COMBUSTION OF GASEOUS FUELS AND CALCULATED FLAME TEMPERATURE Gheorghe CAUNEI FLORESCU1‚ Lt. Eng. Constantin NISTOR‚ PhD. Student2‚ Associate Professor Amado George STEFAN2 1 GENERAL DIRECTORATE NATIONAL SYSTEM HAIL - MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT‚ 2 MILITARY TECHNICAL ACADEMY Abstract. The work contains elements of combustion stoichiometry. It defines the ratio of the mass of the fuel mc and air mass ma‚ called fuel-air dose‚ d. Commercial liquid fuels for engines of petroleum
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A Low-Cost Inverter for Domestic Fuel Cell Applications A. M. Tuckey J. N. Krase Powercorp Pty. Ltd. University of Wisconsin—Madison Darwin‚ N.T. Australia Madison‚ WI U.S.A. tuckey@ieee.org Abstract— The utilization of fuel cells for distributed power genera- tion requires the development of an inexpensive inverter that converts a fuel cell’s variable dc output into useful ac. To encourage this develop- ment the US Department of Energy and the IEEE setup and sponsored a national US student competition
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Effect of optimized EGR on fuel consumption Abstract: In recent years‚ more stringent requirements on performance‚ fuel economy and emissions have led to increasingly complicated engine configurations. This paper is a study into the potential benefits of an EGR MAP optimization for low fuel consumption and lower mass emission. Introduction: The narrower environmental restrictions are the current challenge that Diesel engine manufacturers are facing in the last years. The demand on cleaner
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Can Hybrid Cars Reduce The Dependency On Fossil Fuels? I am going to talk about hybrid cars and can they reduce the dependency on fossil fuels. The hybrid cars manufactures that I’m going to use is Toyota‚ Honda Can hybrid cars reduce the dependency on fossil fuels? Hybrid cars can reduce the dependency of fossil fuels because it would stand between the consuming world and its gas guzzling cars by replacing them with fuel efficient hybrid cars. Hybrid cars have lower level of gasoline consumption
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Nicoletta Philippides March 15‚ 2013 Mr. Dunleavy‚ Period 4 The Effect of Fossil Fuels on Biodiversity & Alternative Energy Resources Fossil fuels are hydrocarbon deposits derived from the remains of ancient plants and animals under enormous amounts of heat and pressure. Oil‚ or petroleum‚ is one of the most common fossil fuels utilized by people all over the world on a daily basis. Crude oil is a smelly‚ yellow-black‚ viscous liquid composed of mostly nitrogen‚ oxygen‚ and sulfur‚ which is
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How Modern Transport Fuels Effect our Environment Why is looking at alternate fuels important? There are several reasons‚ but the most important reason is that air pollution kills in the neighborhood of 3 million people every year and air pollution affects more than 1 billion people in a negative way. That ’s over 1/6 of the earths population being harmed by air pollution‚ that ’s a trend that cannot continue without extreme repercussions to everyone on the planet. Granted‚ air
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Environmental Pollutants: Sewage and Fossil Fuels ENV/100 March 2013 Environmental Pollutants: Sewage and Fossil Fuels Environmental pollutants‚ according to the Blacksmith Institute (2013) negatively affect billions of the world’s population as a result of exposure to poisons associated with sewage and the fossil fuel crude oil. These poisons have led to long-term detrimental effects on ecosystems and has attributed to the premature deaths of 40% or 2.8 billion of the world’s
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Can alternative energy effectively replace with fossil fuels? ‘’Fossil fuels are coal‚ natural gas and petroleum.’’ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel) They are all organic residues. People use this for their energy‚ fuel and heating requirements. But fossil fuels polluting environment so much and people started to think about using alternative energy for their environment’s healthy. ‘’These alternative energy resources are windy power‚ solar energy and geothermal energy.‘’ (http://en
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Future Electric and Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Cars Wilson Tong School of Aerospace‚ Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering RMIT University‚ Melbourne‚ Australia ABSTRACT This document will investigates the influence of global warming and peak oil including the consequences that affect the vehicle industry. Much research and development have been done in recent years to either "electrified" or to implement fuel cell onto normal road vehicles. The use of fuel cell on a road vehicle might
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diminishing fossil fuels In 1977‚ the President of the United States of America‚ Jimmy Carter‚ advocated for the use of alternative energy to the American people “because we are now running out of gas and oil‚ we must prepare quickly to strict conservation [of fossil fuels] and to the use of coal and permanent renewable energy sources‚ like solar power.” More than thirty years later his announcement still rings true and is relevant. In fact‚ the current situation of non-renewable fuels is worse than
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