Journal of Energy Resources Technology: Recent submissions
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Thermoeconomic Analysis of a Combined Natural Gas Cogeneration System With a Supercritical CO2 Brayton Cycle and an Organic Rankine Cycle
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper proposes a new type of Gas Turbine Cycle-supercritical CO2 Brayton/organic Rankine cycle (GT-SCO2/ORC) cogeneration system, in which the exhaust gas from gas-fired plants generates electricity through GT and ... -
Effects of Pyrolysis Conditions on Organic Fractions and Heat Values of Olive Mill Wastes Pyrolysis Liquid
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Pyrolysis liquids can be evaluated in energy and material recovery. However, its characteristics and recovery potential highly depend on pyrolysis conditions. Olive pomace is lignocellulosic biomasses widely studied in the ... -
A Comparative Life Cycle Assessment on Nuclear-Based Clean Ammonia Synthesis Methods
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper evaluates the impacts of nuclear ammonia synthesis options on the environment through the life cycle assessment (LCA) technique. Ammonia is synthesized via the mature Haber–Bosch technique that combines hydrogen ... -
Measurements of Density and Sound Speed in Mixtures Relevant to Supercritical CO2 Cycles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The objective of this research is to validate properties of mixtures relevant to supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) power cycles. Direct-fired sCO2 cycles are a promising technology for the future power generation systems. ... -
Effect of Heating Rate on Chemical Kinetics of Chicken Manure With Different Gas Agents
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper presents the study on the effect of different heating rates on the pyrolysis and gasification process of the chicken manure. The obtained results are shown by the extent of reaction, the kinetics of the reaction, ... -
Effects of High Fuel Loading and CO2 Dilution on Oxy-Methane Ignition Inside a Shock Tube at High Pressure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Ignition delay times were measured for methane/O2 mixtures in a high dilution environment of either CO2 or N2 using a shock tube facility. Experiments were performed between 1044 K and 1356 K at pressures near 16 ± 2 atm. ... -
A Forecasting Method of District Heat Load Based on Improved Wavelet Neural Network
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Energy conservation of urban district heating system is an important part of social energy conservation. In response to the situation that the setting of heat load in the system is unreasonable, the heat load forecasting ... -
Lithium-Ion Batteries’ Energy Efficiency Prediction Using Physics-Based and State-of-the-Art Artificial Neural Network-Based Models
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The new generation of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) possesses considerable energy density that arise the safety concern much more than before. One of the main issues associated with LIB safety is the heat generation and ... -
Multiphase Flow in Highly Fractured Shale Gas Reservoirs: Review of Fundamental Concepts for Numerical Simulation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Conventional hydrocarbon reservoirs, from an engineering and economic standpoint, are the easiest and most cost-efficient deposits to develop and produce. However, as economic deposits of conventional oil/gas become scarce, ... -
Special Section on Efficiency, Cost, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems (ECOS 2019)
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Scientists and engineers participating in ECOS conference represent an outstanding international community of experts in a domain of energy systems. At ECOS, the indispensable fields of energy efficiency, cost, optimization, ... -
Numerical Analysis of a Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell Stack in Emergency Scenarios
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Molten carbonate fuel cells (MCFCs) offer several advantages that are attracting an increasingly intense research and development effort. Recent advances include improved materials and fabrication techniques as well as new ... -
A Pore-Scale Investigation of the Transient Response of Forced Convection in Porous Media to Inlet Ramp Inputs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper investigates the transient response of forced convection of heat in a reticulated porous medium through taking a pore-scale approach. The thermal system is subject to a ramp disturbance superimposed on the ... -
Analysis of Chemo-Poro-Thermo-Mechanical Effects on Wellbore Strengthening
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The application of wellbore strengthening treatment has less effect on shale formations. Several numerical studies were developed to describe the mechanism, which promoted the development of wellbore strengthening theory. ... -
Determination of Dynamic Dispersion Coefficient for Solid Particles Flowing in a Fracture With Consideration of Gravity Effect
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)A robust and pragmatic method has been developed and validated to analytically determine dynamic dispersion coefficients for particles flowing in a parallel-plate fracture, in which gravity settling has been considered due ... -
Improving Oil Recovery Through Fracture Injection and Production of Multiple Fractured Horizontal Wells
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Well production rates decline quickly in the tight reservoirs, and enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is needed to increase productivity. Conventional flooding from adjacent wells is inefficient in the tight formations, and ... -
Experimental Investigation on the Factors Affecting Proppant Flowback Performance
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Proppant flowback is a significant issue in the field of fractured well production. In order to investigate the influencing relationships among the parameters affecting proppant flowback, the weight of proppant flowback ... -
Co-gasification of Hydrochar and Petroleum Coke Blended With Different Ratios
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The co-gasification characteristics of petroleum coke (PC), hydrochar (PS), and their blends with different ratios were studied by using thermogravimetric analysis. The Coats–Redfern model was employed to calculate the ... -
Combustion Characteristics of a Peripheral Vortex Reverse Flow Combustor With Coaxial Fuel Injection
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper deals with an experimental investigation of a novel and simple reverse flow combustor, operated stably with a liquid fuel (ethanol) for heat release intensities ranging from 16 to 25 MW/(m3·atm) with very low ... -
Investigation on the Evolution of the Coal Macromolecule in the Process of Combustion With the Molecular Dynamics Method
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)It is reported that a three-dimensional cross-linked macromolecular structure with heterogeneous inorganic and organic compositions widely exists in coal particles. The macromolecules usually represent the rank transition ... -
Energy Management of Microgrid Considering Renewable Energy Sources and Electric Vehicles Using the Backtracking Search Optimization Algorithm
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Different distributed generation (DG) technologies, active loads, and storage devices create an independent microgrid (MG). Scheduling of an MG is an important issue in renewable energy sources (RESs) based systems. In ...