CFB (circulating fluidized bed) boiler bottom ash contains large amounts of physical heat. A BAC (bottom ash cooler) is often used to treat high temperature bottom ash to reclaim heat, and to have the ash easily transported. The unit thermal economic indicators of three CFB power plants in China...

In order to evaluate the performance of a new power generation system in which the generator is driven by the fuel vapor turbine, the pyrolysis characteristics and the compositions of pyrolyzed fuel mixture are experimentally studied. An algorithm is developed for the calculation of isentropic...

Advanced aeroengine with endothermic hydrocarbon fuel cooling works as chemical recuperative cycle. In order to study the thermal management of fuel in view of chemical recuperation, models of flowing cracked hydrocarbon fuel inside engine cooling channels are developed and validated. Based on...

The method to improve the heat sink utilization of fuel is the primary issue for thermal management of advanced aeroengines. In order to study the methods to control the fuel heat sink utilization, a one dimensional model of flow and heat transfer process in a single cooling channel of...

Thermal management of fuel is very important for the cooling system of an advanced engine. In order to study the 3-D phenomena of fuel flow with cracking reaction in the cooling channels and their effect on the utilization of fuel heat sink, numerical models of cracking fuel flow in an...

This article maps out how different actors are involved in the promotion and mediation of the Olympics. It looks at the roles of, first, the nation-state, through an analysis of the promotional materials; second, the art world and global companies, through an analysis of the touring exhibition...

In longitudinal studies, nonlinear mixed-effects models have been widely applied to describe the intra- and the inter-subject variations in data. The inter-subject variation usually receives great attention and it may be partially explained by time-dependent covariates. However, some covariates...

We consider strong limit theorems for Markov chains in bi-infinite random environments. We first give a new proof of a strong limit theorem of Liu and Yang (1995) on the average of functions of non-homogeneous Markov chains by constructing a nonnegative martingale. As corollaries, for a Markov...

Downs (1962) and Thomson (1977) suggested that highway capacity expansion may produce counterproductive effects on the two-mode (auto and transit) transport system (Downs–Thomson Paradox). This paper investigates the occurrence of this paradox when transit authority can have different economic...