Hydrogen is seen as one of the important energy carriers of the future with potential to reduce local as well as global warming. The main by-product of the combustion of hydrogen in air is water vapor and trace quantities of oxides of nitrogen. An experiment was conducted to study the impact of hydrogen/natural gas blends on performance, thermodynamic efficiency and exhaust gas emissions in ...

Experiments were conducted to evaluate the performance of a high grade low heat rejection (LHR) diesel engine with air gap insulated piston, air gap insulated liner and ceramic coated cylinder head [ceramic coating of thickness 500 microns was done on inside portion of cylinder head] with different operating conditions [normal temperature and pre-heated temperature] of crude pongamia oil (CPO) ...

PID systems are widely used to apply control without the need to obtain a dynamic model. However, the performance of controllers designed using standard on-line tuning methods, such as Ziegler}Nichols, can often be signi"cantly improved. In this paper the tuning process is automated through the use of continuous action reinforcement learning automata (CARLA). These are used to simultaneously tu...

Investigations were carried out to evaluate the performance of a high grade low heat rejection (LHR) diesel engine with air gap insulated piston, air gap insulated liner and ceramic coated cylinder head [ceramic coating of thickness 500 microns was done on inside portion of cylinder head] with different operating conditions [normal temperature and pre-heated temperature] of crude waste fried ve...

The studies of CNG/gasoline dual-fuel engine system model are relatively few. The design deficiencies of CNG/gasoline dual-fuel engine speed controller exist. In this paper, the design and simulation of CNG/gasoline engine speed controller based on Matlab were put forward. On the basis of reasonable CNG engine model, the digital PID speed controller and adaptive fuzzy PID speed controller model...

Tuning a local Web site to generate better local search results is a time consuming and tedious process. In this paper, we describe a technique that can help to automate this process. Specifically, when a genetic algorithm is applied to a local search engine’s parameters, the performance of the local search engine can be improved. Once good values for the search engine have been learned, it is ...

Biodiesel is receiving increasing attention each passing day because of its fuel properties and compatibility with the petroleum-based diesel fuel (PBDF). Therefore, in this study, the prediction of the engine performance and exhaust emissions is carried out for five different neural networks to define how the inputs affect the outputs using the biodiesel blends produced from waste frying palm ...

This paper presents the effect of friction on the performance of spark ignition engine using gas mixture as working fluid. The results were compared to frictionless engine. Engine parameters that were studied include equivalence ratio, engine speed, break mean effective pressure (BMEP), and cycle thermal efficiency. It was found for the frictionless engine operating at 6000 rev min and stoichio...

In this paper we model a two-level cache of a Web search engine, such that given memory resources, we find the optimal split fraction to allocate for each cache, results and index. The final result is very simple and implies to compute just five parameters that depend on the input data and the performance of the search engine. The model is validated through extensive experimental results and is...

Spark timing of an Internal Combustion (IC) engine is often limited by engine knock in the advanced direction. The ability to operate the engine at its advanced (borderline knock) spark limit is the key for improving output power and fuel economy. Due to combustion cycle-to-cycle variations, IC engine combustion behaves similar to a random process and so does the engine performance criteria, su...