The kinetic parameters of ethylene combustion in the presence of acetic acid, i.e., during the synthesis of vinyl acetate and in the absence of acetic acid, have been measured in the temperature range 413–453 K over Pd supported on a high surface area SiO2 (600 m 2/g) at pressures ranging from 5.0 to 15.0 kPa of C2H4 and 1.0 to 10.0 kPa of O2. CO2 formation as a function of the partial pressure...

In this paper, finite-time thermodynamic analysis of an air-standard internal-combustion Dual cycle is performed. Maximum power (MP), maximum power density (MPD), maximum efficient power (MEP) which are three alternative performance criteria are derived. The effects of the design parameters such as volume ratio and extreme temperature ratio of the cycle have been investigated under MP, MPD and ...

This paper is to seek effective scheme of boiler efficiency optimization, it uses Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm to optimize boiler efficiency based on the model of boiler combustion efficiency. First, an optimization model of boiler efficiency, which takes boiler efficiency function as optimization objective, is set up according to the heat loss of boiler combustion. Moreover, the opera...

Homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) is an advanced combustion concept that is developed as an alternative to diesel engines with higher thermal efficiency along with ultralow NOx and PM emissions. To study the performance of this novel technique, experiments were performed in a two cylinder engine, in which one cylinder is modified to operate in HCCI mode while other cylinder operate...

Combustion quality in power station boilers plays an important role in minimizing the flue gas emissions. In the present work various intelligent schemes to infer the flue gas emissions by monitoring the flame colour at the furnace of the boiler are proposed here. Flame image monitoring involves capturing the flame video over a period of time with the measurement of various parameters like Carb...

In development of Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) engines, simultaneous control of combustion phasing and power output has been a major challenge. In this study, a new strategy is developed to control the engine power output and combustion phasing at any desired operating condition. A single zone thermodynamic model coupled to a full kinetic mechanism of Primary Reference Fuels (...

Combustion behaviour of coal and biomass are different due to difference in their physical and chemical properties. Thermogravimetric analysis is a useful technique to determine combustion characteristics of coal/biomass blends. This study elaborates the lab scale findings of co-combustion experiments in Thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA) [in which Differential Scanning Calorimetric (DSC) and The...

Original scientific paper In principle, an exhaust system influences the maximum output and characteristic of a two-stroke combustion engine. The first part of the contribution deals with the possibility of transformation in a maximum output and a range of exploitable speed values by means of the change of exhaust manifold length in exhaust pipe section. This knowledge covers an output curve va...

Spark timing of an Internal Combustion (IC) engine is often limited by engine knock in the advanced direction. The ability to operate the engine at its advanced (borderline knock) spark limit is the key for improving output power and fuel economy. Due to combustion cycle-to-cycle variations, IC engine combustion behaves similar to a random process and so does the engine performance criteria, su...