Fuel Analysis Articles
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Advanced Diesel Engine Testing Center - JCB Power Systems - Derby, UK - Case Study
Project Overview: Sierra CP designed and constructed ten new test cells to meet the requirements for the development of high specification test cell project for low emissions diesel engines up to 300kW with fast transient measurement capability and the latest cycle emissions measurement systems. To meet ongoing key engine development and testing milestones during the 24-month construction ...
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Taking matters into hand - Case Study
Biofuels must be up to scratch as contaminated or improperly blended fuel can damage a company’s bottom line. To ensure product quality several options exist including laboratory analysis, field test kits and portable lab instruments. Laboratory testing would be the ideal solution if everyone had the budget and the time to wait for the results. But in a market where time is money, quick ...
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Coal Gasifier & Biomass Gasifier
Syngas analyzer apply in gasifier 1. Coal gasifier The coal gasifier can be divided into four modes by the movement pattern of the coal in the gasifier: fixed bed (moving bed), fluidized bed, entrained bed and molten bed. While it can be summarized to atmospheric and high pressure styles according to the gasification operating pressure. Based on the feeding method, the coal gasifier contains ...
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Case Study: Monitoring Fuel Treatment with On-Site Fuel Analysis
Version 8 of our industry leading SpectrOil Optical Emission Spectrometers offers significant performance improvements and enhanced productivity. In particular the sensitivity of the instrument has been improved markedly to allow detection of trace metals down to the part per billion (ppb) level. This capability is particularly important to power generators using liquid fuel, as high levels of ...
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How to Choose the Right Energy Management Software [GUIDE]
Happy New Year! Wait, what’s wrong? Not so happy? In trouble trying to choose the right energy management software for your project? Oh no! We can just picture the scene: your desk is piled high with brochures, quotes and provider offers… and the clock is ticking. Yours is the classic energy manager dilemma: the longer you put off your decision, the fewer energy savings you will be ...
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Additives for Fuel Economy
In our time, the possession of a private vehicle is costly, especially if it does not participate in any business processes. The main item of expenditure is not even wear and replacement of various parts, but high prices for fuel. The situation is complicated by the fact that not all engines consume fuel sparingly. Therefore, car owners have to look for some method to save their money. One of ...
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Fuel Homogenization
The structure of the financial expenses of automotive businesses and boiler plants is quite varied, though it still allows to identify the main expenditures. First of all, it is the fuel, which accounts for no less than 40% of all costs. Fuel homogenization devices are designed to increase the quality of combustion, thereby saving resources. Homogenized fuel features good performance, burns ...
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Guide for Measuring Fuel Dilution in Lubricating Oil
Fuel dilution in oil can cause serious engine damage. High levels of fuel (>2%) in a lubricant can result in decreased viscosity, oil degradation, loss of dispersancy, and loss of oxidation stability. Fuel dilution is one of the most important lubricant failure modes in internal combustion engines. It usually occurs due to improper fuel-to-air ratio. Fuel dilution can also occur due to ...
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EU fuel quality monitoring — 2014
Each year, under the requirements of the European Union (EU) Fuel Quality Directive (FQD) (1), EU Member States must report various types of information relating to the quality of petrol and diesel fuels sold in their territories. More specifically, Member States must sample fuels each year and analyse their technical characteristics to ensure that they are consistent with the requirements of the ...
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6th edition: Biomass-to-Power 2015/2016
This study is the world’s largest of its kind. It is the standard work of the industry for electricity generation from solid biomass. The 6th updated edition includes: Specific data on around 4,200 units in nearly 2,900 biomass power plants and over 320 biomass co-incinerators worldwide. The biomass power plants have an electricity generation capacity of over 47 GWel. The description ...
By ecoprog GmbH
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Assessment of a CHP system based on economical, fuel consumption and environmental considerations
Combined heat and power (CHP) systems which are able to produce heating and power simultaneously, are getting more attention since they have many economical and environmental benefits. CHP systems for buildings are an important application of CHP on various systems designs. In this study, we have investigated a CHP system applicable for the building of Azad University of Shahrood. The prime mover ...
