Fuel cells, process heat integration and open gas turbine electricity cogeneration can be optimized simultaneously using nonlinear programming (NLP) algorithm. The NLP model contains equations of structural and parametric optimization and is used to optimize complex and energy intensive continuous processes. The procedure does not guarantee the global cost optimum, but it does lead to good, per...

The discharge quality and optimum pump parameters of a long-pulse high-pressure gas discharge excited KrCl laser are investigated. A three-electrode prepulse–mainpulse excitation circuit is employed as pump source. The discharge volume contains a gas mixture of HCl/Kr/Ne operated at a total pressure of up to 5 bar. For a plane–plane resonator, the divergence of both output laser beams is measur...

Mansuri oil field, which is located at the South-West of Iran, has sand production problem and primary analyses proved the existence of this phenomenon in this field. Generally, there are three methods to evaluate the sand production state which are empirical, numerical, mathematical, and physical. Considering the numerical capability to analyze complex geometries under high stresses condition,...

Efficiency data for MVG trays with truncated downcomers are presented for the first time. Various operating conditions including vacuum and high pressure are considered. While 7 bar and 11 bar data are very promising it has been possible to show that a uniform liquid flow pattern does indeed affect the efficiency at atmospheric pressure positively. A special downcomer outlet device has been dev...

one of the most valid and efficient models of long rod projectile penetration in homogeneous targets is tate and alekseevskii’s (a&t;) model. based on tate’s model, the present research tries to calculate the optimum speeds to achieve the maximum penetration depth in the homogeneous targets. the proposed collision speed-penetration depth diagrams are developed using tate’s model. in this way, v...

A thermophilic, anaerobic, piezophilic, chemo-organotrophic sulfur-reducing bacterium, designated as KA3T, was isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal chimney sample collected at a depth of 2630 m on the East-Pacific Rise (13 degrees N). When grown under elevated hydrostatic pressure, the cells are rod-shaped with a sheath-like outer structure, motile, have a mean length of 1-1.5 microm and stain...

kinetic parameters of the ammonolysis reaction of dichloroethane in nonaqueous media are studied and the optimum reaction conditions are reported. a suitable reactor for running the reaction under high pressure in the range of 50 to 500 °c is designed. kinetic behaviours of the system is studied and other reaction parameters such as rate constant, kinetic order, and activation energy are determ...

The optimum arterial perfusion pressure during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) remains uncertain. A correlation in some form with the patients' resting pressure almost certainly exists. Temperature and hematocrit affect blood viscosity. The optimum perfusion pressure during aortic surgery will vary after the initiation of CPB resulting cooling, heating, and hematocrit changes. Poiseuille's Law was...

Turbocharged CNG engines produce high NOx emission due to the fuel type and high combustion temperature. In this research, the effects of lean-burn and waste gate opening pressure threshold on NOx emission are studied theoretically and experimentally at WOT condition as well as 13-mode ECE-R49 test cycle. A code is developed in MATLAB environment for predicting engine NOx and the results are va...