Spray Diagnostics Measurements of an air blast atomizer at ambient pressure conditions are presented. The atomizer was developed by United Technologies Aerospace Systems as part of a combustor design for NASA's Environmentally Responsible Aviation (ERA) N+2 advanced, low NOx combustor technologies program. The goals of this combustor design is to meet or exceed the N+2 LTO NOx goal of 75% reduc...

A study has been carried out to investigate the influence of soot contaminated automotive lubricants in the wear process of a simulated engine valve train contact. Previous research on this topic has been mainly performed from a chemical point of view in fundamental studies, with insufficient relevance to real engine conditions i.e. load and geometry. This study investigates the conditions unde...

An experimental and numerical investigation of counterflow prevaporized partially premixed n-heptane flames is reported. The major objective is to provide well-resolved experimental data regarding the detailed structure and emission characteristics of these flames, including profiles of C1–C6, and aromatic species (benzene and toluene) that play an important role in soot formation. n-Heptane is...

This is part two of the paper on conceptual design of an engine valve. The previous paper describes the background and the need of an engine valve for an internal combustion engine. The present state of the engine valve technology and the innovations incorporated in its design has been described. This paper presents the conceptualization of an innovative valve train aiming at lesser number of c...

Gas-lifted oil wells are susceptible to failure through malfunction of gas lift valves. This is a growing concern as offshore wells are drilled thousands of meters below the ocean floor in extreme temperature and pressure conditions and repair and monitoring become more difficult. Gas lift valves and oil well systems have been modeled but system failure modes are not well understood. In this pa...

Abstract In this work, it is analyzed the effect of partial substitution Fe by Ni in a BaFeO 3 perovskite to be used as catalyst for NO x -assisted diesel soot oxidation. A series BaFe 1−x O (x = 0, 0.2, 0.4 and 0.8) catalysts have been synthesized using sol–gel method. The characterized ICP-OES, XRD, XPS, 2 -TPD, H -TPR- TEM. catalytic activity oxidation determined Temperature Programmed React...

One of the main controlling parameters in diesel engine combustion is the fuel – air mixing process that has direct effects on engine performance and pollutant emissions, reviewing over previous literature showed that split injection strategies could satisfy this purpose very well. For the first time and in this paper, pilot and double injection strategies were combined and formed new triple in...

Diesel engine emission standards are being more stringent as it gains more publicity in industry and transportation. Hence, designers have to suggest new controlling strategies which result in small amounts of emissions and a reasonable fuel economy. To achieve such a target, multi-objective optimization methodology is a good approach inasmuch as several types of ...

diesel engine emission standards are being more stringent as it gains more publicity in industry and transportation. hence, designers have to suggest new controlling strategies which result in small amounts of emissions and a reasonable fuel economy. to achieve such a target, multi-objective optimization methodology is a good approach inasmuch as several types of objective are minimized or maxi...