Spark-assisted homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) combustion may be a method to improve the operation of HCCI engines. In the current study, the impact of spark assist on the fundamental properties of ignition and combustion was investigated in a single cylinder, optically-accessible research engine. Early port fuel injection and air preheating were used with indolene fuel in the st...

Much effort has been devoted to the study of nonlocal electron transport in laser-produced plasmas.'J Most of the work has involved the numerical solution of the electron Fokker-Planck (FP) equation in one dimension by finite difference techniques. Comparisons with standard fluid transport calculations using Spitzer-Harm (SH)3 heat flow 2, = K ~ T has revealed the occurrence of hot-electron "pr...

A considerable body of empirical and theoretical research suggests that morphological structure governs the representation of words in memory and that many words are decomposed into morphological components in processing. The authors investigated an alternative approach in which morphology arises from the interaction of semantic and phonological codes. A series of cross-modal lexical decision e...

The quality of Dutch cucumbers in storage was investigated by four kinds of storage technique, especially such as weight loss, soluble solid content, firmness and their appearance. The results indicates that the quality of the Dutch cucumbers stored after pre-cooling is very near that of those stored after preheating, while they are higher than that of those primarily stored. And the quality of...

Optimum utilisation of the available energy is vital to eliminate waste heat and address other environmental issues. This study concerned with design a exchanger for optimum use loss from flue gases. The content in exhaust gases can be applied absorption chiller preheat dilute solution (lithium bromide) before entering high-temperature generator. exploitation glass furnace outlet gas temperatur...

J. Cárcel-Carrasco; M. Pascual; M. Pérez-Puig; F. Segovia. ITM-Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain). Camino de vera s/n, 46022 Valencia (Spain). Corresponding author, Email: [email protected] This work compares the weldability of ductile iron when: (I) a root weld is applied with a tungsten inert gas (TIG) process using an Inconel 625 source rod and filler welds are subsequently applie...