The calculating method for fuel consumption (FC) was put forward and calibrated and the characteristics of the fuel consumption on intersections were analyzed based on 18 groups of vehicular operating data which were acquired from the test experiment of a single vehicle along the urban arterial roads in Harbin, China. The results obtained show that 50.36% of the fuel consumption for the test ve...

Residential energy use in developing countries has traditionally been associated with combustion devices of poor energy efficiency, which have been shown to produce substantial health-damaging pollution, contributing significantly to the global burden of disease, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Precision of these estimates in China has been hampered by limited data on stove use and fuel con...

To carry out the investigation, a cylinder pressure model was developed based on the position of the crankshaft, engine load, engine speed, and fuel injection time. This model takes into account the maximum number of parameters involved. The accuracy of the model was verified by experimental results. The average error of the cylinder pressure, the average radical of the square of the error of t...

Biomass Briquetting is the process of converting low bulk density agro waste into high density fuel, by the process of mass densification. It is a type of Solid Waste Management by reducing the volume of solid waste mass sent to land-fills, where it is presently burnt or buried without proper care. These are good replacements for conventional cooking fuels, economical and eco-friendly and utili...

In ecosystems with frequent surface fires, fire and fuel heterogeneity at relevant scales have been largely ignored. This could be because complete burns give an impression of homogeneity, or due to the difficulty in capturing fine-scale variation in fuel characteristics and fire behaviour. Fire movement between patches of fuel can have implications for modelling fire spread and understanding e...

Haman, François. Shivering in the cold: from mechanisms of fuel selection to survival. J Appl Physiol 100: 1702–1708, 2006; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.01088.2005.—In coldexposed adult humans, significant or lethal decreases in body temperature are delayed by reducing heat loss via peripheral vasoconstriction and by increasing rates of heat production via shivering thermogenesis. This brief review...

proton exchange membrane fuel cells (pemfcs) are electrochemical devices that show the highest power densities compared to the other type of fuel cell. in this work, nanocomposite membranes used for proton exchange membrane fuel cells as poly(vinyl alcohol)/la2ce2o7 (pva-lc) with the aim of increasing the water uptake and proton conductivity. glutaraldehyde (ga) was used as cross linking agent ...