
Global energy demand is expected to increase in the following two decades. Operational flexibility of power generation systems is a key aspect when assessing potential solutions seeking to help meeting...
Año de publicación: 2020

Mining companies are always seeking for the best method to reduce energy consumption, especially in the grinding process that usually request about 40% to 75% of the total energy used...
Año de publicación: 2020

Renewable energy is the energy obtained from resources inexhaustible in the long term. Furthermore, in some countries, non-conventional renewable energy includes solar, wind, biomass, geothermal and mini-hydropower. The definition of...
Año de publicación: 2020

Turbofan engines are the main power plants used in the commercial airline industry. Increasing the bypass ratio (BPR) in turbofan engines enhances their propulsive efficiency and reduces both noise and...
Año de publicación: 2020

Abstract. This work discusses the suitability of different turbulence models for modeling circular bluff-body configurations. Accordingly, the context in which the associated numerical simulations are carried out is initially described....
Año de publicación: 2019

Honoring Ted O'Brien. Large eddy simulation/filtered density function (LES/FDF) numerical results of inert and reacting flows characterizing the near wake of bluff body configurations are discussed in this work. Circular...
Año de publicación: 2019

The performance of discrete element method (DEM) simulations is highly dependent on the requirements of the associated algorithms in terms of computer memory usage and CPU time. In particular, computer...
Año de publicación: 2019

The intermittency of renewable energies continues to be a limitation for their more widespread application because their large-scale storage is not yet practical. Concentrating solar power (CSP) has the possibility...
Año de publicación: 2019

The influence of different power augmentation techniques used in gas turbines on the performance of simple cycle type power plants is assessed in this work. A computational model and tool...
Año de publicación: 2019

This work describes a working fluid selection process for an ORC based power plant that uses as heat source waste heat from a petroleum distillation furnace. Sixteen (16) organic fluids...
Año de publicación: 2019