introduction: rheumatic heart disease still remains one of the leading causes of congestive heart failure and death owing to valvular pathologies, in developing countries. valve replacement still remains the treatment of choice in such patients.the aim of this study wasto analyze the postoperative outcome of  double valve replacement (mitral and aortic ) in patients of rheumatic heart disease. ...

Due to the large contribution of the coldstart process to unburned hydrocarbon emissions of an internal combustion engine during FTP cycle tests, we take a new look at the production of hydrocarbons inside the combustion chamber during coldstart. To this end a model is developed which predicts the exhaust port hydrocarbon concentration, exhaust gas temperature and equivalence ratio based on a s...

A scroll expander exhaust recovery system with the battery is proposed to improve exhaust recovery efficiency. Based on the exhaust flow, storage pressure and the battery current, expander supply pressure was optimized with the loss model based on the expansion and generator loss. And then the supply pressure controller was designed to track the optimized supply pressure reference using the inp...

Nowadays, ceramic exhaust gas sensors are installed in quantities of millions in automotive exhaust gas systems. Almost any automobile being powered by a gasoline combustion engine is equipped with at least one zirconia exhaust gas oxygen sensor (l probe) for detection of the air-to-fuel ratio l. The first part of this short overview focuses on potentiometric as well as on amperometric zirconia...

This paper presents performance study of Peugeot MM540 diesel engine using biodiesel prepared from used cooking oil. Transesterification process is followed to produce bio diesel and is blended with diesel in different proportion of 22:78 and 24:76 by volume and named as blend B22 and B24 respectively. Engine was run at different loads (0, 15, 30, 35, and 40kg) with constant speed of 1000rpm se...

infective endocarditis is one of the most severe complications of parenteral drug abuse. the outstanding clinical feature of infective endocarditis in intravenous drug abusers is the high incidence of right-sided valve infection, and the tricuspid valve is involved in 60% to 70% of the cases. we herein report a case of isolated pulmonic valve infective endocarditis with a native pulmonary valve.

48 V mild hybrid electric vehicles (MHEVs) are considered to the prospective near-term solution for cost-effective vehicle electrification. In this study, fuel consumption improvement of various synergistic engine technologies was experimentally investigated with a P0 hybridization. The details application and optimization each technology were effect quantitatively identified. A combination inc...