Written primarily for fleet management personnel with purchasing, maintenance, or operations responsibilities, Alternative Fuels: Emissions, Economics, and Performance provides essential information for those who are considering adding alternatively-fueled vehicles to their fleets. Readers will gain a solid understanding of the fundamentals of alternative fuels and the factors that need to be considered when evaluating their use. No prior knowledge of alternative fuels is necessary. Basic information on the various alternative fuels and objective data on the costs of converting, fueling, and operating alternatively-fueled vehicles is covered in this book. Fuel cost, performance, reliability, and availability are addressed. The book also discusses the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act and the 1992 Comprehensive National Energy Policy Act. A summary of Texas' state law, considered to be representative of state legislation on alternative fuels and a glossary of key terms, are also included. Eight chapters cover: Review of Engine Technology; Characteristics of Alternative Fuels; Conversion of Spark Ignition Engines; Conversion of Compression Ignition Engines; Refueling Facilities; Legislation and Policies; and Cost Considerations. The book is also an ideal introduction to the topic for legislators, administrators, educators, and anyone interested in learning more about alternate fuels.

Advances in Heat Transfer is designed to fill the information gap between the regularly scheduled journals and university level textbooks, allowing for in-depth review articles on a broader scope than is allowable in either journals or texts.
Key Features
* Reviews recent work on melt lubrication at the interface between two solid parts, one of which is at its melting point
* Employs variational principle with vanishing parameter in the study of linear and nonlinear transient heat conduction through bodies of finite length
* Reviews heat transfer in porous media and its rapidly growing body of literature
* Emphasizes recent developments in handling complex geometry, treating wide flow speed variations, yielding accurate solutions, and producing results efficiently as illustrated throughout with many examples
* Discusses unsteady convective situations which are generated in response to the time-dependent boundary conditions on the surface walls of a container, and its practical industrial applications

This volume in a series on heat transfer covers the modelling of the dynamics of turbulent transport processes, supercritical pressures, hydrodynamics, mass transfer near rotating surfaces, lost heat in entropy and the mechanics of heat transfer in a multifluid bubbling pool. Other related titles are "Advances in Heat Transfer," volumes 18, 19 and 20.

A highly readable and authoritatively written book with an important message for US industry and government in a world of long-term uncertainty of gasoline price and availability. The author argues persuasively that current low fuel prices and the relative lack of competition in the US auto market are creating an unwillingness by US car companies to innovate and take risks to improve their product. Needed product improvements relate not only to fuel economy, but also to a wide range of technological features. Choice

The halcyon days of low oil prices in the 1980s are fated to give way to another major oil crisis, asserts the author of this comprehensive, carefully documented analysis. Researched under the auspices of the Federation of American Scientists, this study presses for development of automotive fuel economy technologies. Bleviss focuses on two interrelated themes--the spector of another oil crisis and its effect on the light transportation industry. Foreign makers of light vehicles are already ahead of domestic automakers in developing new fuel economy technologies. The study suggests that unless the United States moves aggressively to develop these technologies now, the nation will be unprepared for the severity of the approaching world-wide crisis and for the research advantage gained by foreign industry.

Beginning with the basic principles and concepts of aeropropulsion combustion, this text goes on to explore specific processes, limitations and analytical methods as they bear on component design. The text features invited work of prominent specialists in aircraft gas turbine engines.

Mit dem Fachlehrgang "Grundlagen Kraftfahrzeugtechnik lernen" steht ein weiterer Baustein zur Verfugung, um das Zusammenwirken der klassischen Fahrzeug- und Motorentechnik mit heutiger Fahrzeugelektronik zu zeigen. Fruher bedeutete Fahrzeugtechnik vor allem Mechanik, heute trifft man uberall integrierte mechanische, elektronische und digitale Systeme an. An diese Entwicklung haben sich auch die automobilen Berufsbilder angepasst. Im Jahr 2001 wurde aus dem Kfz-Mechaniker und dem Kfz-Elektriker der Kfz-Mechatroniker. Diese kennen sich nicht nur mit Antriebsstrangen, Karosserieblechen und Getrieben aus, sondern auch mit Bordcomputern, Anti-Blockier-Systemen (ABS), Antriebs-Schlupf-Regelungen (ASR) oder elektronisch geregelten Stabilitats-Programmen (ESP) zur Fahrdynamik-Regelung. Dieser Fachlehrgang bietet mit zehn Einzelthemen einen leichten Einstieg in das Verstandnis von Funktion und Wirkung heutiger Automobil- und Nutzfahrzeugtechnik. Die gute Verstandlichkeit macht den Fachlehrgang besonders geeignet fur das Selbststudium.

