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17 Citations
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16 July 2023

Hydrogen is a clean and renewable alternative fuel. In this paper, the combustion mechanism of diesel/hydrogen dual fuel is constructed and verified. The mechanism is combined with three-dimensional numerical simulation to study the effects of pilot...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Internal Combustion Engine Combustion Processes)
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  • Open Access
11 Views
24 Pages

7 November 2026

Rapeseed oil has a viscosity several times higher and a lower cetane number than diesel fuel; therefore, its use in engines with a common rail injection system requires adjustment of the injection control. The addition of 10% n-hexane (OR90Hex10) bri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Combustion Processes and Control of Advanced Combustion Engines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
563 Views
21 Pages

20 March 2026

Biodiesel composition largely affects its combustion and emission performance in diesel engines, while the pilot–main injection strategy has the potential to simultaneously improve engine efficiency and alleviate the soot–NOx trade-off. A...

(This article belongs to the Section I2: Energy and Combustion Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
710 Views
20 Pages

11 March 2026

High-pressure water injection (HPWI) can rapidly replenish the formation energy of low-permeability reservoirs, but it may trigger multi-scale fractures, leading to premature water breakthrough between injection and production wells. To identify the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integration of Intelligent Technologies and Green Processes in Unconventional Reservoirs)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,707 Views
19 Pages

Evaluation of Sulfide Control by Air-Injection in Sewer Force Mains: Field and Laboratory Study

  • Juan T. García,
  • Antonio Vigueras-Rodriguez,
  • Luis G. Castillo and
  • José M. Carrillo

Chemical and biological processes consume dissolved oxygen (DO) in urban wastewater during transportation along sewer systems. Anaerobic conditions (DO < 0.2 mg/L) are easily reached, leading to sulfide (S2−) generation. Release of free sulfide, h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,405 Views
11 Pages

23 January 2018

This study investigates a preliminary injection characterization of the injection rate and the injection quantity behavior in a high-pressure common rail injection system used in a heavy-duty engine. The injection rate meter and the injection quantit...

(This article belongs to the Section I: Energy Fundamentals and Conversion)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,714 Views
21 Pages

Investigation of Split Diesel Injections in Methanol/Diesel Dual-Fuel Combustion in an Optical Engine

  • Hongyi Zhang,
  • Zhonghui Zhao,
  • Jun Wu,
  • Xinyan Wang and ,
  • Weihao Ouyang and
  • Zhaowen Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 July 2024

Methanol is a promising alternative fuel due to its wide availability of raw materials, mature production processes, and low production cost. However, because of the low cetane number, methanol must include a more reactive fuel to assist with combust...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Low-Emission Combustion Techniques: Latest Advances and Prospects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,519 Views
20 Pages

14 August 2023

Due to having zero carbon emissions and renewable advantages, hydrogen has great prospects as a renewable form of alternate energy. Engine load and hydrogen substitution rate have a considerable influence on a hydrogen–diesel dual-fuel engine&r...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Energy and Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,189 Views
15 Pages

18 July 2022

This paper presents a study on the electromagnetic effects of a main fuel control system under the action of a strong electromagnetic pulse. It assesses the electromagnetic sensitivity of a speed sensor and a linear variable differential transformer...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,766 Views
24 Pages

Development Procedure for Performance Estimation and Main Dimensions Calculation of a Highly-Boosted Ethanol Engine with Water Injection

  • Thiago Rodrigo Vieira da Silva,
  • Nilton Antonio Diniz Netto,
  • Jeanine Costa Santos,
  • Augusto Cesar Teixeira Malaquias and
  • José Guilherme Coelho Baêta

25 June 2022

The management of the global energy resources has stimulated the emergence of various agreements in favor of the environment. Among the most famous are the Conference of Parties (COP) and Route 2030, which aim to limit global warming to 1.5 °C by red...

