Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage: Recent submissions
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Experimental Simulation on Imbibition of the Residual Fracturing Fluid in Tight Sandstone Reservoirs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Fracturing is a fundamental technique for enhancing oil recovery of tight sandstone reservoir. The pores in tight reservoirs generally have small radii and generate tremendous capillary force; accordingly, the imbibition ... -
Effect of Heat Treatment on the Combustion Characteristics of a Lignite
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)In this study, the ignition and combustion behavior of raw and heat-treated single particles of lignite were experimentally investigated, with a focus on the effect of heat treatment temperatures. The lignite particles ... -
Oxy-Combustion Modeling for Direct-Fired Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Supercritical CO2 power cycles for fossil energy power generation will likely employ oxy-combustion at very high pressures, possibly exceeding 300 bar. At these high pressures, a direct fired oxy-combustor is more likely ... -
Wind Turbine Aerodynamic Modeling in Icing Condition: Three-Dimensional RANS-CFD Versus Blade Element Momentum Method
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Icing limits the performance of wind turbines in cold climates. The prediction of the aerodynamic performance losses and their distribution due to ice accretion is essential. Blade element momentum (BEM) is the basis of ... -
Performances and Emissions Evaluation of a Microturbojet Engine Running on Biodiesel Blends
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This paper analyzes the performances and the emissions of the JETCAT P80 microengine, when jet A jet A + 10% biodiesel (BD), jet A + 20% biodiesel, and jet A + 30% biodiesel are utilized as fuel, and to each of these ... -
Mathematical Modeling of Fluid Flow to Unconventional Oil Wells With Radial Fractures and Its Testing With Field Data
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Radial fractures are created in unconventional gas and oil reservoirs in modern well stimulation operations such as hydraulic refracturing (HRF), explosive fracturing (EF), and high energy gas fracturing (HEGF). This paper ... -
Evaluating Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Sensor Technology for Rapid Source Characterization of Rare Earth Elements
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)A prototype laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) sensor is tested for the determination of rare earth elements (Eu and Yb) in liquid and solid samples. The sensor head, built using a monolithic passively Q-switched ... -
NH3 as a Transport Fuel in Internal Combustion Engines: A Technical Review
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Ammonia (NH3) is an excellent hydrogen (H2) carrier that is easy to bulk manufacture, handle, transport, and use. NH3 is itself combustible and could potentially become a clean transport fuel for direct use in internal ... -
The Staged Thermal Conversion of Sewage Sludge in the Presence of Oxygen
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This study compares a staged thermal processing of the sewage sludge, with single step, integrated thermal processing. The aim of this study is to find the optimal conditions for drying and subsequently for carbonization ... -
On the Assessment of a Numerical Weather Prediction Model for Solar Photovoltaic Power Forecasts in Cities
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Recent developments in the weather research and forecasting (WRF) model have made it possible to accurately estimate incident solar radiation. This study couples the WRF-solar modifications with a multilayer urban canopy ... -
Special Issue for the 12th International Conference on Energy Sustainability (ES2018)
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Thermal Design and Analysis of a Solid-State Grid-Tied Thermal Energy Storage for Hybrid Compressed Air Energy Storage Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Power overgeneration by renewable sources combined with less dispatchable conventional power plants introduces the power grid to a new challenge, i.e., instability. The stability of the power grid requires constant balance ... -
A New Vascular System Highly Efficient in the Storage and Transport of Healing Agent for Self-Healing Wind Turbine Blades
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Self-healing wind turbine blades offer a substantial offset for costly blade repairs and failures. We discuss the efforts made to optimize the self-healing properties of wind turbine blades and provide a new system to ... -
Multivariable Analysis of Aerodynamic Forces on Slotted Airfoils for Wind Turbine Blades
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Improvement of the aerodynamic performance for cambered airfoils with leading-edge slots is investigated in this work. This concept is proven both computationally and experimentally in recent years. Five design variables ... -
Uncertainty Quantification of Aerodynamic Icing Losses in Wind Turbine With Polynomial Chaos Expansion
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Icing of wind turbine blades poses a challenge for the wind power industry in cold climate wind farms. It can lead to production losses of more than 10% of the annual energy production. Knowledge of how the production is ... -
Multirotor Systems Using Three Shrouded Wind Turbines for Power Output Increase
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Brimmed-diffuser augmented wind turbines (B-DAWTs) can significantly increase the performance of the rotor. Multirotor systems (MRSs) have a lot of merits such as significant saving mass and overall cost of the wind turbine ... -
Experimental Study of the Wake Regions in Wind Farms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)It is desired, through this work, to investigate in detail the scenario that takes place behind a single wind turbine unit by focusing on three parameters; average axial wind velocity component, velocity deficit, and total ... -
An Improved Mass Consistent Model for Three-Dimensional Wind Field Construction
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)An improved diagnostic mass-consistent finite element model (FEM) has been developed to construct 3D wind fields over irregular terrain. Instead of using constant Gauss precision moduli over the whole domain in the existing ... -
Physicochemical Properties of Fuel Blends Composed of Heavy Fuel Oil and Tire-Derived Pyrolytic Oils
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The paper presents physicochemical properties of pyrolysis oil (PO) blends obtained from pyrolysis of rubber and spent tires mixed with selected heavy fuel oil (HFO) and the effect of PO properties on physicochemical ... -
Numerical Predictions of Three-Dimensional Unsteady Turbulent Film-Cooling for Trailing Edge of Gas-Turbine Blade Using Large Eddy Simulation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This work investigates the performance of film-cooling on trailing edge of gas turbine blades using unsteady three-dimensional numerical model adopting large eddy simulation (LES) turbulence scheme in a low Mach number ...