Availability changes with crank angle at the optimum engine operating point of 4000 rpm and WOT for CNG fuelling, CNG and gasoline engine operations at optimal engine conditions with the equivalence ratio Φ = 1.1, distribution of fuel availability of CNG and gasoline fuelled engine at equivalence ratio of Φ = 1.1, entropytemperature diagram for the engine optimal operating point and CNG fuellin...

When dealing with customers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) classify vehicular usage by resorting to simplified, often colloquial, descriptions that allow for a rough understanding of the operating conditions and user’s needs. In this way, information retrieved from customers is exploited guide their choices in terms vehicle design configuration, based on characteristics transpo...

Supplier selection has significant impact on life cycle cost of complex product system (CoPS). In this paper, a new variant of supplier selection problem named life cycle supplier selection of CoPS (LSS&CoPS) problem is addressed. There are three kinds of choices for a manufacturer to complete a CoPS: self-made, purchasing the finished component and outsourcing. Different selection not only res...

This paper presents the intelligent operating system for the Larox variable volume pressure filter and the online test results obtained with an industrial Larox filter at a Finnish process site. Preliminary analysis of the results indicates that the system works well. During testing, suitable operating parameters for faster filtration cycle were discovered and the production rate was increased....

We explore the potential of the nonlinear amplifying loop mirror (NALM)-based phase-preserving 2R (reamplification and reshaping) regenerator for simultaneous regeneration of multiple wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) channels. While not considering nonlinear multi-channel propagation, we address two issues of the phase-preserving NALM that appear to us as the major obstacles in adopting it...

In recent years, considerable progress has been made in unraveling the control mechanisms operating on the plant cell cycle and most of the key regulators have now been identified, including cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs), cyclins, CDK-inhibitory proteins, the WEE kinase and proteins of the retinoblastoma-related protein (RBR)/E2F/DP pathway. The review discusses recent developments in our und...

We study the impact parameter dependence of solutions to the Balitsky-Kovchegov (BK) equation. We argue that if the kernel of the BK integral equation is regulated to cutoff infrared singularities, then it can be approximated by an equation without diffusion in impact parameter. For some purposes, when momentum scales large compared to ΛQCD are probed, the kernel may be approximated as massless...