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—Control area (EU) – The portion of the generation and transmission system controlled by a single transmission system operator. (See also TSO). CAA—Clean Air Act (US) CAEM—Center for the Advancement of Energy Markets (US) CAES—Compressed Air Energy Storage; CAFE—Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards (US)
The Diesel cycle is a combustion process of a reciprocating internal combustion engine. In it, fuel is ignited by heat generated during the compression of air in the combustion chamber, into which fuel is then injected. This is in contrast to igniting the fuel-air mixture with a spark plug as in the Otto cycle (four-stroke/petrol) engine.
The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment (ASD(EI&E)), concurrently the Chief Sustainability Officer, and formerly known as the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Installations and Environment (DUSD(I&E)), provides management and oversight of military installations worldwide and manages environmental, safety, and occupational health programs for the ...
A simple-cycle combustion turbine (SCCT) is a type of gas turbine typically used in the power generation, aviation , and oil and gas industries (for electricity generation and mechanical drives). The simple-cycle combustion turbine follows the Brayton Cycle and differs from a combined cycle operation in that it has only one power cycle (i.e. no ...
The NIF's high power supports a much larger target than OMEGA or Nova; the baseline pellet design is about 2 mm in diameter. It is chilled to about 18 kelvin (−255 °C) and lined with a layer of frozen deuterium–tritium (DT) fuel. The hollow interior contains a small amount of DT gas. [24]
It is using lower cost low carbon steel material [12] and labelled with "VE" code (a code for Daihatsu engines with VVT-i), while the Toyota version is using more expensive and lighter aluminium alloy material [13] and labelled with "FE" code (Toyota's code for narrow-angle DOHC engine with fuel injection). This Daihatsu version is only fitted ...
The choice of working fluids is known to have a significant impact on the thermodynamic as well as economic performance of the cycle. A suitable fluid must exhibit favorable physical, chemical, environmental, safety and economic properties such as low specific volume (high density), viscosity, toxicity, flammability, ozone depletion potential (ODP), global warming potential (GWP) and cost, as ...
The dual combustion cycle (also known as the mixed cycle, Trinkler cycle, Seiliger cycle or Sabathe cycle) is a thermal cycle that is a combination of the Otto cycle and the Diesel cycle, first introduced by Russian-German engineer Gustav Trinkler, who never claimed to have developed the cycle himself. [1]