Under conditions of lean fueling or high exhaust gas recirculation, interactions between residual cylinder gas and freshly injected fuel and air produce undesirable combustion instabilities in spark-ignition engines. The resulting dynamics can be described as noisy bifurcations of a nonlinear map and are complicated by cylinder-to-cylinder coupling. We discuss the key dynamic features relevant ...

The existence of a critical pressure gradient needed to drive the interchange instability is experimentally demonstrated in the simple magnetized torus TORoidal Plasma EXperiment A. Fasoli et al., Phys. Plasmas 13, 055902 2006 . This gradient is reached during a scan in the neutral gas pressure pn. Around a critical value for pn, depending on the magnetic configuration and on the injected rf po...

The X-ray data obtained with XMM-Newton is used to investigate the complex structure of the gas in the atmosphere of the Virgo cluster around M87. We construct a simple model for the temperature and density distribution. This model implies that the cumulative mass of the cluster gas is a power-law of its entropy index, kT n−2/3, similar to the Hydra cluster. This supports the idea that such pow...

Steamflood as one of thermal EOR method is effective to reduce the amount oil left in reservoir by mechanisms such reducing viscosity oil, evaporation, and displacement steam. In this method, fluid injected continuously into some injection wells displace obtain production from other wells. However, there are problems with steamflood process that still not optimally solved. There an early channe...

NOx removal from an actual boiler flue gas was investigated using a commercial ozonizor for indirect NO oxidation and a scrubber using Na2SO3 . The flue gas was in the range of 470~1,480 Nm/h, the gas temperature of 327C, and NOx concentration of 40 ppm. Approximately 80% of NOx removal efficiency was achieved during 180 min of system operation by maintaining pH of 8 and oxidation reduction pot...

Several methods are known for the detection of traces of solvents in oil or paraffin. A gravimetric method (3) and a rapid colorimetrie method for the determination of residual solvents (4) are not sensitive enough. The same is true for the method developed by Eisdorf er &,Mehlenbacher (5) for the detenninatipn of trichloroethylene in plant oils after extraction with xylene. Rather sensitive de...

The active-pressurization of cryogenic propellant tanks for the launcher application was analyzed in this study. Therefore, ground experiments, numerical simulations and analytical studies were performed with the following important results: In order to minimize the required pressurant gas mass, a higher pressurant gas temperature is advantageous or the application of helium as pressurant gas. ...

Pipelines, wellbores and ground installations are permanently controlled by sensors spread across the crucial points in the whole area. One of the most popular techniques to support proper oil drive in a wellbore is a Gas Lift. In this paper we present the concept of using wireless sensor network (WSN) in the oil and gas industry installations. Assuming that Gas Lift Valves (GLVs) in a wellbore...