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Monitoring Air/Fuel Mixtures in Glass and Glass Fiber Manufacturing case study
Measurement of Premix Gas. To produce the desired flame in a glass forehearth or when making fiberglass (glass fiber) insulation, an air/fuel pre-mixer is used. The pre-mixer combines compressed natural gas or propane with air and this mixture is then piped to the process burners At the burner, a fuelrich or fuel-lean flame is produced depending on the air/ fuel ratio selected. In many ...
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Exergetic performance of a cylindrical methane–air microcombustor under various inlet conditions
The entropy generation analysis is performed on a methane–air cylindrical microcombustor. The combustor is studied under different fuel–air equivalence ratios and two different inlet velocities. The results reveal that entropy generation due to heat transfer has the highest contribution to the total exergy destruction. Besides, the chemical and mixing entropy generations have the next greatest ...
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Exergetic cost analysis of a CI engine fuelled with petrodiesel and palm and karanja biodiesels: a comparative assessment
This paper deals with evaluation of suitable fuel for a 4–stroke single–cylinder diesel engine operated at steady state amongst three fuels - petrodiesel (PD), palm biodiesel (PB) and karanja biodiesel (KB) - through exergy, economic and thermoeconomic analyses. Based on exegy analysis, PB is found to be the best fuel with highest exergetic efficiencies 26.02%. However, PD evolves to be best fuel ...
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Modeling Analysis of Fuel Sprays
Current engine development processes in which computations play an important role have sought for numerical models which can accurately represent phenomena in spray combustion. The authors have developed original sub-models taking into account the effects of extensive spray combustion phenomena including nozzle cavitation, droplet breakup behavior, multi-component evaporation process, spray-wall ...
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Performance of air cathode earthen pot microbial fuel cell for simultaneous wastewater treatment with bioelectricity generation
Air cathode earthen pot microbial fuel cell (ACEMFC) was made using low cost earthen pots as a separator coated with conductive carbon black on the exterior to work as a cathode. ACEMFC was operated in fed–batch mode with synthetic wastewater containing acetate as anolyte (0.40 L) at a fixed external resistance of 100 Ω. Carbon cloth (projected surface area of 32 cm2) was used as anode. Sludge ...
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High graded gasoline is effect of fuel cavitation
Is that possible to receive mid octane gasoline by mixing of low octane gasoline, with high-octane? It depends of the some factors such as the method of mixing and a gasoline proportion. Really, fuel with demanded octane number can be received by fuel cavitation of a high-octane grade with the low-octane. In practice a demanded proportion of gasoline of two brands for receiving the third ...
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Xp3 Fuel Efficiency and Maintenance Case Study by Pepsi Guatemala
PEPSI Guatemala Fuel: Diesel Machine/Type: Truck/Motor Test: Fuel Efficiency and Maintenance OBJECTIVE Evaluation of Xp³ for Diesel’s effectiveness in transport units Nos. 950 y 945. Fuel consumption history, oil analysis, and injectors were checked before Xp³ was added. Oil analyses were conducted after 5,352 km, with and without Xp³. In addition, a detail record of fuel ...
By Xp3 Canada
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Methods of oil/fuel analysis
PC GlobeCore can propose you to make a reclaiming test of yours example of fuel (oil) to verify the possibility of clean it. If the oil is contaminated and not suitable for use, filtration can be recommended. Or, you can also make this test by yourself using our laboratory/test-bench transformer oil vacuum regeneration system UVR. The regenerated samples exceeded yours expectations. Average ...
By GlobeCore PC
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Energetic and exergetic performance assessment of a turboprop engine at various loads
It is necessary to understand the mechanisms that have enabled improvements of performance parameters such as thermodynamics efficiencies, thrust or power, specific fuel consumption and specific power in aero engines, thus reducing environmental impact. In this study, a thermodynamic analysis of a turboprop engine is performed at full and partial load conditions. The maximum overall and exergy ...
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