Das vorliegende Fachbuch ist ein Kompendium der DMS-Entwicklung, deren letzte Jahrzehnte der Autor selbst mitgestaltet hat. Es stellt fur den Praktiker vor Ort, der Installationen fur zuverlassige Messungen und die Messungen selbst ausfuhren will, eine kompakte Arbeitsanweisung dar. Fur den Experten, der Probleme analysieren, Loesungen konzipieren und Messergebnisse auswerten muss, ist das Buch mit seinem ausfuhrlichen Sachverzeichnis ein unverzichtbares Nachschlagewerk. Fur den Lernenden, den Neueinsteiger in das Fachgebiet, der sich mit Moeglichkeiten und Grenzen der DMS-Technik vertraut machen will, wird das Buch ein hilfreicher Ratgeber sein. Der Inhalt beschrankt sich nicht nur auf Technologie und Anwendung der DMS, sondern behandelt in ausfuhrlicher Form die fur die Auswertung gemessener Dehnungen erforderlichen Algorithmen zur Ermittlung von Spannungen.

This book presents the select proceedings of the fourth International Conference on Advanced Materials and Modern Manufacturing (ICAMMM 2021). It covers broad areas such as advanced mechanical engineering, material science and manufacturing process. Various topics discussed in this book include green manufacturing, green materials, Industry 4.0, additive manufacturing, precision engineering, sustainability, manufacturing operations management and so on. Given its contents, the book will be useful for students, researchers, engineers and professionals working in the area of mechanical engineering and its allied fields.

This book offers a comprehensive and timely overview of internal combustion engines for use in marine environments. It reviews the development of modern four-stroke marine engines, gas and gas-diesel engines and low-speed two-stroke crosshead engines, describing their application areas and providing readers with a useful snapshot of their technical features, e.g. their dimensions, weights, cylinder arrangements, cylinder capabilities, rotation speeds, and exhaust gas temperatures. For each marine engine, information is provided on the manufacturer, historical background, development and technical characteristics of the manufacturer's most popular models, and detailed drawings of the engine, depicting its main design features. This book offers a unique, self-contained reference guide for engineers and professionals involved in shipbuilding. At the same time, it is intended to support students at maritime academies and university students in naval architecture/marine engineering with their design projects at both master and graduate levels, thus filling an important gap in the literature.

This book gathers the peer-reviewed papers presented at the XXIV Conference of the Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, held in Rome, Italy, on September 15-19, 2019 (AIMETA 2019). The conference topics encompass all aspects of general, fluid, solid and structural mechanics, as well as mechanics for machines and mechanical systems, including theoretical, computational and experimental techniques and technological applications. As such the book represents an invaluable, up-to-the-minute tool, providing an essential overview of the most recent advances in the field.

The book is focused on theoretical and experimental investigation aimed at detecting and selecting proper information related to the fundamental aspect of combustion casing design,performance and life evaluation parameters. A rational approach has been adopted to the analysis domain underlying the complexities of the process.

A completely revised and updated edition of the classic and comprehensive guide to the construction rules for power boilers-their intent, application, and interpretation. This unique guide provides expert advice and useful information for design engineers, project managers, architect engineers, manufacturing engineers, boiler operators, insurance inspectors, and other power boiler professionals. Includes explanation and use of the other Sections of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code that affect construction. With chapters on boiler life extension and repairs and alteration of boilers under the rules of the National Board Inspection Code.

Increasing competitive pressure for improved quality and efficiency on one hand and tightening emissions and operating requirements on the other leave the modern process engineer squeezed in the middle. While effective modeling can help balance these demands, the current literature offers overly theoretical treatments on modeling that do not translate quickly and easily to the immediate needs of the practicing engineer.

Based on more than a quarter-century of experience, Modeling of Combustion Systems: A Practical Approach introduces an approach to semi-empirical combustion modeling for better control, optimization, prediction, and description of industrial combustion processes. First, the author provides an introduction to modeling, the basic model categories, and analytical methods followed by an introduction to combustion that includes equipment and mathematical modeling. Next, he introduces the concepts and procedures of experimental design and provides detailed discussion on how to analyze non-ideal data.

The final chapter draws together the previous information to clearly demonstrate the construction of semi-empirical models. Fully worked examples and step-by-step derivations support the discussion along the way, and the book also includes a complete guide to nomenclature and supplies appendices for important physical and chemical properties, conversions, statistical tables, and much more.

