Climate change aggravated wildfire behaviour in the Iberian Peninsula in recent years by Martín Senande-Rivera, Damián Insua-Costa, Gonzalo Miguez-Macho

“…Abstract Climate change is considered to affect wildfire spread both by increasing fuel dryness and by altering vegetation mass and structure. …”
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Generation of Electrical Power by Integrating Horizontal Wind Turbine in to the Spoiler of Electric Car by Harikrishna Mukeshkumar Muniaraj, Srihari S

“… The transportation industry consumes most of the fossil fuel and releases enormous amount of Co2 which leads to global warming. …”
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Wodór - paliwo przyszłości by Krzysztof Biernat, Izabela Agata Samson-Bręk

“…Hydrogen it one of most spread radical on earth, this gas has to become alternative due to so general occurrence for mineral fuels exactly chance. Low is unchallenged advantage of employment of hydrogen in car engines emission, then hydrogen is fuel ecological completely. …”
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Experience of Milled Peat Burning at Thermal Electric Power Plant by G. I. Zhikhar, Ya. I. Shelepova

“…The accumulated experience can be used for solution of problems pertaining to substitution of some types of fuel imported to Belarus by milled peat which is extracted at many fuel effective peat enterprises of the Republic.…”
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Numerical Simulation and Validation for Early Core Degradation Phase under Severe Accidents by Dekui Zhan, Xinhai Zhao, Shaoxiong Xia, Peng Chen, Huandong Chen

“…Then, numerical models adopted to calculate (1) core heating up, (2) cladding oxidation, (3) dissolution between molten zirconium and fuel pellets, and (4) formation of a molten pool in the core active section are presented. …”
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Standalone Containment Analysis of Four Phébus Tests with the ASTEC and the MELCOR Codes by Bruno Gonfiotti, Sandro Paci

“…Four out of five tests investigated the degradation of an intact Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) fuel bundle and the subsequent transport of Fission Products (FP) and Structural Materials (SM) through the primary circuit and into the containment, while the fifth test was only the degradation of a bed of PWR fuel bundle debris. …”
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Effect of Emission Penalty and Annual Interest Rate on Cogeneration of Electricity, Heat, and Hydrogen in Karachi: 3E Assessment and Sensitivity Analysis by Mehdi Jahangiri, Ali Mostafaeipour, Habib Ur Rahman Habib, Hamed Saghaei, Asad Waqar

“…It has been always an energy importer and dependent on fossil fuels. Great pressure is imposed on Pakistan’s national grid from the rise in fossil fuel costs, variations in the annual interest rate, and increased costs of greenhouse emissions. …”
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A Comprehensive Study on the Effect of Dimethyl Carbonate Oxygenate and EGR on Emission Reduction, Combustion Analysis, and Performance Enhancement of a CRDI Diesel Engine Using a... by T. Ramesh, A.P. Sathiyagnanam, Melvin Victor De Poures, P. Murugan

“…In this experimentation, 20% (B20) optimal mix of Prosopis juliflora oil biodiesel (PJOB) and 5 ml dimethyl carbonate (DMC) additive was used as test fuel. The fuel handling CRDI system factors such as injection pressure set at 600 bar and injection timing set to 21 (bTDC) with a compression ratio of 16 were considered for the study. …”
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Filterable PM2.5, Metallic Elements, and Organic Carbon Emissions from the Exhausts of Diesel Vehicles by Yuan-Chung Lin, Ya-Ching Li, Kassian T. T. Amesho, Feng-Chih Chou, Pei-Cheng Cheng

“…Of the metallic elements, Ca exhibited the highest emission factor (EF), between 45.3 and 259 µg L-fuel−1 (with an average of 132 µg L-fuel−1), whereas Zn and Cr displayed the lowest ones, averaging 13.1 µg L-fuel−1 and 1.91 µg L-fuel−1, respectively. …”
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Experimental and Computational Study of Trapped Vortex Combustor Sector Rig with High-Speed Diffuser Flow by R. C. Hendricks, D. T. Shouse, W. M. Roquemore, D. L. Burrus, B. S. Duncan, R. C. Ryder, A. Brankovic, N.-S. Liu, J. R. Gallagher, J. A. Hendricks

