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Full-Text Articles in Engineering
Tropospheric Ozone And Co Over North Atlantic For The Past Decade, Mark F. Weise
Tropospheric Ozone And Co Over North Atlantic For The Past Decade, Mark F. Weise
Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open
We investigate how declines in US emissions of CO and O3 precursors have impacted the lower free troposphere over the North Atlantic. We use seasonal observations for O3 and CO from the PICO-NARE project for the period covering 2001 to 2010. Observations are used to verify model output generated by the GEOS-Chem 3-D global chemical transport model. Additional satellite data for CO from AIRS/Aqua and for O3 from TES/Aura were also used to provide additional comparisons; particularly for fall, winter, and spring when PICO-NARE coverage is sparse. We find GEOS-Chem captures the seasonal cycle for CO and O3 well compared …
Computational Prediction Of The Influence Of Crosslink Distribution On The Thermo-Mechanical Properties Of Epoxies, Ananyo Bandyopadhyay
Computational Prediction Of The Influence Of Crosslink Distribution On The Thermo-Mechanical Properties Of Epoxies, Ananyo Bandyopadhyay
Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open
Experimental studies on epoxies report that the microstructure consists of highly crosslinked localized regions connected with a dispersed phase of low crosslink density. The various thermo-mechanical properties of epoxies might be affected by the crosslink distribution. But as experiments cannot report the exact number of crosslinked covalent bonds present in the structure, molecular dynamics is thus being used in this work to determine the influence of crosslink distribution on thermo-mechanical properties. Molecular dynamics and molecular mechanics simulations are used to establish wellequilibrated molecular models of EPON 862-DETDA epoxy system with a range of crosslink densities and various crosslink distributions. Crosslink …
Development Of A Technique For Achieving An Optimum Bsfc For Laf Engine, Shreyash S. Ukidave
Development Of A Technique For Achieving An Optimum Bsfc For Laf Engine, Shreyash S. Ukidave
Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open
The reserves of gasoline and diesel fuels are ever decreasing, which plays an important role in the technological development of automobiles. Numerous countries, especially the United States, wish to slowly decrease their fuel dependence on other countries by producing in house renewable fuels like biodiesels or ethanol. Therefore, the new automobile engines have to successfully run on a variety of fuels without significant changes to their designs. The current study focuses on assessing the potential of ethanol fuels to improve the performance of 'flex-fuel SI engines,' which literally means 'engines that are flexible in their fuel requirement.'
Another important area …
Development Of An Optimization Model For Biofuel Facility Size And Location And A Simulation Model For Design Of A Biofuel Supply Chain, Fengli Zhang
Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open
To mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and reduce U.S. dependence on imported oil, the United States (U.S.) is pursuing several options to create biofuels from renewable woody biomass (hereafter referred to as “biomass”). Because of the distributed nature of biomass feedstock, the cost and complexity of biomass recovery operations has significant challenges that hinder increased biomass utilization for energy production. To facilitate the exploration of a wide variety of conditions that promise profitable biomass utilization and tapping unused forest residues, it is proposed to develop biofuel supply chain models based on optimization and simulation approaches. The biofuel supply chain is …
Implementation Of The Conjugate Heat Transfer Code In Kiva-4, Edward Ng
Implementation Of The Conjugate Heat Transfer Code In Kiva-4, Edward Ng
Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open
KIVA is an open Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) source code that is capable to compute the transient two and three-dimensional chemically reactive fluid flows with spray. The latest version in the family of KIVA codes is the KIVA-4 which is capable of handling the unstructured mesh. This project focuses on the implementation of the Conjugate Heat Transfer code (CHT) in KIVA-4. The previous version of KIVA code with conjugate heat transfer code has been developed at Michigan Technological University by Egel Urip and is be used in this project. During the first phase of the project, the difference in the …
Local Degradation Of Structural, Mechanical, Electrical And Chemical Properties Of Membrane Electrode Assembly In Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell, Nishith Parikh
Local Degradation Of Structural, Mechanical, Electrical And Chemical Properties Of Membrane Electrode Assembly In Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell, Nishith Parikh
Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open
Polymer electrolyte fuel cell (PEMFC) is promising source of clean power in many applications ranging from portable electronics to automotive and land-based power generation. However, widespread commercialization of PEMFC is primarily challenged by degradation. The mechanisms of fuel cell degradation are not well understood. Even though the numbers of installed units around the world continue to increase and dominate the pre-markets, the present lifetime requirements for fuel cells cannot be guarantee, creating the need for a more comprehensive knowledge of material’s ageing mechanism. The objective of this project is to conduct experiments on membrane electrode assembly (MEA) components of PEMFC …
Simulation Of Four Stroke Engine Cycle For A 4 - Valve Pentroof Engine In Kiva 3vr2, Yu Chen
Simulation Of Four Stroke Engine Cycle For A 4 - Valve Pentroof Engine In Kiva 3vr2, Yu Chen
Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open
The main purpose of this project is to understand the process of engine simulation using the open source CFD code called KIVA. This report mainly discusses the simulation of the 4-valve Pentroof engine through KIVA 3VR2. KIVA is an open source FORTRAN code which is used to solve the fluid flow field in the engines with the transient 2D and 3D chemically reactive flow with spray. It also focuses on the complete procedure to simulate an engine cycle starting from pre- processing until the final results. This report will serve a handbook for the using the KIVA code.