(This article belongs to the Topic Transportation in Sustainable Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,315 Views
24 Pages

Characterization of the Carbonate Formation Fracture System Based on Well Logging Data and Results of Laboratory Measurements

  • Marek Stadtműller,
  • Paulina I. Krakowska-Madejska,
  • Grzegorz Leśniak and
  • Jadwiga A. Jarzyna

22 September 2021

This article presents a novel methodology for data integration including laboratory data, the results of standard well logging measurements and interpretation and the interpretation of XRMI imager data for determination of the porosity and permeabili...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Well Logging Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,318 Views
19 Pages

14 February 2019

In this paper, the effect of high-pressure injection pressure on particulate matter (PM) and nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions is discussed. Many studies have been conducted by active researchers on high-pressure engines; however, the problem of reducin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Combustion and Energy Sciences for CO2 Reduction in Internal Combustion Engines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
321 Views
45 Pages

9 October 2026

Ammonia can partially replace diesel in compression ignition engines, but the relative influences of the ammonia energy ratio (AER), pilot–main injection timing advance, and injection pressure on engine performance remain insufficiently quantif...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Experiments and Numerical Simulations for Heat Transfer and Flow of Supercritical Fluids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
588 Views
14 Pages

A Study of Pre-Injection Effects on Combustion, Emissions, and Performance of Methanol–Ammonia Dual-Fuel Engines

  • Yihang Huang,
  • Hua Xiao,
  • Aiguo Chen,
  • Zan Huang and ,
  • Jun Lai and
  • Guansheng Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 March 2026

The implementation of methanol-ammonia dual-fuel engines has the potential to contribute to a reduction in carbon emissions in the environment. The present study employs numerical simulations of the methanol-ammonia dual-fuel engine to investigate me...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,298 Views
28 Pages

Effects of Different Injection Strategies on Combustion and Emission Characteristics of Diesel Engine Fueled with Dual Fuel

  • Jianbin Luo,
  • Zhonghang Liu,
  • Jie Wang,
  • Heyang Chen and ,
  • Zhiqing Zhang,
  • Boying Qin and
  • Shuwan Cui
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

27 July 2021

In this work, an effective numerical simulation method was developed and used to analyze the effects of natural gas mixing ratio and pilot-main injection, main-post injection, and pilot-main-post injection strategies on the combustion and emission ch...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Clean Combustion and Emission in Vehicle Power System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,407 Views
22 Pages

7 July 2020

Multiple injection strategies have increased their capabilities along with the evolution of injection system technologies up to the point that nowadays it is possible to inject eight different pulses, permitting to improve the engine performance, and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Modeling and Experimental Methods for Engine Combustion Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,406 Views
22 Pages

19 July 2021

The optimal design of the thrust vector control system of solid rocket motors (SRMs) is discussed. The injection of a supersonic underexpanded gas jet into the diverging part of the rocket engine nozzle is considered, and multiparameter optimization...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,800 Views
25 Pages

Detailed Injection Strategy Analysis of a Heavy-Duty Diesel Engine Running on Rape Methyl Ester

  • Nikita Zuev,
  • Andrey Kozlov,
  • Alexey Terenchenko,
  • Kirill Karpukhin and
  • Ulugbek Azimov

22 June 2021

Using biodiesel fuel in diesel engines for heavy-duty transport is important to meet the stringent emission regulations. Biodiesel is an oxygenated fuel and its physical and chemical properties are close to diesel fuel, yet there is still a need to a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,713 Views
21 Pages

22 August 2013

An advanced numerical investigation has been carried out in order to study the effect of multiple injection strategies on Caterpillar heavy-duty diesel engine emissions. Both different injected fuel percentages for each pulse and several dwells betwe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,526 Views
21 Pages

22 December 2020

This work presents a numerical study that investigates the optimum post-injection strategy and internal exhaust gas recirculation (iEGR) application with intake valve re-opening (2IVO) aiming to optimize the brake specific nitric oxide (bsNO) and bra...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Energy and Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
894 Views
17 Pages

Impact of Molecular Reactive Gas Injection on Species Emitted at the Exit of a Tubular Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet Source

  • Catalin Constantin,
  • Marian Bazavan,
  • Cristian Stancu,
  • Bogdana Mitu and
  • Gheorghe Dinescu

11 December 2025

Control of reactive species generation lies at the core of atmospheric pressure plasma processing. In this work, we investigate the ability of a cold RF argon plasma jet source to produce reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (RONS) following the inje...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Applications of Plasmas Technology in Materials and Diagnostics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,992 Views
23 Pages