“…Further testing over a wider range of fuel-air ratios, fuel flow splits, and pressure ratios is in progress to explore the TVC performance. …”
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Potential U.S. Production of Liquid Hydrocarbons From Biomass With Addition of Massive External Heat and Hydrogen Inputs by T. W. Charlton, C. W. Forsberg, B. E. Dale

“…ABSTRACT We estimate the U.S. potential to convert biomass into liquid hydrocarbons for fuel and chemical feedstocks, assuming massive low‐carbon external heat and hydrogen inputs. …”
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Neural Network Predictive Control for Vanadium Redox Flow Battery by Hai-Feng Shen, Xin-Jian Zhu, Meng Shao, Hong-fei Cao

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Influence of injection angles on flow structures and mixing properties in a supersonic combustor at low Mach supersonic crossflow by Lin Zhang, Jianhan Liang, Yi Wang, Wei Zhao, Leichao Yang

“…Abstract The fuel-air mixing is of paramount importance in hypersonic air-breathing vehicles, and its performance is closely related to the fuel injection angle. …”
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Research on Optimization of Aircraft Climb Trajectory considering Environmental Impact by Fangzi Liu, Minghua Hu, Wenying Lv, Honghai Zhang

“…The results show that with the change of speed, the fuel consumption and temperature rise are different, and the climb performance parameters of the aircraft are affected by the maximum RTA. …”
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Electrochemical Deposition of U and RE Elements Using the Stirred Liquid Cadmium Cathode in LiCl-KCl Molten Salts by Gha-Young Kim, Chang Hwa Lee, Dalsung Yoon, Junhyuk Jang, Sung-Jai Lee

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Energy and Environmental Performance of Bioethanol from Different Lignocelluloses by Lin Luo, Ester van der Voet, Gjalt Huppes

“…The use of lignocellulosic biomass together with cellulosic processing technology provides opportunities to produce fuel ethanol with less competition with food and nature. …”
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Investigation of Influential Parameters in Deep Oxidative Desulfurization of Dibenzothiophene with Hydrogen Peroxide and Formic Acid by Alireza Haghighat Mamaghani, Shohreh Fatemi, Mehrdad Asgari

“…The oxidation reaction was followed by a liquid-liquid extraction stage using acetonitrile as a polar solvent to remove produced sulfones from the model fuel. The impact of operating parameters including the molar ratio of formic acid to sulfur (), hydrogen peroxide to sulfur (), and the time of reaction was investigated using Box-Behnken experimental design for oxidation of the model fuel. …”
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Analysis of Burning Processes in Turbulent Mixing Axial and Tangential Flows by R. I. Essmann, Y. P. Yarmolchick

“…The paper demonstrates that in the case of turbulent diffusion flame tongues the burning process of combined multiphase fuel is determined by flow structure and conditions for mixing various types of fuel and distributed oxidizer flows. …”
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A Critical Review of the Recent Improvements in Minimizing Nuclear Waste by Innovative Gas-Cooled Reactors by E. Bomboni, N. Cerullo, G. Lomonaco, V. Romanello

“…Particularly, we analyzed fertile-free and Pu-Th-based fuel in HTR: we improved plutonium exploitation also by optimizing Pu/Th ratios in the fuel loaded in an HTR. …”
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Optimization of Aircraft Climb Trajectory considering Environmental Impact under RTA Constraints by Junqiang Wan, Honghai Zhang, Fangzi Liu, Wenying Lv, Yifei Zhao

“…The results show that this optimization method has a good compromise between fuel consumption and greenhouse effect by changing the weighting factor. …”
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