Micro Combined Heat And Power Laboratory Development, Thomson Varghese
Micro Combined Heat And Power Laboratory Development, Thomson Varghese
Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open
Micro Combined Heat and Power (Micro-CHP) system produces both electricity and heat required for residential or small business applications. Use of Micro-CHP in a residential application not only creates energy and economic savings but also reduces the carbon foot print of the house or small business. Additionally, micro-CHP can subsidize its cost of operation by selling excess electricity produced back to the grid. Even though Micro-CHP remains attractive on paper, high initial cost and optimization issues in residential scale heat and electrical requirement has kept this technology from becoming a success. To understand and overcome all disadvantages posed my Micro-CHP …
Synthesis Of Computations And Experiments For Obtaining Pulsatile Gas Flow Rates From Dynamic Pressure Difference Measurements Across An Orifice-Plate Meter, Nikhil Ajotikar
Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open
The use of conventional orifice-plate meter is typically restricted to measurements of steady flows. This study proposes a new and effective computational-experimental approach for measuring the time-varying (but steady-in-the-mean) nature of turbulent pulsatile gas flows. Low Mach number (effectively constant density) steady-in-the-mean gas flows with large amplitude fluctuations (whose highest significant frequency is characterized by the value fF) are termed pulsatile if the fluctuations have a direct correlation with the time-varying signature of the imposed dynamic pressure difference and, furthermore, they have fluctuation amplitudes that are significantly larger than those associated with turbulence or random acoustic wave signatures. …
Stochastic Knock Detection Model For Spark Ignited Engines, Yashodeep Lonari
Stochastic Knock Detection Model For Spark Ignited Engines, Yashodeep Lonari
Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open
This report presents the development of a Stochastic Knock Detection (SKD) method for combustion knock detection in a spark-ignition engine using a model based design approach. Knock Signal Simulator (KSS) was developed as the plant model for the engine. The KSS as the plant model for the engine generates cycle-to-cycle accelerometer knock intensities following a stochastic approach with intensities that are generated using a Monte Carlo method from a lognormal distribution whose parameters have been predetermined from engine tests and dependent upon spark-timing, engine speed and load. The lognormal distribution has been shown to be a good approximation to the …
Review Of Free-Space Optical Communications With Diverging Beam, Yuchi Zhang
Review Of Free-Space Optical Communications With Diverging Beam, Yuchi Zhang
Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open
The report reviews the technology of Free-space Optical Communication (FSO) and simulation methods for testing the performance of diverged beam in the technology. In addition to the introduction, the theory of turbulence and its effect over laser is also reviewed. In the simulation revision chapter, on-off keying (OOK) and diverged beam is assumed in the transmitter, and in the receiver, avalanche photodiode (APD) is utilized to convert the photon stream into electron stream. Phase screens are adopted to simulate the effect of turbulence over the phase of the optical beam. Apart from this, the method of data processing is introduced …
Tracking A Non-Cooperative Target Using A Doppler Radar Wireless Sensor Network, Michael K. Blaser
Tracking A Non-Cooperative Target Using A Doppler Radar Wireless Sensor Network, Michael K. Blaser
Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open
Tracking or target localization is used in a wide range of important tasks from knowing when your flight will arrive to ensuring your mail is received on time. Tracking provides the location of resources enabling solutions to complex logistical problems. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) create new opportunities when applied to tracking, such as more flexible deployment and real-time information. When radar is used as the sensing element in a tracking WSN better results can be obtained; because radar has a comparatively larger range both in distance and angle to other sensors commonly used in WSNs. This allows for less nodes …
Design Of High Fidelity Building Energy Monitoring System, Hao Wang
Design Of High Fidelity Building Energy Monitoring System, Hao Wang
Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open