Modeling of Combustion Systems: A Practical Approach provides concrete answers to real problems and is tailor-made to suit the needs of practicing engineers.

This new text represents the most detailed and comprehensive book presenting modern practice and theory relevant to the thermal-flow performance evaluation, design, and optimization of air-cooled heat exchangers and cooling towers.

Kroger also provides modern analytical and empirical tools used to evaluate the thermal-flow performance and design of air-cooled heat exchangers and cooling towers. Kroger covers how to prepare improved specifications and evaluate more critical bids with respect to thermal performance of new cooling systems.

Further, Kroger explores improvement possibilities with respect to retrofits of existing cooling units as well as possible impacts of plant operations and environmental influences.

This book is about the theory and methods of controlling the temperature of a satellite. It is the first to present satellite thermal control as an organized engineering discipline systematically derived from the principles of heat transfer. The treatment is thorough but consciously readable and requires only basic prerequisite knowledge of physics and mathematics. Although the main thrust is to give spacecraft managers and systems engineers a background for directing and advising during the evolution of a satellite thermal design, there is enough to attract students and aerospace engineers of all specialties. For those already involved in satellite thermal control, the book provides a valuable source of data and a definitive reference to the problems and methods of solution encountered in their trade. All the illustrations and numerical examples refer directly to actual situations. The author uses his wide experience to explain many of the difficult points that have made thermal control often a confusing subject. Significant selections are cited from the innumerable publications that have appeared since the launch of Sputnik in 1957. In addition, the author draws on vital material that, for one reason or another, has never been reported in general publications. The result is a comprehensive textbook on one of the most essential aspects in the design of satellites.

This book gives a comprehensive account of the principles and practical methods applicable to transient temperature measurements in engineering and science. Transient temperatures are taken to be in the range from about 200K to 6000K and with timescales from tenths of nanoseconds to tens of seconds. Within these limits is a very large field of combustion and gas dynamics and these are the principle areas which are addressed. Several new experimental and theoretical techniques are introduced and various modes of thermal failure are described. The chapters move from undergraduate material to the latest methods and are designed to be of use to the widest possible range of engineers, scientists, and students working in universities or in chemical or mechanical engineering. Many applications are described. This book is intended for engineers and scientists concerned with measurement of transient temperatures (rapidly changing heating conditions). Mechanical and chemical engineers experimental physicists chemists.

This is the most up-to-date, comprehensive, and practical book on the subject available, explaining the concepts and related practical implementations of all major hot-wire anemometry applications. It introduces the logical framework for a computer-based HWA system and identifies the individual steps in the complete experimental procedure, ranging from probe selection to the presentation of analysed data. This major work will be invaluable as a reference for students, engineers, and researchers engaged in the field.

Entwicklungsaufgaben der Fahrzeugtechnik lassen sich effektiv nur auf Basis zugehoeriger Grundlagen behandeln. Daher liegt der Schwerpunkt des Buches in der ausfuhrlichen sowie moeglichst verstandlichen Darstellung und Anwendung theoretischer Grundlagen der Langs-, Quer- und Vertikaldynamik. Der allgemeine Teil I beschaftigt sich mit der Definition wesentlicher Fahrzeugparameter und Krafte, Rad- und Reifeneigenschaften, haufig verwendeter Normen und Regelungen sowie der 3F-Methodik, welche die Grundlage der reprasentativen Auslegung und Erprobung in der Fahrzeugtechnik darstellt. In Teil II werden Fahrwiderstande, Kraftschlussbeanspruchung, Antriebskonzepte, Anfahraggregate, Getriebe, Sperren, Allradsysteme und Bremsen sowie Energieverbrauch und Emissionen betrachtet. Teil III behandelt das Eigenlenkverhalten sowie die Zusammenhange zwischen den Fahrzeugparametern und den fahrdynamischen Fahrzeugeigenschaften anhand von Ein- und Zweispurmodellen sowie ausgesuchten Fahrmanoevern und unter Berucksichtigung der Einachs- und Allradlenkung. Ferner werden Lenkungseigenschaften sowie aktive Fahrwerk- und Regelsysteme erlautert. Teil IV widmet sich der Fahrzeugvertikaldynamik auf Basis von Schwingungsmodellen unterschiedlicher Komplexitat, zugehoerigen Bewegungsgleichungen sowie landerspezifisch gemessenen Fahrbahnunebenheiten. Ausserdem werden Methoden zur Beurteilung des dynamischen Sitzkomforts vorgestellt sowie Aufbaufedern und -dampfer erlautert.

