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Can regional railway become emission-free with recently announced vehicles? - A case study of Bavaria

Michel Bierlaire, Nikola Obrenovic, Florian Mueller

Significant shares of regional passenger railway still rely on pollutive diesel vehicles. Alstom, Bombardier, Siemens, and Stadler have reacted and recently announced Battery Electric and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (BEVs and FCEVs). In this paper, we anal ...

2020

Performance evaluation of diesel engines (PEDE) for a diesel-biodiesel fueled CI engine using nano-particles additive

Hossein Pourrahmani

yy Today's researchers have made concerted efforts to benefit from biodiesel and to achieve better combustion due to its higher cetane number in comparison to that of diesel. The major drawback of utilizing biodiesel-diesel blend is the corresponding incre ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Model-based economic analysis of electrification in railway - Understanding the impact of track, operations, and uncertainties

Michel Bierlaire, Nikola Obrenovic, Florian Mueller

This paper presents results on the impact of different tracks on the economic viability of track electrification for regional railway. Since regional railway still heavily relies on pollutive diesel propulsion systems, track electrification can be key to r ...

2019

Tests and developments of a long-pulse high-power 170 GHz absorbing matched load

Timothy Goodman, Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Damien Fasel, Francisco Sanchez, Ioannis Pagonakis

The future EC systems will consist of several gyrotron sources providing MW-level millimeter wave power at a frequency around or above 170 GHz. The development of matched loads is necessary to test the new sources, the components for the transmission lines ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

Design of a Throttled Surge Tank for Refurbishment by Increase of Installed Capacity at a High-Head Power Plant

Anton Schleiss, Giovanni De Cesare, Nicolas Jean François Pascal Ghislain Adam, Bernard Valluy

The Swiss confederation aims to phase out nuclear power production with its Energy Strategy 2050 program by increasing the renewable energy contribution to its overall energy generation. Hydroelectricity, which is the most important form of renewable energ ...

American Society of Civil Engineers2018

Catalytic synthesis of polyoxymethylene dimethyl ethers (OME): A review

Oliver Kröcher, Alimohammad Bahmanpour, Christophe Jean Baranowski

Polyoxymethylene dimethyl ethers (OME) containing 3-5 CH2O units (OME3-5) are appealing oxygenated fuels, which can be used in diesel engines with only slight fuel system modifications. Their combustion leads to reduced hazardous exhaust gas emissions comp ...

Elsevier2017

A review of sustainable energy access and technologies for healthcare facilities in the Global South

Silvia Hostettler, Andrea Franco, Marjan Shaker, Dikolela Kalubi

Access to reliable, affordable and sustainable energy is essential for improving living standards, development and economic growth. From a healthcare perspective, energy is a critical parameter for delivering and improving healthcare services and life-savi ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Energy Integration On Multi-Periods For Vehicle Thermal Powertrains

François Maréchal, Zlatina Kirilova Dimitrova

Internal combustion engines are the most applied energy converters in passenger cars. In order to increase their efficiency, energy integration techniques are used to recover waste heat. An adapted methodology is required to design the organic Rankine cycl ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

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Diesel locomotive

Study of flexible operating conditions in variable-speed hydraulic turbines : advanced models and experimental validation

Can regional railway become emission-free with recently announced vehicles? - A case study of Bavaria

Performance evaluation of diesel engines (PEDE) for a diesel-biodiesel fueled CI engine using nano-particles additive

Model-based economic analysis of electrification in railway - Understanding the impact of track, operations, and uncertainties

Tests and developments of a long-pulse high-power 170 GHz absorbing matched load

Design of a Throttled Surge Tank for Refurbishment by Increase of Installed Capacity at a High-Head Power Plant

Catalytic synthesis of polyoxymethylene dimethyl ethers (OME): A review

A review of sustainable energy access and technologies for healthcare facilities in the Global South

Energy Integration On Multi-Periods For Vehicle Thermal Powertrains

Studies on Traction Separation Relations in Fracture of Layered Composites

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Study of flexible operating conditions in variable-speed hydraulic turbines : advanced models and experimental validation

Design of a Throttled Surge Tank for Refurbishment by Increase of Installed Capacity at a High-Head Power Plant

Energy Integration On Multi-Periods For Vehicle Thermal Powertrains

Performance evaluation of diesel engines (PEDE) for a diesel-biodiesel fueled CI engine using nano-particles additive

Studies on Traction Separation Relations in Fracture of Layered Composites

Catalytic synthesis of polyoxymethylene dimethyl ethers (OME): A review

Model-based economic analysis of electrification in railway - Understanding the impact of track, operations, and uncertainties

Tests and developments of a long-pulse high-power 170 GHz absorbing matched load

A review of sustainable energy access and technologies for healthcare facilities in the Global South

Can regional railway become emission-free with recently announced vehicles? - A case study of Bavaria