The combustion experiments of oil shale semi-coke from Wang Qing retorts, cornstalk as well as their mixture were conducted under different heating rates using the thermogravimetric analyzer. The results showed that the advance ignition and burnout can be achieved when semi-coke was mixed with...

The performance of auto-cascade refrigerator operating with two vapor–liquid separators and six binary refrigerants (R23/R134a, R23/R227ea, R23/R236fa, R170/R290, R170/R600a and R170/R600) was investigated with a new approach at the temperature level of −60°C. The results show that the...