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On the energy economics of air lubrication drag reduction

  • Makiharju, Simo A.;Perlin, Marc;Ceccio, Steven L.
    • International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.412-422
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    • 2012
  • Air lubrication techniques for frictional drag reduction on ships have been proposed by numerous researchers since the 19th century. However, these techniques have not been widely adopted as questions persist about their drag reduction performance beyond the laboratory, as well as energy and economic cost-benefit. This paper draws on data from the literature to consider the suitability of air lubrication for large ocean going and U.S. Great Lakes ships, by establishing the basic energy economic calculations and presenting results for a hypothetical air lubricated ship. All the assumptions made in the course of the analysis are clearly stated so that they can be refined when considering application of air lubrication to a specific ship. The analysis suggests that, if successfully implemented, both air layer and partial cavity drag reduction could lead to net energy savings of 10 to 20%, with corresponding reductions in emissions.

Review of Energy Saving Technology of Hybrid Construction Machine

  • Yu, YingXiao;Jeong, Eunjin;Ahn, Kyoung Kwan
    • Journal of Drive and Control
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.91-100
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    • 2018
  • This study focuses on the energy saving of construction machinery, especially excavators and wheel loaders coming on a backdrop of energy shortage and environment pollution. Due to the problem of the low energy efficiency and the pollution of conventional hydraulic excavators, hybrid hydraulic excavators were developed to solve this challenge. Firstly, this paper discusses the different configurations of the hybrid hydraulic excavator and recent research trend of hybrid hydraulic excavator is reviewed. Secondly, the productions and research of the construction machine companies were analyzed and finally, the future challenges of hybrid technology to the hydraulic excavator were discussed.

A Study on the Efficiency Enhancement of the HT-PEMFC Having Fuel Processing System by Connecting Adsorption Chilling System (흡착식 냉방 시스템을 이용한 수소개질/연료전지 시스템의 효율향상)

  • NASEEM, MUJAHID;KIM, CHUL-MIN;LEE, SANGYONG
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.30 no.5
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    • pp.411-417
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    • 2019
  • An adsorption chiller is connected to the fuel processing/fuel cell system to increase the energy efficiency of the system. Since, the minimum temperature of $70^{\circ}C$ is needed to operate the adsorption chiller, HT-PEMFC is used as a heating source and $80^{\circ}C$ hot water in the water tank at the system is supplied to the chiller. Experimentally measured COP of the adsorption chiller was between 0.4-0.5 and the total calcuated efficiency of the connected system was between 60% and 70% comparing to 47% without adsorption chilling system.

First-principles study of dissociation processes of O2 molecular on the Al (111) surface

  • Sun, Shiyang;Xu, Pingping;Ren, Yuan;Tan, Xin;Li, Geyang
    • Current Applied Physics
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    • v.18 no.12
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    • pp.1528-1533
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    • 2018
  • The trajectories of adsorption and dissociation process of $O_2$ on the Al (111) surface were studied by the spinpolarized ab initio molecular dynamics method, and the adsorption activation energy was clarified by the NEB method with hybrid functionals. Three typical dissociation trajectories were found through simulation of $O_2$ molecule at different initial positions. When vertically approaches to the Al surface, the $O_2$ molecule tends to rotate, and the activation energy is 0.66eV. If $O_2$ molecule does not rotate, the activation energy will increase to 1.43 eV, and it makes the O atom enter the Al sublayer eventually. When the $O_2$ molecules parallel approach to the Al surface, there is no activation energy, due to the huge energy released during the adsorption process.

Mechanical energy consumption of a four-legged walking vehicle (4 각보행로보트의 기계적 에너지 소모량)

  • 홍형주;김진연;윤용산
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1987.10b
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    • pp.63-68
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    • 1987
  • In this study, a pantograph leg of the four legged walking vehicle is analysed with regard to mechanical energy consumption. Energy efficiency of the vehicle is estimated in terms of specific resistance varying body height, stride length and walking speed. The interaction between specific resistance and the parameters is investigated.

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Study of Energy Separation Mechanism in Vortex Tube by CFD (볼텍스 튜브의 에너지 분리 현상에 관한 수치해석 연구)

  • Choi, Won-Chul;Chung, Myung-Kyoon
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.92-99
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    • 2008
  • The "energy separation phenomenon" through a vortex tube has been a long-standing mechanical engineering problem whose operational principle is not yet known. In order to find the operational principle of the vortex tube, CFD analysis of the flow field in the vortex tube has been carried out. It was found that the energy separation mechanism in the vortex tube consists of basically two major thermodynamic-fluid mechanical processes. One is the isentropic expansion process at the inlet nozzle, during which the gas temperature is nearly isentropically cooled. Second process is the viscous dissipation heating due to the high level of turbulence in both flow passages toward cold gas exit as well as the hot gas exit of the vortex tube. Since the amount of such a viscous heating is different between the two passages, the gas temperature at the cold exit is much lower than that at the hot exit.