Energy-savings considerations in manufacturing processes have been drawing a great attention to the designers and manufactures because of the ecological issues, cost-saving pressure, and new environmental legislations. Manufacturing companies have been trying to “produce more with less”, so the improvement of machining and process efficiency for manufacturing is one of the promising solutions. ...

The aim of this experimental work was to achieve improvement the thermal efficiency of LPG stove and to save fuel. Due to the shortage of petroleum resources and its high prices, it is the duty of each and every person to save it. Most of the families in rural areas use wood or cow-dung for cooking purposes but it is not possible in urban areas. In urban areas, 90% houses consume LPG, as its us...

The Agricultural Water-saving Potential (AWP) has important influences on water-saving technology development, regional irrigation water management, agricultural production and water ecological balance protection. The study aims to design a reasonable methodology to calculate the AWP and analysis the AWP of Guanzhong irrigation area, in Weihe River Basin of China. The AWP was divided into resou...

Wheel loader transmissions are commonly based on a torque converter and an automatic gearbox. This solution is mechanically robust and well suited for the typical operation of the machine, but the fuel efficiency is low at some modes of operation. One proposed improvement is to replace the present transmission with a multi-mode power-split CVT (MM-CVT). This paper compares the fuel saving poten...

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