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Thermal efficiency
About: Thermal efficiency is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 20911 publications have been published within this topic receiving 302373 citations. The topic is also known as: thermodynamic efficiency & efficiency.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a non-uniform 10-hole, 0.30mm spray-line distribution nozzle was chosen to achieve stratified charge of the methanol/air mixture.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a theoretical study is conducted to investigate the potential improvement of the overall efficiency of a heavy-duty truck diesel engine equipped with a Rankine bottoming cycle for recovering heat from the exhaust gas.
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31 Jul 1985TL;DR: In this paper, a fuel cell power plant is characterized by the provision of another combustor on the passage through which cathode exhaust gas is sent from the cathode to the turbine and a passage for leading a part (112) of the anode exhaust gases to the another combustionor, whereby unburnt gas included in the anodes exhaust gas are burnt with the cathodes supplied as oxygen source so that the temperature of the turbine driving gas is raised, as result, the overall thermal efficiency of the power plant increases.
Abstract: This invention relates to a fuel cell power plant. The power plant comprises a fuel cell (10) employing a molten carbonate as an electrolyte, a reformer (24) for reforming fuel into a reactive gas to be.supplied into the anode (14) of the cell (10), an expansion turbine (84) connected to a compressor (36), a combustor (62) for burning a gas exhausted from the anode (14) and introducing the combustion gas into the cathode (16) of the fuel cell (10) along with a gas compressed by the compressor (36), and a waste heat recovery system (92). The power plant is characterized by the provision of another combustor (110) on the passage through which cathode exhaust gas (76) is sent from the cathode to the turbine and a passage for leading a part (112) of the anode exhaust gas to the another combustor, whereby unburnt gas included in the anode exhaust gas is burnt with the cathode exhaust gas supplied as oxygen source so that the temperature of the turbine driving gas is raised, as a result, the overall thermal efficiency of the power plant increases (Fig. 1).
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TL;DR: In this paper, the performance of a flat plate solar air heater with several obstacles (Type I, Type II, and Type III) and without obstacles (type IV) was investigated.
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TL;DR: In this article, a series of experimental studies carried out in several configurations of hydrogen-operated engine, keeping in view the possibility of introducing hydrogen engine into the existing energy infrastructure, have been described.
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