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Exergy optimisation for cascaded thermal storage
Tian, Yuan; Zhao, C.Y.; Lapkin, A. (2012)Cascaded thermal storage, consisting of multiple Phase Change Materials (PCMs) with different melting temperatures, has been proposed to solve the problem of poor heat transfer caused by unavoidable decrease of temperature ... -
Experimental and analytical study on heat generation characteristics of a lithium-ion power battery
Xie, Yongqi; Tang, Jincheng; Shi, Shang; Wu, Hongwei; Yu, Jianzu (2018-07-01)A combined experimental and analytical study has been performed to investigate the transient heat generation characteristics of a lithium-ion power battery in the present work. Experimental apparatus is newly built and the ... -
An experimental and computational study of the aerodynamic and passive ventilation characteristics of small livestock trailers
Gilkeson, C.A.; Thompson, H.M.; Wilson, M.C.T.; Gaskell, P.H.; Barnard, R.H. (2009)This paper presents a combined experimental and computational study of the aerodynamics and passive ventilation characteristics of small livestock trailers within which the majority of animals in the United Kingdom are ... -
Experimental and numerical investigation of heat transfer in an array of impingement jets on a concave surface
Yang, Bo; Chang, Shinan; Wu, Hongwei; Zhao, Yuanyuan; Leng, Mengyao (2017-12-25)In this article, a combined experimental and computational study was conducted to investigate the heat transfer characteristics of sonic impingement jets on the concave surface of the leading edge of a NACA0015 airfoil. ... -
Experimental and numerical investigation on integrated thermal management for lithium-ion battery pack with composite phase change materials
Xie, Yongqi; Tang, Jincheng; Shi, Shang; Xing, Yuming; Wu, Hongwei; Hu, Zhongliang; Wen, Dongsheng (2017-12-15)In this article, a novel composite phase change materials based thermal management system coupled with air cooling was proposed in order to sustain the temperature rise and distribution within desirable ranges of the ... -
Experimental Assessment of a Modal-Based Multi-Parameter Method for Locating Damage in Composite Laminates
Montalvao, D.; Ribeiro, A. M. R.; Duarte-Silva, J. A. B. (2011-11)The low specific weight of composite materials, together with their excellent mechanical properties, make them suitable to be widely used in many modern engineering structures. However, composite materials are quite sensitive ... -
Experimental evaluation into novel, low cost, modular PEMFC stack
Scott, Paul; Calay, Rajnish; Chen, Yong (Elsevier, 2012)The Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC), despite being regarded as an ideal replacement to the internal combustion engine, is still not an economically attractive pri-mover due to a number of key challenges that ... -
Experimental evaluation of pulse electric current effect on residual stresses in composite-to-copper joints
Stepanov, G.V.; Babutskyi, Anatolii; Mameev, I.A.; Ferraris, M.; Casalegno, V.; Salvo, M. (2008)Experimental method for evaluation of residual stress distribution in carbon fiber reinforced carbon composite jointed to copper is presented. Pulse electric current passed through composite-to-copper joint essentially ... -
Experimental evaluation of the electric pulse effect on residual stresses in a Ti-Al-Si-Ag coating
Stepanov, G.V.; Babutskyi, Anatolii; Mameev, I.A. (2008)Experimental results and stress-strain state simulation by the finite element method show that a thin oxidation-resistant coating sputtered onto a titanium alloy substrate develops high-level residual stresses. The electric ... -
Experimental investigation into a novel Modular PEMFC fuel cell stack
Scott, Paul; Chen, Yong; Calay, Rajnish; Bhinder, F. (2015-04-23)The polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC), despite being regarded as an ideal replacement to the internal combustion engine, is still not an economically attractive prime-mover due to a number of key challenges ... -
Experimental investigation into the effect of magnetic fuel reforming on diesel combustion and emissions running on wheat germ and pine oil
Thiyagarajan, Subramanian; Herfatmanesh, Mohammad; Geo, Varuvel Edwin; Peng, Zhijun (2019-04-01)The present study aims to explore the effect of fuel ionisation on engine performance, emission and combustion characteristics of a twin cylinder compression ignition (CI) engine running on biofuel. Wheat germ oil (WGO) ... -
Experimental investigation into the effects of two-stage injection on fuel injection quantity, combustion and emissions in a high-speed optical common rail diesel engine
Herfatmanesh, M.R.; Lu, P.; Attar, M.A.; Zhao, H. (2013-07-01)Diesel combustion and the formation of pollutants are directly influenced by the spatial and temporal distributions of the fuel within the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine. The requirements for more ... -
Experimental Investigation of a Novel Design of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Stack
Scott, Paul; Calay, Rajnish (2013-03)The results of a design study of a novel proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) are presented in this paper. The need for alternative sustainable energy generation is growing as finite fossil fuel resources are gradually ... -
Experimental investigation of direct injection charge cooling in optical GDI engine using tracer-based PLIF technique
Anbari Attar, Mohammadreza; Herfatmanesh, Mohammad; Zhao, Hua; Cairns, Alasdair (2014-11-30)Investigation of direct injection charge cooling effects is indispensable in design and development of new combustion systems for Gasoline Direct Injection (GDI) engines. The charge cooling can be utilized to increase ... -
Experimental investigation of hydraulic effects of two-stage fuel injection on fuel-injection systems and diesel combustion in a high-speed optical common-rail diesel engine
Herfatmanesh, Mohammad Reza; Zhao, Hua (2014-01-01)In order to meet the ever more stringent emission standards, significant efforts have been devoted to the research and development of internal combustion engines. The requirements for more efficient and responsive diesel ... -
Experimental investigation of shear-driven water film flows on horizontal metal plate
Leng, Mengyao; Chang, Shinan; Wu, Hongwei (2018-06)In this article, an experimental investigation has been conducted to characterize the instantaneous thickness of the surface water film driven by high-speed airflow pertinent to aerodynamic icing and anti-icing modeling. ... -
Experimental investigation on transient characteristics of a dual compensation chamber loop heat pipe subjected to acceleration forces
Xie, Yongqi; Zhou, Yang; Wen, Dongsheng; Wu, Hongwei; Haritos, George; Zhang, Hongxing (2018-02-05)In this article, an experimental study has been conducted to provide better understanding of the transient characteristics of a dual compensation chamber loop heat pipe (DCCLHP) subjected to the acceleration force. A new ... -
Experimental Measurement of the Complex Young’s Modulus on a CFRP Laminate considering the Constant Hysteretic Damping Model
Montalvão, Diogo; Claudio, R. A.; Ribeiro, A. M. R.; Duarte-Silva, J. A. B. (2013)When considering structural loss in vibration problems, the Young’s modulus is a complex value that may be defined in the Argand plane as the vectorial sum of the real part of the Young’s modulus itself and the loss modulus. ... -
Experimental observations of obstructions on floodplains
Liriano, S.L.; Marriott, M.J.; Day, R. (2001)The effect of placing obstructions of similar size but different shapes and at different locations on a floodplain adjacent to a meandering channel is considered. The results from the laboratory model tests show that placing ... -
Experimental study of an energy efficient hybrid system for surface drying
Wang, W.C.; Calay, R.K.; Chen, Y.K. (2011-04)Rapid surface drying is an important and energy intensive process in food and beverage packaging industry. Usually these products are dried at low dew-point temperatures (DPT) −10 to −20 °C and low dry ball temperatures ...