infer Inter-Well Connectivity Using Bottom-Hole Pressure Data
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)In the production and development of oil fields, production wells generally produce at a constant rate since the fixed production is easier to control than the fixed pressure. Thus, it is more feasible to use bottom-hole ... -
New Calculation Method and Application of Gas Loss From Coring Shale Gas Well
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Gas content is one of the most important parameters of shale reservoir evaluation and productivity evaluation. In order to obtain gas content accurately, based on the first law of Fick and material balance equation, ... -
Theoretical and Experimental Determination of Proppant Crushing Rate and Fracture Conductivity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Proppant is an important material for hydraulic fracturing that impacts the production and production cost of oil and gas wells. The key properties of proppant are crushing rate and fracture conductivity. The most common ... -
New Approach to Stiff-String Torque and Drag Modeling for Well Planning
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)During the process of drilling, the drillstring inadvertently comes in contact with the wellbore generating frictional losses in rotating moment (torque) and axial force (drag). These losses reduce the rotational power ... -
A Novel Method for Characterizing the Aggregation of Wax Crystals and An Improvement in Wax Deposition Modeling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The aggregation behavior and the subsequent deposition behavior of wax crystals own undesirable effects on the production and transportation of waxy crude oil. The understanding and prediction of these behaviors are essential ... -
Effects of N2 and 1,1,1,3,3,3-Hexafluoropropane (C3H2F6) on Inhibition of Coal Flames
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Two gaseous fire-extinguishing agents, N2 and C3H2F6, were used to suppress open-flame coal combustion, and their inhibitory effects as well as the corresponding mechanisms were probed by simulations and confined-space ... -
Particulate Morphology Characterization of Butanol–Gasoline Blend Fueled Spark-Ignition Direct Injection Engine
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Butanol is an oxygenated renewable fuel and therefore is a potential candidate to be blended with gasoline to reduce particulate emissions. In this experimental investigation, particle number-size (PN-size) distribution ...