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Kathleen E. Duncan, Lina E. Dominici, Mark A. Nanny, Irene A. Davidova, Brian H. Harriman and Joseph M. Suflita
Some naval vessels add seawater to carbon steel fuel ballast tanks to maintain stability during fuel consumption. Marine sediments often contaminate ballast tank fluids and have been implicated in stimulating fuel biodegradation and enhancing biocorrosio...
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Saleh B. Alsaidi, Jeongmoo Huh and Mohamed Y. E. Selim
The performance of two solid biomass wastes, date stone and jojoba solid waste, was experimentally examined for their potential application in combustion and propulsion systems. The fuels were tested in a hybrid rocket-like combustion environment, and th...
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Zhaohui Yao, Yuanzhao Guo, Jun Niu, Zhiguang Jin, Tianhao Yu, Baojun Guo, Wenhao Pu, Xin Wei, Feng Jin, Bo Li and Mengying Liu
A model of a NUAA-PTRE pre-cooled air turbine engine was established. The design point parameters of the engine were optimized, including the pressure ratio, air flow rate of the compressor, efficiency, throat area, and efficiency of the turbine. The air...
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Jin Gao, Ziyi Kang, Weiheng Sun, Youyin Wang, Junlong Zhang and Wen Bao
With the in-depth research on hypersonic aerodynamics and hypersonic propulsion technology, humans are growing closer to space travel. Recent studies have shown that the pre-cooled air-turborocket (ATR) or turboexpander engines are some of the potential ...
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Daniele Ricci, Francesco Battista, Manrico Fragiacomo and Ainslie Duncan French
The cooling jackets of liquid rocket engines are composed of narrow passages surrounding the thrust chambers and ensure the reliable operation of the engine. Critical conditions may also be encountered, since the cooling jackets of cryogenic engines, suc...
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Xiaotian Peng, Donghao Fan, Doudou Qiu, Shiyu Feng, Hao Peng and Wentao Bai
Fuel vapor concentration is a key parameter for assessing the flammability of aircraft fuel tanks. However, the current research on RP-3 (Rocket Propellant-3) fuel vapor concentration is inadequate. This study categorizes fuel components by the number of...
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Julia Karaeva, Svetlana Timofeeva, Marat Gilfanov, Marina Slobozhaninova, Olga Sidorkina, Ekaterina Luchkina, Vladimir Panchenko and Vadim Bolshev
Amaranthus retroflexus or redroot pigweed is a second generation lignocellulosic fuel. Each biomass sample (leaves, inflorescences and stems) was pyrolyzed in a lab-scale furnace, in a nitrogen atmosphere under non-isothermal conditions at heating rates ...
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Ali Khezri, Mohamadali Moradi, Hongbae Park and Daeyong Lee
Ground hydrocarbon contamination is a grave consequence of fossil fuel consumption, making it increasingly unsustainable. Consequently, researchers worldwide have been compelled to conduct a large number of studies on the geotechnical aspects of hydrocar...
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Jin Zhang, Qilin Zhou, Xudong Zhao, Yuguang Jiang and Wei Fan
Regenerative cooling is considered promising in the thermal protection of hypersonic propulsion devices such as SCRamjet. However, the heat transfer deterioration (HTD) of hydrocarbon fuel is a severe threat to the thermal structure safety, especially un...
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ChunWee Ng, Ivan C. K. Tam and Dawei Wu
Recent regulatory developments in the global maritime industry have signalled an increased emphasis on the improvement of energy efficiency onboard ships. Among the various efficiency enhancement options, recovering waste heat using the organic Rankine c...
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