Leakage incidents on LNG bunker vessels will result in a serious degree of hazard. This paper investigates typical high-risk scenarios such as hose ruptures and valve joint leakages. The consequences of an LNG leakage accident during the simultaneous...
To investigate the evolution process of LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) liquid pool and gas cloud diffusion, the Realizable k-ε model and Eluerian model were used to numerically simulate the liquid phase leakage and diffusion process of LNG storage tanks...
Coal still occupies a key position in China’s energy consumption structure, and ensuring safe production in coal mines is a key focus for ensuring energy security. Spontaneous combustion fires in coal mines are a serious threat to the sustainab...
Currently, about a thousand micro gas turbine units of small and medium capacity are in operation in the Russian Federation, which are used as an autonomous power source at critical infrastructure facilities. During long-term operation, the component...
The ambient formation of secondary particulate matter (ambient FSPM) is commonly recognized as the major cause of severe PM2.5 air pollution in China. We present observational evidence showing that the ambient FSPM was too weak to yield a detectable...
The group combustion characteristics of core–shell nanothermite particles differ from other dispersed solid or liquid fuels. In a core–shell structure, each discrete nanothermite particle can undergo an exothermic reaction as the oxygen a...
Chemical accidents have frequently occurred in South Korea as a result of the huge amount of chemicals being used in various industries. Even though fire accidents accounted for 71.9% of chemical accidents during 2008–2018 in South Korea, most ecolog...
Accidental leakage from oil–gas storage tanks can lead to the formation of liquid pools. These pools can result in vapor cloud explosions (VCEs) if combustible vapors encounter ignition energy. Conducting accurate and comprehensive consequence...
CO2 emissions are a major contributor to global warming. Biomass combustion is one approach to tackling this issue. Biomass is used with coal combustion in thermal power plants or with blast furnaces (BFs) because it is a carbon-neutral fuel; therefo...
In coal-fired power plants, coal piles serve as the fundamental management units. Acquiring point clouds of coal piles facilitates the convenient measurement of daily coal consumption and combustion efficiency. When using servo motors to drive Light...
With the extensive use of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in the catering industry, leakage explosions have become frequent. This study employs numerical simulations to investigate the diffusion patterns of LPG leakage under various ventilation conditi...
This paper first addresses the question: what is a dust explosion? Afterwards, some specific issues are briefly reviewed: materials that can give dust explosions, factors influencing ignitability and explosibility of dust clouds, the combustion of du...
In actual atmospheric environments, Ni/Al composites subjected to high-velocity impact will undergo both intermetallic reaction and oxidative combustion simultaneously, and the coupling of mechanical and multiple chemical processes leads to extremely...
The conditions in the combustion zones, i.e., the raceways, are crucial for the operation of the blast furnace. In recent years, advancements in tuyere cameras and image processing and interpretation techniques have provided a better means by which t...
Aluminium is a component in many energetic formulations. Therefore, its combustion is one of the main thermochemical processes that govern the output from the energetics. Modelling aluminium combustion is a challenging task because the process is hig...
Coal gangue spontaneous combustion is a serious catastrophe associated with mining activities. Generally, the areas of coal gangue spontaneous combustion are regions of tremendous heat accumulation. Mastering the regularity of deep temperature distri...
Vibration-based predictive maintenance is an essential element of reliability engineering for modern automotive powertrains including internal combustion engines, hybrids, and battery-electric platforms. This review synthesizes advances in sensing, s...
The composite quasi-liquid fuels made of different industrial waste become more and more attractive for scientists during last years. Coal-water slurry is one of the popular types of such compositions. Addition of the waste petrochemicals into the sl...
This article deals with a unique, new powertrain diagnostics platform at the level of a large number of EU25 inspection stations. Implemented method uses emission measurement data and additional data from significant sample of vehicles. An original t...
In order to analyze the explosion risk of the engine room, this paper uses CFD software to simulate the LNG leakage process in the engine room of the ship, and uses the combustible gas cloud obtained from the leakage simulation to simulate the explos...
Lycopodium (L.) clavatum powder, due to its uniform particle size distribution and low equilibrium moisture content, is often used as a reference material and a calibration benchmark for dust combustion and dust explosion studies. The aim of the stud...
Proactive prevention and fighting fire at industrial facilities, often located in urbanized clusters, should include the use of modern methods for modeling danger zones that appear during the spread of the harmful combustion products of various chemi...
Organic acids were investigated in the rain sequence. Samples were collected in Shanghai (East China) over a one-year period using an automatic volume-based sequential rain sampler designed by ourselves. Organic acids significantly contributed (17.8...
Coal and oil shale are often mined and utilized together, and mixed dust is easily formed in these processes. In order to ensure safe production in these processes, the explosion characteristics of mixed dust were studied. Using a Godbert-Greenwold (...
This research work examined how biodiesel produced from frying oils affects the physicochemical properties of its mixtures with conventional heating oil. Through the characterization of biodiesel blends and heating oil, the purpose is to produce an i...
