various combustion characteristics and properties are studied while selecting a fuel for any engine. the choice of the engine and fuel are highly interrelated. vegetable oil is one obvious fuel particularly because their fuel properties are closer to diesel fuel. two important properties, the cetane number and the calorific value are similar to diesel. hence diesel engines can be operated on ve...

Fuel properties............................................................................................................................................... 1 Crude oil .................................................................................................................................................... 2 Gasoline .....................................................................

Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) made with different types of ceramic membranes were investigated to find a low-cost alternative to commercially available proton exchange membranes. The MFCs operated with fresh human urine as the fuel. Pyrophyllite and earthenware produced the best performance to reach power densities of 6.93 and 6.85 W m(-3), respectively, whereas mullite and alumina achieved power...

global air pollution is a serious threat caused by excessive use of fossil fuels for transportation. despite the fact that diesel fuel is a big environmental pollutant as it contains different hydrocarbons, sulphur and crude oil residues, it is yet regarded as a highly critical fuel due to its wide applications. nowadays, biodiesel as a renewable additive is blended with diesel fuel to achieve ...

Because of high pressure fluctuations in Combination Electronic Unit Pump (CEUP) system during fuel injection cycles, physical properties of diesel fuel including density, acoustic wave speed and bulk modulus also vary. These physical properties of fuel have significant importance in predicting the fuel injection behavior and its optimization. A 1D viscous damped mathematical model of wave equa...

0010-2180/$ see front matter 2010 The Combust doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2010.07.001 * Corresponding author. Address: Department of Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 0854 E-mail address: [email protected] (S. Dooley An implicit methodology based on chemical group theory to formulate a jet aviation fuel surrogate by the measurements of several combustion related fuel propertie...

The fuel properties of wood can be summarized by ultimate and proximate analysis and determination of the high heating value. It is not valid to list these values for species since a species has not been adequately sampled and tested. Enough is known, however, to say that softwoods have a high heating value of about 9,000 Btu per pound; whereas hardwoods have a value of about 8,600 Btu per poun...

Physical-and-chemical properties of Chernobyl hot particles (radionuclide and dispersal composition, nuclear fuel burn-up and radionuclides fractionation, composition of particle matrix etc.) including the fuel particles as specific form of Chernobyl radioactive fall-out were studied [!]• Attempt to reconstruct the conditions of the fuel particles (FP) formation during the accident was done [2,...