11 November 2019

For reducing soot and NOx emissions, an effective method is to apply split injection strategies. In this research, characteristics of split injection were investigated by applying the pilot-main injection strategy and main-post injection strategy. Th...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Energy and Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,058 Views
14 Pages

Mechanism of Combustion Noise Influenced by Pilot Injection in PPCI Diesel Engines

  • Jingtao Du,
  • Ximing Chen,
  • Long Liu,
  • Dai Liu and
  • Xiuzhen Ma

7 May 2019

Pilot injection combined with exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) is usually utilized to realize the partially premixed compression ignition (PPCI) mode in diesel engines, which enables the simultaneous decrease of nitrogen oxide and soot emissions to sa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Progress in Combustion Diagnostics, Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,625 Views
14 Pages

Numerical Investigation on Effects of Assigned EGR Stratification on a Heavy Duty Diesel Engine with Two-Stage Fuel Injection

  • Zhaojie Shen,
  • Wenzheng Cui,
  • Xiaodong Ju,
  • Zhongchang Liu and ,
  • Shaohua Wu and
  • Jianguo Yang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 February 2018

External exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) stratification in diesel engines contributes to reduction of toxic emissions. Weak EGR stratification lies in that strong turbulence and mixing between EGR and intake air by current introduction strategies of...

(This article belongs to the Section I: Energy Fundamentals and Conversion)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,602 Views
13 Pages

28 September 2020

The main aim of this paper focuses on chaos suppression (control) and stimulation (anti-control) of a heterogeneous Cournot oligopoly model. This goal is reached by applying the theory of dynamical systems, namely impulsive control. The main aim was...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Methods on Economic Dynamics)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,339 Views
16 Pages

High-Harmonic Injection-Based Brushless Wound Field Synchronous Machine Topology

  • Syed Sabir Hussain Bukhari,
  • Fareed Hussain Mangi,
  • Irfan Sami,
  • Qasim Ali and
  • Jong-Suk Ro

22 July 2021

This paper discusses the design and analysis of a high-harmonic injection-based field excitation scheme for the brushless operation of wound field synchronous machines (WFSMs) in order to achieve a higher efficiency. The proposed scheme involves two...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Approaches to Modeling, Optimally Designing, and Controlling Electric Machine)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,608 Views
19 Pages

In large-bore two-stroke diesel/nature gas dual-fuel marine engines, a certain quantity of diesel is injected into the cylinder to satisfy the full-power output engine rated power of the gas mixture. However, the ignition and flame propagation proces...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Shipping: Alternative Fuels and Technologies for Marine Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,788 Views
13 Pages

26 January 2024

Heterogeneous composite flooding has performed well with regard to enhanced oil recovery after polymer flooding in recent years. In order to significantly increase oil recovery, the development parameters should be designed differently for each well....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Insight in Enhanced Oil Recovery Process Analysis and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
237 Views
17 Pages

Parametric Investigation of Dual Direct-Injection Strategy for D/N/D Mode in Ammonia/Diesel Engines

  • Bincai Wu,
  • Cheng Li,
  • Jingzhe Huang,
  • Zhenyu Zhao and ,
  • Yuqiang Li and
  • Sheng Yang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 September 2026

While the split diesel bracketing ammonia (D/N/D) injection mode has shown high potential for performance enhancement in ammonia/diesel dual-fuel engines, its key operational parameters require systematic investigation. This study conducts a numerica...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Clean Combustion and Emission in Vehicle Power System, 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
492 Views
22 Pages

Study on Combustion and Emission Characteristics of Ammonia–Diesel Engine Under Diesel Pilot Injection Strategy

  • Xiaopan Li,
  • Sunchu Wu,
  • Zihui Yang,
  • Gang Yi and ,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Yaohui Nie,
  • Jiacheng Xiang,
  • Shikai Xing and
  • Jianbing Gao
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

29 April 2026

As a carbon-free fuel, ammonia can substantially reduce the carbon footprint of internal combustion engines. However, its slow flame propagation speed and high ignition temperature present combustion challenges. A dual-fuel engine combining ammonia w...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical Processes and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,739 Views
12 Pages