A completely revised and updated edition of the classic and comprehensive guide to the construction rules for power boilers-their intent, application, and interpretation. This unique guide provides expert advice and useful information for design engineers, project managers, architect engineers, manufacturing engineers, boiler operators, insurance inspectors, and other power boiler professionals. Includes explanation and use of the other Sections of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code that affect construction. With chapters on boiler life extension and repairs and alteration of boilers under the rules of the National Board Inspection Code.

The story of how diesel engines and gas turbines, used to power cargo ships and jet airplanes, made today's globally integrated economy possible. The many books on globalization published over the past few years range from claims that the world is flat to an unlikely rehabilitation of Genghis Khan as a pioneer of global commerce. Missing from these accounts is a consideration of the technologies behind the creation of the globalized economy. What makes it possible for us to move billions of tons of raw materials and manufactured goods from continent to continent? Why are we able to fly almost anywhere on the planet within twenty-four hours? In Prime Movers of Globalization, Vaclav Smil offers a history of two key technical developments that have driven globalization: the high-compression non-sparking internal combustion engines invented by Rudolf Diesel in the 1890s and the gas turbines designed by Frank Whittle and Hans-Joachim Pabst von Ohain in the 1930s. The massive diesel engines that power cargo ships and the gas turbines that propel jet engines, Smil argues, are more important to the global economy than any corporate structure or international trade agreement. Smil compares the efficiency and scale of these two technologies to prime movers of the past, including the sail and the steam engine. The lengthy processes of development, commercialization, and diffusion that the diesel engine and the gas turbine went through, he argues, provide perfect examples of gradual technical advances that receive little attention but have resulted in epochal shifts in global affairs and the global economy.

The technology...how it operates...and a history of the development of the technology is all here in this introductory handbook to cutting edge microturbine applications. The author directs a microturbine generator testing and assessment program for a major utility, working closely with governmental agencies, industry organizations, and universities. Contents: MTG operations Commercial MTGs and their manufacturers Feasibility study, project plan, installation, operation and maintenance Utility grid standards and interconnection of MTGs Permits and other considerations Customer applications of MTGs Appendix 1: Emergence and evolution of microturbine generators Appendix 2: Southern California Edison's microturbine generator test program Glossary.

Mit dem Fachlehrgang "Grundlagen Kraftfahrzeugtechnik lernen" steht ein weiterer Baustein zur Verfugung, um das Zusammenwirken der klassischen Fahrzeug- und Motorentechnik mit heutiger Fahrzeugelektronik zu zeigen. Fruher bedeutete Fahrzeugtechnik vor allem Mechanik, heute trifft man uberall integrierte mechanische, elektronische und digitale Systeme an. An diese Entwicklung haben sich auch die automobilen Berufsbilder angepasst. Im Jahr 2001 wurde aus dem Kfz-Mechaniker und dem Kfz-Elektriker der Kfz-Mechatroniker. Diese kennen sich nicht nur mit Antriebsstrangen, Karosserieblechen und Getrieben aus, sondern auch mit Bordcomputern, Anti-Blockier-Systemen (ABS), Antriebs-Schlupf-Regelungen (ASR) oder elektronisch geregelten Stabilitats-Programmen (ESP) zur Fahrdynamik-Regelung. Dieser Fachlehrgang bietet mit zehn Einzelthemen einen leichten Einstieg in das Verstandnis von Funktion und Wirkung heutiger Automobil- und Nutzfahrzeugtechnik. Die gute Verstandlichkeit macht den Fachlehrgang besonders geeignet fur das Selbststudium.

This book written by a world-renowned expert with more than forty years of active gas turbine R&D experience comprehensively treats the design of gas turbine components and their integration into a complete system. Unlike many currently available gas turbine handbooks that provide the reader with an overview without in-depth treatment of the subject, the current book is concentrated on a detailed aero-thermodynamics, design and off-deign performance aspects of individual components as well as the system integration and its dynamic operation.This new book provides practicing gas turbine designers and young engineers working in the industry with design material that the manufacturers would keep proprietary. The book is also intended to provide instructors of turbomachinery courses around the world with a powerful tool to assign gas turbine components as project and individual modules that are integrated into a complete system. Quoting many statements by the gas turbine industry professionals, the young engineers graduated from the turbomachinery courses offered by the author, had the competency of engineers equivalent to three to four years of industrial experience.