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Route-based time-dependent life-cycle carbon and NOx emissions analysis of heavy-duty trucks
(2024-08-16)
The electrification of the transportation sector is gaining traction due to the potential for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions to combat climate change. Class-8 trucks are a major contributor to emissions within ...
Modeling High Temperature Heat Pumps with Thermal Storage for Process Integration in Food and Beverage Processing Facilities
(2024-08-23)
Food processing facilities are energy intensive, requiring both electricity as an energy source to power process equipment and refrigeration systems as well as fossil fuels supplied to boilers for process heating. As ...
MODEL CHARACTERIZATION OF BLOCKING AND SHADING LOSSES IN A NOVEL TWO-STAGE HELIOSTAT
(2024-08-23)
In 2011 the United States Department of Energy launched the SunShot initiative with the goal of maturing concentrating solar power technologies and reducing the levelized cost of energy from $0.21 per kWh to $0.05 per kWh. ...
Mechanical Design and Fabrication of Novel Prototype Electric Machine Designs
(2024-07-21)
The conceptual design of two novel machine designs, a tractive integrated machine-drive and an integrated machine-fan, were defined and needed to be made into physical prototypes for experimentation. Other students performed ...
Thermoreflectance for the Instantaneous Measurement of Temperature at a Wall-Vapor Interface
(2024-03-27)
Annular flow is a two-phase internal flow regime consisting of a vapor core with entrained droplets, surrounded by a thin liquid film. This type of flow is very common in heat exchanger systems. At high heat flux, the ...
SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS DESIGN FOR SHIELDING FROM COSMIC RAYS
(2024-04-23)
Superconducting coils are investigated for active shielding against cosmic radiation by generating
strong magnetic fields around spacecraft. Charged particles in space like protons and various ions
can be deflected by ...
Influence of Parameters and Tool Geometry on Friction Stir Processing of Aluminum-Cerium Alloy
(2024-03-27)
The objective of this study is to address the challenges of improving the mechanical properties of an Aluminum-Cerium-Magnesium (Al-Ce-Mg) alloy through friction stir processing (FSP). The Al-Ce-Mg alloy has promise as an ...
Applications of smart manufacturing in industrial cold forging
(2024-03-27)
A recent paradigm shift in manufacturing has seen many companies move toward smart manufacturing, where intelligent decisions are made based on high volume data analysis with goals of reducing/eliminating down time, improving ...