Research on the Damage Mechanism of Oilfield Water Injection System Based on Multiple Operating Conditions

  • Chuanjiang Tan,
  • Yan Fang,
  • Fumin Li,
  • Zeliang Chang and ,
  • Yongbin Hou,
  • Shuai Wang and
  • Yang Du
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

5 June 2025

Petroleum is an indispensable energy source in modern industrial society, and maintaining the safe and stable operation of its injection and production system is of great significance. To analyze the mechanism of pipeline damage caused by corrosion a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Insights into Enhanced Oil Recovery Process Analysis and Application, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,002 Views
20 Pages

13 May 2025

Soil organic pollution poses a significant threat to agricultural safety in China, underscoring the critical importance of developing efficient remediation technologies for soil environmental protection. Steam injection, a promising method for removi...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Heat and Mass Transfer Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,112 Views
18 Pages

5 April 2023

The integrated injection-production string is the core tool used in thermal recovery wells for heavy oil, the mechanical behavior of which is complex due to the coupling effect of downhole temperature and pressure and the load induced by steam huff a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges and Research Trends of Unconventional Oil and Gas)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,809 Views
18 Pages

The Role of Multiple Injections on Combustion in a Light-Duty PPC Engine

  • Rickard Solsjö,
  • Mehdi Jangi,
  • Bengt Johansson and
  • Xue-Song Bai

22 October 2020

This paper presents a numerical investigation of the ignition and combustion process of a primary reference fuel in a partially premixed light-duty internal combustion (PPC) engine. Partially pre-mixed combustion is achieved by employing a multiple i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Modeling and Experimental Methods for Engine Combustion Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,330 Views
19 Pages

1 September 2022

Acid-polluted groundwater may cause many environmental problems due to its corrosivity. Pumping and injection technology is a commonly used remediation technology, and its main principles are displacement and neutralization. However, due to the high...

(This article belongs to the Topic Groundwater Pollution Control and Groundwater Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,387 Views
19 Pages

Combustion Characteristics of a Swirl-Radial-Injection Composite Fuel Grain with Applications in Hybrid Rockets

  • Ruoyan Wang,
  • Xin Lin,
  • Zezhong Wang,
  • Kun Wu and ,
  • Zelin Zhang,
  • Jiaxiao Luo,
  • Fei Li and
  • Xilong Yu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

28 August 2023

The combustion characteristics of a swirl-radial-injection composite fuel grain were experimentally and numerically investigated. This composite grain permits swirl-radial oxidizer injection based on three hollow helical blades, each having a constan...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hybrid Rocket Engines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,188 Views
19 Pages

12 July 2018

This paper considers the optimal dividend and capital injection problem for an insurance company, which controls the risk exposure by both the excess-of-loss reinsurance and capital injection based on the symmetry of risk information. Besides the pro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Solution Models based on Symmetric and Asymmetric Information)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,080 Views
16 Pages

Numerical Study of Water-Oil Two-Phase Flow Evolution in a Y-Junction Horizontal Pipeline

  • M. De la Cruz-Ávila,
  • I. Carvajal-Mariscal,
  • Leonardo Di G. Sigalotti and
  • Jaime Klapp

29 October 2022

The work aims to numerically evaluate different injection configurations for the analysis of a two-phase flow behavior and evolution through a staggered Y-junction pipeline. To minimize agglomeration between inlets, the injection zones have a separat...

(This article belongs to the Topic Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
8,994 Views
20 Pages

12 January 2015

In this study, a four stroke four cylinder direct injection CI engine was run using three different injection pressures. In all measurements, the fuel quantity per cycle, the pre injection and main injection timing, the boost pressure and the engine...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exergy: Analysis and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,887 Views
16 Pages

Evaluation Method of Water Injection Development Effects in Fractured Vuggy Carbonate Reservoirs: Case Study of FI7 Strike-Slip Fault Zone

  • Jie Geng,
  • Long Xiao,
  • Ping Yue,
  • Yun Xiao and ,
  • Hongnan Yang,
  • Simin Qu and
  • Xia Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

9 November 2024

As the main method of secondary development, water injection has been widely used in fractured vuggy carbonate reservoirs. By using an evaluation index system combined with an integrated approach to objectively evaluate and support targeted and opera...