Building energy meter network, based on per-appliance monitoring system, willbe an important part of the Advanced Metering Infrastructure. Two key issues exist for designing such networks. One is the network structure to be used. The other is the implementation of the network structure on a large amount of small low power devices, and the maintenance of high quality communication when the devices have electric connection with high voltage AC line. The recent advancement of low-power wireless communication makes itself the right candidate for house and building energy network. Among all kinds of wireless solutions, the low speed but highly reliable …
Detection Of Complex Point Targets With Distributed Assets In A Mimo Radar System, Ishtiaque Amin
Detection Of Complex Point Targets With Distributed Assets In A Mimo Radar System, Ishtiaque Amin
Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open
The report explores the problem of detecting complex point target models in a MIMO radar system. A complex point target is a mathematical and statistical model for a radar target that is not resolved in space, but exhibits varying complex reflectivity across the different bistatic view angles. The complex reflectivity can be modeled as a complex stochastic process whose index set is the set of all the bistatic view angles, and the parameters of the stochastic process follow from an analysis of a target model comprising a number of ideal point scatterers randomly located within some radius of the targets …
Atp Modeling Of Internal Transformer Faults For Relay Performance Testing, Elizaveta O. Egorova
Atp Modeling Of Internal Transformer Faults For Relay Performance Testing, Elizaveta O. Egorova
Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open
Transformers are very important elements of any power system. Unfortunately, they are subjected to through-faults and abnormal operating conditions which can affect not only the transformer itself but also other equipment connected to the transformer. Thus, it is essential to provide sufficient protection for transformers as well as the best possible selectivity and sensitivity of the protection. Nowadays microprocessor-based relays are widely used to protect power equipment. Current differential and voltage protection strategies are used in transformer protection applications and provide fast and sensitive multi-level protection and monitoring. The elements responsible for detecting turn-to-turn and turn-to-ground faults are the negative-sequence …
Production Of Biofuel Intermediates From Woody Feedstocks Via Fast Pyrolysis And Torrefaction, Jordan Lee Klinger
Production Of Biofuel Intermediates From Woody Feedstocks Via Fast Pyrolysis And Torrefaction, Jordan Lee Klinger
Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open
The main objective of this research was to investigate pyrolysis and torrefaction of forest biomass species using a micropyrolysis instrument. It was found that 30-45% of the original sample mass remained as bio-char in the pyrolysis temperature range of 500 - 700˚C for aspen, balsam, and switchgrass. The non-char mass was converted to gaseous and vapor products, of which 10-55% was water and syngas, 2-12% to acetic acid, 2-12% to hydroxypropanone, 1-3% to furaldehyde, and 5-15% to various phenolic compounds. In addition, several general trends in the evolution of gaseous species were indentified when woody feedstocks were pyrolyzed. With increasing …
A Study On The Feasibility Of Universal Chip Control In Machining, Thimmaiah Kumbera Ganapathi
A Study On The Feasibility Of Universal Chip Control In Machining, Thimmaiah Kumbera Ganapathi
Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open
A novel solution to the long standing issue of chip entanglement and breakage in metal cutting is presented in this dissertation. Through this work, an attempt is made to achieve universal chip control in machining by using chip guidance and subsequent breakage by backward bending (tensile loading of the chip's rough top surface) to effectively control long continuous chips into small segments.
One big limitation of using chip breaker geometries in disposable carbide inserts is that the application range is limited to a narrow band depending on cutting conditions. Even within a recommended operating range, chip breakers do not function …
Engineering Research 2011, College Of Engineering, Michigan Technological University
Engineering Research 2011, College Of Engineering, Michigan Technological University
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Undergraduate Education 2011, College Of Engineering, Michigan Technological University
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