Due to their high relative cost, solar-electric energy systems have yet to be exploited on a widespread basis. It is believed in the energy community that a technology similar to photovoltaics, but offered at about $1/W, would lead to widespread deployment at residential and commercial sites. This paper addresses the feasibility study of a low-cost solar-thermal electricity generation technolog...

An experimental investigation and optimization study of various piston geometries was conducted on Greaves single cylinder direct injection compression ignition engine using straight diesel and blends of rice bran biodiesel. The three combustion chamber geometries used in this study were Standard toroidal piston (STP), hemispherical bowl piston (HBP) and Shallow toroidal re-entrant piston (STRP...

The friction pair of piston rings and cylinder liner is one of the most important friction couplings in an internal combustion engine. It influences engine efficiency and service life. Under the excitation of piston slaps, the dynamic deformation of cylinder liner is close to the surface roughness magnitudes, which can affect the friction and lubrication performance between the piston rings and...

Diesel engines have been widely used in various engineering applications. The performance of diesel engines is influenced greatly by the operation condition of the cylinder liner-piston ring. It is therefore crucial to investigate and assess the working condition of the cylinder liner-piston ring. Literature review indicated that there are few studies on this issue. Therefore, this study propos...

Using a multidimensional cut-off technique, we obtain expressions for the cut-off dependent part of the vacuum energy for parallelepiped geometries in any spatial dimension d. The cut-off part yields nonrenormalizable hypersurface divergences and we show explicitly that they cancel in the Casimir piston scenario in all dimensions. We obtain two different expressions for the d-dimensional Casimi...

Drug delivery through jet-injection opens the doors to very rapid drug dispersion by eliminating the need for needle sterilization. With this comes the need for a continuous flow of fluids from a large reservoir, currently not available to the single-piston drug delivery systems. A two-piston system in a jet injector enables the use of a cyclic motion of pistons to drive the injected fluids, as...

The non-lubricated four-stage compressor which can compress up to 24.52 1\.fPa has been developed This newly developed compressor has high durability and efficiency in comparison with conventional non-lubricated compressors. For the purpose of improving durability, new technologies are adopted in this development. The plunger piston without piston rings is applied at the high pressure stages wh...

In an internal combustion engine, the heat energy approximately one third of total fuel input energy is converted to useful work. Since the exhaust gas temperature is not equal environmental temperature, so lot of heat energy lost with hot gases. Also heat energy is lost in cooling of engine. If we recovered heat energy which lost in cooling instead on crankshaft as useful work, then increase t...

A Stewart platform has been designed by selecting commercially available components. Each of its six legs has spherical and universal joints respectively at the bottom and top ends of a piston-cylinder arrangement with the piston rod protruding out of the cylinder top. By a universal joint at the cap end at the bottom of each cylinder, the legs are mounted on a fixed horizontal frame. By electr...

This paper reviews the design of a combination variable I fixed-step port unloader system for moderate capacity refrigeration screw compressors. The general specification of an unloader system to meet application requirements and specific issues of port and flowpath design are discussed. The paper demonstrates use of a comprehensive compressor simulation and a commercial pipe flow analysis prog...