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I'm looking for respective literature in english for a study course in field of marine engineering. One of the course issues are steam plants on board a ship. Therefore I need adequate literature...
06 June 2014 8,419 2 View
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05 May 2014 1,578 1 View
Printed Circuit Heat Exchangers are recommended heat exchangers for the above mentioned cycle. Are there other alternatives also available.
05 May 2014 6,932 2 View
Which method is better for spray characterization of velocity- PIV (particle image velocimetry) or shadowgraphy?
05 May 2014 2,555 9 View
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05 May 2014 4,324 1 View
Maintaining the oil level in the thermal circuit is important. If oil gets evaporated at a slower rate, after a period of time, there will be a lack of oil and need to be filled. But does this...
05 May 2014 1,805 2 View
Petrol engine has homogeneous (Air & fuel) mixture. How can I define the flow as homogeneous mathematically?
26 April 2014 2,420 2 View
The main hot fluid MS pipe line is 40 mm. I want to cool the fluid by passing the fluid through 3 copper tubes of 12 mm dia (brazed to the main fluid line) and water over the copper tubes and then...
22 April 2014 7,635 10 View
Consider a shell-and-tube heat exchanger with some no of tubes and 1 meter length. I want to find the temperature variation of the fluid in the tubes experimentally by finding its temperature at...
09 April 2014 9,144 10 View
I am converting a conventional four stroke engine into six stroke engine. Two dummy stroke will be adjusted after implementing new camshaft and new spark timings. I have decided to inject water at...
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SMD (sauter mean diameter) for gasoline port injector ( 3-hole injector) increases along the vertical axis at some point and for diesel injector(Conventional injector) SMD value decreases along...
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I had some concerns about the logic used to calculate thermodynamic properties like pressure (of a mixture) and other properties like temperature of vapour in a condensing flow of steam in a...
27 March 2014 8,849 3 View
Please provide some examples if these numbers apply to complex profiles.
26 March 2014 5,560 4 View
We can use LMTD and NTU method for finding the performance parameters in heat exchangers when both the fluids are moving. What to do if one fluid is stationary/stagnant (say shell side)?
07 March 2014 6,317 5 View
I have a calorifier at basement level and I need to supply hot water from the calorifier to the user end at a height of 20m. The outlet pressure of water at the user end should be no lesser than 3...
03 March 2014 6,557 4 View
If it's possible can it be done with some alloy? Which type of alloys can be opted?
03 March 2014 7,919 2 View
In a desalination process usually vacuum deaeration is used to remove O2 and non condensable gases. When is stripping steam required to help in removing O2 to a good extent.
03 March 2014 333 1 View
I wrote a solver in openfoam for solving transport equation for Temperature. And I expect Integrated value of T to remain constant, but it is not happening.
22 February 2014 4,371 12 View
Entropy is defined relatively with temperature and enthalpy of the system but what type of characteristic is entropy?
21 February 2014 5,807 9 View
It's known that low ethanol blended gasoline fuel up to E10 results in an economic save as well as a reduction in emissions with out any modification on the engine system while on the other...
07 February 2014 6,085 13 View
I want to find out the average engine cylinder wall temperature at various loads and compression ratios. I have the data for mean gas temperature, exhaust gas temperature and cooling water in and...
02 February 2014 5,215 8 View