The aim of this study is to investigate the spray characteristics of diesel and gasoline under various ambient conditions. Ambient conditions were simulated, ranging from atmospheric conditions to high pressure and temperature conditions such as thos...
This paper presents a remote vibration monitoring system for combustion engines, utilising edge computing technology. The proposed solution aims to enhance real-time data processing and reduce latency by performing computations closer to the data sou...
This paper presents the design and development of a proof of concept (PoC) open-source data logger system for wireless data acquisition via Wi-Fi aimed at bench testing and fault detection in combustion and electric engines. The system integrates mul...
As the attention to using hydrogen as a potential energy storage medium for power generation and mobility increases, hydrogen production, storage, and transportation safety should be considered. For instance, hydrogen’s extreme physical and che...
In order to investigate the influence of ambient temperature on the temperature field of coal gangue dumps governed by heat pipes (HPs), using self-developed heat pipe and intelligent cloud monitoring software, a 1-year field test was conducted in th...
The biology literature presents allometric relations for the specific metabolic rate (SMRk) of an organ k of mass mk within the body of mass mB: SMRk ∝ mBfk (body mass allometry, BMA). Wang et al. used BMA, summed-up energy from all organs and valida...
Hydrogen energy is considered a crucial clean energy carrier for replacing fossil fuels in the future. Liquid hydrogen (LH2), with its economic advantages and high purity, is central to the development of future hydrogen refueling stations (HRSs). Ho...
The aim of this work was to study the ignition behaviour of eight coals of different coal ranks, petrographic compositions, and places of origin. The research allows us to gain deeper insight into the ignition mechanism and the relationship between c...
This article presents a straightforward and effective way of adding the Internet of Vehicles function to vehicles with different drive systems. By equipping the vehicle with a transmission device that communicates with the vehicle’s on-board di...
Solar biomass gasification results in reducing CO2 emissions while saving biomass resources and producing higher-quality syngas when compared with conventional autothermal processes that require partial feedstock combustion for supplying the process...
Mathematical modeling and computer visualization of hazardous zones of toxic substance cloud spread that occur during different accidents at industrial enterprises located near residential areas are in high demand to support the operational planning...
Mine fire is caused by external heat source or coal seam spontaneous combustion, and there are serious hidden dangers in mining operation. The existing detection methods have high cost, limited coverage and delayed response. An edge intelligent fire...
A method was developed to estimate the consumption of CH4 and the release of CO2 by gas flaring using VIIRS nighttime data. The results agreed with the field data collected at six stations in Bakken field, North Dakota, USA, within ±50%, as measured...
This study investigates the physical interactions and between forest fires and the atmosphere, which often lead to conditions favourable to instability and the formation of pyrocumulus (PyCu). Using the coupled atmosphere–fire spread modelling...
This study establishes a new technique for peatland fire detection in tropical environments using Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2. The Tropical Peatland Combustion Algorithm (ToPeCAl) without longwave thermal infrared (TIR) (henceforth known as ToPeCAl-2) w...
The implementation of low-cost sensitive and selective gas sensors for monitoring fruit ripening and quality strongly depends on their long-term stability. Gas sensor drift undermines the long-term reliability of low-cost sensing platforms, particula...
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) collects low light imaging data at night in five spectral bands. The best known of these is the day/night band (DNB) which uses light intensification for imaging of moonlit clouds in the visible a...
Biodiesel is a renewable and reduced-emission alternative fuel produced mainly from the alcoholysis of vegetable oils and/or animal fats. It is mainly used in blends with diesel fuel to reduce emissions, enhance lubrication and lower sulfur content....
Within the automotive field, there has been an increasing amount of global attention toward the usability of combustion-independent electric vehicles (EVs). Once considered an overly ambitious and costly venture, the popularity and practicality of EV...
Lubricating oil-induced pre-ignition is a critical issue that requires attention in downsized gasoline engines and marine low-speed two-stroke natural gas engines. As a result, the ignition behavior of lubricating oil at high temperatures and pressur...
This paper presents a method for functionally extending an IoT indoor air quality monitoring network by adding a cloud-level fire detection logic component. The proposed method does not aim to replace traditional fire detection systems at this stage...
Biodiesel, or alkyl ester, is an alternative renewable, biodegradable, and non-toxic diesel fuel produced by the catalytic transesterification of vegetable oil. Here we characterize a system for continuous transesterification of vegetable oil using f...
The aim of the article is to determine the properties of fuel mixtures of Fischer–Tropsch naphtha fraction with traditional gasoline (petrol) to be able to integrate the production of advanced alternative fuel based on Fischer–Tropsch synthesis into...
Laboratories are complex and dynamic environments where diverse hazards—including toxic gas leakage, volatile solvent combustion, and unexpected fire ignition—pose serious threats to personnel safety and property. Traditional monitoring s...
Depleting petroleum resources coupled with the environmental consequences of fossil fuel combustion have led to the search for renewable alternatives, such as biodiesel. In this study, sunflower (Helianthus annus), mustard (Brassica compestres) and p...
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