This series of articles is concerned with how carbohydrate, lipid and amino acid metabolism in different tissues is integrated for the benefit of the whole animal. The tissues of the body oxidize a variety of organic compounds for production of biological energy in the form of ATP. These compounds include glucose, fatty acids, ketone bodies and some amino acids and for the purpose of these arti...

The present study analyzes the heat release and combustion characteristics of diesel, pure biodiesel (B100) obtained from Jatropha oil and its 80% blending with Ethanol (BD80E20) and Acetone (BD80AC20) as fuels in a single cylinder four stroke direct injection (DI) diesel engine. The analyses of experimental results indicate that the pressure of the in-cylinder gases rise early in case of B100,...

-Starting with information from Indian Point 1, a full size nuclear plant with fossil-fuel superheat which was built and operated, this paper examines the effect of superheat on both energy and exergy performance, as well as on the thermoeconomics of such plants. The study finds that adding superheat to the nearly saturated steam generated by water-cooled nuclear reactors increases the amount o...

Fire behavior predictions, as well as measures of uncertainty in those predictions, are essential in operational and strategic fire management decisions. While it is becoming common practice to assess uncertainty in fire behavior predictions arising from variability in weather inputs, uncertainty arising from the fire models themselves is difficult to assess. This is the case with fires in crow...

the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of injection parameters on a heavy duty diesel engine performance and emission characteristics. in order to analyze the injection and spray characteristics of diesel fuel with employing high-pressure common-rail injection system, the injection characteristics such as injection delay, injection duration, injection rate, number of nozzle hole...