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Machines, Volume 9, Issue 12

December 2021 - 74 articles

Cover Story: Fuel cells are a key technology for low-emission mobility in the future. An electric air compressor—one of the most important system components and the highest parasitic power consumer —is necessary to supply the fuel cell with the required air mass flow at the fuel cell’s operating pressure. Fuel cell air supply systems often combine a compressor with a downstream turbine to recover energy from the fuel cell exhaust gas and thus improve system efficiency. The objectives of current research and this article are to improve the efficiency and extend the operating range of air supply units. For this purpose, an experimentally validated CFD study was performed on an existing air supply system. The features investigated for the compressor diffuser and turbine nozzles significantly improved the performance. View this paper.
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Articles (74)

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,820 Views
40 Pages

9 December 2021

The detachment between the cam and the follower was investigated for different cam speeds (N) and different internal distance of the follower guide from inside (I.D.). The detachment between the cam and the follower were detected using largest Lyapun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,145 Views
19 Pages

9 December 2021

Within the project ‘ARIEL’ an electrical turbo compressor unit for fuel cell applications is deeply investigated. The necessary drive inverter is especially designed for high fundamental frequency and high switching frequency to cope with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,128 Views
12 Pages

8 December 2021

The determination of equivalent circuit parameters for AC induction motors represents an important task in an electrical machine laboratory. Frequently used open-circuit and short current tests answer these requirements. However, the results have a l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,307 Views
20 Pages

8 December 2021

The optimisation of complex engineering design problems is highly challenging due to the consideration of various design variables. To obtain acceptable near-optimal solutions within reasonable computation time, metaheuristics can be employed for suc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,830 Views
16 Pages

8 December 2021

Testing and validation of the functionalities and safety of automated vehicles shifted from a distance-based to a scenario-based method in the past decade. A number of domain-specific languages and systems were developed to support scenario-based tes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,215 Views
19 Pages

8 December 2021

Proportional integral-based particle swarm optimization (PSO) and deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) algorithms are applied to a permanent-magnet synchronous motor to track speed control. The proposed methods, based on notebooks, can deal with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,557 Views
20 Pages

8 December 2021

Freezing–thawing action has a great impact on the physical and mechanical deterioration processes of rock materials in cold areas where environmental changes are very complicated. The direct shear test under unloading normal stress was adopted...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,775 Views
11 Pages

7 December 2021

A new technique is proposed for measuring film structure based on the combination of time- and frequency-domain fitting and white-light scanning interferometry. The approach requires only single scanning and employs a fitting method to obtain the fil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
9,164 Views
27 Pages

Aircraft Engine Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics Based on Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

  • Amare Desalegn Fentaye,
  • Valentina Zaccaria and
  • Konstantinos Kyprianidis

7 December 2021

The rapid advancement of machine-learning techniques has played a significant role in the evolution of engine health management technology. In the last decade, deep-learning methods have received a great deal of attention in many application domains,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,061 Views
21 Pages

7 December 2021

The paper analyzes a planar three degrees of freedom manipulator with cable actuation. Such a system can be understood as a special type of hybrid parallel kinematic mechanism composed of the rigid serial chain and the additional auxiliary cable syst...

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Machines - ISSN 2075-1702