A key aspect for achieving the optimum performance of loop heat pipe devices is to ensure
that the wick structure and its appropriate assemblage perform within their original thermal …

The quality of on-line measured operational data is usually not satisfactory for the
performance monitoring of coal-fired power plants, due to the low accuracy of measuring …

This article discusses the policy of opportunistic maintenance, considering more than one
decision criterion by using a multi-attribute value function, for a study developed for a …

One of the most urgent problems facing coal-fired power plants in China today is the coal-
waste because several units in one plant experience a partial rated output situation at the …

Measurement errors inevitably exist amongst on-line measured data in steam turbine power
plants. Problematic steam turbine isentropic efficiencies and turbine expansion curves are …

The modern coal-fired power units in China are mostly operated in a flexible manner.
However, flexible operation results in performance degradation, energy-efficiency penalties …

One of the most urgent problems facing China today is saving energy in the power industry.
Moreover, because the steam-turbine system is a main part of the power unit, its operation is …

Pipeline companies deploy a series of pipeline resource optimal configurations and
efficiency enhancement strategies with the purpose of improving financial benefits. Thus far …

In the present paper, a detailed dynamic model of an industrial fire-tube boiler is first
developed and five different geometrical configurations, each of which corresponds to a …

In the first part of the present work, a detailed dynamic model of fire-tube boilers equipped
with stagnation point reverse flow (SPRF) combustor is implemented. Experimental data …