(This article belongs to the Topic Enhanced Oil Recovery Technologies, 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,050 Views
15 Pages

31 October 2023

(1) Background: Agarwood is an aromatic resin produced by the host tree through an immunological response against biotic and abiotic stress. The aim was, first, to use the fungus Geotrichum candidum to stimulate compound changes in Aquilaria sinensis...

(This article belongs to the Section Pharmaceutical Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,624 Views
14 Pages

Influence of Pilot Injection on Combustion Characteristic of Methanol–Diesel Dual-Fuel Engine

  • Ao Zhou,
  • Hui Jin,
  • Wenhan Cao,
  • Ming Pang and ,
  • Yangyang Li and
  • Chao Zhu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 May 2022

An experimental study regarding methanol–diesel dual-fuel (DF) engines was conducted on a modified engine to explore the effects of pilot injection timing and period on the two-stage combustion process caused by the pilot injection strategy. In...

(This article belongs to the Section I2: Energy and Combustion Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,507 Views
16 Pages

28 July 2020

Nowadays, due to the increasing number of disasters, improving distribution system resiliency is a new challenging issue for researchers. One of the main methods for improving the resiliency in distribution systems is to supply critical loads after d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Developing Multi-Energy Systems: Technologies, Methods and Models)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,978 Views
25 Pages

16 July 2022

This paper uses Pareto-optimized frames and injection molding process parameters to optimize the quality of UAV housing parts with multi-objective optimization. Process parameters, such as melt temperature, filling time, pressure, and pressure time,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Injection Molding of Polymers)
  • Review
  • Open Access
68 Citations
8,634 Views
17 Pages

Diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) are a predominant impediment among diabetic patients, increasing morbidity and wound care costs. There are various strategies including using biomaterials have been explored for the management of DFU. This paper will review...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bio-Inspired Porous Materials and Biomaterials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,255 Views
16 Pages

18 March 2022

The efficiency of light-duty diesel engines should be improved for further emissions regulation. Multi-stage split injection with five injection events was investigated for improvement in efficiency at low-load conditions. The injection timing and qu...

(This article belongs to the Section I2: Energy and Combustion Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,301 Views
15 Pages

29 June 2023

In this study, the thermoset–thermoplastic structure was produced through a co-curing technique together with an injection overmolding technique. Continuous fiber reinforced thermoset composite (TSC) was selected as thermoset material, while po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,441 Views
10 Pages

Combustion and Emission Characteristics of a Diesel Engine with a Variable Injection Rate

  • Jun Chen,
  • Guanyu Shi,
  • Jinzhe Wu,
  • Chenghao Cao and ,
  • Lei Zhou,
  • Wu Xu,
  • Sheng Wang and
  • Xiaofeng Li
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

6 June 2024

Diesel engine combustion is dependent mainly on the fuel injection characteristics, particularly the injection pressure and rate, which directly affect the engine efficiency and emissions. Herein, an electrically controlled supercharger is added to a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,871 Views
14 Pages

Combustion Process of the Compound Supply CNG Engine

  • Zhiqiang Zhu,
  • Defu Zhang and
  • Yunjing Jiao

12 September 2023

Objective: In order to study the lean combustion process of a natural gas engine by separating the combustor, a spark ignition natural gas engine with separated combustors was retrofitted from a S195 single-cylinder diesel engine. Methods: The electr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Internal Combustion Engine Combustion Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,750 Views
42 Pages

Computer Simulations of Injection Process of Elements Used in Electromechanical Devices

  • Adam Gnatowski,
  • Agnieszka Kijo-Kleczkowska,
  • Jaroslaw Krzywanski,
  • Przemyslaw Lemanski and
  • Elzbieta Kopciuszewska

29 March 2022

This paper presents the computer simulations of the injection process of elements used in electromechanical devices and an analysis of the impact of the injection molding process parameters on the quality of moldings. The study of the process was per...

(This article belongs to the Topic Artificial Intelligence and Computational Methods: Modeling, Simulations and Optimization of Complex Systems)

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