volume-16-Issue 1 (2020)


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Towards Solar Pond Design and Development for Masdar City Environment

IJTEE, volume-16, Issue 1 (2020) , PP 59 - 64

Published: 07 Aug 2020

DOI: 10.5383/ijtee.16.01.008

by Khadije El Kadi, Isam Janajreh from Mechanical and Materials Engineering Department, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Masdar Institute, Masdar City, P.O Box 54224, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Abstract: Salinity-gradient solar ponds (SGSP) are water bodies that serves as a solar thermal energy storage system. Establishing a salinity gradient and obser read more...

Keywords: Solar pond, Salinity gradient, CFD, SGSP, Solar thermal, Energy storage


Study of an Electric Energy Generation System from Exhaust Waste Recovery from an Internal Combustion Engine

IJTEE, volume-16, Issue 1 (2020) , PP 51 - 58

Published: 07 Aug 2020

DOI: 10.5383/ijtee.16.01.007

by Jorge de-J. Lozoya-Santos, Jonathan Rivas Torres, Adán Sáenz Herrera, Julio C. Salinas-Maldonado, Eduardo Mariscal Hay, Adriana Vargas-Martínez from Universidad de Monterrey, San Pedro Garza García, México

Abstract: A conventional car engine uses at best about one-third of the fuel combustion energy, while the rest of the energy is lost in friction and most in hea read more...

Keywords: Exhaust Gas Recovery, Turbocharging, Brayton Cycle Efficiency.


Development of a Battery System for an Electric Quarter of Vehicle

IJTEE, volume-16, Issue 1 (2020) , PP 47 - 50

Published: 07 Aug 2020

DOI: 10.5383/ijtee.16.01.006

by Domingo Martinez-Cevada, Jaime Zazueta-DeDoig, Carlos Gloria-Steele, Jorge de-J. Lozoya-Santos, Adriana Vargas-Martínez from Universidad de Monterrey, San Pedro Garza García, México

Abstract: The Battery System (BS) of an Electric Quarter of Vehicle (EQoV) it is an actual unresolved challenge in the electric vehicle industry. This paper pro read more...

Keywords: Electric Quarter of Vehicle, EQoV, Electric Vehicle, Battery System.


High Resolution Wind Power and Wind Drought Models

IJTEE, volume-16, Issue 1 (2020) , PP 27 - 36

Published: 07 Aug 2020

DOI: 10.5383/ijtee.16.01.004

by Paula Carroll, Lucy Cradden, Mícheál Ó hÉigeartaigh from Centre for Business Analytics, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Energy Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland School of Earth Sciences, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Abstract: We present high resolution wind power statistical models fitted to meteorological data for the island of Ireland. We find that a discrete Burr model e read more...

Keywords: Wind Power Model, Wind Drought Model, Discrete Count Model, Wind Energy Resource


Redesign, Development and Construction of Powered Burner Head

IJTEE, volume-16, Issue 1 (2020) , PP 11 - 17

Published: 07 Aug 2020

DOI: 10.5383/ijtee.16.01.002

by Hosni I. Abu-Mulaweh, Donald W. Mueller from Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN 46805, USA

Abstract: This paper presents the redesign of a burner mixing head that used on High Static Gas burner (HSG) product to mix the gas and air mixture before it is read more...

Keywords: Burner Head, Design, Combustion


Water-Based Nanofluids for Natural Convection Cooling of a Pair of Symmetrical Heated Blocks Placed Inside a Rectangular Enclosure of Aspect Ratio Two

IJTEE, volume-16, Issue 1 (2020) , PP 1 - 10

Published: 07 Aug 2020

DOI: 10.5383/ijtee.16.01.001

by Afifa Riahi, Nader Ben–Cheikh, Antonio Campo from Physics Department, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, University of Tunis El-Manar, 2092 El-Manar II, Tunis, Tunisia b Mechanical Engineering Department, The University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA

Abstract: Fluid flow structures and heat transfer rates in a rectangular enclosure of aspect ratio of two containing two heated cylindrical blocks and filled wi read more...

Keywords: Water-based nanofluids, natural convection, two heated blocks, rectangular enclosure, aspect ratio of two, heat transfer enhancement